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NOTE: The 42.xx update has finally been released after nearly a year. Be prepared for weird shit, broken things, bugs, and crashes galore. If you find a bug, don't bitch about it here, go to http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt and report it.
Previous thread: >>126832225
>Download the basic game here. Current version is Dwarf Fortress 0.42.xx
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
>Official forums:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php
>Find a bug? Don't tell us! Tell Toady! Complaining in the thread will accomplish nothing.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt
>Have a question? Check the wiki first:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
>Fireden archived threads:
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/search/subject/Dwarf%20Fortress/
>Dwarf Therapist:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=122968.0
>DFHack (Out of date):
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139553.0
>Starter Pack (Out of date):
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.0
>More DF stuff:
http://pastebin.com/AnsHjQ40
>Dwarf Fortress General IRC chat:
http://en.irc2go.com/webchat/?net=freenode&room=dwarffortress
(to connect yourself: https://webchat.freenode.net #dwarffortress)
>A bunch of guides to various parts of fort-based living:
http://imgur.com/a/nGyRF#0
>Video tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBrdUj1adIBD-vgUodaaxebcdqQ4oEWtg
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1A3FE72C0DCAC66 (Dated, but good)
>Text tutorials:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/DF2014:Tutorials
http://members.iinet.net.au/~morty/Getting_Started_with_Dwarf_Fortress.pdf
>This pasta:
http://pastebin.com/iAduXzjn
Strike the earth!
>>127013754
great meme image, OP, thumbs up
Cutebolds are cute! CUTE!
I'm a shitter so I don't like playing without the df starter pack. The only problem is that it's unstable as fuck. If I set up dfhack, therapist, and a tileset myself will it crash less?
>>127013959
would you willingly turn into a cutebold
i would
Guess this is a meme thread.
>>127014247yes
Yo 4chan back?
>>127014902
THANK THE BASED JESUS
Ahh, finally Toady fixed all of the bugs. Can't wait for the next version.
Here's the situation. My fps dropped hard while adventuring in a fortress. I have since concluded that this is something particular to the fort itself and not to my computer or the game. I searched the archives over at
If it is an underground city of trolls, what can I do to recover my fps? Can I limit the pops of trolls in underground caverns through world creation?
>>127014675
would you willingly get turned on by a cutebold
I did
>>127015327
anon cutebolds are for snuggles not for sexual
>>127015131
>finally Toady fixed all of the bugs
>all of the bugs
>fixed
>>127015410
cutebolds are fornonstop cuddlesex
>>127015654
If they're fixed, they're bugs! If they're not fixed, they're features!
>>127015804
>>127015857
meant for
>>127015678
>>127015857and aggressive nose to nose action
>>127012650
If anon is still with us, how did the fight go?
>>127016010o-okay
This one is new? Haven't seen it before
>>127016091and copious kobold copulation
>>127016143
Damn, how stressed are your dorfs?
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Strange_mood
>Macabre
><dwarf> begins to stalk and brood...
>Brooding darkly...
>Macabre moods are similar to fell moods, but the dwarf will not murder a fellow dwarf. A macabre dwarf may require bones, skullsVerify, or vermin remains; if you do not happen to have any, you will have to make some, e.g. by butchering an animal and/or allowing a cat to go hunting, or let the moody dwarf go insane. Like fell moods, only unhappy dwarves can enter macabre moods.
>>127016214anon pls, were in public
>>127016332so you're into exhibitionism?
>>127016394n-no
>>127016520but do I have the open space for you
>>126891148
Yes. marital-affairs or something
>>127016636you wouldnt be lying to me, would you anon
>>127016636
kobolds are not for dropping
>>127014902
>>127015035
That's twice this week 4chan has gone down
What the fuck is Kawasaki Yamaha doing
>>127016846of course not, look at all the delicious red taffy
All the digging I just did into dance forms... I still have no clue where the fuck the "you know these dances" shit is stored.
>>127017458
Damn, that shit is detailed. Strangely, we've yet to see any !!SCIENCE!! on the wiki or Bay12 concerning performances, or any of the new features for that matter.
>>127017125
He's downloading spyware.
>>127017662
You know, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Yamato Damashii kept storing all his faggot tranny CP on the server
haha what the fuck? what are the odds?
According to Legends Viewers it's an Hillocks.
>you will never snugglehump a cutebold
>>127017796
oh shit it's not even over. did some apocalypse happen out there?
Wheelown is a fortress so I guess that's pretty cool.
