Can we get a Dwarf Fortress thread going?
>Share your Forts
>Crazy dorf stories
>Urist McBrewer won't bre ale because there is nothing to drink
Yesterday a Giant Wolf named "Screamflood" showed up and tore my fucking fisherdwarves to pieces. I love this game.
Haven't played in a few years. What's new? I heard there was music and stuff.
>>344877670
If by music you mean Soundsense, yeah. It adds ambient noises, background music, voices, sound effects, exc...
There's a bunch of utilities now that make the game much more enjoyable, and they all come in a convenient pack (Lazy Newb Pack).
No more days of staring at ASCII listening to the same DF track for hours and hours on a loop.
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=7622
>>344877670
Dwarf Therapist also makes assigning dorf's jobs much much easier.
one time i had a fort
and then goblins happened
then i didn't have a fort
>>344878370
Classic goblins.
I always have a hard time with sieges, I never properly plan out my defenses and squads before I get hit by invading goblins or a Wereelephant or some other invading force.
Problem with this game is that I always end up playing the exact same way, building the most efficient and neat looking fortress possible instead of making each one unique.
>>344878661
I know what you mean. I usually make a lot of 11x11 rooms and make it very efficient, but I see some peoples cool-ass forts and try to improve my fort's visual pleasantness.
Finally got some migrants, but it was only 5 :\
>>344877525
Proper interface yet?
>>344880053
Same classic one.
>>344880251
Can't be bothered.
>>344880347
I don't mind it. I think it's part of the game's charm and it's not so bad when you know the hotkeys.
why isn't there a remake for a broader audience yet?
id play the shit out of the game but i was born with an undamaged brain so i cant play this as it is now
>>344881437
Sorry your undamaged brain can't comprehend [b]uilding > [w]orkshops > [m]asonry.
It hasn't been remade for wider audiences I imagine because it's donation funded. Maybe you should stick to Pokemon GO.
>>344881256
what tileset is that?
>>344881437
There are but they're all shit obviously
>>344882347
Obsidian. I usually use Mayday, but i've been trying out this one lately for some variety.
>Tried to get back into DF
>Make my most successful fort ever
>Get the collapsing world DFHack bug so the save is fucked
>Try making an above ground city fort next
>Start in a forest to have enough wood
>Murders the fuck out of my framerate within a couple months
>Quit playing again
Tfw no multithreading
>>344877525
>babby tileset
Colored ascii is the way to go.
>>344882545
Mayday still renews his tiles? I thought he quit.
>>344882998
I don't know if he renews them, but it comes with the LNP and everything works, so...
>>344882717
Happy now?
>>344883521
>it's not 3x3 stairs if I leave out the middle
Learn to use ramps if you want to achieve A E S T H I C S.
>>344881437
Guy making it doesn't give a fuck about reaching more people.
>>344883834
I leave the middle out so I can put a statue or artifact there to make dwarves happy when they walk by it.
>>344878661
This. Kind of like the look though. Watching it all run smoothly is satisfiying.
>>344883945
actually he said something about wanting to get all content 100% complete before making the interface more accessible and having an in-game tutorial so it doesn't have to be updated with every single content update
or something along those lines
>>344878516
>not using the bridge trick
Do you like losing everything?
>>344884187
I believe he mentioned version 1.0 should be ready in another 20 years.
>>344884210
There are multiple bridge tricks, to which do you refer?
>>344884220
Sick fort, bro.
Did an update happen?
>>344877525
>have peace loving fort
>fire giant attacks
>pull dwarfs inside
>90 year old women to far away
>can't wait
>close the gate
>giant attacks women
>women holds her own
>2 days and 2 nights of fightingetting
>starting to get thirsty
>can't let bad badass grandma die
>send military out
>they all die
>grandma kills giant
>she's now my only solider
>she's the only protection I need
>>344884726
Last week, yes. 0.42.06 to 0.43.03
>>344884370
Digging a hole under it so nothing can break it down when you raise it.
>>344877525
Disgusting tile set. Anyone playing 64bit?
>>344885082
>64bit
Why did Toady fall for the 64bit meme? It won't improve anything about DF.
>>344884813
When that old bitch dies you better have given her a personal tomb!
