/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General

First maybe for oh shit did the thread hit the bump limit?

real first for you fucked up not chosing the gobling fetuses pic

Did that night creature fuck you up, anon?

>>159071486
It super fucked me up. Turns out it already had 21 kills and used to be the leader of a group of humans before it lived in the sewers under my town.

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>>159071995
Huh. Made a new adventurer to get my revenge and then this happened.

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>>159072374
>kicking ass and taking names
>rageful over being abducted and twisted into a horrid monstrosity
>feeling better after mangling some poor fuck
>random newb walks up and stabs you in the brain

>>159072374
such is the divine power of the rng anon
May future updates fix this dumb but lucky miracle

>>159072498
>>159072536
I shall commemorate the beast by making armor and clothing out of its body.

>>159072728
Oh fuck I crashed before I could save.

Looks like Armok was displeased. I shall earn his forgiveness by attempting to slay the beast once more and make a better show of it.

>>159069980
it was shit tho

>>159072924
you are allowed to have bad taste, but no need to show it

>>159072905
I have decided to make a frog man martial artist and put all of my points into punch and dodge. We'll see how it goes.

>>159073226
Remember to fight like a martial artist.
Punch the hand that holds the sword that is swinging at you, strike enemies quickly in soft spots to open them up to a haymaker to the face, etc.

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>>159073429
>soft spots

I don't think you understand.

>>159073575
It still has a throat, liver, lungs. It may not feel pain, but it still needs to breathe.

>>159073575
Body parts with scars aren't any more or less soft than unscarred body parts. Irrespective of that, I assume he was just suggesting that you roleplay the role you're playing.

>>159074587
Oh of course I'll do it properly. I'm just in awe of how battlescarred this thing is. Its certainly intimidating. Its a shame that she laired in the town I've adopted, because otherwise I wouldn't have bothered with it. But she's become a threat to my people so I need to put her down.

>>159074816
Fair warning: telling people who knew her before she turned will piss them off.

>>159075645
Will keep in mind. Also martial artist was winded and killed almost instantly. Will be trying swordsman next.

Why do warriors and thieves and the like congregate at the town's castle? Do they actually do anything there?

>>159076048
I have a maceman and another swordsman by my side. I hope it will be enough to slay the beast in a more exciting fashion and appease Armok.

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>>159078239
After 13 pages of brutal combat resulting in the loss of one of my comrades and the mangling of another, we finally triumphed over the beast. A fitting end for the foul monster.

>>159079173
>spouse
That wasn't even the real thing.
You killed Grendel, but you haven't met his mom.

>>159079317
...fuck.

Well as long as that monstrosity stays away from my town, I'm not gonna look for it. Some things are best left undiscovered.

>>159079317
Well put, but they're the same type of beast, at some point we'll get stuff like Grendel and his mom though.

Are whips still OP

>>159083249
I think scourges made from heavy metals are still lightsabers. I haven't seen whips work nearly as well. Pickaxes are still the secretly OP weapon.
Force translation mechanics make combat a lot more brutal than before and really moved things up in complexity.

Also, armor deterioration is new to me and it's killing me. I went with the whole "wooden shields work perfectly fine" and now my dwarves shields are falling apart and being destroyed in the middle of combat and I'm very worried.

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Well this just happened. apparently i had a hole in my defenses and one of my squishy crossbowdwarves was brutally beaten by no less than 4 trolls before my non-squishy military destroyed them. i think hes actually immortal.

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>>159085646
his beating lasted for 13 pages. he just passed out at some point and the trolls continued to hit him in the head but he just got back up. (not really stood because his spine is broken but he isn't dead.)

The wait for the next update is killing me

>>159088945
I'm sure we'll have it by next month

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>>159088945
>>159089113

Honestly this month wouldn't surprise me either.

>>159089330
It's possible

So, after artifacts, what's next?

>>159090540
Sex and shitting.

>>159090695
Hopefully not at the same time...

More seriously, magic and the full world-gen overhaul involved with it.

>>159085646
>>159085858
I think it might be time for him to retire.

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I'm just getting comfy in my bed

Tell me a story /dfg/

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>can't engrave constructed walls

>>159093615
In a time before time, I attacked me.

>>159093615
Once upon a time (in year 1053 actually) Dawndiamond was invaded by 53 undead goblin corpses. They were defeated after much conflict and strife.
In the year 1053 Dawndiamond was invaded by a vile force of darkness, a goblin army 97 strong.

REEEE fucking REEEEEEEE

>>159093615
In the year 354, in Ironanvil was besieged by 54 undead soldiers. The (Vampire) hammerlords of Ironanvil slaughtered all of them with only a missing hand as a casualty.

>>159093615
Urist the Melting of Whips was a Dwarf born in the year 42.

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>>159093615
I just learned how to farm and now my shitty hamlet won't starve to death.

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>>159093615
One uv da boyz 'id 'is werebison bite 'an switcht in da middle uv da grub hut last winter. We wuz roight suprised, but 'eh decided to spend is last minutes throttlin' a runty snaga git. Da boyz 'ad a good larf but now we'z gotz ta find a new book keeper.

>>159084628
You've got scourges and whips backwards. Scourges do edge damage, so heavier metals aren't typically the better choice. Steel is good, but adamantine is better. They basically behave like swords with only one attack and lower penetration. Whips are the weapons that have always been referred to as lightsabers. They do blunt damage and concentrate it to a very small contact area, making dense metal whips devestating. Steel is good, copper is better and silver whips are amazing. If you mod or get a ridiculously lucky roll on a strange mood, the platinum whips are even better.

>>159090941
>Hopefully not at the same time...
Pleb.

>>159095864
I don't usually mind tilesets, but yours is particularly fucking ugly

>>159089113
>>159089813
I remember when people were saying that in March 2015. And February 2014. And September 2011. A good rule of thumb is that if a major update looks imminent, tack on another 6 months.

>>159097216
I started out on obsidian but I'll probably switch to phoebus once the next update comes out.

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>>159085858
>one of the trolls stole his pants and beat him with them

>>159097634
Fair enough, I use Phoebus myself. It's nice on my eyes.

>>159097807
I like obsidian because the creature and NPC graphics are on point even if a lot of other stuff isn't. In that regard it beats phoebus by a mile.

>>159095864
Ok so I have a ton of strawberries in a stockpile how do I make my guys eat them? I haven't seen them doing and I'm wondering if I need to put them in some special zone or something. Tried the wiki but I couldn't find anything.

>>159097717
I have an artifact pink jade door depicting the Ogress KindnessSongs beating a dwarf to death with his own alpaca wool socks.

It's kind of silly.

>>159098031
You don't make them eat. They'll eat when they get hungry.

>>159098993
Oh ok, that's good then.

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So you gotta add a couple of tags to make it workable at a bare minimum.

I suggest stance climber where relevant, can open doors of course, and go into the teeth entry, then add grasp to the back teeth.

Normally you would just add this stuff and have the animal available when making an adventurer, but I went in to gm-editor and took a giant lion I bumped into, find the nemesis entry, change the flags to retired adventurer/adventurer, then go retire my current character and take control.

