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- ☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼
- 3 months ago u/bbkilmister posted a story about a Weretortoise scholar entering into his library to read a golden book. So, I decided to draw it.
- This demon was concerned for my safety
- Hippies taking "Knowledge is Power" way too seriously
- Stupid Macaque stole my Green Zircon Mug LOLOL
- Dwarf Fortress Roundtable Podcast has released Ep. 38: In Which New and Old Worlds Are Compared, And Other Stuff.
- Managing pets in Dwarf Fortress
- You Died in Dwarf Fortress
- Kastrol Playfulblotted has claimed the position of Lord of The Momentous Council.
- The Tragedy of Tongsdiamond, a Legends Mode Tale
- I play dwarf fortress like a psychopath.
- WHY.
- Thirty-Eight Days of Dwarf: Day 4 (Extra Life 2020!) 7pm-10PM EDT!
| ☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼ Posted: 04 Oct 2020 05:09 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] | ||
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| This demon was concerned for my safety Posted: 05 Oct 2020 04:58 AM PDT
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| Hippies taking "Knowledge is Power" way too seriously Posted: 05 Oct 2020 02:13 AM PDT
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| Stupid Macaque stole my Green Zircon Mug LOLOL Posted: 05 Oct 2020 09:13 AM PDT
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| Managing pets in Dwarf Fortress Posted: 05 Oct 2020 12:15 PM PDT I find a great way to help alleviate stress for Dwarves is to give them pets. Some dwarves have a favored common pet while some have a favored exotic pets and some favor both a common and an exotic pet. However I don't have an easy way to manage pet assignment. The best I can do is go through each dwarf and check to see if they have a favored pet and if they have adopted a pet. If the pet dies or I haven't made a note of the pet's name then I have to go through the whole list of dwarves again. Is there command or utility that would automatically compile a list of dwarves, favored pets and adopted pets? [link] [comments] | ||
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| Kastrol Playfulblotted has claimed the position of Lord of The Momentous Council. Posted: 04 Oct 2020 02:10 PM PDT So, to bolster my population, I had allowed some human entertainers (and an elf, eugh.) to join my fortress. Recently, I had gotten a message in my alerts that one of them- in fact, one I was quite interested in, as he had a fun personality- was elected the lord of a human kingdom. Now, I wonder- what effects will this have? Should I treat him as a noble? From a Roleplay perspective, I see no reason why my dwarves would give him special treatment- they don't know he's a lord, he's just a random dancer that joined the fortress. Until he applies for citizenship, I don't think I'll be giving him special treatment- though, I'll keep you all updated. [link] [comments] | ||
| The Tragedy of Tongsdiamond, a Legends Mode Tale Posted: 04 Oct 2020 06:25 PM PDT Many of the inhabitants of the Enchanted World have quickly learned that life is never easy. On this small continent, all must scrap and fight for whatever territory they can. But in the beginning, this lesson was not yet known. Tongsdiamond! Tongsdiamond! The first fortress constructed by the dwarves of the Sculpted Lash, and the host of many of the world's first recorded competitions and events. Why, in this first wrestling competition of year 1, a gray brute names Oquari was declared winner! But peace could not last. Forgotten beasts crawled from the depths and ate livestock from below, though swiftly banished by brave warriors, their names now lost to time. Great beasts of the field, dingos, snatched them as our guards were busy below. Then, everything changed when the Jade Barbarity attacked. The gray brute, Oquari, who had won the world's first wrestling competition, had succumbed to the megalomania that occupies all demon kind, creating a great dark fortress, and having drawn the goblins to himself, launched an attack on one of our earliest outposts, Razortones. Ultimately, Oquari was slain in that first battle, as was the brave dwarf Deler Tributeclasped, may he continue to spill blood in Armok's name, who led our own warriors. But Oquari's actions had opened the bottle. Goblins came and stole away children in the night, leaving only sobbing mothers and stoic fathers. Many dwarves immigrated from their homes out in the wilds, offsetting the population loss, to live in the fortress, as ordained by Armok, but still, to lose children was a great travesty. Through this though, Tongsdiamond emerged as the center of culture in our fledgling world. Dozens of books were personally written in its library, and various musical events, as well as athletic ones, such as our beloved crossbow throwing, took place yearly, entertaining everyone when they weren't working. Many folk, dwarven, human, and yes, even elven came to it, living and working, further filling its halls with their voices and bodies. Over the next decades, the fortress settled into the rhythms of daily work, punctuated with The Armored Festival, a grand collection of competitions, and recitals happened every now and then as well (and the occasional Forgotten Beast, but the army had been habituated to dealing with them at this point, leaving minimal property and bodily damage). Now to you, the idle listener, this may seem like the average life of an average fort. But, the seeds that Oquari had planted were beginning to bear fruit. Many of the kidnapped dwarves soon reached adulthood, raised and indoctrinated in the Jade Barbarities fortress as willing slaves. And it was not just dwarves who suffered. Our human friends in the Kingdom of Buds also lost many a child to their depredations, and they too matured under the hand of a goblin. And so, as adults, these willing slaves were willing to integrate back with their old societies, who they now saw as intruders on the rightful dominion of goblins and demons, and began to secure knowledge about every level of Tongsdiamond, posing as various people. You ask why we did not attack? Well then little beardling, I will admit it was fear. We did not quite know what had happened to our children, and indeed, we thought that the goblin will to fight had been crushed by the death of Oquari in the year 13. But no, the goblins grew and festered in their corner of the world, consuming our young to help them in their enormous growth. But I digress. Earlier, I had mentioned the emergence of Tongsdiamond as a center of culture and learning. And so it was, as the piles of books grew, in the year 80, the Strategic Vaults was established and manned, a grand library, to store the dozens of books made by the great early thinkers of our world. This, in turn, attracted even more scholars and eccentrics, all seeking the knowledge that we held there, and causing even more books to be written by these folk, as more ideas filled the air. Ah, I can remember it like it was yesterday! Watching all the various stick limbed, overly clothed and pallid scholars arguing, shouting, and gesturing wildly, as others wrote as if their lives depended on it. If only you could have seen it... The year 100 passed us by, and the Armored Festival was especially fantastic that year. A dwarf was the winner of the wrestling competition that year. No more inviting demons for us! Ha ha! Now, the Sculpted Lash of the past was as capable militarily as the one that you now know. We fought many a battle in Devilhills, that accursed goblin quagmire, alongside our elven and human allies, and we were not at all lacking warriors, as we easily repelled Forgotten Beast after Forgotten Beast. But still, Tongsdiamond had never before come under direct attack by any concentrated force, only singular wandering beasts or animals. And as you have heard, Tongsdiamons was a fortress of merriment and scholarship, of industry and craftsdwarfship. And so, in the year 115, the end came. Having thought that the tales of a demon leading hordes of goblins and competing in wrestling competitions were the early tales of myth, we dug too deep. Phantomashes the Ghost of Urns was the pangolin fiend's name, we learned, after he broadcast it all over the world via her goblin servants, of the one who led the attack on us. Know it well beardlings, for one day, one of you may need to carve a statue of that monster being struck down. But her initial attack was devastating. With a horde of lesser demons at her beck and call, the relaxed guard and the soft scholars were easily cut down, offering no resistance against the hellish tide of claw, fang, and muscle. In it, she demonstrated a frightening degree of intelligence. The artifact silver mace Equaledwades had been claimed as a symbol of authority by one of our nobles long ago, and was stored in Tongsdiamonds. It was one of the first things stolen during the attack, and happily used by Phantomashes to slaughter our people, in a cruel sense of irony. Once all were lost, the demon set out upon her foul work to convert our once proud fort. The Strategic Vaults, along with all the knowledge that it housed, was lost. If you ever wonder why the books we get from the humans are so repetitive, that's why. That fiend destroyed