Looks like the Fire article (http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Fire) got some updates:

Fire is difficult to deal with for the same reason civilian dwarves tend to die needlessly during sieges - dwarves are morons. A dwarf will run toward a flaming corpse and attempt to haul it to the tombs or refuse stockpile, or rip its flaming pants off and happily burst into flames from wearing them.
If a dwarf catches fire, don't let him go about his business until he collapses into a heap of fine ash and attracts a crowd of looters with a burning desire for self-immolation
In Adventure Mode, you can set trees and shrub on fire. All beings are also unaware of the fire and will just walk right into it. Human town inhabitants can be wiped out by the inferno, but it may take a while since buildings are made of stone and cannot be burned down. An elf forest can easily be wiped out since they don't use buildings and have a lot of trees. Dwarves are next to impossible to wipe out since there's nothing to burn inside their forts, but you could bring a flaming item into the fort to hope that you could start some chaos (provided that you don't die in the heat while delivering it).

Mass murder dwarfs trough BURNINATION?

Sweeet! :D

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_notes.txt

It's getting close now...

I can't wait.

Have you seen the videos available on this (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_next.html) page? The story of tragedy mule one is very impressive. I might not dig into the mountain, but build a tower for my dwarves to stay in instead. That would be ace.

I hope I don't have a hard time copying my worlds over. I have some bizarre two-installation paradox thing going on.

That is raw awesome.

I hope I don't have a hard time copying my worlds over. I have some bizarre two-installation paradox thing going on.

You're not going to have a hard time copying your world over because you won't be able to. It's a non-compatable update. You're going to need to generate a new one.

But that doesn't matter because it will be so totally awesome.:cool::cool::cool:

You're not going to have a hard time copying your world over because you won't be able to. It's a non-compatable update. You're going to need to generate a new one....For serious?

Well then. I'm somewhere between relieved and devestated. Which is pretty weird.

...For serious?

Yeah. Although Adventure mode was partially 3D before, the entire worlds will be 3D now, so you can dig ramps and stairs and stuff inside your mountains. So there's no hope that the old flat worlds will be compatable. Also, the mountains are not just "dig right", but all sorts of funny shapes, and might not even have rivers and lava and chasms inside them.

There's a reason why there's not been an update since January, and that's because pretty much everything has needed to be changed.

Here's an idea: have one big world for the entire forum to share! We'd start off with just one world, and then take turns over who gets to use it (change every week?). That way, we'll be able to sculpture one big land with everone's individual additions to interact with.
Not to mention ending up having one hell of an adventure team, if we ever need it (such as fighting one of 'em big-ass demons (even if I could do it with just one man))

Here's an idea: have one big world for the entire forum to share! We'd start off with just one world, and then take turns over who gets to use it (change every week?). That way, we'll be able to sculpture one big land with everone's individual additions to interact with.
Not to mention ending up having one hell of an adventure team, if we ever need it (such as fighting one of 'em big-ass demons (even if I could do it with just one man))
That would be neat, but I'm not going to try and work it out. :p

I just want the ability to have more than one save file in a world at once. Also, no Adamantium-makes-you-stop stuff. Maybe that was already addressed. I haven't really followed this too closely.

Man has anyone else seen the Power Goals he posted? http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_powergoal_1-50.html

Yeah I'm not even able to quote ones in particular they all look so sweet.

Is that pretty much him saying "Once you can do all of these things, the game is awesome enough to be finished"?

And I know you said that there are too many awesome ones to quote, but...
YEAH!, (Future): The explorers make their way down the cave river, past dangerous stalagmites in the rapids, turn to face each other and do a high-five.

Looks like all that's left for the next release is testing. :D

Is that pretty much him saying "Once you can do all of these things, the game is awesome enough to be finished"?

I don't think explicitly so, but maybe. I think they are merely suggestions for story development where Cores/Reqs/Bloats are all gameplay development, but I may be wrong.

A Power Goal is a scenario which we'd like to arise during play. Particular characters and locations within the description will not be added -- they are considered complete when the given scenario is possible in spirit.
Yes .

Since my worlds are doomed, I decided I needed some sort of finale for the both of them. The endgame of the Plane of Dawning is much too complicated to fit into my attention span at the moment, but since it's very relevant, I shall post what's going on in the Eternal Everlasting Prophecy-Land of Legends here.

First of all, here is the final screenshot of our forum fortress (http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6631/overviewfinalpo9.png). I abandoned it, since I didn't really feel like trying to wind the whole thing down. I considered taking the door off the lava chamber and flooding the whole fort with magma, but then I thought, wait -- it would be much more fun if I returned to the empty fortress and threw the switch of doom myself!

Starting a new adventure as Heavy Metaltrance...
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5278/nutterliveswu6.png
I found Nutter alive in another fort, alongside one of the other guys whose name I don't remember and was just added because I was running out of recognizable names. I recruited the latter into my team, since he was a swordsdwarf. As usual, I had to ask around to learn where the fort was.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1526/famousip9.png
Looks like Liketyspli's masterpiece got some publicity. Regrettably, my adventure got nowhere, because we turned out to be in a walled-off section of the map from which there was no escape.

Two more adventurers came and went.
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/5719/mtltoastph4.png
It's a real shame Spooky Baldcanyons didn't survive, because it took me a really long time to travel all that way and I killed an unreal number of alligators on the way.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3848/dumbcosmicobc8.png
No thanks to the surviving Mr.Cosmico (in a complete different fortress from the others, mind; they're probably all over the world), it's FordTough Ultrabolts who finally braves the remarkably swampy world to reach the fortress ruin.

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/1742/valleypg9.png
The fortress is in a pretty geographically cool spot. It's hard to make out, but this is a valley or canyon carved through the mountain range by a river. The west side of the canyon is an ocean, so the only good way to get to this fortress is via the canyon's east side, which is well guarded by alligator-teeming swamps. Also note that there are quite a few dark fortresses nearby.

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5079/bridgetopainrj0.png
And here we are on the bridge to our lovely fortress. I looked around for the corpse of Charles Pennington, but maybe it finally completely decomposed or something.

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/4316/conflictmb9.png
Approaching the entrance turns up pretty much what I expected: A big pile of dead horse matter, the rock stockpile, the trade depot with a few useless knick-knacks still on it, and a huge army of giant moles and batmen who want to make me die.

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/271/ohjeezht3.png
Hmm. This isn't going too well. Maybe coming here alone wasn't a great idea.

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/5407/screwyoutoozh5.png
Yep, that's pretty dead. You haven't seen the last of me, though!

The worst part about adventuring in fortresses is that, after your first visit, the corpses of it's past inhabitants completely dissapear.
Which is a great pity considering that I wanted to look at all the bodies of the people who died. All I was able to see was a HUGE semi-ring of dead animals at the enterance!

It's been ages since I played ths game. I should get back into it before I try it out in 'Super-Cool 3D'!

No doubt a 3D world would take 400 hours to generate on my slow little laptop.

It's been ages since I played ths game. I should get back into it before I try it out in 'Super-Cool 3D'!

No doubt a 3D world would take 400 hours to generate on my slow little laptop.

As close as we are I feel it's not going to come out for a while yet, he's fixing more bugs in a day than I can even comprehend and he still has a ways to go.

The worst part about adventuring in fortresses is that, after your first visit, the corpses of it's past inhabitants completely dissapear.
Pay attention, 007 - It's pretty evident that an abandoned fortress' living inhabitants disperse throughout other fortresses in your world, and don't suddenly drop dead where they stand like the animals do.

Pay attention, 007 - It's pretty evident that an abandoned fortress' living inhabitants disperse throughout other fortresses in your world, and don't suddenly drop dead where they stand like the animals do.
I was talking about the ones that already died.

Ah. I guess that could explain why I didn't turn up the alligator carcass anywhere.

So!

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7889/duedsqp2.png
Heor Saintswords, swordsdwarf, prepares to make a return to Facecrafts, this time with a team of skilled followers!

The axeman is killed by an alligator, the spearman is killed by wolves, and everyone else is killed by a giant desert scorpion.

The end!

Come on zero, put some muscle into it >: [.

The thing is, no dwarvish settlements are anywhere near it, somehow, and it's amazing how much of the world is covered in swamp and how little of it is covered in town. Maybe that first region I tried is the closest, but then there's like a 50/50 chance of ending up in that little penned-in area of doom. I suppose a human or maybe even elvish settlement might be closer by, but man, that's a long list to experiment through. Maybe I'll check the world map I exported.

Edit: Yeah, holy hell, there isn't another human, dwarvish or elvish establishment for miles away from that freakin' fortress ruin. I wonder how I picked such a damn secluded spot. I think I actually have been starting from the closest place to it, and it's still days and days of in-game travel. Dangerous in-game travel.

Edit: Here's a better look at where the fortress is geographically. There's even more mountain than swamp in this place.
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9347/facecrafthl1.png

Check out that little clearing in the mountains which is only reachable by following that river into it. It's all wasteland and has a couple of dark fortresses. I might check that out sometime.

Ah well. Let's see how Freeshoots, professional thrower, does.

Well, I've found Pigbuster and Worm Mad bumming around somewhere. And Squirminator! :)

And MadEwokHerd. This place must be popular. I'm finding a bunch of recruits to bring with me, too, which is good because I'll have next to no defense at close range.

Edit: It's down to my axeman and me because the other two guys were freaking morons and wandered off somewhere and I got sick of waiting.

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9210/stupidmonkeyguyli0.png

Here I am bashing an unconscious monkey with the lower half of an alligator. :)

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/8530/secretdoorbp2.png
Freeshoots arrives safely at the fort, despite having lost everybody else in his party because they were all idiots who would rather wander around in the middle of nowhere for eternity. This time, however, I'm using the side door by the residential wing -- they're not expecting that.

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/481/awesomeroomscm7.png
I lug a sandstone from the rock stockpile with me and enter Sneak mode as I proceed slowly through the fortress. This is the first time I've actually had an opportunity to really explore one of my fortresses, so I'm finding the whole experience unbearably cool. I found a barrel full of meat and decided to carry it with me for throwing ammo, since it was a lot lighter than the sandstone. Picking up on the faint smell of awesome, I look down the hall and notice the awesome detailed rooms of the fort's two most awesome occupants, but unfortunately, they are guarded by a giant bat and a batman. It'd be best to avoid a conflict like that for the moment.

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/6938/kittygravegw6.png
Kitty. : ( I feel bad for all the animals. Like it would've killed the dwarves to bring them along.

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9074/munkeedoorzh7.png
I arrived at the northeastern portion of the big bedroom complex, where the nobles' rooms were being set up. This door reaffirms my belief that Munkee was probably our fort's hardest worker.

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/189/munkeedoor2wa6.png
Even more so, get a look at this -- he decorated this door with the image of that legendary artifact Thnikk created.

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5649/munkeelegacypu1.png
Slowly making my way to the old workshop production area, I have a look around and find some servicable turtle bone armor still hanging around in Munkee's workshop. It also contains a bunch of other arts and crafts much nicer than the ones I've been finding scattered around. They'd probably be worth a small fortune in town, but riches aren't why I'm here.

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/7747/graveyardqu2.png
Here's my oh-so-artistic cemetery. It's a little hard to believe that it's only occupied by GrimOswald and MtlAngelus. I went into that little antechamber sort of thing in the back there and found a large, cut adventurine in the corner. Ironic.

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2769/spottedjp0.png
I wonder if anything's going on in the fAOHSNAP

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4219/barrelsmashhs6.png
I managed to knock it unconscious by throwing stuff and then beat it to death with the meat barrel. My right foot is pretty messed up, though, which sucks like all hell because it means I'm stuck on the ground for the rest of my trip, and I have a loooong way to crawl.

I'm on my way to cross the river, when suddenly I get a great idea.
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/1873/waterydoomlz8.png
Enjoy your WATERY GRAVE, SUCKA!

Sadly, like an idiot, I forgot to screenshot the ominous final passageways or the ominous jet floodgate which would usher doom into the fortress. But I did reach the lever of death and throw it.
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2022/magmaproofoq9.png
Here I am just kind of crawling along through the magma flow. I'm immune to it for one reason or another -- could be just that I'm a version behind everyone else and it doesn't really affect me yet. So there I am, just kind of walking the magma wall casually down the passageway back into the fortress.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5092/chasmdiedo9.png
Until I open the door to the chasm, anyway. I instantly plummet into oblivion. I theorize that I was probably swept off the side of the bridge with the magma flow. Pretty cool way to die, anyway.

Problem is, I don't think the magma had the chance to infiltrate the whole fort. Those other double doors probably stopped the flow. I'll have to send another adventurer to double-check. :confused:

That is pure awesome.

I've never been able to step more than 12 steps into one of my old goblin infested fortresses without having my spleen ripped out through my ear.

I am such a nerd for thinking that that is so cool. I want to hear more Dwarf Fortress w/ Zero stories. I tried to play some Adventure Mode but it ran incredibly slow, I might try again later with nothing else running.

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/764/broughttoyoubytheletteryt3.png

Edit: Okay, currency trading can kiss my ass. I was having an amazing run as that lasher, followed by a stupidly powerful team. Originally, it was two hammermen and two macemen, but at the end of my run, I was down to one hammerman but had three macemen and a swordsman. I'd sold a handful of things for money, which is easier to carry and all, and spent quite some time looking around for an iron whip. I decided a bronze whip wouldn't be a bad step up, so I went ahead and decided to spring for that. I completed the transaction and picked up my new whip.

