/dfg/ - Dwarf Fortress General

This upcoming update seems like a very fundamental one. I'm hesitant to return to the game before it drops, since there might be some problems using an old world/fort in the new release. Or am I full of shit?

>>172734516
Not much is going to change really to be honest.

>>172734516
one fort isn't a big deal.

so the save becomes incompatible with the new version. who cares? just gen a new world and start up a new fort.

also, there's no way it comes out before late may, so you'll probably abandon several forts due to fps death before that.

DEAD

GENERAL

Do what now?

Why are these graphics so shit? I can't find out how to shoot shit.

>>172737453
Look up Paul Noble's tutorials vids.

>>172738069
The noble?

>>172738152
No, the singer.

>>172738416
That black guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzkfSx4Wgk0

unofficial extended soundtrack

What's some dworfy music to listen to while siccing the hammerdwarf squad on the elven traders?

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it's a facade
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Is a library worth building, what are the benefits?
On a similar note, how many tavern keepers does a 200 dwarf fort tavern need?
I don't get visitors because of my position it seems.

>>172740526
This is trippy as fuck. I wanna get lost in all the details, but staring too long starts fucking with my eyes in weird ways.

I'm looking to mod in a few races. Any utilities or some guides to help me out on that?

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I lost an adventurer to boogeymen in one of a dozen hamlets in a narrow river valley and I can't remember which one it was. I want her adamantine spear. Is there anyway to find it without manually combing over each square?

>>172741687
>utilities
Notepad.
>guides
The wiki.

>>172741825
I think if you check legends it will tell you the region? If you were in the hamlet proper it will at least tell you which one, if not it will be less specific and just tell you what you already know.

>>172740526
Freakoutacade more like it.

>>172740526
those ornaments look like the faces of collossi in SotC.

>>172740526
>9dots is on /dfg/ and /domg4/
>my favorite generals
god bless

>>172739647
>replying to a day old post on dfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze3G5EksIQw

I used to be well into Dorf Fort but these days I just can't play it. The fun part is setting up the embark party equipment (7 rat meat, 14 ales, 2 picks, an axe and a bag of seed. Maybe a dog), then I get into the game proper and I'm all like "Well, shit", and turn it off. The graphics are fine, controls are (more or less) fine, its just playing the game that gets me.

>>172740526
You're a godlike artist, damn. Absolutely love your stuff

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>>172734404
>frogpost shit in the OP

>first goblin seige, 10 goblins
>obviously get captured by my cage traps
>dwarves make a statue of goblins being consumed by cages with 100 dwarves laughing

>>172749579
>his "dwarves" can't even beat ten gobbos in fair combat
pathetic

>>172750795
dwarves have a distressing tendency to take no prisoners for the arena

>>172748608
The face in the second panel tells it all.

Page 10 around me...

Does anyone know if DFTerm has been updated for the newest version or if an alternative has been made to play together with some buddies?

Doesn't look like there will be another April 1st update.

Got Toady on the hotline now. He says the next update should be up in about two hours.

How rough do you think sex between 2 dorfs is

>>172756631
I think the real question is how rough is lesbian sex between a dwarf and and elf?

>>172754747
i don't care what the great old one says, being in love with an elf DOES NOT MAKE ME GAY

This game seems fun. is it worth learning if I don't have autism?

>>172757837
Yes.

>>172757837
No.

>>172757837
2GB of autism is the minimum system requirement for DF, but you'll want at least 8GB to fully utilize all it's features. If you plan to use minecarts, siege engines, or the ceramics industry you definitely won't be able to get away with the minimum. Someone here claimed to have made a fully functioning pump stack with only 2GB once, but I think was a troll.

>>172757837
Maybe.

>>172758676
They weren't lying, they just cut corners in other places that you couldn't normally get away with. IIRC they used a public dormitory, just plump helmets, invaders off so no military, and built the rest of the fort in the soil layer. More a stunt than anything else.

>>172757837
Despite its reputation, DF is actually a 100% neurotypical game.

We bully autists in this general.

>>172759612
Dude, all games are autistic.

>>172757837
I don't have autism, but I'm a rare breed nowadays ;DDDDDDD

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>>172762125
Using Finnish memes is a sign of autism desu

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>>172757837
yes

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bump maybe? lol

>make fort
>train military
>2 years training, barely competent militia

>make new fort
>repeat
>bunch of axe lords

Why? I didn't do anything different

>>172765410
Some dwarves with high initial discipline stat or one of the migrants was a skilled teacher.

>>172765650
Kinda sucks, first fort I had a 50+ siege, then 100+ siege and it was a challenge.
Seecond fort it was like 10 goblins getting slaughtered

>>172762492
I'm australian, not finnish, and i'm not autistic, just drunk.

that said: perkeleeeeee :DDDD

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>>172767431
>australian
that's even worse.

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>>172767674

>the zombies from the local tower brought elven mercenaries with them
>the elves from the local goblin pit brought undead revenants with them
These guys showed up in the same wave. Am I being april fooled?

>>172768343
Wheres the giant wombats?

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>>172770109
The curse strikes again.

Are natural soil tiles magma safe? Or will this clay wall evaporate if I try to make a channel of magma through it

>>172772870
All natural walls are everything-safe.

>>172772870
Only ice walls are influenced by temperature.

>>172767674
what are you then, i'm sure i'll find some stereotype with which to mock your land of origin.

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>>172773905
>i'll find some stereotype with which to mock your land of origin
I'm sure you will. My nationality is already the most bullied one on the site.

>>172774087
LOL SWEDES :DDDDD

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>>172774292
At least my (material) standard of living is higher than yours will ever be.

>>172774356
It's ok swedebro, I won't resort to the cheap BLACKED memes that have been thrown around incessantly. Besides, it's not in keeping with the spirit of /dfg/.

Do you know many swedes who play df? I've only met like two other people who play it in ausland, and maybe four in total who knew of it when mentioned.

>>172767674
Great, I can't unsee this now

>>172774653
When I just started playing it back in high school (2010), one of my teachers who saw it said that he recognised it.

He didn't actively play it though, and to be honest, he might just have confused it with some other game that used CP437.

No friends play it, though.

>>172775023
'Äng di sj favä senpai

Is there a well design that use water pressure to refill and don't depends on floodgate?

Just designed a well that uses water pressure to refill. It doesn't even depend on a floodgate.

Don't ask for schematics though, because I'll never give it to you.

>>172775250
There are piping designs that depressurise water.

When will elfs be relevant for anything

poor craftsmanship
use inferior wood for everything
worship said wood
probably into bestiality
useless in combat and only good at running
easily offended and no sense of humor

They are literally the worst race

>>172775023
Damn dood, you're an oldfag. I only picked up dwarf fortress at the end of 2015, although I had known of it since my cousin had shown it to me many years ago.

I've tried shilling it to some of my friends, but to no avail. It appears I'm the only one in my circle of friends who has the willpower strong enough to brave the dangers of playing without grafix xD.

Hows the north at the moment anyway?

>>172775456
they sell giant beasts and exotic fruits.

>>172775456
Did you just describe a liberal?

>>172775472
dunno.

I live in western Gothenburg, and we've had a really shitty spring so far. fog almost every day. sometimes even a week passes by where you don't see the sun once.

then, fog can be pretty comfy too.

>>172775456
If you forbid all the wood logs on site, they will bring about 60 of those. Can be used for windmills and axles.

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>No boats

>no wild adventure of captain plumberbeard and his gang of hardened sailors in the great underground lake

Toady needs to get on a cruise and get some "inspiration"

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>well I'm in jail but by armok these chains are FABULOUS

>>172778465
He would have to change how fluid works, at least make rivers deeper and a few other things. Might even see the return of the cave river and floods.

>>172780920

I would welcome that and giant cave squids

>always too overwhelmed to play
>menus are confusing as fuck to me
>figure you the build menu
>instantly 20x easier

i wish i would of known this sooner, if youre too confused to play, just figure out the build menu shortcuts and use q for most anything else, it'll be a breeze learning the rest of the things from there

>>172782492
apparently spelling is still new though

>>172781325
Though will he do it before the economy?

>>172783282

No economy for you

only magic now

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>Buzzards
>Flying around the entrance
So on top of annoying crundles there's buzzards flying around top.

>>172783502
>One way portals is up in the first magic release
>Elfs get more annoying magic
>2 years at most
Still want two way portals so we can get to follow around our squads off map.

Though looking over it, magic doesn't seem like it would take as long as the next one. He has plenty of freedom when it comes to magic but laws made by dwarfs oh dear Armok save us from the tyrants that will be nobles.

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>>172759612
Especially that Max guy, what a fucking tard.

>>172784431
Max might be strange but lets face it __meph__... lets not talk about him

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>>172784603
Dunno what mastershit guy has to do with me, and there's no might about me being strange.

>>172784770
Who are you?

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>>172784930
I'm not sure, but I'm definitely not paul noble.

>>172785235
>paul noble

Who?

>>172785494
The black guy

>>172785531
Max is black?

>>172785531
Oh, he's a friend of Kit Duncan, right?

>>172785834
Yeah, they both starred in Jaws 3, he was assistant Dolly Grip

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>>172775250
Will this work?

From what I've seen from the vid on the new magic system, it seems like some members of races may get powers depending on bloodlines & affiliation to gods. Imagine having to deal with teleporting enemies

>>172786064
That will flood need it going across a diagonal tile top down.

>>172778465
>at peace with wildlife
>the croc smiles is anticipation of imminent bestiality

>>172786209
The dev list for the magic features is rather long and in depth then there's the RNG to it so each world will have different gameplay from another one.

>>172786290
Make the intake from the river in diagonal? Or what do you mean?

>>172786901
If water moves diagonal across the same level it won't have pressure applied to it afterwards.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Pressure

>>172786064
Side view? It'll certainly keep your dwarves well hydrated, if that's your goal. You might have some issues with pathfinding and drowning, though.

The way water pressure works is that water tiles look through all connected water tiles for a tile that's at a lower elevation, and if there is one, the water instantly teleports there. In this case, all the water in the upper channel will spurt out the well and flood your fortress.
There's limitations to that, though. Firstly, water will only teleport to lower elevation, not equal elevation. In your case, it'd flood the level with the well, but NOT the level above it.
Secondly, it only checks orthogonal connections, not diagonal. Water still flows through diagonal holes, but it won't be pressurized.

So, that's the easy way to do a well like this. Make one of the pipes diagonal and it won't transfer pressure, and your dwarves can both drink and breathe.

The FUN way is to dig an overflow channel into the reservoir under the well. The water will flow up, but drain off the side instead of rising all the way up the well. Drain it away into the caverns. Your FPS will suffer from the constant water flow, but surely that must be worth having your own underground river? It's not.

>>172784246
> magic doesn't seem like it would take as long as the next one
Das rite, he has like ~70% things coded in alredy as an inactive ingame code, side projects or other frameworks. There's a lot of adjusting/balancing/merging with the main game left to do tho, but we can already have high hopes. First stage will be fucking fun.

>>172788465
>70%
Only problem would be magic land masses

>Magical landforms generalizing and/or replacing good-evil regions and the underworld
So instead of the whole good evil shit we just get magic areas (that may or not be friendly) and the underworld might be changed to one way portals get opened instead of digging into hell.

>>172788831
Yes, that's the fun i was referring to. Not fancy effects but massive geometry changes throughout the game world. Damn can you imagine the possibilities, so cool.

New FotF, Toady is getting sick of developing apparently and most of the answers were just "fuck off furfags, goddammit, go brick yourselves in the faces" it seems: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159164.msg7410016#msg7410016

>>172775472
It literally has become a joke among my close friends that I shill the game too much
When we meet a new person, and I start doing it (if we were talking about games, ofc), they roll their eyes and tell me to stop, but they help me explain the game and recognize that its an awesome game
The graphics truly repel them though

>>172774356
Lol, if it wasnt for the fact that we are natural enemies, you could have migrated to us

T. Norwegian

>>172789024
>Geometry changes
Well lets hope he deals with map sizes and z levels. Would help if he removed the 40 world tile diplo range.

>>172788465
I'll bet you're the same deluded fool who was insisting last year that we would have the artifact update by January at latest with the exact same rationale.

>>172789252
>Close friends
Played D&D with mine, one of them plays DF, haven't kept in contact with the others for ages though. Though I think the one that I still have contact with showed it off to another and they found it rather awesome.

Oh dear Armok it's been 7 years since I started playing please forgive me for trying mastershit for a bit.

>>172789404
I thought Sweden and Denmark were the superwarlike ones and Norway was trying to keep Denmark safe from Sweden?

Full admission: as I explained when Humon popped up on imgur one day, I learned everything I know about that part of the world from their comic, so it's basically all dick jokes and amusing stereotypes.

>>172789596
Go be a goblin somwhere else and fix your detector.

>Making things better is good if the CPU doesn't die. I'm not sure where we'll end up with stuff like this. With the nitty gritty chemistry-type stuff, the CPU tends to die pretty early on, especially where map/body calculations are involved.

Fat dwarfs, fat creatures cause lag you heard him get atom smashing!

d_init changes are not doing anything, is this normal? i still have weather reports and a shit ton of dorfs. i just want to make a comfy libraryfort

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great time to fight this thing

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>>172758676
oi cunts im running on 1gb .6gh fite me

>>172795180
>not FPS
>not full fort show
Ok

>>172795873
how to show fps, also fort is aesthetic multilevel cascade, and did you see my resolution lel

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>>172795180
Huh, didn't know about screenfetch, ARCHBROS 4 LIFE

>>172796364
Its an option in the init file.

It annoys me that in every FotF there are a bunch of suggestions thinly disguised as questions. I wish Toady would just ignore them instead of humoring every ideaguy who thought to add a ? to the end of his suggestion.

>>172798953
A little bit, but fuck it, most of the blatant suggestions get called out anyways.

>>172802651
Examples? Never cared about forums but kinda curious what shit people want him to implement.

>>172803449
I can't give any I don't even pay attention to them outside of filtering them once I flag it as a suggestion in my head.

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The little no life nerd kid inside me that spent years of his life dedicated to Minecraft is making me want to pick up this game again, and master it this time.

The problem is I'm only mildly autistic and have trouble gathering the motivation to push through the learning curve so I can get to the FUN.

I've played it before and gotten to basic stability, convince me to play again by showing me some cool shit I can learn how to do.

>>172803449
>could you send out fortress members to participate in events like the dwarflympics and poetry readings with forewarning a event is going to happen in order to earn some social skills & personal notoriety for the dwarf? With the little readout whether they 'won' or not
>Those celebration etc. events don't occur post w.g. yet.

Outside of that people will question the questions.

>>172804893
Lava flooding

Getting gud enough to build forts in terribly shitty places

Reaching adamantine and the FUN that awaits you there

>>172804893
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Stupid_dwarf_trick

>>172804893
>Manager
You can sit back and relax once the fort is set up till something shows up or happens.

>>172734404
Explain this picture.

My military dwarves aren't properly equipping themselves with the uniform I gave them. My stocks (which are at highest precision according to the bookkeeper settings) indicate there's enough. Nothing is forbidden.

Should I just go in and custom set all the stuff? I'd rather not do that for 40-something dwarves.

>>172808074
Did you set it on replace?

>>172808418
don't know

where is that option?

What matters more to you when selecting military: "relevant skills" or personal attributes (strength, toughness, quick to tire or not, willpower, etc.)

>>172811987
For short term I go with relevant skills, for long term I go with attributes.
>Frontline squad all skill
>Forever training squad in reserves / last line of defense soldier-wise
I still use traps for the first line. Try to avoid risking dwarven lives.

>>172810976
It's say wear over clothing if it's not set to replace.

>>172812860
will setting it to replace solve my problem?

if so, what kind of clothing needs to be "replaced" and what can be worn "over clothing"

or is it just up to the whims of armok

>Get a legendary +2 stone detailer in my second migrant wave
>My dorfs are beyond pleased

Feels good.

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>>172813349
oh hey it solved it. thanks anon

still ended up having to custom-equip a few humies and elves that were in the military

How do i get my visitors to leave? I have over a hundred- fifty of them and they won't leave, it's slowing my fort down

>>172815369
Wanton violence or the application of magma.

>>172815678
Won't that cause wars? I've not yet gotten to magma, as it's a relatively new fort, and a lot of the visitors are soldiers and the like, I don't want all my dwarves military to die to a clusterfuck of visitors

>>172815840
Just use magma and limit the amount of vistor's in d_init

>>172815840
It won't cause wars. Fort trained dwarves are almost always better trained and equipped than worldgen soldiers, so you don't have much to worry about on that front either. Unless you're bad.
Anyway, it's the only way to get rid of visitors if they don't choose to leave on their own.

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>Don't understand why people hate Phoebus so much
>"This looks nice, what's the big deal? Probably just purists being stupid."
>Engrave a wall
>It's the most gaudy, patternless shit imaginable and makes it impossible to tell shapes apart

I bet the jews did this.

why the fuck aren't you allowed to place chairs outside? I wanted a comfy (albeit walled off) outdoor garden for my dwarves to dine in

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>tfw ur embark doesn't have any iron or flux stone and most caravans don't carry significant numbers of weapons so you're trading gems, silver and gold for shitty iron and steel objects as best you can and melting them down to make your haphazard army

this isn't how dwarves were meant to live

>>172762627
You need to rename this file "adamantine_mace_good_choice.jpg"

>>172817065
Just build a temporary canopy. After you place the chairs you can deconstruct it. Or just give your dwarves shade to lounge in.

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>great macedwarf refuses to equip himself with maces
>dies trying to punch goblins to death

>>172770268
Sounds like you were encountered by some adventurer. Definitely the soul of someone who rolled that character long ago.

Sound familiar? A necromancer that has a posse of both companions and undead. That is something you made.

>>172786064
What did you do to make that .png?
That's a really nice few ASCII characters

>>172777914
Can you forbid them at any time, or just before they enter the map does it matter?

>>172789469
What is Diplo Range?

>>172796713
Why are you running in 800x480? because it's just gonna run df and dfg?

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>>172804893

>>172820527
Probably because you travel there by wagon.

If caravans can't travel through mountains, then why should your dorfs?

>>172734404
What was on the harddrive?

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>Old starting dwarf
He better be the only dwarf from that old fort if anymore show up there might be a tantrum spiral carrying over.

delet

>>172823659
what did he mean by this

>>172819260
I'm not, I'm on 1366x768+1920x1080.

>>172819604
Funny shit.

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>Dragon
It's somewhere now who will be the lucky dwarf?

>>172824819
I shouldnt post while shitfaced

It was supposed to go on a separate thread on /fit/

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Someone wanted a bushmaster from last thread.

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>>172806987
>>172822658
https://www.gofundme com/worldbicyclist

As far as I can tell he has thousands in the bank and begs people for money on the internet so he can travel.

>>172828326
One of the answers to that reddit post said that he had earlier admitted that he leased out some flats which he inherited from his parents.

Apparently he had chosen not to say it again because pretending to be poor is an important part of his "nomad" identity.

>>172790060
Yeah pretty much.

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>Dragonfire
We'll that dwarf will get a nice grave.

>>172829128
A nice slab, you mean.

>>172829262
3 slabs you mean, mechanic and a miner got killed as well.

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What the actual fuck?

Has it gone so far that they can't even imagine that someone else DOESN'T use LNP?

>>172822636
>If caravans can't travel through mountains
They can. If you embark with an otherwise impassable mountain range between you and the rest of the world your own civ will still send wagons. If you use dfhack to embark entirely on a mountain they'll still come. They're seaworthy too, they can even reach on a remote island. The only thing you need for your own civ's wagons to reach you are 3 contiguous tiles of land on the same z-level anywhere on the surface and a path therefrom to your trade depot.

>>172828106


Jeeez i hope this is not real life size Australia tier type of snake cause i got snakefobia of the highest order

>make shitty temporary fortress while working on a big project
>inherit the monarchy

well fuck

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>>172830190
They're real. Also venomous and notoriously aggressive.

I just looked back on that animal drive Toady did a few years ago. Here's the list of animals he added then:
>http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/sponsor.html

I must say, I didn't remember not having dingos or or keas before then.

How many animals did we even have before the drive?

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>>172830559

Another good reason to never leave the frozen north

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I honestly considered savescumming, but luckily, we managed to take it down with only two military casualties.

Several fruit pickers died, though.

>>172831781

God job


The worst Ive gotten is a flying blobish thing with scale and breath fire

>Once again your generosity defies all expectation and delivers a crucial blow for progress in the universe of gaming. This month, Dwarf Fortress has seen the introduction of the three 'R's: rescuing captives, recovering lost artifacts, and raiding enemy sites. Along with these new options for foreign policy will come the ability to perform diplomacy. Will you fight to keep your treasure, or trade it away for a few more months of peace? But you already know the true value of treasure, and your investment in the future proves it!

>Congratulations to the generous!

Aside from my opinions on threetoe, he knows how to hype us out

>>172795180
>>172796713
Is the transition to linux worth it? I only used debian for some small programming but never as my main stuff (mainly because I'm used to the office suite) but now my computer was stolen (burglars) and I'm willing to try something new in my new one. (I had to do a day one clean install of windows 7 to get rid of windows 10). How does df works in linux?

>>172832980

With some tweaking yes ive heard

probably some guides in bay12

All right guys, a child is playing with an artifact toy axe
How do I make him drop the axe so I can store it inmy artifact vault?

>>172835484
Nevermind he just dropped it and someone is carrying it to the stockpile
Best problems are the ones that solve themselves

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>>172788272
cant you just put floodgates to cut off the the part where water flows into the reserve under the well and the part where it flows into the caverns so you stop the constant flow but also have fresh water under the well.

>>172818982
It's the thiing that keeps you from being adjacent to all the civs you want in fort mode outside pocket worlds.

What are the best and worst stone layers?

>>172842162


Best: Marble

Worst: Anything brown

>>172830725
Snakes are totally cool man, I have two large pythons living in my ceiling and, while they eat the scrub turkeys out the back they've never tried to enter the house or eat my pupper. Not to mention they keep vermin away, and I once saw them doing their mating ritual in the bush once. Super cool creatures.

>>172842941
Is granite ok?

>>172844208
yeah, snakebros are best bros
I've recently been interested in their biology and evolutionary background
You know, how they came to be such cool and deadly mofos, and everything I read about them is brutal, from their biomechanics to their venom
They are starting to match bees in terms of awesomeness in my eyes

>>172845025
You have good taste in cool animals, comrade.

>>172795180
>Eee PC
How do you play without a numpad?

>>172832980
just chmod +x df that's literally it I think
oh also you should know how to unzip

>>172845260
thanks mate, but it really is just curiosity about how living stuff works and deals in the world
We have so many incredibly complex and armonic things within our close reach that's really dumb to think the world is simple

>>172830725
>the only venomous snake is the common adder
>small, timid, avoids humans when it can
>not even that venomous
The frozen north is surprisingly comfy.

>>172836267
Obviously yes, but he specifically wanted not to depend on floodgates. For whatever reason. I don't judge.

dude, just use diagonally arranged 1x1s to depressurise the water.

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>>172844208
>>172845025
Who could be behind these posts?

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>>172849096
Snakes ARE cool!!!!

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>snakes me here and snakes me there

I cant even avoid snakes on /dfg/ and DF, not to mention the combat log when fighting snakes

Why the fuck are two of my dwarves stuck in a corner, on a bag, with a rotten piece of spleen, and eating bloody miasma for these past two months?

>>172817326
Just dig straight to the fun, don't waste your metals

>>172850003
Swedebro, if you want to get over your fear of snakes, you need to push yourself. Fight it, snakes are nothing to be afraid of. I want you to go out there right now, find a lamia bodypillow in your local weeb shop, take it home, and fuck it thoroughly.

Alternatively, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56K8eAtCig

bumpa

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serpentine

>>172851294
Homie I'm not breaching the circus without some solid ballistae, fortifications and military

>>172832980
Yes, freedom is always worth it. DF works alright in Linux.

>>172857884
Rapist and dfhack don't. Not always.

However, it's not that difficult to put up a virtual machine these days.

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I want to see a dorf (female) fug an elf (male)

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>>172862096
i wanna see a human (male) fug a dorf (male)

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Found an old photo of Toady from some meetup back in 2009.

Like him more now desu.

>>172862361
I wanna see a dragon (male) fug an goblin (male)

>>172862769
"Tarn Adams being shaken down by gang of vampire nerds for the source code. This was the beginning of the global vampire massacre of 2009, which resulted in the vampiric gene being completely wiped out. They say Toady revealed his true form that day, but what exactly that was, none live who can tell the tale."

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>>172865025

dorf (female) x elf (female) > all

>>172862769
Woah. Notice how he's fat as shit?

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>>172865824

>everything quiet, alt-tab away
>"farmer has been found dead"
>a giant kea is flitting around the fort entrance, scratching at my dwarves
Fuck birds. I'm going to make an adventurer and kill all birds.

>>172865824
Yeah. He's definitly healthier now.

>>172865987
keas are literally the devil

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>>172865283
>>172865954
cool memes bro

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>>172866261

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Another old Toady pic from some talk he had at some club at some uni.

>>172866879
>me in the back

someone help me put one of these graphic mod on the df, i tried but for some reason nothing happens

>>172868375
What the fuck are you

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>Error: Our system thinks your post is spam.
>Please reformat and try again.

:|

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>>172868742
nice, but please don't delete me

>>172868462
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Tilesets#Installation

>>172868742
When you thump a loaf of spam hard enough it kind of quivers like that guy. It's also vaguely menacing. I can see how the system might make such a mistake.

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>You have struck native platinum

And so it begins

im about to download and play for the first time, how long until I rage quit?

there is any mod that makes df a bit tolkienlike?

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>>172870260


Ill give you the benefit of doubt and say 1 hour depending on embark

>>172870415
is this game so shitty?

>>172870413
vanilla

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>>172870651

No, just require a healthy dose of patience and a bit of trial and error.

And there is zero hand holding in it if you look away from the wikia, which i recommend using religiously in the beginning.

Go for it tiger

>>172870890
i tried once playing without any mods, but i just dont know what do and how do, i just stare screen, any tips?

I'm having trouble smoothing and engraving my stone walls and floors, every time I select tiles and hit enter they don't light up or change at all, it's as if the game just doesn't give a shit about that order at all.. is this some sort of bug?

>>172870260
If you're the kind of guy to ragequit games then it won't take long probably.

>>172871083
As the man said, wiki. Link's in the OP.

>>172871083

Read the beginner guide at the wikia

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Will there ever be artifact clutter?

>>172871116
I've never seen a bug like that. It's more likely user error.

>>172871420
It's really not, I've smoothed/engraved plenty of floors and walks before.. I've tried on 5 different types of stone floor material too, it doesn't make any sense why it won't

>>172871860
d-s or d-S?
natural floors?

>>172868527
a chair

Is there any benefit t engraving the entire fort?

seems like a good way to build up a fps death spiral

>>172871860
Only other time someone post that complaint that I can recall they were using TWBT with multilevel view and focused on the wrong z-level.

>>172874294
>fps death spiral
now that's a new word

>>172874561

Yeahh i should probably patent it before someone else take it

>Single werebull shows up
>Only kills one dorf
>Slightly injures another
>That fucker with bruised flesh proceeds to turn, turn three other people and they gut 94 other dwarves including two hammerlords and my militia commander in full armor

I had 40 hammerdwarves with full coverage each and they just got slaughtered.

I'd lucked the fuck out and gotten basically infinite and varied food and drink from the trees around me, too.

>>172874294
>fps death spiral
Are you a google ai project on its field testing, or do you just get of to randomly mashing recently learned slang words together?

>>172874294
It'll raise your forts value a whole lot.

>>172874836

Yes i am the newest super computer of the NSA

I am programmed to sniff out Russian hackers and cyber criminals in /dfg/

i am onto you

>>172874836
>Are you a google ai project on its field testing
I hope not, the last thing we need is an A.I with autism.

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So that fort's dead.

Are swords better than hammers generally? I'd have probably been better off with half the dwarves and double the effort put into each, but I just hate having worthless, aimless idlers with no skills and my migrant waves constantly outpace the number of dwarves I need to fill job slots.

>>172868462
I can't imagine how you could possibly fuck it up. You just copy the file to data/art, and edit data/init/init.txt to change the font. That's it.

>>172873965
d-S does nothing for me, got rough diorite block floor, cobaltitr, marble, gneiss, and microcline. When I have it set to d-d they all flash a green C on the constructed floors/walls, when I go to d-s it goes back to standard. Designating any tile or area of tiles for smooth/engrave does nothing either.
>>172874536
I am using twbt with multilevel view but I am definately on the right z level, these floors are underground

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>>172875153
>an A.I with autism

>>172874810
Weres get an increase in resistance to attacks by every material except for one randomly chosen, and Toadster has never gotten around to set up messaging to which.

>>172875585
cont.
Blunt attacks experience the biggest decrease in efficiency when they can't pass through. Also, weres are big, and blunt weapons also become less effective when the enemy gets big.

>>172875585

>Insert pic of smug Toady

>>172875531
>When I have it set to d-d they all flash a green C on the constructed floors/walls,
So you're trying to engrave constructed stuff?

>>172875897
Smooth out stone floors first, yes. They are all rough atm. Haven't tried to engrave anything yet, but it won't let me do it regardless

>>172876070
Constructed floors?

>>172871116
Do you have smoothing selected? If you're trying to chop trees or something, it obviously won't work.
Are the tiles reachable? Dwarves don't actually have to be able to path to the tiles to set the designation, but for walls, there needs to be room to stand next to it. Walls above bottomless voids can't be designated for smoothing until you build some scaffolding.
Do you have "designate all" selected? I don't think it should be possible for smoothing, but digging designations can fail if you forgot the selector on "mine ore/gems" or something.
Are these NATURAL rock walls you're trying to smooth? Constructed walls start out smooth, and can't be engraved.
Are these natural ROCK walls you're trying to smooth? Peat can't be smoothed.

>>172875585
Yeah, the fuck had 40 hammerdwarves, all of whom had 4 or 5 fighter and at least competency with armor, shields and hammers wailing on him almost simultaneously, and he just dragged his ass 50 tiles across the surface leaving a gigantic trail of severed dwarf parts before finally dying after four pages of combat reports.

But the guy who got his arm fat bruised is the one who turned and went on a fucking rampage inside my fort.

I had like eight survivors, said "fuck it" and made them attack the elf caravan that showed up after. Now I wait.

>>172875448
Maces master weapon!
At least the morning star.

>>172871083
>i just dont know what do
That sounds normal.

>>172876232
b-C-f floors

>>172876070
You can't smooth constructed floors/walls.

dead thread

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>>172876628
you're a dead thread

>>172876786

i like the roundness

but that's it

>>172876786
>Graphics
Only one I liked was spacefox.

>>172876786
>all that sand
gross

>>172876786
it's fine but i prefer vanilla

>DF gets put on Steam

Would you be overjoyed?

>>172877371
I would kill myself and burn what I could to the ground.

>>172877371
why is everyone so obsessed with everything being on steam nowadays? I see this a lot on boards like /vr/ too.

as long as I can play the game, I'm happy.

>>172876449
Your joking right?

>>172877753
You can't.

You can, however, cut rocks into smooth blocks before you build with them.

>>172877371
I'd puke from the amount of normies touching my game.

>>172877864
So my walls and floors are forever rough? I swear I remember being able to smooth the floors out after placing them before

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Bloody nu dwarfs in this thread, i want my floor smooth and clean uhuhuhuh

Real dwarfs want their floor jagged and crude, that tear up the skin and cut deeply into the foot, giving you a good fungus infection.

>>172878126
But it's not multiplayer, so you'd just get a lot more people to be smug at.

>>172878471
Just deconstruct and replace with rock blocks if the roughness bothers you.

>>172879007
Or I suppose next time dig into stone layers before building whole sets of bedrooms/dining halls

>>172878496
>plump helmets growing from your open wounds
Who needs farm plots, let the war vets be walking food stores

how play with helves?

>run out of booze because wasn't paying attention
>siege incoming
>everyone is outside drinking water

run you fools

>>172880521
dude, just restrict them to the burrows in the miilitia screen.

they'll run inside instantly.

>>172880714
Of course I've did that, but they were all cave adapted and were just shuffling along slowly while vomiting.

They all made it though, now I just gotta defend 21 against 90.

Is it true that admantinium thread will act as natural armor when sewn into the body?

two squads of axelords/sworddwarves can't kill a goblin maceman because they all hit it in the head and is deflected by an iron helm and troll fur hood fucking hell

>>172881501
no.

fake story passed around by inexperienced players.

also, it's adamantine, not "adamantium".

>>172881760
Which version are you playing?

Because as of 0.43.04, NPC's will take off the helmets of unconscious enemies before attacking the head.

Chances are that you're playing 0.43.03 because of muh lazy pack.

>>172882164
I'm playing 42.06 because I just picked a random version which therapist still worked with.

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>>172850003
You're right, snakes are fucked up, spiders are where it's at. I just rescued a teensy tiny little spiderbro from the tub and put him on the wall next to me so he can build a web in the corner to eat gnats. Also, I actually love snakebros too.

>>172868742
4CHAAAAAN IT'S NINEDOTS YOU FAGNUT SYSTEM

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how can you elect someone who is walled in?

