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r/dwarffortress•
codingsewer

Give it to me straight, r/dwarffortress...

I just had my first Dwarf Fortress dream last night. I'm not going to see my family again, am I? I'm just going to wake up one day in my workshop with a human-skin throne embellished with spikes and wonder how I got there.

Anyway, in my dream I had just started my fortress and had no military or defenses to speak of. Some sort of weird cataclysm suddenly destroyed all the plants and trees on the map except for a small grove contained inside the half-completed walls of my fort. That's when I noticed the herd of 50+ hungry elephants bum rushing my fort for the food.

Posted Jul 1, 2010, 1:35 PM UTC

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Armok•

I've had a few DF dreams. That was when I realised how scary my fortress must be, walking around in waist deep water in pitch black

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NMO•

It's not water, it's blood.

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codingsewerOP•

I just did that last night.

"Time to flood my farm"

pulls lever, water floods in from the nearby river

"Yes! It works! Hmm... wait a minute... there's nothing above level 1 in my farm where IS all that water going? NOOOOOO! PULL THE LEVER!!! PULL THE LEVER!!"

I had some severely damp dwarves but no deaths, thankfully.

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Ziaix•

All I can say is... Welcome.

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codingsewerOP•

Thanks! I'm definitely addicted. Case in point: I have a bunch of games from the Steam sale... all un-played because I'm too busy trying to pump magma in DF.

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Ziaix•

I've done the same. About £20 on games, and I'm still lurking on r/df

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jabby81•

This needs to happen. It should go in the wiki.

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codingsewerOP•

I have been thinking about the mechanics of this scenario ever since that dream. I wonder how you could generate such a cataclysm. Perhaps a doomsday clock that would flood the map with lava, then release elephants?

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DocTomoe•

Actually, on more than one occassion, I've had a wandering fire imp burn every single on-ground plant (think California wild fire) on the map. Just have some magma pipes that end on ground level.

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