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    November 05, 2020

    Dwarf Fortress [Kruggsmash] Chamberpoint Ep.9: Godforsaken

    [Kruggsmash] Chamberpoint Ep.9: Godforsaken

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 05:40 AM PST

    Steam News - Glass tables, stone bridges, and more!

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 08:05 AM PST

    Monster Slayerception

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 06:36 AM PST

    When you finish a boring routine chore, you get a little time to daydream about the good things in life.

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 05:38 AM PST

    Using AI Dungeon to generate DF-like artifacts.

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 05:01 AM PST

    I made a custom scenario in AI Dungeon that generates random artefacts that could (theoretically) belong in Dwarf Fortress! I plan on using it for my RPG sessions, but I thought that you might find it kinda neat.

    The wording is different to how it is in Dwarf Fortress to make generation easier for the AI. Also, I added a "It has a *** backstory" to add some extra dimension to these items. Here I some results I cooked up:

    • Dwarven Stuff:
      • - Dokkrus Darkfire's Crossbow. It is a dwarven crossbow decorated with an image of a dragon's face in red hot metal. It has silver bands attached to it. It has a violent backstory.
      • - Gorgok the Fist. It is a magic warhammer of dwarven make. It is richly decorated with images of dwarven symbols on the handle. It has a ring of steel encircling the handle. It has a legendary backstory.
    • Human works [i imagine humans being kind of religion-obsessed]:
      • - The Holy Symbol of Fel. This symbol is of a large black cross with a holy light blue background. It is one of the most popular symbols of Fel, the god of shadows. It has a shiny golden border. It has a bloody backstory.
      • - A Holy Symbol of Dorna. It is a perfect work of art made of silver and specially enchanted with healing powers. It sometimes has a faint light blue glow. It has a holy backstory.
    • Elven [they don't care about killing trees though, it seems...]:
      • - Ardan's Bow. It is a silver bow with a black arrow. It is decorated with silver snakeskin. It is a masterfully crafted weapon. The weapon menaces with silver. It has a tragic backstory.
      • - Murkwood The Dark Path. It is a dark wooden staff. It is very long, almost as if it was built for a giant. It is decorated with an eye of silver set into the top. It has a gothic backstory.
    • Goblins...
      • - Ulivik the Buzzing Horns. It is a horrible buzzing horn. It is not decorated at all. It is a little bit bent on one side. It has a mysterious backstory.
      • - Gorg the Cruel Mask. It is made of wood and painted purple. It has eye holes for the eyes and a snout for a nose. It is finished with a piece of straw attached to its forehead. It is go between keeping an evil eye and going in for the fun of it. [a bunch of nonsence, but you can make out some !fun! idea behind it all]
    • And other.... you see, you can make artifacts of any culture you want:
      • It is a bugbear-made artifact: Gorgok the Cruel Hook. It is a really longsword. It has a lot of deep notches in the blade, almost caving in part of the blade. It is decorated with blue crane images in high quality wood. It has a terrifying backstory.
      • It is a elephant-man-made artifact: Thepecially Crafted Elephant Gun. It is a pea-shooter. It is not particularly ornate or fancy. It was created with the lowliest of purposes, to shoot peas. It has a ridiculous backstory.
      • It is a dragon-made artifact: Drakonn The Nightmare. It is a large, black and red tome. It is incredibly old. It emanates a powerful aura of Nightmare. It is filled with unspeakable horrors and curses written in ancient language. It is also filled with pages of the most beautiful poetry and songs. It has a legendary backstory.

    That's pretty much it - hope you enjoyed! You could try searching for "Treasure Generator 1.0" in published scenarios or you could try making your own. Farewell!

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    SPEECH 100

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 08:17 PM PST

    What is DF about? (in adventure and fortress modes)

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 11:12 AM PST

    I see DF as extremelly complex, there are tons of things happening, it is a darn awesome simulator. But what it is about? In fortress mode is not just like another civ gaming where you conquer and yada yada. The adventure mode is not just about chilling and hoarding stuff. What is the game about?

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    Comparing it to Minecraft... What would be the EnderDragon of DF?

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    Glass stone bridges and / or blood - the latest Steam news update is out

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 08:26 AM PST

    And it looks amazing. They took this utterly charming game and are now working on making it so much more playable for everyone not just hard core DF fans. I can't wait to see where this is going.

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    Chantedfins: Episode 7 - Taking Flight

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:56 PM PST

    We're entering year 2 of the new fortress and abhorrent filth is everywhere in the sinister woodlands! We've got a crazy system of tunnels planned so that visitors don't get covered in filth when they enter - oh yes, and we're plagued with ogres and harpies. (VOD will be linked in the comments)

    Posted: 05 Nov 2020 12:00 PM PST

    I think this child will be a madlad when they grow up

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:19 PM PST

    Vile Force Of Darkness... Gets Rekt

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:57 PM PST

    I dont know why its called "The Mechanical Jungles" even though theres no alien city ruins in vanilla

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:07 PM PST

    Daily random picture - Highway between industrial and residential/entertainment under a river.

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 12:25 PM PST

    Thirty-Eight Days of Dwarf: Day 35 (Extra Life 2020!) 7pm EDT!

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 03:30 PM PST

    (GIVE ME A SIEGE!?!? WHERE ARE MY TEST SUBJECTS?!?!)

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

    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.

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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 at https://www.twitch.tv/nirruden.

    Dwarves. Every. Single. Day.

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

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

    • It's for charity.
    • I get to collect money for the very same hospital that once helped me as a child.
    • I like to teach, or at least I have in the past when my health has allowed it.
    • It's for charity.
    • 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.
    • 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?-------------------------

    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.

    --------------------------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?

    • There's a callout for donations so everyone can see your generosity!

    Anonymous or not, 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!

    SEVERAL DONATORS HAVE CLAIMED 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. (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 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 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!

    --------------------------------Parting Words----------------------------------------

    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!

    ------------------------ !!EVENT NAVIGATION BAR!! ---------------------------

    <= Prior Day (Day 34) - Next Event (Day 36) =>

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    ----------------------------------------Progress Readout---------------------------

    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 7pm-10pm 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 34 Youtube Upload ( -link pending- ) is pending broadcast completion!

    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 (!)

    - DarkCookie(!)

    -Adrian (!)

    - AND SOME ANONYMOUS DONATORS TOO (!!)

    We're also 85% of the way to our initial goal ($1000) and just a little over halfway to our stretch goal of breaking our previous record of $1575.89!

    THANK YOU TO THE GENEROUS!

    ---------------------------------- Fortresses To Date ------------------------------

    • Tossidur Berim (The Armored Fist of Artifice): Succumbed to "necromancer guest bug". (Bug: Necromancers are treated as guests, and can walk right in over the traps in 47.04, then bring their minions into the fort for fun too. Whooooops.) Necromancers are now, unfortunately, disabled. I do not like it, but I ain't going to lose fort after fort to them: I'm a gamer, not a professional masochist.
    • IronPrice: Retired peacefully as an archived save now that tree farm and magma workshop demos are done.
    • TomeStake: Happier than prior forts, encouraging blank slate hypothesis experimentation for our next fort. Two-way water trap, both drowning and flushing trap now filling for deployment!
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    [Question] Looking for a story I saw here

    Posted: 04 Nov 2020 03:23 PM PST

    I'm remembering a story that I found on this sub in which a dorf was basically burned or mangled beyond recognition but a team of medical Urists were able to save him and he ended up encased in Adamantine? I remember there was also an image associated with it showing parts of the story from the operation. If anyone remembers it can you please link me to it?

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