Easiest way to become a vampire in adventure mode?
>>127017992
Topple a statue in a temple
>>127017796
>>127017959
Kill them anon.
True Dorfs need no leader.
>>127017992
Find a vampire and drink its blood.
>>127018006
You're at least as likely to become a werebeast (possibly more likely), and finding a temple is almost as much a pain in the ass as finding a vampire.
>The current idea is to spread a bit from bugs into fixing some of the issues with adv rep/rumors/etc. and other things that make that part of the game un-fun, do some other simple suggestions, and then try out a 64 bit version, and then start the artifact/myth stuff (which we will have a dev update for when we map it out more clearly).
This fucking Toad.
>>127015461
>elves claim to care about the environment
>actively introduce invasive species wherever they go
>>127019002
Yeah, especially them kobolds. Fuck them.
>dwaven child has started a mysterious construction!
>wolverine bone scimitar
great
now all i need to do is wait for this goddamn kid to grow the fuck up
Who terracotta army here?
The stairs lead to a balcony overlooking the whole thing(the hall is two z-levels high).
>can't ask about dead characters to learn about the history of my world
This is sad. Looking through LegendsViewer I found a dynasty of human leaders who personally led their civilization in war but lost every battle despite inflicting humongous casualties. I wanted to learn about the rise and fall of this vainglorious dynasty but nobody seems to know or care about them.
>my anus when I have no military and I see this right next to my unbarred, undefended staircase
>>127019493
Engraved runes to awaken them when?
>>127020125
You can ask about them, but the only answer you'll get is a snarky "They're dead, lol".
Just imagine asking someone who, say, Joseph Stalin was, and having them bluntly answer: "Joseph Stalin is dead."
We should probably thhink of this as Toady's sick sense of humour.
>>127020271
calm down anon, it's just a few troglodytes, maybe they want to be friends with your dorfs
>>127020530
>'C'
Croclodytes, perhaps.
>>127018871
Also, regarding multi tile creatures:
>Regular elephants would qualify as multi-tile if we are particular about it. It depends on how much we want to fudge the "2m x 2m x 3m" tile guesstimate we float around. An elephant trunk itself could get a little - if we are weird. ()E- It starts to look bad.
The test dragons had separate limbs and a neck with a 157-yen head and a slinky tail, and you wouldn't be able to hit any part you aren't next to. I'm not sure about all of it though. It's harder to make random and mod creatures look good, and the tileset issue is also large and multi-troubling... though I don't want to go with a block/blob approach either. The counter-pressure is that trees and other future features are going to make one-tile giant creatures sillier and sillier, until they become too silly. Tall creatures are harder since you can only see a slice of them, so they always look bad, but the idea is that you'd be able to jump on them and the dragons and be on a specific body part, if we are lucky enough to make it work at all.
>>127020271
>see
Draft everyone and send them to wrestle those fuckers to death like a true dorfs.
>>127020421
I had a list of people to "interview". Sure, Peasant McGivenofucks would be unhelpful, but I was hoping that the unrelated queen who just succeeded the last warrior prince would be able to tell me about her predecessors. I was also going to travel to other civilizations and ask their leaders about the battles they won against my civilization.
Alas, all that history was generated and all these dialogue options exist for little purpose.
>>127020738
But I can't risk losing even a single dorf, I'm in one of those empty worlds and I haven't had a single child yet.
>>127020814
Never mind, just got a migrant wave of 22. Time to go troglodyte hugging.
>After One Humped camel corpses attack, fortress Daubtome have been sealed for 3 months.
>random eagle corpse and peregrine falcon corpse attacked fort after that
>no i have three dorfs : one missing left hand ( red on wounds screen ), , one missing right and injured head ( i suspect gouged out eyes because he lost vision ) and one healthy albeit totally exhausted dorf farmer/doctor/brewer
Fuck me man, that is some hardcore shit.
>>127020814
You can lose some dorfs or all dorfs - choice should be simple.
If an animal pushes a dorf of a ledge, and is killed before the dorf hits the ground, will it get a name posthumously when the dorf dies?
>>127020530
>non-ASCII players
>>127022267
There is literally nothing right with using ASCII
>>127022267
>ASCII players
>>127020271
Disregard this I suck cock, a single, lone blacksmith managed to terminally fuck up the crocodile with nothing but his bare fists.
>>127022785
This kind of shit is what makes dorfs badass.
>>127022417
>>127022618
Not being able to see what a screen shot is showing, even confusing a 'C'rocodile with a 't'roglodyte, should be considered a handicap.
