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[ThatAussieGuy]

All in favor of Aussie being declared the winner of Dwarf Fortress?

Aye!

Awwww, you guys!  Someone might wanna go update the TVtropes Dwarf Fortress Awesome page entry for the checkerboard.  Or Hell in the main page.

Oh, and I wanted to share something I just saw. 

Spoiler:  Khearn's coffin is on fire and I have no idea why.  (It's made of dolomite, so it is magma-proof) (click to show/hide)

I have a coffin, yet I'm still a ghost? Maybe I'm a ghost because I have a ‼coffin‼ instead of a coffin?

But what makes you think it's on fire? I don't see anything in the screenshot to indicate that it is? I guess that gray stuff around it is smoke, but are you sure there isn't anything else around it that is burning?

Or did someone forget to close the lid? :-/

Or is it just due to my ghost's temperament?

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that have not LEATHER!!!!

There was indeed smoke and fire around your coffin, but I couldn't figure out what was burning.  I never said anything about a ghost though.  I even checked the ghost list to be sure there wasn't one.   Incidentally,  Sniken's roaming the fortress as a "Restless Haunt troubling past acquaintances and relatives".

[khearn]

I'm not a ghost now? Bummer. Vengence was fun!

[ThatAussieGuy]

For the hell of it, I pulled The Lever of Final Resort and flooded the fortress.

Spoiler:   It somehow soaked the walls throughout the fortress with cat pus (click to show/hide)

I may save it once the water's settled and make it the savegame for you loons to try and reclaim from - the water's flowing down to the magma forge level down the big vertical axle shaft, so the worst it can do is settle on the disused magma forge level and the open quarry level.

edit:  For some weird reason, I keep getting animals plummeting down the axle shaft to their explosive deaths.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The tally's up at three cavies, five goats, a rabbit, and thirteen cats.  The real mind-boggler is that the axle shaft isn't vertical all the way to the surface - about half-way up the current level shown it travels horizontally so it doesn't go through the cavern layers.

Oh, and I'm down to 219 animals in the fortress. Down from close to 250-300.

edit:  We did lose a dwarf to the suicide lever.  Tiruin decided he was going to confuse the hell out of me by dying from asphyxiation.  I have no idea where he ended up either.

[Mego]

You act like exploding animals is a bad thing.

[ThatAussieGuy]

You act like exploding animals is a bad thing.

I'm not.  I'm just confused as to how the water flow got them from the surface to that point in the staircase down to Hell.

edit:  gzoker took a leap down the axle channel. 

Spoiler:  He got a 9.5 from the Swordthunders judge for the leap, but they have to award a large penalty for messing up the landing (click to show/hide)

[restricted]

I'm not.  I'm just confused as to how the water flow got them from the surface to that point in the staircase down to Hell.

edit:  gzoker took a leap down the axle channel. 

Spoiler:  He got a 9.5 from the Swordthunders judge for the leap, but they have to award a large penalty for messing up the landing (click to show/hide)

I do believe you've found the apple in the Garden of Eden...

Now you must weaponize it.

[Loud Whispers]

I'm not.  I'm just confused as to how the water flow got them from the surface to that point in the staircase down to Hell.

edit:  gzoker took a leap down the axle channel. 

Spoiler:  He got a 9.5 from the Swordthunders judge for the leap, but they have to award a large penalty for messing up the landing (click to show/hide)

I do believe you've found the apple in the Garden of Eden...

Now you must weaponize it.

I think it's weaponized enough.

[restricted]

I think it's weaponized enough.

I meant to make it a goblin trap or something. The current deaths seem unintended, and I think it'd be awesome if it was made into a goblin/elf/migrant trap.

[Loud Whispers]

I think it's weaponized enough.

I meant to make it a goblin trap or something. The current deaths seem unintended, and I think it'd be awesome if it was made into a goblin/elf/migrant trap.

But... It's already claiming the lives of random people. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

[ThatAussieGuy]

The fortress is half-flooded, Hell is full of magma and abuse, and I unwittingly created a waterfall that is systematically killing the animals that lived in the fortress one-by-one.


I'd say my work, and fortress , are done here.

This is the worldgen with Swordthunders having been abandoned so it would stay half-flooded on the upper levels and offer a challenge
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5202

Though I don't want to start it, I heartily endorse anyone insane enough to launch a reclaim.

[restricted]

But... It's already claiming the lives of random people. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

NEEDS MORE BRONZE COLOSSUS

EDIT: I'm feeling like ripping my hair out tonight. Let's see if my pre2005 desktop can handle the spot.

EDIT2: It froze. Now to see whether it crashed or is very slowly processing my request...

EDIT3: [DFHACK]# die. But wait, I can't do that, because DFHack is stuck on [DFHACK]# clean all

EDIT4: Note to self, don't try clean all absent mindedly on DF Hack when world is loading cause it will probably make a big crash.

[restricted]

Was going through legends on Swordthunders world (could not get reclaim to work ) when I found this gem:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I now have a new favorite demon, beyond the tentacle ones.

Further investigation shows Swordthunders was attacked by gods after its destruction as well (?)

