[QUOTE=Dacheet;33095075]Does anyone have a comprehensive guide on how to set up an effective hospital? The wiki has a very bare-bones (slight pun unintended) one.[/QUOTE]
Hospitals vary wildly in size and grandeur depending on how imaginative you are or wealthy your fortress is, but the average hospital you should aim for is at least 4 beds, a well with access to at least a 3x3 area of water, 1 or 2 traction benches, 4 chests and a table for surgery. The shape is somewhat important as well because after a certain point you can't make a larger hospital, which is kinda annoying.
Soap is a hassle to make but, as said by Orkel, is absolutely vital. Splints are far more important then crutches since they're used more often, however they can both be made at a carpenter's workshop so they're easy to make in a pinch. Cloth should be readily available via either caravans (everyone brings some,) and thread can be made in abundance by setting someone to collect webs yet suspend (s) the action to weave it into cloth.
[QUOTE=Terminutter;33094522]First time I ever played, I accidently caved in my fort on my starting 7.
In under 10 minutes :v:[/QUOTE]I think you've mastered this game too quickly.
Looks like I'm not the only one who learned that grates can't support floors the Fun way.
[QUOTE=deltasquid;33093914]So I just started dwarf fortress because everyone keeps telling me to do so.
I set up a fort, dig a 9x3 area and place a refuse pile there. Channel it out so miasma won't appear. Then, I pre-emptively want to place grates on there and wall it off to prevent any kind of invaders from using that later.
I grate the squares at the edges, but the central 7 are open because I cannot build grates there. I shrug and see I can build a floor there. So I do that. Big mistake.
Urist McDumbfuck puts a floor in the open hole and drops it. And it falls down one Z-level. Suddenly, Urista McPoorsod is extremely injured. All limbs fractured to hell, guts are injured and left lung is fractured. I figure she won't make it.
My number one medical dwarf, however, thinks differently. Having arrived less than a week before, he immediately drags her to the dining room, places her on a table there and performs surgery with no tools or assistance whatsoever. Blood spills over the tables while the other dwarves keep eating on the tables around it. Then, he drags her to what I quickly assigned as a medical bay (which was actually just some guy's room, who I booted out) and he puts her in the bed.
Only her left arm is fractured, the rest has recovered, and she has been resting. Additionally, Urist McAwesomeDoc is now romantically involved with her.
I like to imagine he karate-chopped her open and performed surgery with his bare hands.
I love this game already.[/QUOTE]
Better idea: he performed surgery with the forks and knives that were at the dining table and stuffed the hole in her lung with plump helmets.
[QUOTE=Wilford Brimley;33103440]Better idea: he performed surgery with the forks and knives that were at the dining table and stuffed the hole in her lung with plump helmets.[/QUOTE]
Plump helmet corks.
As they ferment she gradually gets drunk
[QUOTE=fylth;33104116]As they ferment she gradually gets drunk[/QUOTE]
Implying she is ever sober
Actually, because of her double infections, she'll probably die, and because Urist McAwesomeDoc is romantically involved with her, he'll get pissed off and start karate-chopping everyone in the fortress open. Hopefully you can drop another floor on him before that happens.
I once had a bunch of adamantine strands lying around with no way to transform them into bars and they got lugged to the hospital for sutures.
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Does anyone else feel overwhelmed when you have more than 30 dwarfs in your fort? I have 70 and I ran out of alcohol and now everyone is throwing tantrums and breaking everything.
[QUOTE=Dacheet;33106641]Does anyone else feel overwhelmed when you have more than 30 dwarfs in your fort? I have 70 and I ran out of alcohol and now everyone is throwing tantrums and breaking everything.[/QUOTE]
That's why you set stills on repeat booze brewing when your population goes up, and keep an eye on the "z" menu to have a few hundred booze units at all times.
[QUOTE=Orkel;33106692]That's why you set stills on repeat booze brewing when your population goes up, and keep an eye on the "z" menu to have a few hundred booze units at all times.[/QUOTE]
But then I run out of containers when I clearly have them...
[QUOTE=Dacheet;33106895]But then I run out of containers when I clearly have them...[/QUOTE]
Then make more barrels. Always have dozens of them in stock. Make a furniture stockpile to keep track of them.
