Kruggsmash Plays Dwarf Fortress: Short Forts - Fun With Magma

[@Battleschnodder]

I came to see Magma being utilized creatively. I stayed for a one dwarf power trip.

[@kruggsmash]

Ha! I figured it'd happen :p

[@Bidmartinlo]

Tbh, I probably would submerge my mayor in lava too, if I didn't like them and if I could.

[@zorbat5]

Same here! I love this shit 😂

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Could you have built a wooden wall between what you want to mine and the lava before mining it and digging while the wood burns?

[@kainebishop3970]

Pretzelbomb Wooden walls don't burn. Also you dig the block blocking the lava from above.

[@ThatOldWarthog]

"Magma: The burning means it's working!"

[@kruggsmash]

Perfect tagline! I'll take 3! Magmas..3 magmas, please

[@cheecho2001]

Massive volcano out in the middle of a temperate swamp? You've found Un'goro Crater!

[@oofmcoofy6769]

Not even Shrek dares to go in the volcano, after all the only thing he cares about is the sweet swamp

[@yarus5889]

The raptor taming quest, that was intense

[@AsiniusNaso]

Hiya Kruggsmash, I mess around with magma a lot, so I have a few suggestions for things you could try: 1. turn on the liquid depth visibility in the init/dinit flies so it’s easier to see how much magma you’re working with. There’s lots of other useful stuff in there too if you aren’t familiar with it. 2. Make sure any machines using magma AND their mechanisms are magma safe 3. Did you know barrels filled with alcohol explode when heated? You can make bomb traps with these, though they don’t have much range 4. Should you have another megalomaniac leader, consider the powers of encasing people in obsidian pillars using magma and water. Thanks for another awesome video!

[@kruggsmash]

Wow, that encasing dwarves in magma idea sounds absolutely brilliant! I will DEFINITELY be trying this at some point }:) Thanks for the ideas, dude!

[@MrClickity]

Honestly, it's your best bet for dealing with some of the nastier beasties you might encounter.

[@mosesbrown4126]

Volcano addicts: there are dozens of us.

[@Bartoc1988]

I didn´t know the alcohol part. Man that will be FUN in the next fortress :D

[@Purpiii]

What kind of monster would blow up their dwarven ale

[@MidnightSt]

13:30 that would be one hell of a start of a negotiation: "Well... since we failed to murder you gruesomely with magma-mist, let's at least do some trading."

[@kruggsmash]

Might as well, right?! Ohh elves :p

[@michaelwildermoth8508]

Best expedition leader ever. WRT that floodgate: they take a while to close after they get triggered (unlike doors, which shut immediately). And when magma gets in their tile, they'll melt if not mage of magma safe materials. The pressure plate might have also melted? Dunno if they trigger before being destroyed by the magma, never tested it. Thanks for the episode!

[@kruggsmash]

I dunno! I made sure everything was made out of magma-safe junk (mechanisms included) Most likely I did SOMETHING wrong, though :p Thanks for watching, pal!

[@CptKorn]

"Dropping objects into the magma causes mist" Remember the goblin corpse launcher? haha...hahahahaha... HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@kruggsmash]

Yes! YES! THIS NEEDS TO BE! THIS WILL BE!

[@mishadonchenko4362]

+Kruggsmash Bonus points if you set up an automated system that uses the corpses of the goblins killed by the mist to drop into the magma next time, so you don't have to reset it yourself every time.

[@jakubwojciechowski2155]

Every week, for about a year now, I still get excited when I get a notification about Kruggs new vid. Keep it going man, I love your work!

[@kruggsmash]

Certainly glad to hear it, dude! I really appreciate you long time viewers :))

[@LordWoffingshire]

youre one of the few content creators who can pull off releasing a single half an hour episode a week of a single niche game simply because of how well you present it. Its a feeling akin to waiting a week for an episode of a TV show. Every episode leaves us wanting more, but your upload schedule doesn't overwhelm us.

[@niles1492]

It would be cool that Ral becomes magma crazed and becomes possessed then falls into the magma pool below. The dwarves forget about him later, then...... A fire sorceror appears from the depths. *Sigh* Magic would be great for the game.

[@kruggsmash]

My GOD do I want magic in this game! Sheez, dude. Don't even get me started!

[@bigweebtv6039]

Kruggsmash Check out "Spell Crafts mod" It's seems that it's up to date

[@Akranejames]

I think it's on the "to do" list to have a procedural magic system if I remember correctly. Then again, there's at least the villains/plots update before that, so it'll be in quite a while I'd guess,

[@tomhill3248]

Is this boatmurdered? Because this sounds like boatmurdered.

