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- ☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼
- ☼Fortress Friday☼
- Made a volcano fort and it still holds!
- DevLog 24 October 2019: "Speaking of moving on to the fort, we've just gone ahead with that, ha ha ha."
- A Totem for Your Dwarves
- Look at this fucking game throwing shade at me. No chill.
- Thirty. Three. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 25! (2019-10-25, 20:00EDT, Extra Life 2019!)
- Degël died to really bad luck.
- The Elven prince
- A lot of weird graphic glitches only on Adventurer mode
- Finding a savage animal person in Adventure mode
- Seismic Activity
| ☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼ Posted: 24 Oct 2019 05:06 PM PDT Ask about anything related to Dwarf Fortress - including the game, utilities, bugs, problems you're having, mods, etc. You will get fast and friendly responses in this thread. Read the sidebar before posting! It has information on a range of game packages for new players, and links to all the best tutorials and quick-start guides. If you have read it and that hasn't helped, mention that! You should also take five minutes to search the wiki - if tutorials or the quickstart guide can't help, it usually has the information you're after. You can find the previous questions thread here. If you can answer questions, please sort by new and lend a hand - linking to a helpful resource (eg wiki page) is fine. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 24 Oct 2019 05:06 PM PDT Our weekly thread for posting interesting events without cluttering up /r/dwarffortress. Screenshots, stories, details, achievements, or other posts are all welcome here! (That includes adventure and legends mode, even if there's no fortress involved.) [link] [comments] | ||
| Made a volcano fort and it still holds! Posted: 25 Oct 2019 08:21 AM PDT
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| Posted: 25 Oct 2019 09:16 AM PDT
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| Look at this fucking game throwing shade at me. No chill. Posted: 25 Oct 2019 11:02 AM PDT
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| Thirty. Three. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 25! (2019-10-25, 20:00EDT, Extra Life 2019!) Posted: 25 Oct 2019 07:03 AM PDT We're sitting at about half of our charity goal now, and it still looks like we might reach it! Started a new fort two nights back using Vettlingr's tileset for some variety! If you're looking to see a fortress from the beginning, come out and join us tonight! BETTER NEWS: I'm on vacation this coming week, so my on-stream hours will ramp up every day heading into this final week of the event, so we're bringing you more. MOAR HOURS. MOAR OFTEN. MOAR DORF.
Next Day (Day 26) => Want to get reminders? Sign up to the event for a reminder, or follow me on Twitter @Nirruden!
What in the name of the glowing pits is this about?
It is time to return to our roots, and so we shall. Thirty. Three. Days. Of. Dwarf. Starting on 10/1 and proceeding through the Extra Life 2019 Game Day event on 11/2, I'm going to stream and teach what I know. Every. Single. Day.
I like to do things when there's more than one reason to do them:
Basically, I'll stream in the evenings most days for an hour or two. On Saturdays and Sundays, we'll generally run a little longer, but I'm going to stream every day if it means I have to get up at 3am to do it. (For the record, we've averaged 3.42 hours per day over the first week!) On 11/2, we're going to culminate with a 24-hour long livestream, as part of the Extra Life charity event. I don't use Facebook, etc. and people may want to donate to Extra Life 2019, even if they're not supporting my efforts directly. Feel free to share my donations link, or to direct people to the charity's main page.
Well, aside from helping to support my local children's hospital (good vibes, ho!) I'll be pushing out tutorial game(s) live on stream as part of the event. Your donations are a spur in that direction applied to my backside. You can even attend the event with me, since I'll be broadcasting live on my stream the whole time! ...but if that's not enough for you?
Anonymous or not, if I can make it work, everyone will know you're supporting kids that need it.
If you're not naming him something awful, it'll even happen. You're welcome to request a trade for the dwarf, if I have one suitable to match it! If we run more than one fort, donator dwarves will show up in all forts after the one where you donated!
If none are available, I'll have to use a migrant. (I won't be advising when the window closes. We call this 'Early cat catches the dwarf'. Move fast, some have already been claimed.) As above, if you donate on the first fort of our event, we'll put that same dwarf into the starting seven every fort thereafter!
Want me to embark on a reanimating evil biome with a necromancer next door? It's your call. I'll save the current stream fort, and start a new one on the spot with settings as close to your request as I can manage on the fly, and run with it until it dies or I do. If someone else flips the script on you before I finish, you can either donate again to flip if back or wait for their fort to exhaust before I resume yours. Your choice. (We call this one 'Last dwarf gets the sock.')
