Dwarf Fortress - Page 2

Wigmund · 12-06-2009, 09:54 PM

God, I need to restart playing this game. Burned myself out awhile back and now the urge is returning. Time to start making horrific death traps for all those goblins, kobolds, marauding animals, elves, nobles, and whatever else pisses me off at the time.

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Originally Posted by PyrosNine

I guess it makes sense for the Dwarves to go crazy at the drop of a hat: Elves are far too sane and sober and live in high places, so obviously their opposites have to live underground and utterly insane and sloshed out of their minds.

You obviously have never met the Elves of Dwarf Fortress. The cannibalistic, tree-hugging, trade-miser fucks. Only thing they're good for is drowning their caravans and making elf-bone jewelry.

Loyal · 12-06-2009, 10:51 PM

Y'know what I don't get? The elves sell you almost nothing but wood and wood byproducts, yet if you show them so much as a splinter they make short jokes and piss off.

Jagos · 12-06-2009, 10:57 PM

They're the only hippies in the universe?

Thadius · 12-06-2009, 11:03 PM

Oh yes do I love me some Dwarf Fortress. I've got a fort goin' that's got TWO guardian dragons that will probably snap at any moment and start killing everything. I've got ten champion wrestlers on call that can tear goblins limb from limb, one of whom is the MAYOR. I've channeled the underground river to run up to the surface by the miracle that is a perpetual motion device. If I come under siege, I just flood the whole damn place. I'm building crossbows out of goblin femurs and shooting bolts made of their toes. I'm also mining out the depths of the earth looking for the Hidden Fun Stuff.

...Mine is the fort that does not die, no matter how hard I try to kill it. At this point, I am trying to lose, and the fort won't die for me. For a game that's supposedly easy to lose, it just won't let me!

Shyria Dracnoir · 12-06-2009, 11:07 PM

I STILL can't figure out whether to call that a fail or a win, Thad.

I'd like to get into this, but I'm sort of scared of all the detail involved. Besides it's finals time down here so I really shouldn't be slacking off now.

Magus · 12-06-2009, 11:33 PM

I really couldn't get past the interface for this game. I'd love to try it more as one of my friends was next to ecstatic about it but unless somebody comes up with an intuitive mod for it or something I'll probably be in the dark for the rest of my life.

Loyal · 12-07-2009, 02:33 AM

Magma is slooooow.

It's probably taken an entire year to get this all the way over here.

DFM · 12-07-2009, 04:52 AM

I tried to play this again about a month ago and dug a hole in the middle of the desert that wasn't big enough to hold any of my supplies or dwarves and nobody was happy with the hole I dug so they roamed the surface of the desert and went mad, abandoning their wagon and fighting goblins with their teeth.

My second fortress was a bigger hole that I filled with chairs until nobody could leave.

Professor Smarmiarty · 12-07-2009, 08:03 AM

Always been keen to try but from what I've heard the learning curve is gigantic- especially coming in now when so much stuff has been added. Easier to get into the earlier you got into it I've heard.

Corel · 12-07-2009, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Always been keen to try but from what I've heard the learning curve is gigantic- especially coming in now when so much stuff has been added. Easier to get into the earlier you got into it I've heard.

The link Loyal gave is a good starting place to follow, from there you can just build in any direction as you like and just Wiki whatever you don't know. If you can look past the graphics and somewhat clunky interfaces it's a really rewarding experience.

After finishing the "My First Dungeon" section I decided to start mass producing furniture and building something up resembling an Army. Up to 79 Dwarves now. I want to start setting up a drainage and water system to be pumped through the fortress but with the River Pressure this might blow up in my face. Also a second floor and I can make fortifications for my Crossbow men to pick enemies and Thieves off.

Oh, I would say that it might take a few World Generations/location to go through until you are happy with where you start. Rivers and inside soil are always good. (Unless you customised your starting pack).

12-06-2009, 10:57 PM	#13
Jagos FRONT KICK OF DOOM! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Howdy pardner... Posts: 6,399	They're the only hippies in the universe? __________________ Copyright musings World ramblings Scifi stories

12-06-2009, 11:03 PM	#14
Thadius BEARD IMPACT Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: MANLY ANGER Posts: 1,977	Oh yes do I love me some Dwarf Fortress. I've got a fort goin' that's got TWO guardian dragons that will probably snap at any moment and start killing everything. I've got ten champion wrestlers on call that can tear goblins limb from limb, one of whom is the MAYOR. I've channeled the underground river to run up to the surface by the miracle that is a perpetual motion device. If I come under siege, I just flood the whole damn place. I'm building crossbows out of goblin femurs and shooting bolts made of their toes. I'm also mining out the depths of the earth looking for the Hidden Fun Stuff. ...Mine is the fort that does not die, no matter how hard I try to kill it. At this point, I am trying to lose, and the fort won't die for me. For a game that's supposedly easy to lose, it just won't let me! __________________ ANGER HAS NEVER BEEN MORE MANLY THAN THIS.

12-06-2009, 11:07 PM	#15
Shyria Dracnoir Kawaii-ju Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Monster Island Posts: 4,240	I STILL can't figure out whether to call that a fail or a win, Thad. I'd like to get into this, but I'm sort of scared of all the detail involved. Besides it's finals time down here so I really shouldn't be slacking off now. __________________ Godzilla vs. Gamera (1994)

12-06-2009, 11:33 PM	#16
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	I really couldn't get past the interface for this game. I'd love to try it more as one of my friends was next to ecstatic about it but unless somebody comes up with an intuitive mod for it or something I'll probably be in the dark for the rest of my life. __________________ The Valiant Review

12-07-2009, 04:52 AM	#18
DFM Om Nom Nom Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,850	I tried to play this again about a month ago and dug a hole in the middle of the desert that wasn't big enough to hold any of my supplies or dwarves and nobody was happy with the hole I dug so they roamed the surface of the desert and went mad, abandoning their wagon and fighting goblins with their teeth. My second fortress was a bigger hole that I filled with chairs until nobody could leave. __________________ [14:26] ManoftheRus: YOU GODDAMN SNEAKY DEE

12-07-2009, 08:03 AM	#19
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	Always been keen to try but from what I've heard the learning curve is gigantic- especially coming in now when so much stuff has been added. Easier to get into the earlier you got into it I've heard.