Dwarf Fortress - Mom, why are those Elves eating each other? - Games

My hunter just ran out of bolts and decided to go hunting, he wrestled down a fucking mammoth and brought it to the butchery. After that he had to go to the barracks and sleep though.

I got bored of my slow fortress, it was all right, but I got rid of it. What do you guys suggest I do with the next one? stuff like what Biome, Resources, and Skills I should be choosing.

Second year of Salvecrabs ([url=http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-6688-salvecrabs]Map[/url]) First some new farm plots where made on the ground that was covered in mud during Obsidian (fun fact mud only dries off in early and mid winter). The permanent barracks is also almost finished so the beds in the entrance hall can be moved there while the rooms are being prepared, everyone should have their own room. After hearing the advice about humans and road I had one built out of dirt for them hope they like it. The wells have also been made into a meeting hall. Migrants, lots of them, two of whom are certifiable as suicidal! Hunters indeed, elephant fodder more like it! and what was with the you need mostly metal crafters? I bet the Barron is having a laugh at me for the complaints about the late arrival of the anvil with this revenge! The four peasants in the group just got drafted in to the forts first defence regiment. They will defend us by bolt! Got reports that some of the elephants are giving the new guys the evil eye! not much can be done about it though. I will have the entrance hall filled with traps to try and raise morale. We have started moving into the private rooms with the first 10 up for grabs, I have bigger room plans so I will let the others have these rooms. Now to sort the another 24 rooms for everyone else, including me. The archery range is also ready for use but we are short on training bolts, the iron ones from the hunters are for combat only, well there are few bones from the turtles that we have been eating so those can be made into bolts. Ah summer and the catacombs are ready for the dead, I prey we will not need to use them for a very long time. I was just settling into a -deer meat stew- when the human merchants arrive, typical. Well only one thing for it, BRING OUT THE JUNK ... err ... crafts! I wish those carpenters will make those cages, the mechanics are getting annoyed that they can't finish the cage traps. Again we had to guess the value of everything, but we was able to buy all the food except the cheese and even got a bin of cloth as a bonus. Now let us see how much rots at the depot. The good news, alll the food was stored the bad news one of the dwarves has gone AWOL! and claimed to the forge. He keeps badly drawing what looks like the mines. This is to get out of paying me the ☼5 he borrowed isn't it? As a precautionary measure i have had a door installed to the forge area. A giant bat tried to cause some trouble today, might have worked if it didn't go for one of the miners. The smith finally let us have the forge back but has jumped into the river! One of the miners has found a magma river, by having it pour over him ... What an idiot! I would fire him if he wasn't dead! Whatever was wrong with the smith it seems to be catching a miner has now stolen a masons shop and is screaming at the top of his lungs 'I must have the right stone!' (OOC: The stone is onyx, what he is stuck on is gems and cloth.) He has now left the shop, barking like a dog. Does anyone want a madman as a pet? The remainder of the year went without anything of note, just a few new babies to clutter up the fort and distract the parents from doing their work. Now if only we some barrels for some booze.

I am in dire need of alcohol :saddowns: Although, all other stuff is going fine so far, 175 dwarves, no catsplosion, survived several sieges... BUT NO ALCOHOL!!! :v:

[QUOTE=Nenghis;16734991]I am in dire need of alcohol :saddowns: Although, all other stuff is going fine so far, 175 dwarves, no catsplosion, survived several sieges... BUT NO ALCOHOL!!! :v:[/QUOTE] Plump helmets....

Oh wow. 40d14 is out, and allows you to resize the DF window on the fly, and it even resizes the grid to match! No more init.txt screwing around! [editline]04:43PM[/editline] Oh wow, I resized the screen in 2 seconds to fill my whole 1680x1050 resolution, and it worked perfectly and looks amazing.