ASCII is a universal language, which everyone should be able to understand.
How does capturingand tamingcutebolds work?
>>127023784
Dwarf fortress in preschool curriculum when?
>>127022417
Being able to tell the difference between a sapling and a troglodyte in a screenshot is right in my book.
>>127024172
you'd have to mod it in. so, however you want it to, really
>>127024290
Solewdly?
>>127024338
Draw inspiration from Meatgod
>>127020721
Where you got that?.
>>127022267
>>127023784
ASCII fags are like fucking vegans with their totally undeserved sense of superiority, smugness and unability to shut the fuck up.
>>127024227
>Ok kids load up dwarf fortress on your PCs
>Today we'll continue our lecture on how to set up an underground farm when you have no soil
>>127024717
Latest FotF replies, seems it's not linked on the frontpage yet.
>>127024831
man i wish DF 101 was a college course as an elective you could takeit could be in the logic/critical thinking category
>>127021414
>yeahh 9 migrants !!
>...
>mfw 5 of them are kids
Are you fucking kidding me game ??
>>127023784
>see what a screen shot is showing
... is that it?
>>127025927
>Reduce the rate of kids
>9 migrant wave
>mfw 5 of them are fisherdwarves in a waterless embark
>>127026150
Fuck man, thats at least 9 adults that can be assigned and trained, not 5 useless food and water sponges in a fortress where only farmer.brewer is heavily injured.
This game hates me, i swear to AMrok.
>>127024719
At least I can read a screenshot.
>>127026150
i could never embark in a waterless region. i rely way too heavily on fish
>>127026387
Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of engraved walls in mastercrafted halls that fill my fortress. If the word 'fun' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for dwarfs at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.
>>127024998
Wouldn't it essentially be free academic points as a reward for being autistic?
>>127021414
>>127025927
>>127026150
Aaaaand my miner/expedition leader just bled to death ...
>>127027340
It would be a free pass to those sweet NEETbux
>>127027137
I like what you were going for there, but your choice of a metric for hate measurement was a lot less effective due to no quantity therein being directly translatable to a hate-analogue.
>>127027340
But that's what college already is.
Does assassinating the leaders of enemy civs have any impact on gameplay?
Like, will killing the elven king as an adventurer make it easier for me to build a dwarf fortress in elven territory?
Dwarf Fortress, Adventure Mode, and Legends are all cool but they don't connect in the way I want them to.
>>127029042
Currently, killed leaders are just replaced by new ones, either from the hist fig pool(relatives of the deceased, most of the time) or from the pops(resulting in new important hist figs without any backstory). I'm not sure, but I think Toady will add succession conflicts and civil wars later on, which would accomplish what you're looking for.
>>127029970
>>127030132
>>127029042
Killing a demon war leader or highly skilled squad commander would probably have a bigger effect than killing a political figurehead.
>>127029827
Succession conflicts are already in as far as I understand it. Problem is that they more often than not get resolved faster that it would be of use to a fortress.
So I think it does have indeed have an impact on gameplay, it's just very miniscule.
In the end the issue is that a specific king currently has too little effect on the overall political situation. From what I see, the political stance is generated from other factors and a new ruler just adapts to it again. His personal skills don't have much effect consequently.
>they don't connect in the way I want them to.
Not yet, yeah. But if it all works out as planned in 20 years, it will be magnificent. And every release adds a little towards that goal just enough to water my mouth.
Compared to 34.11 it's already leagues better.
>>127022785
>Second Right Toe
THIS FUCKING DETAIL MAKES IT
>>127030273
Swamp dwarf represent
>>127030132
What does "Hagus" mean? He looks like some dude from those Assyrian reliefs(pic related).
>>127030657
Man I wish humans still had wings
HELP PLS CANT FIND THIS GAME ON STEAM WHAT DO???
>>127030834
>(you)
>>127030834
There's a mod for Microsoft Excel that turns it into Dwarf Fortress.
>>127030453
>Not yet, yeah. But if it all works out as planned in 20 years, it will be magnificent. And every release adds a little towards that goal just enough to water my mouth.
Shit, I had an un-copied book taken from a goblin corpse stolen by a human scholar. So I retired the fort and started an adventurer, and sought her out in her home village, where she was STILL HOLDING THE BOOK. I let her live, since I didn't want to upset her husband who was in the same house, but I wrestled the book from her, then stopped the conflict and brought it back to the fort.
Holy shit, the game actually keeps track of hist figs' owned items, even as they leave the scope of gameplay and years pass.