[@hostergaard]

Three tips on magma: the only way to safely dig into it is to channel into the edge from the layer above the surface of the magma. And the trap you where trying to construct I would rather recommend building a bunch of retracting brigdes and dump some rocks on top of them. Then you can just retract the bridge to safely and accurately generate magma mist. Or for a more chaotic approach you could dig barrel into the side of the volcano, build a retracting bridge inside the barrel, retract it and dump rocks into it. Then fire at will. Or use a raising bridge to fling rocks up and then down into the bridge. And when it comes to moving magma upwards the best for bulk magma is of course pump stack. But you can also use powered mine carts and tracks that goes under a magma fall and then dumb its content where you want it, which often requires quite a bit less effort than pump stacks. But if you just need a little bit of magma for forges is to just build two stops, one under a magma fall that you can turn of and drain, and another by a hole that you want the magma in. Just place a magma safe mine cart under the magma fall and drop magma into it, turn it off. Assign the cart to the other stop and order it to dump its content there. The dwarfs will happily take the magma filled cart of the stop, host it on their shoulders and carry it up to the other stop and dumb the contents there. Nice and easy. But great episode, keep em coming!

[@kruggsmash]

Very, VERY interesting tips, Hen. Y'know, I really should do another episode dedicated entirely to the intricacies of minecarts. I'm not very good at using those, either! Thanks for the tips and for watching, bro :))

[@hostergaard]

Haha, thanks for reading my comments :D Been playing df for quite a few years, tough I have to admit mine carts is one of these things I have a lot of fun ideas for but never gotten around to fully learn. Actually, if you are willing to take suggestions on what to do then one thing I wanted to for the longest time is build segregated fortress where the fortress is divided into sub-fortresses for each kind of labour and only connected with powered minecarts. So for example the gem cutters receive gems by cart from the miners, they cut the gems, load them into another cart on another tracks that goes to the gem setters (sub) fortress where they set into objects that they also recieve from elsewhere. They send the finished products to the trade depot where perhaphs there is a few hauling enabled dwarves. And the kithcens for example sends food to the entire fortress. You could imagine it as a guild system taken to the extreme. To take it further I would dig or build it out so every part was their own building, either towers into the air, domes under water or pods supended in magma and only connected with minecarts. And here I would introduce the other part of my grand segregation experiment; see, I have been curious about dwarfen genetics and what is heritable and what is not. By segregating them like this I could test which things are heritable and not; maybe I will ensure that all the gemsetters only have red hair. And maybe the brewers all have braided beards. Perhaphs the armorers all truly value tradition. And the weapon makers are prone to rage. I would select and introduce immigrants according to the rules I have made and prune the children and dwarfs already there until I have sufficiently large stable populations in each segregated unit and then I would let them breed freely and see how their control evolve and its heritable. Anyway, just a suggestion, I would love to see you do a fort on it, but I am happy to see anything you put out. You hit a great balance between including enough detail and brevity, and your drawings makes it even better and much more fun to watch :))

[@BrokenKeys93]

An idea I've had an not played out, a sky fortress, structures built high in the sky, all on stilts.. sky dwarves.. sounds epic to me

[@kruggsmash]

Certainly an idea! Perhaps one day we'll have it a go! How bout a dwarven tree-fort? Doesn't really sound dwarven to ME, but maybe it could be an interesting challenge?

[@BrokenKeys93]

Kruggsmash well maybe, in R.P., they've been forced out by forgotten beasts or at least story's of horrible creatures have inspired a crazed dwarf to stay away from the stone and he's just very good at persuasion.

[@Shifterwizard]

Honestly, just the shape of the volcano alone would make me want to build the entire fort to last as long as it could. It's a perfectly defensible castle, just add doors and a floor!

[@squattingheads]

It looks like a woman’s torso

[@evyunov]

Try also dig diagonally. This way lava flows slower. Also what about pouring water into magma to create hot steam. Not as amusing as melting unwanted visitors with lava mist, but water are easer to pump around.

[@kruggsmash]

That diagonal thing is weird, I've never cared for digging any tunnels diagonal in DF. Just kinda hard for me to picture I suppose. Oh, i've done pleeeeenty with water in the past. Like, way too much even. It's time turn the challenge level up a little bit.

