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- *We need your help with game ending stress*-- ThreeToe
- **SPOILERS** I think I found the perfect music for... **SPOILERS**
- Krughsmashess next big series speculation
- Designated a tavern in a new fort, 30 seconds later almost 100 soldiers show up to party
- Starts new fortress > Digs into Kobold tunnels > 25 spiders rush into my base > They just wanted to say hi > Now I have 25 spiders and they keep having triplets > Giant cave spider splosion inc?
- Thirty. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 29! (2019-10-29, 20:00EDT, TILESET STRAWPOLL, Extra Life 2019)
- Dwarven monarchy good, democracy bad
- What made you rage-quit?
- Adventures in adventuring: Pekold is Dead.
- Removing the within-10-years marriage restriction
| *We need your help with game ending stress*-- ThreeToe Posted: 28 Oct 2019 06:58 PM PDT
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| **SPOILERS** I think I found the perfect music for... **SPOILERS** Posted: 29 Oct 2019 07:31 AM PDT ...The Circus... If you listen to the classic beginning of The Shining Soundtrack not only is it ominous and slow building, but a little bit on you start to hear strange sounds and "screaming" in the background. It might take a little XML editing in Soundsense but I think it would be a special, if not unofficial, background music edit for that part of the game. [link] [comments] | ||
| Krughsmashess next big series speculation Posted: 29 Oct 2019 11:23 AM PDT The world Krughsmash made his short fort series is going to host the next big series. I just know it. . I bet the current short fort will be involved in the big series plot like how water keeper was to honeystoker. Who agrees? [link] [comments] | ||
| Designated a tavern in a new fort, 30 seconds later almost 100 soldiers show up to party Posted: 28 Oct 2019 07:16 PM PDT
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| Thirty. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 29! (2019-10-29, 20:00EDT, TILESET STRAWPOLL, Extra Life 2019) Posted: 29 Oct 2019 09:58 AM PDT
Want to settle that "Meph vs. Vettlingr" debate? Want to put it all to rest? (Who am I kidding? It's hilarious to watch them tease one another.) Well, I'm opting to put the thing to the hard test. I'll link a strawpoll on the stream page - viewers can click the link to vote on the tileset I'll use on Game Day (11/2) for the 24-hour livestream. Most of the LNP tilesets are represented (the ones I've tried previously, mostly) and I'm set to play the one that gets the most votes. So go on. Vote for your tileset. Force me to use your favorite! (Obey Wheaton's Law. Be nice, this is for fun and charity!)
We're sitting at about half of our charity goal now, and it still looks like we might reach it! 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. In fact, I'm streaming RIGHT NOW, as part of my unscheduled streams (if it's early enough before 8pm...) For those of you looking for VODs, they're available on Twitch, and I have exported them to Youtube, but I've got a lot of backlogged URL link cleanup to do, and that's not nearly as much fun as teaching Dwarf Fortress, so it's been lagging. NOTHING will be lost - I record all sessions as well as streaming them!
Next Day (Day 30) => 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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| Dwarven monarchy good, democracy bad Posted: 29 Oct 2019 11:50 AM PDT
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| Posted: 29 Oct 2019 07:12 AM PDT Should have screen-capped this moment. After IRL days of building up the fortress I had started raiding elves. My melee squad was miners with picks and another weapon of their choice. The whole squad gets captured, one pick left, start rebuilding. Mason gets moody, goes crazy from lack of raw gems, and kills their baby in arms while I'm simultaneously raided by 2 pages of elves with war bears, horses, and a moose herd. You don't know how much this game can hurt you until you watch an otherwise dutiful mother you're grooming beat their baby to death because you decided to skip leg day at the barracks*. It was made worse because the same ticks of time the mother kicked the baby and it hit the wall the game would pause to announce another hidden elf had been seen. I can usually skip past the horrors, but not this time. I got to watch every moment. One at a time. 5 ticks and it's over, then the bears jumped past the gate and everyone started to die. My only satisfaction was all my gear was steel and every so often a dwarf would rip through 3-4 enemies while sending another 2-3 running away in panic. Then they'd catch an arrow to the face. I now know why we burn the trees. *Cheap way to get an excellent military is to make a squad of miners with pick weapons. Legendary fighters without needing a barracks make for a great home guard. Don't get cocky and send them out. It leads to dark places... **I had a trap hall and drowning chamber planned out, but the lack of picks killed my progress. Literally. [link] [comments] | ||
| Adventures in adventuring: Pekold is Dead. Posted: 28 Oct 2019 06:47 PM PDT I have had a long two days of mastering adventure mode. I've tinkered before but never got anywhere because of constant crashes. Yesterday I finally did two things, one or both of which fixed the crashes - 1. turned off graphics, and 2. disabled dfhack. I was finally able to enjoy being eaten by wolves, and boogeymen. I went from hamlet to hamlet begging for companions and got nowhere. Finally got a companion, found a fortress (oh good I can buy clothes that aren't size large!) and we were attacked by batmen in the caverns. My companion died and I suffocated on my own blood while trying to escape up the staircases. OK, let's try again. I travel only by day, I horde alcohol from a tavern so I don't have to fuck with rivers and wells. I chase some horses, those fuckers are hard to catch. No one will travel with me because I am unimpressive. I finally kill a horse. Still no one is impressed, "it was inevitable." I hate going to the big cities because of all the lag and cats, but eventually I drag my way into a city tavern and wait. I meet a mercenary, let's do this thing! We head back past the hamlets to an outlaw camp I've already located but didn't dare enter. We slaughter everyone. I take a nap. When we wake up the outlaw leader, a human named Pekol, has returned and is presumabling crying over the corpses. I sneak up on him! We kill his ass and then head back to civilization. We enter a lord's hall for a rest. No one is awake to listen to my bragging, so instead I finally get around to butchering my horse corpse and get creative. Carve figurine, create image, historical figure, action... This is a horse bone figurine. On the figurine is an image of Pekold the human. Pekold is dead. This game is fun. [link] [comments] | ||
| Removing the within-10-years marriage restriction Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:34 PM PDT I made a script to patch your DF binary to allow age-gap marriages (linux 64-bit only): https://pastebin.com/nECW95nZ It's unclear if it actually works, because I didn't see anyone marry in fortress mode during this weekend. I still think it does work, but I was hoping it would dramatically boost the marriage rate, so maybe I'll look into that in the future, when I feel inspired again. [link] [comments] |
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