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>dead at 0 edition

>appoint expedition leader as militia commander
>create first squad
>it's named "Bodices of Spreading"

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> digging to page 10 so soon

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What the fuck

>dwarves happily run into the caverns to clean up blood
>ignore any contaminants inside the fortress

why

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Anything I can draw for you bois

>>152537319

Elven diplomats are quite legitimately THE worst people in all of DF.

>>152540646
Perhaps dorfs making the elven queen or princess cut down trees?

I haven't played this game since df2012. What have I missed?

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>>152540884
The rude shits don't even arrive with a message, and they're not telling me how many trees I should cut et cet, they're just coming and being rude then hanging out in my meeting area being rude

Is there a way to respectfully dispose of the corpse of my comrade? Could I burn it or something?

How many dwarfs do you have on military assignments at any given time, percentage wise?

>>152541186
0

>>152541079
I was thinking that figuring out some way to silence them or replace the diplomat with a Plump Helmet Man (they're mute) would be good but if the first doesn't get the job done somehow the rest just queue up.

Just saw a moose climb a tree to get away from a hunter. The hunter just stood at the base of the tree shooting up at the moose while her hunting dogs went up into the tree after it. Eventually the moose fell off the tree and the fall drove one of its ribs through its heart.

These trees are wonky as shit.

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>>152540884

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>>152540646

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>>152540646
Uh if you can, a Cambion stabbing a big Lion man in the head with a dagger, the other hand holding a crossbow. The lion man has a ton of crossbow bolts stuck in him and is bleeding everywhere, but remains standing as he is stabbed.

Pic is description of the creature.

On a semi-related note, has anyone here ever had their town attacked by beastmen? A whole pack of them just stormed into the village. It was terrifying.

>>152542118
The creature meaning the Cambion, excuse me. The Lion man is just a big lion man.

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>>152540998

>>152540629
Leave no trace.

Gotta preserve that pristine cavern wildlife, lad.

>>152542386
Absolutely fucking amazing thanks. Now I must make this happen

>>152541040
World activation, emotion changes, taverns, libraries, temples, art forms, some combat changes, adventurer sites and a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting to mention. I'd advise going through the devlog and looking at each release announcement since the last one you've played if you've got the patience and interest.

>>152541153
I've heard you can make a coffin nowadays with an adventurer site.

>>152542667
Oh right I forgot about that. I've got work to do.

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>>152541373
Is the dwarf using a named warhammer?

>bashing the upper body
>ribs break and tear the heart
>gets stuck in the elf's upper body
>hammer stuck in their shattered ribcage

>>152541186
While my military is still green I'll have 20-30% of my fort in training, but once they improve it's usually less than 10%.

>>152541153
>>152542667
You cannot, however, truly entomb him. You can't make the tomb construction.

I bought a wooden bow and arrows from the elves. Is there any way to get one of my dwarves to use it to go hunting or will they refuse to use anything other than crossbows?

>>152543196
Ah, darn.

>>152543292
Sorry, I mean tomb BUILDING. But you can certainly put the corpse on the coffin

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>>152543009
I especially like how she broke all his limbs and slapped one of his hands off before stomping his head in. That was actually a human conducting diplomacy for the elves, I think she was disgusted by the idea. She's not usually quite that savage in her meetings.

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>>152541715
Here you go friendo

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>>152540646
An undead gorilla with a flail battling a crocodile

Probably the strangest thing I've seen in DF

>>152543459
It would be dope if the AI purposefully wrestled weapons away from the enemy instead of being as equally likely to slap you to death with panties.

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>>152543009
Yeah, that's always fun.

>>152543442
Wow, getting a blunt mace stuck in someone's chest seems like an even more impressive feat than a warhammer.

Sick artifact platinum mace, Anon.

>>152543457
Awesomesauce.

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>>152540646
If you got the time I would love a draw of this.

Human female (pic related is description) almost in full plate armor with chain leggings and several weapons strapped onto her specifically a shield, longsword, shortsword, dagger, and a pike. Feel free to take artistic liberties though

She's slumped against a wall with a busted knee. She's desperately swinging a 2 handed sword at goblins and/or trolls and/or beak dogs as they advance.

Maybe her dead companions (also armored human females, one had a silver maul) laying beside her or headless goblins laying around.

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>>152543421
Yar, I should pick up companions more since I've been running around on foot instead of using my flying uberdorf adventurer race.

>>152543442
>picture of her surrounded by worms on her mace
Nice, does she like or hate worms?

>>152543983
A mace is a mace, but a goblin is a goblin.

>>152543421
Oh that's fine then.

>>152544765
She hates them. I like to imagine it kind of as a bruce wayne and bats situation; using the thing she fears as a symbol to strike fear and platinum in the hearts of her foes. That could explain the images of midnight men and the FB as well. The tigerfish is harder to explain, but we are on a huge lake, and they have big fucking teeth, so I guess it works too.
An alternative explanation is that the mayor, who made the mace while possessed by unknown forces, wanted to take a passive aggressive shot at his boss. But I like the other explanation better.

Does anyone try to keep all their dwarves as focused as possible at all times? Does anyone have anything resembling success in such an endeavor?

So, I have a question that is quite stupid, but I feel I should clarify:

What exactly IS stored in a save game?
I'm asking because apparently a save can have issues if you're loading it up with a different tileset than last time, unless the raws in the save itself are updated, so what is the full extent of this?
Does it store stuff like creatures and objects, or do those get loaded from the game's inner library, and the save is just a flag for what is where like with most games?

Basically what I'm asking is: Since each save contains its own raws, does this mean that if I have a modded-in item or something of the sort, then the save will retain it even without the mod?

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Could someone post cool entrances to forts, preferable on flat maps? I Need some inspiration.

>>152545701
Military is the key for finding work for excess dorfs

>>152545701
It's impossible with some dwarves. Dwarves with no family or friends who have a need for those things, no access to their favorite foods, etc. Also dwarves won't actively seek out activities that will satisfy some needs, like the need to argue or the need to wander, even when they have free time. They also won't try to acquire items they like, they have to haul something they like by happenstance to decide to keep it. It's pretty much a matter of luck for any given dwarf whether or not it will even be possible to keep them focused.

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>>152545847
Each save has a raw folder with graphics and objects.

Some of the files in the objects folder can be changed without screwing anything up, some will crash the game right away, some will only crash if the game tries to load the items or creatures or materials referenced in that file.

Graphics folders can be swapped freely, but may require raws to be updated if they change the tiles for various stuff displayed on screen.

Tilesets themselves are plug and play, they're in the df/data/art folder, while saves are in their own df/data/save/region# directories.