[@TheEJackUK]

mixing water and lava creates obsidian, which is awesome stuff ;)

[@Madrawn]

Pressure is also not transferred diagonally, so you can have water drop down several levels and then get rid of the pressure by letting it flow through a diagonal piece of tunnel. DWARF PHISICS

[@Madrawn]

*physics

[@NodDisciple1]

Евгений Вьюнов I wanted a steam room for relaxing after a long day. Or hot water plumbing. 😟

[@Edramon53]

Make bridge catapults that throw hundreds of goblin corpses into magma while elf caravans pass by.

[@kruggsmash]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OHHHH SNAP, SON! Next level thinking going on over here. Holy hell.

[@abaloth]

according to the wiki magma mist is also generated when a fast-moving item or creature skips across magma, so i was wondering if both the speed and the mass of the object will affect how much mist is generated, like a super high speed lead minecart fired into the magma may generate more mist than something just dropped down

[@kruggsmash]

Oh! Magma-skipping burning mist! Hrmmm, very interesting! I had read that too. I'll have to give it a try at some point!

[@abaloth]

looking forward to see science in action !

[@tv1990]

13:23 i like how the dwarves are looking impatiently at the floor trap thing while the humans are hailing them

[@vfxbocabadats6994]

Love the lunatic looks of the expedition leader. Perfect for a magma-themed fort.

[@kruggsmash]

Lol, yeah...that Ral iiiiis a spirited one!

[@lucasbittencourt8290]

I just lost it when you threw the Miller into the magma pool. I laughed so hard my wife was scared! Great video, dude.

[@kruggsmash]

Love to get ya laughin'! Glad ya liked it :)

[@MidnightSt]

famous last words: "So I think the best idea would be to *pump magma to a higher level, above my main fortress level* . " yes. that's always FUN.

[@vonBelfry]

Honestly, these themed fortresses along with your initial tutorial are amazing for beginning players.

[@ChimeraArchive]

The band King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard released a song called Magma. The album it comes from kinda weirdly puts me in the mind of Dwarf Fortress.

[@josealvim1556]

Thank goodness Magma is not pressurized in DF. That would be scary af

[@kruggsmash]

Yeah, dude! That'd suck, huh?

[@BirdyBotPlaysGames]

What a gorgeous embark! I wouldn't be surprised if people want that world you've generated on the forums - was there any fresh water on the surface? Great episode - super fun traps there!

[@Ispod4]

Maybe next you could try stuff with vampirism, or trying to get an adventurer to swim an ocean to another island

[@kruggsmash]

Oh ho! A vampire! That'd be killer! Yeah, I haven't seen a single goddamn vampire the entire time i've been doing KZbin DF stuff. What the hell! Certainly something to think about! :))

[@RAMlFlCATlONS]

@@kruggsmash that forboding

[@honeycomblord9384]

Man, the irony considering what one of Kruggsmash's biggest series would be about.

[@CreepSpark]

Finally, a 'Short Forts' with an actual fort! It's been a minute.

[@LukeEvans55]

For next week how about you build a supersoldier training 'danger room' (see wiki) and train up a squad of the magnificent seven to be the chosen few to journey to the centre of the earth and do battle with the fabled monsters within ;)

[@kruggsmash]

I would lov to do that, BUT- it seems like it'd be better suited for a longer fort. I'd hgave t play through SOOOO much to get to an interesting point I think :p

[@sosomadman]

Danger rooms are lame, I prefer to actual have a military. Immigrants? Military! Crafts? More like weapons and armour. Crossbowmen are trained to use hammers so they can use there crossbow in close combat, wearing leather for mobility. Sword and sheild dwarfs are cross trained as wrestlers, full armour. Wood cutters trained to wield axes, also wrestle cross training with leather & small sheilds + war dogs. Civilians wield spears and small shields. I build fortifications and seige on the floor above hell, and once I'm ready, the fun begins

[@skin_lizard]

@@kruggsmash hgave t

[@ElijahEystberg]

your content is what keeps me checking youtube everyday. YOU ARE MY ADDICTION

[@kruggsmash]

Ha! Great to hear, Eli! Let me feed your addiction, friend!

[@Lyerbait13]

It’s so cool how you draw the events!!!

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks, dude! I certainly try :))

[@norseman2834]

Kruggsmash, damned if we are not getting spoiled with all of this top-tier content you keep giving us. Each post by you is major highlight in the week. I hope the bugs in the new build get fixed before long - some long-term Dorf action is what I'm hoping for!

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks for much for the kind words, Norsey. Secretly, I felt like this episode was a bit phoned in just b/c I was so damn under the weather. Peeps seem to be liking it, though! Certainly glad you liked it, pal! Thanks so much for the kind words, m'dude!

