Dwarf Fortress Port Urist, WIP.

Port Urist, WIP.
'Stunned by the Deep Lobster'
Best site name I've seen so far lmao
Look at this absolute unit of a dwarf. She's Captain of The Guard, the dwarves nicknamed her The Mountain.
Sometimes I want to throw my computer through a wall
FB Auto-imprisoned in cavern
Journaling and notetaking in Dwarf Fortress games — Experiences, formatting, and content
The final chapter of the Crowdkitchens saga is now live!

Port Urist, WIP.

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:22 AM PDT

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'Stunned by the Deep Lobster'

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 06:49 AM PDT

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Best site name I've seen so far lmao

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 05:09 AM PDT

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Look at this absolute unit of a dwarf. She's Captain of The Guard, the dwarves nicknamed her The Mountain.

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 02:12 AM PDT

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Sometimes I want to throw my computer through a wall

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 10:06 AM PDT

Spent 3 hours generating worlds.

Found one I like.

Struggled to find a place with iron AND flux AND was on coast AND was mostly flat. Couldn't do that, compromised and found a place with tin and copper instead - bronze is acceptable. Made NOTES so that I could scour the land for acceptable sites.

Found the perfect site. Embarked. One cliff that lead down to the beach, which was covered in grass. Otherwise, perfectly flat. Lots of vegetation. Lots of trees. Perfect for building a nice walled-in tower.

The game crashed for no reason 10 seconds in while I was still examining the site. Didn't save. Notes were gone. No fucking clue where that site was.

I swear to fucking god.

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FB Auto-imprisoned in cavern

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 10:58 AM PDT

So this FB literally spawned in pinned between two towercap/fungiwood trunks, and some limestone. His bloodlust is so overwhelming, it seems, that he refuses to even entertain the proposition of turning around and re-entering from a different angle.

https://preview.redd.it/jkxih1egehq71.png?width=1273&format=png&auto=webp&s=57977f1582ba275ce2d300a0f8f7db2041f28841

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Journaling and notetaking in Dwarf Fortress games — Experiences, formatting, and content

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 06:59 AM PDT

Hi there.

I started this thread with the intention of discussing game journals.

Some questions to consider: Do you keep a chronicle of in-game events? Why? What amount of detail do you put into it? How do you prefer to format it? How does your play style relate? If you don't keep a journal, why not?

As for myself, I do keep journals. They've been very useful in tracking exceptional dwarves, events, and even emergent culture.

The notes themselves are very haphazard as the game goes on. But when it ends, I like to cut out certain fluff and do a historical and cultural report. To do that requires keeping track of fortress deaths and births, changes in noble and squad positions, crime rates and statistics, rates of outside attacks and sieges, and much more.

In practice, this simply means writing a tagged summary in full sentences. Something like, "[ BIRTH ] — On 18th Timber 256, z was born to x (mother, profession) and y (father, profession)." I also write a line about population and other trends at the start of every new year.

These entries are further sorted by year and mayoral reign using markdown headings in a plain text editor.

Sometimes I will also keep separate running lists in another text file or at the bottom of the working file. Lists may show the successions of noble positions, war and siege involvement, repeat criminals, and so on.

The full report that is written off of the working file is structured like an encyclopedia entry. Then I also write a much more brief report that goes over the key events leading to whatever spiral that ended the fortress (if it wasn't retired). The latter usually sounds like an obituary brief...

If it sounds tedious, that is correct. But as I'm interested in these topics (related to culture) in the real world, this is how I can apply that interest in a safe and amateur way.

But how about you? I would love to hear other methods and experiences. Even if you don't find it useful!

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The final chapter of the Crowdkitchens saga is now live!

Posted: 29 Sep 2021 07:16 AM PDT