>>152545887
The last flatlands fort I built was some time ago and it ended in a very fun way so I can't pop up a picture just now, but generally I do it like this:

13x13 channel
11x12 channel (basically an 11x11 inside the bigger one, but with one extra line in the direction I want the entrance to go in)
9x11 channel (similarily, make sure one end of the short side is directly under one of the sides of the original square on top)
7x10 channel
2 or 3 more levels, but not narrowing it any further, leaving it 7 wide until I feel I'm deep enough, and making a 3 wide entrance.

Later it's easy to install a bridge that you can raise as a door to block the entrance as well as grates to a shallow pool bellow, and then install floodgates above the entrance to fill the entire thing up as desired.

Best part, you can then have the shallow pool drained by a pump that dumps the water or yummy magma you used to casually re-open for business.

For maximum happy happy joy joy time, make sure that whatever lever raises the bridge and unlocks the flood gates, also rocks a set of doors on a wall surrounding this hot mess of a pit entrance, so that you can deep fry an invading army with your magma.

>>152546201
Herbalism can be used to encourage wandering.

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They actually brought them, absolute maddwarves.

Can we seriously stop talking about casual shit like tilesets in these fucking threads for once? Pretty please?

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>>152547020

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>>152539831

>Playing inferior older versions to make therapist work

why must i suffer

>>152547020
>CTFL+F
>tilesets
>2 matches

was it autism?

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>>152547206
>couldntfindmydoublediggerdotpng.jpg

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>>152547430
Here you go senpai

What reason could my woodcutter not be cutting trees? He has an axe in his inventory, no burrow, no alert, the labor is enabled, and he's just dicking around the fort. He needs to cut a tree that he can reach to free another dwarf who got himself trapped behind it, but he won't chop that tree or any other tree.

>>152546208
Alright, thanks for the info!

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What are some weird legendaries you've gotten
I had one dorf build a pickaxe with an engraved image of a legendary grate built from my previous fort

>>152547746
If he's assigned to a squad there could be an equipment conflict: that might be his axe for fighting rather than his axe for chopping trees. By the way, training axes can't chop trees anymore.

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Everyone in my fort loses their goddamn mind whenever a kingsnake shows up. Their corpses litter the cliff face. This one is making a really good show of it, having survived blows from a steel great axe, a steel spear, and a masterwork aadamantine great axe.

>>152548407
Nah, it turned out to be because it was on an edge tile. I knew you couldn't dig out an edge tile, didn't know you couldn't chop a tree down on one. Should've thought of that anyway. Thanks though.

>>152548786
Actually something's still not right, because I had to turn on woodcutting on a peasant to get any tree to be chopped down. My main woodcutter is still being useless, and he's not in a squad.

If I have a weak adventurer, and retire him and make a strong one, one that the weak one could not recruit with his current stats, and then have the strong one recruit the weak one, retire him, and then unretire and play as the weak one, would the strong one be my companion?

>>152548786
Wait, you can't cut down edge tile trees?

>>152549008
Things get weird when you do that, if you REALLY want the weak one to get the strong friend, dance or recite a poem or something to impress them, then ask them to join you as an entertainer, later when you get some impressive kills or bandit robberies stopped you can recruit them to adventure normally if you want.

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Any guesses?

>>152549113
bucket

>>152549113
If you're lucky: amazing toy boat or maybe a crown you can gank as an adventurer, more likely it will be a chain or something.

>>152549097
Is there a difference between an entertainer follower and adventurer follower?

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The werechameleon mayor Dumed Egulnokim, creator of the platinum mace Rumadiltang, lover of bucklers, has fallen in glorious battle.

>>152549239
It's a blacksmith mood, those are all metal crafter items.

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>clearing big room of beak dogs
>entered with a broken knee
>cloaks are mostly shredded
>weapons are constantly getting stuck in these niggers
>every now and then have a bit of trouble and aggro spread out groups of 3
>at some point the other knee is bit and fucked up along with some lower spine bruising
>find this
fug
Are these big ass rooms filled to the brim with beak dogs common in dark fortresses?

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>>152549113
>>152549131
>>152549239
Goddammit.

>>152549885
You're making me want to play adventure mode.

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>>152550329

>>152550329
rekt

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>>152550490
>tfw I accidentally broke my only crutch over a goblin's head earlier
>tfw my companions all ran off down a dark hallway and got ripped to shreds by trolls and beak dogs
Does a more dwarfy version of pic related exist?

I've noticed, or at least assume this is what it is, that visitor's gear shows up in the stocks list but as forbidden. If I was to unforbid the gear and set them to melt, would my dwarves actually attempt to seize and melt their gear, or do they just cancel the designation?

>>152550517
It's not a bad artifact by any means. I just already have really nice magma forges. Now I have to dig out another one.

>>152546765
How

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>>152550776
>seize and melt their gear
I get that goblin gear melts, but what shall become of the elf gear?

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>>152550972

>>152548235
I had a legendary crappy amulet or something with a picture of my legendary raw adamantine toy boat from another fort

>>152550982
Do you think I would let filthy Elves into my fort for any purpose but selling me beasts of war? Nay, friend. The visitors are human soldiers guarding some arsehole diplomat hanging around. I don't want to piss off the humans, they bring me more iron to melt down, so I want to be sure this whole seizure thing isn't how it would work if I accidentally set some of their gear to melt.

>>152551103

Unforbid and dump it.

>>152550982
You can only designate metal objects to be melted.

>>152550776
You used to be able to do that, but I think it was fixed. Try it.

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>>152551103
>EVER letting ANY elf-wee-gee into your fort.

>>152549509
Entertainers aren't always as gungho.

>>152549830
Oh yeah, forgot that is the furniture stuff.

>>152551103
>I would let filthy Elves into my fort

Enjoy all your dwarves having their records corrected and becoming bleeding heart hippies due to elves talking to them. This shit is the reason why the only person I trust is the King Of All Dwarves.

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>Making a massive wall around my fort
>Practically the entire map
>Taking ages to make of course
>Realize pretty late that I needed to rush one side up because the ground up there goes a lot higher than I thought
>Hadn't gotten a siege in many years so took my time with it
>Gobbo siege finally arrives
>Not a very big siege but they climb over the walls since I wasn't making the dual wall layer until higher up
>More than half die or get captured to my trap hallway
>Rather than go back the way they came they funnel into my spiked trap entrance
>That's also not done so I thought they'd run to the end and climb over
>They panic and run back and forth in the tunnel
>Right when the group of them get over the half of the tunnel that has all the traps they get perforated

I'm rock solid right now.

>>152553184
I don't what tileset you're using, but I absolutely hate those wall tiles.

>>152553184
Would you mind not posting pictures from tilesets? They don't belong in this thread.

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>>152553482
>HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT DEFAULT CP437 IS A TILESET

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>>152553482

what is the best race to play in masterwork?