That is, I assumed that my money would be transferred automatically. Well that was a pretty dumb assumption of me. So I accidentally took my new whip without paying for it.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4456/hellrk4.png

Damn it.

Surprisingly, a few of my longer-term party members, including good ol' 'Toasty' Breadticks, maceman, actually decided to fight on my side instead of turning against me with the rest of the town. They died too. It was a spectacular fight. Too bad I died almost immediately.

I think that I just ought to say that even though Spore, Starcraft 2 and Super Smash Brothers Brawl are all on the way, Dwarf Fortress is by far my most anticipated game ever.

Sure, it's probably going to take ages for it to be totally finished, but it's going to be incredible when it is.

And I've barely even begun to play it.

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1195/grandfinalejw2.png

One fine winter's day, Kingblazes, the Sword of Sounding, a god-sent demigod of ridiculous power, returned to the flooded fortress Iddumat. He bore three legendary weapons: Two were great swords wielded by other demigods before him, a heroic scimitar and a wrathful two-handed sword. Both had been killed by the same goblin swordmaster in the dark fortress Tickfurs; it was Kingblazes who avenged their deaths, taking the swordmaster's crown for good measure, and bore their weapons from that place after eradicating all traces of the evil presences that occupied it. The last weapon he held was the one called the "Hairymetal axe," for it was engraved with the image of a dwarf called Hairymetals being struck down by the lion Fungusrogues. The warrior who owned the axe gained incredible power, even for a mortal; it had been lost when he went to Tickfurs. Very, very many other adventurers attempted Tickfurs in order to reclaim this axe, but it was guarded by a seemingly endless army of goblins and goblin weapon masters. It was Kingblazes who finally concluded the incredible saga, and he brought these artifacts to Iddumat to merge all of the legends of the world into one surprisingly peaceful finale. He cast the three weapons into the flooded abyss, where they would rest forever, alongside the fortress' many occupants.

It really is an incredible story. I love this game.

This game is great for LOTR-Style literature creation. It gives great ideas.

New News! The guy just posted this picture on the devlog:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/imgs/lake.png

New News! The guy just posted this picture on the devlog:

imgred that sucker

Bust still, that looks really awesome, I'm debating which mode of play I want to try first when the game comes out : [

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-38-jumpingvideo lol

Also this site is the coolest, I'd seen it before but I didn't know it was so robust

Did anybody else notice that 4 videos were snuck onto this page (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_next.html)?

They're so cool. Notice how in adventure mode you just keep walking, rather than move off of one screen, back to the world map, then move into another. You can now walk from one site to the other without interruptions.

This is going to be so good. I can't wait much longer!

By the way, that guy Kingblaze had a good run destroying an asston of things after sacrificing the legendary weapons to Iddumat. Giants, cyclopses, bronze collossi, no big deal.

A hilarious prank of sorts gone horribly awry ended up with him messily killing a large portion of a human town somewhere. Bad for the reputation. I might post an MSN chat log where I detailed the whole thing. But anyway, I leave a building somewhere and an iron arrow misses me by a tile. I spot the shooter and start running, just charging all berzerker-like at him like friggin' Mitsurugi in the Soul Calibur 2 intro, arrows flying by me. I'm on the TILE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. He fires off the luckiest shot in the history of the universe and hits me in the head in such a fashion that it somehow destroys my left eye and my throat.

BUT!

Using my last few moments, I put my sword away, extracted the arrow from my own head and fatally impaled him with it.

This will be the end of the stories of the world of the Plane of Dawning; the death of Kingblaze, the world's ultimate badass.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1322/theendqt1.png

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

Now, let's anticipate the hilarious stories that shall arise when the new update comes...and we can punch people off of cliffs! Or even better, throw a mole carcass off of a cliff, and then somehow get down there and retreive it, after it kills a donkey or two!

But anyway, I leave a building somewhere and an iron arrow misses me by a tile. I spot the shooter and start running, just charging all berzerker-like at him like friggin' Mitsurugi in the Soul Calibur 2 intro, arrows flying by me. I'm on the TILE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. He fires off the luckiest shot in the history of the universe and hits me in the head in such a fashion that it somehow destroys my left eye and my throat.
Ah yes. I had a similar experience when I was hunting a Zombie Archer, the boss of a zombie-infested ruins. First go, the arrow whizzes right in front of me when I was entering a room. Starting running up to him, moving to the side, which made him miss the second time. Third go, he fired one more shot, but I was lucky enough to deflect it with my shield. Fourth go, I finally managed to get to him, and one powerful smash from my mighty hammer had turned his bow into mere splinters! At that point, I had great fun smashing him around the place!
Not bad for a blind man.

Also, there was one time when I was fighting the bad-ass demon that can take over your entire dungeon, I didn't know where he was, so I went looking around. And just as I entered one room, there was a HUGE pillar of fire that engulfed the entire corridor that I was in just one step ago! Man, that was close!
Granted, it did mean that one of my allies had turned a rich golden brown, but still...

Actually, I should really start posting my stories more often...

Actually, I should really start posting my stories more often...

Indeed, you should.

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_notes.txt

It's so close I can almost taste it. It tastes of pomegranite, surprisingly. Of course, it all depends on how long "update zlib code" takes.

I'm playing it right now. It's all going really well, except for all those elephants that chose the front of my fortress as their natural habitat!

I'm up to the magma part, and I already filled the chasm.
So far, I've only gotten one baby. Poninja gave birth to it. When (s)he was insane. And later died of thirst.
I called the baby 'PlainPlane'. It drowned.

I also have about twice as much animals as dwarves.
Edit: nevermind, I got more migrants. A lot of them.

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_notes.txt

It's so close I can almost taste it. It tastes of pomegranite, surprisingly. Of course, it all depends on how long "update zlib code" takes.I don't think that's a priority since that's been there for a long while, and it probably wouldn't take long. It all seems to come down to fixing and speeding up all the awesome to perfection.

He's set up an RSS feed now too, people must be all over this by now.

I believe we're looking at a release by the end of the month. Which is Wednesday.

Oddly, I'm itching to start up a new fortress, so I really hope it comes out soon.

is this game good? is it worth the download and the map loading? it sounds nice but the screenshots look a little... weird.

Well, have you noticed the rest of this 10-page thread? :p

Adjusting to an ASCII game interface does take some getting used to, but... I dunno, there's something charming and involving about it. Dwarf Fortress does such a good job of it somehow. Apply a little imagination to it.

Well, I finally decided to share one of my encounters during my Fortress contruction.
This one's with demons! Yay!
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2322/dfpicmv5.png
For those of you that don't know, about 6 or 7 demons pop up all at once here, and these demons are STRONG! There's three different types, but I'm mostly interested in the fire spirits (yellow '&' symbols).

Lets see who bites the bullet first:
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5425/dfpicsr7.png
Well, he stopped drawing here anyway. Serves him right!

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6345/dfpicrx9.png
Wow, these guys are really taking apart my men! That ain't good!

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8283/dfpicmu7.png
Man, they do NOT like animals.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8725/dfpiceq4.png
These demons sure do leave a mess around the house fortress!

In my last fortress I made the mistake of going beond the magma whilst woefully unprepared.

My dwarves didn't stand a chance. What made it more unnerving was the way I couldn't see them until a big fireball zoomed down my main corridor.

Not only that, but they trashed EVERYTHING! It's not the best way to go if you want to revisit it with an adventurer, as there's nothing left to look at. It's just empty and swarming in demons.

Right. Here, I've managed to narrow it down to just one demon, and I'm doing pretty well so far.
This shouldn't be too hard...
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8975/dfpicsb8.png
...would be what I'd be saying, except that HE ISN'T DYING! Effing hache!

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2169/dfpicrp1.png
He seems to be fond of this chasm area. I can't see him in there, but I know he is because of the sort bursts of flame, followed by a couple of "The horse <tame> has been struck down!"

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6180/dfpicvr1.png
This is where he finally fell. Pretty messy, eh? That smoke didn't clear away until half a year later though.
The hoarde of pets might not show it, but I'm really low on dwarves. From a hefty 71 down to a measly 8. I hope I can still make it.

Huh. I'm down to my last five dwarves. One mason and Saffya the farmer, the only two surviving dwarves that did fight the demons; ThomasP the noble and one child, who were smart enough to stay the hell away from that big firey thingy; and CJH.
The funny thing about CJH is that a number of years ago, he got in a fight with an elephant and got his left arm badly damaged. Oddly enough, that injury never recovered, and since then he hasn't left the bed even once. Apparently, he was still waiting for it to heal. However, this does mean he got to sit out the entire fight!
Currently-

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3223/dfpiczk7.png
Oh. Now I'm down to only four dwarves. This may be tough, but I should still be able to make it...

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9896/dfpicxt9.png
Wait, what? I don't know how he managed to do that. All he had was a scrunched arm, which wasn't bleeding, all the enemies were completely dead, and he never left the bed. But somehow, he was still able to give himself a major injury!

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/666/dfpicsd6.png
Crud! Now I'm down to just Thomas and the child, and neither of them can work. I just hope that the immigrants arrive soon.

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/8933/dfpiccf3.png
Oh no! I only have enough foodstuff to last them for about... oh... ten years! I'm dooooooooomed!

Oh yay, the immigrants arrived! Finally, I can get some work done.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/221/dfpicml5.png
Wait... what? All I got was three dwarves, none of which can do any work? Crud...


Anyway, I've now managed to reach winter. All my dwarves have managed to survive no problem.Along with those five dwarves, I also have over a hundred animals.
Yeah.
Luckily enough, those animals don't seem to like tresspassing enemies! Those koblods didn't stand a chance...
I'm also passing the time by watching an axedwarf from a travelling caravan chase down about ten fully-grown elephants. It's really funny, because the elephants don't stop and fight back, the just keep on running!


Edit: If anyone wants it, here's the map of my fortress just after I killed the demons:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9799/localmap123107237230xv5.png
Those purple spades are food. As you can see, I have A LOT!
I was lucky in that the demons only managed to destroy my two magma buildings and a couple of doors.
Also, the elephants won.

Good news: immigrants!
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2677/dfpicaa5.png
After a full year of waiting, my population has now quintipled in size! Now I can finally finish off this Fortress once and for all...

And my animal count has gone up to 132.

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2322/dfpicmv5.png


What are the red #s? I've never had a fortress that deep

Also congratulations on surviving that invasion, I'd get the dining room nice so Thomas doesn't throw himself into the river :p

is this game good? is it worth the download and the map loading? it sounds nice but the screenshots look a little... weird.

If it's not the best game ever yet, it will be sometime in the future, trust me

Finished!

Yeah. I finally got to that Adamantite, the rarest metal in the game! But I managed to make an adamantite helm, a pair of grantlets, and best of all, a well-crafted war hammer! Just to let you know, that thing does six times as much damage as it's iron equivielnt! And it only weighs 5 too.

Edit: Aw carp! It didn't save properly! Fortunately for me, I had a backup save, from just after I made the hammer. Also, as it turns out, humans can't use dwarf armour, so that means that the other stuff I made wouldn't have had any effect. I can still make a shield though...
What are the red #s? I've never had a fortress that deep
Demon pits! There's a few of them, so they're nearly unavoidable, but all the demons pop out of the first one you encounter. The rest are safe after that.
It's also the final obstacle you'll face in Fortress mode. Beyond that is the awesome reward for your troubles, as I said above!

is this game good? is it worth the download and the map loading? it sounds nice but the screenshots look a little... weird.
It's a very good game. But only if you're willing to understand what each symbol means, and if you aren't put off by bad graphics.

Ah, yes, the Too Deep. It's directly related to how much adamantine you mine.

In adventure mode, I have been told a few times about demons who, in a time before time, become encased in adamantine.

PS: Thanks for sending me, a lowly recruit, waving a stick around at a horde of demon hellspawns. >: (

PS: Thanks for sending me, a lowly recruit, waving a stick around at a horde of demon hellspawns. >: (
Actually, you didn't have a stick. The armoury was at the other side of the fortress.
Trying to punch a fire spirit to death might not have been one of your smarter ideas.

Edit: Finished, again! This time, with a hammer and shield waiting to be collected.
Looks like the ol' Legendary Slaughteronions and allies is back for some more fighting! (Including the swordmaster who lost his primary weapon ages ago, and has since been attacking by bashing enemies with his shield. Yes, even against the last bad-ass demon I fought.)

We are ever closer to release. From the devlog;

I finished up the manual revisions, such as it is and such as they are. Mostly getting rid of obsolete data and adding a page here or there, that sort of thing, but not all that much. The game should be up tomorrow whenever vaguely. It generated 920 creatures in a cave I visited, so I fixed that. It was sorta slow.

And lo, for I present to you another tale of Plasma Slaughteronions!
This time, I'm heading inwards into my old fortress, ready to kick some demon ass and claim me my gear!

Just so you'll all know where I am, I marked my position with a yellow circle in each of these pictures. The Us are my allies, and the smiley faces are the fortress' old inhabitants.

