/dfg/ Dwarf Fortress General

First for modanon, still working on making dinosaurs, place your requests on me no matter how silly.

I have everyone's requests from last thread saved, dont worry about posting them here again.

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>waited until old thread was at page 10
>picked a relatively rare OP pic

>>175471078
Still waiting for toady to introduce artificial limbs into the game. People really don't understand the advantage of wooden feet

>playing Masterwork (yeah, yeah, I know), 34.11
>Warlock Fortress
>staffed by skeletons, because they can be constructed and easily revived, and ghouls tantrum too much
>training skeleton archer squad
>one strays too far from a control pylon and briefly turns opposed to life
>which is normally fine, because everyone is undead/opposed to life anyway and they usually change back in seconds
>skellie somehow aggros everyone
>the 'traitor' and the rest of the archers start beating at each other with their bone bows
>against their bone-hard bodies, it's as effective as foam swords
>skeletons don't tire or hunger or thirst, so they just keep going
>they fight for months before job cancellation forces me to send in the Overlord to kill the 'traitor'
>six out of eleven archers have gone from Dabbling/Novice Hammermen to Legendary Hammermen and decent defensive skills
>the 'traitor' is also a Legendary Armor User when revived
>this is all with 'Harder Learning' balance option on
>slap them all into a sledgehammer-wielding squad
>everything worked out better than expected

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Having problem with murderous ghosts and your fiancee rising from the grave to get revenge on you?

Why not try these lanterns, one hundred percent microline made for that extra dwarven fanciness

These lanterns will drive away even the most persistent ghost and undead,
They just require a small dose of extremely rare mystery oil to function.
but for a modest price or subscription we can fix you right up.

>lanterns might explode and magic might backfire

>>175485002
Why not just have dwarves that can use personas?

>>175485081

You really want these lanterns

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>>175484483
>relatively rare
i would've had rarer and lewder OP picks if my old shitbox didn't die on me just a few weeks before my new computer arrived

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>>175485081
>giving dwarves any kind of supernatural power at all and expecting them to use it responsibly

Can you not normally make platinum weapons?
I spawned in a place without good metals, all I have is a fair bit of platinum and I've heard it's the best for blunt weapons.

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>>175485002
>>175485081
>>175485424
the magic arc will be beyond completely fucked up

Anyone read any stories about Armok 1? Do it.
There was a magic where you could simply teleport your heart outside your body and die instantly.

That's what will happen after the magic arc and especially with artifacts. Some dwarf will have a strange mood, build an artifact with magical powers, and then all sorts of crazy shit will come loose when the artifact starts to enact its 1-or-more magical traits.

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Woo, a lil gorlak showed up and wants to join me, hopefully he petitions soon

>>175486137
>and die instantly.
oh, and from the screenshot of the myth/magic generator, it will be possible to do this simply by holding a special stone (or nothing at all) and then merely *thinking* about it happening. not even a gesture or hand motion.
just an at-will ability of thought and
> your heart is outside your body now

it will be utterly insane.

>>175484308
I lewv u

>>175484493
>wooden feet
>on wooden ground

TACTACTACTACTACTACTACTAC

paralellaly
>fire

>>175484308
joke weapons like rubber chickens and water spraying flowers that use comedy as a weapon skill

>>175486137
>>175486357
I can't believe I'll see this happening

This reality has some redeeming features atleast

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>>175486149
Gorlaks are literally the cutest creatures in DF. Prove me wrong

Gorlaks are cute, CUTE!

>>175484308
can you make a mod where minotaurs are replaced with toad men? and also instead of saying "I'll grind your bones for my bone meal", "I'll eat you whole", "turn you into porridge", etc, they just say "It's been a pretty slow month", "here are this month's future of the fortress reply and the report", and of course "he he he"

>>175486784
kek

>>175484308
make potato seeds sometime give 'rare potatoes'
this rare potatoes if brewed give green vodka
drink it and you have 33% chance becoming a zombie, 33% nothing, 33% brutal temporal strength buff
if you are a zombie, you can become human again drinking the alcohol too

>>175486906
They really are. They're basically shaped like the monster 'Mike' from Monsters Inc.

>>175486008
>Can you not normally make platinum weapons?
No, not without modifying the material raw files
>I spawned in a place without good metals, all I have is a fair bit of platinum and I've heard it's the best for blunt weapons.
Even shitty copper is better than nothing if you have it.
Platinum can still be crafted and traded for goods and metals from traders, just be careful to not trade too much too soon or else you'll reach the seige trigger for exported wealth.

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>>175486906

>>175486137
where can one find such stories?

>Play adventure craft
>Somehow tons of civilization crumble before year 150, leaving animalmen towns behind

Is it because of the new creatures added or something else?

>>175487510
that's a cap I made based on a anouncement Toady made on the FoF threads in the bay12 forums

fof stands for future of the fortress btw

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This poor architect guy was under a great deal of stress, so along with the tantruming herbalist and a few other friends, I've put them into a new squad and they're all training together. While they are both still haggard, they're finally starting to take a more positive outlook on life again, and have stopped being depressed for now. I'm so relieved they've stopped being so down, and are back on track again to being happy :D

>>175486137
reminds me of the xenoarch artifacts in space station 13.

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>>175484308
How about something easy like short bow's for dwarfs since they can't seem to make em in vanilla ;_; along with arrows

>>175484308
Solid Snake. Runs into a fortress you won't be told until he's detected, like a gremlin. Steals like a kea and is unparalleled in CQC.

>>175488184
It's surprising what it takes to break dwarves now. I've had a vampire locked off in a room for over a year now, and was locked up for six months for murder before that. I'm guessing you can't have tantrums when you're chained up but he hasn't gone mad yet.

