Dwarf Fortress

[Muffinmix]

My best defense is that my 2 entrances (never less, never more) to my fortress are loaded with 10-obsidian sword traps, and at the very end I have a ballista waiting behind fortifications along with some legendary siege operators.

Also cage traps <3

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[rkynick]

I had a good defense idea before I got ambushed by goblins who killed all of my dwarves(no stone, couldn't make traps), I was planning to pump out infinite amounts of water from my aquifer, effectively turning my fortress into an island. I had the pump working and everything, and then BAM, ambush. My pump operator was superdwarvenly tough and lasted against the entire ambush squad for a few minutes, but he went down and the rest of my dwarves had to finish them off. I only have 3 left now, and I dunno if I can last.
Should I abandon fortress or clean up and wait for immigrants? I'm thinking of abandoning and starting a new one, again over an aquifer( I want an island, damnit! ) but this time in a mountain so I have a better chance of finding above-aquifer stone. Then I'll pump it out faster than it can seep in and make a stairwell under it for access to bigger supplies of stone.

[Falcondude]

Wow is this ever sad.

There are 2 wild animals left. One keeps appearing when I kill it (deer, fox, etc) and the other is a pike. This isn't a normal pike, though.

This pike has no eyes.

It goes unconcious, regains conciousness, swims 2-3 spaces, and repeats. My marksdwarves refuse to kill it.

I LOL'D.

[Muffinmix]

Wow is this ever sad.

There are 2 wild animals left. One keeps appearing when I kill it (deer, fox, etc) and the other is a pike. This isn't a normal pike, though.

This pike has no eyes.

It goes unconcious, regains conciousness, swims 2-3 spaces, and repeats. My marksdwarves refuse to kill it.

I LOL'D.

Zombie pike!

I had a good defense idea before I got ambushed by goblins who killed all of my dwarves(no stone, couldn't make traps), I was planning to pump out infinite amounts of water from my aquifer, effectively turning my fortress into an island. I had the pump working and everything, and then BAM, ambush. My pump operator was superdwarvenly tough and lasted against the entire ambush squad for a few minutes, but he went down and the rest of my dwarves had to finish them off. I only have 3 left now, and I dunno if I can last.
Should I abandon fortress or clean up and wait for immigrants? I'm thinking of abandoning and starting a new one, again over an aquifer( I want an island, damnit! ) but this time in a mountain so I have a better chance of finding above-aquifer stone. Then I'll pump it out faster than it can seep in and make a stairwell under it for access to bigger supplies of stone.

I would abandon if I were you, the fact that you lack stone is really bad.

[rkynick]

Yeah, its a problem. I was planning to tunnel under the aquifer once I had my pumps going but the darn goblins attacked me.(other plan was to steal metal from the humans or trade for rock/stone)(the plan was to harvest the power of the water seeping in where it was pumped out with waterwheels, but I needed stone/metal for the gears)

[n0cturni]

I didn't really like it :\

[Sheezy]

Then dont loving make a useless post, 'kay?

[Bushido]

That was awesome.

Barreled through 2 troglodytes with my Pit-style angelly mutanty type thingy (fast, wimpy, can fly) and was about to face minotaur

minotaur pops up stairs, and i hack off it's head in one hit.

OWNED.

[Falcondude]

LOL, DWARVES ARE STAYING UP LATE TO DO WORK

Leatherworker cancels Sleep: taken by mood

[Jess]

I'm really having a tough time getting into this game.




Even with all the guides i've read im still not understanding..

Someone this forum has to make a BASIC guide for idiots like me to understand.

hint hint.

[Muffinmix]

This is what I used to get back into the flow of things : http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Indecisive%27s_illustrated_fortress_mode_tutorial

You can also use the Search feature to look through the entire wiki quickly whenever you have questions about something specific.

[Jess]

Someone link me for the graphic improvement thingy


EDIT: NVM


I found this graphic improvement... how exactly do i install it, it does not tell you how..

http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.htm

[Anti-Cop]

There's a readme.

[n0cturni]

Then dont loving make a useless post, 'kay?

What. The point of this thread is to discuss this game. I played it. I didn't like it. And you are contradicting yourself with that, you bitching about my post being useless was much less meaningful.

[laremere]

This game is amazing if you get used to the way it looks, and how hard it is initially to figure out how all the things work.


I tried it a first time, hated it, tried it with a lousy graphic pack, and still couldn't get used to how it looked.  I read all the awesome things that happen in the game through this topic, and tried it with a better graphic pack, and simply couldn't get used to it.  Once I tried it again with the normal graphics, I spent a ton of time just trying to find a place to build my fort and ended up actually getting used to the normal graphics, and once I got to my fort and played it for a little while, I soon got completely used to the graphics, and soon came to love them.  If you just plow through now being able to see whats going on, and run around with the "k" key, you'll soon understand what different things mean, and soon you won't get confused and you'll actually start to not have to translate the "c" into cat, but look and say "awwww, the miner's cat came all the way out to his master's work site to say hi to him."