[@georgemacgill8980]

I would love to see a successful inn for a short fort. A massive inn with dozens of patrons is something I have yet seen

[@kruggsmash]

Oh yea! That'd be totally killer, huh? Hrmm, very intruiging idea right there. Honestly, I haven't had much of a chance to toy around with inns since they were added and that would be a fantastic idea for a fort! Soon enough i'm sure :)

[@ultimatecorgi3392]

I love the subtle pun where you pointed out that you have a cold, but needed to stay frosty.

[@donbionicle]

The best way I've seen magma being accessed is by mining at it diagonally-it takes just long enough for it to flow through the corner that a dwarf can run away from it, as we can see at 23:23

[@kruggsmash]

Ah yes! I forgot that had happened. Hrmm, guess i'll have to try to employ that in the future. Many others have mentioned that as well :0

[@mauricioquintero2420]

Can't get enough of your videos man. You're doing the dwarven god's work.

[@doxazo5512]

“Yeah, and I’ve also been constructing these gold statues of Ral and placing them ALL OVER the place” I laughed way too hard at that

[@MyName-Jeff]

"I wish I could say I was learning something from this... but nope not yet." The moment I decided to subscribe lol

[@valentinfelix1708]

Last time I played with magma, I built a pump stack from the great magma sea all the way to the surface in order to cast the entrance of my fortress in obsidian. The entrance was a smoothed 3-zlevel high, 3 thick outer wall, 3 wide spiraling path (for the caravan) with 2 steel (magma-safe) raising bridges at each end and a 2 thick inner wall. On the 3rd level, I had a path (hence the 3-thick wall) with fortifications to station my crossbow dwarves and some dogs to lookout for ambushs and werebeasts. Finaly, I built a magma pool on top of this structure with 9 floor hatches for a quick flooding of the access path to the fortress. With that, dealing with seiges and their aftermath became fairly easy: the only thing that was left of the invaders was their iron gears, to be melted an turned into steel into my magma smelters.

[@kruggsmash]

Man, i've always wanted to try that casting thing but it seem like SUCH a paaain. Is it bad? It seems bad. Awesome sounding fort, too :))

[@valentinfelix1708]

Yeah, building the mold for the casting is very tedious: what I did was building a 2-zlevel high wall for each obsidian level: 1 to contain the lava and other for the water. Apart for being dwarfy, the main advantage (gameplay wise) with that building method is that smoothed walls can't be climbed.

[@baskoning9896]

That intro is ssoooooo radical! Its.. its both incredibly low-quility (as in the dorfs only being a few pixels), but ... its.. BEAUUUUUUTTTIIIIFULLLL! Its soo.. alive! (hat off)

[@keith5615]

You might be able to use dumpzones or piles + hatch covers/grates or bridges to drop things into magma.

[@kruggsmash]

Yeah, i'm definitely gonna have a stab at that at some point. Good thinkin'!

[@Fumblerful]

I loved thay frame of the dwarves eying the mechanism, hiding from the humans.

[@mr.froggu3292]

This guy's great, makes watching Dwarf Fortress better and easier for new comers to the game

[@kruggsmash]

Hey thanks, buddy :))

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

Hey Krugg, I want to share with you *Joe's Magma Extraction Strategy™*. It works if you're getting magma out of a shaft or any other instance where you have a vertical wall separating you from your red stuff. You dig a channel, perhaps one block or perhaps several, on the floor block adjacent (left, right, up, or down, but not diagonal) to the wall you're going to open up. Make sure that this hole isn't in a space where your dwarf will run after finishing their mining job. Then, smooth the wall you want to open up, and after that, carve a fortification out of it. Using a fortification rather than just mining the wall away is good for two reasons: 1) it means that the dwarf won't elect to walk into the newly opened hole (which sometimes happens) AND, maybe more importantly, 2) it makes it harder for magmacrabs and other nasties to get into your fort. Having a hole in front of the magma opening has two benefits: 1) it makes sure that the dwarf will carve the fortification diagonally, putting him out of harms way because 2) the magma always flows down before it flows out, so it will start to fill up the channel before it spills out into the larger chamber, allowing your dwarf to escape. You want the level that the dwarf is mining on to be the level where the magma will ultimately be, because after a while it'll fill up the channel and then fill the level you carved the fortification on. This has always worked pretty well for me. Of course, just sending a dwarf to embrace Armok in all engulfing earth-blood works fine, if you don't mind loosing a pickaxe. I'm the kind of guy who can't stand to see an iron pick sitting, inaccessible, in a pool of magma. If I ever have to do that, say for time constraints, I make sure the dwarf uses a pickaxe made of something magma unsafe, that way it won't sit there bugging me forever. Anyway, love you Krugg, another excellent episode!