[QUOTE=Thorny;16736050]Oh wow. 40d14 is out, and allows you to resize the DF window on the fly, and it even resizes the grid to match! No more init.txt screwing around! [editline]04:43PM[/editline] Oh wow, I resized the screen in 2 seconds to fill my whole 1680x1050 resolution, and it worked perfectly and looks amazing.[/QUOTE] Tell me more! I want to know what else is new. [editline]04:05PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Ouendanation;16715666]Just made some new noble housing. Offices are on the top, and the dining room is in the center. It has 32 rooms, and a special room at the bottom for the Mayor, or some other very important noble. Alternatively, I could just use it as a hallway if I need more noble rooms. [IMG]http://gamerev.kiristar.com/Misc%20Images/nobledesign.PNG[/IMG][/QUOTE] [img]http://uterus1.com/images/anatomy_uterus.jpg[/img] Get your mind out of the gutter. :downs:

DAMN CATS STOP BRING DEAD STUFF INTO THE BEDROOMS GAHHHH, OMG WHO THE HELL LET 24 WARDOGS INTO THE DINING HALL?! :argh: :smugdog: :smugdog: :smugdog:

[QUOTE=Wakka V2;16737009]Tell me more! I want to know what else is new.[/QUOTE] Pretty much nothing else, it's just a lot faster than the other D-No. versions.

[QUOTE=Thorny;16737369]Pretty much nothing else, it's just a lot faster than the other D-No. versions.[/QUOTE] Where did you snag it?

[QUOTE=Posessed;16738010]Where did you snag it?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html[/url]

Yay, they fix'd crappy menu shortcut button thingies.

Wait a new versions out?

I shall get back into DF

[QUOTE=Marigi121;16740063]Wait a new versions out?[/QUOTE] Not the big new version that's coming soon, but a faster version of the current... version.

d40 downloadable now :S resizing on the fly and zooming, i came a cubic ton

I heard something about a buildt in macro tool too, but I'm not sure.

[url]http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-6694-famousbandits[/url] Third year done of my shared fort.

I really want to play some Dwarf Fortress but I always end up in a shitty loctation, so bad that there is no point in even starting. I want a place with a river and that near a mountain. Which IS possible but, whenever I embark on a place like that I always end up on the fucking mountain, which means that I can't get to the damn river. So annoying, been trying like 50 times now to get a good place to start damnit. :argh:

Nothing is happening.

[QUOTE=CommanderPT;16741551]I really want to play some Dwarf Fortress but I always end up in a shitty loctation, so bad that there is no point in even starting. I want a place with a river and that near a mountain. Which IS possible but, whenever I embark on a place like that I always end up on the fucking mountain, which means that I can't get to the damn river. So annoying, been trying like 50 times now to get a good place to start damnit. :argh:[/QUOTE] Dig stairs down to the river.

Post music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3PRXFLJYcw[/media] You are sent on a mission to purge this land of undead filth! Start off with these rabbits! [media]http://i31.tinypic.com/2ryg2tl.png[/media] These rabbits are on steroids! He's surrounded! Send backup! [media]http://i29.tinypic.com/2rcu00m.png[/media] We are too late, he's all over the place, and so are they! We need more men! [media]http://i27.tinypic.com/flk9zo.png[/media] [B][I]For the motherland![/I][/B] [media]http://i29.tinypic.com/24fba4j.png[/media] Victory is achieved! But at what price? TO BE CONTINUED? [editline]08:30AM[/editline] Zulban's corpse was shortly thrown to magma in memorial. [editline]08:41AM[/editline] Fucking goddamn rabbits [img]http://i28.tinypic.com/2yopduu.png[/img]

Protip: don't eat rabbit without vegtables. They lack certain vitamins so you eventually starve if you eat just rabbit everyday.

I can't eat skeletal rabbit.

One thing i really want for DF is some kind of online system. Two people set up fortresses on two different areas. You cans end caravans, diplomats and militaries to them to trade, negotiate and dominate.

[QUOTE=thisguy123;16752230]One thing i really want for DF is some kind of online system. Two people set up fortresses on two different areas. You cans end caravans, diplomats and militaries to them to trade, negotiate and dominate.[/QUOTE] That will most likely never happen, would have been fucking awesome though.

[QUOTE=thisguy123;16751053]Protip: don't eat rabbit without vegtables. They lack certain vitamins so you eventually starve if you eat just rabbit everyday.[/QUOTE] That was a great episode of QI.

[QUOTE=CommanderPT;16752528]That will most likely never happen, would have been fucking awesome though.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure that Release version will have such a feature.

[QUOTE=Suicide Requiem;16752710]I'm pretty sure that Release version will have such a feature.[/QUOTE] If it ever will get released that is.

I love this game, I just can't be arsed to look up all the key combos every time I start playing. Also, there should be an option in the build menus to view a description of each item, like showing what floodgates do and how they work etc.