>>172882449
Rapist has been working with 43.05 for about a month or more now.

>>172884116
Very carefully

>>172884229
Guess I must have missed that, I tried the newest version I could find 37.00, but it couldn't connect.

>>172884497
Someone else updated it so have a look towards then end of the thread of it.

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>>172876786

>>172883169
Where the hell do you live to suffer these eldritch horrors?

>Played around with the gm-editor
>Made my adventurer gay
How do I fix this?

>>172875585
I never got that, what does it even mean
Are your atack rolls with a certain weapon more possible, or for some reason, your blade is 5x sharper towards that werebitch?

>>172885916
You must now acept him as he is anon, dont make him suffer more, he needs your support in these confusing moments of his life

>>172885916
Pray the gay away

>>172885782
>spiderhating mosquitolover
Suffer not the mosquitolover to live.

The US and UK both have Argiopes of various species, Aurantia is common enough here in the SE US, but I haven't seen one yet this year, they won't get that fat and dramatic until later this summer.

>>172885916
Sorry son, you caught the gay, learn to love the cock.
Go down to status > current_soul > orientation > there's the options.

>>172886609
It's like classical werewolves and silver. Silver bullets don't home in on them, they just hurt a lot more.

>>172886816
>>172886849
>>172887028
Hes an Elf________

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>>172887345
Having spoilers always visible makes some jokes just weird.

>>172887508
that's exactly why you don't put them in always visible anon

What cavern level should I build an arena on?
Using the third for farming but some blind cave ogres destroyed some of the farm plots. A water buffalo, alpaca and a donkey keep most of the creatures away.

>>172816714
Is that Mark Rippetoe?

>>172888660
I don't care to mouse over them though.

how do i chose a local to create fortress

>>172894127
hit embark on a space on the map

>>172891967
>Mark Rippetoe
Who?

>>172877534
For some people, it's a legitimate achievement to have gotten enough exposure for their game to get it on a legitimate online marketplace. Steam has entry requirements, not necessarily in game quality, but in pre-existing hype. Having your game on Steam means you're a real indie dev.

That makes zero sense in the case of Dwarf Fortress, of course. Not only is it almost unmarketable, it already has all the exposure it needs. Basically the whole internet has heard of it. Most people aren't interested in actually playing it, but the ones that are can probably learn about it without seeing it in their Steam recommendations.

Also, Steam is widely regarded as a normie thing, so you can probably bait a response out of /dfg/ by mentioning it.

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>3 of the old 7
>Fortress is close to starving
I'm a bit worried about the tantrum spiral carrying over as well as this food shortage.

>>172891967
It's the American Milkman, anon.

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my miner has been effectively crippled but, despite being diagnosed and sutured, won't use crutches

is there anyway to fix this?

>>172894471
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Mark+Rippetoe
ffs anon

>>172899462
http://lmgtfy.com/?s=d&q=http%3A%2F%2Flmgtfy.com%2F%3Fq%3DMark%2BRippetoe

Praise fucking Toady! The guy actually got the dwarves off the map. Fort mode and adventure mode is about to be fun as fuck boys! Starting wars, interrupting the started war as an adventurer. Thank god I'm not a bitch and can play every release right as it drops without any texture packs or mods. this is why the fuck i donated so much fucking money boys! WOOOHOOO! C'mon Bay12Games, you're making a fucking masterwork I swear to god.

>Name my fort "Bloodywalls"
>Land on top of a fuckload of hematite and red sand
>My dwarves' rooms look like they're blood-spattered

>>172901712
>not making your own mods
>calling graphics texture packs
ffffffffuuuuuu

Shit, if Toady goes ahead with the symbols export thing it'll take a couple days maybe to update dfhack.

>>172902791
It knows.

Hopefully that's where it stops and your dwarves don't bring the name into reality in another way by getting torn apart by goblins. You wouldn't... want all the dwarves who put their trust in your leadership to die, would you anon?

>>172904435
>Implying my forts don't at some point have various torture chambers and I will arbitrarily pick a random dwarf every month and burrow them in one of the rooms.

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>>172904687

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>tfw dealing with a few sieges in a row (maybe one per season)
>yet ANOTHER fucking siege comes and I decide fuck it you know what we're bottling up for now
>close all the bridges
>wait shit
>my legendary miner got stuck outside because he was trying to put something in a stock pile
>FUCK
>open the bridge
>dwarf takes his sweet time to pull the lever
>miner doesn't even go into the burrow despite the fact that i've double checked that the alarm has been sounded and that he's been added
>goblins arrive, ~150 strong, with dogs and trolls aplenty
>fuckfuckfuck
>PULL THE FUCKING LEVER
>nope.jpg
>pic related

it's pretty much over, the military's crippled and the gobbies have breached the fortress. i don't have any more lines of defense

feels bad going out to gobbies

what a fucking noob i am

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>>172906384
tfw following your last dwarven child around