>>152553564
Its not, its just DOS characters.

>>152553057
>having their records corrected
?

Will Necromancers attack one another? Like send raiding parties and such?

>>152553791
I personally like Succubi. Fort mode has a neat gimmick where you can turn prisoners into specialized demons depending in race. Elves are turned into Cambion marksmen, humans become Devils with buffed social skills, Orcs are made into Oni warmachines, dwarves into infernal Fiend smiths, Kobolds become stealthy Imps, and goblins become whip-toting Hellions.

Its really useful to have all these specialized demons working for you. In addition, you can summon up some members of the circus, although that's a bit buggy so expect it to go horribly.

Adventure mode-wise, Succubi are ok but you'd be better off specializing in a certain species. Cambion Marksmen and Oni fighters are pretty devastating. Plus later on you will be able to convert NPCs into demons in adventure mode and I'm hyped for that.

>>152554150

What are necros like in that latest version?

They were my favorite fortress race in the old version.

>>152554150
The "masterwork" mod is stranger than I had realized.

>>152554260
They got taken out to be reconfigured but I'd expect them to return soon. Atm the playable species are Humans, Dorfs, Orcs, Succubi, Kobolds, and a special Hermit mode where you only get one guy and try to keep him alive in the wild.

>>152554397

How about orcs? Do they still play pretty similar?

>>152554276
I think people don't like it because of the scummy dev and his tendency to beg for donations, thus "stealing" money from Toady. I just don't donate and its fine. I like the mod for all the variety it adds. As a person who plays adventure mode a lot, the crazy variety is greatly appreciated.

>>152554518
Basically Orcs are for players who want their entire fort to be an army. Its super easy to train and equip your dudes in Orc mode, but they tend to suffer in more intellectual pursuits.

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Fuck, did I happen upon a whole army?

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>fucking up all the beak dogs
>blocking all their scratches and bites and shit with ease
>on the last patch of them before I planned on getting the fuck out and limping back to town
>nigga gets lucky and scores a bite on my neck
>mfw superhuman strength and legendary wrestling can't beat the beak
>get shaken around like a chew toy
>my upper spine disintegrates
>bitches still can't scratch through my iron armor
>try to bite them to death while 3 of the fuckers rape me while just grabbing and releasing various parts of my body and gear with the occasional bite and shake routine
Is it just me or is adventure mode combat always decided in a single hit?

>>152555321
I don't consider it to be decided in a single hit. One of the most memorable battles I've had, in the most memorable world I had (demons escaping from a goblin dark fortress en masse, which I have never seen before or since) was in a world with a stupid amount of night trolls. I didn't see it as I was walking away from a row of night troll dens and it went up and fucked me up so badly I lost use of all my limbs. I had to roll away, biting and scratching a fucking night troll to kill it. I wound up biting into his neck and tearing off his head.

And yes, the majority of my well off chars die of inescapable bite-locks.

>>152555479
Fair enough point, I guess I'm just used to getting fisted with my own gauntlets by whatever cripples the use of my hands.

There was one time when I somehow managed to fuck up like 3 bandit shitters (maybe goblin warparty? it was a while ago) and start crawling away before I suffocated from a collapsed neck/throat/spine

I can talk to gods while praying, but will they ever talk back?

how do i make my dworves drink from cups
they just ignore them and drink from barrels help

>>152556189
designate tavern
put chest or bags there
make cups
they should put the cups in chests and drink from them

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This necropolis has a pretty neat spatial arrangement. i wonder who's buried in the northernmost one.

Btw, I'm the anon who lost his 94 dorf fort yesterday. I'm training my adventurer to become the first militia commander when I reclaim, so I better stay away from those mummies(or just use the save and load trick to make them go up in smoke).

To get my ultimate revenge on these goblins, however, I hope to find the vault and steal their demon.

>looking through the legends people regarded me as a great hunter, hero, and a protector of the weak yet every entity rumored that I was a killer
>tfw it was probably from that guy who was turned into a blind deaf quadriplegic for training purposes before being curb stomped and the guy who I tried to eat before I remembered that humans won't eat human meat

I'd like to see any of those wimps fight off the undead and go on a three person crusade against the nearby dark fortress, killing 584 in one season. Then those dirty goblin fuckers can judge me.
The town was packed full of goblin merchants

>>152550982
>but what shall become of the elf gear?
I wish we could make wooden items into charcoal/ash similarly to how we can melt metal items.

>>152556569
thank you they actually use them now
they put a barrel at the tavern and i think they're storing the cups there but they at least picked them up now and they're socializing

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can i also listen to the story he's telling?

>>152557704
Look at his job details and it'll tell you the subject of the story.

>>152557834
sorry some goblins and an undead just came in and everyone is dead

newb here, how do I bury an outpost liason, or just get rid of his body?

Will only a certain amount of dwarves at one time haul items to stockpiles? I have a ton of unforbidden gear lying around with ample stockpile space for it, but I've got some dwarves dealing with it while a bunch laze around pretending they don't have the labor on. No wheelbarrows involved, nor burrows either.

>>152555982
Not for the next two releases.

>>152556637
Good luck.

>>152559841
It's gonna be tricky, since I forgot to export the legends before I started , and don't have dfhack. I'm just gonna need to find the vault the hard way. (or perhaps I'll just dupe the saves and retire)

In any case, I just thoroughly explored all the tombs, and used the traps to train my observer. I didn't bother with the mummies.

>>152560441
Well, being a vampire would help. Vampirism is the GOAT start due to not actually giving a lack of trainability, and protects vs mummy rape.

If you want a good reason to retire so you can view legends mode, retire at an elven community so you can join the civilization of the elves, who are wise and should become our overlords, and gain the peace with wildlife thing so you don't get annoying random bear encounters etc.

>>152555321
I Do think that battles often last less than intended, but I think that's because of the game's natural inability to understand a battle not being a complete masacre
Playful or light combat is not correctly implemented

>>152561396
I asked that Toady implement playfighting and training in DF, but he told me he ran out of time. No ticklefighting with NPCs yet, sadly.

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>>152561353
The thing is that the gobbo civ has laid ruin to all the other civs.

When I started my fort, it was one of two non-goblin sites left in the world. Now that my fort has fallen, there's only one fort left.

All humans and elves in the world are either dead or goblified.

>>152561576
Ouch. In mine, dorfs are almost gone (reclaim squad is all that's left), but elves and humans are better off than they are in most of my worlds, as elves are basically "if good reason" (except on cannibalism/nature stuff) and humans are basically "if properly sanctioned" (except on cannibalism stuff).

Knowing that there'd be some war either way, I set it so they'd mostly just wanna fight with me.

My world is not as attractive as yours, but all I wanted was extinct dorf civ + good forest with a river with a northern evil glacier.