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>>175488967
Make sure they have great ambusher and can open doors.

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What do I even do now? I have a successful fort running and there doesn't seem to be anything else for me to do.

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Fresh OC coming through.

>>175491025
Have you dug down to the caverns, or discovered magma?

Have you established good trading with your civ's trade caravans, so that they might promote your fort's status?

Have you faced any large sieges yet? This is generally triggered by having a large-ish population and accumulated fortress wealth. Also, those are some thin defenses, it would be an awful shame if something happened to them.

>>175491025
What tileset is that?

>>175491025
something will come from underground,goblins will occasionally show up & "visit" your fortress or if at peacetime maybe think about opening up a library?

>>175491402
Pheobus. I might switch back to Spacefox but I like the character sprites on Pheobus

>>175491469
what do libraries do?

>>175491671
satisfy needs.

>>175491671
Lets your dwarves read books, and you can assign scholars and scribes to write/copy books on various subjects.

>>175487724
I mean the stories from armok 1 buddy

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>>175492060

Like...dirty magazines and pickaxe catalogs

>>175491025
>successful

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>>175491025
The fuck is a werelk, is it like Grendel from Beowulf?

>>175492463
>the fuck is a werelk
Did you try reading the description in your screenshot?

>>175492356
>implying there's any difference between them

>>175492679
So its a humanoid. How do I stop it?

>>175492824
kill it

>>175492749

>Not wanting that hot slick steel pickaxe with a mahogany handle, illustrated in all its glory breaking some stone

>>175492917
>>175492463
I just ignored the problem. I hope it left

>>175493740
Good luck with that. Unless your fort is locked down, werecreatures will try to get in and murder anything that moves.

>>175494110
>>175494110
One guy was found dead and nothing has happened since. I think he left

Well fuck, my game is still crashing. Made it all the way to the 6th month and it froze again. Running it in 2d now, can't figure out what's causing it.

>>175494861
Is 43.05 itself really that unstable? I keep seeing all these crash reports, but I haven't had much issue with vanilla 43.05 or most mods that don't use DFHack (Dark Ages II breaks for me a lot).

The only thing I can think of is DFHack being unstable, I don't think there's been a stable version since before 43.xx.

>>175495361
I'm running 43.03, haven't updated because I don't want my weapon traps to screw up my game, plus I've got 90 upright spear traps filled with spikes and I don't want to take them out if they break too.

I haven't got any invaders for over a year even though I'm just downriver from a goblin civ and had two sieges and two werecreatures before. I think it's a siege spawn causing it but the error log shows nothing, probably because it's freezing instead of crashing with an error message.

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>>175484308
A little update on dinosaur mod, raptors seem to be working perfectly fine apart from one problem...
http://i.imgur.com/ljG6f7W.png
The only way i can stop them from strangling things nonstop would be by removing their arms.

>>175486784
Sounds like a really great idea but i'd probably have to mod in a new material for the joke weapons to make sense. Wood/Steel rubber chickens or foam swords dont really sound all that sensical.

>>175487280
I feel like this is a refrence to something...
will make this though.

>>175487420
Not sure if this is possible, i'll try messing around with raws and see if i can make something like this happen.

>>175487705
Havent heard of the mod myself but i suspect from personal expereience that some overpowered megabeast or civilization is going around destroying everything they dont like.

>>175488836
SHORTbows for dwarves you say?
will do!

>>175488967
>>175490594
An actual snake like in the gif or the character?

>>175491280
replace talking gobbo with a demon and its 100% accurate

>>175492135
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?board=1.0

there are also a few other stories about the first game on other forums, but the majority of content is probably there.

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>>175487280
>>175496051
The minotaur lines are all fully moddable, as seen in this pic. (where the txt is in the speech folder)

60th post for fuck it's rainy as shit outside.

>>175497681
Why would your dwarves be outside?

>>175497329
I am fully aware of this, im a pretty experienced modder.
Speaking of speech and lines, what kind of noises would different dinos make or should i just go the lazy way and copypaste ''X lets out a loud roar/screetch'' into each of them?

>>175497681
Its been snowing for days here, not sure which is worse. I should totally add custom weather to the game like sandstorms or something for the ''good'' regions at some point but i got a lot of work already as it is.

>>175498689
Not the guy who requested dinos, but the only other noise I can think of is maaaybe a loud bleating/honking sound for duckbills and the like if you're adding them in, but that's about it.

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How am I supposed to keep track of and assign jobs to every single person? Is there a way to automate it all?

>>175499346
>automate it all
dfhack auto-labor

>>175499869
What does that do exactly? I want to assign them all jobs according to their skills.

>>175499346
If you already have Dwarf Therapist, it's pretty simple. You can organize that list by labors/migrant wave/skill levels/etc, see who isn't assigned stuff, and assign multiple labors in one go. Just learn to use it, and that's most of your worries solved right there.

>>175500125
http://dfhack.readthedocs.io/en/stable/docs/Plugins.html#autolabor

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Can anyone identify pic related for me? I'm unsure if it's from a normal or modded game.

>>175500463
I dont have the slightest clue tbqh senpai

>>175500463
my guess is an ettin.

I have no idea which graphic set it uses, though.

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>>175495361
>>175494861

speaking of 43,is 43.05 bugged my merchants are stealing my rooms meant for the tavern guest

>>175501757
>that busty musician


hnnnng

>>175492463
elkposter would be ashamed

>>175498689
The only thing I know is that brontosaurus should make a retarded noise like a gutural ''agoorigoooooooooooo'' or something like that

>>175502008
>elf

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>>175502008

>>175502008
>that tall-but-still-very-dwarven waitress
Sideburns are cuter desu

>>175502856
didn't mean to link

>>175502856
Is that a slav-squatter or a chav-squatter?

