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This really needs more testing. I was using version 40d16. --[[User:Frewfrux|Frewfrux]] 17:05, 2 December 2009 (UTC) | This really needs more testing. I was using version 40d16. --[[User:Frewfrux|Frewfrux]] 17:05, 2 December 2009 (UTC) | ||
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| + | :The above was done with ice ontop of a rock layer that was an aquifer. I've recently tried with a non-aquifer layer of rock and the same thing happened except I didn't end up with the down-stairs. I will continue to test soon and will update the main glacier page with the results. --[[User:Frewfrux|Frewfrux]] 20:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC) | ||
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No animals at all, what about polar bears? I'm thinking about starting up an Inuit fortress soon, any tips for glacier would be appreciated.
- I've seen animals on a glacier, don't worry. But you'd be well advised to bring a couple dozen dogs anyway, they ARE rare, and usually bad-tempered.--Zombiejustice 14:05, 3 August 2008 (EDT)
Also there are plenty of stones and ores, glaciers are quite ore rich.
Do rivers in glacier zones ever melt? Just curious... Xaque 22:25, 13 August 2008 (EDT)
- I think glaciers are, by definition freeing. So, nope. --Simmura McCrea 08:42, 13 December 2008 (EST)
melting ice/farming
Can someone discuss how to get an underground farm set up on a glacier?--Jpwrunyan 07:07, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Mining a Glacier
I recently started a new fort on a glacier and started to dig down using up/down stairs for the central column for my fort. I designated all the stairs first, and then let my miners loose on them. The composition of the ground was several layers of ice overtop of layers of rock, the first of which was an aquifer layer. The dwarves mined the up/down stairways fine until the hit the rock. Let me see if I can explain this properly.
All the levels of ice, except the one right above the rock/aquifer, ended up with up/down stairs. The layer of ice that was right before the rock ended up with just down stairs, not up/down ones, but my dwarves were not stuck on that level. Nor could they continue their mining because they could no longer reach the level as the continuous stairway now had a break in it. Because dwarves digging down in such a manner mine the up/down stair from above, my best guess as to what happened was that the up part of the stairs melted (though there was no evidence to suggest this). I subsequently dug ramps all around the stairwell but these did not melt. They also did not provide access to the above level due to the finicky nature of ramps. However, in the process my miners did get stuck on the bottom level and were able to build up stairs from some nearby ice they had mined out and thereby escape.
It seems as though the melting of anything ice from being indoors and underground isn’t completely true. The stairs were all labeled as both inside and underground. However, as soon as I broke the surface of the last level of ice with the up/down stairs, the ice up/down stairs were replaced with rock down stairs. I would surmise that the melting of constructed objects only occurs at levels that are not ice levels. So, if you carved out your fort from ice you would be able to build ice constructions like walls inside, as long as it was on an ice level.
This really needs more testing. I was using version 40d16. --Frewfrux 17:05, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
- The above was done with ice ontop of a rock layer that was an aquifer. I've recently tried with a non-aquifer layer of rock and the same thing happened except I didn't end up with the down-stairs. I will continue to test soon and will update the main glacier page with the results. --Frewfrux 20:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)