>>152561510
at least you asked him
>>152561576
Time to purge

>>152549113
Can you link the tileset and color scheme?

>>152562151
>using tilesets

>>152562248
As long as it stay to ASCII its ok bro

>>152561353

mummy curse works on vampires I believe

>>152562840
I don't think mummies curse non-living creatures. My only experience is disturbing a mummy as a necro, and that time, the mummy was totally friendly and would even speak to me.

>>152562919

They curse vampires

>>152562980
But the curse aside, do they also attack?

>>152563037

Yes last time I checked

>>152563103
I see. I guess it's best to wait until you're necro before fucking with the mummies.

Though to be honest, it's pretty strange that killing mummies makes your civ consider you a hero. I mean, you kinda intruded on a sacred place which is probably off limits according to civ law, and the mummy attacked just because you disturbed. Despite the mummy also being the legendary king who saved the civ all those years ago, people will praise you for disturbing his sleep and killing him once again.

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Ok I fucked up, first time encountering demons/hell, guess i'm gonna have some fun ?

>>152564562
You'll be fine.

>>152564562
You'll be "fine"

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>>152564562
You'll be fine, champ

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Those dirty gobs are gonna get it now.

I'm not really looking forward to visiting their 10k capital, though. If there were only a way to become a necro or vamp so I could outrun the lag.

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>>152565194
Yup, as I thought.

bamb

Tell me /dfg/, from this oficial list, what's the thing you expect the most?
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Consolidated_developmen
>dat bloat 201
hnggggg

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>>152562151
Dunno the color scheme.

>>152568928
>The five year old prince is going to be crowned that very moment, but you, his uncle, step forward and push the young boy aside and seize the crown for yourself. The high priest who had been holding the crown is disoriented by the disturbance of the elaborate routine.

>The goblins pull an obese child out from under the bed and insult him, saying he isn't fit to a work in the mines before carting him off to the larder.

>Wearing a pendant of Imi the Owl of Hell, you enter a mead hall frequented by worshippers of Vutu the Playful Ooze of Midnight. They tie you to a post and break your fingers one by one.

>>152570139
You are really wishing for a masochistic trait to be implemented right?

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>>152570139
>Wearing a pendant of Imi the Owl of Hell, you enter a mead hall frequented by worshippers of Vutu the Playful Ooze of Midnight. They tie you to a post and break your fingers one by one.

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>>152570083
I also used the same wall style for this and the one with shading, if preferred, but it's 24x24 instead of 16x16, so better for larger screens.

>>152568928
>projectile vomit

>>152570301
>"I was beaten with a whip. That felt so good."

>She feels *pleasure* after being beaten with a whip.

I am not >>152568928 but how could you know?

>>152538016
I've played too many mods. Give me an interesting challenge/flavor to my new vanilla fortress

>>152570915
zero traps, military only

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what was your first fort like

wet doesn't count because that happened to everyone the first time they played the game

>>152570759
oh well>>152570139

>Wearing a pendant of Imi the Owl of Hell, you enter a mead hall frequented by worshippers of Vutu the Playful Ooze of Midnight. They tie you to a post and break your fingers one by one.

I mean, I don't judge anybody, and If Imi the Owl of Hell was the god of depravity and lust, you'll be giggling during the whole beating

>>152571142
really successful with two goblin sieges defeated until everybody just dropped dead from dehydration

>>152571195
Hehe yes. In my latest fortress some guy is a worshipper of something the Bed of Sisters, the god of family. I wonder what he prays for.

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>>152571227
>really successful
>until everybody just dropped dead from dehydration

>>152571142
I stopped it after doing the larger part of the wiki quickstart. My second fortress had a werebeaver visit. I didn't know that it was transferable at that time. Well then I learned, I abandoned the fort with the four remaining dwarves crying in the hospital, refusing to move.

>>152568928
It isn't the thing I expect the most, but bloat 291 would be cool just because when Toady implements leeches in rivers, I can imagine some sort of horse bug will take place, and each time you get into a river you would die in a few turns after the message
>379 leeches have latched firmly and are sucking your blood
message

>>152571131
>>152570915
zero traps, military only in a very rare mineral world

If I have a character start at a Dark Fortress, could I theoretically go to the lowest level and unleash the circus?

>>152571142
all on one z-level because I hadn't figured out stairs/ramps yet, mostly undefended because I couldn't make sense of the military screens, and without a proper hospital
I also had a nice but somewhat cramped statue garden, which turned into a major liability when a dwarf who'd seen one of his buddies killed by something (small goblin attack maybe, or just wildlife, can't remember) threw a tantrum in the middle of a 20-odd-dwarf party, starting a mass brawl and then predictably a tantrum spiral

many deaths later and after the destruction of most of my buildings and workshops, things finally calmed down. one badly-injured dwarf had been taken to my """hospital""" (just a bed in a room) and was slowly bleeding out, gradually getting "attached to" and naming each of his ragged bits of clothing that had (presumably) saved him from dying outright in the brawl
eventually though he did die (probably of infection, I didn't know how to tell), and when the first 3-4 dwarves who saw him all started tantruming, it was pretty much over

and yes that was my second fort, my first one lasted about 5 days and was very wet, as you suggested

Any way to equip war animals with weapons? I mean the ones that can grasp. I added trainable tag to troglodytes so that i can own slaves but the only time I've ever been successful is when i got one to train animals a few months ago. I can't make military assignments with them unfortunately.

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What the fuck

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>>152572385
>tfw still no flying eggshell continents

>>152571142
>joyous wilds
>getting excited over a kobold and attacked with dwarves
>nothing happening
>bored stop playing
This basically 90% of my fortresses but one time i flooded my fortress when trying to make my first well.

Haven't played for a long time. Can you rename squads now?

>>152573132
Yes I think so. Just not give them a random name generated by the game, you have to invent one yourself, and I think it can't be as long as the names the game can make, but I'm not sure about that.

>>152573132
Also haven't played for a long time. Is adventure mode still borderline unplayably laggy in any place worth going to?

>>152573624
>Is adventure mode still borderline unplayably laggy in any place worth going to?
of course

>>152573806
Fuck. It didn't used to be this way. I had the most fun in adventure immediately after vampires were added, since it removes the shit that's just there to be mildly annoying.

I enjoy DF, but I have really not liked Toady's vision for adventure mode so far. I'd take the ability to slaughter a town again without a hundred thousand
>"The horror DDDDX"
Messages over poems any day.

>>152573624
>>152573806
Not in the vaults.

In dark fortresses and decently sized human towns? Yes.