>>175502856
>The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry

>>175498520
It's not raining in game, or even outside my house...

It's raining in here...

*points at my heart*

>>175502856
Is this what happens when you let world history run overnight?

>>175503309
Why don't you try point at THIS

*unzips dick*

>>175503932
How did you unzip your dick

so are the obsidian swords any good

I don't seem to have any metal or anyone to trade with.

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>>175504535
If you don't already know, then I'm afraid I can't teach you.

>>175504671
Obsidian swords are last resort weapons, pretty much meant for situations like yours.

You should have a caravan from your home civ no matter where you embarked, unless it's been totally wiped out (and you should know that since you won't have any migrant waves but the first two hardcoded waves).

>>175504671
against unarmored opponents like animals, yes probably
against armor it's basically sharp stone vs metal, which is a "fuck no"

>>175504895
yeah, i expect i can get some from them. eventually.

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This is my first forgotten beast, does it sound tough? Or is this going to be one of those easy ones?

Okay where the fuck is the shopkeeper I have a shit ton of albatross meat and no one in the home town seems to be a shop keeper or know a shop keeper.

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Christ I am getting a hang of things but still have no idea whats going on. Who makes pens for hens? I dont see it in the carpenter task list

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>>175503932
>>175504535
>>175504769

>>175505845
Nestboxes are the "pens" you speak of.

>>175505380
Sounds easy since its just a worm but youll have to observe and see.

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>>175505380
>webs

Prepare your anus.

>>175505998
>>175506051
My military is pretty ragtag because of lack of metal though.
It's deep, deep underground though. How can I seal off my very long stairwell?

>>175505845
If you're looking for something for hens to lay eggs in, it's nestboxes.

If you're trying to make the hens sit their asses in one location and not move around, you'll need a pasture (make a zone with 'i', designate it as a pen/pasture with 'n', and then press 'N' to assign animals to it)

>>175506245
>>175505992
Yeah I found it in the wood section of craftsman workshop. I thought it was a carpenters thing.

>>175506129
channel out an area and create a drawbridge to close if you have to

>>175506129
hatch cover!

How to I stop ghosts? Do I need a priest?

>>175496051
The character

>>175506923
Thanks anon, crisis averted.
>>175507557
Gotta bury or memorialise your dudes.
Make some coffins and slabs.

>>175507736
slabs? also what are caskets? are they the coffins

>>175507881
I think caskets are coffins
you only need slabs if the body can't be recovered

>>175486137
>tfw there might finally be a game with an interesting magic system
My body is ready, update when?

>>175507881
>slabs? also what are caskets? are they the coffins
stone slabs are made in a masons workshop and engraved in a craftsdwarf workshop. they're for use in the case that a ghost has shown up, but you can't reclaim the body due to the area being too dangerous or the body no longer existing (magma accident)

caskets and coffins are the same thing, just different names for different materials (stone coffer, wood chest, glass box; leather waterskin, metal flask, glass vial; etc)

>>175508361
>>175507881
Once you engrave a stone slab with the name of the deceased, you have to build them somewhere like you would a door or bed. When choosing which slab to put down, press 'x' to expand the list and see which of the things have an engraving on them.

Engraved slabs are great, they can tell you how the memorialized dwarf/person/monster/etc died. I think it applies to any named thing from your own dwarves to the elves you killed in the trading depot to Forgotten Beasts.

>>175507557
>do i need a priest?

shieet
>necro attacks
>release priests
>wololo
>undying fort

Has anyone ever made a squad of combat miners wielding picks? Do you have to disable the Mining labor on them to avoid equipment conflicts, or can they use the same picks for both so they can go straight from digging to combat?

>>175509167
They won't use the work pick for mining, though I haven't tested if the shovel tool I added will get used in fort mode yet.

>>175508353
5 years for magic

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>>175509356

>>175509293
Damn, that's too bad. Just had a miner fight a straggler, and mining pick combat logs are pretty neat.

>The Miner sidesteps and slashes the Goblin Hammerman in the left thigh with the reverse edge of her (copper pick), tearing the muscle!
>The Miner impales the Goblin Hammerman in the head with her (copper pick), tearing the muscle and fracturing the skull!
>The Miner runs through the Goblin Hammerman in the right cheek with the tip of her (copper pick), tearing it!

Strike the earth and everything that moves!

If I remove werebeast curses but buff vampire curses and play high savagery do you think it balances out?

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>>175508353
yeah but what about world-generation activity's like pic-related,can the player even SEE these parades & festivals yet?

>you'll never stumble into a dwarf fortress that's holding an scroll throwing competition

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>>175509630
Though those are of course modded, vanilla picks rock since they just have the one edged attack.

>>175510927
Damn, I was hoping they were in the vanilla game as well.

They use the Mining skill too, right?

>>175511062
Yup.


[ITEM_TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_SHOVEL]
[NAME:shovel:shovels]
[VALUE:10]
[METAL_WEAPON_MAT]
[TOOL_USE:MEAL_CONTAINER]
[CONTAINER_CAPACITY:3000]
[TILE:'/']
[SIZE:1250]
[SKILL:MINING]
[TWO_HANDED:37500]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:3000]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:1]
[ATTACK:EDGE:18000:0:smash:smashes:NO_SUB:1250]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:20:400:strike:strikes:handle:1000]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3]

can someone direct me to the wiki page for building a roof/stairs to get to the roof to build the roof

>decide to start an inn
>shortly afterwards my food and drink stocks have depleted heavily

>>175512320
I don't think there's a wiki page, but what I usually do is build an access stair on the outside edge of the building, and deconstruct it when the building is roofed over

>>175512320

So your a roofer

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>>175512489
>>175512558
I made a room and am trying to make an up stairway to the second floor but its flashing C at me and nothing is happening

>>175512910
are you using the [d] menu to try and make the stairs?
[d] is mostly for changing existing blocks (i.e. mining out stairs)
You want to [b]uild the stairs. Use [b]->[c] to get to the menu and select the kind of stair you want.

>>175513190
Shit, that should be a [C] not [c]

>>175513190
>>175513332
no wonder, I was using [d].

thanks

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Yooo whys it all purple

>>175514391
turns out your fort is dead nigger storage.
Find the rotting thing and remove it or wait for it to completely rot

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>giantess leading a big goblin army
>running around sacking shit left and right
>take out this site
>bunch of dudes enslaved
>that seems like it probably sucks
>get to the bottom of the list
>fuck

>>175514391
Because miasa feels, anon... because miasa feels.

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what the fuck man how did you end up there

>>175515239
what tileset?

>>175515921
no clue I picked a random one from lnp

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>tfw you do some math and end up finding out that adult dragons are 400 times bigger than an adult dwarf.

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So let's say I wanna do full scale goblin genocide in adventure mode. How long would this take? How should I prepare?

>>175517801
Ive tried, nameless goblins randomly spawn in dark fortressess to replace the new so its literally impossible.

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>>175479942
In retrospect there are some things I would've done differently.

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>>175517986
No greater past-time than smiting goblinkind. If killing them reduces their numbers that's enough of a reward for me.

what does "cancels dig dangerous terrain" mean?

>>175517801
Depends entirely on your world. You could have 500 or 500000 goblins to kill.

>>175517986
Most creatures in a world aren't historical. Most sites will have abstract pops that are much larger than their historical pop. But every creature, historical or not, is drawn from the sites' populations, and accounted for therein. You absolutely can genocide all of a race or species, provided you can kill them faster than they reproduce.

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>Tfw nemesis unit load failed
now i remember why i usually only play fort mode

>>175519102
Please tell me I can find this song on youtube

>>175517714
not quite. the sizes are in cubic cm
if we assume a creature is x*x*x that makes a dragon 292*292*292 and a dwarf 39*39*39
this means a dragon is about 7.5 times as large

>>175520903
Aww thats a shame, i really like the idea of slaying huge as fuck monsters.

>>175519221
water, probably. they panic and cancel everything if they get into too deep water.

>>175509932
Anon it's fine, we don't see like 80% of everything that is happening in the game but it doesn't mean it's not there. At least it works, toade just needs to display it properly in the future and with everything being basically done already codewise he could do that in just a few short days(in da future).

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>>175520903
>this means a dragon is about 7.5 times as large
No, anon. This means that if both creatures are perfect cubes, then each edge/face of the dragon cube is 7.5x longer than an edge/face of a dwarf cube. The average adult dragoncube is still 416+x larger than the average adult dwarfcube.
But anyway, they're not cubes. They have defined body parts with defined tissues, each of which is given a relative size to the creature's total volume, and defined connective relationships to other parts.

How strong are these crabs, they have ripped through iron armor multiple times and have severed my nerves in the process.

>>175519102
How what stats and armor would you need to single handedly eradicate a goblin nation in adventurer mode?

>Web spitting creatures are basically invincible in Adventure mode

You webbed, you dead

>>175524420
Don't try to light the webs on fire, they won't burn off, and then you're stuck in webs AND on fire: light the grass or whatever under the webber on fire instead.

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Last year's caravan brought a bronze mask with a platinum image of my duchess surrounded by worms. So I'm retaliating by sending dozens of figurines back to the mountainhome depicting the king being rejected by his recently deceased mother (our civ's first monarch) and shoving firesnakes up his ass. Fittingly, they were all crafted by the duchess.

>>175520573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yBRN6xA3oc
here you go senpai

>>175525647
I mean, I already knew about this one but thanks for trying I guess. I was specifically referring to the goblin version.
Would have been nice if they didn't just reuse and loop the American history x audio.

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Arise!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESNRQFEzirA

I'm playing a mod called Oldgenesis with a graphics pack and I just realized that there are no tiles for demons or animal people for some reason. How hard would it be to rip the sprite sheets for demons/animal people from the Obsidian tileset and put them in the mod?

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>>175528589
Depends on if they have a bunch of raw shit in there or not, it's why phoebus fucks up ascii stone layers.

>>175529083
>Depends on if they have a bunch of raw shit in there or not
I've never modded before, no idea what that means.

>>175529320
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Graphic_set
Read this.

>>175528181
not a fan of the artstyle desu

too soft / color shape oriented

needs some dark lines and hard edges in order to feel more like dwarf

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>>175531283
But it's so comfy

>>175531507
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wKW030fKbs

THAT'S comfy

>>175532267
I liked his other animation better but this one is cool in its own way.

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>>175531283
That one was supposed to be a comfy image, this one was supposed to be harsher.

how do I get my dwarfs to just dump their garbage in the river?

>>175532619
i was talking about the animation

too tumblry for my taste

i would never criticize glorious nazbol jefe timbukdrew

just found a cavern right below me but i cant seem to use u/d stair to get to it

how do i mine into the cavern?

Welp wish me luck. I'm ditching tile and graphics sets and sticking to vanilla ASCII from now on.

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>>175535326
it could be floating in mid-air in which case you should "b"uild it with stone or wood that you have lying around

b-->C--->profit!

>>175535584
The standard ASCII tileset and colour scheme are pretty trash though.

>>175535814
Yeah but I'd like to try and get used to it considering that there are so many cool mods that are not compatible with tilesets and stuff.

>>175535814
fite me

>>175535898
Actually wait, would a tileset work for any given mod? No sprites are added or anything so it should work, right?

>>175535898
>>175536481

ASCII tilesets work for any mod, since everything is represented the same way as vanilla They just look better.

