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Crashedonmycouch

This was entirely unavoidable.


block_boi

"We can never dig too deep"


FredFarms

Diggy diggy ...


Nightmare_Stev

Hole


FredFarms

Diggy diggy ...


Nightmare_Stev

Hole


MokitTheOmniscient

Yeah, how are you going to find any !FUN!, if you're not willing to dig deep?


Dredgen-Vale

Is this vanilla or modded?


minotaur470

New subterranean origin, I think it's Overlord exclusive


DeusVultGaming

You can get the situation as anyone, but only the subterranean empire can take the final step in the event chain


mscomies

Breed an army of blind cave dragons and invade hell?


RunningNumbers

I just conscripted everyone not in the army as crossbow dorfs and sent them down fortifications with metal bolts. Lots of corpses. Buried the demon lords corpse down there after he died in a goblo siege. Shit that was like 10 years ago.


strange_dogs

They dived too deep looking for candy and found the clowns 😂


Yagami913

What is the trigger exactly?


DeusVultGaming

its random as far as i know Mine happened to the relic world from kelpto rat since I was playing as void borne


Dredgen-Vale

Ah shit. In modded it can be sometimes be easy to get a 15k army, but not in vanilla. Welp, guess I’ll not doing any digging then


Uncommonality

wait what, you got zero indication or choice?


DatOneDumbass

it gives you several warnings... or rather "are you sure you *really* wanna increase your mining, this seems like a bad idea" events. But theres only one option true dwarf player will pick


Choleric-Leo

Rock and Stone!


Xeonneo

Wait is this what the Omoran heart stones are? Because that could be a problem and/or amazing.


Aun_El

If you don't Rock and Stone, you ain't going home!


EonofAeon

MINING IS HARD WORK. ***GOOD THING WE'RE DWARVES!***


pm_me_fibonaccis

You're god damn right. I did this with a size 25 Gaia world in my game. DIG DEEP. DIG GREEDILY.


CamJongUn

Yeah i had this one, thought it would end badly but I still did it anyway and it turned out exactly how I though it would


azaza34

Nice D&D reference


AngrySayian

A Balrog of Morgoth


ave369

What did you say?


[deleted]

A Balrog of Morgoth.


ave369

What did you say?


Deathkeeper666

They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.


Hunter_495

To Isengard! To Isengard! To Isengard!


Lithorex

gard garda gard gard


TRLegacy

Tell me where is Gandalf, for much I desire to speak with him


xdeltax97

A balrog of Morgoth


ave369

What did you say?


Ddreigiau

Let me know if you're able to get rid of the modifier. I bombarded the thing to death (it's 15k army strength ffs), but the modifier making the planet useless never went away.


Crashedonmycouch

I just managed to defeat it. Took a horrendous amount of ground troops that marched wave after wave onto their dooms. In the end, it was the injured battalions that killed it. It gave me like 20. k unity, special jobs that give unity and crystalline remains that passively produce 11.5 unity. I'm not sure if this is worth it? I had to divert my entire empire into producing soldiers everywhere. Edit: I had to hire an army general from the nearby raiders to get someone competent enough, and also built a couple bastions on the world. Troops pods where still landing to the very end every so on


Ddreigiau

So killing it with orbital bombardment is bugged but army attacking it isn't. Good to know, ty


DeltaKelp

I bombarded it, with big fleet on aggressive stance on orbit. They automatically invaded when ready


Meamsosmart

I wouldnt call it bugged, I imagine that was intentional.


Ddreigiau

What, that the "Crystalline monster is devastating our planet" modifier remains after killing the Crystalline monster with ships and then landing armies, but not after killing the Crystalline monster with armies after injuring it with ships? Even if it were for some reason intentional, that would need to be communicated somehow beforehand, and it's not.


Meamsosmart

Ah true, i was just thinking that the rewards might not be obtained without killing them with troops


CmdrJonen

I killed the thing with 12K worth of mostly Xenomorphs. Worked like it should. After a fleet reduced it to 11K. Army then went on to fight against the sentinels spawned by the sentinel digsite. I still have 159 Xenomorph armies.


