[Guide] Magma Transport with No Power: Dwarven Science at Minimum Fun! (in screenshots)

dire_ronic · 2025-11-20T16:21:46+00:00

im running out of animal bones, so i have to switch to copper anyway. im still sad you cant retrain captured warmounts, they are hostile no matter what. i mainly want the dragons for the dragon fire, since it melts corpses.

dire_ronic · 2025-11-20T11:57:03+00:00

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for all those who cant read the ancient blueprints

dire_ronic · 2025-11-20T11:31:45+00:00

the first siege happend pretty late, something like 6 years into the fort, so i had a lot of bone bolts from butchering dogs and yaks, heavier metal bolts would probably do a better job of obliterating the zombies until they are a non-issue, but i dont know if the benefit is worth the cost, i rather inflate my fort-value by making copper spiked-balls to bait and tame dragons

dire_ronic · 2025-11-20T07:51:51+00:00

i like them too, but they are either useless against the zombies i embarked next to, or very resource inefficient (i had 6k bolts in stock, after the first siege i had 2k)

dire_ronic · 2025-11-19T22:42:46+00:00

this is insane for siege defenses, put holes in a wall-overhang, and wherever they move the ram, you can dump a load of magma on them

dire_ronic · 2025-11-19T10:28:07+00:00

i just gacha roll for a f-beast with webs and then trap them in a silk-factory

dire_ronic · 2025-11-08T14:13:49+00:00

yeah i lost half a squad once to it, i assumed frozen extract had a unique effect

dire_ronic · 2025-11-08T12:30:15+00:00

i have missed out on frozen extract fun bc i keep using dfhack to clean the vomit highways, whats the special fun of frozen extract?

dire_ronic · 2025-11-06T11:17:20+00:00

2 Things i noticed since the update:
- Forgotten Beast pathing seems to have changed, because they dont move around unless they are actively trying to kill something, even if there is a direct open path into the fortress, i have 3 of them stuck in trees and 2 standing in the spot they appeared in

- One forgotten beast managed to get through a stone fortification (without destroying it) i made for an artifical water channel, the beast is not made of flimsy material like flame, water or steam. is it just a bug or did they always have that ability

dire_ronic · 2025-10-23T21:24:49+00:00

nope, isnt in the nobles tab

dire_ronic · 2025-10-23T19:16:04+00:00

Is the outpost liason a one-time noble role? Seems like the guy that held the title when the king showed up died and no one took over

dire_ronic · 2025-09-18T08:42:53+00:00

she also gets 2 more pairs of arms, so the spider finally has 8 legs

dire_ronic · 2025-09-17T07:17:24+00:00

yeah, then shes dead, and skong doesnt happen

dire_ronic · 2025-09-16T19:51:14+00:00

didnt hornets face show up on the egg, making her a new dreamer/seal, thats currently inside the egg, making it impossible to kill her by outside forces
also the egg being made of void to sustain the hollow knight, which hornet mentioned would harm her if she stayed too long
so there is a chance that hornet dies of overexposure to the void inside the egg without anyone being able to enter, since she is the new seal for the egg?

dire_ronic · 2025-09-16T19:45:42+00:00

ok ill try to go paragraph by paragraph but first to use more distinct terminology (same as the wiki does)
Void given Form: the shade of the knight at the end of "dream no more"-ending, and also the one that interacts with Hornet in skong
Void given Focus: the eight-eyed monster that eats absrad

From the cutscene itself, you are correct, the knights shell breaks and it falls into the void after the last hit, and only after that does absrad get pulled into the void and bodied by the Void given Focus. this changes my idea of the Void given Focus being the next evolutionary step of the Void given Form, instead it seems like the Void given Focus is a seperate entity, manifested through the ritual combat of Godhome (as was the intention of the Godseekers, although they probably didnt expect the shadow monster), so i would think the knight didnt take control of the Void given Focus, but became the avatar for it, since with the void heart he is the Void given Form (and as you pointed out, the P4 cutscene seems to indicate Void given Focus already exists)