>>127030630
More pride then a Welsh Goblin.
>>127030657
Closer then most, he is a Magyar.
>>127030834
Jesus thats a bad trolling attempt.
Every one of my adventurers has been killed by a botched jump attempt.
Scrub here.
Should I prioritize farms or workshops?
>>127033915
You have seven dwarves.
>>127034105
yes
When is DFhack getting updated for latest release?
Its got so many convenience tools I can't play without.
>>127033915
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Quickstart_guide
Does anyone know what happened here? I got my first mountain home liason and immediately after it tells me my site is inaccessible. Then I go to look and I see a horse with all the loot under itself and no dead dwarves in the death tab. And a fire.
>>127034827
Kikes
>>127015252
The solution is to find the underground city and slay them all.
>>127017641
Experiment #1; Make a performance hall next to a large abyss, see if anyone falls in while dancing because they leaped the wrong way
>>127020759
Historian profession when? Recording information in books when?
>>127035629
Already.
It's called Engraver.
>>127035629
Don't scholars currently write books about events?
>>127035629
Now that my fort is pretty sure, give me ideas for my in-fort lab. and what type of experiments could i do there. Anything goes, even modding.
>>127035826
They don't actually give a shit about the context of what they're engraving, however.
>>127035951
I don't think they actually contain any information though, just a title.
>>127036139
Incidental historians, then. Doesn't matter; a historian is a person who records history.
That moment when you go and recruit your retired adventurer to go dance around the world.
Then you notice the full moon hit while you were visiting a new library.
You start to rush downstairs to go pull a werebeast off some poor kid and your own adventurer hurtles past, tackles the werelizard off the fucker it was eating, and lines it up for you to pick it's brain.
Ya did good, Etar... not just a legendary dancer, you're a legendary hero through and through.
>>127035629
History already exist as a discipline among scholars in the current version. Fort mode scholars will write about any subject that they've discussed ever, though, so actually getting your historians to record history is pretty hard. Still, they shit out a history book ever now and then. Most of the time, it mentions a few historical events in a certain civ or site. Biographies/autobiographies mention events in a certain hist fig's life.
One good way to manipulate your dwarves into writing certain kinds of literature is to buy manuals on how to write that lit. For example, titles with "your own history" in them will teach any dwarf how to write their autobiography(although only scholars will do it, and only if they happen to feel like it).
I've successfully tamed a terrifying biome.
Can I get some mega-project ideas?
Im between:
>Moving my fortress into the cavern layer
>Getting candy, making candy weapons and then trying to settle hell using a bunch of traps
>Building a glorious monument to dwarf-kind (to be decided)
FPS is holding a steady 94 in year 6 right now, I really didn't realize how much settling on a river murders the FPS of my shit laptop.
I am a history major. I was hoping this game would stroke my history boner with all of its world generation. It kind of does, but the experience is incomplete. Too much of the information is locked away either in the game code or hidden deep in Legends mode and can only be explored to the fullest extent through third-party utilities.
What I have found fascinates me. Look at this pic. There is a story being told here. The military commander of the attacking humans is the king of his civilization - a brave warrior following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather by leading the armies of his people. The leader of the defenders is a brave goblin commander who has defended his nation against numerous invading armies.
The stories of both commanders end in tragedy; this battle was a horrible catastrophe for both sides, the humans never won a single battle against anybody despite a superior kill:death ratio, and the goblin commander was slain treacherously by a rogue dwarf shortly after his Pyrrhic victory.
This should be a Trojan War-esque event remembered for all time by both civilizations. Instead it's just as likely to be referenced by an engraver or scholar as Angus McNobody's thrilling tale of making chicken soup on a Sunday.
This game has the potential to be a fantastic history generator, but it doesn't make sufficient use of what it already as. I would not have uncovered any of this stuff without using the utility. It would be amazing if I could uncover it all as a wandering historian in Adventure Mode.
>>127034827
Tree might have grown under the caravan and launched people around so they all left.
>>127037613
What fascinates me the most is that a goblin army led by an ordinary goblin, rather than a demon, actually managed to stand firm against a superior force. It's usually the demon commanders who do most of the killing.
>>127038167
From what I've seen, the goblins get slaughtered no matter what. The demon commander only makes it so they win despite losing their entire army. Apparently the demon only has to show up on the battlefield and kill a few humans to cause a rout.
As for other races, elves live forever so they usually have that one princess who becomes a badass general and remains in control of the armies forever.
