Dwarf Fortress POV: The FUN is literally lining up at your door. |
- POV: The FUN is literally lining up at your door.
- There she is, the last dragon of this world. Ral Goldengem the Ivory probably thinks that it's the moment of her triumph, but she may be clueless, that the upper parts of this fort is her prison from now on...
- Part 1 of my Adventure Mode series is now live!
- Six. Years. Old.
- Thirty. Seven. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 6 (7pm EST, 10/05, Extra Life 2021)
- Arrowentered
- Been playing for like 10 years and I still can dig past an aquifer
- [Raiding Tips] Fall of the Sick Jackal
- Thirty. Seven. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 5 (7pm EST, 10/05, Extra Life 2021)
| POV: The FUN is literally lining up at your door. Posted: 06 Oct 2021 11:00 AM PDT
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| Part 1 of my Adventure Mode series is now live! Posted: 06 Oct 2021 07:22 AM PDT
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| Posted: 05 Oct 2021 05:35 PM PDT
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| Thirty. Seven. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 6 (7pm EST, 10/05, Extra Life 2021) Posted: 06 Oct 2021 10:04 AM PDT Everyone likes a dining room meal but the manager, who has high tracking skill and a smattering of others... Well, we'll have to keep an eye on him as we deal with sieges, burrows and "military defense in an fortress of (for now) peaceniks", because A VILE FORCE OF DARKNESS HAS ARRIVED! Also, why is a dwarf taking half a month in the temple to NOT meet his religious needs?
Hey guys! I'm /u/Nameless_Archon, and I provide tutorials on how to play Dwarf Fortress every year 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. Seven. Days. Of. Dwarf. Starting on 10/1 and proceeding through the Extra Life 2021 Game Day event on 11/6 and 11/7, I'm going to stream and teach what little I know at https://www.twitch.tv/nirruden. 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-seven 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, or at different times but I'm going to stream every day until 11/6 even if it means I have to get up at 3am to do it. On 11/6, we're going to culminate with a 24-hour long livestream, as part of the worldwide Extra Life charity event, ending on 11/7! I don't use Twitter, Facebook, etc. and people may want to donate to Extra Life 2021, 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!
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 MAY 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-some days of tutorials for Dwarf Fortress as part of a charity drive?
Thirty-seven 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 about 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 0.47.05. (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 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 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 try to demonstrate Quickfort at some point for those who've never taken advantage of it - there's a new version and I've got to learn to use it properly! 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!
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Special thanks to this year's donators! THANK YOU TO THE GENEROUS!
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| Posted: 05 Oct 2021 03:13 PM PDT So, I tried things differently this time. We embarked on a river, over metal deposits, in a tropical biome. There's still plenty of wood, an endless supply of shell, hundreds of silver and copper bars sitting around. Before I screwed myself by digging into the cavern, I decided to get well established; so we only went about five levels down so far. There were a few setbacks. In one instance, a rowdy dwarf knocked over a statue in one of my five temples, and got cursed as a werebeast. This was during a tavern brawl-- I've had three of them now-- started by an insane child whose strange mood I kind of forgot about due to a save/load cycle... anyway, I cut my losses by walling off the dorf and everyone with him in the hospital. We now have only two remaining, a wereelephant bard, and a wereelephant dancer (which sounds terrifying), both of which are elven and taking their personal isolation surprisingly well. There was also a minotaur, which my dwarves beat the everloving shit out of. He tunneled in through a drained pond and made it to my tavern before my squads knew what was happening. We had maybe six casualties. There was a brawl later on which resulted in far more casualties, and a well stocked graveyard. After what was, looking back, considerable tribute of finely crafted shell and semiprecious stones, my king moved in on a whim. He's fond of demanding hoods and gauntlets. The liaison became mayor, and is just crazy about rings. Thankfully most of this can be satisfied with mussel shell and pig tails. At one point a single necromancer showed up, and got the job of being my dungeon master due to his impressive CV for scheming. Unfortunately he was killed in a tavern brawl shortly thereafter. Probably not the worst thing that could have happened. I have covered an entire two-by-two layer of earth with city now. I have a much better hospital now, a floor above it, with adequate supplies and individual rooms for my dwarves, which can be walled off if necessary. I have multiple grand temples and grand guildhalls. I have three squads that are fully armored and all legendary with their weapons. I have an extremely impressive library. I've expanded my tavern with multiple additional rooms and instruments. There have been numerous cases of espionage and artifact theft, but not a single invader since the minotaur, likely because everybody's goddamn terrified of me. I am, and this is the important part, only five floors down. This isn't how DF is meant to be played. My ultimate goal is to reach the clown car. Any advice for Arrowentered? It must be destroyed only in the most spectacular way possible. Armok wills it. [link] [comments] | ||