[QUOTE=Orkel;33106936]Then make more barrels. Always have dozens of them in stock. Make a furniture stockpile to keep track of them.[/QUOTE]
To add to this, once you get to more then 60 dwarves you should start getting used to using a manager for production, specifically j+q+m.
The manager is also one of the best ways to make soap.
[QUOTE=deltasquid;33094721]Dear God. Accidents on the work floor are REALLY serious in this game.[/QUOTE]
You just wait until we get moving parts. Exposed, moving heavy machinery in Dwarf Fortress? I don't need to add anything do I?
[QUOTE=acds;33107233]You just wait until we get moving parts. Exposed, moving heavy machinery in Dwarf Fortress? I don't need to add anything do I?[/QUOTE]
Game's gonna get sued by OHSA for promoting the use of heavy machinery while intoxicated :v:
I feel overwhelmed with 60 or so dwarves, even though I generally have mountains of food, food types and beer. It's just something with me obsessively wanting 10% of my population to be on break as an average.
Also, I love how active this thread's been recently. DF's fans seem to be a friendly bunch with sick, depraved wishes and plans :v:
From the "Draw your adventurers" thread
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The adventures of legendary swordself Imira Hornpine came abruptly to an end. The cause of death: Being a heavy sleeper.
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"Urist, pull the lever"
"Fuck you I'm the duke and I'm getting married"
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[QUOTE=Terminutter;33107865]I feel overwhelmed with 60 or so dwarves, even though I generally have mountains of food, food types and beer. It's just something with me obsessively wanting 10% of my population to be on break as an average.
Also, I love how active this thread's been recently. DF's fans seem to be a friendly bunch [B]with sick, depraved wishes and plans[/B] :v:[/QUOTE]
You have no idea.
I still want my basin of blended organs and bones above a grinder powered by 100 babies tied by the throat and forced to slave all day turning the wheel by a drunk Dwarf.
I just hope that blood, vomit and the like eventually become actual liquids like water and magma.
Fill a pit with 7/7 vomit and dump goblins into it all day, every day.
Make a fountain/waterfall of blood or vomit in your meeting hall for happy thoughts.
I just realised you can assign babies to burrows. You have absolutely no idea how many ideas this plants in my sick head with the fifty damn toddlers constantly getting mangled in the danger rooms. Now I can give them a lovely nursery to relieve the tired parents and [sp]feed the troll[/sp]
I still wish beasts would eat corpses/live things, instead of just bleeding them dry and just sitting around disinterested.
I actually want to properly feed my GCS goblin prisoners.
[QUOTE=acds;33108876]You have no idea.
I still want my basin of blended organs and bones above a grinder powered by 100 babies tied by the throat and forced to slave all day turning the wheel by a drunk Dwarf.[/QUOTE]
I will harness the live power of cat breeding by utlizing periodic bursts of pressurized kitten waves to turn the turbine for the 'Fuck Ths gay earth' device. It will fire burning cats.
I will also build an accompanying backup that is hooked to the plane of infinite magma.
[QUOTE=Orkel;33109171]Make a fountain/waterfall of blood or vomit in your meeting hall for happy thoughts.[/QUOTE] SO MUCH BLOOD
[QUOTE=Adbor;33109607]I just realised you can assign babies to burrows. You have absolutely no idea how many ideas this plants in my sick head with the fifty damn toddlers constantly getting mangled in the danger rooms. Now I can give them a lovely nursery to relieve the tired parents and [sp]feed the troll[/sp][/QUOTE]
Hey, maybe you could get yourself a legendary baby! Then when their soldier mother uses it as a projectile weapon against goblins, it can continue to fight once it reaches its target.
[QUOTE=johnlukeg;33110773]Hey, maybe you could get yourself a legendary baby! Then when their soldier mother uses it as a projectile weapon against goblins, it can continue to fight once it reaches its target.[/QUOTE]
Then around the world in 80 years returning as a legendary dwarf clad in adamantine.
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;33094795]"Safety in the workplace"
A book that will never see the light of day.
Other books from the dwarven plane of non-existance:
"A Guide to being a good midwife"
"Urist's Anatomy"
"The dummy's guide to: Efficiency"
"How to: Quit an addiction"
And
"How to be more green: Reducing your Carbon footprint."[/QUOTE]
"Fire: It hurts and you should stop acting like it doesn't, you Dumbass."
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