Some limits on this are required for sanity's sake. If you're really thinking you'd like to do this, send me a message and we'll work out the details beforehand! At some point, I'll get back to the stream fort, but for a truly generous donation, I'm 100% willing to give up some time and show off anything you'd like, live and on the spot. You can find a link to my Steam profile (which contains a list of potential games I could probably get set up for streaming) here if you're considering this. (And if it's something we can do multiplayer, we can even try that too, which would be a stream first.)
Wait....Thirty days of tutorials for Dwarf Fortress as part of a charity drive?
Thirty-three days, actually. It was the wife's idea - she suggested that you folks might like to get a newer version of my original tutorial, and that this might be a good avenue to combine hardcore Dwarf Fortress fanatics, who are already a generous and supporting community, with a charitable cause to support. I didn't have much luck finding a flaw in her reasoning, so I bit the bullet and advertised it at work, too, despite my trepidation regarding drawing personal attention there.
We'll be putting the newest version of the starter pack and Dwarf Fortress through its paces as we (attempt to) start a new tutorial series for v 0.44.12. (Note: If there's an update and it seems relatively bug free, I'll try for the newer version, but I'm aiming this at newer players, so trying to ride the cutting edge isn't really in the cards.) Past demonstrations (From v.34 to present) have included glaciers, deserts, sites with necromancer towers adjacent, as well as discussion on how to influence worldgen to get what you want. Our first one will be a more sedate embark, designed and chosen for relatively newer players, and we'll start with worldgen as though we're looking at a fresh install. Goal: My goal for "Tutorial Night" is to walk new players through an embark using the DF Starter Pack. (Explicit thanks to /u/PeridexisErrant who I admire for his dedication, which is studded with perseverance and ringed with bands of my gratitude! Without his efforts, a tutorial for installing and configuring everything for the game and its add-ons would be a sizable task unto itself. I've devoted multiple-hours of stream to demonstrating it 'the hard way'!) Along the way, I'll provide examples of the setup and tools I use to play Dwarf Fortress, as a guidepost for new players. What I'm really trying to do is give new players a reference point they can come back to on how to set up a world, embark on a site, and stand a reasonable chance of employing a fairly basic and standard design to build a workable fortress wherever they may need to start one. Stream Info: The channel rules are simple: Respect Wheaton's Law and you'll be fine. Just don't expect the content of the broadcast to be 100% suitable for children; Sorry, kids. I'm much too low-brow for a guaranteed clean broadcast. Get your parents' permission, etc etc. If you have questions you might like answered with a demonstration, and not simply a quick post in the weekly questions thread, I'm your guy. I'll do my best to demonstrate just about anything you can think up - aquifers, megaprojects and magma pistons aside. (Minecarts may get covered, but don't expect anything computational or timer based - I'm a casual player, not a dwarven mechanical engineer.) You can view the stream here, as well as on the donations page for Extra Life. Later Goals: At some point in this fortress, I'll walk players through my 'most commonly used' tools in DFHack and in the utilities that come packaged in the DF Starter Pack and how I use them to construct a simple, basic, and tightly run fortress that can support as many dwarves as my PC can haul, defend itself against all comers, and handle just about anything. I also will demonstrate Quickfort at some point for those who've never taken advantage of it! We'll certainly touch on Dwarf Therapist, and discuss how I use it to control the behavior and organization of my New players, your questions (no matter how 'silly' you may think they are) are 100% welcome, as they're the whole point to the broadcast! Join us and ask them! If you can't make it (or are not willing to brave my often vulgar displays of unsuitability) and still have questions you can't seem to figure out, post them in the DF Bi-Weekly Questions Thread for this week and I'll do my best to help you overcome your obstacles, if the expert players haven't gotten there first! (Obligatory: Yesss... Join usss... Join the Dark Side... We have cookies!)
On that note, experienced players who want to follow along are certainly welcome (and often manage to teach me a thing or two, directly or not) but the main thrust of the stream will be to help new players get over the introductory hump to start playing at a deeper level, so you may find yourself paying less attention to the pace of the stream and more attention to your fellow audience members. I do love having a few veterans show up, though, because my fortress designs always get better when I'm shown a method I've never used!
