/dfg/ Dwarf Fortress General

>>174884040
>>174885130
>How do I stop my dorfs from eating raw food when I have a fuckton of lavish meals?

Are you certain they can actually reach the lavish meals? Are you certain they're not much farther away? How do you know?

How can one game be so based?

Lavish meals are only for export anyway.

>>174886145

Really? They don't make the dwarves any more happy?

>>174886323
Who cares? They have alcohol.

>>174886145

>Sell all Lavish meal to the caravan

>Food expires-in 4 day, its a 5 days journey

Truly super villains in the making

>>174886367

Bro, I've had fortresses spiral into stress and madness. I want them to live the most lavish lifestyle I can afford.

>>174886437
The peasantry don't need more than plump cookies and crackers anyway, the finer food should be for the finer folks anyway

now back in the food lines shoo shoo

>>174886323
I thought higher quality meals make dwarves happier too, but apparently there's a bug: it only makes them happier if the meal has at least one ingredient that they like.

Food/meal variety is important too. The only readily available food in my current fortress is tallow-only meals, and they're getting heartily sick of a constant meal of deep-fried fat-battered lard-covered lard balls.

>see picture of dotsman last thread
>realize the fucker is sitting on his own tapestry
>his farts are more artistically talented than I am
fuck

After reclaiming a fortress 2 of my dwarves do nothing except spam "cancel eat could not find path"
I have tried to burrow or forbid all food, but it still happens

>>174887106

Mmm I dig. I usually grab food from caravans so I think I'm set on that.

>>174888550

Sounds like a poor bastards are gonna glitch themselves to death.

>>174888550
Only 2? Where are they? Are they separate from the others? Do they move? Do they take jobs? Try to isolate the problem. If the problem is indeed the dwarves themselves not moving for some reason, try digging the floor they stand on to "reset" them.

>>174888550
The broken fog of war means that you can see some parts of the fortress without necessarily seeing the corridor leading there. Dorfs can't path through unknown areas, which causes what you describe.

The solution is simply to make a one man squad and move him around the fort until all known areas are connected.

>>174889657
>[undiscovered parts of fortress]
Oh right, I completely forgot about that, disregard what I said in
>>174889597

>>174888550
Have you fully rerevealed the entire pathable portion of the fort? Sounds like there's a path to something they want that's at least partially unrevealed. It's the same kind of error as the "cancels store in stockpile" spam that people get after breaching a cavern and not exploring it.

>tower in the middle of the desert with 100z deep level moat full of undeads
Will this work?

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>>174890393
You know what? Fuck this question.
I'm going to do this anyway.

>>174890673

Now you're playing Dwarf Fortress

>>174890393
Work how? Are you asking if it's possible to make a tower and a 100z deep moat? Aside from the question of whether or not a 100z deep anything could qualify as a moat, sure. It will probably cut into all three caverns, and possibly into the magma sea depending on the depth of your embark, in which case you couldn't fill it with undead unless they were also magma proof.

>>174893034
Or he pumps the magma somewhere else, and walls it off.

>>174893194
Yeah, it would be terrible if the magma actually worked as a defense.

>>174893250
Well, if he really goes 100z then the magma at the bottom isn't going to defend him any more than 99z of open space above it do. Neither will undead at the bottom for that matter.

>>174893034
I remember that undead were magma-proof in 34.11- inert corpses disappear, but zombies just keep burning for eternity. Has that changed in the newer versions?

>>174893724
Yeah, it was fixed years ago. 2014, in .40.01 IIRC.

>>174893486
It's obvious that he'd do it for cosmetic reasons, rather than functional ones.

Personally, I'd prefer a 10-something drop into a magma moat, BUT, there should be platforms with zombies on them over the magma. One floor above the platform, your necromancers can overlook the platform through a window (necros can animate through windows, no?).

This way, anyone who dies on the platform can be reanimated. Plus, the occational zombie falling into magma prevents overpopulation and the fps issues that come with it.

>>174894003
Sure it'd obviously be for style points. I was just pointing out to >>174893250 that the magma wouldn't serve any defensive purpose.
And yes necros only need LoS to reanimate.

What are good heights for moats and drop pits? I figure 2 z-levels won't do much but stop people climbing out, has anyone done dwarven research on how far you can drop a goblin to get x%probability of death or disability? The wiki suggests 20 deep but I feel that's probably to guarantee absolute splatter, using wounded gobbos as target practice could be more entertaining.

I am embarked right next to a river too, maybe I can set up floodgates next to the waterfall...

My investigation has gone tits up and now I'm stuck about 5 floors underground with an injured foot, I managed to crawl away through a few empty rooms into a dead end, eat some food and drink some blood splatter. Is it possible at all to sleep inside a hostile building?

>>174894216
Depends on whether they're armored or not. If yes, 10z+ isn't excessive for crippling injuries, and you'll kill some too. A while back I did drop tests with dwarves in the arena, and at 9z (the max for the default arena) dwarves in leather armor would often injure hands and feet, but only rarely would they get other injuries.

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Post comfy music to listen to while dorfing.

For me it's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgp3HJhORDQ

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I wonder when he's gonna implement global lightning so he could rewamp old static color scheme for a fluid SDL RGBA control system. Imgaine how cool visual improvements could get, like so you could guess a dragon's age by the color of its scales or make some colorful magic explosions and stuff. I remember somewhere in devnotes he wanted to allow glass objects to change ambient lightning when the light goes through them.
Really moistens my dreams.

>>174895119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99myH1orbs4&t=1025s

not exactly dorfy but very comfy

>>174895119

>Not posting Simon Swerwer

cmon bro

>>174895119
Can't go wrong with something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNE2oCZH_4k

>>174886145
my current fort is a shit ton of selling meat barrels.
I have overdone it a bit with the animal breeding.

>>174903434
>my current fort is a shit ton of selling meat barrels.
i think I had a stroke writing this
my current fort is selling a shit ton of meat barrels

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This guy hasn't once passed out and he just injured my guy with 2 bites. I kind of respect the little bastard now.

>>174901204
Everyone here already knows him though.

>>174895524
>Toady
>using any graphical option that isn't super basic

>>174903434
They'd be worth tons more if you processed them into meals first.

>>174885584
Most of them have the "no decent meals" thought and I see them carrying "prepared" food to the dining room and eat it. There are two stockpiles, one under the tavern with lavish meals and one under the kitchen with raw foodstuff.