Graphical tilesets work for any mod, it's just that anything that can't be represented with a picture is represented with a letter, like vanilla.

In essence tilesets and colour schemes work independent of mods.

>>175536841
All right, that's good news. What sort of tile sets are best then? I don't think I've ever dabbled in them. Or is there a list of the best ones?

>>175536481
Unless you're using the word tileset to mean graphics set, yes. In some cases graphics sets will change the default tiles that some things (other than creatures) use, so if you use a different tileset from the one the graphics set uses things might not look right. But tilesets all use the same number of tiles and mods are limited to using those tiles as well.

>>175531283
>>175528181
It doesn't need any hard edges, the story's depressing enough as it is. RIP Trumpet.

>>175537013
It's an aesthetic choice. There isn't a best one. There are dozens of them out there.

>>175537013

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository Is a good place to look for anything that takes your fancy.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Color_scheme Here is the page for colour schemes, although I find it hard to realise which one is suitable unless you can actually see it in game.

>>175537493
Thanks. I'm going with Wanderlust, it looks neat.

>>175537931
Wanderlust is fucking patrician

How Do I Play Dwarf Fortress

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>>175537013
the best kind are the one's that you enjoy

>Faithmine the City of Angels

That sounds awesome, I can't wait to fuck up and die because I don't know how to play this game

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>>175483910
How do I connect the bottom conduit to the volcano without flooding the top one? I would like to hook up floodgates and a grate in the bottom, and levers at the top, but I've just realized I have no way of breaking into the volcano safely without killing everything

What mods do you have, /dfg/?

>>175543541
Just keep digging east?

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>>175543793
Will post updates as soon as these lazy fucks finish everything

>>175528181
all pics are good but this 'Stone_Bridge.jpg' is especially kino

I have a design goal for a fortress, and I need help constructing it. Here goes

>Compartmentalized workshops and bedrooms.
>As usual, related workshops are near each other and workshop workers have bedrooms near their respective workshop

that's simple enough

>compartmentalized = sectional isolation via lever as necessary
>after offending room is locked down, magma fills it via lever
>after magma fills it, water is introduced via lever
>this encases the room in obsidian and clears the room of magma, allowing reclamation

This has turned out to be a lot harder to design efficiently than I imagined.

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Floods are a motherfucker to fix, but it's nice to see a snippet of rare text.

>>175509630
does /dfg/ not use Steel Picks as default military weapons?

They're really the best dwarf weapon. (your game is modded though, there's no reverse edge in vanilla)

I usually go one ten dwarf squad of Silver Hammers and enough dwarf squads with Steel Picks to have minimum 30% of the fortress population as military.

>>175542387
I wouldn't play with it, but I do like the look of that tileset.

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>>175544003
>>175543793
worked out perfectly, ty anon

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>>175546047
No problem, always glad to help

>>175541510
d, i, enter, 3, 3, hold > until you run out of map, enter

>>175546358
>inb4 the madman actually does it

>>175537201
Has science gone too far?

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What did they mean by this

>>175546861
Dwarves inherit objects of worship from their parents. When both of them worship the same god you'll get that. It gets kind of silly when you have a long line of historical figures marrying across religious lines and pumping out kids that worship a bunch of different gods, some of them multiple times.

>>175532619
>tfw no qt drew gf

>>175547391
I-if you want, I can be your drew gf tonight

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Mandates are ok, but demands often sound so childish.

At least no one gets punished for them.

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>>175547578
Oh senpai...

I play this game on and off every so often, I saw something about Therapist not being necessary anymore?

Does the game handle jobs better now? Or should I still maximum autism their job assignments?

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>Just started after not playing in years
>Barely knew how to play even back then
>Pick a place that looked pretty calm, everything's going good, getting back into the swing of things
>Haven't set up traps, don't have a military, don't have military
>This shit pops up out of nowhere

UH

WHAT DO I DO

>>175548486
You can autism it up with manipulator and the game assigns things/gives more control with the manager via job orders and such.

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A bit worried about this child

>>175548498
Hide while you still can!

>>175548498
How many undead are there?

>>175548657
I'm trying man

>>175548658
Just one, it looks like. But strangely enough I think she fucked off after standing around the edge of the map for a few minutes. I'm not sure what that was about, but it was a good wake-up call I guess.

>>175548094
That isn't a no

What features does your perfect embark site have?

I mean your once-in-a-lifetime spawn here.

>>175549448
Oh boy that's a long list
>desert
>no siltstone
>savage area
>at least 2 towers in range
>dwarves extinct/dying
>magma tube somewhere in the 1st caverns
>river
>caverns not flooded
>iron ore
>flux
>perfectly flat embark site
>no murky pools
>no trees
>lot of marble or granite
>sand and clay
I am sure I forgot something.

>flat
>comfy lake with a river feeding into it
>no murky pools
>savage area
>neighbors with all the main races and a necromancer tower
>heavily forested
Above ground human hamlets all day every day.

>>175550023
why a desert and why dwarves extinct/dying?
yo no understando

>>175550287
Desert usually covers the no murky pools and no trees condition. Also cool animals.
Dwarves dying because I feel like a leader of the dying race. Every dwarf is special, last of a kind. You can't just throw cheesmakers to vulcano. You must embrace them because you don't have much dwarves to spare.

>>175550412
why no trees?

>>175550514
They fuck up pathfinding and I am heavily triggered by visible soil in the level under them after you cut them down. Also creatures tend to climb them and get stuck.

>>175549448
I didn't know what it was until I embarked on it.