[@kruggsmash]

Rofl, simply because the phrase, "sending a dwarf to embrace Armok in all engulfing earth-blood" sounds so cool, I think from now on, i'll HAVE to make sure to do just that with my dwarves! Seriously though, good ideas. Hopefully i;ll remember them for the next time I have a date with magma :p Thanks for watching and I love you too, brother

[@muratemkuzhev1958]

So you created an obcidian farm! Awesome way to deal with water filled caverns. I would actually love to see a second part of this: Can you make a glass room, seal it with some drinks and food and an unfortunate soul, and drop a dwarf explorer deep into the volcano? Can you build a nickel tunnel, surround it with magma, lock some goblins in there and fry them slowly? I would do it myself; but i am still trying to figure out the pump stacks.

[@kruggsmash]

Obsidian farm. hrmm yes I guess that IS exactly what i've made! The glass room thing wouldn't work unfortunately. I've tried a similar thing in the past and anything constructed will just fall apart into it's components upon being dropped :p The nickel tunnel idea is superb! I dunno if it'd have an effect though. Really I haven't seen too much effect from temperature on dwarves in the past. Once, I had a bunch of naked migrants stand around outside on a freezing glacier for more than a year and nothing happened! What the heck, huh? Pump stacks....are a hassle. Thanks for the ideas, Murray!

[@mishadonchenko4362]

About the glass room -- I am not sure, finding a way to place it inside the volcano will be an absolute hassle and might even be impossible unless you find a clever way using obsidian casting. About the nickel tunnel -- surrounding a room with magma won't increase the temperature inside the room (besides the walls), although you can use obsidian casting to create steam which _would_ be able to boil the goblins alive.

[@noahmiller8042]

heres an idea for a magma trap, combine the magma with water and pour iton invaders and then you get nice goblin warrior/elf merchant stautes! also excellent episode as always

[@kruggsmash]

Ha! Oh I like that. Oh shit, wouldn't that be neat? Sheez. Thanks for the awesome tip, dude :))

[@noahmiller8042]

your quite welcome

[@noahmiller8042]

dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Obsidian_farming here some more on mixing water and obsidian

[@noahmiller8042]

also krugg where the episode my man? your videos are the only thing that is good about thursday

[@nickjohnson410]

This is the video that got me to start playing DF... something about incinerating things with lava mist sparked my interest. The image of the Cult of Rall also maybe me chuckle a good bit. I lovehate you Kruggsmash for this video and for getting me into Dwarf Fortress. Thanks Kruggsmash! PS: Your tile set is also my favorite.

[@NationalDevin]

if that's the case, you could design one of those throwing traps like you had in, I think it was Gomathzon, the one where you threw the goblin bodies. You could do that with rocks, fling them up into the air and down into the magma to generate mist.

[@moonman2051]

I don't understand anything in this game but I'm so happy watching this, specially since you work so hard on your videos

[@dylantowers9367]

I once had an embark with both a freshwater lake and a volcano. The lake generated a couple of Z-levels directly above the volcano tube, and water started rushing in the instant I unpaused. The water started turning the uppermost layer into obsidian, most of which proceeded to collapse all the way down into the magma sea due to being completely unsupported. "A section of the cavern has collapsed" x99. Interestingly, my dwarves set up their wagon in exactly the same way as yours did, and the dogs I embarked with liked hanging around there while my dwarves got to work striking the earth. Some wild critter, I forget what it was, got too close and was attacked by one of the dogs. The critter tried fighting back, and the dog dodged the attack... And sidestepped straight off the cliff in the process. Her mangled remains were found 19 Z-levels below, and was interred in a tomb of the finest materials my dwarves had access to at the time (Marble IIRC). I tried hollowing out the obsidian "plug" that had formed in the volcano tube with the intent of building magma furnaces, forges and kilns. After channeling out the floor so the workshops had access to the magma below, I discovered something unfortunate. While magma doesn't flow upwards due to fluid pressure like water does, volcano tubes will always try to push magma upwards so they fill to their original level, which was now where my (unfinished) workshop was... I had to cancel that plan before any dwarves got caught by rising magma while building something. Quick edit: I also discovered that magma crabs were made out to be scarier than they actually are. A couple wandered into the living area and was swiftly dispatched by a random farmer, who, upon inspecting the combat logs, sent several parts of the crab sailing in an arc with a couple of punches, then commented about being near a well made door.

