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*Bonus: Start over a human town, build a wall around it, pump water through the aqueduct and into it! | *Bonus: Start over a human town, build a wall around it, pump water through the aqueduct and into it! | ||
*Bonus: Mod the game so you can start on the dwarven capital and actually bring about the story. | *Bonus: Mod the game so you can start on the dwarven capital and actually bring about the story. | ||
− | *Bonus: Once you have completed your aqueduct, embark in a slightly different location and build the next section. repeat until you've built it all the way to the | + | *Bonus: Once you have completed your aqueduct, embark in a slightly different location and build the next section. repeat until you've built it all the way to the capitol! |
Variation: On a map containing a river, completely enclose it with glass walls, and floors. Use overhead pipe sections to move the water to places more <s>convenient</s> Fun. | Variation: On a map containing a river, completely enclose it with glass walls, and floors. Use overhead pipe sections to move the water to places more <s>convenient</s> Fun. | ||
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Build a legendary dwarven pyramid, with a corridor running to a central tomb for your favourite noble. Then construct lots of different [[trap]]s in it to avoid grave robbery. Perhaps build it entirely out of glass? Or try to make the top twist in a bit of a swirl. Alternatively, make your entire fortress inside a pyramid, which stretches below the ground. | Build a legendary dwarven pyramid, with a corridor running to a central tomb for your favourite noble. Then construct lots of different [[trap]]s in it to avoid grave robbery. Perhaps build it entirely out of glass? Or try to make the top twist in a bit of a swirl. Alternatively, make your entire fortress inside a pyramid, which stretches below the ground. | ||
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*Build rows of Obelisks | *Build rows of Obelisks | ||
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*Try to collect as many skulls as you can during your fortress life, and put them in a special skulls-only storage. The more skulls the better. | *Try to collect as many skulls as you can during your fortress life, and put them in a special skulls-only storage. The more skulls the better. | ||
− | BONUS: Cover all the skulls in blood, and make the stockpile also a throne room | + | BONUS: Cover all the skulls in blood, and make the stockpile also a throne room. Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne! |
SUPERBONUS: Also fill the throne room with kittens. | SUPERBONUS: Also fill the throne room with kittens. | ||
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*EVEN BETTER: Drop it down a chasm. | *EVEN BETTER: Drop it down a chasm. | ||
*More [[fun|FUN]]: Set up a mining operation on the surface and dig into the HFS. Watch the alien creatures take over your ship and hunt down your dwarves. Form a squad of heroes to overload the booze reactor to prevent the aliens from reaching earth. (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Space_%28video_game%29 Dead Space] and/or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29 the Alien series]) | *More [[fun|FUN]]: Set up a mining operation on the surface and dig into the HFS. Watch the alien creatures take over your ship and hunt down your dwarves. Form a squad of heroes to overload the booze reactor to prevent the aliens from reaching earth. (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Space_%28video_game%29 Dead Space] and/or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29 the Alien series]) | ||
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===Swiss Precision=== | ===Swiss Precision=== | ||
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===Temple=== | ===Temple=== | ||
− | Designing a temple to | + | Designing a temple to Armok. Aesthetics count - the god will be very angry if there are no stained-glass windows and domed ceilings carved with frescoes. To gain more favor, make regular sacrifices and keep the fountains and rivers red with [[blood]]. |
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===The cube=== | ===The cube=== | ||
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* BONUS: Build one gate | * BONUS: Build one gate | ||
* BONUS: Arm it with ballistas. | * BONUS: Arm it with ballistas. | ||
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Someone should make a bonus for this but I'd like to point out that the actual wall was made from (compressed) dirt with on outer layer of stone and that the bodies a those who died from exhasution while building it were put into it. | Someone should make a bonus for this but I'd like to point out that the actual wall was made from (compressed) dirt with on outer layer of stone and that the bodies a those who died from exhasution while building it were put into it. | ||
** BONUS+: Encase all workers who died during building in caskets built into the wall. Possibly with traps to protect them from grave robbers | ** BONUS+: Encase all workers who died during building in caskets built into the wall. Possibly with traps to protect them from grave robbers | ||
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Turn cave-ins off in the init, the build a flying fortress. Perhaps some flying islands only connected with bridges, maybe combined with an orbital defense network. | Turn cave-ins off in the init, the build a flying fortress. Perhaps some flying islands only connected with bridges, maybe combined with an orbital defense network. | ||
* Bonus: Turn cave-ins back on. | * Bonus: Turn cave-ins back on. | ||
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===Wealth=== | ===Wealth=== | ||
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Bonus: Cast the entire thing in Obsidian using magma and water and engrave all the sides with your greatness. | Bonus: Cast the entire thing in Obsidian using magma and water and engrave all the sides with your greatness. | ||
− | ===D For | + | ===D For Dwarfdetta=== |
# Create the parliment building or some such construction | # Create the parliment building or some such construction | ||
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# Time it to last 4 minutes, since that's how long the song is. | # Time it to last 4 minutes, since that's how long the song is. | ||
Bonus: make an underground railroad ( or magma pipe ) that detonates it. | Bonus: make an underground railroad ( or magma pipe ) that detonates it. | ||
− | Bonus: make a metal statue at the top which gets exploded | + | Bonus: make a metal statue at the top which gets exploded |
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MegaBonus: send burning [[graphite]] or [[lignite]] flying into the (strangely always daytime) sky. | MegaBonus: send burning [[graphite]] or [[lignite]] flying into the (strangely always daytime) sky. | ||
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CosmicBonus: Have an important Dwarf in a coffin play a role in detonating it. | CosmicBonus: Have an important Dwarf in a coffin play a role in detonating it. | ||