Any other obscure games that I should know about?
Im sure there are more games like DF and aurora

Beginner here, have a few questions:
- do I have to designate a drinking area next to the river for my dwarves?
- Where can i get seeds? my dwarves eat all the plump helmets very fast.
- Have made my dwarves dig a hall to create stockpiles of stone/jewel. But only one is moving the stone, i check they all have the job hauling stone enable.
- is there a stockpile for ore and metal?

thanks in advance

>>174906763
cataclyms is .. interesting. but not as good as df.

Some People around like elona..

>>174906876
1.)No but if you want them to drink from a specfic area you should zone it as a water source.
2.)Gather Plants, Embark with them, or buy them from traders. You should know that cooking plants destroys the seeds but brewing them does not.
3.) Are the other dwarves engaged in another activity?
4.) You can create custom stockpiles with p-c-t

>>174907180
thank you very much.

for the 2) how do i make sure they do not cook the plants? I just disable every cook labor every time?

3)the dwarves have finally moved their asses, dont why they were doing nothing for a while.

>>174907438
Go to kitchen settings in the [z] menu.

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>>174906083
want some crossbows?

I don't really have "money" problems. I feel like I already have more stuff than I can sell.

>>174907438
You can disable it in the Z menu. hit z and tab over to kitchen

>>174907438
2) Status(z) to Kitchen(TAB i believe) and set Cook next to Plump Helmets to red.

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>>174895119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4RMGZmLTs

>>174907438
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Cooking
If you didn't order the cooking jobs then they're not being cooked. Eating them raw leaves seeds.

>>174907497
The more profit you give the caravan the more they bring next year. Anyway, you lose nothing by cooking your meat, it's just a straight value increase.

>>174907483
>>174907547
>>174907561

ok perfect, thanks a lot.

A trade caravan has arrived, in the 'g' command on the depot, i define the item i sell or the ones i want to buy?
Sorry for all the questions

>>174907882
check the wiki page for trade, it has a handy graphic.

>>174907882
The items you want to sell. g is to move goods to the trade depot. When you have set what you want to trade, Dwarves will pick up the items and bring them to the Trade Depot. Make sure to press [r] to get your broker to the depot. If you have no broker, set him in the [n]obles menu.
Once all the items have moved you can [t]rade on the Depot

>>174906245
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Thought#Nourishment

They need to eat their favorite food, a masterful 4x plump helmet roast won't do a thing.

>>174907939
yeah perfect, thanks! no idea what i will trade though. I have a bit of ore and jewel, could be nice to buy a lot of seed to not worry about food for a while

>>174907875
oh... ok. I always tried to make the traders profit as small as possible.

>>174907882
No problem asking questions. You can wiki all the stuff you're asking, though, and will almost always get better answers faster that way. It's just by chance that there are a few people monitoring the thread who don't mind handholding.

>>174908478
i read the wiki a lot, but you guys tends to give the extra advice which is often very helpful.
Also the answer tends to be more precise and you give the extra hints on future problems i might have.

Do you actually engrave stuff with your engravers?
I think they look pretty stupid. So I just let my engravers (usually 2 or so) smooth everything in the fortress

>>174909047
they = the engravings

>>174909047
You can disable the weird looking part of the engravings but it will still be highlighted. You could alter your tileset to make them look exactly like smooth stone

>>174909047
I smooth everything but I only put engravings in strategic locations. I also hide them so they have the generic (and much cleaner) engraved stone tile instead of showing whatever random shit Sibrek McStoneworker decided to make.

>>174908065
So for example if they have a preference for plumps, and I only got raw fish and meat lavish meals, they won't go for the lavish meals over raw fish?

>>174906245
>Most of them have the "no decent meals" thought
I know your pain. I cooked like 2000 masterfully prepared roasts, yet fuckers decide to eat dirt and raw mushrooms most of the time. Even raw meat though its not in their "preferred" food list".
I solved the problem by ordering 5000 roasts to be prepared and stockpiled, turning all my raw food into prepared meals, and stopping the raw food production completely.

My entire fortress is now happy as FUCK due to eating amazing meals, hell they are more ecstatic about food they eat than stressed about those children I atom-smashed a few weeks ago during my "fps boost yearly cleanup".

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>>174907604
Ooooooh!

I've enjoyed Gnomoria, Rimworld etc but I keep seeing people talking about DF. What's so special about it? Is it just the typical 4chan faggotry where people tend to roast popular games and praise the shit ones or is DF special in some ways?

>>174912143
>Is it just the typical 4chan faggotry where people tend to roast popular games and praise the shit ones or is DF special in some ways?
That's exactly it.

>>174912143
DF is the most popular of the three, you know. Gnomoria's been dead for years and Rimworld can't even keep a general alive for more than 7 posts.

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>>174887967
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ohhhhh
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>>174912501
>traded inspects cloth from the ca-rave-an

>>174912501
>>174912681
>Human dancer requests permission to stay as a performer.
>Allow it, just this once... once... once-unce-unce-unce-unce?

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>>174895119
Can't go wrong with an old classic that seems to have been related to a gag in 1001 ways to die hehehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY

>>174912143
played Rimworld, did some shit, read the wiki felt like I did&seen everything except some of the "endgame" shit, stopped playing... meh

play DF, I instantly get eyefucked by the matrix. Its like a data stream directly liked to my brain. I create a new world and nearly bust a nut in anticipation seeing all this sexyness unfold in front of me. Seeing civilizations rise and fall in minutes. DONE. My hands are shaking. Choose a civ. Instantly have more loyalty towards it than to my own country. Embark in some place feeling like i'm Columbus or Magellan or something. Travelling into the unknown with nothing but my undying dwarven spirit. Man vs beast. Civilization vs nature. the most primal, real story there is. An untamed wild belonging to walking gods. ready for us... ready for me to conquer....
We are here. Strike the earth!
Using nothing but my raging boner I minefuck a home into the solid rock of the mountain...
....
...
Its a good game. ok?

>>174914158
>...
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Stop typing like a faggot dude.

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>>174912143
If you've played Rimworld, then you should already understand half of what makes Dwarf Fortress interesting: the potential for mayhem due to only having partial control over your little psychopathic pawns, and the player's ability to make them do whatever it takes to survive. It makes for some pretty good stories.

What sets DF apart is threefold: 1) you have the freedom to build whatever the hell kind of fortress you want, 2) there's a lot going on under the hood of the game, ranging from world events to dwarf personalities to the fact that combat tracks injuries down to individual teeth, and 3) a fort can have as many dwarves as your computer can handle. (Also, you can build up/down with Z-levels.)

Meanwhile, Gnomoria mimics Dwarf Fortress's game mechanics and slaps a fancy coat of paint on it, but stripped out everything that was remotely interesting.

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here's the vampire/bat curse from the last thread

https://pastebin.com/C1hJEc6E

I still can't get it to work ;_; for the life on me though

>>174912143
The special thing about DF is that games like Gnomoria and Rimworld wouldn't exist without DF.
They were made specifically to be "Dwarf Fortress-lite." Removing a lot of DF's complexities and adding graphics.

stop responding to the bait.

>>174915075
Bleh, after I eat I'll troubleshoot it again but it works in the arena for me.

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>>174912143

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>>174916660
what ever happened to Incursion?

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I FUCKING HATE AQUIFERS HOLY FUCK AAAAGHHH

>>174918754
Delet them in the raws then you dumb silly!

>>174918754
Find an embark site with both an aquifer and non-aquifer biome and have the best of both worlds?

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>>174918754
don't worry anon your not the only one!

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>>174914630
I kekked then, and I kek now.

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Which one are you?

>>174919383
I am a drunk. But I mostly like to drink.

>>174916960
what tags do you add to the creature standard file for it to appear?

>>174895119
This has been my favorite lately for whatever reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzxZ65_-KF4

>>174918754
I like aquifers.
>>174919097
This probably is the best though.

>>174919618
what a piece of shit.
you owe me 8 minutes of my life.

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>>174920524
THE DEAD WALK HIDE WHILE YOU CAN!

OR FIGHT THEM WITH YOUR ADAMATINE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaRwxM_OiG8

>>174919497
Oh, you don't, it's a world-gen deity curse or you could trigger it by like, adding a [CAN_DO_INTERACTION:WAMPHYRI_CURSE] type of setup in a creature.

Make sure you give them [CDI:USAGE_HINT:ATTACK] and [CDI:TARGET:A:SELF_ONLY] or that creature will spam it any time you bump into them.

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masterwork doesn't seem so bad

at least it adds some cool races to the vanilla experience

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>>174921363
Oh! that explains a lot thanks,I was trying to spawn an adventure that could turn into it at will

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>>174922169
Ah, yeah, you'd need the ability added.

Add this to helm pumps or something:
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_CONTACT]
[SYN_INHALED]
[SYN_INJECTED]
[SYN_INGESTED]
[CE_CAN_DO_INTERACTION:START:0]
[CDI:ADV_NAME:Haunt the Night]
[CDI:INTERACTION:WAMPHYRI_CURSE]
[CDI:TARGET:A:SELF_ONLY]
[CDI:TARGET_RANGE:A:1]
[CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:10]

>>174921806
>FBs
>HFS
holy shit, is he actually claiming hard coded vanilla features as his own now?

I mean, the other vanilla creatures mentioned might just be modded counterparts, but FBs and demons? holy kek is this huy a scumbag.

>>174921806
It's pretty shit. It adds new races, sure, but it bloats the game to fuck where it's not at all the same, not to mention he claims all the work as if its own, when all he did was steal shit from others and claim that he deserves credit for copy and pasting
>>174922842
He has dwarves elves and Humans. I don't think he's claiming them as his own for once just saying what's there.

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>>174922842
He's got the spawn of holistic in there too, wanna bet he tried to link it to syrupleaf and headshoots or just slapped them in there since nobody was using them right now?

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>>174907604
> all those stacked girls
> just the simplest lines and shapes

testosterone is a hell of a neurochemical

>>174922842
>>174923187
>>174923503
It's just a list of what races can be encountered/played as in Masterwork and how they're categorized. He also gives clear credit to mod authors now, so I'd like to think he's learned or listened to critique.

Other than that, I'm baffled where all the hate's coming from, especially since no one on the forums (or all the other authors of the mods used) seems to be complaining.

I agree about the bloat, but only for the dwarves, since they got everything and the kitchen sink. Most of the other races are okay.

Nobody complains about anything on the forum that relates to the forum because they'd be Toadhammered for starting fights.

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Played in arena a bit, at some point later took control of a cobra and got spammed with some weird phantom goblin depressed death party messages, and i don't see any ghosts around

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>>174923660
Did you miss the whole thing with the tileset?

Fucking dibujor shows up, talent just falling out of his ass, fixes a few sprites for the spacefox set, bats around the idea of a 32x32 tileset, posts some demo art, then had the notorious beast the real life of responsibilities show up, beware it's noxious bills!

So after a while meph comes sniffing around the corpse and grabs the various bits dibujor made, says "hey mind if I use these?" and later puts out "Meph's tileset" using creature graphics from another dead project, plus those various dibujor bits and such while noting that "eventually [he] intends to make their own" graphics?

Yeah, people thinking that guy and his shit are dwarf fortress is never going to be cool.

>>174910693
the way in which dwarves grab food to eat seems to follow the same rules that all the other jobs do.
at least i'm somewhat sure they would... not much science has been performed on the way which a dwarf selects a meal to eat (or if the meal selects the dwarf, like workshops do)

i believe it works as such:
- a dwarf becomes hungry and generates an "eat food" job
- (POSSIBLY) the nearest available, reachable food item is selected by the dwarf, whichever that is.
- that food is now tasked by the dwarf to be used in the "eat" job, which prevents it from being selected/used for other dwarves, just like a workshop-tasked item is
- if the tasked item is a stack, (POSSIBLY) the *entire stack* is claimed until the dwarf is finished grabbing their meal from the stack
- at some point the dwarf may decide which chair or chair+table they want to sit at to eat their meal on

it's not currently known if a dwarf with a preference will intentionally seek out that food item for their meal

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>>174924067
Actually nevermind, found some survivors in a pool, no ghosts or other mistery crap. Also for some reason i couldn't get sharks to fight people.

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>>174923506
>that one with the tambourine

I can't tell is she's a human or goblin

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Man, I got everything. A successful fort is boring.

>>174924907
>designations with no path to them
Time to add a gimmick

>>174924907
>poor fort aesthetics
>majority of rooms still have no doors

>>174924907
>He uses minecarts

How and why?

