Posted July 22, 2016 (edited) Here we go, After a few cryptic announcment in Freedom chat about highways disruptions... and a few players knowing the project and helping with it, I'm proud to present the (almost) finished cave canal between Echo lake and Rainbow lake. (green arrows are access points) Idea started years ago with a player named Juliar (in our alliance) who wanted some kind of harbour by her place and a canal going to it. We had a start on echo lake side but the rock layer was way too shallow to do anything proper. Nor we had the time to do it properly. Juliar left, but the idea remained in a corner of my head (swizz cheeze full of hole, can be a real mess there I swear). Both Echo and Rainbow access are easy to find with their bridges towering above the canals. The canal is lit with yellow 70QL imperial lamps (because it's a subway/tube/metro/underground thingy). And the canal run for the bigger part bellow the current northern highway to be out of the way of future deeds mine (and also allow them to have their own underground harbour). Trivia - Around 400 tiles long. Most veins were murdered with lava. Almost 2K of concrete have been used to raise the rock layer allowing shorter open air canals. Also Odynn never bathed that much. Hall of Fame. (yes, the lack of list is an incentive for you to visit the tunnel) Midgard Harbour. (no knarr here yet, we still need to finish the floor mining) Nota : We will have updates, typo to fix and others stuff to add in due time... yadda yadda, queue legal disclaimer plox. Edited July 22, 2016 by Odynn Moar stuff to add 13 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 22, 2016 I attest to the very rare baths he took. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 22, 2016 (edited) Congratulations! This is an awesome job! (And yours is a lot longer than mine... <boat tunnel> :P) Edited July 22, 2016 by Yaga 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 23, 2016 Odynn, you're insane ;-) And thats another very nice addition to the awesomeness thats called Deliverance Did you hear anything from Juliar in the past 3 years ? From what I've seen she started playing WU last year when it was released 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 23, 2016 We are all very happy to have you around, Odynn And an "Extremely well done!" for you. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 23, 2016 not odynn's loop? you need to get with the times 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 23, 2016 (edited) Awesome. But how do you murder veins with lava? Edited July 23, 2016 by griper 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 23, 2016 dig to rock, use pop power erupt on the vein tile above (mole sense to check it), freeze it, disintegrate the lava wall underground. save you a few thousands actions. And no Galad, haven't heard anything from juliar. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 24, 2016 Will have to come check it out! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 25, 2016 On 7/23/2016 at 2:02 PM, griper said: Awesome. But how do you murder veins with lava? He stares at them for hours, then they start to cry and crawl away. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 25, 2016 Wow Odynn, you are always working on some sort of mining project haha! Congratulations to those that worked on it. It looks like an amazing tunnel. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 26, 2016 OH wow! I cannot be more grateful for this. I have ALWAYS wanted a canal/tunnel from echo-rainbow lake Odynn you have certainly outdone yourself this time. Eternally grateful for those who worked on this project <3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 29, 2016 Rainbow lake entrance as seen from the marble bridge : *** It's not a rare knarr in a yellow colored cave canal, It's the tube being used for a 1.3K iron delivery for the first time. (yish, i had the knarr in it for the support beams and the iron vein was just a bit farther in the canal, but still 30km/h wooooooooooo!!!) 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 29, 2016 I did not know Odynn took baths I thought he just shed his skin everyday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 3, 2016 This is awesome, maybe now Awen and I will get more seafaring visitors here at Astoria! Just so everyone knows, Awen will be dredging out Rainbow Lake (long term project) so the lake will be deeper to accommodate the larger ships. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 3, 2016 Echo / Bear / Rainbow need a serious dredging (as well as expansion to their old size i'd say :D) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 3, 2016 Not sure what Rainbow's original size was, but we're working on our side to make it right. Gonna need a TON of transmutation liquid to clear some of this clay under water, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 4, 2016 (edited) Echo got shrink of a good third if not half it's size. Bear a bit, in fact rainbow might have gained a few tiles. I believe we would need channels first to allow bigger boats to sail around properly. Can always mark them by sinked pillars... should be high enough to poke through the water line. I've been starting to fix the canal flanks, but the lack of cave slope is a real mess (as well as the use of concrete). Edited August 4, 2016 by Odynn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 6, 2016 What happened to make them so shallow? I know I randomly get stuck in a rowboat moving around Echo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 6, 2016 Heh, same as everything else, unless you see a fugly dirt spike, natural. Your side on echo (west for those who are wondering) is the worse, east is way deeper. Bear is worse iirc. Had to drag a corbita on half the way to get rid of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 7, 2016 we need a ash donation then ill keep the concrete flowing better, thats if u need more concrete. Anyhow looks really good. =) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 11, 2016 If it's so shallow (meaning the rock here) - are we going to get sails passing through the grass/forest/roads above the canal now? Will be a funny sight. Good work Next project Nightmare to Echo? (Or would that be your worst nightmare). Getting close to where ships can go through the middle of the server and come out at the other side. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 11, 2016 25 minutes ago, Kianga said: If it's so shallow (meaning the rock here) - are we going to get sails passing through the grass/forest/roads above the canal now? Will be a funny sight. Good work Next project Nightmare to Echo? (Or would that be your worst nightmare). Getting close to where ships can go through the middle of the server and come out at the other side. A canal from one side of the sever to the other....sounds like a plan! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites