I want to go home and play with my dwarfs
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following vague instructions from this thread without fully reading anything resulted in me flooding my first fortress let’s goooo
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Taught my husband to make a cistern last night and he’s proud… but is probably going to have to restart soon because he chose his first map with a light aquifer that covers approximately a million percent of the map area. And ever single soil layer above it is clay. i told him that he cannot do a stoneless DF run as your first try with the game haha.
Teaching someone “oh you have to follow this billion step process to ensure a constant supply of beer” just reminded me how weird it is that, for years, my favorite game genre has been “making excel spreadsheets about a fake city full of drunk diseased murderers”. To me it is obvious that obtaining drinking material should involve building several structures, permitting and un-permitting various items in a giant food list, creating an entire schedule for a little man, etc. I have become thoroughly brain poisoned
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ethics.txt
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Okay probably the most important / useful thing I’ve learned how to do so far is set up a manager, then fill the work order queue with everything I want automated, like, making beer forever.
You gotta make a bedroom with a bed and a chair, draw a zone around it, designate it an office, assign the dwarf the manager role, assign him to the room, then just build out that work order tab.
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My bookkeeper has ominously “withdrawn from society” in a “peculiarly secretive” and “strange mood.”
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he just, uhh, “created Cogbemal Dan Kesh, a gingko wood animal trap” and offered it to “The Torches of Controlling.”
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He’s now a Legendary dwarf, either as a Trapmaker or maybe as a Woodscrafter?
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I got my fortress to year 9 but became increasingly frustrated with the aquifer preventing me from easily mining down and finding caverns. I was also sick of my diplomatic tension with the elves, who have forbidden me from cutting down more than five trees a year (though I often bargain upward for as many as 14-17 trees). I felt like things were getting too easy survival-wise at 200 dwarves, but infrastructure inefficiencies, wood shortage issues, and aquifer stuff was preventing me from trying anything cool.
So I started a new embark with a volcano and a river in it and am going to see if the volcano makes it easier for me to punch through the aquifer. Already I am making a huge efficient smelting operation… with more accessible magma my metalworking industry is going hog wild!! Hog wild! Ironically I have no hogs of any variety this time but I do now have five peacocks so I am excited to see if I can breed large numbers of peacocks. I find the idea of a large number of immense fancy birds chilling in a gimli thorin ass, dwarf ass dig too deep style underground city very amusing
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it’s Spring, the start of year 2 in my new fortress. I think it’s time to give this method a shot and supe up some farms to prepare for next winter.
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ah fuck i made this on the complete wrong elevation and the correct elevation is in the middle of an aquifer.
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It took all year but yo!!!
now what to plant? my plump helmets are abundant. i guess i could do more cloth?
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Whatever plants that let you scale up a book making industry is my recommendation.
For my fort, I broke into the underground caverns and did not quite understand what that meant beyond “ooh, cave spider silk and fungus galore”. There was a couple population crunches, not precipitious (especially when half of them were the relatively useless “monster slayers” that petitioned to stay), but it did prompt me to make a properly outfitted military squad.
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My people have become obsessed with this visiting goblinoid
She has been performing and literally living in the tavern for weeks now.
(Here's how you set that up btw)
You gotta make bed rooms, then draw zones around em, indicating that they’re bedrooms.
THEN, you have to click this + button on the wood sign here, and define this bedroom as being “part of” the taven below.
I have to assume what makes her so fascinating is her deranged combination of artistic and personality quirks
Friend of mine described her as
an anti-Semitic caricature of Woody Allen
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think I’m about to reboot the fortress with a new save. I learned so much this past one, enough to now recognize some things I could have done different. this game rules.
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Beachblunt and Wheelmoistness do sound like names I’d come up with. I appreciate that.
Are 90% of dwarves alcoholics or is my tutorial fortress just blessed
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