[QUOTE=Terminutter;32846695]DFTerm?
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Really gotta try it some time...[/QUOTE]
Jupp, that one. Thanks.
My farms always run out of seeds after about 2 seasons, and it doesnt seem to matter how many I embark with, they just become unusable by fall
Hi all. I had some minor experience with previous versions of Dwarf Fortress, but haven't played in nearly two years. So, I might as well start as if I were a complete N00B, because It sounds like a lot has changed. So, what should I get to assist my foray into DF, and where could I get some decent guidance do that my first game doesn't end with my dwarves starving to death in their wagon?
[QUOTE=lordoflard;32851351]My farms always run out of seeds after about 2 seasons, and it doesnt seem to matter how many I embark with, they just become unusable by fall[/QUOTE]
Make sure you have food to spare, since dwarfs will eat seeds if there's nothing around.
[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;32851514]Make sure you have food to spare, since dwarfs will eat seeds if there's nothing around.[/QUOTE]
Ah, thanks, that explains it
[QUOTE=10050;32851462]Hi all. I had some minor experience with previous versions of Dwarf Fortress, but haven't played in nearly two years. So, I might as well start as if I were a complete N00B, because It sounds like a lot has changed. So, what should I get to assist my foray into DF, and where could I get some decent guidance do that my first game doesn't end with my dwarves starving to death in their wagon?[/QUOTE]
Dwarf Therapist. Save yourself a few headaches.
[QUOTE=10050;32851462]Hi all. I had some minor experience with previous versions of Dwarf Fortress, but haven't played in nearly two years. So, I might as well start as if I were a complete N00B, because It sounds like a lot has changed. So, what should I get to assist my foray into DF, and where could I get some decent guidance do that my first game doesn't end with my dwarves starving to death in their wagon?[/QUOTE]
Get yourself the Lazy Newb Pack, it comes with some great utilities (Dwarf Therapist mainly)
Learn by watching LPs or tutorials or just playing it.
I just installed Dwarf Therapist after having dismissed it for ages as weak. I am an idiot. If you are playing without Dwarf Therapist, go get it right now. It takes a minute to download, a minute to understand, and will save you ages of mucking about trying to boss your lil fellas around.
Get it. Now.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;32854425]Get yourself the Lazy Newb Pack, it comes with some great utilities (Dwarf Therapist mainly)
Learn by watching LPs or tutorials or just playing it.[/QUOTE]
This is great! This pack helped get me off my feet. I didn't play for long because I needed sleep, but I can dig, and set up store-rooms and a farm. I'd read somewhere that the new versions required Irrigation for all farming, and that had made me a bit scared to play. But as long as have some soil I'm golden it seems.
[QUOTE=10050;32857168]This is great! This pack helped get me off my feet. I didn't play for long because I needed sleep, but I can dig, and set up store-rooms and a farm. I'd read somewhere that the new versions required Irrigation for all farming, and that had made me a bit scared to play. But as long as have some soil I'm golden it seems.[/QUOTE]
I think irrigation was taken out.
Not sure on that state though.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;32857723]I think irrigation was taken out.
Not sure on that state though.[/QUOTE]
You only need to irrigate stone.
Even then, it consists of putting a floodgate down, channeling the river, and then just filling a room up once with a splash of water. I was scared at first, but it's easy now.
[QUOTE=lordoflard;32851687]Ah, thanks, that explains it[/QUOTE]
It's also important to make sure your dwarves aren't cooking any plants. If you cook a plant, the seeds die, whereas they're preserved if you brew them.
Also, started a new fort in a nice area. As soon as I unpaused, an alligator ripped apart all of my dogs and the woodcutter. I made a military squad with the other 6 dorfs and ordered them all to kill the gator thinking 6 on 1 would be easy, and the alligator proceeded to violently destroy my entire population :smith:
[QUOTE=AzureAngelic;32859371]It's also important to make sure your dwarves aren't cooking any plants. If you cook a plant, the seeds die, whereas they're preserved if you brew them.
Also, started a new fort in a nice area. As soon as I unpaused, an alligator ripped apart all of my dogs and the woodcutter. I made a military squad with the other 6 dorfs and ordered them all to kill the gator thinking 6 on 1 would be easy, and the alligator proceeded to violently destroy my entire population :smith:[/QUOTE]
The exact same thing happened to me 3 days ago :v:
[QUOTE=Terminutter;32809374]Oh god, embarked in a joyous wilds expecting peace and quiet.
Innocently planning out a fortress, when I unpause an army of alligators rapes everything that has a pulse in my fortress.[/QUOTE]
It's a bit sad, but I think that I've watched every DF let's play on youtube. (or at least, the 2011 ones)
Generated a world, got this:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/smsgb.png[/IMG]
Well, seems like I know where I'll be embarking tomorrow!
[QUOTE=Terminutter;32860042]Generated a world, got this:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/smsgb.png[/IMG]
Well, seems like I know where I'll be embarking tomorrow![/QUOTE]
That blueness isn't very red, if you ask me.
Funny thing is that it's actually a large world, and it was using default parameters.
So that's a massive sea. Oh god, I can't wait to tomorrow, even if I have 8 hours of school before I get to start a fortress on my lonley little isle.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;32864826]Funny thing is that it's actually a large world, and it was using default parameters.
