I kinda understand the basics of DF now, but after 3 years building my fort no major event has happened. I've read if you want cool shit going you need to embark on dangerous locations but what is the line between still fun for a beginner and impossible tier?
Or maybe I just gotta keep this fort up until it ends
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how you tried digging?
*have
Yes, looking for minerals mostly to pretty up the tavern. Guess I just haven't gone deep enough for the crazy shit to pop out?
yes. go as deep as you can and then prepare for all the fun
time to dig deeper then, thanks.
while we're on the subject, is there a better way to deal with taking all the fricking rocks up to the fort? are minecarts a thing that's used for this kinda thing or just gotta get the haulers to haul
i believe wheelbarrows should help the haulers initially but after that minecarts are probably the next step
I still don't get the minecarts. If I want to haul boulders, 5 dwarfs with 5 wheelbarrows seem to do the exact same thing with less effort.
I recommended minecarts but I personally never bother with them.
I only ever used them for defensive purposes and infinite storage
Minecarts are amazing because they only use a few haulers to haul a lot of stuff really fast.
But anon never bothered with them because in DF you usually don't have a problem with dwarfpower. So often, unless you're running a huge mining operation that can't be refined and crafted on site, then you don't need minecarts. Just have 40 guys haul it, they have nothing better to do anyway.
It hauls a lot of stuff, except stone and ore, like what it's made to do. If it holds 83 bars/blocks it should hold 20 boulders at least, not just 5.
dwarf fartress? is that some fetish WEG crap?
>adventure mode "release" is a half-baked beta you have to opt into
color me fricking mad
>Release a beta with less features of most pre-alphas as a birthday gimmick
>You waited more than a year for this
>"The actual release will be in a few weeks you guys!"
>"Actually no lol, we'll let you know when we know."
Fricking grim
it's infuritating
I waited for the magic system
and then i shifted to waiting for the steam release
which became waiting for adventure mode
which has now become waiting for the adventure mode proper release
>I waited for the magic system
And you will wait a lot more.
>"waited", past tense, no longer ocurring
>"will wait", future/present tense, still occurring
you seem confused
i'm waiting for adv mode proper and then washing my hands clean of paying attention to the moron's development news
Welcome to dwarf fortress!
It’s a very addictive game with a very flaky dealer.
But man… when he delivers it’s usually Mediocre…but sometimes it’s amazing and it’s that good shit that’s made the game a cult classic.
Pack a lunch, start a family, buy a home, have kids and check back on the game. It will probably maybe be half done.
you speak to me as if "waiting for the magic system" isn't a concept that's around 15 years old. why?
Because he’s working on it bro. Check back in a few….years…
Technically there’s necromancy…
okay, that does nothing to explain why I was treated like a newcomer to the game when I've been actively engaged in it for longer than some people in this thread have been alive
it's like saying "welcome to dark souls" to someone reminiscing about version 1.0 of the game, why?
Are you good bro? Are you mad about dark souls? We’re not talking about dark souls in this thread.
It’s a good game but it’s honestly not hard. You just have to learn patterns. You’ll be fine bud.
Let's be honest this isn't a years worth of development. They are busy jerking off to animal people and little else.
It fuels the creativity. The game would not have been as good without the E number number site.
Look deep into your soul and you know it’s true. Only lust for furry people could produce such a pure product.
On a side note is it weird to beat your meat to fursuit “women”
>pure
In the sense that you consume lettuce, water and spend 15 mins to fight a goblin, yes it rid itself of all the baggage.
When I first looked at DF I thought cool, I’ll play this when I retire in 40 years, that was 10 years ago
When I first saw it I said.
This is free. I like free stuff
Their priorities are horrible. Civ sites are rectangles in dirt, no workshops, almost no furniture or decoration, can't trade or cook but the sprites for furgays are in.
yep, artgays in control now. say hello to Starbound all over again
>yes some of the core systems are still fricked but look here's a giraffe costume and a jeep our spriters took a week to make
magic already has solid base and we got a bit of a sneak peek through the night creatures update with the undead interactions and experiments
modders couldve done shit with it ages ago (and have)
>I kinda understand the basics of DF now, but after 3 years building my fort no major event has happened.
Quick question. Is this fort of yours the one that the tutorial start for you?
tis my own, why? is tutorial fort super low danger even after the start?
Kind of. When youstart the tutorial, it automaticaly picks a safe location on the map that isnt in range of goblins or necro towers nor is a high savagery biome and of neutral inclination. And maybe even turns off some of the thresholds for megabeast and other nasty stuff to show up at your fort, but im not sure on this one.
You can keep playing on this fort past the tutorial but it going to be basicaly the DF equivalent of an easy mode.