>>174925372
I don't understand
>>174925667
Clear Glass doors are still being manufactured- I encrust them heavily first.
>>174925721
Automated material control, efficiency, and quantum stockpiling. Pushed minecarts minimize the time dwarves move raw materials to stockpiles underneath some workshops, then half-finished products between workshops, and then finally to the trade depot. Extremely simple to setup really.

>>174923876
Makes sense. I keep forgetting that, I've been on 4chan too long.

>>174924125
Now that I did not know. Guess that explains why his past few releases added nothing but tileset shit to Masterwork.

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>>174926017
also the second statement was just me saying if it's boring to ahve a normal fort, make it abnormal.
add a gimmick

>>174926198
those are placeholders for temple areas, which is not yet developed because there's nothing to stock it with yet. the design theme is organic growth by mimicking the branches/leaves of a tree.

I'm going to push a waterfall into the middle of the Tavern, is that good enough?

>>174926465
>mimicking the branches/leaves of a tree
A
FUCKING
ELF

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>>174926465
>"organic" growth
>mimicking the branches/leaves of a tree
>flowing water feature
>fort built partially into a soil layer

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I wanna build my port aboveground, should I just go back to human fortress?

>>174914397

This story is fucking amazing. I'm gonna use it.

>>174915075

>Tiny ass room w/ bed and furniture

10/10

>>174926465
>Mimicking the branches/leaves of a tree

OUT

>>174930620
Use it for what?

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>>174930852
Thought I had that "around the elf, watch yourself" pic somewhere but I can't find it, so here's the "oh shit why am I a giant bat" story.

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>>174930620
I forgot who wrote/drew these, but there are a few more and they're all really good.

>>174930438
There are no ports in DF anon

You can't make ports

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>>174932374
Here you go

>>174930438
The only things stopping you from building an above-ground fortress are time, materials, and sheer bloody-minded dedication and maybe the knowledge that the sun and skies are unholy abominations in league with the trees to murder all honest dwarves who don't live within the earth has proper dwarves do..

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>>174907604
>>174923506
>tfw want to fug the grills
>tfw also jealous of that hip to waist ratio and their tits
I think my testosterone might be broken

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>>174932374
>>174933827
There's this one too

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>>174933827
Thanks dollface, have an ass monster.

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>>174934321
>beware its noxious secretions

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>>174934453
I was disappointed it didn't have a gas attack but hey.

>>174934453
>>174934704
It's just a donkey, asshats

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>>174934972
Your mother's just a donkey asshat!

>>174931590
D&D game
Short story
Somethin

>you feel uneasy
>surrounded by goblins
Oh gee I wonder what it is.

also how do i get elf armor everything's so big

>>174933097

This one is classic.

I find it funny how AAA games are getting on "emergent storytelling" when Dwarf Fortress has been doing that forever

>>174936710
steal from dorfs/goblins
they all wear the same size armor as elves

you could also select the "exchange personal items" talk option and trade to get their armor

Where the FUCK do you find libraries? Monasteries and Taverns everywhere but never a library.

>>174914397
>>174938005
A game coming through that copies the depth of Dwarf Fortresses ability for emergent story telling and pasting a fancy visual face over it is long overdue

>>174938681
Worldgen forts mostly. I think humans can make them too, but I've never seen one.

>>174938681
Check the + and * towns rather than the # and ones.

>>174939323
Hrrm, why won't 4chan accept the u+263c masterwork symbol?

>setting up a pitfall from under my upper river to just above the main river so I can drown them/drain it out if necessary
>reading about spikes vs spears, wondering about what I should use all my copper on for a big set of upright traps
>see that in 43.04 and .05 the game crashes when trap items wear out
>mfw still using 43.03

Fort entrance design. I think I've found the best solution.

>3 wide entrance for caravan
>5x5 trade depot
>1x1 down ramp in front of trade depot
>U bend around a barracks
>Barracks lined with glass/windows for vision of U bend
>Barracks exits into last third of the U bend
>U bend leads to up ramp on the other side of Depot
>1x3 bridge is raised behind the Depot to skip U bend when desired

Worth noting there's an updated beta version out: https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack/releases

Taking this opportunity to compile a fresh dev branch version myself.

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Bampyworldbamp

I swear toady designed the AI to pick the most retarded positions to channel from.

>>174944867
>AI
>Artificial Intelligence
>Intelligence
>Dwarves

Im confused

>tfw catch my first goblin

what should i do?

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>>174944867
Basically, yeah.

Also, my insane obsession with making world-gen carve a big blob of mountains up with rivers to satisfy the high/low elevation demands has expaned to a problematic size. The detailed map for a 257x257 is still 8.8 mb in png format, had to jpg it.

>>174932374
That's fake right?

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Slumber
>>174918754
They can be fun.
>>174912027
Ohhhh!
>>174912501
Nice
>>174923506
>>174933978
It is too easy to do.
>>174924724
She is a U.

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>>174946546
No, I did it accidentally before while trying to set up a bodyswap script from scratch: if you take control of a non-histfig and don't save the game drops you into random units and animals until you end up stuck as close to the 0,0 coordinates as you can be. Usually this ends up being a cave creature like a giant bat but I've ended up a demon before too.

Why are my dwarves ignoring my fields?

I have 3 farm plots, all with plump helmets ripe to pick, and no one is picking them up. Most of them have seeds underneath them planted, but they still don't pick up the ripe ones.

I at first thought maybe my farmers were just busy, so cleared them of other labors, but that didn't work

Then I checked and set orders so that anyone can harvest

And double checked that I have a stockpile for plump helmets

I have like 6 idlers. Is there something I'm missing? This has been working fine for the last 3 seasons.

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>>174946862
>tfw you've been playing Dorf since 40d and shitposting on /tg/ dorf fort threads and only just realised that a Hist Fig isn't a kind of tree.

>>174947524

Run out of containers?

>>174946862
I think it does it to hist-figs too, I tried with one and it did the same thing. RIP my attempt to pass down the adventure to my companion

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>>174948081
Adam and Eve covered their respective squishy bits with leaves from the hist fig tree.

>>174948663
Well, it can if you don't save after switching to one, but with non hist-figs it's really fucking sketchy. Go to sleep a dwarf warrior, wake up a fucking dingo or some shit half way across the world.

>>174946643
>It is too easy to do.
I think you misunderstood me. While I do wish I could into art, my envy is fueled by degeneracy.

>>174947524
I think they need the plant gathering skill to be active. Not sure about it though.

>>174950437
No, they don't.