Please don't go. The children need you. Please donate if you are able. On behalf of Riley and Extra Life: Thank you, in advance, for your generosity!
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| Degël died to really bad luck. Posted: 25 Oct 2019 12:15 PM PDT
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| Posted: 24 Oct 2019 04:34 PM PDT Early into the forts existence I declared war on the elves. Seemed appropriate, as they were starting to encroach too close to dwarven lands. During one of these raids I got a spoils report that contained a single line, "One Elf" This elf joined my fortress and would just sulk around outside my jail, just leaving to eat or drink. Depressed bastard. I debated throwing him into the volcano many times, but just... couldn't. During this time I was building a particular cage trap I nicknamed the Cobra Nuke. It contained over a hundred cobras and a few other animals (Cougars, Keas, etc) that had wandered in. Now this took several years to make, so it mostly just sat there, slowly filling. Fast forward a year or two from the Elfs capture and he was still just moping around the jail, but I noticed that the dogs would keep him company, despite being nowhere near a meeting zone, or any major pathway. My jail was really out of the way. I thought it was neat, seeing the dogs trying to comfort that poor Elf, caught so far from him homeland. Soon after I noticed it a message flashed, "An Ambush! Curse all friends of Nature!" I watched the elves pour into the map, about 30 or so on Giant Cardinals, 80 or so on foot, with a pack of War Horses to boot. Leading the charge was the Elf Queen herself. The War Horses fell into my cage traps quite easily, and shortly after the siege was broken, with only the Giant Cardinals hovering above with their pointy eared riders. They kept their distance though, the only one who tried to attack was felled quickly. I checked on the captured units list and saw that I had captured the elf queen herself. I immediately carved out a 3x3 room, filling it with masterfully crafted images of the Elf Queen. I then placed the cage trap in the room and left her to watch her might to her fall until the fort crumbled to dust. I had 2 walls removed so passing dwarves could taunt this so called elven royalty. After giving it some thought though, why would the Elf Queen charge in so ferociously? Why would royalty risk charging into a dwarven fort? I know she has many subjects, the elven civ she came from was HUGE. She must have been trying to rescue that one Elf! It's the only thing that makes sense. That couldn't be allowed to pass so I brought in the Cobra Nuke. I tied the Elf I had captured outside so he could watch. 120+ King Cobras + extras were primed in the royal prison. Levers were pulled, the elf queen was slain, laughs were had. FPS dropped down to like... 1-2 for a moment though. Thats when the fort started getting weird, all the animals, including the ones not yet tame, didn't bother, respond to, or really acknowledge my dwarves, instead they conglomerated around the elf. Even war animals (unless ordered out on a raid) would rather follow that elf than the person they were assigned too. So I now had ~120 king cobras, all of the war cougars, plus dogs, cats, etc all just chilling in the main jail area. Once released the elf just went back to moping. I couldn't have him mope in the jail though, too morbid for a prince. I made a gold platform extending over the volcano, with crystal windows, all of the finest in dwarven craftsmanship, silver and platinum furniture, each of them decorated with wood. This overlooked the entrance to the fortress in pristine view of the slaughter halls. Several more raids fell with him looking over his fallen compatriots. Although he never earned a historical name, Id like to think the Elf I captured was some prince, although no more royalty came to raid after the Elf Queens execution. The fort eventually fell to another elf raid later, that, unfortunately had war elephants. They did kill the Elf during that raid, but he had technically joined us for a few years. Must have been too... dwarvey. [link] [comments] | ||
| A lot of weird graphic glitches only on Adventurer mode Posted: 25 Oct 2019 04:34 AM PDT
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| Finding a savage animal person in Adventure mode Posted: 24 Oct 2019 06:38 PM PDT I was getting ready to finally retire my adventurer and thought it'd be nice for him to fulfill his desire to fall in love as a way to wrap this up. Side note: yes, I've aware of the flags that normally prevent adventurers from doing so and adjusted them with DFHack.
Except there's a problem, he's a grizzly bear man and the only population of civilized grizzly bear men are on the other side of the world. Where I started off, actually. Looking through legends viewer I found a small savage forest nearby that has a few grizzly bear man historical figures and DFhack confirms the region populations include a few, but I can't seem to stumble on any by chance and none of my other ideas seemed to work. Any advice? [link] [comments] | ||
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