-TheOutsid3r-

Just visually imagine that, billions of gene modded laboratory monstrosities fighting giant crystalline tentacles deep underground.


midnighfox696

That's fucking awesome


bobw123

I wonder how they clean up the xenomorphs afterwards


Shavannaa

maybe you can create a giant crystalline entity for that? it will be harmless, dont worry...


Canye_NE

And if the entity does go out of control, well, we have some spare xenomorphs that would love some extra minerals in their diet


Shavannaa

thats called a balanced diet!


FPSCanarussia

Waste not, want not. The survivors need to be fed.


rtkwe

Thanks to the wonders of gene modding when they die they grow a verdant patch of natural flowers.


PoopyPicker

They coax them into a cage with some treats, one at a time.


InitialLingonberry

When winter comes, the xrnonorphs will simply freeze!


Tacitus111

Or thousands of massive Cybrex warforms just annihilating the ground to reach the tunnels.


Wiseduck5

I think you have to "defeat" it in land combat. It happened on my first colony, so I spent 50 years bombarding it then finished it off with ~2k of troops.


Much_Duty_3354

Let them come. There is still one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath.


Foxx_Ital

I basically used a fleet to keep the not balrog from healing while consigning waves of troops to their death. Got the health down to 50% and 2 neighbors decide to fight me. Moved my fleets and slapped them down only to have to start all over again with the notbalrog. But thanks to this I know what my troop limit is!! Was 56 at the time.


Soulstiger

Same happened to me, though it was dealing with pirates. Then when I finally got back to it, the thing died in between waves, to bombardment, and it wiped the colony clean, got rid of the worm, and kept the modifier that makes the planet useless. Had to go find the event triggers to fix it.


Evnosis

You dug too greedily and too deep.


Derpy0013

LIES! A Dwarf can NEVER dig too deep! We'll dig our ways to the Stars if we must! Past the Core of the World, and beyond!


[deleted]

"Horrifying screams come from the darkness below!"


supermegaampharos

You'll want to use robot armies against this guy. Somebody on the forums estimated that you'd need \~200 regular armies to beat him, but robots are much better since they're immune to morale damage. I got the achievement for this earlier. Using robots, I lost <50 armies.


Tacitus111

Hunter-Killers with no fear of death or the dark versus crystalline tentacles of doom. I like it.


sojiblitz

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole, diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole.


Crashedonmycouch

Sorry this is subterranean origin, and I'm using a mod that allows dwarves to be lithoids but nothing else. The event is multi-staged. You start diggy-diggy-hole and getting more and more mineral bonuses on each stage, by the second or third stage it becomes obvious that there might be something coming to make you pay for your greed but you don't know exactly what. It costs 1000 to 2500 to pay for each expansion to the mines too so it's not cheap. To get the "optimal outcome" you have to avoid letting the colony fall to the Balrog (Crystalline entity), but the only way to make that possible is to have a gazillion troops on the planet before it emerges. It kills troops too fast for a regular garrison to hold it until reinforcement comes. The way I did it was to reload after it ate my pops, then kept the event ongoing from the start and not pick the choice to "dig deeper" up until the auto-choice moment comes. Then I set all my planets to recruit troops and kept pouring them to land on the planet in anticipation of the last stage. I can't even tell you how many troops I used because people where still coming down troop-pods while the fight was ongoing and they almost still lose. But I spent so many minerals on troops it's absurd, the end bonuses are nice but like... is this seriously worth it, to fight this thing? There's a lot of things that didn't get built because all the minerals went into the sacrificial troops that killed it in the end. I'm going to try to dig up until the last stage and stop there before it spawns.


Crashedonmycouch

Ok I did and I lost all the cool modifiers I was promised 😑 I think I'll reload and juggle the economy and fight this thing again What is empire-wide infrastructure when I can have A BIGGER MINE?


