Dwarf Fortress Haunthalls - Lazy Sunday lofi steel production (2hrs roughly) |
- Haunthalls - Lazy Sunday lofi steel production (2hrs roughly)
- A few years ago this was my first DF drawing! It is a huge humanoid composed of green glass. It has a long swinging trunk and it's eyes glow red.
- that's one way to end the conversation
- Combat descriptions in this game can be BRUTAL!
- Troobleshooting & Powering Through Game Crashes
- I really need help at finding someone on Adventure Mode.
- I am building a tavern out of cinnabar and I would like some suggestions for furnishing it
- Thirty-Eight Days of Dwarf: Day 24 (Extra Life 2020!) 7pm EDT!
- Depending on single core CPU performance holds up technological progress, and dwarf fortress is the worst
- A !!fun!! omen
| Haunthalls - Lazy Sunday lofi steel production (2hrs roughly) Posted: 25 Oct 2020 07:25 AM PDT
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| that's one way to end the conversation Posted: 24 Oct 2020 12:59 PM PDT
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| Combat descriptions in this game can be BRUTAL! Posted: 24 Oct 2020 12:33 PM PDT I just started playing this game after years of being afraid of it because of its complexity. After a few tutorials I am barely ready to go through an entire game and try not to die so soon so I can get a handle on the mechanics. But hey, there's the fun, right? Anyway, first siege, like twenty or so goblin skeletons and a few undead alpacas. Got everyone inside and closed the gate. Everyone's okay except for one dwarf: Ral Keshshakuzol, the broker. Apparently she was hanging around the woods when the dwarves started getting inside. Once she saw that the gate was closed and there was no path home, she decided to hide behind a mountain, watching the animals getting slaughtered and just hoping not to be seen. The thing is, thew saw her. I guess this is somewhat common to old players, but as my first ever "combat" (if it can be called a "combat") I was surprised by the level of detail I got from the reports. I got horrorized while reading abour how poor Ral tried to run away until the bolts started to hit her legs and chest. I felt what she felt when the text of her words spoke "How fragile we are... Begone, fear!". Already with difficulties to breath, she looses an arm, but still manages to dodge the swords until an attack opens her stomach and spills her guts. She eventually gives up to pain. Not happy with the dwarf being dead, a Goblin decides to cut off her lifeless head and take her stuff. They continue to move through the map until they're gone. I can't believe I'm looking at letters and numbers blinking in a screen. [link] [comments] | ||
| Troobleshooting & Powering Through Game Crashes Posted: 24 Oct 2020 06:36 PM PDT
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| I really need help at finding someone on Adventure Mode. Posted: 24 Oct 2020 06:17 PM PDT I need to find a man that will give me the whereabouts of another man that holds an artifact. He's in a town, i asked the Lord, i shouted on a market with a massive amount of people the whereabouts of this man, he lives there and all they say is "He's my neighbour" or "We're in (Town) i dont know exactly where to look". I'm walking all the city shouting the same question and no one seems to know where this guy is. Is my third adventure mode that i face the same problem. If at least i could know where he lives or whats his job, any hint. How do you guys handle this problem? It happens on more than half of the quests that i try to take. [link] [comments] | ||
| I am building a tavern out of cinnabar and I would like some suggestions for furnishing it Posted: 24 Oct 2020 08:58 PM PDT We've got some cobaltite and lead but I'm at a bit of a loss for what else to use. Obviously if I had serpentine I'd be putting it all towards mugs. Any other suggestions Urists? I want this to be a really great tavern. Willing to spend big dwarfbucks on imports if needed. [link] [comments] | ||
| Thirty-Eight Days of Dwarf: Day 24 (Extra Life 2020!) 7pm EDT! Posted: 24 Oct 2020 02:33 PM PDT (Looking forward to the next fortress - thinking I may run a few very short forts to experiment with the blank slate hypothesis.)
Hey guys! 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:
We've started 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! SEVERAL DONATORS HAVE CLAIMED A NAMED MIGRANT FOR ALL 38 DAYS. Are you next?
If none are available, I'll have to use a migrant. (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 and 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 many 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!
<= Prior Day (Day 23) - Next Event (Day 25) =>
Special thanks to this year's donators! - Clinodev (!) - still wants a wax worker! - Valdimar (!) - randomly selected for engraving and spelunking, depending on the whims of fate! Now with apprentices! - Estacaco - Marshall DK (!) - Veliq (!) - Sicarius (!) - a mason, and now a priest! - Adrian (!) - A carpenter! - (!! ☼ /u/Kruggsmashdf and his Bearded Bastards ☼ !!) - BlindIRL - Derek (!) - Driflo (!) - Thomas (!) - AdamFedo (!) - Tomric (!) We're also 79.5% of the way to our initial goal, and halfway to our stretch goal of breaking our record! THANK YOU TO THE GENEROUS!
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| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 07:28 AM PDT Adding more cores to a CPU is an easier way to make its total performance faster than increasing its clock speed. Therefore, if everyone cared only about total all core performance, CPU performance would improve faster. If you buy one CPU over another because it has higher single core performance, you are encouraging manufacturers to focus on single core CPU performance, not total all core performance, so you are causing the improvement of total CPU performance to improve slower. And dwarf fortress is the worst at this. It's the only CPU intensive thing I use that is only capable of using a single CPU core. So it makes people care about single core CPU performance, spending money on CPUs with faster single core performance, and holding up technological progress. This was recently personally relevant for me in choosing between AMD's 3700X and 5600X. Edit: All I'm asking is for you to complain to people who make stuff that depends on single core performance. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 24 Oct 2020 04:16 PM PDT My current fortress is named Bomrekusân, meaning "Whipmurdered." The expedition leader is named Dodókkogan, meaning "Claspboats." Haven't seen any elephants yet, but I can already picture what's in store for me. [link] [comments] |
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