So now I'm running around as a giant lion now eating stuff.

It's a little silly that I knapped stones held in my teeth and made a basalt axe which I strap to my chest somehow, but you gotta be able to butcher kills and I don't know how to let claws work for that.

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Sorry for the nooby question but how much stuff can a single dwarf carry around as equipment? The equipment page on the wiki doesn't specify and I can't find a page that does.

>>159101074
I mean I found the armour page that shows all the type of armour, I guess I'm just wondering if military dwarves can carry a crossbow and a hammer to switch between in combat.

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> Thanks to everybody that helped out in October! The beginning of the month is going to see the editing of a textbook I've been working on with Tanya Short of Kitfox Games arrive at the deadline with a completed manuscript

So, what's the deal with Tarn and this cunt? She parades him around in some random convention, and now she's making him work for her. Innocent friendship or are we going to see Toady getting his autistic heart broken soon?

>>159101216
Technically, yes, but in practice... they'll favor one or the other, and they won't reload properly if dual wielding, you can do it as an adventurer but it's not ideal.

With their armor skill high enough they don't get encumbered by it, so that's nice.

Also, I'm loving this lion thing, I think I'm going to have to add the grasp teeth to all the big cats because I just snuck up on a dwarf out in the middle of a town with nobody nearby, clamped down on their throat and choked them out, then cut them up and ate them.

How do ensure I don't run out of trees on my map?

>>159101810
They just grow back every year automatically. You never run out of them unless you dig up or cover every soil tile

>>159101930
Huh, that makes things a lot easier.

>>159101995
Well, theydo grow back slowly, so you'll never get as much wood as you did when you first chopped down a virgin forest unless you wait several years

>>159101803
savage

>>159099792
Maybe you could make it to where you only require the corpse to "craft" the dead body, and not the sharp object?

>>159101930
>>159101995
It's not a year. It takes 3 years for a sapling to grow into a cuttable tree.

>>159104010
I was thinking about doing that with an interaction, yeah.

I must say it is a lot more fun just surviving by running around biting stuff in the head than I expected it to be.

>>159105297
Yeah, I spent some time playing as a Giant Jumping Spider, shit was fun as hell.

It does get kind of tiresome only biting things, but you've got claws too. Do Giant Lions have [CAN_LEARN] by default?

>>159105445
Nah, should add that too, I'll probably toss in a couple tweaks so they can be used as outsiders. I felt like I would miss being able to talk but it's too amusing stumbling around drunk eating people to care.

Totally going to keep the "predators can grasp with their molars" change though.

How do I find the body of a dead dwarf? Gotta lay a ghost to rest.

>>159106330
build a tablet at a mason's workshop, inscribe it with the ghost dwarf's name at a craftdwarf's workshop, install it somewhere and the ghost will poof

>>159106584
>tablet
I meant slab

>>159106702
Right got it.

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Hey /dfg/, just wanted to let you know you guys are the best general, and I love you all.

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>>159107808
love you too, anon even though you're a faggit

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>>159107808

>>159090540
I would like to be able to take control of individual dwarves. That would be amazing. You control Urist McLazybones and make him build that trade depot that's been sitting unbuilt for months. Or even just prioritizing building. Unless I've completely missed that feature.

>>159093762
ikr

>>159096579
This spurred a long investigation, checking, arena testing, etc.

My conclusion is that BOTH whips and scourges are significantly nerfed from what they used to be. Even adamantine scourges would only succeed by causing death by 1000 papercuts, and denser materials made them no better. Whips perform significantly better with weight but never ever good enough to replace the warhammer as the blunt weapon choice. Force translation on the warhammer is giving it a lot more power.

The best multi-purpose combat tool is the steel pick(uses mining skill). The pick is incredibly strong overall, capable of severing and killing unarmored limbs and necks quickly like a shortsword(or the slightly inferior battle axe), delivering force like a warhammer against highly armored opponents, or penetrating moderately armored and damaging brains and hearts and livers like a spear (although the spear in particular has the potential to pierce tougher materials while picks are much more reliant on the material they're made from).

Edged weapons of very large size and dense materials have incredible potential to penetrate armor and cause dismemberment. Most of these are impossible to equip in fortress mode, such as the Greataxe and Halberd. An actual cut-anything lightsaber, slicing through layers of steel, silk, skin, flesh, and bone for severing of limbs is possible-- with artifact weapons made of very dense material (ie. platinum) and large weapon size (ie. Halberd) if the dwarf wielding is sufficiently large, strong, and skilled. Basically, if the force behind the edge weapon is strong enough to get through the steel on the outside, it has excessive amounts of the force required to go all the way through.

>>159093762
Engravings don't give passing dwarves happy thoughts, so engraving just raises abstract room/fort value. It's useful for rooms, but if you engrave your hallways you're just inviting invaders, and if you can't engrave, walls/floors made of bars/blocks I think can have the same value as exceptional engravings. This can go pretty far with things like silver- you get 4 bars per native silver ore you mine and melt(and if you have some silver you usually have a lot of it), which is 4 smooth silver walls. Then a masterful silver cabinet/throne/table studded with and decorated in high quality cut gems can have so many times the magnitude of value in a single square you can easily absorb the loss of engraved walls. And also give passing dwarves a happy thought.

I went to a necromancer tower in adventure mode to prep me for tomb raiding. I can 1 shot most zombies with a blow to the head or neck, but I'm wondering if there is a faster way to do this. What's the most efficient way to kill a few thousand undead?

>>159114134
A->a->head->a(or whatever your weapons strongest attack is) until they're all dead.

Alternatively just sprint past them, grab the slab, become undead (no exertion so you can fight forever), equip all the shield you have, plant a weight on your . key and go afk for a few minutes. Assuming you have the [MORE] text set to the highest value you can, this ensures completely safe, completely AFK shield user, armour user, endurance and observer training.

Or you could just run past them all again.

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>30 military dwarves
>1 speardwarf died due to drowning himself in the lake, 29 remaining
>Killed a total of 149 enemies in invasions
>27 year old axedwarf with 15 kills, just had his foot smashed
>115 year old captain of the guard with 12 kills and 2 notable kills on goblins, minor injuries
>19 year old speardwarf (in crappy copper armor) has 27 kills including killing the fire-breathing mountain titan, Fath Ormatzang Sunggloram, she is completely uninjured
>She is unbelievably strong, absolutely inexhaustible and basically unbreakable

She's actually only participated in two fights- against the titan and against the last goblin invasion- she actually killed nearly 1/3rd of the goblin invaders and the speardwarves have been drilling for only about half a year.

>>159114640
I tried the sprinting thing once before, but as soon as I leapt over the heads of the outside ones, I was in the middle of a room absolutely crammed full of the buggers. I couldn't make my way to the other side of the room before being swarmed, and they landed some lucky hits. It ended fast there.

>>159115163
You could also round up a bunch of villagers and lay siege to the place.

I am getting random "cancels gather plants: could not find path" from my farmers, what could have caused this?