>>152543281
It used to be preference/availability. I haven't seen any dwarf hunters migrate with anything other than crossbows in a few versions

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>digging the fortress
>you_have_struck_microline.txt
>the fort is situated in stone layers w/ microline
>the walls are now non-uniform colors
>some walls gray
>some walls blue
>the aesthetics are ruined

ok /dfg/ this is really pissing me off. I have burrowed in a fuckton of dwarves, leading to loads of job cancellations. In an effort to try and up the fps a little, I want to set the gamelog and errorlog files to read only - problem is, I can't fucking find them anywhere, and the init.txt and d_init.txt both have nothing.
Halp pls /dfg/?
yes I have tried googling it. Just tons of discussions about stonesense error messages.

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>>152568928
>core21
>Make all music/sounds optional, in groups. More songs (possibly seasonal), incidental music (like spotting the first kobold in a cave, etc.), various combat type sounds and ambient sounds, pleasing interface clicks.

Pleasing interface clicks sound comfy.

I need to know how to end the world. My home is marred by three great spires rising from the earth, each owned by a horde of monsters who number in the tens of thousands. All other kingdoms number a paltry few hundred, a thousand at best. I don't want the monsters to have their way with the people who are left, so I'm wondering if there is a way to cheat them. What's the easiest non-fort way to open Hell?

>>152574948
gamelog and errorlog are in the same file as the executable. I assume this is also how it is in non-Windows versions.

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>>152571142
A couple of piece of crap tunnels and boxy rooms I dug into part of a hill, couldn't into doors or still so everyone died when the booze ran out.

One of the first after I figured out how to set up shops and stills and such was this one, with Atir Cobaltthrows, the hero who saved the fort and rotted to death after stumbling around until I noticed the miasma leaking down the wagon tunnel, all because I didn't know how to make soap or set up a proper hospital.

>>152574435
>seaside fort
>really want a 1-layer fort all level with the seabed in the bay
>that z-level is about 1/2 mudstone, 1/4 microcline, and 1/4 saltpeter, all in random stripes and splotches

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>>152573624
No, only dark fortresses or libraries with glitched entrances (sometimes you get a library on a hillside with the doorway underground) are totally fucked lagwise.

There is a bug where sometimes campsites you make end up duplicating local wildlife populations each time the map is reloaded. I had to retire the first character I made on this world because as a result of this bug she had OVER NINE HUNDRED PAGES in her "bring up a rumor" menu.

>>152571142
>dig into a hillside
>don't know about farming indoors
>build a wall for an outside compound, set up farms
>going okay for a while
>goblin ambush!
>pre-climbing, but the walls are accessible from the top of the hill, so the goblins start running around on top of the walls and shooting my dwarves. several dwarves die
>panic-seal the rest of the dwarves into the fort with constructed walls
>tantrum spiral
>the end

this talk of early failure-forts reminded me of that time I spent fucking AGES setting up an irrigation system from a murky pool to flood my farm (already on a soil layer) because I thought it would make it more productive
and then more AGES figuring out and setting up a glass industry so I could channel out from above it and cover the hole with glass because I thought that would help too, and I didn't know that transparency wasn't a thing in blocks
and then I couldn't figure out why my ultra-optimized, super-fertile farm plots couldn't grow any more plump helmets

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is there any way to quickly wall off a water tunnel?
I tried to fill my moat with water, but somehow the water started seeping through to the lower level, maybe there was a hole in the floor?

>>152570083
>>152570686

T-thanks... >_<

>>152577775
well, you can try building walls to block it off, ideally with a material that's light and nearby so it can be done quickly
if there's a little bit of water dwarves will cancel the job, but until the water gets too deep, you can keep un-suspending it and they'll eventually build it
you could try getting some pumps running on the surface to divert the water somewhere else too, but those take a little time to set up if you don't have the parts on hand

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>set up a temple for dwarves to pray in because they keep having unhappy thoughts
>caravan comes, dwarves are too busy worshipping to bring things to the depot

Opiate of the masses indeed. All religious services are now suspended while the caravan is here, you lazy fucks.

>>152578293
I managed to find the hole and build a floor over it so it doesn't leak anymore.
thanks anyway

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>>152578341
>also closed down the tavern temporarily
>there was a human poet reciting at the time. Apparently he was so enraged by being interrupted that he picked a fight with a nearby miller.

That'll teach ya better than to throw down with a working-class dwarf, ya pansy.

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>>152578163
Np yo, hopefully they'll pop up with the colors soon, mountainanon where art thou?

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>HE DONATED REAL MONEY TO SOME GUY WHO STOLE AND CRAMMED ALL DF MODS INTO SOME SHITTY GUI

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>>152579523
Hmmmm.

>>152579523
>mountainanon
Which anon is that?

I know of the following anons:
>tilesetanon
>cla-anon
>napoleanon(dead)
>yoko/thinking/clipartanon(dead)
>weaponmodanon

Mountainanon is new to me.

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>>152579885
>grab hydra
>try to throw it
>expect nothing to happen
>forgot how strong I am

>>152580064
The one who uses the raving maniac set with the blue-black stone and pink microcline, had the duchess bash a guy with a platinum mace... uhhh, this guy: >>152548081
>>152549113

You also forgot a couple of our drawfags, most recently this bro:>>152543457, plus comfyanon, and there's also weaponmodanon and rumor has it Taffer has been spotted lurking around. I set some traps so I could have my very own pet taffykun but I had no luck yet.

Oh, and ninedots posts randomly too!

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yo, how hot can demons get? adamantine's melting point seems to be 25000°, do demons get hotter than that? i've heard of them burning their way through bridges by melting them after standing next to them for too long. does their heat accumulate? do they just have a fixed temperature? how hot are they? can they melt adamantine or nether-cap?

>>152571142
My first two tries I couldn't figure out how to do anything (not even digging). So I don't count those.

After coming back and learning the UI with Advdnture Mode I started my first REAL fortress basically to just make armor for my adventurer.

So far it's going okay. I dug around and below the aquifer I was on so now I'm trying to figure out how to make metal stuff.

Is there a way to set tasks to continually run as long as materials are available?

And can booze be made out of anything? My orders aren't failing but I have no idea what my dorfs are actually drinking.

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>>152575531
>>152574435
Gemset makes all smoothed walls a uniform color.
This was dug out of an ungodly mix of orthoclase, gabbro and olivine, and there was some microcline in there too.

>>152581662
Oh, and how do I put fuel into a smelter?

>>152581653
Nether-cap just ignores temperature completely.

>>152581653
apparently creatures made of flame/fire have 14000°, that seems small enough... will their heat build up?

>>152581653
Dunno about adamantine, but demons can't melt through nether-cap because nether-cap has its temperature fixed at freezing, regardless of environmental temperature. Nether-cap also does not burn and thus also cannot be destroyed by fire breath or the death-explosions of fire and steam demons.

>>152581769
As long as you have bars of charcoal or refined coal, it'll be used automatically when the smelter performs a job

>>152582310
Oh, okay.