So that's a massive sea. Oh god, I can't wait to tomorrow, even if I have 8 hours of school before I get to start a fortress on my lonley little isle.[/QUOTE]This is making me wish I hadn't lost the world I had with a two square volcanic island with goblins on it...
Had a female soldier in a depression, went to investigate the cause. She had just had a miscarriage shortly after her husband died in a recent ambush. She was only pacified by having a meal in the legendary dining hall where, engraved upon the wall, is a picture of her weeping about having a miscarriage.
Engravers are just dicks sometimes.
Well, I've started playing now too. Got my first fort up and running, 72 dwarves total, but I keep losing about 5 dwarves in goblin ambushes each... and my military won't do shit. Some advice?
Also, could you please put me on the player list, Orkel? Thanks.
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Ouch... 3 ambushes at once, lost 9 dwarves. At least my military is working somewhat better now...
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Silly speardwarf, you got goblin blood all over the hospital beds...
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Oh god four ambushes... Alert "under attack" active, bridge lifted, everyone outside is dead. Let's hope they leave soon...
[QUOTE=Orkel;32821643][url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U[/url]
Honey badgers, don't fuck with them
Steals prey from a snake's mouth, eats it in front of the snake, then attacks the snake, eats it, collapses unconscious from the deadly venom, somehow recovers from it the next day, then continues eating what's left of the snake
no wonder they destroy forts so easily, they're monsters[/QUOTE]
Wrong video.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg[/media]
Where I can find better armor for my Dwarf adventurer?
I have a basic copper armor that I looted from some goblins.
[QUOTE=Neuquen;32874035]Where I can find better armor for my Dwarf adventurer?
I have a basic copper armor that I looted from some goblins.[/QUOTE]
Play fortress mode and make a stockpile of weapons locked away somewhere, then break in and loot it as an adventurer.
[QUOTE=Neuquen;32874035]Where I can find better armor for my Dwarf adventurer?
I have a basic copper armor that I looted from some goblins.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=AzureAngelic;32877229]Play fortress mode and make a stockpile of weapons locked away somewhere, then break in and loot it as an adventurer.[/QUOTE]
That's one way, but you can also find (usually bronze) armor at bandit camps, loot them after getting a quest to kill some bandit boss and killing everyone. Same with night creature lairs.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;32846031]Anyone else frequently abandon forts after a year and a half?
I know that it's due to me taking the game too cautiously and slowly, but I seriously can't stick to a fort.
Also, I swear that it's impossible to have enough bedrooms for the spring migrant wave whilst trying to smooth, engrave and properly furnish each one - a little dwarven luxury, to make up for the fact that I'll probably trap them in my merchant drowning depots accidently, and pull the flood lever as opposed to the open one.[/QUOTE]
IMO best way to handle it is to dig out the rooms and put a bed into them, and then wait until you can take one dwarf and assign him to 24/7 smoothing/engraving duty. Once you have a good pile of hauler dorfs, start adding furniture (for me it's usually just a bed, cabinet and coffer).
Also starting a new fort, hopefully this one actually bloody works and doesn't get alligatoraped two minutes in.
Gonna try to run this later on my laptop since my main computer died. How would it run on a [I]single core[/I] at 2.8 GHz with 1 gig of RAM? I know DF isn't multithreaded, but I don't know how much RAM it'd use...
This laptop can't run Minecraft, though. :v:
[QUOTE=AzureAngelic;32877529]IMO best way to handle it is to dig out the rooms and put a bed into them, and then wait until you can take one dwarf and assign him to 24/7 smoothing/engraving duty. Once you have a good pile of hauler dorfs, start adding furniture (for me it's usually just a bed, cabinet and coffer).
Also starting a new fort, hopefully this one actually bloody works and doesn't get alligatoraped two minutes in.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I know what you mean about the doing it nice and slowly. It's just kind of striking a balance between speed and quality that I've gotta do. I either go way too fast at everything, or want it all perfect first time.
Shit. I was just attacked by a horde of Rhesus Macaques, and my three dogs took 'em all out. They didn't go for instant kills either, it was page after page of 'and the severed part sails off in an arc!' and 'an artery has been opened!'
Fucking flying sea monsters in genesis, get one hit on ya and bam, there goes your leg.
Or testicle in this case.
[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;32881387]Shit. I was just attacked by a horde of Rhesus Macaques, and my three dogs took 'em all out. They didn't go for instant kills either, it was page after page of 'and the severed part sails off in an arc!' and 'an artery has been opened!'[/QUOTE]
once i had a dwarf warrior kill a fox with his bare hands
It was pages of
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
i have no idea what happened
[QUOTE=larrylumpy;32897055]once i had a dwarf warrior kill a fox with his bare hands
It was pages of
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
"gouged out left eye"
"gouged out right eye"
i have no idea what happened[/QUOTE]
A combat bug prevents eyes from being completely gouged out, so no matter how many times one "gouges out an eye" it will only be "torn apart" in the unit damage screen.
[QUOTE=Orkel;32897197]A combat bug prevents eyes from being completely gouged out, so no matter how many times one "gouges out an eye" it will only be "torn apart" in the unit damage screen.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, tearing up your eyeball and keeping it in the socket would perhaps be more terrifying (and maybe painful) then outright ripping it out.
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