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>>159101396
Why so cynical, maybe they just both share the same insane game philosophy

>>159090540
After artifacts/some magic its BOAT TIME

>>159118167
AS ARMOK DECREED, SO IT SHALL BE

>>159115567
They only really serve as short-lived meatshields unfortunately. Still, I think when I return for a third time I'll be able to finish off the zombies.

I keep running away when I start getting exhausted/hungry/thirsty/drowsy

At least I've ammassed a reputation as a bandit slayer after some idiots tried to mug me on my way back into town.

Hey guys it is Comrade from a few nights ago. I know some of you expressed that you wanted me to pop in and shill when I make some new DF videos.

I put the next two parts up to my mediocre shit-fest of a series tonight. Is anyone interested in links?

Also I just wanted to say after playing my other world today fuck spittle.

>>159121402
>his videos aren't /dfg/ exclusives

>>159122687
This is true but I did not try to hide it last time I was here. Its cool, I won't post them. I /dfg/ is a sacred place and I do not want to mess up what you all have going on here.

>>159122769
what's the point of posting your videos elsewhere
would you rather have 1000 elves watch your videos or 10 dwarves

>>159122997
I like to share and talk about DF

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>Be Me
>Pimp ass hearthperson of the Lord Ducim Riversquest the Ash of Borrowing
>Some punk adventurer comes up to me
>Looks like the edgiest fucking faggot
>Wearing what looks to be a mask taken from a Goblin
>What a fag
>He starts telling me about how obeying the law is pointless and order is for fools
>Seriously want to beat his ass, but restrain myself
>We argue bitterly for a while
>He's... Actually starting to make sense...
>By the beard of Olin, God of Suicide and Caverns...
>Realise I've wasted my life serving a fool and upholding meaningless values.
>The scholarly wanderer asks me about the lord.
>I tell him about who I serve and the Coalition of Hammers
>He asks me to join him in an insurrection
>Holy shit
>Despite his flawless argument and intriguing worldview, I decline.
>Gets visibly mad, starts screaming about the ibex he killed in the wilderness
>Grabs his copper spear
>I'm immediately on guard, as an experienced soldier I'm confident i can beat this guy
>He shoves spear into a mug
>Wat
>He passes me the mug
>Realise I'm thirsty after all the arguing
>Maybe this guy isn't so crazy
>Drink
>I drink the spear
>That fucker tricked me
>Die

Is it common for a pack of camels to wander around in the leaves of tress on the layer +5?

This is highly disturbing. Would they take damage if I were to chop down those trees?

>>159123080
I hate talking and sharing with other people
that's why I play dwarf fortress

>>159123339
Those are the reasons I drink, to each their own.

>>159112548
So what would be better, a platinum halberd or an an adamantine halberd?

>>159124523
My dick

>>159123125
9/10

"I drink myself" would have been better imhqotbh

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>>159115105
So those knife eared hippies finaly bought me a breeding pair of giant tigers.

I have been mass slaugthering puppies and kept ~10+ wardogs at the depo so they buy time till dorfs get in, and i can safley close the gate, diverting the enemy to the killlanes.
Now when those kitties get frisky, i can delegate that duty as i assume they are much more effective, so how do i honorably retire those doggies (its bad enough i keep slaugthering their puppies)
Also, i want one for each military dorfs, but i fear they will like them as pets so when they inevitably die they get bad thoughts. SO does manually assigning animals coutnt as pet or no?

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>>159118669
I managed and got the book, then I found a tomb and plumbed its depths. Couldn't find the big boss, so all I left with was an army of skeletons.

I seem to have accidentally wandered into an elven retreat with my bone warriors. Oh dear. Whatever shall I do?

>>159128531
Assigning work animals doesn't count as giving a pet no, but it can still give a negative thought on death especially if you dorf is afraid of death.

>>159112548
You seem to be working off of some flawed premeses.

Whips weren't nerfed, and scourges were never good. Whips still work exactly the same as they did when they got the reputation they currently enjoy. Since then skulls have thickened, pain threshholds have increased, and force translation mechanics went in. Whips are exactly the same, and still do what they have always been good at. Chipping bones and causing pain.

Your conclusion on picks is a known thing, that they do a battle axe's job better than a battle axe and are a poor man's spear. But a throwaway line in there is all kinds of wrong: "the slightly inferior battle axe" suggests that you think battle axes are a lesser weapon than short swords, which are hands down the worst native edged weapon for dwarves. All of their attacks are a worse version of another weapon's attack.

The last bit is where you really go off the rails, though. You seem to be missing a basic premise of weapons material science. Heavy/dense is good for blunt weapons, and hard/sharp is good for edged weapons. Platinum is one of the worst, if not the absolute worst, materials for an edged weapon (such as a halberd). When hitting a harder material, such as steel, they won't penetrate at all. Any unstopped force from the edged damage will be converted to a lesser amount of blunt damage which may break bones in the case of a very strong fighter using an artifact, but is more likely to just bruise and cause some incidental joint damage. Furthermore, because of the vast material superiority of steel, the weapon will likely be damaged or broken of it isn't an artifact. Nothing platinum is going to be severing the limbs of any armored opponents, for that you want bronze<iron<steel<adamantine. You didn't specify what kind of tests you did, but I hope you didn't base them on that fundamentally flawed understanding of material science.

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>>159130582
they died

>Titian arrives

>manage to close of the fort due to no real military

>Besieged

>suddenly migrants arrive

>Its almost only children, just two adults


Suppose the the Titan saved me some time getting rid of those pesky freeloaders

>>159132841
Made me recall when toady added evil biomes for the first time. I had loads of fun and frustration distracting zombies/thralls and herding migrants so my 2 surviving settlers could not die alone

>>159121402

Fuck them, just post the damn links. I can't remember how to find you on YouTube or I'd just find them myself.

>>159114134
just wait until we have area atacks or magic

>>159121402
yeah brah, post them

>>159123125
solid 7,69/10 m8
Good jab

>>159107808
I mean, the best general is obviously /ksg/, but I apreciate it anyway

>>159096547
Im amazed by the irony of orcs
The word on that phrase with the best spelling is 'book'

if a werebeast bites a merchant, will there be potential for the same merchant to come back and fuck up my fort?

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>>159093615
bout' half a day later, but eh
Hope you were sick or something

>You are Lebuk, the elk-man
>unfortunately, not a were-elk, an elk-man, one of the shittiest races to be in this world
>You are looking for a female to breed, to pass your particularly +Genotypes+ onto the gene pool of your species
>You confront this idea with a good piece of fear, as you have never been to good at flirting, but the nature will provide, and in the journey, you might see some interesting things, you think to yourself

>This is your story

May I go on?

>>159137024
Not the anon you replied to, but do go on, please.

>>159137024
Continue please.

god I fucking love elkbirds.
have any of the /dfg/ drawfags drawn cavernlife/elkbirds before, or are willing to draw them now?

>goblin scholar is visiting
?

>>159138210
>GOBLIN
>SCHOLARS

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>>159138004
Got you covered!

Elk birds, Crundles, and Jabbers.

Aw shit, I was sleeping and lost the chance to talk about spore yesterday
If you are still here bote anon, or anyone
What things that got included in spore are missing in Dwarf Fortress?
I usually think of spore when designing creatures in df, btw

>>159139187
Crundles are so cute it makes me sad when my dorfs dismember them.

why isnt my sandly clay floor good for clay gathering activity?
I cant get my dorfs to collect clay

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>>159140552
You do have to be careful around them regardless. But most of the time they seem to keep harmless, expect the time when one punches your officer in half.

>>159141009
Sandy clay isnt real clay anon
You need a clay or fire clay tile

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>>159137024
>>159137540
>>159137824
Didn't think anybody would answer

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-x0qX1ZAg4
Listen for more inmersion

>Your hoofs try the grass, as you get ready to march on your journey to the quest for impregnation
>Pack up with a bunch of friends, that are taller than you, who charge you with the task yo guard the provisions to the trip
>-''You think you can do this, lebuk?''
>you howl enthusiasticaly as an answer, as you don't have the vocal cords to emit any other noise
>Your pals, glad at you for taking the bunch, offer to make the night guards in your place, as the night holds many dangers in it
>With the mountains behind you, the haunted forest to the right, the sea to your left, and the royal perk'ler way in front of you, you all begin the journey
>...
>23 days later


Well anons, its your turn to choose, whatever option gets most posts, directs the story

A.Lembuk and his friends go north, to the perk'le royal way. Maybe in the city there are elks for sell
B.They get on a boat in the blue sea, and travel far away to the next continent, where exotic elks live
C.They enter the haunted forest, to go to the green hills, a place surely full of female elks

>>159141329
>C.They enter the haunted forest, to go to the green hills, a place surely full of female elks

>>159141329
>A.Lembuk and his friends go north, to the perk'le royal way. Maybe in the city there are elks for sell

>>159141329
>quests outside of /qst/

>>159141987
>fun is not funny
I actually got the idea from some enf thread in /e/ sempai
/qst/ is a stupid addition

how do I check if my fort can get invaded by goblins and whatever?

>>159143336
On embark press tab to show neighbours. Any with red lines next to them are at war with your civ and will invade. If it says tower on the neighbours screen or you are in an evil biome, necromancers will invade as well.

>>159141654
Seconding the green hills, as the thought of them pleasantly reminds me about some green hills that I saw once.

>>159141329
Castle Jam is my jam, man.

>>159141329
Over the river and through the woods to the hillocks we do go.

The whole artifact update is gonna make adventure mode way more fun. At the moment, if you're roleplaying a servant of a kingdom instead of the typical murderhobo, you tend to run out of things to do once you clear out the local bandits, outlaws, and troubling wildlife/monsters. But with artifacts being stolen and traded all the time, things suddenly become much more dynamic as you travel the world seeking magical treasure to increase your homeland's reputation.

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>>159141654
>>159145523
Well, Haunted forest it is then


from this point and for most of the part, I think the best music now is
this
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4mYCF_JIEk&index=8&list=PLA38CD93AA1E47E8E

>Tombel is dead, rulalko is dead too, and you are not sure If mayden is dead or has become death himself
>The forest sure was some fucked up haunted place, and you dont want to think much about it
>As you stumble out of the haunted forest with the only three friends you have left, Melben, Rococ and Verliko, a great view of a relaxing hill strikes you to the core
>Verliko falls to the ground crying strongly. Melben and Rococ shortly follow him with, screaming, overwhelmed by the lack of obscurity in the view
>You have discovered that you can cry too. You never had a bigger oportunity to find out than now
>The forces of darkness that once made you come into the forest seem to have had their way with all of you, and push you to get out of there as quick as possible
>Melben pukes from trauma before re-taking the way with you three

Welp, looks like you choosed the first bad option guys, Im sorry.
What? I didn't tell you? Oh well.
There are only 3 bad choices you can take before lembuk and his now only 3 friends die before passing their seed
There will be atleast one bad choice in each post (Ill tell how many), so good luck

>Trying to leave that old chapter back, you ask your friends where to go now

>A.Melben:We should go to the west. Some friends of my sister live there, and we could get some provisions and directions from there. Its only at 3 days of travel
>B.Rococ:We should go to the east. There's a hidden church in the mountains there that aids wanderers in their quests, surely they can help us. Its 5 days of travel
>C.Verliko:Eh, guys, I think Im seeing some female elks over there...just sayin'(aprox 0 days of travel

>Your state:You are all bretty traumatized, and still cleaning up parts of your old friends from your fur, but fine

Choose carefully

>>159147363
ROCK COCK

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>>159147363
You fuck, you didnt warn us of anything
C is a trap for fucking sure, I dont trust that Verliko fuckboy, so go A

>>159142224
Im all for this, but I wouldnt be suprised if you got banned or something.

>>159148524
Listen here you Yeah, you are probably right, I'll have that in mind, thanks for the advice
Feedback is apreciated

I haven't played in quite some time, is it normal to go three years without an invasion or is this mastershit fuckery?

>>159149301
Normal. Armies now worry about distance versus fort value, can get distracted by other conflicts, and the civ in question actually needs to have the manpower necessary to muster an army.

I have a temple, performers and instruments, yet my lazy asshole performers just fuck around with "no job"

how do I fix them?

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Quick! I need a cool symbol for my newest embark. You have 7:00 to respond.

>>159150214
Microcline wagon

>>159143629
Red lines don't mean war. If you're at war it says WAR in red. The red lines indicate a hostile diplomatic relationship, which goblin civs always have with every other civ on account of being snatchers. It's kind of a pedantic distinction, though, as the only possible interactions with a goblin civ are violent and automatically start a war with them unless you mod the game to play a snatcher civ yourself.

>>159150214
A dwarf. Thats all I got, sorry.

>>159134469
>>159135819

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKYbJBRDXko&list=PLBrVBW-RosCU3wo3_kyva6ewojttW1PC_&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZGVcvVqvoo&index=3&list=PLBrVBW-RosCU3wo3_kyva6ewojttW1PC_

Alright my dudes, thanks for the continued interest.

So does The Rapist just not work at all with this current version, or what? These immigrants are swarming me and I'm having a hard time getting them the job settings I want.

>>159150525
>pedantic
i think you mean semantic

>>159147363
C.
we must find female elks as soon as possible.

>>159151703
It doesn't work and will never work

Have fun

>>159152938
Seconding. This elk's sword requires a sheath, post haste!

>>159152949
Really?

>>159155238
Really

>>159147363
>B.Rococ:We should go to the east. There's a hidden church in the mountains there that aids wanderers in their quests, surely they can help us. Its 5 days of travel

Time to rape some Elk nuns!

>>159147363
>C.Verliko:Eh, guys, I think Im seeing some female elks over there...just sayin'(aprox 0 days of travel

>>159147363
>>159156109
Chose B as my legit choice but am excited to see C aka the bad choice of every round.

>>159139950
>I usually think of spore
Bury that memory anon, you'll be happier

>>159124523
Adamantine, especially if you have high quality levels on the adamantine, but mostly both are so high end differences between artifacts and adamantine become irrelevant, but successful parrying is a factor that SEEMS to happen more with the adamantine weapon, but more science is required for conclusive results.