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/8412/dfpicrd5.png
This is the enterance to the fortress. As you can see, it's new owner, Demon, has put down a magnificent carpet of dogs and horses in the front. Such style! Such grace!
I said it before and I'll say it again: Demons do not like animals!

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3830/dfpicij9.png
This is the main room in the fortress. Used for dining and partying.
Spadge was the king in this fortress. He was the pink smiley. He shall be missed...

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7045/dfpicwc2.png
I named my nobles after Team17 staff and User Mods.
These guys got what they deserve for not making a Wii Worms game until next spring!

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4102/dfpicmr2.png
See that bright red thing? That's the demon! In my home town, that's what we call 'pain incarnated':
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1959/dfpicwu6.png
That's why!
He's just like a stork. Only instead of delivering babies, he delivers pain! (Also, he's as big as an elephant, and like a stork at all.)
Man, this thing is really tearing up my allies!

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5751/dfpicfd0.png
This guy and the Mace Lord were the only two allies that fought the demon and are still alive today.
...make that 'were' still alive.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2562/dfpicsx5.png
I wasn't kidding about the Pain!

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/9475/dfpicmx8.png
Did I mention Pain? I don't really know if I mentioned Pain or not.
This demon has a particular strategy in mind: Fight fire with fire! In this case, he's using fire, so he'll follow his attacks with even more fire!

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5741/dfpicmq5.png
This Mace Lord (red U) here is the last ally I have left! He's holding out suprisingly well, especially considering he couldn't hold onto his primary weapon.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7323/dfpiclj6.png
A comparison between the demon's health (left) and Mace Lord's health (right).
As you can see, the demon is STRONG! And also pretty bad too.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8949/dfpiceu6.png
PROGRESS!

Actually, the Mace Lord didn't last long after this point. It was me on my own from here on in.
Which called for a new strategy. The most daring, scheming, clever strategy I could think of. I call it:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5383/dfpicim4.png
Run! Run far, far away!

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/1153/dfpickl2.png
Woah, that was close! I nearly got toasted there. That's enough pain for one day, thank you very much Mr. Demon.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7595/dfpicns9.png
After much, much running, and killing anything that got in my way, I finally made it to the end of the fortress! The glorious Adamantite mines!
See those odd symbols on the gound? Those are weapons and armour! All of them!
I'd be so very happy right now, except for that I keep falling unconcious now and again. And also because I won't be able to make it out without having to fight through pain on the way back!

Also, I had already managed to kill every other monster that was left in the fortress by this point.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6808/dfpicpl2.png
Ah, there we go! The good ol' Adamantite Shield!
It's not actually much use to me right now, considering how my left hand is too burned and bruised to hold it. I can still throw it though. Not that that's going to do very much, on account of me being blind and all.

Now, where the hell is that Adamantite War Hammer?

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/840/dfpickc4.png
There it is! At the furthest point of the furthest point of the Fortress, I find what I'm looking for!

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8539/dfpicji0.png
DOO-DOO-DOOO-DOOOOO!

Finally, after so much time spent, between building my fortress, and training my Hammer Lord, I finally got the item I wanted!
Let the ass-kicking begin!
Or, at least I hope I'm still in good enough shape to beat this demon. I keep on passsing out all the time. This hammer is six times more powerful than my last one, so I better not die here!

After much more running, I made it back to where I started. Now to finish what I started!

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4276/dfpicbz4.png
Remember this place? Man, for a creature that can't speak, he sure can get his 300 references out!


This is where it ends, only one of us is going to survive this! It's now or never!

LEEEEERROY! JENKINS!!

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8292/dfpicoa4.png
One-hit megakill! Now that's what I'm talkin' about!
Yeah, he really did get smashed bad! Into over a dozen pieces! Man, this hammer is good!


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With nothing left to do, I leave the depopulated fortress in peace and head out into the morning sun. (You did notice that night was falling when I encountered the demon the first time, and that a new day had begun when I was finished, didn't you?)
What'll happen next, nobody knows. But with the hammer in my hand and the shield for protection, I know that I'll be ready for whatever fate gives me!



PS: Actually, I didn't just finish it like that. After I defeated the demon, I did one more search of the fortress, and took out any jewels I could get my hands on. I also took the head of the Demon, which I still have as a reminder of my conquest, and the body of King Spadge. I tried to throw the body in the river, and let it flow down itself, but the lack of sight prevented me from being able to aim. Instead, I took it to an ancient runs, and after defeating two skeleton Swordsmasters and a zombie Mace Lord, laid it to rest on the highest point of the site.





I never found ThomasP's body though.
I wonder...

first post about release of new version http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/index.html

HAHGHGHGAABLLE, IT'S RELEASED!!!

And I've GOT IT! And a WORLD TOO! And now, the worst thing ever; I must leave and go to school...GOODBYE, faithful dwarves!

PLEASE NOTE: Old saves are *NOT* compatible this time.
Kick-ass! Now the mighty Adamantine hammer is absolutely worthless!

Adventure mode sure is more... adventurous now with the vastly improved landscape and seamless on-foot travel between world map tiles!

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4332/zeorcreekgd9.png

I've named this little brook Zeor Creek and have been following it to nowhere for way too long. :3

HELL YEAH! :cool:

When I get back home I'm grabbin this straight away.

Forum News can wait, for like a month or something. Joke

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/873/zeorcreek2hx9.png
Oh my sweet jibbering puppies, this just keeps getting better! Check this out! A big ol' waterfall in Zeor Creek!

It would be smart to find a safer way, wouldn't it?

WOULDN'T IT?!?!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1981/zeorcreek3tk6.png
GUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhh hh h

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3605/zeorcreek4ol0.png
Hmm, looks like I survived. I'm bleeding into the creek, though, which just makes it a much more badass creek now. And it's pretty cool how the mist from the falls is obscuring my vision to the outside.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6471/zeorcreek5eu4.png
ADVENTURE!! \m/ >_< \m/

Edit: Whoa, I think my limited vision is actually related to my injury, rather than the mist. I can only see one tile in any direction.

Hahaha! You broke your brain.

"Zeor is dumb!"

I'm sitting here giddy with excitement! I can't wait to play it!

Now I've wandered into a town with lots of crazy elevation changes. I'm looking down off a big cliff and seeing a two-storey building which is somehow built into another cliff face or something.
Edit: And the same thing on the other side! I can see like half the town from in front of the tavern.

This is so cool. And I haven't even touched fortress mode.

I sure wish I didn't have to go to bed right now.

Now I've wandered into a town with lots of crazy elevation changes. I'm looking down off a big cliff and seeing a two-storey building which is somehow built into another cliff face or something.
Edit: And the same thing on the other side! I can see like half the town from in front of the tavern.Sounds like Edinburgh.

"Zeor is dumb!"

Zeor GET dumb :p

Man, this update KICKS ASS!
Not only is the adventure mode much better now, but the monsters even act normally. Some monsters won't attack you unless you attack them, and some monsters will fight with each other, especially adventuring koblods (which do that now).
Also every koblod has a name now. Sure does make it a lot quicker to fill up your Legends book.
Also also, the koblod areas have changed, now they're open land. That makes it a helluva lot harder to get through, due to enemy archers being able to hit you from afar.

Hm. Guess I better start making a new Hammer Lord...

Edit: Nearly forgot. Pressing Shift-T at any time will bring you back to the Overworld. You don't have to try and walk off the edge anymore.

Oh my sweet jibbering puppies, this just keeps getting better! Check this out! A big ol' waterfall in Zeor Creek!

It would be smart to find a safer way, wouldn't it?

WOULDN'T IT?!?!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hahahah! Ah, that made my day!

Edit: Whoa, I think my limited vision is actually related to my injury, rather than the mist. I can only see one tile in any direction.
That it is. When you're very close to death, your visibility is severely shortened.

Right. Let's see just how good this fortress mode is now.

Right! Let's go-
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2841/dfpicpr1.png
oooOOOO THE HELL AWAY FROM HERE!
Well, I guess it's my fault for deciding to start in an evil area.

But I kept playing anyway. I didn't find a cave river, unfortunately, but I did find a chasm!
Edit: Ah, I think you're supposed to build from the lower level of the regular river. Oh well.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5261/dfpicyl0.png
This guy really doesn't stand a chance against those undead goats...


Anyway, if anyone's going to be trying the Fortress mode soon, keep in mind that you use the < and > keys to go up and down layers. I think the objective is to go as low as you can this time.
Also, you can't remove stairs going downwards.

Stray cat adopted peasant

Surely that should be the other way round? :p

Yeah, Zero, the sight thing is if you are injured badly.

I leaped from a 8-layer high cliff and landed on my face which ended up as "Your left eye is crushed! Your right eye is badly bruised!". I lost all sight, and blindly loped around until I died.

Well, that last fortress didn't go very well. But that's probably my fault for not taking it seriously, and just messed around with making a really deformed landscape (shift+V kicks ass!)
Since then, I made another Fort. Only this time, I used a certain rule:
No digging!
Yeah, I spent the entire time making wooden buildings instead of an underground fortress. Thank god you're now able to farm above ground too!
Really, this new version is absolutely awesome!

I leaped from a 8-layer high cliff and landed on my face which ended up as "Your left eye is crushed! Your right eye is badly bruised!". I lost all sight, and blindly loped around until I died.
Oh. Well then, my old character really wouldn't have lasted five seconds under the new system then...

Welcome to Seventeeopia! A great big world mostly consisting of mountains and... some more mountains. Clearly any dwarf's dream. A group has set off to make use of this vast and wonderous land for their own personal benefit. Let's meet them, shall we?

Zeor and Pikkul, the original odd couple! One's a liar, the other one's a comediant, and they both mine!
Paul.Power, the lumberback with a gritty beard!
Melon, carver of history and furniture!
Squirminator2k, professional fisherman with a mechanized rod!
Futureworm, self-obsessed artist of crafts!
Plasma, the flattering mechanic that grows his own vegetable garden!


For your convenience, all your needs have been provided for you. A large mountain for all your dwarfish needs, a lush forest for all your raw needs, a spring for all your feeding needs, and last but not least... a large volcano and cliff for all your suicidal needs. Enjoy!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/start.png

*downloads new version*

*sets up in area with trees but no mountains* Hmm. *restarts*
*sets up in area with mountains but no trees* Hmm. *restarts*

This is going to take a good long while to get used to.

Welcome to Seventeeopia! A great big world mostly consisting of mountains and... some more mountains. Clearly any dwarf's dream. A group has set off to make use of this vast and wonderous land for their own personal benefit. Let's meet them, shall we?

Zeor and Pikkul, the original odd couple! One's a liar, the other one's a comediant, and they both mine!
Paul.Power, the lumberback with a gritty beard!
Melon, carver of history and furniture!
Squirminator2k, professional fisherman with a mechanized rod!
Futureworm, self-obsessed artist of crafts!
Plasma, the flattering mechanic that grows his own vegetable garden!


For your convenience, all your needs have been provided for you. A large mountain for all your dwarfish needs, a lush forest for all your raw needs, a spring for all your feeding needs, and last but not least... a large volcano and cliff for all your suicidal needs. Enjoy!


Hmmm. Very nice premise, but the fort name could use a little work.

http://e.photos.cx/1-adf.PNG

Lol, I love how you can set your own fort names. Mine was something like "The Smashsmelter Smoke-Smuts of Smells" or something.

I drained part of the ocean! :D
And nearly (but not quite) killed all the dwarves.

I'm very irritated. First of all, never trade for money. I don't care how light it is or how easy it is to throw at things. You cannot drop specific numbers of things, which is a necessary part of trading currency, so don't do it until that does become possible.

Secondly, having anything in the yellow now makes you blind to all but the tiles immediately adjacent to you. This basically means you can be blinded by being punched really hard in the arm.

Wheeeeeeee.

Well, there was bound to be loads of bugs, I'm sure they'll be fixed soon.

I'm personally loving the new ini file additions. I can turn off the sucky economy, and even cave-ins and invaders if I wish (and artifacts too, but who wants to do that?) Even better, I can get it to automatically create save backups, and have it autosave at the start of every season.

The age of awesome has begun. All I'm struggling with now is a sexy fort design. Hmm....

*finds somewhere with mountains and trees* Woohoo!

*mines out a lake to see what will happen*

*floods stuff* Oh well.

My 'fortress':
30858

Top: Dining room, 2+1 stories high.
Right: Centre village, 3 stories high max. The front two lines are houses (3x2 each), the rest are workshops.
Bottom: Workshop and kennels, 2 stories high max.

Any ideas what I should add next? Also, it's currently the second summer and no immigrants.

Plasma, the flattering mechanic that grows his own vegetable garden!
Dwarves don't have gardens!

Edit: Also, I've made huge expansions to my fort, and nw it's much too big to visualise properly.

Edit again: Considering how well this 'fortress' is going, I've decided to make this my Forum fortress. Thank you Zero for the pre-made list of names!
Heh. 'Andrew' Lolokid. Yeah, that's his pre-generated surname!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/kerwham.png
We are off to a great start!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/kerwham2.png
KABLAMMO!

:( I hate dying.

Edit: Let's see how Doomedbuttocks the Creepy Cult of Belches does in their new fortress, Braveloaf the Ace Mean Death-Jail of Bleeding!