| Been playing for like 10 years and I still can dig past an aquifer Posted: 05 Oct 2021 02:23 PM PDT Any simple advice on this or just a way to generate a world with less of them would be helpful.Thanks in advanced. [link] [comments] | ||
| [Raiding Tips] Fall of the Sick Jackal Posted: 05 Oct 2021 04:03 PM PDT Scholars debate when the tide had turned in the campaign of the Everlasting Axe against the goblins of the Sick Jackal. Was it the retaking of EntrancedCity? Or the reclaiming of the strategic fortress of RitePortal? None, however, doubt the last wheezes of the Sick Jackal came from anything but ObscuredOrb. Built right alongside the goblin capitol of StolenRat, deep in their sinister biome, it allowed for the conquest of ten thousand belligerent goblins. Half a dozen fortresses perfected the techniques that danced around the host of breaking bugs surrounding raiding: 1) The key skill is leadership. Work it up pillaging hillocks and goblin pits, where the enemy commander's leadership generally isn't very high. Once legendary, the limiting factor is just waiting for the last raid to trek in, one dwarf at a time. Any sooner and you're likely to bug out. As soon as they are on the map, you can send them right out. No time for them to get discouraged! 2) Give each squad the standard "metal armor" load out... and don't touch it! Entire squads can become corrupted trying to assign more efficient outfits. Deleting the entire squad can sometimes fix this, but finding out it's broken wastes time and requires a reload to retrieve squads that will be stuck traveling forever. 3) Sadly, don't take war beasts. RitePortal trained beautiful war grizzlies and they were quite effective at mauling goblins and dark dwarves. But they also contribute to the rate of wandering ghost legions. ObscuredOrb didn't even take dogs and their return rate was 100%. 4) Minimize the distance between the squad and the edge of the map. I tried a 1x1 embark (easy on the fps, too!), a mud fortress just below the surface, bridges over rivers for easy access to each map edge, lot's of stuff. But surest way to successfully begin a raid was to station the squads on the edge of the map and then order the raid. No, Urist, you can't go get a snack first! Being right next to the capitol meant pillaging completed as soon as the last dwarf was off the map. This allowed scores of raids in only a few years time. Squads were trained up to novice, assigned a leader with some leadership, and sent out with the veteran weapon lord squads to counter the massive goblin breeding rate. At first, you'd kill 100 and 90 would take their place. But at 50-60 dwarves, pillaging and razings trended to inevitable victory. The last push was done by ordering conquest, just because everyone wanted the war to be over and asking for their surrender had been futile, so far. A good number of the weapon lords returned on our messenger's request. But they'll probably emigrate to the other forts of the campaign. Peace had come... and everyone loathed ObscuredOrb's constant rain of goblin's blood. [link] [comments] | ||
| Thirty. Seven. Days. Of. Dwarf: Day 5 (7pm EST, 10/05, Extra Life 2021) Posted: 05 Oct 2021 03:53 PM PDT (It's beginning to look a lot like vampires... Also, this announcement is a bit late. The schedule on Twitch is more reliable!)
Hey guys! I'm /u/Nameless_Archon, and I provide tutorials on how to play Dwarf Fortress every year 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. Seven. Days. Of. Dwarf. Starting on 10/1 and proceeding through the Extra Life 2021 Game Day event on 11/6 and 11/7, I'm going to stream and teach what little I know at https://www.twitch.tv/nirruden. 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-seven 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, or at different times but I'm going to stream every day until 11/6 even if it means I have to get up at 3am to do it. On 11/6, we're going to culminate with a 24-hour long livestream, as part of the worldwide Extra Life charity event, ending on 11/7! I don't use Twitter, Facebook, etc. and people may want to donate to Extra Life 2021, 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!
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 MAY 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-some days of tutorials for Dwarf Fortress as part of a charity drive?
Thirty-seven 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 about 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 0.47.05. (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 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 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 try to demonstrate Quickfort at some point for those who've never taken advantage of it - there's a new version and I've got to learn to use it properly! 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!
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Special thanks to this year's donators! THANK YOU TO THE GENEROUS!
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