>>159131642
Whips gained something of a ~33% speed penalty(longer recovery time), lowered weapon weight, and more. They're significantly nerfed.

Battle axes ARE worse than short swords, both by maths and by performance. Short swords outperform battle axes against soft targets slightly, both do significantly more poorly against armored targets unless they exceed the material, but short swords offer a stab attack, which offer significantly increased likelyhood of disarming/disabling a well-armored opponent. I'd avoid both short swords and battle axes, however.

hard/sharp, heavy/dense thumbrules yes yes yes yes yes. What you're not getting is that under extremes of heavy/dense it can make up for the lack of hard/sharp, and when hitting a harder material hard enough, it can penetrate anyway. Platinum is better than silver and copper on edge weapons, too. The take away here is that Toady did a very very awesome job at modelling these things.

As a side note, edge weapons actually use weapon quality factor very significantly, where blunt weapons do not seem to take weapon quality in as a factor at all.

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>>159155648
Rape mod when?

>>159156819

Dont worry its already being worked on, three years in the making and we have people in the field performing field testing and taking samples

The game seems determined to kill my fort off with invasions.
I lost several early caravans due to some x-files shit
Migrants stopped arriving in year 2
And I've had ~100 unit strong goblin invasions twice a year for two years.
I'm going to die to simple attrition. Dwarf numbers are slowly shrinking, dwarf activity is beginning to be limited to making steel armor and weapons and training, and I'm losing the dwarfpower needed to accomplish any major fortress-saving project.

>>159157291
Build the best damn tavern in the world and recruit as many mercenaries as possible. Never surrender, never let the greenskins in. Sacrifice a fish dissector down a mineshaft for the blessing of Armok.

How much does the 64 bit client help with performance?

>>159157605
This might actually work. Make your tavern the most beautiful and luxurious thing, and watch the mercenaries swarm to you. Pre-trained and with gear, too.

Can dwarves wear jewelery in fortress mode or is it just for adventure mode and trading?

>>159158307
It doesn't make it worse. It alleviates some specific bottlenecks, while it doesn't help with others at all.

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>>159147363
Hello? Elkposter?
did the mods get him?

>>159158460
Also fish dissector sacrifice is absolutely necessary.

>>159159101
nah friend, I was dining with some friends
Never thought I would get adressed as elkposter in my favourite general

>>159159037
So, is late game performance still shit after a certain point?

>>159159589
Hurry up and keep writefagging you fucking fr*ck

>>159159614
Yeah, but depending on the circumstances that certain point moves a bit or a lot further away.
Big embarks, for example work a lot better.
But if you already use small embarks with little stuff and few things, it won't be that noticeable.

Game performance getting increasingly bad in DF is inherent to its design. The more things you keep track of in a more and more detailed fashion, the lower your performance is gonna be. There is no way around that. Late game performance will ALWAYS be shit.
The only thing that will change is with improved performance people will play bigger embarks do more stuff and the game will allow you to keep track of more things.

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>>159159589
>having friends

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>>159123168

>>159160151
Haven't seen that one before. I own it now

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>>159160616

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fucking webs REEEEEEEE

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>Settle in town.
>Over time, more and more of my species start to settle in town as well, to the point that we are the largest demographic.
>Commence operation migrant crisis.
>Start killing off kings.
>Eventually there will be a demon on the throne.

Now if only regicide actually meant something. How soon can we expect a power vacuum to actually have consequences?

>>159160045
to be fair, there are a number of optimizations that Toady refuses to implement, among them standardized materials.

The only reason MasterWork DF runs at all is because of standardized material templates. (I kind of hate that MW takes out all the different types of sand and a bunch of stone types. I know Microcline isn't important from a gameplay perspective, but as a rock collector I actually enjoy learning about all the different types of minerals)

>>159162503
>masterbloat
"no"

>>159162917
Can't you just ignore or switch off anything you don't like? It has a menu that lets you toggle on or off just about every feature.

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>>159147363
>>159148080
>>159148092
>>159148524
>>159152938
>>159155064
>>159155648
>>159156109
>>159156350
Well guys, 3Cs, 2Bs and 1A
Unfortunately for our beloved friends, you chose the FUN direction in their journey. But you already knew that didn't you?

2nd strike

>The three of you look at Verliko with a dumb glare, and look in the same direction he's looking at, almost at the same time
>A fresh and vigorous view soften the ice in the hearts of our adventurers
>Various female elks and elk-women can be seen in the distance, trottling in a graceful way along the hill
>Suddenly, a powerful scent, like that of sweat and salty milk fills the ambient, completely filling your mind with thoughts more akin to that of an animal that to a person
>Despite being the most animal of the three travelers, your adventure through the forest has made you powerfully skeptic. That's the reason why you are the only one whose hips doesnt vibrate with lust, or why your mouth isn't dripping saliva in the group
>Deeply untrusting of the hypnotizing view that wasn't there moments ago, you, realize that it must be an illusion, caused by an evil daemon to deceive you into fucking, I dunno, a tree or something
>-''I don't fuck with no trees''-You tell yourself, and try to talk your friends out of it
>Of course, when you turn to advice them, they have already start sprinting towards the nymphs in the green hills
>But not Verliko, Verliko is just standing there, with a grave look, sitting in the ground, indiferent, aparently, to the previous wishes that seemed to consume his soul
>Before you realize whats gonna happen, Verliko tells you
>''You should tell them goodbye, Lembuk, you are not gonna see them again alive''

No decision for now, this was part 1/2

2 bar of steel = 300 shekels
5 plump helmet biscuits = 300 shekels

Are biscuits that good?

The plot thickens bbs


>You gaze, mouth open, at Melben and Rococ, who are running, just about to encounter the females
>Something Is odd
>One of the elk stands on two hoofs, revealing an Human form, and starts pointing up to your two friends
>``Look at me´´-Says Verliko
>Just as you turn your head, you know that both your friends have died in a horrible way, and that Verliko tried to divert your attention so you didn't see them die
>´´You have but two choices´´Im gonna run again to the forest, to flee from our atackers
>´´You can either Follow me, and let me explain the situation, or you can keep here, and face the woman who just killed our friends, you decide
>A faint red glow shines on his eyes before ending the phrase

>A.Run with Verliko to the horrible forest from where you came from, hoping that its not an ambush, since you are not sure if you can trust him at all, after him not stopping your friends from dying
>B.Stay, and let go who used to be your friend, and who stopped you from seeing your pals die, and face a Woman Wizard who may want to kill you

This should be ineteresting, decide carefully

>>159151970
No, I meant pedantic. The distinction I'm making now is semantic, though.

>>159164380
>B.Stay, and let go who used to be your friend, and who stopped you from seeing your pals die, and face a Woman Wizard who may want to kill you

Verliko is a fuckboy.

>>159164380
B.
She may not be a Elk, but a pussy is a pussy.

>>159164380
A.

