[QUOTE=Jrose14;44619325]Babies really should be able to haul rocks. As it stands, the only thing they are good for is meat shields on female soldiers. Like Amazonians.
I had a baby bite a troll's head once and cave in its skull as it was carried by its mom, though, so they're not ALL bad.[/QUOTE]
All babies of my fortresses must survive multiple trips to the danger room.
Almost all of them die horrible deaths, but the strongest thrive. Dwarven babies and children can't go berserk, right?
I started playing this for more than half an hour the other day. I love it, it's hilariously sadistic.
I haven't had any success yet, I only last about a year and a half, but when I lose I never feel disappointed. It's magical.
Ugh. Still trying to figure out how to get the military online. So much to do, so little time, so few resources.
[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;44619981]All babies of my fortresses must survive multiple trips to the danger room.
Almost all of them die horrible deaths, but the strongest thrive. Dwarven babies and children can't go berserk, right?[/QUOTE]
Children can definitely go berserk.
Not sure about babies...
[I]The baby enters a trance![/I]
[I]The baby kicks you in the face with her left foot, jamming the skull through the brain![/I]
[I]You are now deceased.[/I]
[QUOTE=Kylel999;44622997]Children can definitely go berserk.
Not sure about babies...
[I]The baby enters a trance![/I]
[I]The baby cries![/I]
[I]The baby retches![/I]
[I]The flying vomit hits you in the face, jamming the skull through the brain![/I]
[I]You are now deceased.[/I][/QUOTE]
Fixed.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;44622997]Children can definitely go berserk.
Not sure about babies...
[I]The baby enters a trance![/I]
[I]The baby kicks you in the face with her left foot, jamming the skull through the brain![/I]
[I]You are now deceased.[/I][/QUOTE]
by the way combat trances and combat rage/berserking in df are different. Enragement gives bonuses to damage while combat trance enhances accuracy and blocking.
My Dwarves were stuck in a ditch, waiting for a miner to come along and free them so I can put the finishing touches on my moat.
THEN OH GOD VILE FORCE OF DARKNESS
I don't even have the drawbridge linked yet oh god.
dwarves work best under stress(in their case sieges)
No they fucking don't the little Squats refuse to pull the damn lever because they're scared IF YOU'RE SCARED AND PULL THE LEVER YOU WILL BE SAFE OH MY GOD.
[editline]23rd April 2014[/editline]
And so the great siege ends.
It ended with me realizing my Dwarves had cooked all the plump helmets and thus had no food, so I opened the gates to try and lure the Goblins into my traps but then I realized the Goblins were off hunting my animals so I had to get some bait. So I unburrow the Dwarves for three seconds and as they swarm out I realize there had been three Goblins perched on the hill next to my fort and chaos ensued.
Twenty Dwarves died falling into the moat or trying to get back inside like the idiots they were. My massive complex of traps killed a grand total of one Goblin.
I had to send out my army and half of them died, but they fought with pride and they managed to beat off the Goblins eventually.
I'm just glad the Gobs didn't have any xbows, just pikes.
Oh an ambush just let me go pull the lev-
[IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/AFellowStalker/GHOBLENSSSS.png[/IMG]
[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]
Another ambush appeared outside with marksmen and finally one of my Dwarves got into the gatehouse when three Goblins ran in, threw him away from the lever and beat the shit out of him.
God damn it.
my current fort
[url]http://imgur.com/a/JCmHB[/url]
Oh dear.
The refugees ran over the bridge to my Fortress just as the military cut their way into the lever room and pulled.
There is like a dozen bodies at the bottom of my moat now and two Goblins running around inside that no one wants to kill.
[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]
Yep tantrums have begun.
[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]
Looking at casualties, we went from 60 to 12. Oh dear.
[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]
The only survivors are the dying people in the hospital who are slowly dying of thirst and this berserk wrestler who has been chasing a scared shitless Goblin around the fort. The remaining Goblins either went home or are going nutters as they realize they're stuck in the shit hole.
And oh great, Elves. Probably going to complain that I chopped every single tree on the map down (which is also making it about impossible for the migrants to do anything besides slowly starve outside.)
There are still some foodstuffs in the fortress, so if the survivors can just make it to the wall that blocks the farms from the outside...
THEY DID IT!
Three surviving Dwarf migrants who hadn't starved rushed into the fort and began eating and drinking everything.
And right as that happened, thirty migrant Dwarves came rushing in.
The animals who survived swarmed in with the migrants and the Goblins that hadn't died (two starving and wounded ones) tried to block them and just got stampeded.
HAMMERPRISONS SHALL ENDURE.
[IMG_thumb]http://u.cubeupload.com/AFellowStalker/hammerprison1.png[/IMG_thumb]
Main floor, top hallway leads to the farms and the stairway in the center leads to the surface, my huge throneroom for when I get a king is at the bottom.
[IMG_thumb]http://u.cubeupload.com/AFellowStalker/Hammerprison2.png[/IMG_thumb]
Bottom level of my moat, some of the Dwarves who got thrown down there managed to drag themselves out and die on the surface level. Most of those who died down there just had broken legs and dehydrated.
