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Dwarves, Simulation Theory and Empathy
Nothing to see here. Just a randomly thrown together squad of misfits being total Chads, as usual.
Tips for playing Dwarf Fortress on iOS
Perfect world
The Dwarf Fortress Roundtable podcast is back from summer break with Ep. 56: In Which Whiprule Is Honored
Getting my son ready for DF. He is 11 years old. Am I a bad parent?
Favorite Fortress Defense?

Posted: 27 Sep 2021 07:22 AM PDT

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Dwarves, Simulation Theory and Empathy

Posted: 27 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT

For those who don't know, here's an overview of the Simulation theory.

Simulation theory states that humans and the universe around them is nothing more than a computer simulation, made by a more advanced being. We are nothing but lines of code in that simulation. One idea is that post-humans, ie. Humans far in the future are simulating us to study and play around with human history. Another idea is that some advanced civilization is playing a simulation game, and we are just a part of that simulation. Our dreams, emotions, lives, everything is being simulated by supercomputers.

Now, coming to dwarf fortress... Dwarves have fairly complex intelligence from what I've seen. They seem to feel pain, a range of emotions, friendship, dreams and surprisingly, something as complex as changing ideologies from different life experiences. To us, these dwarves may be nothing more than lines of code, represented graphically on screen. But to the dwarves themselves, these lines of codes are what defines them. Each True-False value defines there state of mind. Still, compared to us, dwarf emotions may be deceptively primitive.

What has been really going on in my mind is, should we as the simulators, feel more compassion towards the dwarves and really take their range of emotions, however limited they may be compared to us, into account while simulating. Thoughts?

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Nothing to see here. Just a randomly thrown together squad of misfits being total Chads, as usual.

Posted: 27 Sep 2021 07:42 AM PDT

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Tips for playing Dwarf Fortress on iOS

Posted: 27 Sep 2021 11:30 AM PDT

I recently learned you can play DF remotely, which is great for those of us who might not have much time to sit down in front of a computer and play.

Here's a few small tips and tools for making it easier to play on iOS if you're running it on a Mac server.

First, set up your server using mifki's instructions

Download Dwarf Fortress Remote from the App Store.

Note that there's a companion connection tester app so you can see if your server setup works before purchasing, but ironically I couldn't get the tester working and just went for it.

That's the minimum you need to start playing, but here's a few improvements I found that made it run more smoothly:

Disable sleeping on the computer you use to play, otherwise you might wind up unable to connect. If you don't want to do this, the app Wake Me Up can send a Wake-on-Lan packet from the app or via a shortcut.

I made a shortcut (Strike the Earth!) to launch the game over SSH and start the iOS App. For some reason launching DFHack from terminal like a normal Unix executable didn't work for me, but opening from finder did, so this uses AppleScript to remotely tell Finder to launch it. I recommend assigning a static IP address for your Mac.

A second shortcut (It Was Inevitable) kills the terminal and therefore the game, which is useful for certain hangs or crashes. I may or may not have also used this to cheat and close the game without saving after an unfortunate drawbridge incident.

And finally, a third shortcut (Praise the Miners!) allows you to run dfhack commands remotely. The default server install doesn't have any plugins, so you need to download the appropriate version of DFHack to your Mac, currently 0.44.12-r2, and drag dfhack-run to your dfremote-complete-4412-Mac folder, libdfhack-client to your hack folder within that directory, and any plugins you plan on using to the plugin folder within the hack directory. Note that installing every single plugin causes the app to crash when viewing workshops, not sure which one was the culprit. Since most of my game time was clocked pre-dfhack and I'm not very familiar with it, I've only used this for exploratory mining designations with the dig plugin's digexp diag5rcommand, no guarantees about any other plugins' functionality.

To enable SSH and configure it to work with shortcuts, see the instructions here. Note you can use your password instead of an SSH key, but something about storing your password in plaintext on your phone seems insecure.

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Perfect world

Posted: 26 Sep 2021 09:11 PM PDT

So yesterday I generated a medium sized world about 500 years with 75 civs, aswell as demon, secret, night troll types set to a thousand aswell as the megabeasts set a bit above the usual. However probablly due to my computer I couldn't load it on legends viewer Im assuming due to the size of the legends file, and really half the fun for me is pouring through the legends. I was wondering if anybody thought what pushed it over? Probabbly the amount of entities in the civs Im guessing,

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The Dwarf Fortress Roundtable podcast is back from summer break with Ep. 56: In Which Whiprule Is Honored

Posted: 26 Sep 2021 02:18 PM PDT