I guess I just need more minerals then.

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>>152582065
It can however be destroyed by dragonfire and being dropped in magma.

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Alright lads I've decided to finally start a fortress with a few challenges that other suggested to me. I decided to do all at once
>no eating anything besides meat
>no farming
>Settle in a cavern
>Can only construct walls out of soap
Anyone want to add to the list? I'm considering embarking in a terrifying biome next to a goblin fortress. Necromancer Towers are a no fighting back kind of fun so I won't do that and I also changed the creature tokens so that Dwarves will eat sapient creatures.

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>Map has every single ore in the universe EXCEPT iron and tin
>Every single migrant wave has been 33%-50% children
>This asshole decides to show up
There's got to be a way to use the children as bait so I can abuse this guy for my cloth industry, right?

>>152583357
Giant cave spiders have a really high value in webs. Forgotten Beasts have the same value in webs as a common spider.

>>152583545
Yeah but what the fuck else am I going to do with a webspitting FB that I will never be able to kill?

>>152583968
Weaponize it. Get some giant cave spider and make it spew web over cages. Then take the webbed cages and catch it and than isolate it in a path that other beast or goblins will have to take

>>152584304
Webspitting FBs are [WEBIMMUNE], just like anything else with webspitting.

>>152571142
my first fortress ended with all my dwarves dead from dehydration
>dig into hill
>make all-purpose stockpile
>go down a level
>dig out meeting area
>try to figure out how stairs work
>remove stairs by accident
>all dwarves get trapped in meeting area without picks, food or drink with no escape

>>152584384
Use it butcher children. Make a room and burrow your children there and then open the room up to the beast and watch your children problem disappear. If you have a way to close up the room afterwards you have now caught the beast and use him for future troubles.

>>152583357
dig out a room near the cavern with 2 drawbridge airlocks, one on each side. Call it Room A. Carve out another chamber sharing a wall with Room A, call it Room B.

Carve fortifications into the wall between A and B. Build another drawbridge in B next to the fortifications, such that it can be raised to obscure los between A and B. Burrow one of the kids in B within los of A through the fortifications.

Build a workshop or other destructible building in A, then open the external airlock and dig through A to the caverns. Evacuate the miner and close the internal airlock. When the beast comes to destroy the building, close the external airlock. Now the beast will see the kid through the fortifications and spray webbing at them. When you want to collect the webs without dwarves fleeing in terror, raise the drawbridge in room B.

>>152584571
Awesome, thanks. I'll see if I can pull it off.

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>>152584701
I could swear FB webs were worth more than regular webbing, but another way is if you can get it lured into a room with a bridge you can raise to trap it then you can just smooth/carve fortifications/cover them with a bridge or whatever to trigger/conceal it.

>>152584864
>>152584701
>>152584571
>>152584464
>>152584384
Can't you catch anything as long as it gets stunned? Why not drop it a z level onto cage traps?

>>152585018
FBs can't be stunned. The only way to trap them in a cage trap is with webbing, which webspitters are immune to.

>>152585018
FBs are all NOSTUN

>>152584864
Nah, FB, titan and clown mats have no value modifier. FB webs are the same value as regular cave spider webs. Rule of cool, though.

>>152585376
>>152585149
Well at least the non webbed beasts are catchable

>>152585517
but they aren't

>>152588327
not even with webbed cages?

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>>152579523
>>152581574
I answer the call.

>>152578163
The color scheme is vherid dark sand, with the LMAGENTA and LCYAN replaced with colors from different vherid schemes. I forget which, though.

>>152580064
I assume I've gotten that title for the locale of the fort that I've been posting here for months, and perhaps for my peculiar way of digging it. Pic related.

Post adventure mode stories

>>152588885
>make an adventurer
>go into the deep forest
>cut down some trees by a river
>start making a carpenter's workshop
>start building a comfy wood house at the side of a river
>night falls
>get killed by bogeymen

The end.

>>152588885
>make character
>try to find city
>don't
>try to drink from pond
>drown
How do you find a town? Luck?

>>152588885
>start adventure mode to see how much fun it is
>used to fortress mode speed and everything feels like it's slow motion
>walk with nothing in site for 3 minutes
>realize Toady is a fucking hack who needs to make more fortress mode features
The end
>>152589973
>try to drink from pond
>drown
heh

So one of the areas in my world is a tiny scorching island, covered entirely in red sand.
Seems like a cool place to start a themed fortress, perhaps with the embark consisting entirely of fugitives or the crew of a sunken ship? All the sand could also mean a thriving glass industry...
Any tips on how to embark in such a location?

So I'm about to start my fortress in a a tundra biome and I'm bringing a hunter but should i bring some animals? I wonder if the cavern has enough food to satisfy dwarves

>>152590880
Bring a lot of wood, and don't use anything that requires fuel until you find the magma sea.
Also, since you're on an island you won't get any caravans or sieges or anything, so it's likely to be an extremely dull embark.

>>152591424
>implying anyone gets good sieges anymore
Unless it's near a necromancy tower than he'd probably be safe from serious sieges till fps death set in.

>>152591656
True, but caravans are still nice. They give you a reason to make crafts and shit, because otherwise there's no reason to worry about value except to satisfy nobles.

>>152591656
Stop meming.

The army travel bug was partially fixed as of 0.42, and we now have armies of several hundreds of enemies, all wearing full armour, laying siege to our forts. If you're not getting the sieges, you're either embarking too far from the gobs, or the gobs are too weak to send them.

Don't die on me /dfg/!
I need design choices for my new fort. Specifically room design for dorf housing.

>>152594630
Depends on what you want. I usually roll with apartment blocks: same small rooms repeated as necessary.

>>152594630
One entire z-level per dwarf.

>>152591424
> you won't get any caravans or sieges or anything
this is why I'd like to build some glass megaproject there. I'm thinking a giant pyramid, or a tower
Any ideas on how to roleplay fugitives or the crew of a ship? I can't emagine anyone else trying to make it on a desert island (except for maybe some weird cult)

>>152595234
Fuck that. Dorfs have to EARN awesome accommodations. If he wants an entire Z level to fuck around in, he better do something amazing.

>>152594630
I usually go for the commieblock method, pictured here
>>152581762
>3x3 rooms
>Bed, cabinet and chest made of wood
>Door, table and chair made of stone
>Eventually smooth and engrave everything
>Every single dwarf in your fortress now has a "great" bedroom and all it cost was 3 wood, 3 stone and ~2 years of training your engravers(Assuming you start them all from scratch)
If you set up a block of 50 immediately on embark, you can usually complete it by late winter, assuming 1 carpenter and 2 masons. With another block of 50 you'll hit the population cap after factoring in married couples and nobles who need real houses.