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Here we are. Woot.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/1535/uskh7.png
I pretty much stuck with all the traditional roles, except I decided I'd let Paul handle our foodstuff whenever we get around to having any.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/184/portantmy6.png
'cept for Melon, who I added to do all the odd jobs that nobody else should bother himself with doing; instead, he went and made himself all important or something. Weird. Just don't go bossing me around, man. This pickaxe means NO. ...Oh, is that a battle axe? Ha ha! Never mind.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2420/camelgx0.png
Our caravan was towed by one horse and one camel. Oooookay.

Yeah, I brought two cats and a kitten. I like cats. Deal. >: (

Here is the canvas on which we shall paint our mighty empire! (http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4996/hmmboybl8.png)

It... disturbs me that no trees are immediately visible. Seems that there's plenty of mountain, but it's inconvenient that we started out on top of the whole thing. Lots of huge sheer drops to follow to our deaths, though! I'll probably start by checking out that ramp in the northwest there and see if that's viable to mine into, but now I must go to bed. Dwarven doom shall wait for another day.

Edit: Hmm. Maybe I'll do what they did with Boatmurdered (http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered) (Warning: Language, but truly an epic read) and narrate in the form of in-character journal entries. Or maybe I'll do my usual thing. I don't know! I'll sleep on it.

Well, for reasons unknown, I decided to make an especially odd-shaped 20-storey (that's the most that you can) tower!
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7317/dfpicag3.png
Well, you can't really see it properly like that because it's so huge.

Anyway, I'm now going to abandon the fortress because the lag is so unbearably bad! I might reclaim it at a later stage once the bugs have been kinked out, and hope that the lag is gone.
...or I might just go and burn it all to the ground in adventure mode! :D

Hm. 21 Dwarves left, and two dead (one unnamed person, and one berserk Supsuper)

OH NO ZEOR HANG ON I'LL SAVE YOU!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/kablam.png

KABLAMMO!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/kablam2.png

Meanest 4 squares of stone I've seen.

Hm. 21 Dwarves left, and two dead (one unnamed person, and one berserk Supsuper)Finally I'm doing something useful!

'cept for Melon, who I added to do all the odd jobs that nobody else should bother himself with doing; instead, he went and made himself all important or something. Weird. Just don't go bossing me around, man. This pickaxe means NO. ...Oh, is that a battle axe? Ha ha! Never mind.

Yeah, I'm the all important boss-man! It seems the update definately works as it should ;)

I believe the lag gets higher as you uncover more layers and dig more out. The game doesn't bother working out what's underground until you actually go there, loading it in little "chunks" as you dig.

Personally, I'm finding this new z-axis is making it very difficult for me to decide what I actually want to do, so I'm getting nowhere. Still, the ability to actually live above ground in a tower is awesome.

EDIT: Heh, it seems donations almost tripled after he released this. Also, don't build a well until the next bug fix is out. Then it seems Toady will be taking a week's break to sort out the mass of bug reports that's been flooding in and respond to feedback and all that. It seems he's been really busy.

Also, there's a metal called 'microchite' at the very bottom layer. Someone might wanna check it out sometime...

And how do you set fire to stuff in adventure mode again? I could do it with the last version, but I can't rememeber how.

I believe you press g, the same button to pick stuff up, oddly.

I believe the lag gets higher as you uncover more layers and dig more out. The game doesn't bother working out what's underground until you actually go there, loading it in little "chunks" as you dig.Not with me, I started off my map with the cave river, chasm and magma perfectly visible.

I'll admit the lag is a bit of a pain, though I could use a CPU upgrade.

Speaking of lag, there's a bugfix (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html) out. Toady is a work-a-holic.

And be sure to help the new version wiki (http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net) get itself in place. :)

Well, I burned my old fortress to the ground!

...or at least, I tried to. Turns out wooden walls and floors don't burn.

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3425/treenz1.png
Thorough exploration of our space reveals that the travel brochure was right and there is plenty of tree to be had. Problem is, it's gonna be a pain to get to. That's 6 levels down from where I took that screenshot. That whole empty space on the left side slopes progressively downwards all the way to the bottom left there.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5126/schleppinhr9.png
I decided we should actually set up shop way down there instead of up top. I created an all-purpose stockpile and turn on everything hauling for everyone, so everybody (except Pigbuster, who's busy doing you-know-what) grabs a bit of the wagon and starts schleppin'. This'll be a little while.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2741/schleppin2gb7.png
I've decided I'll start mining in that little alcove waaaayyyy down here at the bottom. The inaccessibility of it may be a bit of a problem when caravans show up, I dunno, but it could work to our advantage in other ways. Plus it's just pretty cool. And there's exposed native silver nearby.

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8552/kittyguardgy0.png
See, you guys should be glad I insisted on showing up with an armful of cats. They're guarding our possessions from vermin while we move them. Quite effectively, from the looks of it.

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5158/fortresslifeishardau2.png
On the third pass, Super, Melon and I all decide to sample the booze barrels to make sure they're alright before we move them. You know, quality control.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/3856/hematitekv5.png
Tell ya what, none of that boring cross-over-the-chasm stuff before we start mining our hematite. There are exposed veins of it all over the place, and of petrified wood, too. I really should start getting the fortress itself excavated, but I figured I'd carve out some of this first.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4329/bloodstoneun0.png
The friendly mining rivalry between Zero and Pikkul that I've come to love so much continues anew: While we're mining out a chunk of this hematite vein, I strike bloodstone. Zeor 1, Pikkul 0. :cool:

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8052/snorekz9.png
Looks like fishing is hard work for ol' Pigbuster.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3158/snore2mh1.png
o/' Hi ho hi ho I'm off to mine some more bloodstone and be awesome o/' do de do de dum de *plof* zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2426/snore3qd3.png
Yeah, everybody's crashin'. SupSuper passed out while chopping down a tree. Melon is standing on him and taking over the task.

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7888/woodgt6.png
Pikkul sees me sleeping so peacefully face-down on the rock and immediately gets really hard wood.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5071/uhohcougarkt7.png
Oh spoots, it's a cougar. The wildlife here is a little less tame than I thought. It doesn't attack anybody, but it does throw a few people out of their routines.

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/739/orthoclaseth8.png
Time to start mining for real so we can at least pass out face-down somewhere indoors next time. Looks like we're mining through, er, orthoclase. Which is apparently bright yellow rock. Philby's making all our doors and stuff out of it, too, so... we'll have an interesting decor theme.

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/1959/thehuntoj1.png
Now this damn macaque is screwing around out here and making everybody miserable. I found Melon bumming around doing nothing with his axe and decided to put Mr. Squad Leader to use. We'll teach that tiny little monkey to be annoying at us!

Hey, did you know that Toady put 9 different types of gibbons into this new version?
Just a thought.

Also, as it turns out, adamantite and demon pits are still in. Bottom floor, I presume.

Hey, did you know that Toady put 9 different types of gibbons into this new version?
Just a thought.

Also, as it turns out, adamantite and demon pits are still in. Bottom floor, I presume.*DING!*

Sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basement, demon pits, adamantite and microchite, whatever the hell that is!

My first fortress (I'm using it as a test) is over-run with limestone. In a way, that's great! I can make no end of steel. However, it's also bad, as I can't make stuff out of it and I'm not next to a volcano so I'm not going to get any magma. (I'm aware I can allow them to use limestone for normal production but I'll wait untill it's coming out of my ears before I do that.)

Hm... Looking at the forums, I found this:
"In your init file change your G_FPS_CAP to about 10. This is your graphical refresh rate and it does not need to be set at 50. This speeds things up considerably."
That's supposed to really help with the lag problem!

Edit: Kick-ass! You can change your fortress race to human, elven, goblin or koblod too!

"In your init file change your G_FPS_CAP to about 10. This is your graphical refresh rate and it does not need to be set at 50. This speeds things up considerably."

Holy crap! Talk about a difference! Originally I was getting ~30 FPS. Now I max at 100 easily! I may even be able to turn temperature and weather on now!

Time to start mining for real so we can at least pass out face-down somewhere indoors next time. Looks like we're mining through, er, orthoclase. Which is apparently bright yellow rock. Philby's making all our doors and stuff out of it, too, so... we'll have an interesting decor theme.

a common rock-forming mineral occurring typically as white or pink crystals. It is a potassium-rich alkali feldspar and is used in ceramics and glassmaking.

Why did he make orthoclase yellow instead of maybe sulfur or gold? :confused:

Pikkul sees me sleeping so peacefully face-down on the rock and immediately gets really hard wood.

Yeah ok, say what you want but you know without me this fortress would be having a whole lot more trouble getting wood
Hm... Looking at the forums, I found this:
"In your init file change your G_FPS_CAP to about 10. This is your graphical refresh rate and it does not need to be set at 50. This speeds things up considerably."
That's supposed to really help with the lag problem!

Oh man I hope that speeds up my game because it was going at a snail's pace earlier, thanks for the tip

Edit: Kick-ass! You can change your fortress race to human, elven, goblin or koblod too!

Does the race have any effect on the gameplay?

Does the race have any effect on the gameplay?
I don't know, I haven't tried it out. I was too busy with The Simpsons Video Game (which is awesome, by the way).
But yes, I would presume so. For example, only the humans and dwarves have 'pick axe' listed as one of their tools, the others dont. But I don't know is they still do in the actual game though. Also, I'm pretty sure armour made by a race can only be used by members of their race.

For example, only the humans and dwarves have 'pick axe' listed as one of their tools, the others dont.That's gonna be a problem for the elves then. Won't use wood, can't mine...

If anyone wants to try it out for themselves, go into [dwarf fortress directory]\raw\entity_default. Highlight [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] from the Dwarf entry and cut-paste it the line before where it says [CREATURE:X].

For example, the start of the human entry would look like this: [PLAINS_SETTLEMENTS]
[INDIV_CONTROLLABLE]
[CIV_CONTROLLABLE]
[CREATURE:HUMAN]

Also, if you pasted that tag into multiple entries, then it chooses one at random for you.

Well, this time I decided to try out a Goblin fortress.
Sooo... turns out they are different after all! Although you can still buy and use picks, Goblins can't have pets or even buy seeds. And they don't need constant alcohol like Dwarves do. (they also seem to be hesitant towards chopping down trees, which is a little annoying)
Also, peasants and miners are both grey, so all my dwarves look the same for now.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9753/dfpiclp9.png
If you haven't already noticed, for this Goblin fortress I named all the characters variations of other forumers. See if you can figure out what anme was based on whom. (Jackime might be hard though!)
And yes, I did correct the spelling mistake in Professor.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/388/dfpican3.png
Here's Prof. Power chasing down a few Macques. Currently I've assigned it to two mining, two fishing, two hunting Macques and Mountain Goats (which game me a shock when I first saw them dead, as they look just like Goblins) and one doing all-round chores.

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4783/dfkl4.jpg

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
I have just discovered that Crossover can run Dwarf Fortress directly in the Mac environment without any hassle or virtual machine or anything. Looks like I'll have to buy it.
Again, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

It runs really quickly, too. Sweet cheeks.

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That friggin' BOOB Melon decides to igNORE the macaque. Two of them, in fact. They beeline for our stockpile.

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OH, FOR THE LOVE OF...! You freaking DOPE! I brought that rope so we could set up a WELL! If I find you complaining about thirst, I'm butchering you and feeding you to the freaking cats. Now EVERYbody has to wait until we grow more pig tails so we can figure out how to weave a new rope. THANKS.

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In fact, this is your job now. You stand right here and watch for any more thieving critters. If you see any, butcher them. Simple. >: (

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The rooms are being set up, but not quite soon enough. Pikkul's among the first to crash.

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Paul and I get a couple of doors hooked up, but shortly end up joining Pikkul in his rock nap.

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Everybody wakes up, and Super, Paul and Pigbuster get back to work while Pikkul, Philby and I all decide we need a good long break. Grand. I'm laying claim to the first complete bedroom, too, even if it is full of rocks. Now I have a PLACE to be on break. HaHA.

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Construction of rooms is interrupted by this GROUNDHOG WHICH MELON DIDN'T KILL

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Correction: THESE groundhogS which Melon didn't kill...S

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SIGH. There are like 4 of them just bumming around in here, interrupting everybody's jobs. And nobody, ESPECIALLY MELON!!!!!!! is doing anything about them.

I'm totally lovin' the Z-Axis.


Okay, so I end up putting my settlement on the middle of a mountain. Thing is, there's no wood up there at all, and without wood I can't make any beds.
I notice that there's a bunch of trees farther down the mountain, so from the settlement I dig down to that level and dig a tunnel all the way to the trees. Zeor takes on the outer side of the tunnel while Pikkul digs from the inside.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4570/picture18dj8.png

Unfortunately, I rather rushed my slope creation a bit, and it seems that the path finding is messed up, so Pikkul got stuck down there. Not only that, but he became thirsty. So thirsty, in fact, that he ran into a glitch and spammed my message center constantly about it.
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7008/picture20dp5.png
I had to disable the food supplies just to get him to shut up and stop lagging the game. :p

So it was a race against time to dig the tunnel so Pikkul could get a drink. Once the tunnel was dug, he ran past all of the lakes and all the way to the settlement and its alcohol. Thing is, I hadn't enabled the food again yet, so he had to run all the way BACK to the lake to get a drink.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4516/picture19bx1.png

Every other time one of my dwarves goes outside for some task or another, they feel the urge to make a complete circuit (or two, or three) around one of the nearby mountains, even if the destination is 3 tiles from where they started. Yeah, the pathfinding's pretty messed up.

