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DF Succession game Fort CloisterCrush, strike the earth!
Muffinmix:
Hmm not really, since the adamantine only started appearing on the ground levels. There were a good 3-4 Z levels that didn't have any, from what I saw anyways.
Also, kind of a spoiler: The top Z layers of adamantine are completely safe to mine. They're usually consisting of a pile of rather short veins sprawling all over the place. When you hit the lower levels and start hitting long veins, then you know there's trouble at one of the ends of that vein. Still risky business though.
Antallion:
I think you should continue on wit this one/make a new one, it's awesome fun reading them. I tried playing once but I failed miserably.
--- Quote from: Muffinmix on September 25, 2008, 02:26:30 PM ---Hmm not really, since the adamantine only started appearing on the ground levels. There were a good 3-4 Z levels that didn't have any, from what I saw anyways.
Also, kind of a spoiler: The top Z layers of adamantine are completely safe to mine. They're usually consisting of a pile of rather short veins sprawling all over the place. When you hit the lower levels and start hitting long veins, then you know there's trouble at one of the ends of that vein. Still risky business though.
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You'll have to explain to me Adamantine sometime, wha's so dangerous about it?
Muffinmix:
--- Quote from: Antallion on September 27, 2008, 07:59:06 AM ---You'll have to explain to me Adamantine sometime, wha's so dangerous about it?
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Well for starters Adamantine is by far the strongest metal in DF. It has a damage/protection multiplier of loving 500. You compare that to the next best metal, steel with a multiplier of 133, and you start to get the picture on just how insane this stuff is. Another huge advantage is that it weighs almost nothing, so dwarfs equiped with adamantine stuff won't be bogged down at all.
Adamantine can be used to make any type of furniture/armor/weapon/clothing in the game, except beds oddly. The best use for adamantine, by far, is in making artifacts.
It does come with a teeny tiny problem though, and here I spoiler: Where there's adamantine, there are Demon Pits nearby. If you aren't careful and you start mining a big juicy vein of adamantine, you'll probably end up breaking into the pit chambers, where a horde of 15-20 invisible demons residing in the pit chambers will immediately swarm out the opening once they discover it and murder the entire fortress. Once the demons start attacking, they'll reveal themselves, other then that there is no way of knowing what you're dealing with after breaking into the pits. Although it is by far the most epic encounter in the game, it can absolutely destroy even a well prepared fortress, which is why it's a cause of concern whenever adamantine is discovered, as to what exactly to do with it.
But it's like I said, this only happens when you aren't careful of where you mine.
On another note, the adamantine danger area was only directly South/East of the main shaft. Everything else to the North was perfectly safe rock.
Edit: What Monty said V V V
Monty:
--- Quote from: Antallion on September 27, 2008, 07:59:06 AM ---wha's so dangerous about it?
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Your dwarves will be raped to death by hordes of demons that are three times the size of them.