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Dwarf Fortress, love your midgets like you love yourself.
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28-06-2010 10:28pm#1Anybody play Dwarf fortress at all, I'm currently travelling with an EEEPC and the only decent game to run on it is "The best 2D dwarf management simulator released this year"
It always struck me as super ****ing difficult to understand, but with quite a few quiet nights I have had time to research it a bit, I though I would pass on the info, for those not inclined to trawl.
First of all is the tutorials, Rock paper shoutgun have a list to basic tutorials here, also they have a good few articles on its joys.
These tutorials use an old version of the game, and add a "tileset", a tileset basically makes the game easier to understand visually. The tileset the tutorial uses is "maydays", an up to date version can be gotten here
Maydays tileset looks like this
Instead of this
Another popular tileset is Phoebus (you will need a larger screen resolution to enjoy it), but it can be gotten here prepackaged with two other very useful tools, a 3D visualizer and a dwarf manager that makes it easier to tell the midgets what to do, its looks like this.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5143/screenshotlv.png
Obligatory link to a facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dwarf-Fortress/35202711313
If anybody has questions or even a few tips post them up.
Also if anybody has a few screenshots of there fortress I'd love to see them.1
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Dunno why, but in a very very short while have come to absolutely LOVE this game (though, without the tile-set, it gives me a headache)
Got it one rainy Saturday afternoon, and started up the tutorials posted by yourself, and bam - addicted
Next thing I know, Im late for work Monday morning :mad:
Anyway..
Only on my third fort (1st made balls of, 2nd place got crippled by a berserk child(!), who just mangled everything
Set my war dog army on him (all of 2), but he pulled the legs off one, and punched the other in half...)
Most recent fort just has traps.. new military system still a bit over my head.. and this embark has like -no- metal
Forts been siege'd twice - once by gobbos (all caged and.. disposed of <.< ), second time by humans. Had built up enough metal at this stage for a rake of weapon traps this time... many many (many) serrated iron discs :pac:
Anywho.. much hilarity ensured, and the remainder -those that still had legs- had to run off.
Not sure how, but one of the traps, well, just exploded one of them. Bits of em up on top of the walls even Another one of them (err, well half of one of them) just exited stage left after an encounter, up and over the mountain (!)
Love it..!
Many thanks for your post
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hah! yea, berserk dwarf brought about the downfall of one of my early forts think I had to lock him up and let him starve to death in the end
still going on the mega-trap fort, and its gotten a bit ridiculous.. must stick up a recent screenshot
up to ~160 dwarves at the mo
sieges have become common place now, but the forts pretty self sufficient at this stage. Last caravan was ambushed and killed by gobbos, which is a bit worrying (still no military)
Also got a crazy fire breathing hyena thing trapped in my prisoner killing room. It can destroy doors, and jump over traps, but seems to have stopped in there and seems quite content.. tied up some war elephants outside, but I dont have much faith in them. Thankfully its not moved in a couple of seasons so (cautiously) happy enough
Prisoner killing room rebuilt elsewhere
Thankfully my nobles have been fairly reasonable, though the previous mayor demanded an adamantine door for his bedroom(!).. of which I've never even seen a bar of.. thankfully he didnt throw a wobbler, and has since been suceeded by a more reasonable quiver-obsessed ruler0 -
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I had been of half a mind to try this out for quite a few months now, so I went and took the plunge at last, I'm following the tutorial in the OP.
Having a lot of fun, just about ready to get stuck into trading properly (I think).
Reminds me of Dungeon Keeper, what with the tunnelling and room designation etc. Thought it would be fun to show it to my girlfriend and see what she thought of me looking after little blips bouncing about the screen. She reckons it's like the Sims.
I am worried though.. that I'm going to get nothing done at work now
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