>biomes: mountain, lake, 1 tile of badlands to make it embarkable
>100+z completely sheer cliff overlooking the lake
>volcano tube open to the lake at embark (lots of cave-ins as it obsidianized when I unpaused)
>a magma tube in every cavern layer
>visible at embark: kimberlite w/light yellow diamonds, obsidian, marble, gold, hematite, rock crystal
>kaolinite w/limonite below the lake
>site is rich with gems and other useful ores
>between the first and second caverns there are sections of marble layers adjacent to obsidian layers

It's pretty much my dream embark. I've been playing it for over a year now. The only things I could possibly want for that I haven't found are coal, platinum, and the super-rare gems.

>8 different dwarves decide they want to plant seeds
>none of them are farmers

??? What's going on with this game now

>>175551556
Check you job restrictions and there labors

You set all dwarves to harvest and plant iirc

>>175551556
You sure they aren't harvesting? There's a standing order to either allow all dwarves or only farmers to harvest crops.

>>175542387
That's not spacefox.

>>175551160
Relicwebs is indeed on a fine embark location indeed. I too am fond of mountains and lakes and any combination thereof.

>>175549448
- clay for ceramics so i won't be screwed out of making certain musical instruments
- sand for the same, and making nice glass windows and magma-safe materials
- rock crystal gems for those fucking rock crystal glass moods which i always seem to get
- iron so i can actually have a military
- flux layer so i can have double base value rooms and get steel if i already have iron
- a river so i have a high-point water source
- if no river then an aquifer in a very steep hill region so i can hit stone at an angle and avoid the aquifer while still using it as water source

the rest i dont give a fuck about.
nightmare death realm? don't care, underground.
fancy above ground plants? don't care, underground
immediately next to a goblin fortress or necromancer tower or megabeast lair? DON'T CARE, I'M UNDERGROUND.

>>175552480
>- rock crystal gems for those fucking rock crystal glass moods which i always seem to get
Shouldn't raw green or clear glass work just as well?

>>175549448
>Flux, Iron and coal for starters
>Either a sheer cliff or wide canyon
>Sand and rock crystals
>Magma tubes in the caverns
>Lots and lots of elk birds to tame
>Near all main races and a tower
>Expensive deep metals including platinum, gold, and silver

I'd build a hanging city with watch towers sprinkled near the entrance, lavishly decorated halls, and communal gardens and farms in the first cavern layers.

>>175550248
>tfw I just noticed I'm a retard that can't link posts
I meant to link to >>175549448

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>>175549448
Ground level beach volcano with a wide river flowing through the area

pic related was solid 7/10, but had no river and it was an island

>>175550585
Once i saw how dwarven caravan climbed tree and get stuck.

>start looking at my old embarks
>find about 10 riverside volcanoes that didn't have anything on them, but the wagon and dwarves ready to strike

Where exactly spawns monsters? Out of the walls? Should i build walls next to natural walls everywhere? And can i mine out some parts?

Animals just keep hanging out underground in the dining room even though I set up a pen/pasture zone above ground. Some water buffalo just starved to death because it didn't want to go upstairs. Why is this happening?

How do I get more guests at my tavern?
I have two right now.

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"So, Anon, you claim to be great at taking the reins of a large workforce and mobilising them for projects. Yet, we can't find any past experience with it in your curriculum vitae.

Would you mind explaining yourself, Anon?"

>>175556715
make it nicer

>>175556935
whats with their faces

>>175556935

"Sir I have a crayon drawing of a dwarf from a doctor of mathematics that should more than tell you what you need to know"

>>175556326
Go into the zone properties and assign the animals to the pasture.

>>175556954
It has three platinum statues, a bunch of tables/chairs, some mugs and everything is smoothed and engraved.
Should I just add more statues?

I'm having a problem with this weird fast forward lag. The game will freeze for a second or two, then it'll fast forward to catch up to itself and go back to normal. It happens every 45 seconds or so.

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>>175557245
More bedrooms assigned to it? with coffer + cabinets. Make another common room for it. Build a hotel full of dancers and mercenaries to do your bidding.

>Native gold TRUMP on top
>make wall out of elf wagons
>they paid for it

>>175551870
Taffer or die.

>>175557429
The beginning of the end is nigh.

>>175557429
i have it too but more rare

>>175557205
Looks like that did it, thanks.

>>175557448
Oh ok, I didn't know extra bedrooms would attract people.

>>175557598
also on the top of your window it will say [P]: Petitions Available if anyone is trying to get perma residence

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>>175557046
>>175557116
"Sorry to interrupt you, Anon.

Let's have a hypothetical situation. Say you work as a manager at our company, and one day, your department receives 12 new interns. Of these, 10 have no skills or experience whatsoever. The remaining two have master's degrees in humanities, but lack any practical skills.

How do you go about mobilising these new interns for your project? You're not allowed to employ any external help, i.e. from therapists."

i can't build wall on top of a floor...

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Cool engraving, Fath. Want to bring it to the dining hall?

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>>175557861

"They would each be assigned to a workplace that suits their traits perfectly"

>>175518090
is that Taffer's tileset?

>>175558247
yeah, you can't build on constructed floors. only on natural floors (i.e. bedrock, grass, soil) or open spaces (assuming they're accessible from one of the four cardinal directions).

remove the floor and try again.

>>175558247
You sure can't.

>>175556174
Can anybody answer this easy question? It's been said that they are spawns on the "edges" of the map. I'm in caverns now and i need no know how to make sure no creature will spawn where i don't want them to.

is there anyway to see reports that have timed out?

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>>175558360
"Interesting...

Let's have another one. Let's say that you receive a representative of our branch in Kuwait. On his visit, the representative claims that the home branch, which you represent, has breached the ethical code of his own branch, as well as Kuwaiti law.

How do you go about calming these tensions before the conflict becomes more severe?"

>>175558740
They spawn on the fucking edges of the map.