How to make DF feel more lovecraftian?

>>174951660
More demons and the myth and magic arcs would probably help

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>>174949724
Sorry to hear that.
I could draw you somthing non degenerate if that would help.

>>174951660
Yog Soggoth

>>174953023
C-could you draw an elf and a dwarf smoking and playing cards together? As friends?

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>>174953023
I've been waiting for you. Can you draw this for me? Would be much appreciated

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>>174953086
>elf
>dwarf
>smoking
>cards
>friends
>not the elf smoking because the dwarf lit them on fire
Thought you said non-degenerate?

>>174953551
That should be interesting.

>>174953023
It won't help my degeneracy, but a human woman gathering plants or tending to a farm by a comfy body of water would be nice.
I would never ask you to draw something degenerate.

What would happen if my military was told to not carry any food or drink? Would they inevitably starve to death 5 feet from a food stockpile because "don't carry food or drink" translates to "never touch the stuff while on duty?"

Wondering because some of my civilians seem to be complaining about a lack of food.

>>174954534
Weird. I would imagine life threatening starvation would be a priority over bashing Urist from down the hall with a wooden training axe. What can happen is if two dwarves queue the eat job at the same time and end up going for the same barrel/pot one will cancel it.

Dwarven bile-spewing spellbeards W H E N

>Lord sends me out to kill a vampire
>Turns out the vampire is also a lord

So if I kill this vampire will everyone hate me?

Just wanted to put this out there for any colorblind folks with deuteranomaly. This is the best color scheme that I've found so far.

[BLACK_R:10]
[BLACK_G:10]
[BLACK_B:10]
[BLUE_R:4]
[BLUE_G:81]
[BLUE_B:140]
[GREEN_R:93]
[GREEN_G:109]
[GREEN_B:6]
[CYAN_R:12]
[CYAN_G:79]
[CYAN_B:76]
[RED_R:142]
[RED_G:40]
[RED_B:0]
[MAGENTA_R:131]
[MAGENTA_G:0]
[MAGENTA_B:52]
[BROWN_R:235]
[BROWN_G:136]
[BROWN_B:0]
[LGRAY_R:128]
[LGRAY_G:109]
[LGRAY_B:99]
[DGRAY_R:48]
[DGRAY_G:38]
[DGRAY_B:45]
[LBLUE_R:0]
[LBLUE_G:176]
[LBLUE_B:238]
[LGREEN_R:166]
[LGREEN_G:176]
[LGREEN_B:0]
[LCYAN_R:12]
[LCYAN_G:187]
[LCYAN_B:160]
[LRED_R:206]
[LRED_G:73]
[LRED_B:1]
[LMAGENTA_R:160]
[LMAGENTA_G:3]
[LMAGENTA_B:7]
[YELLOW_R:255]
[YELLOW_G:183]
[YELLOW_B:77]
[WHITE_R:242]
[WHITE_G:247]
[WHITE_B:230]

>>174955064
Yes

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>>174955064
accuse him of being a creature of the night before smiting him, then people will be less likely to spit on you

>>174955334
>thumbnail.png

>>174955235
Might try that later, thanks.

>>174955508
Excuse me?

>>174955508
>t. an Ant

>>174956216
Uploaded a thumbnail m8y. I wasn't being a dick.

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>>174955334
They'll still do that, just light fires under them or hit them with a minecart and "accidentally" kill them.

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>>174953086

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>>174953887

>>174957339
>>174957418
noice

>>174957418
Much better

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If I recall, Someone wanted a necromancer having a meltdown a few threads back.

>>174957619
>>174957715
Thank you

>>174957968
Legit laughed.
Nice job

>>174957968
Timbuk, I have a pretty big and unprecise request for you.

See, I just went through my Timbuk folder, and sorted the material there into subfolders to make it easier to handle. Some of these subfolders ended up being really small. If possible, I'd like you to make more material to fill these folders.

The names of the folders are the following:
>science-fiction
>historical/africa
>historical/oceania

Also, I'd love if you made more modern day stuff.

>>174958906
Oh, I also forgot:
>/dfg/ meta humour

Should I go through the entire "lets learn" series or should I just learn the basics and play?

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>>174953551
Here you go.

>>174959669
read the quickstarts on the wiki and learn by playing.

99% of all letsplays are shit.

most of the industry flowcharts only require common sense to understand, all you need to know there is how to set up the workshops.

setting up a military is a bit more complex, but I think the wiki quickstart covers that quite well.

>>174959778
Fucking sweet man.
Thanks.

>>174959669
just follow the quickstart guide on the wiki like this dude said >>174959819, and be prepared to lose a few forts before you get the hang of things. Remember, DF being hard is an old meme, all you need is a bit of patience and reading comprehension.

>>174957968


Very nice, very nice indeed

This will be center piece in the Kabul national art museum

>>174959669
Start a fort, if its your first it will starve or dehydrate, watch it die. Then start another fort with the knowledge that you have to produce more food/drink. This fort will likely fall to a werebeast/forgotten beast/necromancer/ vampire. Now you know you have to build defenses and train a military. Start another fort and with all of this in place you will likely learn that elves dont take kindly to cutting wood or trading wood items with them. This is how your third fort falls.

The game really isnt as hard as people make it seem its just an unintuitive UI.

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>>174917134

>>174960259
Pretty sweet heavily decorated marshmallow

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>tfw you get in the zone of "seeing" the matrix behind advanced world-gen settings
>start tweaking things a little bit at a time to get a particular combination of aesthetics and metagame considerations
>trying to set up a situation where several opposing civs wind up in little mountain pockets and get strong before linking to the far side with tunnels and roads
>get it working and let the world run until you feel satisfied with it
>stop world-gen
>open-legends force
>final check on interesting features and a quick map export
>exit legends
>[u]se the world as is
>[enter] to accept
>finishes post-gen stuff
>cuts to the save progression screen
>crashes shortly after
>only thing left is a cozy map taunting me with lost potential

>>174957339
>>174957418
Wonderful.

>>174960338
It was such a fucking disappointment, couldn't even have a hammerer use it, and it damn near got my militia captain killed because she spent a whole siege bashing a goblin in the foot with her shield because she couldn't equip the maul I had assigned to her, and it would have been worse than useless anyways. >.>

>>174947524
I figured it out. I had accidentally set my food stockpile to accept from links only, when meaning to adjust the settings. Explains why it wasn't accepting ANY food, either.