>Urist McDwarfface gets angry at lack of tables in the Dining Hall
>Starts brawling
>Sheriff isn't having any of it
>Sheriff heads to Dining Hall with his trusty axe
>Chops that fuckers legs and right arm off
>Urist spends the rest of his life in a hospital bed getting served muddy water out of buckets
>Urist's wife makes a statue detailing the events
>Put statue in Dining Hall
Them fucking dorfs, man!
>>344884220
>>344884383
>>344884491
>>344884601
Pretty nice fort, fella.
>>344878902
I tried making a geometrically-pleasing fort, but the shitty dwarves made it turn to ashes in my mouth because of the way they only take the most efficient path and so I only ever actually saw them use a little bit of it.
To make a neato fort I gotta have a nice pattern, but also distribute the buildings such that I get to see them walking all around.
>>344881256
Gonna try obsidian next time. Looks comfy.
What do you guys think about things like Danger Rooms, Mist Generators, or Quantum Stockpiles?
I don't like using them because they feel like cheating, but sometimes I setup Quantum Stockpiles just to save space...
>>344887039
danger rooms are for faggots, sparring is broken as it is
tfw couldn't figure out how to get dwarves to dig so I just made a qt elf girl in adventure mode, stripped naked and had her lick water coverings off of each individual toe before getting raped by bogeymen
>>344887039
Personally I use danger rooms as a trial by fire once I get a large fort. If they can survive 10 rounds of steel spikes with no armor then they seem good enough to join the military
>>344884847
What's new?
>>344888845
64 bit support, so the game runs a bit better late game and the eventual frame death of the fortress happens later
There was an update?
What's new?
>>344889195
Eh. By that point my fort is pretty much boring anyway, even with megaprojects.
THE UNSWERVING FURNACES is an image of a monitor lizard woman, a cave fish woman, a human, two goats, a papyrus sedge, honing knives and a shining sun. The monitor lizard woman is admiring the shining sun. The cave fish woman is admiring the shining sun. The human is admiring the shining sun. The two goats are admiring the shining sun. The papyrus sedge is admiring the shining sun. The honing knives are admiring the shining sun. The shining sun is screaming.
>tfw no 3d fort
>using a tileset
lol
>>344881437
>born with an undamaged brain
>still tries to show how he is better than other people ON THE INTERNET
I don't believe you.
I always want to play this, but when I try it's just too daunting.
>>344882598
64 bit build recently so embark small and it can work fellow dwarffag
>>344889880
Look up a guide dude.
Fucking up and ruining everything is literally the entire point of the game.
>>344889818
>Smug anime reaction image.
>>344889459
>The papyrus sedge is admiring the shining sun. The honing knives are admiring the shining sun. The shining sun is screaming.
BRILLIANT
>>344889459
Now there's a foundation for a religion if I ever heard one.
>>344889818
>tileset meme
fuck off if someone likes to play df they are already bro tier
>also /a/utist
>>344884813
>90 years old
>grandma
Dude for dwarf time she is like around 25.
>>344885170
because it's the first step to improvment and it actually allows people to do more stuff.
>>344889994
I did follow a guide and I still found it daunting. It's a dense game. I get that losing is fun, but I didn't even get a Fortress made.
>>344889290
This is fucking cool.
>>344877525
>64 bit version
Does it run better?
Werebeasts are fucking bullshit and you know it.
>master swordsman gets a spatter of blood on him
>turns into a furry murdering machine inside the dining hall
>>344890120
A young grandma then
>>344890743
if this is what a grandma in dwarf fortress looks like then fuck me.
>>344890609
It now doesn't crash after 2GiB of memory.
Why is no one mentioning the new socializing update? It's fucking radical. Everything from your culture creating and perfecting art, poems and even unique instruments to Dwarves gaining the ability to properly socialize. Their current personality can change if they're drunk, upset, or even bored. You can create libraries and collect all the erotic fiction your archiver writes about himself, and even the ABAB composition of poems is a cultural thing.
My current fortress has a legendary instrument someone designed hundreds of years ago that requires metal strings and FUN. I'm going to bring this arts dream finally to life.
>>344890345
Look up youtube videos, there are a bunch now that teach you how to play the game. Trust me, if you're interested it is extremely worth it. Best game ever.
>>344890889
>>344890743
Dwarves average 140 lifespan if I recall,
so she's like a 51 year old human.