them all. Burned in a great conflagration, simply for her amusement. Yet this was not the end. For the bodies of those slain by her and her followers, Phantomashes either left them in heaps to rot, spit them on great copper spears, or tossed them to her demonic horde as playthings. And for her final insult to all of dwarfkind (aside from continuing to exist, that is), the demon defiled our sacred crypts. Approaching the coffins where our dearly departed were to enjoy their eternal rest, the fiend used her foul sorcery to return them to a facsimile of life, as empty stalkers, to play out the everyday routines of their old lives, all in order to maintain her fortress for her, and allow her to do whatever his cruel heart desired. This is the tale of the tragedy of Tongsdiamond little ones. When it fell, we promised to ourselves that we would never again be so weak. Knowledge is important, but so is kin and strength. And every single one of the dwarves that fell attempting to stop that fiend's rampage was kin to at least one of you. So swear with me now, that before you die, you will see Tongsdiamond in dwarven hands, with a dwarven king once more! [link] [comments] | ||
| I play dwarf fortress like a psychopath. Posted: 04 Oct 2020 08:21 PM PDT
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| Thirty-Eight Days of Dwarf: Day 4 (Extra Life 2020!) 7pm-10PM EDT! Posted: 04 Oct 2020 03:44 PM PDT
Hey guys! it's been a year or better since I really was able to stream for any length of time. Did you miss me? I know I have been missing me. I'm /u/Nameless_Archon, and I provide tutorials on how to play Dwarf Fortress every year (health permitting) while I try to raise money for sick kids.
What in the name of the glowing pits is this about?
It is time to return to our roots, and so we shall: Thirty. Eight. Days. Of. Dwarf. Starting on 10/1 and proceeding through the Extra Life 2019 Game Day event on 11/7, I'm going to stream and teach what little I know. Dwarves. Every. Single. Day.
I like to do things when there's more than one reason to do them:
I'm not actually 100% sure yet, but don't tell anyone I said so. (Apparently, it's going to work by only allowing my STARTING embark find conditions where we're at war with a necromancer tower?!? !!FUN!!) I'm going to start out like I usually do - streaming a basic, sustainable fortress. However, the reality of the situation is that thirty-three days of Basic Base Building 101 is going to probably bore the pants off people (including me) and I don't really want things to be boring. So we're going to have to do a few things along the way to try to spice things up, and along the way likely reveal that I'm just an average player like everyone else. (Dwarves dying of starvation and frostbite on a glacier? Likelier than you think!) Basically, I'll stream in the evenings most days for a few hours. On Saturdays and Sundays, we'll generally run a little longer, but I'm going to stream every day until 11/7 even if it means I have to get up at 3am to do it. On 11/7, we're going to culminate with a 24-hour long livestream, as part of the worldwide Extra Life charity event. I don't use Twitter, Facebook, etc. and people may want to donate to Extra Life 2020, 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, 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! 2 DONATORS HAVE CLAIMED A NAMED MIGRANT FOR ALL 38 DAYS. Are you next?
If none are available, I'll have to use a migrant. (There are still some dwarves remaining as of this writing, but I won't be advising when the window closes... We call this 'Early cat catches the dwarf'. Move fast.) 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! SOME OF THE STARTING SEVEN HAVE ALREADY BEEN CLAIMED! Will yours be next?
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. Let's talk first. 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-eight 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. (Last year, they contributed only a sixth of our total collection, because the players and viewers - people like you and I - were far more generous!)
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 0.47.04. (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 (like Day 1 this year...) 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 anod others who I admire for their dedication, which is studded with perseverance and ringed with bands of my gratitude! Without those efforts, a tutorial for installing and configuring everything for the game and its add-ons would be a sizable task unto itself. I've actually 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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