Whats the best tileset and why is it Spacefox?

>>152596406
3x3 is a lot for peasants. I was always a fan of the 1x3 rooms to save space.

>>152596524
It's the minimum size in order to fit every type of furniture in their room. Also, it's square and makes your housing district look nicer.

Plus, back when there was actually a mood system, it kept dwarves so happy that it was almost impossible for them to tantrum. Now that tantrums have been removed from the game that doesn't matter anymore, but still.

>>152596862
>tantrums have been removed from the game

Wait what?

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>>152596406
>>152596524
You are both wrong.

2x2 is the ultimate size for bedrooms. It will have enough room for the bed and cabinet, and the two empty tiles will improve the aesthetics. If I want to put in a window, it will line up perfectly with the door, and nether the door nor the window will be "blocked"(visually) by the two pieces of furniture.

Pic related. It's from one of my favourite forts, and now that I think of it, I remember that I recently tossed the world away. I should restore it before I accidentally remove it forever.

>>152592746
You still get caravans from your home civ on an island. As long as you have 1 tile of pathable ground on the map edge you'll get your own civ's caravan.

>>152596862
>>152597167
They haven't, but they are far rarer than they used to be, and they don't cause spirals like they used to. The only penalties from having a tantrum is the physical damage caused.

>>152597167
They haven't been. Intoxication is just very strong right now and negates the effects of most negative thoughts.

>>152596474
default square
if I had to use a modded one, I'd probably use CLA, because it still leaves a lot up to your imagination

>>152597180
>>152596862
>>152596524
>not putting dorm beds in the main stockpile

>>152597180
Cool aquarium.
Should've tossed some aquatic life in there, too.

>>152597167
It's a bug with the number tuning.
The numbers required to trigger a tantrum are in the 6 digits, whereas mood modifiers are usually in the double digits. Watching your spouse get raped, mutilated and eaten by a forgotten beast may give you +120 stress, but it doesn't mean shit all when it takes 120000 stress to start feeling upset and 600000 stress to tantrum.

>>152597386
It's not even alcohol. You can run a fort entirely on water alone for 10 years and still not suffer any negative effects from bad thoughts.

>>152597857
>Watching your spouse get raped, mutilated and eaten by a forgotten beast may give you +120 stress, but it doesn't mean shit all when it takes 120000 stress to start feeling upset and 600000 stress to tantrum.

This seems like a perfect fit for Dwarf Fortress.
>wife gets raped mutilated and eaten by a forgotten beast
>Urist shrugs and heads to the dining hall to Attend Party

>>152597857
The stress values haven't changed from .40, and you could still easily get tantrums then if you ran your fort poorly. Intoxication has wiped out the malus of most the thoughts that could cause a tantrum. That's the difference post-.42.

>>152598759
Intoxication is not the problem though. You can delete the syndrome from the raws or run your fortress without any alcohol at all, but still never have any tantrums at all.
The problem is the stress system, and it's been present since the day it was added to the game and the old thought system was removed.

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Nice. At least it's made of flesh, so it should at least be killable, if someone just lands a lucky hit.

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>>152601058
It's not like I needed that cavern layer or anything. Hopefully, one of the other layers has grass and spiders.

Sorry to anyone who got trapped outside ;)

>have 61 dwarves
>goblin siege arrives
>isolate dwarves to panic burrow, which is also my farming area and my cloth area
>none of them fucking go
>12 goblins wipe out my entire fortress because not a single dwarf will do anything except fucking stand there and get murdered
>some of them even had weapon skills and were armed and wouldn't even fight back
>of the 17 survivors, only 1 was a farmer, meaning that all 12 dwarves in my cloth industry and 5 of my farmers LEFT the panic burrow in order to get killed
I don't want to give up on my fortress, but I also want every single fucktard who died in this siege to stay dead.
The panic burrow wasn't even that far away or anything. Over half of my fortress was just sitting in my tavern, which is three tiles away from the burrow.
The only dwarf who had any excuse to not reach the burrow was my carpenter, who was on the other side of the map cutting trees when he spotted the goblins. He was also one of the only dwarves who actually made it to the burrow.

>>152600930
The stress system works fine, dwarves could still tantrum after the thought rewrite. It happened considerably less than before by design, dwarves were neurotic messes in previous versions. Then intoxication-by-syndrome came along with nothing to balance it against, and now tantrums are rarer than diamonds. They are still technically possible. But any fort run so poorly that a tantrum might occur is more likely to just crumble.

>>152593408
how would i know if the goblins are too weak? I've been embarking next to fortresses with 2k+ goblins for the past year and only one of my fortresses was attacked by 2 sieges of around a dozen recruit goblins.

>>152603408
>But any fort run so poorly that a tantrum might occur is more likely to just crumble
You're hurting my feelings, anon. I've had several dorfs tantrum since 0.42, yet my forts are coming along pretty good. Most of the time, it's because they have some impossible need that turns into an increasingly bad thought over time.

Hey guys I got a start not near any cliffs. Can I just make a fortress with walls in the middle of a field? Can I use wooden walls?

Also can visting trade caravans go down stairs if they are 3x3?

>>152603726
Sorry anon, I didn't mean to bully you. I hope your dwarves are okay.

>>152603880
Wagons can't use stairs, but otherwise you just described the leading theme-fort.

>>152603726
>>152603950
I, on the other hand, hope your favourite dwarves suffer long lasting devastating stress before dying horrible deaths in your favourite fortress
Fuck you

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>>152603880
Not stairs but if you make a downward slop with channeling they can go down. Don't dig straight down since it'll just be a flat drop with no way back up. Channel down 3x3 one time then dig ahead 3 spaces away and channel again. I made a picture

Do anyone else just swap creatures for the FOREST and SKULKING entities before they gen a world?

>>152538016
Can anyone tell me what tileset is that?

>>152606243
Taffer I think.

>>152606220
Usually I just delete the SKULKING entity and replace it with a DESERT entity that uses my custom orcs.
Then I load up legends viewer and laugh at all the times the elves try to pick fights with the orcsthanks to KILL_PLANT:ACCEPTABLE, MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL:ACCEPTABLE and LYING:PERSONAL_MATTER and then get fucked over because the orcs have access to steel, are 30% bigger than humans and have extremely high physical stats.
The curious thing is that the orcs almost never start wars, but they almost always win them whenever goblins or elves try to fuck with them.

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>embark on untamed wilds area
>first thing to show up are giant keas

I'm feeling like starting up another go at an above ground human fort.
Other than the great border wall and large fields for the peasants to harvest crops, what should I do?