Dwarves always seem to be on the defensive in wars and they hardly expand. They always have the lowest population out of the races and at least one dwarven civilization goes extinct early on.
Pic related is elven princess' combat record.
>>127037613
What utility is that? I wouldn't mind combing through some Legends if it wasn't so confusing.
>>127037613
You can uncover all sorts of shit between telling stories and writing/reading books/checking out engravings/using advfort yourself to make engravings.
>>127038757
>elves live forever
Not if I have anything to say about it.
Postponing hooking up that drawbridge suddenly doesn't feel like it was such a good idea.
I'll have my marksdorfs stand guard outside while my civvies seal the entrance with rock.
>get sick of roguelikes
>come check the dwarf fortress general
>like a third of the thread is shit posting about kobolds and a fight because some scrubs can't into ASCII
I expected you to be at least as autistic as /rlg/. Truly a disappointment.
>>127038759
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154617.0
Legends Viewer. Good stuff.
Pic related is showing a war between Elves and Dwarves. There were 7 different pillagings of the Dwarven settlements. The devastation of the conflict caused the Dwarves to go extinct at the hands of megabeasts shortly afterwards.1 person died in the war
>>127037613
>but the experience is incomplete
As is the game
> It would be amazing if I could uncover it all as a wandering historian in Adventure Mode.
In 10 or so years you might. All the recent development points towards just that. At least now historians actually write books, and since 40.xx the world continues after you finish worldgen. In the next few years, we'll see myth generation, basically whatever happens before worldgen.
Looking further, there are even dev goals that tie into this, specifically "adventurer role: explorer" might be worth a look.
As a side note, the way worldgen battles are computed is a bit weird. IIRC, it's a series of 1vs1 battles, so a single strong person on one side could easily kill an entire army.
>>127039338
I didn't realise it was that close to my entrance.
Wake me up.
>>127039746
>it's a series of 1v1 battles
Wait...so that one pic posted a few threads back about the General of Light who lost 99.9% of his forces in battle and still won the war wasn't an asspull?
>>127039763
It ended up getting pushed down the central rampcase(It's a worldgen fort).
Still, I lost about 20 dorfs(half of them useful militia members).
>>127039981
I'm not entirely sure about the specifics. But I often see it mentioned by toady or others how unusual the worldgen battles are computed. The forum might have more info.
>>127040078
Wait, you can use worldgen forts?
>>127040161
Yes. As of 40.01. Reclaim instead of Embark in the site finder.
>>127040078
>>127040161
>>127040350
Fucking awesome. There's that troll my adventurer killed. Now we'll go down and see what was killing my fps.
>>127040078
Also, half of my remaining militia got themselves stuck in the cage traps. Any way to save them?
>>127040463
You should claim all the left behind food and put it in a stockpile before it rots. It will give you an easy start.
>>127040463
>>127040834
Here's the corpse of my adventurer. He chose to starve to death rather than deal with low fps. No sign of the companions whom he arrived with.
>>127040970
The good news is that my companions are hanging outside so this game really is superb.
The bad news is
Is it possible to drink caged creatures, and, if so, what happens to them? Do they count as dead?
>>127041664
>Horrifying screams come from the darkness below!
>>127041879
>>127042346
Kek, what do you have to put the cages in in order to put them in a mug?
>>127042572
Bags and pouches can fit in mugs apparently.
I saw two goblins hacking each other up under a keep and figured one or both were vampires, but apparently none of the folks I passed a big frothy mug of goblin blood turned.
Is there a command in DFhack to make certain mobs dissappear?
A gorlok is trapped underwater in my cavern layer and is keeping other fun creatures from spawning.
Why is the whole map wagon inaccessible?
>>127044096
Because there is nothing there to access. Build a depot first.
>>127042979
>That fucking speed
Holy shit anon
>>127044224
i do have a depot
>>127044512
Look at the depot through the 'D' screen then. Are there any green squares around it? Where do the green squares stop? Where they stop, there's an obstacle.
>reclaim worldgen fort
>massive 50x50 tower going down into the center of the earth
>it's in the middle of a tundra
>find the corpse of my adventurer, couldn't find that roc that was supposed to be here
>send my dwarves to open up the demon caverns in the first month because why the fuck not?