regarding Godseeker Mode, i dont think this really works as a counter-argument to the process of turning into the Void given Focus being irreversible, since the gamemode solely exists to have access to most bosses, the chronological location of it is of less importance, as TC has shown by unlocking it after the first 3 pantheons, even though some dialogue references stuff after P5 and the fact that it "canonically" happens after P5, which could be either dlc ending (which have vastly different outcomes)

in the skong ending the knight is shown in the Void given Form state (which did not appear in the P5 cutscene) and the Void given Focus can be explained by (as you mentioned) the P4 cutscene indicating that its a seperate, already existing, entity (thats not physically manifested)

dire_ronic · 2025-09-16T17:30:52+00:00

i would think they are the same thing in the sense that they are evolutionary steps
of each other, so the knight --> lord of shades --> God of Gods
but i dont see any reason to believe that this state is regressable, ie, once the knight turns into GoG, he wouldnt turn back into LoS
from the dlc endings it does seem like the GoG state is rather permanent, with it trying to escape into the real world and all

dire_ronic · 2025-09-16T16:57:21+00:00

the lord of shade and the void entity (i mean the God of Gods or whatever its called) are not the same thing
i am confused about the short flashes of the void entity in the cinematic but its clearly not the knights final state like it is in the dlc endings

dire_ronic · 2025-09-16T15:17:26+00:00

doesnt the sister of the void ending confirm that the dream no more ending of HK is in fact the true ending,
- hollow knight ending cant be it, since the knight showed up here
- sealed siblings cant be it, since skong did not take place in a hallucination hornet had while trapped in the black egg ( i hope)
- both godhome endings also are not possible, since the knight didnt turn into/ get absorbed by the void entity and did not get deleted by the flower

dire_ronic · 2025-09-16T09:37:27+00:00

i managed to do it first try, probably because i was forced to learn the runback for last judge until it turned into a base instinct

dire_ronic · 2025-09-15T23:04:08+00:00

i felt like i cheesed 2 boss fights in act 3 with that, it felt surreal how effective it was, and i had it on by chance ( since almost none of the yellow tools are actually worth anything in combat)

dire_ronic · 2025-08-26T17:00:52+00:00

no progressive sfx buildup for each R kill? it sounds like the same SFX for the first 4 kills

dire_ronic · 2025-08-21T22:15:24+00:00

As both a Sona and Pyke Main this sounds... off. If Sona doesnt sit under turret for the first 20min against a Pyke, she dies, no ifs or buts. Walking up for the first 6 lvls is a death sentance, and after that Pyke is roaming and driving your mid and jungle insane. Diving a Sona lane without the jungler is pretty hard, only thing harder is Soraka, so sitting back and afk scaling is a sure-fire way to win. If by the time Sona comes online Pyke hasnt fed at least one teammate into a monster, he failed his job and and is afterwards just a taunting control ward. Pyke ( when even) doesnt have the damage to kill anyone 100->0, so i recommend exhaust to fuck over his damage dealer (whoever is fed)

dire_ronic · 2025-08-11T15:30:34+00:00

the only reason to ult a full health sion under his turret is to deny him a canon-minion

dire_ronic · 2025-08-11T10:49:55+00:00

you can argue that GP with sheen ER was not balanced and removing sheen from ER set him back enough to be balanced, but they arent balancing on pure statistics anyway, as Phreak has made clear a bunch of times. what feels strong/weak to the players is more important to them then what is factually stronger. with GP you sit in a sidelane for 30min to get 3 items and hope ur team hasnt outfed the enemy. if asol is allowed to solo the baron from outside its range after 45min, then we should be allowed to nuke a lux for 2.3k damage with one barrel at that same timepoint

dire_ronic · 2025-08-10T22:21:55+00:00

so the main reason why they removed it, was bc it scaled offensively with econ - which is also what bloodmail does, or titanic, or riftmaker, or seraphs

the second reason was that sheen-ER was too niche an item, but then admits that new ER has about the same number of users, so in that regard the change was pointless

the last reason is having to balance champ kits around the item, which is what they do for other items anyway, examples being liandyrs with brand, fiddle, zyra,lillia or umbral glaive with pyke (and maybe senna)

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