And there then there is the world gen part of it, which I assume you just used the default preset options, which there is nothing wrong with, but if you want you can make the world a lot more dangerous by using the the advenced world gen
Get your hands on necromancy book and turn your fort into necro-fortress
actually sounds based. will dig
It takes a long fricking time
I tried once but never got more than 4 or 5 necromancers
i wish i had the Ganker threads about the guy who became a vampire and then a necromancer, using his own severed and reanimated hand as a pet
What's the best way to play dwarf fortress? I heard there is the ascii version, several modded versions and a new version.
sadly we're in a limbo state where there is no definitive version currently.
obviously modding the ascii version is free so that is a huge selling point for trying it out.
lazy newb pack does a lot for turning the base game into something a bit more digestible
The current verion of the game (50.12) is avaliable both for free in ASCII and with the premiun graphic pack + premium ost on Steam and Itch.io I think. Or you can just pirate it since it has no DRM or whatsoever.
For the pre-steam versions(47.xx) the options you had were:
>the vanila ascii version on DF website
>downloading the vanila ascii and manually instaling a fanmade tileset or graphic set of your choice
>downloading the Lazy Newb Pack which was basicaly the above but it came with a bunch of third party QoL that almost everyone used and made so that you instaling tilestets and other third party stuff was only a matter of clicking one or two buttons
I dont think that anyone has botherd to do tilesets and graphics packs for the 50.12 ASCII version yet. So if you want to play it and you cant stomach the the ASCII, they your only option is to either buy or pirate the game.
Tile sets are effectively dead. They went from 256 character to 5000.
The only exciting shit is forgotten beasts and invasions and depending on the embark you could have no hostile civs iirc. You can start in a harder biome, just don't do any of the evil embarks because they're basically impossible and not in a fun challenging way, they used to be better a decade ago (lol). I always pick untamed wilds
show world map, maybe you picked a location with no other civilizations near, like some island
honestly still unsure how to read this
Like I said in
, the tutorial started your fort(the one surronded by a yellow square) in the most safe location it could find.
Your fort only has other dwarf settlements and human vilages around it with elven forest to the northeast
Maybe you could get some megabeast, or forgotten beast invasions, but again I wouldnt be surprised if the tutorial has turned those off too.
and like he said in
it's his own fort, not the tutorial one.
Cant wait for actuall adventure mode release
Im'm not autistic enough for old ui/kb only controlls
How the frick do I pick shit up in combat in adventure mode and wield it? I dropped my hammer and my guy just keeps putting in his bag
You need to keep a note book and write down the controls.
You also need to have a web tab open to the controls. You need to do a sequence of things to change clothes
homie its all fricking mouse now, I used to know all the hotkeys
how the frick do I dismiss my fat pet dog I started the game with I need to recruit a stronger person for this job
My statement still stands
r emove weapon from packpack
also youre already holding shit in your hands moron thats why it defaults to backpack
>troony blmtress
wdhmbt
Savage wilds, good or neutral
Evil dials difficulty up hardcore
Most of the things that will kill you are dumb shit like flooding your fortress, bad luck with werebeasts, bad luck with forgotten beasts made of metals and shit
You might just be unlucky
One of my first playthroughs my Fortress was destroyed by a Werecamel that slaughtered and/or infected everyone else in the fortress
Play Songs of Syx instead, it's basically Dwarf Fortress but if it was an actual fun game you can play instead of an autistic """"""story generator""""" made by a homosexual furry
Plus it still runs smooth when you get to 10k population, meanwhile DF gets into single digits FPS at 100+ dwarfs
I can’t drop infinite goblins into hell so DF is automatically a better game
i really enjoy the story generator part of it. wouldnt play DF if i could not sit down and read about each of my dwarves. are you saying songs of syx lacks that aspect?
>he believed the zoomer secondaries
Go play Rimworld
How the frick do I feed myself if I can't butcher, trade, its fricking winter
Turn into a vampire and suck people off for sustenance?
Make a mushroom farm.
Im playing the terrible adventure mode beta with half the features not ready
Did you just not plant the 100 plump helmet seeds you start with?
or did you farm them but accidently turned all the resulting seeds into wine
youd be surprised how many times this was asked in history, and how many tiems the answer was "guess we'll die"
hunt in caverns
so how's adventure mode
Honestly I think adding z-levels was a mistake. A lot of the fun came from the inevitable tantrum spiral as your increasing clusterfrick of a fortress filled up with nobles and other useless dwarves. The z-levels make it too easy to build an efficient layout and the resulting 3D pathfinding crawls it to a laggy halt long before everything can go to shit.
i agree, the game felt better when it was only 2d both performance-wise and fun-wise
It's the other way around, the z-levels made me switch from Rimworld to DF.
Z levels are cool and easily the games best selling point
Have any of you guys attempted building a surface-only fortress?
The last time I tried I got wrecked by a dragon attack.
troony game. All true autists moved on to factorio
Does fricktorio have a wrestling mode and 400 years worth of generated lore?
No, but it also has no transexuals
ok rimtroon keep projecting
400 years of useless bullshit.
>wrestling mode
It was fun for half an hour. Fort mode made me almost pass out of boredom. I was quite excited about adventure mode, but it was somehow even worse than anything I would have expected. I am so salty right now.
You just discovered all the fun was patched out years ago