>demons swarm through fortress and kill 6 out of 7 of my dwarves
>expedition leader has his leg blown off with a fireball and limps into a corner where the pathfinding AI can't get to him
>only a matter of waiting for him to die of dehydration
>demons spread out and begin destroying the insane amount of furniture left in this fort
>migrants_arrive.jpg
>as soon as they step into the tower, the demons spray them with fire and they explode
>human bard arrives with two swordsmen in tow
>human bard freaks and sprints right in between the beams of fire that fly past him and incinerate his buddies
>he becomes hysterical and zips back and forth in the corner of the tower
>a second bard arrives, walks into the entrance, sees the bodies, dead turkeys, burning barrels, and demons and goes >NOPE.jpg
>he runs out of the fort
>once he gets to a certain distance, he decides its time to go back
>ends up in an eternal loop of traveling to the fort and then running back out into the cold
>demons penetrate deeper into the unknown crannies of my fortress to destroy cabinets
>expedition leader starves to death
>Game Over
>mfw
>>127044743
oh a tree trunk was there, just blacked out cause I had assigned it cut
fucking retareded, goddamit
>>127044796
Source on that fresco/tapestry/whatever?
>>127044983
Coronation of Basil II from the Madrid Skylitzes.
Guy in the middle is actually a baby being crowned co-emperor by his dad. Dad was a drunken hedonist who was poisoned by mom shortly afterwards. Baby grew up to be a warmongering criminal who blinded 15,000 prisoners of war, hacked the hands off of thousands of captives, and was known for his piety and celibacy. Nobles on the left were all destroyed in the civil war. Priests on the right are keking their asses off.
A lot of history in this picture.
>>127037534
You're thinking small and boring. You need this:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stupid_dwarf_trick
>>127037534
Build a fountain.
>>127044950
BLACKED
>>127037613
There's an advanced worldgen option to hide all historical events so that you can discover them with your adventurer by reading engravings, looking at statues, looking at figurines and examining decorations on items. Some events probably never make it into any depictions in the world, but a lot of them do. Kobold caves and night troll lairs are a good place to find a lot of interesting history.
>>127044796
god that is hilarious
>>127045651
Fuck, I just love pre-reformation European/Mediterrannean aesthetics, especially the orthodox ones.
The naive element of art was lost during the renaissance.
Pic related. This is far closer to what our dorfs are engraving. Frescos when, Toady?
>>127047172
Perhaps this is a better example. It even has the right elements to (almost) work in DF.
I added Orichalcum and Fortress Defense to my game and it took a long time to finish a region, but I think the result was grand.
>>127045651
>>127047172
Byzantium was really dwarfy when you think about it.
>capital city was constantly under siege by the forces of darkness
>said forces of darkness were only kept out by strong fortifications and ingenious technology
>dangerous citizens were eliminated in creative and brutal ways
>individuals of almost any social standing would throw temper tantrums and overthrow the leader
>whole civilization tried appeasing their angry God by making art to revere him, and then they tore down that art because he was still angry, and then they put it back up because he was still mad
>entire civilization collapsed tragically after going on too long
>if you visit their former capital as an adventurer, you get attacked by monsters
>>127048627
>The Decent Gulf
Completely accurate.
>>127048770
>forces of darkness were only kept out by strong fortifications and ingenious technology
I know about the walls but what technology did they have?
>>127047172
>Fuck, I just love pre-reformation European/Mediterrannean aesthetics, especially the orthodox ones.
>The naive element of art was lost during the renaissance.
Fat virgin who read wikipedia trying to act artsy detected
>>127049274
Greek Fire mostly. They also did funky stuff with the chain running across the harbor, although that's more engineering than technology.
>>127049397
>Greek Fire mostly.
actually very little is known about it
its mostly myth and hypothesis
but of course all fat uneducated virgins act like if there was a confirmed civilization in which flamethrowers were usual
>>127048770
>capital city was constantly under siege by the forces of darkness
Isn't it more or less established that elves are Ottomans? The goblins must be something else.
>>127049391
>>127049635
Suddenly cancer
>>127049391
>trying to impress strangers on a senegalese picture book convention
I just hoped to spark an enriching discussion, really. Especially considering the relevance to the game.
>>127049656
All of the barbarians east of the Bosporus were elves, all the barbarians west of it were goblins.
>>127050068
Still, I'm bothered by their pantheism. Perhaps elves are actually some kind of christian/jewish heretics? Like Cathars?
>>127050489
No elves are Muslims.
>are invited into your fort
>get offended when you offer them something as mundane as wood
>start a holy war against you
>>127048627
>18 Dwarvish sites
>20~ Elvish
>I can't find a single human or goblin site
>all over a medium world
dead worlds general
>>127049391
>fat virgin
>in /dfg/
say it ain't so
>>127051269
Dwarves are known to build both inns and libraries. If there are dwarves, the world isn't dead.
