Dwarf Fortress Megathread! - Necro'd enough to count as a vampire

[Extrude]

It's more like riding a handicap bicycle made of garbage.

[Ad Bot]

[Corbiere]

Ahh this is the tutorial I followed.

Playing Dwof fotess is like riding a bicycle once you learn you don't forget but you can get better at it.

No, Dwarf Fortress is like riding a bicycle and then being hit by a bus. You learn a load of stuff and play it for ages and never forget what you just learned. Then you get invaded and realise what you just learned was completely and utterly useless.

[Jacob/Lee]

[Orion]

You're in luck:
http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/02/09/the-complete-and-utter-newby-tutorial-for-dwarf-fortress-part-1-wtf/

sweet. gonna see if i can start playing today.

i wonder if it would be funner to just start a new game and try going from there though. without knowing how to play.

[Doomonkey]

sweet. gonna see if i can start playing today.

i wonder if it would be funner to just start a new game and try going from there though. without knowing how to play.

You would learn eventually, but it would take a long time to figure out all of the tricks.

[Corbiere]

sweet. gonna see if i can start playing today.

i wonder if it would be funner to just start a new game and try going from there though. without knowing how to play.

The tutorial isn't perfect. It's actually kind of dull after you get to around part 7 because everything is specific to past layouts the guy uses and it's fun to experiment.

Remember, losing is fun.
It's best just to experiment and learn by failing. If you want an easy ride to get used to the game mod the creature files to remove the need for food and drink. That allows you to get to grips with the basics of metalsmithing, wars, mining, and all the other reverse-curve learning crap that's required after about 8 hours of play to survive. It's cheating, but it's a good start if you are feeling a little overwhelmed.
Plus, you can always farm anyway for profit, and make beer. You'd just have to make a LOT MORE later on.

[Ev Dowg]

Yes, dwarves Self Delete. One failed fortress of mine ran out of rum, so all the dwarves gathered in the mess hall and preceded to constantly kill themselves. Everyone died that day.

Then one of my fortresses didn't have a proper defense system yet, and it was raided by trolls. I had a mother lock herself and her two children including one baby in her quarters. The trolls got in her room and she immediately used her children as shields until she ran to the mines and tripped on something and fell off of a bridge over lava. The lava didn't kill her, she was pulled to this small little cavern where she was eaten alive by spiders.

Now, the most insane parts is that dwarves have special interestes. One time a dwarf was doing it with this other dwarf while holding AND using a lump of refined coal. What the forget?! What was he doing with that coal?!

[/b]And not to mention I would have these "Table sessions" where I unlock the door and the room fills with dwarves. The loving dwarves literally WORSHIPPED the table. Even to go so far as to make researcho of dwarves doing it on the table and then dying by the hands of a fish.[/b]

Lols... Lols everywhere!

[Funkadelic]

Are those pictures of adventure mode?

[Mega-Bear]

One time this pregnant dwarf was in a bad mood because her husband died, and this guy (player) tried to keep her happy because she had like a bunch of legendary stats.

Then, he orders to dig out a place under a lake, she decides to help out and falls down the pit.  But right before she hits and ground the baby comes out.  The baby is unharmed and the mother is dead.  He decides it's not worth it so he closed the pit up and never saw it in three years.

He comes back in 3 years to find the baby is still alive.  He survived off of the water and the rats scurrying around.

He grows up to be farmer with 5 kids.

The end.

Absolutely awesome.

Ahh this is the tutorial I followed.

Playing Dwof fotess is like riding a bicycle once you learn you don't forget but you can get better at it.

I forgot a buttload of stuff after not playing for a few months.

[Orion]

been following the guide corbiere gave to me. this game is frickin legit.

some stray dog somehow got it to three floors down in my basement-house and had children. and for some reason there's also some weird camel thing and a monkey.

edit: a dromedary and a muskox, and all six of them are tame.

it's weird, what do they do?

[?]

been following the guide corbiere gave to me. this game is frickin legit.

some stray dog somehow got it to three floors down in my basement-house and had children. and for some reason there's also some weird camel thing and a monkey.

edit: a dromedary and a muskox, and all six of them are tame.

it's weird, what do they do?

You can train them into war animals.

[Orion]

You can train them into war animals.

hot dog!1!!!

and does anybody know how to place bins? the tutorial is talking about how that it like puts everything but food and brewskies into them.

does that also include stone? having little bits of rock littered everyfrikkenwhere is getting annoying.

[IkeTheGeneric]

I haven't played DF in so long.. I have forgotten how to play :'c

[heedicalking]

i have a bunch of dumb animals sitting in the dining room assigned as the meeting hall. is there a way to stop animals from starving in the dining hall? also, do cages keep them fed?

[Tomcat]

i have a bunch of dumb animals sitting in the dining room assigned as the meeting hall. is there a way to stop animals from starving in the dining hall? also, do cages keep them fed?

put them outside in a pasture zone.
when the zone is created, capital N to assign.
hope that no forgeters come n' kill em.