>>174960338
>>174961001
I wish you could "build" weapons and armor as decorations for rooms etc.

>>174961224
ahhh. Didnt even cross my mind. Probably should have.

>>174960184
>unintuitive UI.
I'm not going to defend DF's UI, but I should point out that the UI in DF is kind of a necessary evil.

Most games have very limited functionality compared to DF, and they are usually already done when they get published. Thus, making a UI for them is pretty simple. They'll have a bunch of buttons for "base" functions (i.e. build, hire/upgrade units, move units, tech tree etc), maybe a few buttons for meta functions (pause, slow down/speed up time, etc), and maybe a few buttons to some gameplay gimmick (i.e. sacrifice soul of unit, etc).

DF, one the other hand, has a very high level of functionality. Furthermore, the functionality is evergrowing. It's hard for Toady to just sit down and re-arrange everything, because as soon as he adds something new, it will all be outdated again.

Even with its obvious flaws, I must say that Toady has handled the UI problem relatively well. For example, most keystrokes offer some sort of mnemonic hint because of the chosen letter.

Then, there are the inexcusable inconsistencies (i.e. different keystrokes when digging stairs and building stairs respectively).

Overall, the UI doesn't bother me that much. It's mostly a hurdle when you're new to the game. We can hope that Toady makes some minor improvements, like he has done in the past (like when he made esc back out of menus, rather than space).

>>174959669
This game really is tough, don't feel bad if you're not getting it even with these guys telling you it's easy.

Take your time with it. Make sure you have your ui configured in a way that you can actually read all the menu settings (Default lnp leaves you with curses tileset that is crisp, but if you're playing in fullscreen, it's tough to read all the small font) and if anything isn't making sense, there's no harm in just watching someone do what you're trying to do on youtube.

But you get the most out of it when you just try it yourself and then look it up when it isn't working

>>174961519
don't recommend lnp to new players.

I can understand and accept that a more experienced player uses it to make some basic stuff easier, but for a new player, it's just counterintuitive.

after all, the new players need to learn how to play the base game early on, so that they don't become left in the dark during the long periods where lnp isn't up to date.

Are there any drawbacks to generating a large map on a rig with beefy specs and then using it for fort or adventure mode on a less robust rig?

>>174961353
I agree. What people dont seem to understand is that new features were added over a period longer than a decade snd I dont think toady ever sat down a planned out how he was going to implement these features. To me it comes off as more "This is what I want to happen and be available to players" It is functional to older players because they saw each update added piece by piece instead of how new players come in and literally go "wtf is this"

>>174961803
I don't even know what an lnp is. I have a dfhack and a tileset running

the flowchart is really helping me, I think its just a matter of sitting dumbfounded most of the time at first until I get used to whats going on.

There are no s

>>174961884
THere are no specs beefy enough to the average consumer. If youre looking at your build and how it will play DF you need to look at single core performance and FSB and RAM speed.

>>174962183

I usually play it on the work mainframe. smooth sailing then

>>174961983
Still, there are some UI improvements I REALLY want.

For example, Toady has said on multiple occations that he wants to integrate workshops into the zone system. Instead of building a generic 3x3 workshop, you assign a workshop area with asize of your choice, then the dwarves haul the necessary furniture there according to their needs. This also suggests that we can finally have multiple dwarves working in a workshop at once. Maybe on different tasks, or maybe co-operating doing the same tasks (like having one dorf, maybe an apprentice, operate the bellows while another does the actual smithing).

Also, it seems necessary to me to integrate the hospital system (and maybe the justice, bookeeping and management systems) into the new "location" system. Instead of appoint all these people as nobles, we give them a job at a very specific location in the game.

After that, the screens of those functions can be linked to the location system, effectively freeing up a lot of buttons.

>>174962183
Maybe large map was the wrong term. I'll rephrase. Are there any drawbacks associated with generating a map on my desktop PC and then moving it to my Microsoft Surface?

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>>174961296
Upright weapon, I didn't know that at the time either.

>>174961353
Thankfully you can remap everything.

I mean, the default adventure mode layout sucks, largely it's kind of an outgrowth of how fort mode plays, but you don't find yourself with one hand constantly using the numpad directional keys in fort mode so keybinds in the jkl; side of the keyboard aren't annoying.

As is for 99% of the shit I do in adventure mode I keep my hands on numpad+asdf. I reach over and poke the far side for like, companion [l]ist, tal[k] history, [o]dor, tem[P]erature(+alt, time=shift, weather=alt, had p set for a dfhack key as I recall), [j]ump, [h]url(or s[H]oot), u[n]equip, gar[b]age, [m]ovement, and so forth so I can have [t]alk and [e]quip and [w]ander, [q]uests, re[a]ctions, statu[z], [c]heck inventory, [s]tance, [v]iew, d[r]aw weapon, [G]rab handhold, e[x]amine and use items, const[r]uction, consum[E], [g]et, insert into inventor[y], b[u]ilding actions, and so forth.

Sadly having my numpad set up for viewing above/below/etc and scrolling lists in adventurer mode means my fort mode keybinds have some weird shims to keep them working.

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>>174954076
Here you go.
This is what I listened to while drawing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPa0zZfH7FQ

>>174962639
Yes. Every tick is calculating every dwarf, every invader, every wild animal, every water tile, every magma tile etc etc. Thats a lot of memory being utilized every fraction of a second. Toady isnt actually a programmer hes a mathematician.

>>174962962
Now your surface, i imagine, has significantly less/slower memory then your desktop. However there are methods that you can use to "stream" your PC power to your mobile depending on what area you are in and how fast your connection is

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>>174962830
Degenerate here.
I love it and thanks for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate it. Nice tunes too

>>174962962
>>174963190
yeah it's a shit compared to my desktop, but not completely useless. I expect okay quality internet clogged up by shitters and bottlenecked by my own home's subpar internet.

I'll just keep playing on the smaller size maps rather than fucking with that. There's probably something in my college's policy that would disagree with my use of the school bandwidth too.

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>>174963449
Glad to help!

>>174961001
>>174959836
>>174959934
>>174958324
Thanks fellas.

>>174958906
starting with some modern stuff.

>>174963835
>He's a wreckin' macheen!

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Ganna need some ideas for Dwarf Future 3000.
Can't think of anything right now but alien profiles.
>>174967270
he was too perfect.