Well, that's it. That's the bottom right there.
I've left hordes of blind, toothless, limbless potato-bitches sitting around and called it mercy.
I've screwed around testing scripts and turned every coincepurse held by every merchant in a marketplace into grenades of molten metal.
I've gelded dudes with the ground, with dead bodies, with my bare hands.
I figured out that if you hit someone hard enough in the head to kill them and send them flying with a war hammer, you can hack their head off in mid-air with a battle axe.
I did that for so long I wound up covered in tears and blood and vomit.
Yet none of that compares to that little message that popped up there, when given just a little bit of context.
Zuntir is the lady of that town, she has several kids.
Rovod was the one I happened to talk to first, the youngest daughter, and the one I was able to get a little hacked together caging script to work with...
So I promptly picked up the cage, stuffed it in a bag, stuffed that in a mug, and handed it to her mom... who then drank her daughter.
>>127044461
It's easy enough with modding, it's a dangerous drug though, but it's so handy when you're specifically trying to spend a lot of time in packed towns.
>first serious siege is almost entirely composed of goblinised elves
>no pets
>only the occational goblin squad leader
>otherwise:only elf
They know who to form the vanguard out of.
>>127052034
>Rovod was the one I happened to talk to first, the youngest daughter, and the one I was able to get a little hacked together caging script to work with...
>So I promptly picked up the cage, stuffed it in a bag, stuffed that in a mug, and handed it to her mom... who then drank her daughter.
>>127052034
>So I promptly picked up the cage, stuffed it in a bag, stuffed that in a mug, and handed it to her mom... who then drank her daughter.
>>127052034
You and this game are going to go far together.
>>127043508
"exterminate gorlak", or place your cursor over it and "exterminate him"
>>127052034
>I wonder if I can make this more horrible
>Hey wait, I know her daughter's name... I wonder if I can tell a story about-
>>127053680
That's just unsettling... which end is she drinking from?
>>127053990Why not both?
>>127053680
REMOVE ELF
>Start new fort
>Group is dubbed "The Lush Machine"
>6 females and a bi-male dwarf.
Does [POPULATION_CAP] now stops people from joining via petition? If I set it to 7, I know I won't have any migrants, but will visitors still be able to join, are petitionners capped by the [STRICT_POPULATION_CAP] like births are?
>for reasons known only to my dwarves, they ignore the danger alert and go to the surface to butcher horses while a siege rages around them
GOTTA WORK MAN
>finally fought my first, real battle as an adventurer
>died to a goblin swordsman
To be fair, I was thirsty. How do you get drink?
>>127055978
[e]
>no music in adventure mode
Okay post the link to the song I will loop.
>>127056606
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK0LUdy84vg
>>127056606
did you really just ask someone to fucking type
get out
>>127056606
http://eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=94739&n=Cory+in+the+House+-+Improved.swf
>>127056606
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiEzVx375w4
Adv mode is basically Daggerfall, anyways.
>>127056803
Holy fuck.
This kicks ass
>>127057189
the creator of the game had a kickstarter for a sequel but he got badmouthed into oblivion because he said he's against gay marriage in an unrelated ocassion
>>127057376
Good we can't let bigots enrich themselves.
>>127056606
Don't loop anything. Listen to this album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhcppysq6MM
>>127057376
Will this ever happen to DF?
>>127057376
sounds more like it wasn't successful and they blamed it on that than anything else.
What was that hack that let you see multiple z-levels? Screenflow or something?
>>127058523
Starting it right now.
>Tarn Adams AKA "Toady One" has stated that he is against "fags" playing Dwarf Fortress
Posting this on Reddit right now
>>127058935
pls no
>>127058523
Toby is immune to external pressure as long as he doesn't lose his donations. He lives in his own world and so no matter how crazy the outside world becomes he'll always have his dwarves, his brother and his creative vision.
>Legendary Brewer is taken by melancholy
>Eventually turns up dead from dehydration
>ok
I didn't want to have a supply of ale anyway, faggot
>>127058935
>>127059019
>>127059054
It's over. Redditors won't dare give Bay12 any traffic when they see this screenshot.
>>127058523
Toady (well, bay12) follows a bunch of sjws on twitter. Including feminist frequency, notably. He's probably safe from their ire.
>>127060604
Toady seems like an okay guy to me. He makes fun of both hardcore liberals and conservatives in LCS.
