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[Ross Vernal]

If there's powder everywhere, then oh, crap. xD

Turn the cavern access into a tower. Wall off around the stairs, fill an entrance room with menacing iron spikes, roof it over, hook it up to a lever....

I'm really liking these updates. We'll go epic, I'm sure.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

If there is powder we will clease our fortress with the blood of the earth! Without warning and without warning, only the strong will survive lol. Or just temporally relocate all dwarves, pets, and funiture from the infected area before we cleanse.

If thats too dangerous... we could flash flood the fort and the caverns by hooking up a pipe (passage) to the infected area and activating the Obsidian Farm... I want too test this on my Save now

Well that definally flooded the entire meeting hall and drowned... umm.. around 40 dwarves? teh rest swam upstairs to the overseers room but the caves are definally flooded

EDIT:
Well that was fun back to testing the Dwarven Golem

[Ross Vernal]

I still vote for a swimming pool.

Out of curiosity, what do we "need" in the fort? All I can think is aboveground crops, bedrooms, a military, and something useful like a massive complicated death trap or a magma moat or something like that.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

4-6 z-level high walls, with murder holes that pour megma if seigers get too close for archers to fire at. Catapolts (maybe they can use obsidian?). Archer towers within the walls incase of failure to close drawbridge in time. trenches that can be open or closed with retractable bridges to make a maze invaders must path through while being barraged by bolts. there is soo much this fort needs if only we could build with obsidian

EDIT:
If nobody shows up to take year six I can switch year 8 for 6 and play to keep it all going, But then we'd need another year 8

[Ross Vernal]

if only we could build with obsidian

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010_Talk:Obsidian

It should work in theory. I would also assume that we can just go in there, kill max_edge, disable restriction of obsidian, save, and then put max_edge back in and run with it.

[zomara0292]

Cut off your beards men. They belong to dwarfs. 

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

It works, so It's matter who does it, hunt down inorganic_layer.txt in region18's raw/objects foulder and remove the "[]" around [MAX_EDGE:20000] save, run the game. turn obsidian to green, save game. go back to before mentioned raw file and put the "[]" back. Tada works. Nice hunting Ross

EDIT:
I'll cut my beard off 2morrow before Chrismas

[zomara0292]

Welp, I am done for the day, when it comes to playing DF. now its time to look at your mod. Think you can send me a PM of the untested, incomplete version, so I can look at it when I get back, Hugo?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Sure I was thinking of releasing a teaser for those that are silently watching my Mod, I'll PM you the download link when I got it uploaded. Note it will only be the Phoebus version so if you use a different tileset everything will look wonky.

[Ross Vernal]

...a fishing platform. Build a dock out to the lake, and have it center just above the volcano. When the lever gets pulled to drain the lake, build some up/down stairs as low as possible, then build a structure around it as a rescue platform for any lost dorfs.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

That is what we really do need, but we need the swimming pool first so they can learn to swim so they can use it... shame we couldn't drain all of the volcano to get the lost stuff, and the ghosts of the dead finally popped up (on my save at least)

[Ross Vernal]

Also: above the entrance bridge, put an up-opening 5 wide by 7 tall drawbridge. Channel a 7 wide by 7 tall square, then narrow it down by 1 every Z-level. Link it to the magma forge storage, clear the slopes of all but one, install iron upright spikes around the edge all the way down to the lava, then enclose the entire entranceway in a wall.

It can be goblin skeeball. Bonus points for landing a goblin right in the center magma hole!

Yes, I am absolutely doing this on my version of the fort. xD

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Also: above the entrance bridge, put an up-opening 5 wide by 7 tall drawbridge. Channel a 7 wide by 7 tall square, then narrow it down by 1 every Z-level. Link it to the magma forge storage, clear the slopes of all but one, install iron upright spikes around the edge all the way down to the lava, then enclose the entire entranceway in a wall.

It can be goblin skeeball. Bonus points for landing a goblin right in the center magma hole!

Yes, I am absolutely doing this on my version of the fort. xD

Then you can do it for real on year 7

[Ross Vernal]

Zero points on the first try, by the way. Most of the goblins did pretty air cartwheels and then smashed into the ground.

It did instantly break a siege, though.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Zero points on the first try, by the way. Most of the goblins did pretty air cartwheels and then smashed into the ground.

It did instantly break a siege, though.

Then you know what that means.... ENLARGE THE GAME BOARD and have an retractable (not raising) bridge connecting the outside (where the invaders be) to the flap-jack-flipper and then hook the retractable bridge to the same lever as the flap-jack-flipper. That way when gobbos are airborne the other becomes insubstacial and allows them to hit their mark on the game board I LIKE IT!

EDIT:
Must test flipping range of bridge with pastured dogs or well timed elves

EDIT2:
Make that Cats, I like dogs.