It is 4 AM.

The latest I have ever stayed up.

:eek:

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By what was honestly dumb luck, the basin for the waterfall in our little steam is on the level where we started mining, so setting up a farm should be minimally difficult. Should be. Should.

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Pikkul finally gets cornered in a hallway and decides to burger up one of the groundhogs. Yay! He's not even hurt, either, so I don't know why he still insists on running away from all the others. Everyone does. It's irksome. I've had to un-suspend creation of those bedrooms I don't even know how many times.

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There's still a barrel sitting around up there from when we took the wagon apart. I think it has seeds in it. Paul finally got around to starting to move it, but then dropped it to look for booze. I think the dogs and camel are also still hanging around up there, just not sure what to do with themselves.

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More groundhog comebacks. Except this one was killed in my room. Ugh. That bloodstain is totally throwing off my bright yellow orthoclase motif. Thanks.

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Holy smoligans, Melon made himself useful! Way to go, man!

Here's the sort-of-first-overview. (http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9027/sortofoverview1eh2.png) Looks like full overviews are a thing of the past these days, so I'll just show the parts I'm actually mining. Not like the rest of the mountain is all that interesting.

I had a problem with my recruits not killing the animals. You need to go to that squad's options and turn on the option to chase and kill wild animals. It's set to off by default. That's why I'm doing nothing.

A whole bunch of junk just happened, but right now I'm insanely tired and going to bed. I shall update... er, today.

I got a fair few immigrants this time! I think I'll start explaining all the names soon. Until then...

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3299/dfpicse9.png
...them water is sneaky! (yes, he's a gonner btw)

Edit: Damnit, I can't get water anymore! The brooks have all dried up, and the river is completely frozen.

Edit again: AND THEN EVERYONE DIED! YAAY!
Right: next go, I'm gonna go with a proper Dwarven Fortress!


I'm totally lovin' the Z-Axis.
[snip]
Umm...
Okay, why exactly did you feel the need to build a downwards tunnel out to the trees instead of, say, letting your dwarves walk down a small slope?

Umm...
Okay, why exactly did you feel the need to build a downwards tunnel out to the trees instead of, say, letting your dwarves walk down a small slope?

They're probably thinking the same thing, since they don't use it at all. :p
The actual base is really far away, so I thought it would be good to keep the woodcutters indoors and away from any wild animals that might be running about.

Also, I totally bungled up the floodgate farm, since apparently the water doesn't drain by itself. I think you have to install a grate or something now.

And I decided to wait on seeing what would change with the caravan, only to find out that it's more or less the same as before. So I didn't make any crafts, and all I got was 5 measly plump helmets by selling my empty food barrels.

Ah, experimental runs.

The actual base is really far away, so I thought it would be good to keep the woodcutters indoors and away from any wild animals that might be running about.
I don't think there'll be a lot of animals that would only attack them at the front of the fortress but not at the trees.

I don't think there'll be a lot of animals that would only attack them at the front of the fortress but not at the trees.

Well, that doesn't matter now because everyone died of thirst. :p

Anyway, I've found that dwarfs simply can't comprehend indoor slopes at the moment, so I have to stick with stairways.
Though it doesn't seem like I can remove down stairways at all for some reason.

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Melon keeps picking off groundhogs, but now we have a butcher shop and all that set up, so Paul can put the carcasses to use for meat and whatnots.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8030/kittieshz1.png
Yeah, I did this on purpose. Odd that I haven't named any of them, though. Melon named the horse...

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Cripes, they're regrouping. Stupid little fuzzy loaves of annoyance! They have a whole map to hang around in! Why do they keep coming to our fortress?!

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/731/m33taq6.png
But, more meat.

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Ugh. Nice going, Pigbuster. >: (

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Oh jeez, I forgot about these guys. They're coming in along the west side, somewhere, and it'll be a while before they get to our fort. Plenty of time to establish a depot.

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ACK

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Since the entire rest of our everything is made out of it, why deviate now? Say hello to our disgusting bright-ass yellow orthoclase trade depot. Welcome to Braveloaf. We have stupid yellow rock shooting out of every orifice.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3039/liasonbl7.png
This guy from the caravan is tearing like heck for the fortress. The heck is an outpost liaison?

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5883/liason2zs4.png
Oh, I see, he's here to talk to Mr. Important Squad Leader Man (and/or Mr. Aloof Groundhog Slayer Man) about trading and junk.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9251/hungryqu9.png
Um, we have a problem. Despite all the groundhog butchering, we've somehow run out of food. And the hunger is starting to set in. Better hope the caravan has something.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5309/tradenotji5.png
And we don't have jack crap for crafts! I hope they like orthoclase furniture. It's fairly well crafted, at least, and Armok knows it'll be easy enough to replace. All we really need to trade for is food. ...Unless they have a chain or something.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7943/trademaybeum6.png
We'll see one way or the other, but at this point, I went to bed because I was ridiculously tired.

After making Paul.Power my broker, he is so obsessed with updating the stock record that he doesn't even go out to meet the traders. Agh.

Also, it seems like my game freezes up every time a dwarf drinks out of a well. If anyone else could repeat this bug (after making a back up, obviously), then I'd know it's not just because of my method of emulation. (I hope not)

I remember seeing that fixed in the bugfix list of changes...

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/4104/nottradingkv4.png
The merchants' goods are all unloaded and ready to be traded for our orthoclase wealth!

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Here's Melon. He's supposed to be trading. He wants a drink instead. From the river waaaayy up there.

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And just to make DAMN sure he wastes the optimal amount of time, he goes aaaaalllll the way down the river to about where the waterfall is.

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I've tried screwing around with these options to see if it makes a difference, but Melon is now busy looking for rats to chow on, and nobody else gives a frap. SupSuper is way too busy making a door. Philby is also looking for bugs to munch on. Paul and Pikkul are on break. I'm asleep.

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Welp! Time to change our fortress' name to "Bonedscrewed the Doomed Unfortunate Bad-Pit of Death."

Also, it seems like my game freezes up every time a dwarf drinks out of a well. If anyone else could repeat this bug (after making a back up, obviously), then I'd know it's not just because of my method of emulation. (I hope not)

Wells are apparently completely bugged in this version, so if it's not freezing up for other people it's not working anyway. :p

Then I guess it's good old alcohol all around, then. :p

My fortress is coming along nicely, but I keep forgetting to take screenshots.

I've tried screwing around with these options to see if it makes a difference, but Melon is now busy looking for rats to chow on, and nobody else gives a frap. SupSuper is way too busy making a door. Philby is also looking for bugs to munch on. Paul and Pikkul are on break. I'm asleep.

I think you have to press "r" to request someone go to the Depot, but I'm not that sure. It sounds like your dwarves are rather busy, anyway.

The well bug isn't actually fixed, although Toady thought it was. There's actually loads of bugs at the moment, but you'd expect that really.

A big problem is that the dwarf that's SUPPOSED to be trading seems to like doing everything but, and won't always do it unless there's absolutely nothing else to do. You could try drafting them into the military and stationing them so they stay put for now.

Well, my new Forts coming along nicely. Only this time, I've decided to make a twenty-storey hole-in-the-ground and fill most of it up with water. Because I still have nightmares about the entire river suddenly freezing up.
Also, Zeor got fairly crippled as he fell down a couple of storeys while building it. (Made me wanna name one of the dogs 'Lassie')


Edit: Zeor went berserk! Well, he shouldn't be too hard to fight, considering that both of his arms and one of his legs are really badly damaged (yellow and red), and he's very drowsy, and he's unconcious. Yeah, not too hard at all. Also, I plan on recycling names, so that when a guy dies, I won't hesitate to use that name for another guy.

Oh hey, he actually got up!
Oh, nevermind. He passed out after a couple of steps.
Okay, now he's guarding the enterance/exit to the bedrooms, so I'm gonna go make someone a recruit. How about... Paul!

Wow, that was hugely unbalanced! Zeor was still sleeping when Paul came up to him with his steel battle axe, killed him in one go, and sent his body flying 11 steps down the corridor.


Edit again: Right, first group of immigrants come. A full 20 already! And-
Oh, hang on. Before any of them even make it to the fortress, one of them, Andrew, goes in a strange mood...
And lo', for Andrew is now a legendary carpenter! And he gets his own casket that he's going to be carrying around for the next five years too!
also around the same time, Pikkul became a legendary miner too. And Robowurmz is trying to take Zeor's place as the second miner, but he's so very very slow in comparison...

I think you have to press "r" to request someone go to the Depot, but I'm not that sure. It sounds like your dwarves are rather busy, anyway.
Correct! You have to make sure thhat in the trade depot menu thing you had there, it said 'Trader requested at depot'.

Also, you porbably should've changed the trader guy to someone closer to the depot.

Were you wondering what happened to Flamebolts? Me neither.

So, Squirm is having fun fishing the stream dry.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/fishy.png

And doom was had by all.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/bossy.png

Oh and everyone's getting drunk off their ass. Even Paul.Power who has to move half-way across the map for it since he was lumberjacking on the left edge. Christ.

Hilarious thought:

Dwarf Fortress, as narrated by the Receptionist from Theme Hospital.

"Metalsmith required in Charcoal Burner..."
"Metalsmith required in Forge..."
"We apologise for the amount of rhesus macaques..."
"Watch out, we've got a Noble in the building..."

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/bossy.png
Plasma was 'chosen' to be the expedition leader? Lordy, I can't help but wonder what sort of a state your other dwarves are in if they chose me as their leader...

It could be worse, you could have me as your leader. Just ask Zero.

Don't worry, you're too busy forever building doors to even think about leadership. :p

SUDDENLY!
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I don't think it counts as an ambush when it's not even on the same Z-Axis, much less remotely close to the fort.

I don't think it counts as an ambush when it's not even on the same Z-Axis, much less remotely close to the fort.
If you think that's bad, I wasn't able to make a building on one side of a chasm because there was a gremlin looking down from not only several stories up, but also on the complete opposite side of the chasm, but my dwarves still refused to build there!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/rock_sleep.png
Paul goes to great lengths for comfort.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8205/dfpicmp8.png
Guess whose turn it is to die again?
Actually, come to think of it, Zeor was the only dwarf so far to even get injured. Not even the hunting dog got a scratch on him.

Edit: Right now, he's been placed in the only room with a yellow Orthoclase wall. How appropriate. ...wait, is that Andrew sleeping on top of him?
Edit2: Hmm... his arm and leg have healed completely, but his torso's still yellow. Actually, he's awake now- oh, nevermind, he passed out again. Also, Robowurmz has been taken by a fey mood, and he isn't getting what he wants! (who'll stay alive longest?)

Edit3: Ooh! Slick died first, at the hands of a berserk Robowurmz. I sure hope you didn't bet on that sucker.
And then Robo got toasted by Run. Oh well. (and Zero still hasn't gotten out of bed)

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/5271/dfpiczg9.png
Iguana goes to greater lengths for comfort.

I die a lot. : (

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Good news, is, I should have our farm running in no time! We might not starve after all.

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Never mind, we're starving.

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HELL! The macaques are grouping up!

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They're not getting anything out of us this time!

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Paul vs. Macaque: Round 1. Fight!

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Ok, or Everyone vs. Macaque.

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Ahyup, that there's some fightin'.

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One of them is splattered up against our obscene yellow trading depot. Hopefully, that should be about it.

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I take Paul off the team so he can butcher our enemies as they fall. He barely does.

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We do have some turtles to eat, though. This isn't a very good screenshot. Why did I take it?

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YAAAAAYYYYYYY DOOM

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Wrong, guys. You're all hunters and fishermen starting now. Good luck on feeding yourselves, much less all of us.

Huzzah! I just found out how to mine! :rolleyes:

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HELL YEAH PUPPIES!

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Pumping water really fits Futureworm... if he doesn't drown in it.

Dammit, nothing exciting ever happens around here-
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HAY THAR!

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Udil - Why hello there, young lady! Would thou like to sample my fine goods?
Plasma - *teehee*

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Plasma - Oh and would you look at all those burly man... *swoon*

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Udil - And those fine plump helmets... *boner*

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Udil - How about we take this meeting to your bedroom?
Plasma - Oh of course *teehee*

Melon excitedly listens in from the other side of the wall.

The next morning...
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Udil - Well that was fun, but I've got a very important appointment, hope you understand. I'll call you!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/omfgliaison7.png
Plasma, however, is sound asleep after that exhausting night.

But wait! Before going, Udil whispers something in her ear? Is it love?
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/omfgliaison6.png
Oh well, better luck next time Plasma.

Kick-ass! Behold my awesome power of seducing rich, successful people of the opposite sex!
...that's the single entire aim of life for women, right? Well, that's what the media says anyway.


I'm also betting that you didn't check the gender of that liason, did you?

Hahaha! Genius!

I'm also betting that you didn't check the gender of that liason, did you?Of course I did, no hot lesbian action for you today. :p

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Well, this just looks like an ordinary forest. I certainly doubt any dwarves would be caught dead anywhere near here. But wait, what're those there slopes there??

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SECRET-UNDERGROUND-DWARF-BASE.
Aka, "Tickrazor".

It's built on sand and clay, rather than rock, and legendary miner pair extraordinare Zeor and Pikkul can take out a block of sand in less than a second. Woo.
Though I have to dig deep to get access to stone, at least I'm in the middle of the forest, so there's more than enough wood.
The sand also makes the floor all muddy. Hopefully that doesn't mean it's falling apart.


AndrewTaylor the sheriff is down in the lower right, and who's that with him?
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AGFNINAOINAOGNo comment.

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Expedition Leader Zeor has a meeting with the dwarven liaison!... through a wall.

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A Kobold springs from ambush! While laying down apparently! And recruit Vader is close enough to attack for once!
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9226/aghmyspleenhr4.png
That didn't last too long.
Kobold thieves keep showing up, but every single time they just run away without taking anything. I think they have yet to grasp the whole "thieving" part.

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Off to the trading post is legendary broker Paul.Power! From this day forward, many dwarven children will be told the legendary tales of the broker who would refuse to round 77777 to 77780!

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Hey, I can see the value of things. No doubt this is due to Paul's incredible skills in the art of brokerage. That's actually a word!

SupSuper, Futureworm and Matty are working round the clock at the craftdwarf shops, with Slick encrusting the goods with jewels. As a result, I had an ungodly number of trinkets to trade, and I totally cleaned the guy of all his food. I think he totally cheated me, though, since I know I didn't mean to give away every craft bin. "Superior offer" my ass.
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Better make some barrels or something.

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Wheeeee.

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Doing pretty well, I'd say. :cool:

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Seems like most people only care about the number next to "Drink".

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Pikkul is hard at work on the new storage rooms. Alone. Zero's probably attending one of Philby's constant parties, lazy jerk.
Zero struck platinum earlier, though, so I guess he deserves some time off.

Oh man pb that fort looks sweet, all in the clay and stuff

I think I need to relocate my fort because it is stupid and everyone's dying anyway :(

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9017/maaaasterpiecepb6.png
It's a MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAsterpiece!
Also, mass bedroom bonanza!

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7742/masterringmp4.png
Yeah. A ring. Made of wood.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1263/thegreenmiletp2.png
Those cages were intended for the jail, guys.
YOU'VE BEEN A BAD ORIOLE. YER GONNA DO TIME, BOY.
Note that since the only metal I have access to is platinum, that's all I can make the cages out of, apart from those two I traded for.
IRONY: Robbers are imprisoned in a platinum cage for trying to steal the platinum cage.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4810/bunsymomku3.png
Whee.
Seems like the "Mother loses child she just gave birth to" bug is still in full effect.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3755/masterringkt3.png
You guys love your masterwork rings.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6854/names1dl0.png
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2092/names2eg8.png
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8769/names3hb1.png

Getting crowded.
Why is Slick is using the smelter, I wonder.

PB, that fort design is just obnoxiously awesome. And hooray for me being expedition leader. I'll probably get eaten by a giant desert scorpion or something, though. Yes, even if you aren't in a desert. They KNOW where I am.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/omfgliaison7.png
That is a pretty sweet bedroom thing there. I would put windows in! But that's just me. :p Edit: Or maybe there's only a viable window spot on one of them. Never mind.

Seeing the Z-Axis put to all this good use kind of makes me wish I had it figured out. I probably goofed up there on my instructions for the shortcut staircase from the entrance to the top of the plateau.

Unfortunately, since you're the leader, you've become the mayor and I lost one of my awesome miners. :(
Blinx is on his way to being another legend, though, so it's all good.
(HA! Actually, you still mine. What an awesome Mayor.)

I probably goofed up there on my instructions for the shortcut staircase from the entrance to the top of the plateau.

Designate a down staircase on the top level, then go down one level and build an up staircase in the same spot. You can also build a staircase if you need it on a mined out square. I've found cross-staircases can be built by building both stair types on the same square. BONUS.
The only way to destroy a designated down staircase is to build a floor on top of it, apparently.
Also, floorhatches are basically doors that go on the floor, so they can be built between stairways (place them from above, I think).

I've found cross-staircases can be built by building both stair types on the same square. BONUS.
Or hey, you could just press i instead of u/j.

Unfortunately, since you're the leader, you've become the mayor and I lost one of my awesome miners. :(
(HA! Actually, you still mine. What an awesome Mayor.)This is the most ass a dwarf me has ever kicked.

Or hey, you could just press i instead of u/j.
Where's the fun in that? :p

This is the most ass a dwarf me has ever kicked.
Oh, it gets better. And also worse.
But you'll have to wait until the days recap tomorrow.

What's this? Someone's made a fort that's doing really well? IMPOSSIBLE!

So I've decided to give this game a try but I have no clue as to what I'm doing.
I've tried reading the wiki, but that didn't help as I have the attention span of... Hey look at that! Shiny...

So I tried adventure mode, and I discovered a river. Then I slept. Then I slowly died of starvation. And I set things on fire.
How/what do I eat, anyway? I kept trying to pick things up but apparently "pick something up" means "set things on fire".

hey.. wait... how do you play the game when it consists of only symbols??? oh so confusing!

is the game online? o.O"

So I tried adventure mode, and I discovered a river. Then I slept. Then I slowly died of starvation. And I set things on fire.
How/what do I eat, anyway? I kept trying to pick things up but apparently "pick something up" means "set things on fire".

Never go to sleep in adventure mode, as it currently doesn't do anything useful.
The pick up button also sets fire to trees rather oddly. It'll do this automatically if there's nothing to pick up.
You can eat/drink by pressing 'e'. As long as you don't choose "Play Now!", you'll start with food and drink in your backpack.
This game doesn't have a learning curve as such, it's more like a learning wall. In fortress mode, I advise you learn how to dig into the mountain and cut trees by designation things first, then build a farm and build a carpenter's workshop and make some beds and bedrooms. Then just slowly start trying more things. You'll fail. Often. But it's still good fun.

hey.. wait... how do you play the game when it consists of only symbols??? oh so confusing!

is the game online? o.O"

Imagination is the key. Once you play it, you quickly learn what looks like what. It's usually pretty obvious too, trees usually look like trees for example.

You don't play the game online, but you download it online, from here:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

That is a pretty sweet bedroom thing there. I would put windows in! But that's just me. :p Edit: Or maybe there's only a viable window spot on one of them. Never mind.I can probably expand the bedrooms to have more window spots. But first I wanna make sure I survive my first winter before I go sprucing up the fort.

Seeing the Z-Axis put to all this good use kind of makes me wish I had it figured out. I probably goofed up there on my instructions for the shortcut staircase from the entrance to the top of the plateau.It's not that hard. Though I think being a good designer doesn't make up for being a lousy player.

For the curious, this is my current fortress design:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/fort-1.png
Floor -1: Farming hooked to the nearby stream and (in the future) mining.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/fort0.png
Floor 0: Stockpiling and trading. Stairs on the outside lead into the fortress.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/fort1.png
Floor 1: Workshops and dining, as well as a fancy moat/bridge entrance (pull up the bridge and the fortress is safely isolated)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/fort2.png
Floor 2: Bedding and napping.

How/what do I eat, anyway?
Pressing shift-T makes you travel on the world map instead, and for some reason completely heals, feeds and unthirsts you.

I kept trying to pick things up but apparently "pick something up" means "set things on fire".
After you press G, be careful to read what the options say. If one of them says 'pick up X', then that's a good thing. If it says 'incinerate X', then that's a bad thing (exceptions being made if X is part of an Elven settlement.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/hellyeahtrade.png
Hell yeah trade! Maybe we won't starve to death!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/paulidiot.png
...except Paul decided to fall asleep at the depot. Oh well, slow and meaningless death it is!

Edit:

S2k saves the day with his crazy staying up skillz!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/foodforclothes.png
Ok, so you hand us all your ale and plump, and we'll give you this very fine crafted clothes that were totally not warn by dead bodies. The red stains are merely decor.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/omfgliaison8.png
ROUND 2!
Melon immediatly goes back to eavesdropping.

Ooh, I forgot to mention, but since my fortress is built on sand, I don't need to irrigate my farm. It stays muddy all the time. :cool:
I just built an irrigation system for the heck of it.

So I've decided to give this game a try but I have no clue as to what I'm doing.
I've tried reading the wiki, but that didn't help as I have the attention span of... Hey look at that! Shiny...
I swear, I must be one of the only people that never had a problem with learning this game...
Maybe I should make a tutorial. The Dwarf Fortress Wizard, perhaps?

So I've decided to give this game a try but I have no clue as to what I'm doing.
I've tried reading the wiki, but that didn't help as I have the attention span of... Hey look at that! Shiny...

So I tried adventure mode, and I discovered a river. Then I slept. Then I slowly died of starvation. And I set things on fire.
How/what do I eat, anyway? I kept trying to pick things up but apparently "pick something up" means "set things on fire".

Ditto
Entirely

Though with a little more time spend, Ive found how how to dig (in fortress mode) :D Ill post a screenie later for anyone to point out obvious flaws with my fortress

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9020/babyeaterog3.png
Crap.
The goblin isn't blinking to indicate carrying something, but every time I zoom to Mr. (Mrs.?) Bunsy's baby it goes to the goblin, so I'm thinking this is quite bad.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/7353/chasescenelb1.png
Lone recruit Vader begins the chase! Will he slay the goblin that stole the child?

...No, because I forgot to turn off "Stay close to position" in the squad options. Balls.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1715/chasescene2xy5.png
Mr. Bunsy also chases the goblin! Will she slay the baby-eating bast?

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/651/dammitpy0.png
Crap pancakes.
Stolen before she even had a nickname.

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2667/optimistba9.png
Uh... wow. That must have been one hell of a dining room.
Seriously, her child was just kidnapped and probably eaten, and she's keeping her spirits up by telling herself "Well, at least I was able to experience the joy of childbearing!" What a trooper.

I decide to remove 2 of the 4 ramps leading outside, so any more goblins won't have a clear escape route.

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2396/anotherkobolddb9.png
Another Kobold. They are seriously popping up constantly, and every single time they run off without taking anything. Why do they keep coming here?

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/890/woopartyyyrg7.png
A goblin made off with a child!? Kobolds are attacking the fortress!? WOO PARTY TIME!

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5969/anotherdamnkoboldje2.png
Jesus, they never stop.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/3937/notwelcomemb5.png
Blinx joins the ranks of miners. Zeor and Pikkul give scornful glances at the newcomer.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/83/thirstoz0.png
And everyone's dying of thirst because CJH the brewer is busy doing things like "sleeping". Lazy oaf.

And everyone's dying of thirst because CJH the brewer is busy doing things like "sleeping". Lazy oaf.
You should do what I did, and build an underground water pit.
Be careful not to overflood it though.

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/3149/muddypuppyhe1.png
Evidently, the puppies just roll around in the mud all day.
He has mud on his eyes. :confused:

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6951/crapqr3.png
Here we go!

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/7012/marriedmanfo0.png
Well, look at that. Vader is Mr. Bunsy's husband.
...and that means that he failed to catch the goblin that stole his child. DRAMA.
I decide to retire him from the military so he can work on his life-long passion: Weaving!

Now I need some new forces. Enter McMaster, Poninja and Tal05, recruits in training!
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/3241/barrackboyzgq1.png
Here they are in the barracks, having a good ol'-fashioned wrestle. Afterwards, a hot shower!

You should do what I did, and build an underground water pit.
Be careful not to overflood it though.
Probably, but the sandy floors make that more difficult what with contamination. I guess I could just build stone walls & floors.
I have 2 brewers now, anyway, so I'm drowning in dwarven wine.

...

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9587/jaspercoffinsd7.png
Mission complete!
...wait, don't secretive dwarves carry around their masterpieces afterward?

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8881/mycoffinminezr7.png
...yep. He's carrying around a coffin wherever he goes. One-handed even. Thank god he wasn't possessed, or else he wouldn't have that strength bonus.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1093/bedsmc7.png
I have enough bedrooms to house a small country.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3478/funniesthomevideosgm0.png
The recruits train at the new archery range!... while SupSuper cleans up their arrows. Maybe you should wait until they're done before walking in front of the targets.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4346/heresdemelveseh0.png
I feel a strong jolt of fear as I spot some capital 'E's in the distance.
Wait, they're just elves. Not elephants. Phew!
The elves should have a smiley too.

I swear, I must be one of the only people that never had a problem with learning this game...
Maybe I should make a tutorial. The Dwarf Fortress Wizard, perhaps?
Maybe you should. :p
I gave it a second try, killed a merchant, then the major and a child attacked me. Killed them, then a merchant and a peasant attacked me and I died. :p

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/852/togetherjw5.png
"We've bickered in the past, but now we've learned to join hands, and together, we are far stronger than the greatest of obstacles!"

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5190/tubeagatepr3.png
"POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!"

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4903/platinumwq7.png
"POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!"

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4456/tripleplayhx8.png
Looks like I've reached 50 dwarves.
Zero is now the mayor! It is the dawn of the awesome age.

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/489/herefoxyfoxysi8.png
Seems one of the immigrants is one of the infamous trappers. I name him "Horseworm".