How is that hard to understand?

If you have an enclosed space that is 100% inacessible from the edges of the map, then it will be safe from creatures.

>playing Masterwork on 34.11
>playing as Dwarves
>notice that I haven't gotten any migrants after the first wave
>open buildings menu
>upright adamantine shortsword is on the list
>do some googling

Apparently, Masterwork spawns so many undead in "curious underground structures" that the game hits its soft cap on how many entities can ever exist on one site, which disables migration.

My fort may be doomed to die of attrition (10 dwarves left rn, including kiddies), but at least I have a volcano + iron ore + flux + silver, and I'll never have to build a wall to keep the filthy migrants out.

>>175559069
Edge of the map means natural walls? Or they spawn from the tiles that are borders of current z lvl? I haven't seen cavern that connects with these borders. I already stated my questions and made it clear that i don't understand what is edges and you answer me "they spawn on edges".

>>175560014
Edge of map = where the map ends.

They don't spawn out of thin air. They need to enter the map from the edges. If part of the edges are bloacked by walls, they won't spawn there.

Also, to prevent exploiting, you can't build walls next to the edges.

>>175560413
If you know what you're doing, though, you can cast obsidian walls around the edges of the map.

>>175560413
wiki says
>As walls can be built right up to the map edge below ground, it is possible to prevent land creatures from spawning by turning all the spawn points into walls

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>>175558974
"No problem sir, I simply fling the representative into a pit full of beak dogs and have them torn apart sir. If they representative does not return home, the home branch will not receive their report. By the time they realise it was me, I shall have supplied all our interns with masterwork steel uniforms and adamantine rulers, ready for battle."

>>175560901
Psst. %%right answer was kill them with magma%%

Can wagons go over traps safely?
Their followers seem to able to walk over mine fine and dandy.

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>>175561831
"In this work environment, Urist, I believe in two things. Everyone has a voice, and There are no wrong answers."

>>175562027
they will not go over trap, unless you cave-in them. then probably they will not trigger them if they can't be knocked unconscious as they are not enemies

>>175542757
>I can't wait to fuck up and die because I don't know how to play this game
That sounds like FUN

>>175558401
Looks like it. Might be the old version, and might not be the tileset it usually ships with.

>>175557464
Spacefox is the greatest tileset available. It is functional and easy on the eyes.

>>175565889
nice. it looks REALLY neat.

>>175566149
It does. Definitely one of the best tilesets. Especially since the newest version is so polished by now.

Spent my entire sunday playing/learning df. Is this how it starts lads?

>>175567336
The last few days have been non-stop dwarf fortress for me.
Once it snapped and I understood how to play, I just couldn't stop.

>>175567336
>>175567546
Now post your progress here!

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>>175568193
Sure, this is my bedroom and tavern area so far. It looks kind of fugly because I'm waiting for it all to be engraved.
My population is at 108, but I only have a military of 10 at the moment, since it took me ages to get enough equipment because of lack of metal.
I'm worried if something big comes, I had a forgotten beast but I sealed it off, and I had a cyclops who massacred half my military, but my brave swordsdwarf killed him.

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>>175568193
It aint much but she's home. I got to start looking for metals and building up a defense now.

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My boys just fought off a goblin invasion. A couple of the marksdwarves threw themselves into the fray too, and we ended up losing four. Despite that, everyone is feeling hopeful, and cleaning up can begin.

Any ideas why a manager would just stop managing? I've disabled every other labor for him, and he's just not allocating jobs

>>175570158
Does he have an office?

How do I not run out of seeds? Do they auto cook them up or something?

Modanon here, now im legit curious because of these posts.
>>175517714
>>175520903
>>175523497
Ive been doing the same as the first anon when it comes to body sizes and just going with ''if its twice as big number that means its twice as big'' but apparently thats not correct.

Is there a proper way to calculate creature size in dorf from the numbers given in the raws?
I know this might be a retarded question but im currently too focused on modding read: shit at math to spot an obvious answer.

>>175570687
Not currently, I've been putting that off
danke

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>>175566489
Thanks to a few artists showing up and helping with the new one, including Dibujor, who actually drew most of the neat dwarfigoth-style assets in the "Meph" tileset.

>>175570965
The sizes are cubic cm I think:
https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wolframalpha.com%2Finput%2F%3Fi%3Dvolume%2520of%2520an%2520average%2520human%2520adult

>>175571506
Huh, neat, before I could grab the query with the !wa bang in it, ddg translated it to the wolfram version.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=average+volume+of+human+body+%21wa&kp=-2 is what I tried to put in there but it was hard to catch.

>>175559884
I'm sure what you read, but I think you misunderstood it or it was just wrong. Curious underground structures were a vanilla feature. They were hardcoded and couldn't be affected by mods. They always had absurd numbers of undead in them, but the only creatures that can affect whether or not you recieve migrants are your own citizens, and then only if you have as many or more citizens than your population cap.

>>175558401
>>175565889
>>175566149
It's ravingmaniac. It's in the tileset repository.

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>>175572235
Here's the cleaned transparency version.

>>175571506
Alright, thanks. This really helped me fix some problems with the stuff i was making!

Can dwarves fish across z-levels? Like, if I put a bridge between two towers high above a river, can the dwarves fish down from the bridge?

>>175557046
They're reptilians.

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>finally get down to the first cavern level
>elite squad of macedwarves walking around discovering the entire floor
>happen upon this
dead trogs, rodent men and the skeleton of a giant cave toady. blood everywhere.

>>175573102
no

>>175573509
Just wait until you find the source of that...

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Here's a larger square set based on the curses 24x24 set Rogue Yun upscaled cleanly with walls stolen from the raving set style.