There will be other opportunities

>>159164380
>B.Stay, and let go who used to be your friend, and who stopped you from seeing your pals die, and face a Woman Wizard who may want to kill you
>>159164949
This

>>159156806
random pleb here, the guides usually say that battle axes are good for chopping limbs so I make them for my dorfs

but I shouldnt have those squads at all then?

>>159164949
>>159165337
well, you dont know if she's on your side at all
I dont trust no elk-camouflaged bitch
Just an imparcial view from elkposter

>>159165513
we dont need consent, just a bit of lube and a iron dick.

>>159165634
fair enough, horny amigo

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>>159164926
>>159164949
>>159165337
>>159165757

We are 100% dead in 3 turns, in one of the only dwarf fortress quests and decent writefaggotry instances I've seen on this board recently.

Nicely done, /dfg/.

>>159165969
It wont be the last, right elkposter?
right?

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>>159165634
mfw my dick is actually an artifact crafted by a moody Armok himself.

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>>159165969
>>159166131
Oh, dont be so sure about that senpai
You know, its the spectator's task to direct the elks, but it's the writefag's task to direct the Story

Praise The Elk, and have faith

>>159166275
I meant the last quest, I should have made it more clear.

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Ok I've headed into the elven "city" after laying waste to the outposts surrounding it, and immediately all my skeletons starting smashing into each other. Theres like 10 pages of this whenever I perform and action. Are they trying to climb trees and falling? What the hell is going on?

>>159166375
Oh, dont worry senpai
As long as people keeps liking what I do, I'll keep doing it
Its the least I can do for the second best general on the whole 4chin that is /dfg/, I owe you just too much for making me know the game
I could use some feedback on what I could do to better in my writings tho, Treat me like a was a newb drawfag, and make some criticism, I beg

>>159164252
dwarves only eat like 4 times a year, so if those plump helmets were prepared by a legendary chef it actually makes sense

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All this elk.

How do I find vampires now without therapist?

>>159165457
They are good for chopping off limbs. For normal-sized humanoid creatures pick axes are a little better for that, but the bigger the creature gets the less that advantage becomes. Once you get to the size of larger domestic livestock battle axes are better at dismemberment. Despite anon's claims, short swords aren't better. Battle axes have more force, larger contact area, deeper penetration. Short swords do have a stab attack, although it's objectively worse than its slash, which is objectively worse than a battle axe's chop. There are some niche cases where it's useful.
All told, having axedwarves is a good thing, but they shouldn't be your only units. No military ever suffered from rolling in some miners, and in many cases miners will outperform axedwarves of equal skill.

>>159157605
>>159158460
I've had a tavern going for years now. Masterwork clear glass windows overlooking the lake, two artifact tables, several royal bedrooms for staying at, all furniture is made out of silver and encrusted with gems.

Far exceeds value for the "royal" classification, but since your post I've removed all overlapping rooms and added a few touches.

Nobody visits.

BUT! A caravan arrived successfully now on the 5th year. Things might be turning around. From the news it sounds like a lot of the other settlements are being lost to "The Enlightening Seductions"

>>159167439

Drop them in a deep water cell, if they float they are Vampires, then just release the giant crab

>>159167908
Sounds like almost everybody is dead. YOU'RE the mountainhome now, Urist.

>>159069562
asked in last thread, received no answer so here we go again;
How can I enable the workflow plugin to run on startup in the dfhack.init file?
Was there a way to cause the game not to crash after adding a few restraints?

>>159167397
>>159166375
>>159166131
>>159165969
Ok guys, Im gonna sleep now, even horny elks need to sleep
Will lembuk and Verliko survive?
Who is the misterious woman, and why did she kill Melben and Rococ?
Remember to vote carefully
Tomorrow more and better.
good night /dfg/

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>>159138210
>>159138850
>>159137024

Are necromancer the only magicians in DF?

seems kinda weird that there are no other types of mages

Always wanted a residential hobo wizard doing weird experiments in the fort and getting lynched by a mob when his "Super Fertilizer" kills the entire harvest of the year

>>159170018
that a good

>>159170018
Well

That's pretty good

>>159170190
Soon.
http://bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

>>159170438

Dungeons and Dwarfs in 2081

I bet magic will be incredibly OP

>>159172080
Absolutely, I mean look at what adventurers can accomplish with just necromancy or that one guy with a minecart filled with lava.

Also anyone use the Fortress Defense Mod that adds more enemies? Does that actually add more sieges and stuff? Is it any good?

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This one is probably the end. One of the hammerlords went ballistic out of nowhere and just crippled about a third of the military. The trolls and beakdogs are easy- the danger is always the goblins with metal armor and weapons, and this one has very strong amounts of that.

>>159169171
Good night elkposter
elkbird quest when

>Global variables can work like that, and we should have something there for next time.

Based Toad, mah nigga.

>>159149523
Is it normal to get attacked every year by a 100 goblins and 20 trolls? I have so many body parts outside of my fort.

>>159175002
>tfw no sieges
>tfw too many sieges
>captcha: PEINER GIROUD

What are the notable "villains" of the world you're playing in right now? I'm currently playing Masterwork (yes yes muh bloat muh Meph's a shithead) and the most notable evils in my world are:

>A goblin kingdom of 20000 people and ruled by a powerful demon prince, located in the farthest reaches of the world and protected by hundred of miles of evil mountain biome, making them virtually inaccessible.

>A human kingdom ruled by vampire lords who swear fealty to an old and terrible Giant.

>A black dragon who laid with a werewolf and somehow produced an unholy brood of 8 more dragons, all of whom nest in an abandoned fortress, slowly growing until they are strong enough to bring terror to the world.

>a band of 7 minotaurs who are an army unto themselves and have sacked countless hamlets.

>>159175472
fuck off.

>>159175876
No u

is there a way to stop dwarves from dropping their clothes all over the place?

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>>159175876

>>159176652
>imgur filename
>mastershit
Go away, reddit.
Or atleast try to hide it.

>>159176397
Put cabinets in their bedroom.

>>159176768
I literally just googled the mouse thing a moment ago and the first result happened to be on Imgur. I don't bother with Reddit.

>>159176859
I guess it's time to stop using a dormitory. I've never been this far yet, making 80 bedrooms is going to be a challenge

>>159175002
I guess that's normal now. I got sidetracked with making everything and anything silver and slowed down on taking care of outfitting and training military and I paid the price. It was a lot of fun for a while, but the clutter drove me crazy.

Would you all be capable of surviving in real life on wheat, duck eggs, and lettuce? Because that is the hell my dwarfs are experiencing with these beasts everywhere.

>>159178232
For a few months, until vitamin deficiencies caught up to me.

>>159175472
I'll play masterwork when it gets updated to the next version

>>159178441
Whelp. One got upset and ran down into the caves to fist fight a croc and lost his hand.

I have not had a tantrum spiral end a fort in almost a irl year. Did something change?

>>159179352
Just out of curiosity, how significant is the difference between 43.03 and .05? Is it really that big of a deal?

>>159179703
By next version I meant "upcoming version"

>>159179493
The entire emotional system was overhauled, m8y.