[Oliolli]

Further investigation shows Swordthunders was attacked by gods after its destruction as well (?)

Great job Aussie, you pissed the gods off.

[Eric Blank]

edit:  For some weird reason, I keep getting animals plummeting down the axle shaft to their explosive deaths.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The tally's up at three cavies, five goats, a rabbit, and thirteen cats.  The real mind-boggler is that the axle shaft isn't vertical all the way to the surface - about half-way up the current level shown it travels horizontally so it doesn't go through the cavern layers.

I suppose it's time for another round of "I told you so's?"

When I decided to pull that lever, I noticed they pour down that shaft in a manner that makes me confidence that a mathmatical equation could be devised to relate fatalities to the volume of water flowing through in a given amount of time.

Spoiler: Math is !!FUN!! (click to show/hide)

D=-1((z((w/t)-(r/t)))*A/100)
Dwarven equation of the kill-efficiency(D) of a water-influenced pitfall trap, where z is depth of the pit in z-levels, w is (guesstimated (that's a word!)) amount of water travelling across the kill-zone (top of the pit where targets initially cross) per (t)ime in frames, r is water drained/removed from shaft in that same timeframe, and A is area of the kill-zone.
If the pit is 5 z-levels deep and you have 3 units of water flow across the 1x10 kill-zone in 10 frames, and 5 units drained in 10 frames (were there 5 units/10 frames to be drained) then your Efficiency rating is 1/10, or a 10% chance of convincing a group of goblins or other enemies to retreat from injury/casualties (because 5 z-levels is not enough to guarantee killing of enemies, no matter how many dwarves can be killed by a 3 z-level fall.) This basically implies that you make the LZ of victims a floor grate and let the water flow into a trench that is <1 z-level deep leading off-map through a fortification or the caverns/hell. If the kill-efficiency is negative? then you're probably not getting enough drainage and the backed-up water is preventing targets from dieing.

If murphy's law is taken into account, then you have a 90% chance of killing something you DON'T want to kill just from the fall should it wander into the trap while active, and a 10% chance of killing intended targets that path through and land on top of one-another, the remainder of which would kill the remaining 10% of non-targets that survive the fall. The easiest way to increase the rating is thus to make the pit deeper, killing 100% of friendly victims and 90% of enemies. Because murphy's law totally works like that.

I am not responsible for this equation being completely and utterly useless or even harmful to the health of your fortress' community.

Also, that bitch ruined my beautiful artwork and then made us all dance to "Shake That Ass" with her! SHE MUST PAY!

[Loud Whispers]

edit:  For some weird reason, I keep getting animals plummeting down the axle shaft to their explosive deaths.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The tally's up at three cavies, five goats, a rabbit, and thirteen cats.  The real mind-boggler is that the axle shaft isn't vertical all the way to the surface - about half-way up the current level shown it travels horizontally so it doesn't go through the cavern layers.

I suppose it's time for another round of "I told you so's?"

When I decided to pull that lever, I noticed they pour down that shaft in a manner that makes me confidence that a mathmatical equation could be devised to relate fatalities to the volume of water flowing through in a given amount of time.

Spoiler: Math is !!FUN!! (click to show/hide)

D=-1((z((w/t)-(r/t)))*A/100)
Dwarven equation of the kill-efficiency(D) of a water-influenced pitfall trap, where z is depth of the pit in z-levels, w is (guesstimated (that's a word!)) amount of water travelling across the kill-zone (top of the pit where targets initially cross) per (t)ime in frames, r is water drained/removed from shaft in that same timeframe, and A is area of the kill-zone.
If the pit is 5 z-levels deep and you have 3 units of water flow across the 1x10 kill-zone in 10 frames, and 5 units drained in 10 frames (were there 5 units/10 frames to be drained) then your Efficiency rating is 1/10, or a 10% chance of convincing a group of goblins or other enemies to retreat from injury/casualties (because 5 z-levels is not enough to guarantee killing of enemies, no matter how many dwarves can be killed by a 3 z-level fall.) This basically implies that you make the LZ of victims a floor grate and let the water flow into a trench that is <1 z-level deep leading off-map through a fortification or the caverns/hell. If the kill-efficiency is negative? then you're probably not getting enough drainage and the backed-up water is preventing targets from dieing.

If murphy's law is taken into account, then you have a 90% chance of killing something you DON'T want to kill just from the fall should it wander into the trap while active, and a 10% chance of killing intended targets that path through and land on top of one-another, the remainder of which would kill the remaining 10% of non-targets that survive the fall. The easiest way to increase the rating is thus to make the pit deeper, killing 100% of friendly victims and 90% of enemies. Because murphy's law totally works like that.

I am not responsible for this equation being completely and utterly useless or even harmful to the health of your fortress' community.

Also, that bitch ruined my beautiful artwork and then made us all dance to "Shake That Ass" with her! SHE MUST PAY!

We destroyed her people, evicted the survivors, turned their hellish landscape into a dwarven paradise, and before comepletely owning it with madness, magma and strawberries, dorfed it beyond recognition.
And you still feel, after all this has been done, that she deserves to pay for cleaning up some graffiti?

I wholeheartedly approve.