>>175573093
Yeah, !wa is the shizzy (and if you aren't using bangs... wtf, do you like google whoring you everywhere? you can use !g or !gi or whatnot if you wanted) for all that shit.

>>175573102
No

There arent any fishing tools in this game yet so it wouldnt make much sense either.

>>175570965
>apparently thats not correct
It is.
If you're as geeky as I suspect most of the people in this thread are, grab a handful of d6 for an easy visual aid. Or just picture it in your head.
4d6 is 4x larger than 1d6, right? Of course it is. Now stack 4d6 into a cube. It's still 4x larger than 1d6, but each side of your new cube is only 2d6 in any direction.
Now take 27d6. It's 27x larger than 1d6, right? Of course it is. Now stack them into a cube. That's 3 layers of 9d6 squares. It's still 27x larger than 1d6, but each side of this cube is only 3d6 in any direction. That also makes it almost 4x the size of your 4d6 cube, while only being 1.5x longer on any side.
Now, unless you've ever played shadowrun you've probably already run out of d6, but I think you know where this is going. Take 64d6. They're 64x larger than 1d6, yeah? Of course they are. Now stack them into a cube. That's 4 layers of 16d6 each. It's still 64x larger than 1d6, but each side of this cube is only 4d6 in any direction. It's 16x larger than your 4d6 cube but only 2x longer on any side.
So yes, straight arithmetic works for determining how much larger one creature is than another. It only fucks you up if you're imagining the smaller creatures laid end to end instead of in a big pile to add up to the larger creature.

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>>175573914
>tfw you can't figure out why Toady won't replace his 16x16 rescale with this one at least

>>175574120
>almost 4x the size of your 4d6 cube
Fuck, should say 7x. Sorry still working on my first cup of coffee. And thumbtyping.

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Does putting a garbage dump zone over a river work for getting rid of shit?

>>175574604
kek, you are running a fortress, not a ecogenocidal coorporation.

Christ, all the shit disappeared from my stockpile zones. It turns out I accidentally hit move all available goods to the trading post

>>175574604
Sort of. First you'll want to put it adjacent to the river, not directly on it. If a dump zone is adjacent to a drop dwarves toss it down instead of onto the dump zone. Next you need to determine if your water is actually moving. Most natural water features stay at 7/7 depth throughout most or all of their length unless you alter them. There are exceptions, and some of them are bugs, but at a general rule it holds. If you want the river to carry your garbage away it has to have changing depth. Third, do you want the water to carry your trash off the map? It won't. Even if flow is pushing the items downriver, it will just pile them up at the map edge.

>>175575112
Urist McGreedly

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>>175574120
I wouldnt exactly call myself a geek but i think i got what you meant, this only works for perfect cubes though if im correct because initially the size of tyrannosaurus rex i was working on for my dinosaur mod was around
2700,000 in the raws.
Now it is around 70,000,000 using their real life length, width and height at https://www.sensorsone.com/length-width-and-height-to-volume-calculator/
and i feel like ive done something wrong here.

Pic somewhat related, this dwarf is a real soldier.

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>finally get my first invasion in over a year
>ooh a giant!
>set everybody to battlestations!
>burrows switched on, rangers and melee units in position
>giant at a full sprint for my entranceway from across the map
>as she passes the main walls to cross the bridge to my pillbox entranceway, one of my mercenary crossbowmen spot her and looses a bolt, tearing open the head and doing tendon damage
>mfw she turns around, climbs up a tree that grew from a sapling since the winter cleanup and jumps clean across my fortifications onto the wall's walkway

HELP

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>>175576564
DYNAMIC ENTRYYYYYYY

Anyone do any crazy projects? I'm looking for ideas on what to do with my fort.

>>175576564
show me that tree.

In order to not make the same mistake myself.

>>175576863
Remove all terrain down to the magma level

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>>175576860
>>175576564
Actually ended up pretty uneventful, the other merc on the walkway went into defensive mode, dodging and parrying, until the giant stepped onto the staircase and exposed herself to the rest of the infantry. From there one of the less-trained militia landed a fantastic stab with a goblin longsword then my macelord got hungry...

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>>175577140

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>play extinct civ
>every dwarf is priceless
>get sieged by zombies first autumn and don't get 2nd hardcoded wave

Religious authority nobles when?

>>175575929
Yeah, you're right. That site is giving you the volume for a polyhedron with the measurements you provided, but a t-rex isn't going to completely fill the volume of such a polyhedron, especially if any significant portion of its length is composed of tail. So your t-rex is probably twice as large or more than it ought to be. I can't really advise on how to calculate what the right size would be. Maybe find a vanilla creature to use as a reference? Like, how big is a t-rex compared to an elephant?

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>>175576983
It was two tiles from the outer wall but the foliage extended over the fortifications so she just climbed on over. Scared the fuck out of me.

I'd say the last thing going through that marksman's mind was "The risk I took was calculated, but man am I bad at math" or "Damn that's a giant set of knockers" but I know for a fact it was a giant's foot.

...and my game's still crashing. Guess I'll reload the quicksave (can't get through a whole season without crashing but I don't want to give up on 'er, I blame Meph) and see how she does in my pit.

>>175575929
Guys ive been thinking...

Do you think adding dragonfire breathing tyrannosaurs that will attack literally anything they see not including their own species and that also run faster than anything currently in the game is too hardcore?

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>Every bad thing that comes near my fortress seems to just wander around and then leave
>Thought this weird pterosaur thing was gonna do the same
>After a while it comes up the shaft and starts breaking my shit
>Traps won't catch it
>Barely have a military

H E L P

>>175579476
Post it's description.

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>>175579583

>>175579476

>Not having a dwarf with pike running around in panic to distract it, while you reorganize your cheese makers into a riff raff militia using their cheddars as shield

>>175578676
no_