[Theater]

I'm on my first functioning fortress right now, building some topside houses and putting off venturing into the deep for now. I'll get there eventually though, with a buttload of soldierdwarves.

Is there magma on the bottom level now?

[Gummylamb]

I've never played Dwarf Fortress, is it any good?

Edited:

And...what's it even about

[Orkel]

Gummylamb posted:

I've never played Dwarf Fortress, is it any good?

Edited:

And...what's it even about

fantasy world + fortress simulator

[Teh Zip File]

I go to sleep, wake up and there's 362 new posts.

[MegaJohnny]

Wait, you have to irrigate underground farms now? That sounds complicated, do you just run water over it every so often?

[BlueSaint]

Well this is hard.
My stagering food supplys are getting worse as my 7 dwarfs goes to 16.
Our already small water resivoir dried up in the summer, we can only hope for the worst this comming fall, we are trying to pump enough crafts to purchase the food to get us through the winter. Our only source of food is fishing and farming.

Edited:

I wish I had visual fortress for this version.

[Dryvnt]

Wow. I just forget one of the most basic hotkeys for DF. Holy shit.

   It was q   

[ShitBalls]

Fuck, my first quest in my adventure and I need to face a bronze colossus.

[DireAvenger]

MegaJohnny posted:

Wait, you have to irrigate underground farms now? That sounds complicated, do you just run water over it every so often?

I think you can actually make a cavern underneath the farm and fill THAT with large amounts of water, since by logic, the roots of the plants would reach down into the water, which has cave nutrients in it, therefore feeding the plants.

(AKA: Dwarven hydroponics)

[Rubs10]

Oh jeez oh jeez oh jeez it's out it's out it's out!




I know I'm late, but I just found this out.

DireAvenger posted:

I think you can actually make a cavern underneath the farm and fill THAT with large amounts of water, since by logic, the roots of the plants would reach down into the water, which has cave nutrients in it, therefore feeding the plants.

(AKA: Dwarven hydroponics)

Trees have roots now?

[FKop_Dragon]

The first dwarf I get that gets a minor right leg injury is going to my fort's diagnostician.
He's also going to lead my troops into battle. :awesome:

[Theater]

DireAvenger posted:

I think you can actually make a cavern underneath the farm and fill THAT with large amounts of water, since by logic, the roots of the plants would reach down into the water, which has cave nutrients in it, therefore feeding the plants.

(AKA: Dwarven hydroponics)

nope

[Block]

MegaJohnny posted:

Wait, you have to irrigate underground farms now? That sounds complicated, do you just run water over it every so often?

Once is enough I think. It's not that complicated. Just build a reservoir system with floodgates. You want enough water so that the area muddified is big enough for you but little enough water so that there's only 1/7 per tile and it evaporates away.

[FlashStock]

When I change my resolution to something higher, it doesn't allow me to see "more" of the map. Anyone got the same problem? It just stretches the window.

[Griffer]

I just realized the joke. The joke was that Toady said he'd release it on the 2nd. It gets released a day before!

[Dr_MadMan]

I put together a installer for Dwarf Fortress 2010 for those of you who like stuff like that. It includes a version of the May Green tileset. http://trulydrmad.blogspot.com/2010/...0-is-here.html
http:\\www.truly-mad.com\dwarffortresssetup.exe

[Xera]

Swebonny posted:

Didn't you already have a barrack? I thought they wouldn't do drills without barracks. I made mine from an armor stand.

I designated one from a weapon rack and they did nothing. But from a bed they immediately went filled-face and started training.

[AteBitLord]

How do I turn on arena?

[Newbienice99]

4 Dwarves and 3 pets just spontaneously bled to death.

They were doing their stuff, then suddenly a trail of blood followed them, then they die. They were migrants, but there are no dangerous things around, and half of them started spontaneously bleeding INSIDE my fort. It would have been fine if all of them died, but one survived and he was friends with pretty much every one of them. I expect there to be a depression spiral very soon.

Edit:

1 of them was not a migrant.

Edit:

2 more, and now a horse is 'Faint'

[Canuhearme?]

Newbienice99 posted:

4 Dwarves and 3 pets just spontaneously bled to death.

They were doing their stuff, then suddenly a trail of blood followed them, then they die. They were migrants, but there are no dangerous things around, and half of them started spontaneously bleeding INSIDE my fort. It would have been fine if all of them died, but one survived and he was friends with pretty much every one of them. I expect there to be a depression spiral very soon.

