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    Dwarf Fortress So a zombie just waltzed into my fortress and killed some stuff. To speed up the cleaning process, I chose my jeweler to only do burial and refuse hauling. Instead he just sits on the corpse and "socializes"... I'm unsure what I'm supposed to do differently.

    Dwarf Fortress So a zombie just waltzed into my fortress and killed some stuff. To speed up the cleaning process, I chose my jeweler to only do burial and refuse hauling. Instead he just sits on the corpse and "socializes"... I'm unsure what I'm supposed to do differently.


    So a zombie just waltzed into my fortress and killed some stuff. To speed up the cleaning process, I chose my jeweler to only do burial and refuse hauling. Instead he just sits on the corpse and "socializes"... I'm unsure what I'm supposed to do differently.

    Posted: 03 Oct 2020 10:52 AM PDT

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    Posted: 02 Oct 2020 06:01 PM PDT

    Speeding Up Your Game Prt3

    Posted: 02 Oct 2020 07:23 PM PDT

    DF Hack Invasion Command Suggestion

    Posted: 03 Oct 2020 03:44 AM PDT

    I know a lot of people don't even try to play real "gamey" and kinda just go with whatever happens to their fort but I think for those who want to play it with a bit of a structured challenge the fairly random and inconsistent enemies hinder that a bit. Like I could start a fort with the idea that I'm gonna create a super army outfitted with the best weapons and armor and trained to the max and/or a super deadly super fun trap hall and/or taming an army of war pets. But getting consistent enemies to test yourself against can be tough, even if you embark right next to a load of goblins you're not really guaranteed consistent sieges or anything and as far as I know they never really send ridiculous numbers at you that would fully challenge a late game highly skilled highly armed army.

    I haven't played with it a huge amount but I vaguely know that there are commands in DF hack to spawn in units and stuff. So I was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a script that spawns in an invasion wave. I was thinking you could input a range of enemies (ie I want between 50-200 enemies) and then you could input whether you just want goblins or want the whole goblins, trolls, and beak dogs. And then maybe you could input what level equipment they would have (like whether they have iron or just copper). And maybe you could even input a range for what their fighting skills would be like. So you would just have a DF hack script that only requires those few inputs and bam you have an artificial siege that you can still make fairly random but you can have a good challenging mega fight with.

    For additional suggestions it could be expanded to give you the option of elf or human sieges if possible. Maybe you could also input a timer so you could say I want this siege to randomly happen any time in the next 6 months or year or whatever, so that it can still catch you by surprise/happens a little more organically.

    Idk how possible/viable any of this stuff is to do but I just would really love something like this. I love the randomness of the game and all but when I do feel like I wish the game were more "gamey" it's usually about the fighting. Like I'm aware that I can challenge myself with building a megaproject or commit myself to a random goal. I know I can embark in a desert or tundra or evil biome for a challenge. And I know I can now raid enemy sites (but not being able to see/control the fight makes it a lot less satisfying). I know I can crack into HFS and try to throw myself against the you know what's. But all in all I feel like I would really enjoy fending off some good old fashioned goblin hordes that I can manually scale to what I want to fight and I don't have to worry about depleting the number of armed goblins at sites.

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    Weapons

    Posted: 03 Oct 2020 02:56 AM PDT

    I can't get the damn dorfs to equip their weapons. My entire squad is proficient with spears, they're all set to equip with specific spears, that I have. I rally them all together after giving them some time to get equipped and only a few are grabbing weapons. A few are even qeueing up as axedwarves or wrestlers even thought they're proficient in spears and (supposed to be) equipped with one. How do I do something as simple as putting weapons in dorfs hands?

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    Streaming DF now! Finishing off Experimental Fortress 2 and then starting a new Fortress 3 to experiment with memories and stress. This time with combat, blood and guts! (VOD will be in the comments after the stream is ended)

    Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:08 PM PDT

    [ENG] Dwarf Fortress - The Spire of JoyDaggers - The Spire Arises (Stream 2 - Streaming for approx 4 hours)

    Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:03 PM PDT

    Thirty-Eight Days of Dwarf: Day 2 (Extra Life 2020!) 5pm-7pm EDT!

    Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:34 PM PDT

    (Now with 100% less Automod! Just kidding, mods. Love you guys.)

    Thumbs up... Let's do this.

    UUUUUUURIST.... McJenkins...

    ----------------------------------------Who's this guy?----------------------------------------

    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.

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    What in the name of the glowing pits is this about?

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    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.

    ----------------------------------------But why?----------------------------------------

    I like to do things when there's more than one reason to do them:

    • I like to teach, or at least I have in the past when my health has allowed it.
    • People (crazy people, apparently) like my stream, when I do it.
    • People are always complaining that Dwarf Fortress is hard to learn. (Not really, but let's show it.)
    • It's for charity. I get to collect money for the very same hospital that once helped me as a child.
    • It raises the profile of Dwarf Fortress, a game I regard as a seminal work and personally enjoy.

    ----------------------------------------So how's this going to work?----------------------------------------

    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 embark find conditions where we're at war with a necromancer tower?!?)

    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.

    ----------------------------------------So what's in it for viewers?----------------------------------------

    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?

    • I'm going to get a callout working for donations so everyone can see your generosity!

    Anonymous or not, if I can make it work, everyone will know you're supporting kids that need it.

    • Donate $10 or more and you may request to have a dwarf named in current and future forts!

    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!

    1 DONATOR HAS EARNED A NAMED MIGRANT FOR ALL 38 DAYS. Are you next?

    • For $25 or more, you can reserve one of the starting seven instead of a.. <.< >.> ...migrant.

    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?

    • For a donation of $100, I'll let you flip the script for a bit.

    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.')

    • Feeling your oats? If you're willing to drop $500, I'll let you flip the whole table and pick the game I'm playing!

    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.)

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    Wait....Thirty days of tutorials for Dwarf Fortress as part of a charity drive?

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    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!)

    ---------------------------------------- New and Uncertain Players: ----------------------------------------

    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 ants dwarves, including a demonstration of custom professions in action. Sound will be provided by Soundsense so that you're not listening to me play in silence during any lulls, and the off-topic interaction between the audience and myself tends toward the lively (and often ribald).

    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!)

    ---------------------------------------- More advanced players: ----------------------------------------

    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!

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    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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    <= Prior Day (Day 1) - Next Event (Day 3) =>

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    1. Pre-Broadcast: Completed. You're reading it. You could have read it before this, but I'm lazy and I'm blaming the Automod, since that was the real reason one time a few years ago. Don't tell anyone.
    2. Thirty-Eight Days of Dwarf: This is tonight from 5pm-7pm EDT! Within 14 days, the VOD will still be up at Twitch (-link pending-) but after that, you'll need to wait for a Youtube upload, which may take some time.
    3. Day 2 Youtube Upload ( -link pending- ) is pending broadcast completion!
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