>>159179902
ooooh I see. Yeah I'm super hyped for the next update. I'll probably play the Genesis mod until Masterwork updates, since they tend to update really quickly.

If I went in and added [CAN_LEARN] to all of the game's animals would they pick up skills during worldgen?

>>159177650
there is never any reason to use a dormitory.

Even if you have all the beds set up right next to each other, you can make each bed its own room and assign it a size of 1 tile.

Also, you don't have to assign beds to dorfs, you can just make the room and they will automatically claim a bed.

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Allright. I like stories and said I would write in my only general sometime. Here is an attempt.

>You find yourself conscious after what feels like days of floating through a void of rest.
>You are immediately aware of a pain pumping through your head, and an oozing feeling in your right arm.
>As your vision clears you take account of upturned barrels and the strong odor of alcohol wafting around the tiny stone room.
>'Ah shite,' you think to yourself, 'Ahve, up and pissed myself."
>You look down at your lap to see how bad it is and instead if alcohol you are propped against the wall in a three inche deep pool of blood.
>Adrenaline hits your system as you now realize the overturned barrels are a barricade against the door.
>"This must be the private alcohol storage of the mayor, that greedy elf fucking bastard."


>A. Check self for wounds
>B. Attempt to start digging your way out of the room
>C. Wait
>D. Suck the blood filled alcohol off of the floor.

did 43.03 get 64bit support?
because it crashes like it didn't, and LNP/etc. are too comfy to leave just yet

>>159181152
I haven't had any problems with it, and I run a 64 bit OS

>>159181127
D, obviously

>>159181048
yeah I didn't realize I could do that stupid exploit, I just read the wiki about making a giant decorated/engraved room with plenty of beds in it which all have the whole room as a bedroom, an easy way to make a royal bedroom for everyone.

>>159181127
D)

I NEEDS MAH SPINATCH!!!

>>159181249
do you use TWBT or 2D? allegedly, 2D reduces a bit of crashing (which has been an issue lately) as would running in 64bit

so,I'm trying to get into DF for the first time
I just generated a world and I'm about to embark
what should be my first settings?

>>159181314
Uh... I'm not sure it works like that.

I thought each dwarf needed its own bedroom.

You at least know how to make a meeting hall, right?

>>159181127
D

I mean come on now

>>159181556
Yeah it does work like that.

And yeah I have a meeting hall, a tavern and even a temple

>>159181453
I don't know what those are.

I just use the LNP.

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I'm >>159181528
is this a good starting place?

>>159181929
I recommend reading the OP

But yes that's not a bad place

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>>159181693
pic related

>>159181929
Yes

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D it is you predictable bastards

>'Well,' you think, 'Chances are aye probably die today... Moite as well go out inebriated.'
>You try to prop yourself into a better position but your arm throbs with sudden pain, you fall over with a sick *kurplunk* into the viscous mixture of nastiness.
>You half breathe, half drink down three or four gulps of the stuff before you feel any effect.
>Your mind settles happily into the normal state of drunken thought, but something seems a little different this time.
>Your vision seems slightly clearer, and your heart seems to pump a little harder.
>Suddenly you are perfectly perceptive on the time of day.
>'Late evening, almost time for fun.' Your mind seems to say to you.

Do you

>A. Wait
>B. Check wounds
>C. Clear barricade
>D. Quietly listen in drunken bliss.

>>159181528
Well, good luck, DF is hard as fuck and you have to be slightly autistic to enjoy it.

My advice:

1) Download Lazy Newb Pack. (For real)
2) Learn how to use Dwarf Therapist (It comes with Lazy Newb Pack)
3) To get anywhere, you need to learn how to dig. To dig, you need a pick and a dwarf with the mining labor enabled. Press d, then hit d again for mining, or h to build a channel in the floor.
4) To grow food, you need to grow on soil. Underground plants only grow underground, above ground plants only grow above ground. Press b to go to the build menu, and P to build a plot. The seeds you start with only let you plant them underground.
5) Eventually you are going to need to build a well and possibly a resevoire. Once you've got the basics down, remember: if you are building a resevoire, build a hatch where you're well is going to be, then close the floodgate to your resevoire, otherwise the water will come up through your well and flood your fortress.

>>159182296
A

Just wait

Don't even breathe

>>159181528
Also, because making military dorfs are so complicated, its best to bring somebody with the hunting labor enabled and make them plenty of bolts at the crafting workshop.

They will suffice against early threats, but eventually you will need to learn how to use the military.

>>159182296
B

Hope there's no nerve damage

>>159181528
Oh, and for gods sake, READ THE WIKI

>>159182296
D

>>159182296
B

Is it possible to witness an invasion actually happen? Like I see soldiers camped outside but if I wait long enough will they storm the town?

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>>159182665
>>159182320
>>159182135
so I made a stockpile and designated two dwarves to mine,but they are only mining the area near the channels.Why won't they mine the other designated areas too?

>>159183687
There is a presence of water and lava which the Dorfs want to avoid.

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A,B,B,D

Color me surprised. (Comrade here btw)

>Now that you are drunk on this vile shit you are more capable of coherent thought.
>You begin to check yourself for damage, firstly with the parts of your body that hurt.
>Just from glancing at your right arm it is obvious something fell on it, from the elbow down it is crushed badly.
>You are capable of moving your fingers, but the bone is visible through the abrased skin and it will need some doctoring soon.
>Running your fingers along your bald head you do not feel any cuts and it does not seem tender from bruising. The pain in your head is likely due from blood loss, or a hangover.
>Other than that you are just trapped in a tiny shitty room full of an unknown alchoholic liquid and likely sitting in a pool of what is mostly your own blood...
>So pretty much a normal fucking day.
>You soon feel a viration, a slow docile movment as if the earth is waking up beneath you.
>The sound of distant rumbling can be heard without and ear to the ground, and you swear its possible to make out a scream or two through the crumbling earth.

Do you,

>A. Listen closer
>B. Get the fuck out
>C. Get out carefully with less fuck
>D. Check barrels for other supplies

>>159167128
>criticism

OK then. Keep up with the English lessons.

>>159183903
You didn't really say whether there were any other exits.

If there are, C, if not, D

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>>159183826
I sent 2 dwarves to mine and One of them found "clay"
I think I'm fucked,is he sinking or what?

>>159183903
D.

Fucking forgotten beasts

>>159183903
A

>>159184138
nvm,he came back and they're mining again.

How do I make walls and fortifcations?I have wood and stone.

>>159184094
I thought I mentioned just the exit behind the barricaded door. My bad, at work so I am typing this out between shit.

>>159183687
They will.
>>159184138
He's not.

Please read this.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Quickstart_guide

>>159184347
Thats the only one you mentioned, but I don't think you said it was the only one, I just kind of assumed it was.