[IMG_thumb]http://u.cubeupload.com/AFellowStalker/Hammerprison3.png[/IMG_thumb]
My farm. I was planning some expansions when the invasion occurred. You can see the busted wall at the top.
[IMG_thumb]http://u.cubeupload.com/AFellowStalker/hammerprison4.png[/IMG_thumb]
And finally, the noble walls of Ezumram that had been infiltrated by the foul Goblins. Those who dragged themselves out of the moat / tried getting in right before the gates closed / got launched by the bridge can be seen to the left.
[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]
FOR FUCKS SAKE ANOTHER AMBUSH.
[QUOTE=Masterofstars;44633069]
FOR FUCKS SAKE ANOTHER AMBUSH.[/QUOTE]
At first I was gonna make a post about how I only ever get ambushes immediately after an elven caravan shows up (which is true and weird).
Then I realised that Dwarf Fortress is the only game where I could make a joke about the elves conspiring with the goblins and [I]have the joke be more likely than it just being sheer coincidence.[/I]
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;44633499]At first I was gonna make a post about how I only ever get ambushes immediately after an elven caravan shows up (which is true and weird).
Then I realised that Dwarf Fortress is the only game where I could make a joke about the elves conspiring with the goblins and [I]have the joke be more likely than it just being sheer coincidence.[/I][/QUOTE]
I'd kill those lizardman illuminati Elves if I could spare the men, but the Goblins have done a good job of it already.
And everyone's dehydrating because for some reason, the miners refuse to dig the well.
If I designate them to mine literally anything else they get right at it, but the second the well is involved no sir we'd rather die.
[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]
[IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/AFellowStalker/Hammerprison5.png[/IMG]
[B]!!THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA!![/B]
I rushed it thinking that it would all just pool ten z-levels down where I was hoping my well would draw from and then I'd just build a floodgate in 3 level water or something to block that off.
I didn't realize a bloody brook would fly in faster than the water on the fucking Titanic did.
I could just build a door and block it but I already dug the hole from the well (back when I had supplies to build said well, which I no longer do) so when it overflows it's going to flood my dining hall and then drown the fort.
I could just build tiles on the hole and pretend this never happened but then everyone will dehydrate.
Ughhh.
[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]
Finally decided to cap the well and when I go down there, all I see is:
[IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/AFellowStalker/Hammerprison6.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;44633035]my current fort
[url]http://imgur.com/a/JCmHB[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote]idk what i was doing here but now there's a shitton of water flowing into the magma sea[/quote]
The joys of devoting ages to a certain project, getting distracted, forgetting all about it and what it was, then coming back and going "wtf was I thinking and doing there?".
I've only done it once, but DF when drunk leads to similar situations.
[QUOTE=Masterofstars;44633534]pretty pictures[/QUOTE]
what's that tileset, it makes me feel this strange new feeling inside
is this what happy is
Do you guys know how to get rid of unwanted worlds?
Delete it from the DF folder. It's in one of those folders, Data, I think?
Got it.
How do I enable night creatures? I have encountered exactly zero, even while travelling around at night.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;44635721]Got it.
How do I enable night creatures? I have encountered exactly zero, even while travelling around at night.[/QUOTE]
Don't they only appear when you try to sleep outdoors alone at night
[QUOTE=Agent 47;44635329]what's that tileset, it makes me feel this strange new feeling inside
is this what happy is[/QUOTE]
I think it's Jollybastion.
[QUOTE=ReligiousNutjob;44636047]Don't they only appear when you try to sleep outdoors alone at night[/QUOTE]
I'll give that a try.
Looks like this thread is picking up again after DF2014 was implicitly hinted at by the lack of DF2013
Time to get back to dorfin'
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;44637586]Looks like this thread is picking up again after DF2014 was implicitly hinted at by the lack of DF2013
Time to get back to dorfin'[/QUOTE]
Isn't it coming out this month?
Oh god one of my marksdwarves just gave birth while shooting a group of giant keas to death.
[QUOTE=Masterofstars;44637873]Isn't it coming out this month?[/QUOTE]
Maybe next month. Toady is almost done with his list of stuff I think, and is going to do some finally bug squishing. So we really don't know how long it will take, but it will be DF2014, I'm sure of that.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;44638068]Oh god one of my marksdwarves just gave birth while shooting a group of giant keas to death.[/QUOTE]
Dwarf Fortress has been described in one sentence.
[QUOTE=Pigbear;44639449][QUOTE=Kyle902;44638068]Oh god one of my marksdwarves just gave birth while shooting a group of giant keas to death.[/QUOTE]
Dwarf Fortress has been described in one sentence.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Oh god one of my cheesemakers just gave birth while berserk and biting my mayor to death.[/QUOTE]
I think that describes Dwarf Fortress a bit better.
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2014/dwarfes/facepunch.JPG[/IMG]
I'm gonna last more than a year this time, I swear.
At last! I lasted more than a year without dying horribly or getting bored or confused! Struck gold too, next caravan will make me some mad cash
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2014/dwarfes/firstyear.JPG[/IMG]
[editline]25th April 2014[/editline]
seriously, too much fucking gold and no other metal I'm screwed if I get attacked before the next caravan
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