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People think goblins abduct our children so they can eat or torture them. That's only half the truth. There are these interdimensional child molesting vampires, you might call them demons, that control the goblins and give them advanced off-world technology to feed on our childrens suffering. They are stealing their souls! In return for their service the demons give them immortality.
But that's not all. Elves! What do you think is up with those guys? Same height and size of a goblin. Same immortality of a goblin. They are working for THE FUCKING DEMONS! ELVES AND GOBLINS!!! ONE AND THE SAME!! ... Excuse me. Got conscripted last month. Every time I start training again my testosterone starts going up. Also ate a cave crocodile steak this morning. Full of hormones as well.

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>>174967761
So, anyway. Why do you think elves constantly complain about cutting down trees and stuff like that?! Maybe you think it doesn't matter. We're dwarves after all. What do we care about wood? But for humanity it's a far greater problem. Elves are gracious and peace loving and pacifistic. They are designed to subvert and infiltrate us, while the Goblins just wage direct war against the free people of this world. They don't care about hiding their demonic cruelty. Elves are designed to trick you. Don't let them foul you! They shape trees with their demonic powers! They brainwash animals! They forbid you to cut wood, expect you to buy their "grown wood" from them instead. They give you a nice animal once in a while so you keep trading with them. so you actually have to give a shit about their demands. These "grown" items, these "tame" animals... they are all infused with demonic magic. Eyes and ears for the demons in the goblin fortress. Their mere presence is slowly corrupting you and making you weak. Once the day comes and the demons attack all these animals will turn against you. A single "grown" hatch or floodgate for the water supply of your fortress will poison it all. A single grown barrel, reused for wine, ale, drink after drink. All demonic poison, slowly corrupting your soul. Ready for harvest.
Buy infodwarfs water filters today! Only certified non-eleven, non-goblin material. All stone in our water filter station is handcrafted out of pure, casted obsidian. The blood of the mountain solidified into pure dwarven rock. Order now.

>>174967581
How about a space danger room, with a group of scientists watching the astrodorf inside and taking notes

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>>174967859
>>174967761
when are they going to invite the noble King of All Dwarves for an interview?

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>>174967761
>>174967859

How am I suppose to get out of the underground in adventure mode? Are there indicators on the map that shows town or tavern or I'm just suppose to wonder aimlessly?

>>174954076
become gril anon

>>174968521
Top kek. Saved

So are dwarves the alt-right and elves antifa/the left. What are humans and goblins then?

>>174971020
>humans
Probably the normal people all the exremists want to see themself as.

>goblins
In the /pol/ universe? Do you really need to ask?

>>174967581
>That alien with the white purple suit and helmet.

I'm such a fucking virgin.

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Flamethrowers when?

>>174973393
Hopefully never. Fire is annoying enough as it is.

>>174974146
>feature is annoying in its broken and unfinished form
>therefore the said feature should never be fleshed out and made into a functional part of the gameplay

>>174973393
just build one from a fb/dragon
if you want portable flamethrowers as weapons for dwarfs. they would kill themselves/kill the whole squad/burn down your fort 99.9% of the time

(but yeah. small siege engine like flamethrowers would be cool. having to supply them with rock nut oil or something)

also: be a real dwarf and build a magma thrower

oh shit. my clothier has a mood. dwarf fashion week incoming

>>174975775
>silk thongs

Two of my militia just threw themselves off a cliff for no reason and the combat log doesn't say why. Doesn't make sense, there was a wall between them and the outside.

Stupid shits probably walked into the river for no reason. Is there any way to forbid certain tiles? traffic management designations don't do shit.

>>174972523
Do:

>levers
>lever linkage
>gears
>raising vs retracting drawbridge
>floodgate
>weapon trap (bonus if it has like 10 weapons and at least one is a crossbow)

>>174977308
>Doesn't make sense, there was a wall between them and the outside.
Search the bugtracker for "wall teleport"

>>174977308
two of my dwarfs just died from old age. I think I'm playing the game wrong

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>>174977664
>not modding your dwarves so they live forever
Look at this uncultured swine

>>174977308
it's a known bug you dip

sometimes, when sparring, two militia members can teleport through the wall of their barracks.

until Toady fixes it, the best way to prevent it is to either
>surround your barracks with a wall that's at least 2 tiles thick
OR
>not having your barrack "zone" touch the walls
OR
>not having anything dangerous outside if you have both of the above

>>174977895
>living forever
what are you? an elf?

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>>174975814
took me a while to realize that he wants stone/metal blocks not glass
its actually pretty nice

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>>174977940
>>174977626
Fuck's sake Toady.

>>174978965
What's it worth?

>>174977940
>surround your barracks with a wall that's at least 2 tiles thick
Not the other guy, but does that really help? Wouldn't they just teleport 2 tiles?
I'd imagine a way to make absolutely sure it works would be to surround your barracks with a wall, then empty space, then another wall.

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>>174979653
Oh and of course a way for the dwarves to go back out from in between the walls.

>>174979510
71460, its the highest of the 6 I currently have. But I mainly like it because it actually has some of the fortress history on it.

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Hopefully optipng didn't fuck me up too much, hard to take a good shot in this, game keeps crashing. How comfy is my surface looking?

just had to crash my game. Tried to sell a forgotten beast to the eleves (or at least look what its worth).
They took it out of the cage...

>>174981934
>that thicc river
unf

>>174982361
Long drop too, I have a 30tile long underground entrance with dropping bridges, it goes under the top river and sitll has room for a 5z drop onto sandstone grates and bronze spikes. I've got 40 down there and need 40 more. Is it worth putting down clusters of spikes in each tile?

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>>174982361
It's got some nice curves, I admit.

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>>174986229
This one was kind of a bummer, only 1 z.

>>174981934
>>174986229
Damn, now that's a nice embark

Does the river freeze over in winter, or is it temperate all year around?

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mica

>>174986473
Freezes over in winter, which is handy for recovering teleporting wrestlers who took all your steel gear with them, not as good for the water-filling of the trap corridor. That's why I put spikes in there too.

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Rare old dead Toady interview:

>https://web.archive.org/web/20100521224211/https://techday.co.nz/gameconsole/news/interview-tarn-adams-of-bay-12-games/16197/

I'll archive it in my collection.

>>174987949
Links to the 4th and 5th from the end? Don't remember if i read them or not.

>>174988125
The Motherboard/Vice interview is fresh. Toady recently retweeted it himself. Just go to his twitter and it will be the first thing you see.