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>>152610528
>embark on untamed wilds
>no giant animals or animal men
>no whip vine
>only savage thing to show up during the entire fort is a pile of rhino lizard corpses by my food stockpile

>>152610528
I didn't even know that was a thing, that's absolutely terrifying

>>152588885
I once played an Elephant man who had all his points in Strike and Dodge, and his thing was he'd travel the world and punch werebeasts to death. He ended up fighting his own twisted reflection, a were-elephant, and fought it for a straight day before it died, only for him to collapse from blood loss as well. A fitting end for our hero.

>>152611408
>great border wall

Kek.

>>152611842
Those goblin dark fortresses are sending us criminals and rapists. How else am I supposed to protect my people?

>>152612037
If you don't want criminals and rapists don't start your country right next to them.

Go to the wiki.
Hit random page.
Post results.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Loosing

>>152612587
It isn't our fault that our greatest ally the elves told our civilization that goblins were harmless and nothing to worry about. We never could have predicted how bad it would be after we arrived.

>>152612728
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Office
I'm kinda disappointed that there wasn't a office space joke

>>152613253
Why don't you put in an Office Space joke?

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>>152613487
Yeah, why shitpost in the general, when you can make the shitposts permanent by adding it to the wiki and legitimising it with the "Rated D for dorf" template?

>>152613487
I'm tired and anything I think of right now would sound good to me at the moment, but likely end up being really stupid with horrible pacing and delivery

>>152611408
>about to start modding the raws for playable human fort
>remember that therapist isn't updated yet
>lose all interest
I'd rather shoot myself in the foot

>>152615539
Masterwork already has a fleshed out human fort mode? Just don't donate to him.

>>152598531
>wife gets raped mutilated and eaten by a forgotten beast
>Urist shrugs and heads to the dining hall to Attend Party
>such is life in the grim darkness of a fantasy world simulator

>>152615869
Does masterwork have something similar to the rapist?

Modding humans to be playable is easy as fuck, putting up with the default interface instead of a handy dandy clickable spreadsheet of jobs is not

>>152616120
Oh uh I dunno if that's still working. I only play adventure mode.

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>>152616303
>I only play adventure mode

>>152616415
I like the freedom and stuff. I get fort mode is a good game objectively but I prefer to play as an individual.

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>>152616303
>mentioned not having the rapist for my fort
>suggests I play masterwork for playing human race
>ask if masterwork has the rapist
>I dunno, I only play adventure mode
I saw people hating on masterwork users in these threads but didn't understand it until now.

>>152616656
I was focusing more on the need to modify the raws for a human fort when an alternative existed with human-specific content. Like, human forts have the ability to hire out workers from other species who give specialized goods. Didn't really think about the therapist bit, that's my bad.

Say I wanted to make a plant that could be milled into dye, but only after it's been processed into bags. Is that possible?
My idea was some kind of flower that would be processed to petals and seeds. The seeds would be a source of oil, while the petals would be a source of dye. Ideally, the plant would not be edible at all except for the press cakes.

>>152619206
Someone should make a Man After Man mod where the dorfs are the original humans who have come back to re-colonise Earth, while the other races are the various mutants.

>>152619458
Already one out there

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12108

Dunno how good it is tho

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>>152612728
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Barn_owl

>>152597457
Any nonsquare > bisasam > vorpal/cursessquare > raving > myne > cleaned up default square@24x24 > masterwork (the mod, not a tileset) > default square (it's so bad)

>>152588885
>be hangin around in a fort for years
>be duke
>be married to a qt 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899...
>voice in my head starts telling me to grab my gear and head out into the wilderness
>run around bouncing bogeymen off of trees for half a year
>come home
>hang around for a year or so again
>baby falls out of wife
>stands up after aging 2 years instantly
>grabs a set of gear and weapons for herself
>runs around for years killing thousands of people and monsters
>mostly goblins
>returns home at one point and compels her mother and I to join her
>we get cool titles and have the best picnics
>ask her about her profession
>"be 6"
>'miss'

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>>152538016
>Playing above-ground fort
>Twenty of thirty dwarves drafted
>Ransack and kill everything I can find
>Make it a few years
>Unexpectedly quits
>Restart, unexpectedly quits again
>Rinse and repeat

What do? Is it that trees are growing into my walls? Is this base just fucked or can I salvage it?

>>152621573
Maybe a random attack is trying to occur, but the attacker is crashing the game somehow?

/dfg/, what is best in life?

>>152621853
To survive a carp attack

>>152621853
Finding iron and flux stone at your volcano embark.

>>152622000
To smelt the limonite and see marble before you.

>>152622210
Fields teeming with bituminous coal

>>152623063
Nah brah, to hear the lamentations of the elven (as you raze entire forests to make charcoal) is the right answer.

>>152623257
And what a sweet sound it is

>>152623817
Aye, lad, tis.

>>152597167
I have had a fucking ADVENTURER go permanently berserk while retired, and when I unretired her she was living in a lair.

Alright, so I'm trying to build an indoor fishing area. My fisherdwarves keep getting mauled by wereasses and I'm fed up.

However, I keep getting tiles ineligible for a fishing zone, or areas that yield no fish. I'm diverting a river into an artificial cistern. Am I shooting for the impossible here?

>>152623257
Elves don't suffer unhappy thoughts from trees being cut down, it just makes them have a negative opinion of you.

The only way elves suffer from the cutting of trees is if you make them do it themselves.

Its time to play a game of "restart the embark screen until I have all 7 having a meal preference I can actually match so I don't have derfs permanently unable to have decent meals!"

Does cooking with their favorite booze count as a decent meal, I wonder?

>>152625810
I think you're pouring your autism into the wrong avenues here. Make your autism work for you, not the other way around!

>>152625519
Creatures can't go berserk (or any other kind of insane) outside of the player's presence. They don't go insane during worldgen or in the background generation after worldgen ends. Their emotion processing only happens when they're loaded on the map. Whatever happened to your adventurer, it wasn't that.

>>152626239
>Creatures can't go berserk (or any other kind of insane) outside of the player's presence.

I was in fort mode, with a retired adventurer.

What are the dopest features coming out in the next release?

>>152626662
NPC adventuring parties

>>152626746
Oh my god that sounds cool. Could I join them and follow them around on quests? Will the replenish themselves with new recruits?

>>152626881
I know literally nothing on the topic. On the other hand, I think you can also make your adventuring party an entity as well.

I greatly hope they will be allowed to have equipment lists and such like other entities, as the closest equivalent (performer troupes) have nothing in that department, so people raised solely in the performer troupes just grow up to be nudist barbarians like outsiders.

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>>152625697
I mean them complaining about trees being cut down.

>>152627038
Yeah, it sounds like they will go around adventuring and finding artifacts/returning them, among other things.

I hadn't though about troupe members as nudist barbarians, but they do tend to walk around with nothing but a book or three, maybe an instrument.

They've got nothing on these guys though.