askchapo

22766 readers

497 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

Posts must ask a question.
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Why can't we live underground, or carve our homes on the sides of mountains? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

56 comments fedilink hide all child comments

What's stopping us? Not all of us have to, obviously, but at least some of us can live that way.

If our antiquated predecessors could sometimes manage it, I'm sure we can too. Maybe even better.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's a dangerous world to live in. just the other day i built a well over an underground lake in a cavern layer. every now and then a giant bat would fly up the well and into the room, flap around a bit, and then leave back down the well. but then one time one of the children was in the room and in a panic running away from the giant bat ended up falling down the well and drowning.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

o shid o fuk a giant bat aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa splash halphalp i'm drowning blubbrbrbbllblbl

This is why you make an automated swimming pool in your temple.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i've now placed cage traps all around the well. any chance i can train the giant bats to be mounts?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To my knowledge mounts are currently only available to the player in Adventure Mode. I could be wrong though. As far as I understand it mounts aren't working in Fortress mode for the player but do work for enemies who enter the map riding them.

They should be trainable though. Also those things are massive, like several times the size of an adult dwarf so the child falling down the well in fear shouldn't be too surprising. Max giant bat size is 200k cm^3 while max dwarf size is 60k cm^3. Max size figures are pretty good for getting a general idea of the size of these things lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oooo, i can train them as hunting bats, however

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hunting with giant bats seems a bit unfair. Everything that gets hunted is like a fifth of their size.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

well the cavern is full of hostile ant people and they've been killing everything that comes near including a series of forgotten beasts, i need the help