[@needless228]

What you do here is something special. I appreciate your approach to Dwarf Fortress, your artworks and creativity. I almost never do that, but for this here I finally decided to switch to my alt account and give you a subscription. Best of luck in your KZbin career. Anil Dôbar Olnen!

[@kruggsmash]

Hey! Thanks, broither- it really means a ton to me :)) I know what it;s like to be a KZbin lurker and I know that it's special that you've decided to grace me with a sub :) Thanks, dude!

[@rippspeck]

Holy shit, just the channel I've been longing for. Great narration and editing, ultra sick intro and don't even get me started on those magnificent drawings!

[@dachers1238]

That's such a good point. Those caverns were probably super peaceful, and then the dang dwarves showed up.

[@malkeus6487]

This is a fantastic way to showcase dwarf fortress. The drawings are perfect!

[@MooseRouse]

That volcano looked sexy.... Also, the idea of a box of wooden figures of the mad mayor being emptied into a magma pool sounds amazing, you should’ve made the walkway more narrow, so the mist hits everyone no matter what. And I must say, those elves burning? Pure art.

[@kruggsmash]

Ha! Glad you liked the toasty elves. Normally I wouldn't have gone so over-the-top, but I was feeling reeeal outta it on account of the cold and said to hell with it :))

[@stewartgames6697]

I believe that you can use hot rocks to make a steam trap. Basically have a pool of lava enclosed with walls, the pour water in a channel that runs along those walls to turn it to hot steam, and fortifications to let the steam burst out into your trap arena.

[@chrisdewar57]

That volcano is amazing. Great video.

[@kruggsmash]

Yeah it was preetty neat huh? Never seen a shape quite like that before :()

[@IchthysdeKilt]

Fantastic, as always! Maybe as an idea for next time, the opposite? A frozen winter ice fortress? Or perhaps an "assault camp" style fort built literally against the wall of a goblin pit? Exotic animal breeding is always fun, too - capturing, taming, and training war bears or war elephants or war giant miniature space hamsters. Maybe a fort with the goal of transforming everyone into vampires (in contrast to the werelizard adventure mode)? Or if you wanted to continue with lmagvma flood the overworld by pumping out of the deep, deep bowels of the earth? It's the only way to make sure all the elves are gone! So many options! Hope you feel better soon!

[@kruggsmash]

Those all sound like fantastic ideas, actually :) Man do I ever love this game, dude. just looking at all those possibilities makes me see that.

[@NationalDevin]

mind you Krugg, i'm saying this at 5:26 so you may have done this by the end, but in future forts, you could dig a tunnel entrance through one end, create a retraction bridge that gets you over to the actual fort entrance, then when you have invaders, you can pull the bridge out from under them and they'll fall straight into the pit. Not the same concept, but a similar one I did to one of my previous forts in the pre bug fix release in this update, but I had an 8 story high fort in the mountainside, with a great mansion that was for "My companions and I" as I made my dnd group to live there. I had build a great tower from the floor level, going up ten stories so I was level with the roof of the mansion, build up a pillar to allow me to get up to the top, and built two bridges that retracted and sealed off the main entrance at the time. I would only get a few handfuls of gobs and trolls at a time but I was always careful to grab the stronger, armored troops for this tactic, though the best of the best would be allowed in to gather their equipment.

[@3DiversionsDeep]

Love the illustrations and cool trap idea!

[@Bezzdor]

that picture was hilarious, the humans all happy to see their dwarven neighbors and all the dwarves are wondering why they're not dead yet

[@kruggsmash]

Glad you liked it! I'm not sure many folks got where I was trying to go with that pic :p

[@pianoman4035]

Absolutely love the videos and the drawings are flawless!

[@Heathenfidel]

A magma mist explosion is centered on the spot where the cave-in material hits the bottom of the body of magma. So, a shelf in the magma would allow blasts of magma mist to be higher up. (Channel next to the surface of the lava.)

[@REDTEROR]

that awkward moment when your attempted homicide fail.

[@kruggsmash]

Rofl, I know right? Boy were *their* faces red!

[@gorenum]

Man I do Love Your drawings! it makes it more entertaining like the comic audiobook vinyl i had when i was young!

[@Archimagus]

wow, never seen your channel before. this was pretty great. I love the art to go along with it.

[@kruggsmash]

Well, thanks a bunch buddy! I try my best ;) Welcome aboard!

[@Insandom]

Idea, build a bridge, designate it as a stone stockpile, build a roof over it, and use it to create magma mist. :D (secondly, I'd like to see a trap room that locks the invaders in and slowly fills with magma, with stairs winding around a spire in the middle, as they make a mad dash to safety, though there will be none)

[@kruggsmash]

Oh yes! A ton of peeps have been saying that the stone-dropping idea is the way to go for mist-related fun. I'll definitely be taking a stab at it in the future! Also, the spiral staircase idea- brilliance. Again, i'm sure i'll get around to it at SOME point!

[@isaacc7]

You should check out some of Keupo’s forts on twitch. He is fond of making magma cannons. He uses mine carts filled with magma, they slam into a wall and the magma goes flying. They are very effective.

[@kruggsmash]

Oh hey, sounds cool! Unfortunately, I never have time to watch anything at all these days :P Thanks for the tip though, dude!

[@SethKaine]

I saw this episode multiple times ! I love it. Keep working down the mine.

[@theryukan1044]

I always smooth then carve fortifications when piercing volcanoes

[@kruggsmash]

Ooh, right. I had done that in the past too. Completely forgot about that.

[@kingzeeb319]

I was thinking of a base on the otherside of the magma pool, then a drawbridge of stone that you can pull whenever enemies are on it.

[@DavikShaftler]

This was amazing. I love the effort you put into this! I can not wait for DF to come out on steam!

[@thenotsogreatintelligencei1425]

i love how you give character to your dwarfs and act like you had nothing to do with it (it made me laugh all the way through the video, subscribe)

[@devilsadvocate1380]

Might I suggest using the "Prisoner drop" that you used in your arena? Put a lot of stuff in a room and use a bridge to drop them in the magma mist.

[@kruggsmash]

Oh, that'd be pretty killer, huh? Hrmm..next lava-fort!

[@Skydea]

I really really enjoyed this Episode. (100% serious) Thank You Kruggy

[@kruggsmash]

Psh, you're the best, Sky!

[@Skydea]

YOU are the Best. Again ... Thank you *blush*

[@XiaoYuanHao]

BURRRN THEM ALL!!! - Mad Dwarven King xD All for science, I guess ... Another crazy hilarious episode with amazing pics!

[@kruggsmash]

Science! Thanks dude! For the kind words and for watching :))

[@VanHonkerton]

Very wholesome, why did I not know of this channel before

[@kruggsmash]

Glad ya liked it, buddy! Not many people know of this channel- DF doesn't have the biggest community out there. I'm trying to change that!

[@TheOriganalPoppit]

Dropping boulders will probably work well to make a mist.

[@kruggsmash]

Yeah! I read that, too. I need to try it.

[@nickbailey9552]

Been watching since the fist of steelclutches, and I still love all your df videos! Keep up the good work my man!!

[@kruggsmash]

From all the way back then? Sheez! I really appreciate that dedication, dude- like..seriously! Thanks for stickin' around, Nicky-B!

[@nickbailey9552]

Kruggsmash hey man, when the content is this good, I gotta stick around!

[@LiqnLag]

Time you used wheelbarrows. Mine carts and weaponized mine carts are a giant pit of hair pulling fun.

[@nicholassternon5857]

I just love the art so much

[@seanscumpet786]

I'm so addicted to dwarf fortress now. You have infected me with the BUG. I want to start posting on Reddit once I get more confident with the mechanics. I keep a journal of the world I made and everything. It's fed my dnd world with lore.

[@KyleMaxwell]

I learned a lot about dwarven politics tonight.

[@buntekuh01]

I see, your Magma Opus

[@nerdycatgamer]

my idea for the lava trap at the start was to use a draw bridge over the lava (probably a few levels above) and when invaders try to cross you can open it, which would fling them into the air before the drop into the magma. Using magma mist is way cooler tho

[@Zendria]

My experince (and memory (Don 't trust it)) with magma says that the further down you dig in the bigger the pressure is and the faster it comes gushing out when you break open the wall Into the vulcano. Figured it's worth a try. Keep rocking those awesome videos 😀

[@kruggsmash]

Oh, this one i've actually tested! You can dig down under thousands upon thousands of tons of magma and the pressure won't be any different (oddly enough). It IS a completely different story with water. My first time I dug into water was at the bottom of the ocean and I knew NOTHING about water pressure. It did not go very well!

[@Zendria]

Kruggsmash oh. Well i guess i gotta thank you for making me smarter 😝 so... Thanks.. Hope you come up with more ideas. Would personnally like to see magme flow down a narrow starway from the top of a/the fort and down out the entrence.. Loved the story/rp on the Mayor. Really interesting

[@DoubleBizzy]

Wait, why were there only 6 dwarfs in that embark drawing?

[@kruggsmash]

Other one was takin' a poop right off screen.