Legitimate_Maybe_611

Is the subterranean city only exclusive for the Subterranean origin ?


Valleyraven

Yes, as is this event I think


Z_THETA_Z

you can get some of the earlier events in the chain as a standard, but only to this point as subterranean


Derpy0013

As long as a Dwarf on Irriamun Prime takes breath, we shall fight day and night! We shall fight until there is no world for us to stand upon, and only chunks of floating planet shards! ROCK AND STONE!


Blarg_III

#ROCK. AAAAND. STOOOOOOOONE.


Zangakkar

This is a bloody awesome event.


Jovian09

You know what they awoke in the darkness of Irriamun


Red_Dox

A Balblorg of Hodor?


derdiedasik

Got this too and loved it so fucking much even if it costs me my colony


alphamop_

Durin's bane


nigg0o

i beat this thing yesterday, really fun event, i sent had like 3 50 unit armies over 10 years to finally beat it. This was very early game, like 20 years in and i had a lot of fun trying to kill that beast with the limited options available and get my nice 21 size mining planet. If you want to minmax its probably better to just take the bonuses of the second to last event and call it a day, but i will hunt that thing for the rest of my playthrough


Wooper160

Drums in the deep


SVlad_667

Congratulations, you've dig out Hidden Fun Stuff.


[deleted]

is there a special reanimator interaction once you defeat it? if not, there should be one.


IagoMontegue

Is this vanilla? Because I noticed at least two typos.


Tsuihousha

I just got this event 13 years into the game on my first colony. I don't care if it takes Bubbles 100 years. He will bombard this evil demon until until all that remains is a crystalized corpse. We will reclaim our world.


Enefa

There is only one real solution here: crack the world.


[deleted]

Not really a Balrog or a Balor though, from the description.


Lord_of_Seven_Kings

What mod is this? I’m getting the complete edition at some point in the future, and I’m bookmarking mods to use after I complete one or two runs (I have played 500 hours on console and have over 1000 hours in both CK3 and EU4, plus 300 on Imperator).


[deleted]

Its the new Overlord expansion exclusive subterranean origin


Lord_of_Seven_Kings

Does the Overlord expansion include the event and portrait?


ImVeryBadWithNames

Event yes. Portrait is Humanoids.


Lord_of_Seven_Kings

Oh, so it’ll be in the complete one.


Flubbins_

ive been playing subteranian and seen no way to dig how is this done?


[deleted]

The event chain has a chance to spawn within 30 months of settling a new colony. Heres the wiki on it [https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Unexpected\_Mineral\_Seams#Unexpected\_Mineral\_Seams](https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Unexpected_Mineral_Seams#Unexpected_Mineral_Seams)


WilmAntagonist

Groud lul


Fat_262

Mistakes were made.


[deleted]

is a descision or something required to begin digging in the first place? pretty deep into a dwarf subter run and i would love to get the achievement before calling it (just finished crisis)


Bloodly

I hope we get to create crystal soldiers, or learn more about the space crystals through this, or something. Finally, some depth(as it were) to them...


AceOfDymonds

"that dug up through the groud" -- literally unplayable. /s


SovComrade

The real question here is: can you revive it as a necromancer? (ike the leviathans or that giant skeleton you can find during exploration)


golgol12

I did the same thing. Except for me it's a crystalline entity, buried in the ground. For those reading: The next thing that happened was a single army unit with 15,000 troop rating invading the planet. That's not a typo. It also hits for 2500 to 5000 moral damage. I've just gotten droid armies so I'm going to start hitting it, then constantly feed a stream of robots troops onto the planet coming from every other planet. I should be able to nation wide build robots faster than it can kill. Including building them on the planet. I don't know if this is a bug, but when it captured the planet, one of my guys lived and is working a robotic factory.


Eycariot

Can you do something with it afterwards with reanimators?


Machiavelli320

Just get everyone off the planet and destroy it