This year flew. I've expanded down into the 3rd cavern, which has a magma pool. I might just keep going down for magma however, as the pool is well away from my stairway. My rutherers are starting to take off in breeding, and I caught quite a few this year. In addition, I set up a few nest boxes, which is new for me. I've never had enough nesting creatures. I'm pretty excited though...if I can get a steady supply of Jabberers, goblin sieges should be a snap. WAR JABBERERS RAWR. (squawk?)
Speaking of goblins, I had one skirmish with an ambush, but my two best hammerdwarves were 10 tiles away (engraving the defense chamber).
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Submitted by: Dustin - 2012-12-20 to 265 Early Spring
How did you get caverns as close to the surface as 7 z-levels? Mine are always 30-40 down, and the magma sea is at around 130.
Submitted by: ajr_ - 2012-12-20 to 265 Early Spring
Ice age!!!! The ice has torn off a lot of soil and stone from the top
Submitted by: Quietust - 2012-12-20 to 265 Early Spring
The first cavern starts 4 Z-levels beneath the surface, which means custom worldgen parameters were almost definitely used (the normal minimum is 10 Z-levels).
It's also possible that his world is a "Region" rather than an "Island" and the embark is away from the coastlines or steep mountains - ISLAND worlds tend to result in extremely tall cavern layers, while REGION worlds can easily get you a magma sea that's less than 50 Z-levels beneath the surface.
Submitted by: Fire Imp - 2012-12-28 to 265 Early Spring
Sorry to disappoint, but the caverns start about 22 levels down, I didn't render all of the in-between levels because it's 19 levels of stairs. However that's really interesting Quietust, I didn't know you could manipulate the caverns in such a way. I'll upload the in-between layers next year to more accurately display the caverns :)
[Message edited on 2012/12/28 at 12:29 by Fire Imp]
Submitted by: Fire Imp - 2012-12-28 - Removed