Dwarf Fortress ☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼

☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼
The Human Fortress of Iralpethit, currently with 235 inhabitants
Forgotten Beast Akru Dorku
R2 bout 3
A human baby has arrived
Dwarf Fortress Overclocking Scaling
Been trying to get into it
Rough Banner mockup
Custom Arena Layouts
how is this thing still alive
Oceans of two biomes at different heights - anyone else experienced this?

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 04:07 PM PST

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The Human Fortress of Iralpethit, currently with 235 inhabitants

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 07:53 AM PST

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Forgotten Beast Akru Dorku

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 03:11 AM PST

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R2 bout 3

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 03:10 AM PST

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A human baby has arrived

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 05:51 AM PST

So I don't know how or when, but at some point a human baby showed up in my fortress. The baby isn't related to any of my human poets and, in fact, is not even a citizen of my fortress.

So at some point it managed to fall, miraculously unharmed into the caged cyclops pit, which is where I first found it.

I deconstructed one of the walls to allow the baby egress, but when I came back to it, it was still in the pit but now surrounded by blood. I figured the cyclops swiped at it through the bars, but Hehan Atraruni Atir Daze has no new events in her combat log.

The baby's combat log has a lot of 'force of the impact' so presumably the baby crawled up the staircase of the access stairwell and then somehow fell back into the pit, mangling one of its arms.

How can I encourage my dwarves to retrieve this strange baby? Should I? Will it survive its juvenile stage if I simply allow it to be raised by the cyclops?

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Dwarf Fortress Overclocking Scaling

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 11:18 AM PST

Hey there, I did some simple tests to see how memory overclocking as well as cpu overclocking affected the game. So far I've taken a public world, Boltclaw, and have been using it to test calculation fps while paused.

As you can see here, I gained about 6 calculation fps from going to 5.4ghz from 5ghz using Intel Turbo Boost. (16 hours Prime95/Realbench stability tested)

https://imgur.com/a/QvoiiH7

I also have some unscientific data where I let the world play until it settled onto an fps number after 10-20 seconds:

https://i.imgur.com/K22vF4c.png

Overall, I gained about a 13% performance boost from overclocking my processor and memory to the maximum, with 10%~ being more feasible.

Specs:

CPU: 9900k(Various frequencies in the post)

RAM: XMP 3733 cl17 32gb / OC 3600 cl14-19-19-36-485-65537

1660 ti (Almost irrelevant)

Some more things I would like to test is how ring ratio affects DF's performance and tweaking different memory settings.

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Been trying to get into it

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 05:38 PM PST

The title says it all im having trouble about getting into this game even though I really want to. I think the main reason is that I will waste time and it wont be enjoyable at all.

Do any of you guys have similar experiences and how you guys broke through this mental block

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Rough Banner mockup

Posted: 05 Jan 2020 07:59 AM PST

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Custom Arena Layouts

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 03:33 PM PST

The Object Testing Arena isn't a huge part of the game, but there's a lot of fun to be had through staging tournaments, setting up crazy scenarios, and generally just watching as a bunch of nameless characters beat each other to death for your own amusement. If you haven't already checked it out, you really should! If nothing else, it'll help you get a better feel for how adventure mode combat works.

However, while the default layout has some interesting set pieces, I've noticed that not a lot of people have taken advantage of the fact that you can edit the arena's layout. There are a few tools people have made to edit the layout including Urist Vespasian, but there aren't many actual custom maps available online that I've seen.

Consider this just a little PSA, because if anyone has any custom layouts they'd be able to share, I'd love to see them!

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how is this thing still alive

Posted: 04 Jan 2020 12:50 PM PST