>>127060120
>>127060120
Why
Why must you hurt the thing I love
Merchants won't leave my fucking fortress.
Theyve been here for almost a year just slowing my game down because the one at the head of it got started by the human blood rain or something.
I'm going to have to abandon the fortress because of these shitters. I gave them a fuck ton of items so I could mitigate my clutter, but I have no idea.
>>127060604
>feminist frequency
>>127061117
just kill them senpai
>>127020271
Good, build some cage traps down there.
Cave croc eggs are good eats and they lay a shitload of them.
>>127058935
He just put fags in-game a few updates ago. I wonder how long it'll take before he makes a call on how far he wants to go with the sex. Night trolls are literally rapists so I can't wait to see everyone shit a brick over that.
>>127061742
Would you rather die a lonely virgin or become the husband of a Night Hag? Does she eat you after taking your seed?
>>127061742
>You want sex?
>Fine, you'll get it.
>in two days, the most horrifying concoction of shit is released on the public
>all previous versions are deleted
>only the most vile simulacra of a sex-filled dwarf fortress remains
>to Toady's eternal dismay, it is very well received.
>>127058125
As a fan of power metal I have to say that this is just a little too gay for me.
>>127062107
No she just turns you into a copy of her, except with a penis.
>>127062121
Patch Notes:
>Re-added tentacle demons
>Added prostitutes
>Re-enabled the dwarven economy
Alright.
So my terrifying embark was a huge success. To the point where in seven years it's already succumbing to FPS death and I was getting bored of it anyway.
What biome has the most fun savage animals?
I'm real tired of flying giant birds that my hunters kill with ease. I want some shit that makes me scared of the surface.
I'd do a glacier but without animals/prey I get bored real fast.
>>127062742
savanna with high savagery
expect giant lions and other stuff
>>127062886
Sounds like a plan.
Anyone got suggestions for a challenge run? I was thinking about making my fortress in the cavern layers.
>>127062449
is-
is she okay
>>127062490
So I get to become a powerful monster that feels no pain and is still intelligent? My Night Hag waifu grounds up beetle humus and cooks delicious elf spleen while we both raise our cute little Gloom Crone daughter together?
So do you anons prefer that to dying a lonely virign?does she only abduct attractive men?
>>127063152
you seem to misunderstand what a night hag does
>>127063152
Bear in mind if she abducts you she probably just killed half of your family and several of your neighbors before taking a liking to you. Then she takes you back to her rape cave and force feeds you mosquito burgers while forcing you to impregnate her horrid deformed body.
>>127063052
Yeah dont worry bro
>>127063539
>this is actually what Toady heavily implies is happening with abductees
>>127063858
Yeah imagine Monster Girl Quest except they're all smelly nasty mutants that could break you in half with their bare hands. That's basically what Night Trolls are.
>>127063539
>before she takes a liking to you
>she wants to build family together
>Night Troll culture has strong family values
How flattering.
>>127064139
I'll just pretend that it actually IS MGQ and that they're actually cute monster girls with unflattering descriptions to set the mood.
>>127039959
sauce, badass
>>127064610
I got you covered man.
Well, I've got you covered eventually.
After I finally stop being a lazy faggot and finish what I want to do with my mod.
Winning is boring.
This game has become too easy, I really can't seem to lose or experience any !!FUN!! if I tried.
The new stuff, while cool, if anything just makes the game easier as trained soldiers will come to your fortress and temples help manage dwarf happiness.
How would you make the game harder in a real way? Food and drink are piss easy to get. Combat gets harder but a well trained squad will just slaughter hundreds of goblins no sweat. Even with megaprojects and the weird different themes to my forts, the ending is always the same, and I meet generally little resistence getting there.
I feel like this games reputation for its insane difficulty is pretty undeserved when its so easy to set up a lasting fortress.
>>127065356
Congratulations you have managed to git gud.
Now you see that the folly of those who wish to git gud at a video game:
The game stops being fun.
>>127063000
make a safari fort, tons of hunters, big inn, capture elves and toss them to the lions you manage to train
bonus challenge? get a necromantic slab in you library
>>127065083
It's called Warhammer: Ravendils Quest. It's mostly just the one joke over and over, sort of drags on.
>>127065356
iktfb conducts are all you can do for now while hoping future versions are harder
>wooden doors only
>sparse or no constructed traps
>no complete walling in allowed
Well, that's odd.
Merchants arrived, and one of them flips his shit at starts swinging on his guard.