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/6295/imthirstyht0.png
Horseworm goes to get a drink immediately after shooting a fox in the leg. Guess the "rangers respect nature" thing is a load of bunk.

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5093/drunkenpartyih7.png
Almost every one of the alcohol barrels is being sampled by a dwarf... and one donkey.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7527/dernkidsde9.png
I am almost constantly working on AndrewTaylor's lodge, even when he's in it, much to his chagrin.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5181/withdrawlmh8.png
And here's another one!

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4605/tubestatuejj8.png
Thank god he didn't decide to carry it around with him.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4168/partymayorom4.png
Not only is he a legendary miner, not only is he incredibly tough, but Zeor seems to love partying. :cool:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7977/ahhhcougarbq4.png
Holy crap, Horseworm was able to kill a cougar.

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2956/furnacefoxvj0.png
Wait... the furnace operator was interrupted? What is he doing outside? Or rather...

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9963/foxinthebuildinghq4.png
...what is the FOX doing inside?

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9720/ivegotyounowbe5.png
...wow. Evidently, Horseworm chased a fox into the building, down a level, and into the storerooms. I'm drowning in awesome people, here.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1201/idontlikethisfoxmeatsdj6.png
I DO NOT LIKE THIS FOX MEATS.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9372/masterdoorxf0.png
Looks like Philby is keeping up his habit of making beautiful doors.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/238/thebirthofanationxf5.png
Hopefully a goblin won't eat this one.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8762/zzzfoxzzzna5.png
I just missed a screen capture, but I think HorseWorm fell asleep on the floor while holding a fleshly killed fox corpse.

Holy crap! Preasure has started making a platnium and iron artifact! (good thing I had those bars there)
Edit: A platnium ewapon rack, with iron spikes! He's going around holding it in one hand, and it weighs 5350! Ironically, it's called "The Divine Quickness". ¬.¬

Why did I make Agent Luke my outpost broker? Instead of getting to trading, he's gone out fishing for the day. Typical.
And Zeor finally got better! Now he can continue hunting... gee, not a very quick learner, is he?
And I made loads of iron picks, because I had too many people not expanding stuff. I made two carpenter's and mason's workshops too.
(Also, Splapp went berserk, and Nutter fell down a hole and drowned.)

Pigbuster do not stop posting fort updates

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8490/stupidstupidhumansov5.png
Humans are idiots.
There's a bridge right there and they constantly try to go over the river instead.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6717/whattheju7.png
Apparantly, Zero has been usurped from the mayorly throne! Damn, guess he was just too awesome for the people to handle. Don't know why they elected some random nobody, though.
He still has "mayor" next to his name, though, so I'm not sure what's going on.

Tickrazor
B1 (http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/493/tickrazorb1lz2.png)
B2 (http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3564/tickrazorb2dy7.png)
B3 (http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/7269/tickrazorb3bo9.png)
B4 (http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7966/tickrazorb4pz6.png)

Got a nice 25 more immigrants (I didn't know you could get that much at once!) raising the pop. count to 55, promoting SupSuper to mayor.
Oh well, now to get back to once again, naming each new guy (here's Zeor's old list, if you want it (http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/552/d00dzpz4.png)) and assigning them every job.

PB, your fortress is called Tickrazor? My fortress is called Tickboot! Funny, that...

Edit: Oh gee, Zeor died again.... This time, he managed to get in a brawl with a macque and they both fell down one of those water holes outside.
Lucky for him, there's the new people now. He gets renamed straight away.

Very neat entrance drawbridge thing, Sup. I was wondering what was up with that big cluster of upwards staircases...I swear, I must be one of the only people that never had a problem with learning this game...Nah, I didn't have such a hard time picking it up either for whatever the reason. My mind is wired strangely. I pick up the abstract and miss the obvious.

Edit: Somehow I missed all of PB's fort update stuff on this page. Shame my reign of mayor was apparently so short-lived. ...But I'll always be the mayor in my heart.

Best things to do in a fortress;
No. 1;

Build a channel from the surface to about 10 floors down. Then, at the top, use the Zones command to make it a Pit/Pond and a Garbage Area. Then, assign all your useless animals to it.

Watch them plummet and SPLAT at the bottom. And, before I forget, yell "THIS IS SPARTA!!!" at the top of your voice!

So, that last winter I had... it didn't snow, and I could still plant crops.

Not that I'm complaining here, but whaaa?

On another note, Pigbuster's colours are intriguingly muted. Must be a Mac thing.

So, that last winter I had... it didn't snow, and I could still plant crops.

Not that I'm complaining here, but whaaa?
Yes, the climates have an actual effect now.

On another note, Pigbuster's colours are intriguingly muted. Must be a Mac thing.

I actually switched my color scheme (http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Color_schemes).

I quite like it. I can actually see the fisherdwarves.

I actually switched my color scheme (http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Color_schemes).

I quite like it. I can actually see the fisherdwarves.

Oh man, thank you, "Another scheme" is so much easier on the eyes and gives everything a delicious autumny look

And thanks Plasma for getting DF to not run at 1fps if I haven't thanked you already

I might post about one of my forts of one gets off the ground well :p

Not only can you change the colours, but you can change the tile graphics too.
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/List_of_user_character_sets
Personally, I'd recommend that everybody changes to the herbdogg tileset, as it's fantastic, and you won't look back. Just make sure you convert it to a .bmp first.

Not only can you change the colours, but you can change the tile graphics too.
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/List_of_user_character_sets
Personally, I'd recommend that everybody changes to the herbdogg tileset, as it's fantastic, and you won't look back. Just make sure you convert it to a .bmp first.

No way, José!! I like my tiles good and ASCII thank you very much!

Hell yeah default colors and tileset purism!

Also, getting to plant crops in the winter? Where's the challenge?!? :(

They ARE ASCII!!!
Just a slightly sexier looking ASCII! Well, the one I suggested is.
Here's a really poor screenshot to show what I mean.
http://www.kieranmillar.com/dwarf/screen1.png
The advantage with this is that the squares have a border. It's much easier to see how many squares I've dug out etc.

Where's the challenge?!? :(
This time, instead of not having food ready in the winter, it's not having water ready in the winter. That river can freeze up pretty bad!

They ARE ASCII!!!
Just a slightly sexier looking ASCII! Well, the one I suggested is.
Here's a really poor screenshot to show what I mean.
http://www.kieranmillar.com/dwarf/screen1.png
The advantage with this is that the squares have a border. It's much easier to see how many squares I've dug out etc.

Hmm, it kind of reminds me of IVAN, but still thanks but no thanks

I declare that the military screen is an utter nightmare.
I wind up activating and deactivating squads 500 times before I get what I want, and every change you make is registered in the world. That means that it doesn't just apply the final result, but every decision. That dwarf you switch around 50 times is going to be "annoyed with the draft" 50 times, driving him to suicide.
[EDIT]I looked it up so now I know how it's supposed to work, at least. We'll see if it's still confusing, though.

And implement a "Dwarves only equip equipment in stock at the fortress" option please.

A lot of stuff happened/didn't happen since my game froze up. 100 pictures, though. Now I'm taking way too many.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/microcline.png
HELL YEAH MICROCLINE!
I have no idea what it is, but it sounds awesome.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/omfgliaison9.png
Well guess who never decided to leave after all. He's been following Plasma all over the place like a sick puppy and now he's even sleeping with her! Did they get married while I wasn't looking or something?

You know the whole "Economic Stone" thing? Well, I finally figured out how to turn it off...

Press status (z) and then go to stone. You can then switch on or off the economic state by pressing enter.

You'd be surprised how many people don't know about this. I too didn't know, but SupSup told me (can I call you SupSup? I think the name is cute. Or Sup^2?)

You'd be surprised how many people don't know about this. I too didn't know, but SupSup told me (can I call you SupSup? I think the name is cute. Or Sup^2?)Go ahead.

Winter comes around so Udil immediatly high-tails it out of there. Clearly Plasma can't keep up the "heat of passion".
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/omfgliaison10.png
I think we should see other people.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/omfgliaison11.png
But don't worry, I'll come back next year once I grow bored of them!

Ever since, Plasma stays in her room pining for her love, waiting for his epic comeback.

HELL YEAH MICROCLINE!
I have no idea what it is, but it sounds awesome.
I thought it was awesome too!
...until I found out that it's actually just the same as pretty much every other type of rock in terms of value and functionality, only that it's cyan.
Which is still awesome! And made me decide to build two huge 16-storey cylindrical pillars (with a diameter of 8 each) right in front of my enterance! One in cyan Microcline, and one in yellow Orthoclase (who, for those of you that don't know geology, are both chemically the same). At the moment, I'm using them as food stores, as they're hollow inside.

I don't know why you feel the need for a military though.

Also, once again, Zeor died. How many times is that now?


Edit: I got a... Dungeon Master? Better start on making them dice! (he shall now be named Volcadmin)
Actually, according to the Wiki, I've now got every noble possible and all on max status.

Winter sucks. The river froze for a while but only halfway and then thawed back. No fun deaths for me. :(

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/kitties.png
:3

And now, brand new retro VGA vision!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/oldskoool.png
So old skool it hurts.


Edit:

Because nobody would fit the job better:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/bookkeepingleet.png
Must... unround... numbers... better... accuracy...

He's so obsessed with it, he'll even eat in his office (well, his chair) as he toils away. He won't even sleep.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/paultehclerk.png
MATH WIZARDRY!

http://e.photos.cx/kings-757.PNG

If nothing else, at my fort we are eating like KINGS.

Oops

It appears I have started in an an area with NO WOOD. I dissembled my wagon to make a bed. As far as i can see I need wood for more beds, chairs and charcoal. Do I need to restart in a forest? Or is there another way to get wood?

Only if you wait around for tower-caps to grow out of muddy cave areas.

Oops

It appears I have started in an an area with NO WOOD. I dissembled my wagon to make a bed. As far as i can see I need wood for more beds, chairs and charcoal. Do I need to restart in a forest? Or is there another way to get wood?
You can get more by trading.
You should make one bucket and one piece of charcoal to start. Look after that charcoal though, don't use it up.

Also, Zeor got petty ****ed off of dying so much, so I gave him a crossbow and now he's going around killing anything that's not Dwarf.

You can get more by trading.

Yeah I gave them everything for all their wood
7 logs...
I have 1 left and some fine new beds :cool:

Immigrants! Standing at the edge of the map! Why dont they come closer?

EDIT: Im going to start again, but first...
Can the miners dig out the entire lake before it thaws?!!??! tick... tick... tick...

Immigrants! Standing at the edge of the map! Why dont they come closer?
You have to assign a meeting point first. Either by marking an area using [i], or by building a table and designating it as a meeting hall.

Also: 487,982 total wealth! Woo!
How about you, Pigbuster? What do I say the wealth of your fortress is?

Edit: Uh-oh! Bonz, the mayor, just got posessed! This ain't good...

You have to assign a meeting point first. Either by marking an area using [i], or by building a table and designating it as a meeting hall.

Also: 487,982 total wealth! Woo!
How about you, Pigbuster? What do I say the wealth of your fortress is?

They walked over eventually, I think my mason went and said hi.

Nevermind, theyre all dead now anyway :rolleyes:

Also: 487,982 total wealth! Woo!
How about you, Pigbuster? What do I say the wealth of your fortress is?

@#(^!
456,145!
HOW DID YOU BEAT ME. :mad:

Though do YOU have 1778 drink? :p

By the way, I kinda want to see your village/tower.

[EDIT]
Made a wiki page about ice (http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Ice).
God it feels good to make an entire wiki page about something no one (presumably) knew about before. :cool: (I'm talking about building things out of ice)

My DF contribution (http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Controls) is boring. :(

Also, the new version is being soooooooooo boring. Nothing happens. Someone die dammit! :mad:

My DF contribution (http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Controls) is boring. :( I found it quite useful. (Still grappling with the controls here.)

O NOES! My fortress is being attacked by a goblin army!
...or at least that's what I would be saying, if I hadn't managed to trap them between cliffs. (I hope they're able to die of thirst though)

I'll post my Fortress later, but I did manage to make two more towers (white and dark grey) and am working on three more (light grey, brown, and red).

Oh, I forgot to say:
Bonz went insane. Thomas took over as mayor.
He later made a crown artifact, worth 16800, but lost his position as mayor when he got possessed.
Preasure took over from him, which is nice, as he was already legendary!

Deadcode got possessed.
He claimed a mechanic's workshop.
He came out later with an artifact.
It was a mechanism.
It was made using one turtle shell and three platinum nuggets.
It is worth of 289,200 monies!
So, if you don't have a Hoardmaster in your list of nobles, then that thing alone is more valuable than your entire civization!
(Bizarrely enough, Deadcode is not legendary)

My artifacts now have a total worth of 537,600, and my fortress is now worth 1,189,730? monies. For those who don't know, that question mark means that the number is too high to be able to count accurately, and is just an approximation.



Hey PB, what's your fortress worth?
456,145!
Hmm...
Well, good luck with that. I can really see you getting far there!
And sure, it might still be worth 34,655 less than three of my items alone, but you're doing fine and dandy. I don't mind you going at your own slow, steady, slow pace.

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Hurrah! Elves! The suckiest of sucky traders!

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Yeah, sure, try to steal me when you're stuck on the other side of a chasm.