It's Ebola.

Did they eat any raw Rhesus Macaque meat recently?

[Beacon]

Newbienice99 posted:

4 Dwarves and 3 pets just spontaneously bled to death.

They were doing their stuff, then suddenly a trail of blood followed them, then they die. They were migrants, but there are no dangerous things around, and half of them started spontaneously bleeding INSIDE my fort. It would have been fine if all of them died, but one survived and he was friends with pretty much every one of them. I expect there to be a depression spiral very soon.

Were they outside, and was it raining?

[Xera]

FlashStock posted:

When I change my resolution to something higher, it doesn't allow me to see "more" of the map. Anyone got the same problem? It just stretches the window.

You need to change [GRID:x:y]

x = screen size / text width(8 on 640x300 font)
y = screen size / text height(12 on 640x300 font)

[Newbienice99]

Canuhearme? posted:

It's Ebola.

Did they eat any raw Rhesus Macaque meat recently?

No

Thorny posted:

Were they outside, and was it raining?

Yes :(

My fort is now only 5 dwarves.

[johnlukeg]

If you're getting awful framerates, try lowering your g_FPS setting in init.txt to 20 or so. Worked very well for me.

[helpiminabox]

The raws look so complicated now. :(

[Beacon]

Newbienice99 posted:

Yes :(

My fort is now only 5 dwarves.

There's your problem - there's a bug, killer rain :P

[Newbienice99]

Thorny posted:

There's your problem - there's a bug, killer rain :P

Shit, son.

[KingLouis]

Thorny posted:

There's your problem - there's a bug, killer rain :P

Sweet Jesus on ice. I can't wait to play with that.

Does it affect invaders / traders / creatures, as well?

[Comcastic]

Well, fuck. Time to wall that area off, How much of a force would I need to take on a GCS?

[AteBitLord]

AteBitLord posted:

How do I turn on arena?

? D:

[helpiminabox]

Did you look at the main menu?

[AteBitLord]

helpiminabox posted:

Did you look at the main menu?

Yes.

[Beacon]

The joys of the DF Steam Group chat:


00:35 - Imperial Jellyfish: It makes my nipples slightly stiffen each time I flick my gaze over that magical word, 'Wasteland'. Aye.
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): mmhmm
00:35 - ·٠● ElTacolad ●٠·: D:
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): Wasteland
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): w
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): a
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): s
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): t
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): e
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): l
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): a
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): n
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): d
00:35 - Imperial Jellyfish: hnnghh
00:35 - Imperial Jellyfish: Hard as ice.

[Comcastic]

Also, fucking awesome, Underground beach.

[Canuhearme?]

Comcastic posted:

Also, fucking awesome, Underground beach.

It looks like you have a Shelob in there though.

[Swebonny]

Newbienice99 posted:

4 Dwarves and 3 pets just spontaneously bled to death.

They were doing their stuff, then suddenly a trail of blood followed them, then they die. They were migrants, but there are no dangerous things around, and half of them started spontaneously bleeding INSIDE my fort. It would have been fine if all of them died, but one survived and he was friends with pretty much every one of them. I expect there to be a depression spiral very soon.

Edit:

1 of them was not a migrant.

Edit:

2 more, and now a horse is 'Faint'

Epic, sounds like a disease.

[Theater]

Breach!
And i found a shitload of GCS webs.
Hoarding military dwarves ahoy.

[Beacon]

GCS webs are fucking everywhere, but no-one's found the GCS yet...

[Rubs10]

Ya know, it would be neat to hire mercenaries for your fortress in a later game update. Does anyone know if this is on the to-do list?

Finding mercs from any civilized groups. Goblins/humans/elves/etc. But potentially finding a demon merc would be completely badass. I imagine they would have some special request based on their ability.

[Ninja Gnome]

Thorny posted:

The joys of the DF Steam Group chat:


00:35 - Imperial Jellyfish: It makes my nipples slightly stiffen each time I flick my gaze over that magical word, 'Wasteland'. Aye.
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): mmhmm
00:35 - ·٠● ElTacolad ●٠·: D:
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): Wasteland
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): w
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): a
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): s
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): t
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): e
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): l
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): a
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): n
00:35 - Ninja Gnome (WA): d
00:35 - Imperial Jellyfish: hnnghh
00:35 - Imperial Jellyfish: Hard as ice.

I do not regret my decision