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janglur

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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #30 on: September 29, 2011, 08:05:38 pm »
Too much ore?

Ship it to me.
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #31 on: September 29, 2011, 08:11:42 pm »
I would, but there aren't trains...
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #32 on: September 29, 2011, 08:13:12 pm »
[ETHICS:TRAINS:APPALING]
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« Reply #33 on: September 29, 2011, 11:38:16 pm »
Mine it all, layer by layer.

Then rebuild the entire world in just metal. The ultimate megaproject: Bronzeworld.
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Carve out a massive pit and construct a copper block tower! Challenge those goblin bastards with your phallus of justice!

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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #34 on: September 29, 2011, 11:58:52 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on September 29, 2011, 08:13:12 pm
[ETHICS:TRAINS:APPALING]

Got a better way to move large volume materials (like coal) or very heavy materials (like stone, ore or metal) very long distances (hundreds of miles+)?  I'm all ears.

Mine it all, layer by layer.

Then rebuild the entire world in just metal. The ultimate megaproject: Bronzeworld.

No, I want something fun, not something that is going to want to make me die or boredom.  Besides, the magma sea would cause...  complications...
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2011, 02:11:26 am »
Quote from: Vehudur on September 29, 2011, 11:58:52 pm
Quote from: Girlinhat on September 29, 2011, 08:13:12 pm
[ETHICS:TRAINS:APPALING]

Got a better way to move large volume materials (like coal) or very heavy materials (like stone, ore or metal) very long distances (hundreds of miles+)?  I'm all ears.

Mine it all, layer by layer.

Then rebuild the entire world in just metal. The ultimate megaproject: Bronzeworld.

No, I want something fun, not something that is going to want to make me die or boredom.  Besides, the magma sea would cause...  complications...

It's obvious. Use it to kill goblins.

I'm talking a massive tower complex, filled with bridges and hatches and lots of traps and shit. Goblins go in, GIBLETS go out!
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #36 on: September 30, 2011, 02:26:21 am »
Quote from: Vehudur on September 29, 2011, 11:58:52 pm
No, I want something fun, not something that is going to want to make me die or boredom. 

First, defeat the clowns.  Then, build Hell.  That eerie glowing cavern is not enough: Magma pools, towers of iron and brass, heaps of corpses and miasma-spreading refuse, hideous upright iron or steel spikes, chains on the walls and cages in places of particular torment -- the whole fire-and-brimstone deal.
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #37 on: September 30, 2011, 02:30:00 am »
Quote from: Tevish Szat on September 30, 2011, 02:26:21 am
Quote from: Vehudur on September 29, 2011, 11:58:52 pm
No, I want something fun, not something that is going to want to make me die or boredom. 

First, defeat the clowns.  Then, build Hell.  That eerie glowing cavern is not enough: Magma pools, towers of iron and brass, heaps of corpses and miasma-spreading refuse, hideous upright iron or steel spikes, chains on the walls and cages in places of particular torment -- the whole fire-and-brimstone deal.

You can't defeat the clown. Their numbers are near infinite.
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #38 on: September 30, 2011, 02:32:54 am »
You can defeat the first wave and take possession of the circus, after which they get less dangerous, not more -- they'll come in smaller numbers and won't rush your fort like mad.
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #39 on: September 30, 2011, 03:29:20 am »
Quote from: Tevish Szat on September 30, 2011, 02:32:54 am
You can defeat the first wave and take possession of the circus, after which they get less dangerous, not more -- they'll come in smaller numbers and won't rush your fort like mad.

It's still mostly pointless. I say go with the goblin-killing application.

Of course, as you kill goblins, you'll be harvesting goblinite. More metal. It'll just keep growing, until eventually it covers the whole world...a breeding camp of gobbos at one end, a massive mountain of carcasses at the other.

All with troll fur socks.
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #40 on: September 30, 2011, 10:44:51 am »
I'll set up an automatic goblin and troll (and elf because I'm at war with them also) slaughtering machine, THEN breach hell and build a better hell.  Out of obsidian and magma.   It shal be epic.  After I wall the map off, though, because I don't want my legendary masons getting eaten >.>


Actually, that would be frame-rate death regardless considering my fort is at 278 dwarves and climbing (but still playable, due to clever pathfinding solutions).

I'll start a new fort and do it.
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #41 on: September 30, 2011, 11:12:25 am »
My vote?
Pave every [OUTSIDE] tile in steel.
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #42 on: September 30, 2011, 11:19:40 am »
Quote from: Vehudur on September 30, 2011, 10:44:51 am
I'll set up an automatic goblin and troll (and elf because I'm at war with them also) slaughtering machine, THEN breach hell and build a better hell.  Out of obsidian and magma.   It shal be epic.  After I wall the map off, though, because I don't want my legendary masons getting eaten >.>


Actually, that would be frame-rate death regardless considering my fort is at 278 dwarves and climbing (but still playable, due to clever pathfinding solutions).

I'll start a new fort and do it.

Think Saw, mate, think Saw...
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #43 on: September 30, 2011, 11:59:10 am »
My first thought was to try to mod metal->booze and metal->food reactions into your fort.
Then, if possible, mod out normal booze'n'food stuff.  Possibly replace with agriproduct->block style reactions.

i.e., to build, you need to farm; to eat and drink, you need to mine!

However, not messed about with all that, so much, so not sure how viable. :)
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Re: Too much ore.
« Reply #44 on: September 30, 2011, 12:04:24 pm »
This is a copper biscuit.  It is made with finely minced copper and exceptionally minced zinc.
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