>Chapel of Sucking
I always play adventure mode after a big new version and before updated dfhack/therapist are out
>>344890939
>new socializing update
get back to work Toady, you're the only one who cares about muh culture simulation
I've never played Adventure mode. Is it any good? What do you even do?
>>344890939
Didn't know about the socializing aspect, definitely gonna play around with that.
>>344891143
If you want muh combat simulator 2002 go play Call of Duty or something. Dwarf Antfarm is fucking rad.
>>344891035
from wiki: max age 150-170. So I was still wrong.
Man didn't play in a long time.
I heard there are scholars now that write poems and books?
Also taverns.
And other races can come into your fort.
I stopped playing at a particular point were goblin attacks got really rare or just stopped.
I finally mastered the military, forged weapons and armor and did a training schedule and set up patrols thst didn't starve to desth....
And no one ever came.
They practiced 3 whole years, a corridor filled to the brim with traps but they never tasted blood.
>>344889195
Still only runs on a single core and becomes unplayable at large populations though?
Wish that lazy fuck would just multithread it already.
>>344881437
end yourself
>>344891314
>combat simulator 2002
>Call of Duty
no, I prefer wrestling in dorf fortress
>>344891279
do you like wrestling?Cataclysm: DDA and Unreal World are better than DF Adventure Mode
any of you guys play without graphics?
>>344891395
all of those things are true
they don't add much in terms of actual gameplay, but it's neat.
>>344891497
Urist McAnon enjoyed a mastefull painting lately.
>>344891579
I do because I've been lazy these last few releases. Always colours, though.
>>344891395
I was in Legends mode looking at some Historical Figures and found a Human who I thought was cool. He was King, then left to become a master. Had a few notable kills too, including Mingkil Painfulpet the Coastal Warning, a Troll that had 5 rampages. This dude was a badass.
Anyway, I made a Library, The Vault of Syrups, and filled it with books I bought of traders and a few I made myself. This fucking Human shows up to my fort to visit my Library and decides to stay with me, meanwhile i'm marking out the whole time. What are the odds? I fucking love this game.
I'm too casual for no mouse control and ascii graphics.
Rimworld is pretty fun though.
>>344881437
Whoops I meant "damaged"
just release the source code toady holy fuck
>>344891579
I do.
>>344883521
Actually yes.
I learned the game with ascii because tilesets were as offputting when you don't have any clue.
Now I find screenshots of tilesets harder to read than classic ascii
>>344881437
If you forget the interface if you can play minecraft you can play df but the ui is bad.
>>344877525
I could never get the motivation to learn fortress mode
Adventure mode is pretty fun though
>>344890889
Gilf for sure
>>344885309
>>Urist's wife makes a statue detailing the events
>>Put statue in Dining Hall
epic
I need ideas. Post your libraries, temples and taverns in 3, 2, 1
>>344892412
>>344883834
Damn wish I'd have learnt that myself.
>>344892684
Are children being possessed new? It never happened to me before and my last fort had 3 children get possessed in the first year.
>>344892684
>>344892412
The rooms on the bottom left are part of a tavern
>>344887640
>make qt elf girl
>find bandit camp
>murder everyone but one
>hack his hand off
>enter fast travel, walk one tile
>return to campsite
>wound is healed
>chop other hand off
>repeat until I have just a torso left and keep torturing him>jack off
This game awakens everyone's inner pervert and/or edgelord
>>344892416
I first played it in ASCII too for about a year before I discovered the tilesets. I just prefer seeing characters, and have all the dwarves look different. Though to be honest I do like seeing creatures represented as letters.
I remember the first time I shit myself seeing a "D" crawl down from the mountaintop.
>>344892973
>repeat until I have just a torso left and keep torturing him
I wish I could be bothered to learn how to play this game and have fun.
>>344890652
That's how they contract now?
I remember wanting to regrow a limb as an adventurer and I know for a fact that I needed to get the werebeast to BITE me.
>>344893130
The road is long, but the journey is worth it. I urge anyone who is interested to stick through the learning process. This game is truly one-of-a-kind, it is quite possibly my favorite game.
>>344893184
They still contract via bite.
>>344893271
>
I can guess that, I love that it has so much variety. But it looks so complicated. It's on SS13 level of complicated.
>>344893434
SS13 is really simple, just like DF. The fact you cited that shows you haven't jumped in yet, for both games their Bark is worse than their Bite.