The Stoned Gamer interview is dead, but I got it through the wayback machine:
>https://web.archive.org/web/20160730181310/http://thestonedgamer.com/interviews/item/863-simulate-your-very-own-fantasy-universe-looking-at-a-decade-of-dwarf-fortress

>>174987949
They are in pdf format, right?
And you've typeset them all consistently,
right?

>>174988491
Ah thank you very much.

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>>174987949
>Ryan Vincent: Thanks again for the interview, Tarn. For many of our readers, this will probably be their first time hearing about Dwarf Fortress. How would you describe it to them?

>Tarn Adams: We usually call it our fantasy world simulator, but it's really incomplete, so we can call it a spaghetti code bug hunting simulator. You take control of a group of dwarves and mine into the earth looking to avoid crashes and face buggy behavior. It's kind of like an RTS in many ways, but it goes into detail concerning each of the individual dwarves unintended behavior and crashes in due to the dynamic environment and so on. There's also the "adventure mode" RPG in which you can take a single character around to explore the world. But that is even more incomplete than the rest of the game.

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>>174986473
Pretty sure that was a jungle site, same as this one.

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>>174988545
Basically, I follow this form

>title (bold, size:24)

>subtitle (bold, size: 18)

>author and date (normal, size: 14)

>Retrieved from [url], [current date] (normal, size: 12)

>entire interview copied straight from the site (size: 12). unless it looks extraordinarily ugly, I keep it as it is

Lastly, I add page numbers to the footer.

I usually don't use the images in the interviews, unless they're referred to in the text.

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>>174989489
Oh, I just noticed I had used a slightly different format for interviews before.

Apparently, I used to put the name of the magazine/blog in the title, too. I haven't done that in the last few articles, though.

>>174988849
he is honest, at least

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>>174986552
microcline

This page has a scanned interview from 2007, I think:

>https://www.tigsource.com/2007/06/29/games-for-windows-magazine-dwarf-fortress/

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>>174992002
Is this the oldest known photograph of Toady?

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>>174992195

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>>174992410

>>174992612
I think the most surprising part of this interview is that Zach used to be a dockworker.

>>174993974
Wasn't he an engineer at a naval base? That's what Toady said in another interview.

>>174993974
What is Zach doing nowadays? Is he even at some degree involved with coding? You'd think it'll be really useful to teach him some basic config tweaking/text enriching while Toady writes other stuff.

>>174994203
That says longshoreman. I'm not a native English speaker but I know that as someone who works at a harbor loading and unloading cargo from ships. It also says he threw out his back doing it which tends to happen to people doing that kind of job.

>>174994353
Doesn't he do the rewards for donating?

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>>174991905
yes

>>174994353
He mostly makes mountain dew and cheetoh runs, changes Toady's diapers, and schedules prostitutes for when Toady has been a very good boy. You know, typical administrative stuff.

It really bothers me that this interview is in Finnish only:

>https://www.uusisuomi.fi/raha/70983-hammentavan-kulttihitin-uusi-versio-miksi-loit-dwarf-fortressin-tarn-adams

Any Finns here who are able to read it?

>>174998908

Sorry i was banished from Finland after the great fire in 1987

I was forbidden to identify as a Finn

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>>174999207
...seems legit.

>>174967581
I need a dwarf captain kirk eyeing up a space hottie to the disapproval of dwarf spock.

>captcha: PLEASE STEWART

Also picard saying "make it so".

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>first seige, had two years to prepare
>checking through the map to see if my burrow is working
>bard stuck up a tree
cowardly fucking humans I swear!

I'll have to redesign parts of my pit trap, probably put fortifications in on the two upper levels and get rid of any ledges. I somehow lost four of my twenty militia, most of them dickheads dodging incoming fire and falling into the pit.

I caged two of the fuckers though, what should I do with them?

>>175001235
Haha fuck the poor bard survived the siege only for a werekangaroo to show up.

>>175002678
haha fucki gn kanga ranga

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ffffffffffuuuuuuu

Just figured out I had some sort of broken link to a region14 folder which makes the worlds I generate in that slot bug out and not save...

>>174998908
I am.
I'm not gonna translate the whole thing, though.

>The colony this writer built as part of background research was destroyed, because the most diligent farmer perished after meeting a grey letter 'w' (which I later leaned meant a wolf).

>After this loss, a much lazier farmer got so nervous he stopped producing some kind of cave tuber, and my dwarves no longer had booze to drink. Eventually the thirst for alcohol weakened my guards, and a pack of large 'S'-characters (I think) tore through my delving.

>The next game this writer started using graphics packs created by the game's fans, which made things considerably easier. Old experience of ASCII graphics didn't help, not even an old Nethack veteran.

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>>175002678
Kangaroos are serious business.

>>174988849
lel

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>>174988849
>We usually call it our fantasy world simulator, but it's really incomplete, so we can call it a spaghetti code bug hunting simulator

>>175008238
>call it a spaghetti code bug hunting simulator
well, that was years ago anyways

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>lost world bump

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>>175013172

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>>175014368
well dot'd my friend

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Behold my magical Lanterns of eternal light
They will surely aid your dwarfs mining effort in the deep places in the world
Buy 10 and get a free one

>Might attract vengeful undeads and restless spirits

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>>175014368
10/10

>>175016129
>paying for light when all dwarves have perfect night vision

>>175014368
>Spook the earth!

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>>175018098

Its a bargain bro. who could refuse such a offer

>>174978965
Your mood got you bondage gear with a picture of when some dwarf got himself reamed out on it.
I'm actually jealous.

Can I use seeds other than the ones that grow in farm plots (outside of trading them to caravans of course?)

I have things like prickleberry seeds, almonds, gingko seeds, etc., all of which aren't useful to me to grow in my farm plots. Can I throw them outside and return them to the ecosystem, helping wild plants to grow again next spring?

Or are they just good for cooking / taking up space in a bag?

>>175024951
Some of them.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Farming#Above_Ground_Farming

>>174967581
Kobolds that are classical knights akin toward King Athur,all dwarfs are legends passed down on scrolls & quires

Maybe throw an elf or two playing tag in the background

everywhere on my map is now trade depot inaccessible.

wuss going on? i haven't exactly walled off the sides or anything

>>174979035
What tileset is this? It looks pretty comfy

>tfw aboveground hamlet built entirely out of wood
It brings me joy when the elven caravans arrive to see the product of my tree genocide.