[@bookybrony526]

Well done. Kind of a shame to have the magma at ground level, but not too hard to work with. My own personal method of using magma smelters and forges with a volcano is to dig out a network of tunnels that would run beneath the workshops and then dig a path to it that the magma can follow and also keep it from spilling out to anywhere important, and then letting it flow once everyone is clear. I found it's also fairly easy to expand it if need be. My last Volcano fortress is unfortunately short on iron and absent of flux stone but I lucked out in several other resources, the mountain is practically made of Aluminum, Gold, Silver, Copper, and Tin of all things. So my army is made of bronze, they drink from goblets of silver and gold which we can make swiftly and easily. We are quickly becoming the richest fortress in all the land. Sadly, the Goblins are a long way away. I have however considered sending a raiding party to provoke them. Haven't even had a Megabeast or a Titan attack yet. It's cool being able to build up so much, but with no threat its kind of all for nothing. Just want to test my bronze teeth on some goblin armies.

[@kruggsmash]

Wow, that IS a shame. To have such an amazing fortress but nothing to defend from. I used to make forts far away from everything just b/c I wanted to enjoy construction, but it DOES tend to get boring after a bit :p Heck, send someone out to those damn gobs. Show em' what for!

[@TheEJackUK]

the second magma tunnel i think the dwarf was in the way when the floodgate tried to shut, floodgates cut through liquid but if theres ANYthing in teh tile, like a dwarf or even a sock, it wont close :)

[@kruggsmash]

Ooooooooh! Damn, alright- that makes sense. Thanks for the tip, breh!

[@TheEJackUK]

bridges work better, they cut through anything, including dwarves

[@GeckoDX]

Hey, I'm super new to dwarf fortress, but I love it so far and I just found your channel which is awesome. Hope you keep making great videos and grow your channel a lot more, you deserve it man.

[@storytimewiththecrimsondm1318]

This is the best dwarf fortress series on youtube. XD

[@jahaliel]

Ral is like a buff bearded Gilderoy Lockhart XD this was great i loved it.

[@kruggsmash]

Basically yeah! Glad ya liked it :))

[@IanHodgetts]

You should do a second episode of this to hone your magma skills. Does pouring water onto magma just create steam? Would that in itself be enough to weaponise? How about dropping different materials into magma? From different heights?

[@kruggsmash]

There are SO many things to try! I will definitely be revisiting magma in the future, dude :)

[@DAMD01]

if you dig diagonally in a magma pipe, all the pressure it has is killed by the diagonal space, i used that in a volcano quite some time ago, it went pretty smoothly, even my miner survived that

[@kruggsmash]

like, the magma moves slower diagonally? Interesting. I don't tend to use diagonal corridors too frequently, though just cuz it's kinda unappealing to look at for me :p Thanks for the idea though, Dairy-o!

[@derendohoda3891]

Wow I love these videos. What a great channel.

[@kruggsmash]

Hey, thanks Deren! You rock, m'buddy :)

[@FrAvatar]

screw pumps made of magma safe material, (surprisingly, green glass is magma safe) could make magma mist on demand , a magma-fall if you will, and would not need reset like dropping floors from above. Edit: and you mention it at the end :)

[@telivan776]

You could drop a good amount of water on the magma and kill enemies with scalding from the steam, that's how the first lever pull of Boatmurdered killed everything

[@kruggsmash]

Hey now, that's an idea! might have to try it out in the future, eh?

[@CaptainHillyan]

*Sees 'Great Stoneware Fort' ep in recommended vids* Now I want to make a fort built entirely around cooking...

[@kruggsmash]

I have actually been toying around with a cooking fortress idea for quite some time :p

[@Mrkubikx]

Dwarf fortress that is world famous becouse of their cooking.(selling only dishes) Their Tavern is Legendary with the most quality food and the most enjoyable drinks.

[@IchthysdeKilt]

Most of my forts end up this way eventually. High quality cooked meals are crazy super valuable for trade.

[@Bartoc1988]

Magma + trapped knife ears + retracting bridges = fun

[@marconpolon]

A way you can safely dig into a volcano, is making it so that the miner is standing on a ramp, so he can easily just move a layer up.

[@kruggsmash]

Oh heck. Thanks for the tip!

[@USAltefore]

I think I have a new favorite Bond villain.

[@intergalacticspacewizard1966]

I know you don't have a lot of viewers but i'm really enjoying the content you make, please keep it up!

[@cyphanx]

Mmm, Krugg-fortress.... thanx again dear sir!

[@kruggsmash]

My pleasure!