>>159184537
I'm literally reading it right now.thanks anyway

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A,D,D

>The room is only five or six feet tall, and the barrels are stacked three quarters of that height.
>They are two stacks deep and only a few appear to not be secreting this shit the mayor drinks.
>You stand up carefully, wobbling a bit due to a light feeling in your head.
>You walk over to the dense wooden barrels and remove a few from the top of the stack and set them on the ground near you.
>Being drunk over the smell of mysterious wooden barrels reminds you of the workshops.
>You sadly wish the beasts would fuck off and allow you to go back to crafting your wonderful little rock mugs.
>Glancing down at your arm and wincing you hope that you will even be able to dexteriously work stone ever again.
>You pop the lids off of both barrels with your good hand and glance inside.
>One contains a wooden training shield that has seen some work. Deep gashes and burn marks cover it, giving it an immediate sense of character.
>Also in this barrel a short sword of high quality rests underneath the shield. Its blade shines with polish, and its made of dense iron.
>Engraved on the hilt is an image of a dwarf plunging the weapon itself into an ogres back. Expertly crafted gore is seen running off the end of the engraved sword as it leaves the beasts chest.
>Shuffling over you peek into the second barrel. Various pieces of cloth and thread are lining the bottom.

Do you,

A. Doctor your wound and arm youself with the heirlooms.
B. Check some other barrels.
C. Curse
D. A and C

>>159181929
How are the neighbors.

What do large pots look like in real life?

>>159185928
B and C

>>159186106
A and C

>>159186106
don't be a dumbshit, that thing is coming down the hall.

>>159185969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pzoJVnPblI

>>159186403
That's what the cursing is for

>>159185969
Like a medium pot, but larger.

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>>159185969
...?

>>159187018
>Imagine having so much weed that when the cops come to your door you just dump it in a huge pile on the floor and hide inside of it

>>159187363
I'd probably do that just to give the cops a good laugh.

If I was going to jail for felony trafficking and possession, might as well make a lark of it.

>>159185928
C

The only thing we agreed upon is cursing, so I will take a little bit from both choices.


>With your OHFUCKOHFUCK senses tingling you decide to hurridly gather some supplies and keep looking.
>With your basic understanding of medicine you wrap your arm in the cloth to stop bleeding, and quickly tie it in place using the thread.
>Using your left hand you grab hold of the sword and are easily able to weild it in one hand.
>It is +Masterfully Crafted+ and is balanced perfectly at the hilt.
>You swish it around a few times and keep it close to you as you scamper around the room hurredly.
>"Fucking cunts," You say outloud, "I am going to find the freaky bastard responsible for getting in the way of my mug making, crawl up his arse, and blend the fucker from the inside out with this beautiful little tooth pick.
>You stab the sword into the bottom of the next available barrel and pull it down aggressively onto the floor.
>It explodes into a pile of splinters as you kick aside the rubble to check inside.
>The entire barrel was full of semen soaked socks, a vile putrid smell assaults your nostrels.
>"AND AFTER I FIND THAT BEAST, I AM GOING TO DROWN THIS PUTRID SHITE MAYOR IN HIS OWN STASH OF GARBAGE."
>As if to answer your temper tantrum an awful sound echos into the room.
>The scuttling of what only can be described as a thousand dog sized spiders can be heard making its way toward you.
>What you thought was mostly shifting rocks appears to be the clashing of the militia.
>Cursing, sword clashing, sizzling, and screaming can be heard clearly now, the battle must only be a few hundered yards away.

Do you,

A. KOOLAIDE SMASH THROUGH THE DOOR AND BRING THE FUCK TRAIN TO THIS TIME WASTER
B. Curse about the mayor longer
C. Waste more time in this shitty fetish closet
D. Creep out of the room and quietly make your way to the battle

>settle down as a dabbling bonecarver in adventure mode
>decide to make my first figurine as of myself
>it's a masterpiece
Well

>>159187924
B

We'll just curse so hard it leaves us alone

>>159187924
D

Stealth is OP, use it

>>159187924
D

Let's fuck it up

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When the hell is this thing going to give up?

It literally just randomly one shotted my butcher and ripped off my carpenters arm like it wasn't shit.

>>159187924
A!!!!

>>159188762
Tough cock

>>159188762
Try eating it.

>>159188762
Both lungs are bruised

Just a matter of time until it suffocates

A,B,D,D

>You creep over the last few barrels in your way and are now inbetween the door and the barricade.
>There is almost a foot of extra space between the door and the barrels.
>'This is a shitty barricade,' you think to yourself.
>Shimmying along the door, the barrels press against your bad arm.
>"Ah fuck this hurts," you whisper outloud.
>You silently open the door and step outside into the mayors office.
>Immediately you feel better now that you are outside the closet. You had almost forgotten how bad it smelled.
>You feel pleasure admiring the fine bed the mayor gets to sleep on.
>The room is not very large, it contains the bed, some armor racks, a table and chair.
>Various papers are spread across the table, they look recently moved.
>A single gold door stands at the far end of the well furnished room.
>The sounds of battle are close now, its only a matter of minutes until it reaches the dining hall outside the mayors office you now stand in.
>Combat can be heard, and the yelling is more clear now. The only complete phrase you manage to make out is, "ILL FUCKIN' FUCK YOUR SHIT IN YOU CRAWLY FUCK."
>You recognize the voice as the militia captain, Dekod Stork.

Do you,

A. Piss in the mayors bed
B. Check out the papers
C. Sneak outside the room
D. Wait for the battle to reach the next room
E. Curse more

>>159188992
>>159189018
>>159189221
It's deadr. Rip Rigoth you will be remembered for your tasty snack making.

Is there any real benefit to killing monsters? I've never found any loot on them

>>159181314
"Rooms" lose 75% value if they overlap tiles with another room, unless that tile is a wall. They also lose some value the less enclosed by walls they are. Finally, room value doesn't include doors that aren't marked internal.

>>159189615
yeah and 75% doesn't matter when the room is gigantic

adventure mode is trash for garbage people

how do I make ceilings?

>>159190521
>not wanting to wander around the world and get your elven boipussy ravaged by monsters.

Pretty gay desu senpai

>>159190521
I don't disagree.

>>159190616
build a floor above it.

>>159190521
Adventure mode was most fun in 34.xx

These days the dialog/morale system ruins everything

>>159190824
Adventure mode sucks

>Travel is a pain in the ass
>Finding things is a pain in the ass
>Finding armor is a pain in the ass
>Everything else is tedious and boring

>>159191091
There's a morale system? I wasn't aware. What does it do?

>adventuring around with a pack of dwarven drunks
>come across a small flock of wild keas up in the mountains
>the dwarves descend on them in a malign fury
>kea blood and guts strew the stone
I guess even the NPC dorfs feel the lust for revenge.

>>159191190
hit b, then shift-C, then hit f

>>159191318
crap, meant for
>>159191071
and
>>159190616

>>159191237
Ruins everything

You can walk right up to any bandit camp/city/dark fortress and slaughter pretty much everyone there before anyone reacts, because they're all too busy pissing their pants. Plus, since each bandit camp is its own separate entity, even after you fuck up one the next one you go to will be totally docile towards you.

And then, when you go to report that you effortlessly decapitated the bandit leader while he commented on the weather, you have to manually scroll through 15 pages of "i killed a crow in the fields of bumblefucking two weeks ago" before you can find the dude you actually want to talk about

The whole system is currently hell