If you're interested in trying it, don't let that stop you. You likely won't even have your fortress die for a long time. If you've got food and booze not much will stop it your first few years.
>>344893434
I remember SS13, I should start playing it again
I only played assistant because I was too scared of fucking up at my job
Still fun though
>>344893619
fucking up your job is part of the fun
>>344892684
hello, my name is OCD and here is my fortress in progress
(tavern up there, and down I'm gonna make the med bay)
>>344894287
But people will get angry
>>344894518
We need more OCD people playing this game, would make for beutiful fortresses.
Speaking of SS13, someone should make a tileset for it so we can have fortresses looking like space stations and rock looking like space.
The next time I play will be when Toady adds some fucking squad controls like hold position and forced move.
It's too frustrating to play with the "chase enemies until you're dead" squad AI.
quarters, that once finalized (I still have to make more rooms) would be enough to crash the game before filling them unless I upgrade to 64
>>344894643
So? It's just a game. I fucked up singularity two times and admins almost banned me for it, but it was part of the learning process, now I'm great as an engineer. I could make a working space station from scratch while playing. Except for atmospherics.
>>344894773
I see around 100 housing units here, my guess is 130.
>>344893434
Man, i tried ss13 once
>spawn
>spend 10 minutes in arrivals room figuring out how to dress myself and stuff
>walk around trying to find someone, get lost, walk around some more, then i finnaly find someone
>2 security guards and 1 tied down clown begging them to kill him behind locked door
>ask them to let me in, they ignore me, wait there
>eventually, they leave and one of them forgots to lock door, so i get in and try to kill the clown, but i realise i dont know how
>try to ask the clown what is happening, but now hes just honking and honking
>the sec guards come back, they beat me unconsiouss, start to drag me somewhere
>meanwhile, the lights proceed to blink, but they go out
> ´´EMERGENCY, get into shuttle in 10 minutes´´ pops up in chat, so the guards just drop me in some room and leave there
>lie there for about 5 minutes, then some guy comes in
>ask him whats going on, he says things are going to shit
>after that, he wakes me up somehow, i stand up, he shoves me back down, and violently chops me with fire axe until the station explodes or whatever happened
>decide i will play the game wometimes later
My fps tank way too soon in the new versions.
Fucking DF of all games making me think about upgrading, fuck.
Common graveyard and, on the sides, my nobles-people crypts (why do people put their graves in their own houses? If they die, you cannot use automatically their rooms for other nobles)
>>344895089
Yup, sounds like space station 13.
>>344894673
someone should make a mod for dwarf fortress so that it's ss13 themed
>goblins replaced with syndicate agents
>elves replaced with vox>boogeymen replaced with syndicate black ops
>>344894985
148, will be 236 when I finish the working class level, I won't make it bigger than that cause I appreciate it and my softcap is at 220
>>344895597
>Vox
Wassdas?
>>344881437
Try Rimworld.
It's basically DF but you're astronauts building a colony on an alien planet.
You get modern graphics and can play the game normally with a mouse
>>344895783
Rimworld is surprisingly decent, and probably one of the few games that retains a fair amount of DF's complexity.
The setting is pretty cool as well, I liked the creator's one event wherean alien object crashes into the ground and slowly drives everyone insane. It's still a work in progress though and costs money unlike DF
>>344895783
>It's basically dwarf fortress
kek
If I were you I wouldn't even bother with rimworld at first, just play df and when you get bored with it play rimworld. If you absolutely don't know what to do at first go to /vg/ and find DF thread, if you want to watch someone playing aavak did a really nice fortress, and plumphelmetpunk is currently having one,
>>344891447
Just turn off temperature and some other shit, you get a lot better fps
>>344891447
Multithreading still won't do you any good if you have shit specs.
Is military still a fuckfest where your squad has a 1/20 chance of surviving any sort of siege?
>>344895721
bird lizard hippies that steal shit and are generally annoying pieces of shit
>>344895783
Are there any "everything and the kitchen sink" mods for Rimworld like Masterwork for DF?
I played one game of Rimworld and ran out of things to build so quickly.
There's almost no meaningful crafting, most of the stuff you get from drops from enemies or trading, and you can build everything in only a few rooms.
>>344896524
Not if you equip them properly.
But squad controls are still nonexistent and AI is "attack until you die".
>>344896907
I give them iron/steel full armor along with sword+shield and they still perform rather poorly