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Eventually the game caught on and magically spawned one on my depot. He was quickly mauled by dogs and robots.

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In the meantime, Melon decides to go out hunting. For giant cave spiders. The result isn't pretty. This is the start of a Very Bad Thing.

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To counter that, Plasma and his puss find... GOLD! Shiny shiny pure native gold! Party for all!

Hurrah! Elves! The suckiest of sucky traders!
Actually, Elves are sorta good traders now. And trading with them gives your trader experience, which will allow you to start seeing the value of things sooner.

Actually, Elves are sorta good traders now. And trading with them gives your trader experience, which will allow you to start seeing the value of things sooner.That's crazy talk! I tried to give them my most badass dagger evar totally not taken from a dead corpse and they just shrugged it off! No matter what I traded it for!
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Loss? Loss?!? You guys are just too stuck-up to admit you're anti-awesome.

O NOES! My fortress is being attacked by a goblin army!
...or at least that's what I would be saying, if I hadn't managed to trap them between cliffs. (I hope they're able to die of thirst though)

They don't work in this version, anyway. They just stand at the edge of the map. Then they leave. :p

How are you taking screenshots? Just print screen or does DF have its own screencapture feature?

How are you taking screenshots? Just print screen or does DF have its own screencapture feature?
Print Screen. Except for when you want to get an entire map of the area, which you do in the Esc menu.

A lot of people have been asking me repeatedly to post the epic tale of the end of the universe. Oh and a spider.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Dwarf17/New/revange.png
hell yeah futureworm dun-dun-dun-dun-dun

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oh noes the spider is using web hax :eek:

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gee fw how uncaring of you dying and splattering blood all over the place :(

Please don't tell me that you're gonna get your entire outpost wiped out by a single spider?

Edit: "'Fwd Adm' withdraws from society." Now why does that sound familiar...

Please don't tell me that you're gonna get your entire outpost wiped out by a single spider?Of course not!

They got themselves wiped out. :p

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The cavalry has arrived!
Very slow cavalry at that. They stand still until the flashing X goes away and only then do they return to reality and another migrant comes.

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Plasma: Haha you guys are so dead, just look at me smiling my ass off!

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You have struck microcline... again? Clearly the party never ends in Firebolts.

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My cavalry has a brain the size of a walnut.

HEEEELLPP!!

Ok, new fortress, going great with a couple of minor setbacks, and now the autumn caravan arrives. Woo. Except they dont bring me any anvils, so no trade for you today my friend :mad:
The outpost liason guy goes 'stark raving mad' and runs around babbling.
Then TWO merchants become 'melancholy'.
As does a muskox...

Now the muskox has gone berk and started rampaging around inside my fortress, Im a little scared to unpause...


EDIT: Ah, actually ONE of their muskoxi went beserk, ANOTHER is just melancholy :rolleyes:
Fortunately, my trade depot and all those crazies are in an otherwise empty room WITH A DOOR, so I've sealed them in for now...

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7343/autumn1level0jy2.png
Not much to see here, just part of my overflow stone stockpile and a channel I built to 'see if I can'. It would appear I can.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3402/autumn1level1qc3.png
Still not much to see, just that channel from water level and a short corridor entrance to my base. In the future I intend fill this corridor with traps or (ideally) be able to flood it when necessary, like so. (http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Design_strategies#Flooded_Entrance)

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7951/autumn1level2xz8.png
Ok, here is the main level of my fortress with all my current workshops. Starting from top-left is my trade depot (just off-screen is a bunch of melancholy merchants and some blood stains) as well as a smelter and wood furnace. Top-right is my dining hall (in progress). Centre-left there are four workshops (clockwise from top-left: future site of metalsmith's forge, mason's workshop, carpentry, still). Centre right there are another four workshops (again, clockwise from top-left: fishery, kitchen, mechanic's, craftsdwarves). Bottom-left is a furniture stockpile and bottom-right is a finished goods stockpile.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6017/autumn1level3sh9.png
Yay! Stockpiles! Each stockpile fills two room, so clockwise from top-left we have stone, food, refuse, wood. The X on the left is a double stairway which is unaccesible from this level. Btw, that red M in my refuse is that psycho Muskox that was killed by a merchant when I locked them in a room together.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9953/autumn1level4rr5.png
Finally, the bedrooms. As you can see not directly below the stockrooms as I thought it might be quiter here. Currently 1 room each plus an office for the leader: 'Doc' (guess what the others are called, indeed, I suck at the naming).

And just after I took these... WINTER ARRIVED! Bah! But at least this time I am in a better position to survive (I think)...

No room for emoticon-abuse, bah

Any suggestions for my next actions? Or requests to be an immigrant in the spring?

Any suggestions for my next actions? Or requests to be an immigrant in the spring?
Me. Even though I know that I'll die.
Also, don't forget that only berserk people and creatures will hurt others. Creatures with another mental illness just refuse to eat or drink, and subsequently die.

The merchants/Liaison went crazy? Wierd. :confused:
They shouldn't do that, should they?

I think you should make a path from the double stairway to the stockpiles. Your fortress is quite vertical, so it should be easy to make everything really accessible, and accessibility is good, usually.

The trade depot should probably be outside, since there's no way a human caravan is going to get down to the one you have now. As long as you're quick at moving goods to and fro, a thief won't be able to steal anything.

Pigbuster do not stop posting fort updates

Your wish is my command.
Keep in mind that I only got access to fast internet today, so most of this is quite out of date. Anyway..........

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The new mayor is being a jerk, what with his "mandates". I want the freedom to export my non-existant chain mail, damn it!

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Seems like Horseworm has run into trouble.

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A lot of trouble. A wolf evidently tore his legs off, and is working on the head.

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AHHH PIG BUSTER I DEAD. :mad:

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Horseworm's peers gleefully snatch away his armor. His corpse, though? Eww, smelly.

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I decide to have some fun and name all of the babies like celebrity couples. ThomdrewPaylor is going to be the next Brangelina, no doubt.

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A kitten takes on a Wolf! The wolf laughs and wanders away. Curse you, lupine scum!

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Vader the weaver/war veteran makes good on his clothesmaking skills.

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I didn't mention it, but SupSuper is a masterpiece-making machine. He is cranking them out constantly, and he's only a skilled craftsdwarf. He'll be legendary soon, I bet.

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You know how I said that that moody dwarf wasn't carrying his legendary statue? Well, I guess I didn't look closely enough. He is carrying around a platinum statue. With one hand.

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A stupid toad had to go and die in the water supply, giving it that nice, wholesome, poisony taste.
It seems likes it's running out, anyway. You mean ponds actually run out of water!?

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I decided to melt down my cages and make more efficient chains, which only need a third of the metal. Thing is, two of those cages contained tame birds, which are now just hanging out at the smelter. Seeing as I demolished that smelter eventually, I have no idea where they ended up.

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6403/feytimekh3.png
Whoop. Kelster gets inspired. Well, I dealt with the last 2 just fine, so this should be alright, right?

WRONG!

Now begins the tale of The Legend of Kelster: Phantom Turtle Shell.

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SupSuper tries to keep working even as Kelster screams at him to get the correct rock. It is not easy.

After getting her rock, Kelster wants a shell. Unfortunately, every shell seems to have been made into crafts by the illustrious WorMatty, so I need someone to eat some turtle. No problem, I'll just-

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5889/ohcrapir7.png
Crap.
Err, we, like, totally have a preoccupied dwarf right now. Could you, maybe, invade us later, perhaps? Thanks.

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They look like they mean business.

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And of course, it begins raining. DRAMATIC RAIN-SOAKED BATTLEFIELD!

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Damn, look at all of those weap...
Oh. Weapons that aren't mine are recorded, you say?
AGAGH.

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I invoke my military into the fortress guard!
Then I read the wiki and find that not only do I lose control over them, but their only real duty is to manhandle misbehaving dwarves.
AGH.

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/3319/attackas7.png
ATTAAAAAaaack?
Evidently, the Goblins are just hanging out at the lake. They're probably debating whether they should really actually totally invade I mean are we really ready I mean two swordmasters is that really enough I mean I don't know!

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/8889/eatturtlealreadyck8.png
You know how I need someone to eat a turtle so Kelster could get a shell?
Well, they are doing such a great job at EATING PLUMP HELMETS EAT A TURTLE PLEASE.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1520/rejectedot2.png
REJECTED! :p

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/139/nocheeseforyougz9.png

Okay, that's it. So you don't feel like eating turtle? Then I guess you don't feel like eating those cheese biscuits either, then! TRY THAT ON FOR SIZE! (Curly brackets = Forbidden item)

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Say, look at that! See all those nice juicy plump helmets? Well you get to have them if you eat a turtle!

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Hey! That's some good eating there I guess I'll just give you a nice TURTLE BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A TURTLE THAT IS A PLUMP HELMET.

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/2268/uselessgs2.png
There's an invasion going on and someone needs to eat a turtle, yet almost everyone is either sleeping, partying or idling. LAZY JERKS.

Okay, so I get fed up and block every single food barrel in the place, apart from the ones that contain turtles. Then this happens.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1581/you*******rt3.png
Melon walks up and TAKES A PLUMP HELMET OUT OF A BANNED BARREL. Apparently, banning a barrel doesn't ban the food within, and oh god this sucks aghaghahgAGHAHGHAHGHAH.

[EDIT]HOHOHO swear filter.

That's it. Whoever eats a turtle will be given the next noble position or, at the very least, a nice bedroom. Surely someone will eat a turtle NOW, right?
Especially since I made a new turtle-only stockpile in the dining room for easier access. And hey, it seems like the first turtle-only barrel is coming to the turtle-only stockpile right now! Let's take a look, shall we?

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/8619/thatisnotturtleov1.png
You know, I think my eyes are just not all that good right now, but I could swear that those are crocodile biscuits and not a TURTLE A TURTLE SOMEONE EAT A TURTLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

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*sniff sniff*
What's that smell coming from downstairs?

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EEEREGRGHGH
My errant food banning has confused my dwarves into letting food rot everywhere.

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Please baby please baby please baby please baby please.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/859/sonofain8.png
You suck, you know that?

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9531/thankyougodxc8.png
*chorus of angels*

Reg Datanalod, you shall now be known as "Sel". May you be blessed this day for eating a turtle and fulfilling the prophecy.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3720/damnitagainth1.png
You see what happens when you don't eat a turtle? All of your plump helmets whither and die. It is all your fault you JERKS.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/610/movetheshellplzpb4.png
...
SOMEONE MOVE THE SHELL TO THE REFUSE PILE SO KELSTER CAN NOTICE IT PLEASE.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1173/missioncompleteju7.png
Now I can finally cool off.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/103/nowyoueatitgo7.png
And right after she begins, 2 turtles are eaten. I hate you guys. Seriously.

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3443/lovelysoldiersuv6.png
I think it would have been more appropriate to engrave an image of dwarves NOT EATING TURTLES.

But now that that's all over, it's time to focus on the other problem! THOSE GOBLINS ARE AWKWARDLY WANDERING AROUND AND BEING MILDLY THREATENING AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

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I honestly don't think Yauhui and Poninja etc. are anywhere near as bad as people like NickTheWorm and Poofer, but I couldn't think of any more infamous forumers, so I chose from the mildly-annoying-sometimes name pool.
And also, I did this because I find the idea of the entire fortress lying in their capable hands somewhat amusing.

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HEADIN' OUT!
...except I saved right here, and the game froze and I lost the battle.

Essentially, I totally failed because most of the recruits were back at the fort eating while the others got themselves annihilated by the goblins. The fact that none of them were proficient marksdwarves also added to this.
Then I drafted (tried to, anyway) every single dwarf behind Zero, who bravely led the battle against the goblins!!!... by himself. Needless to say, I failed totally to bust up the goblins' obnoxious loitering.
Here's the last picture of the frozen game.
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2509/andfrozenxy9.png

TIME WARP!!!!!!

Since I knew I was going to fail the battle, and the goblins didn't seem to want to attack anytime soon, I called off the military and got them onto crossbow training.

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Err... wait, what? What is Aku doing in the prison? And why is there a chain around his leg?

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Oh. Right. Zeor's one and only order as mayor was to mandate production of copper goods, which was kinda difficult seeing as there was no copper ore anywhere. 27 days? Harsh.

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Seems like the "sleepy prisoner" bug is in full-effect.

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Aku somehow escapes and AndrewTaylor has to catch him and drag him back.

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...but Andrew seems to forget how to chain a prisoner up, and Aku flees. CHASE SCENE!

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The chase leads upstairs!
Since they both have the same exact speed, there's no progress for either side.

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But Aku collapses in a snoring heap in the barracks, and Andrew drags the sleeping dwarf all the way back to the prison.

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I'm building a bed there to prevent further incidents.

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The "SIEGE" notice dissapeared?
W... WE WON!
YEAH! GO US! TICKRAZOR FOREVER!!! :D

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Practically the entire fortress rushes at the chance to collect 1 of the 6 available logs.

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Aku is thirsty, and there seems to be no water available. I end up having to make an alcohol stockpile in the prison for him to get a drink. Freely giving alcohol to prisoners? I don't see any problem with this at all, nope!

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And may she not be eaten by a goblin!

...and that's all for today.

I got attacked by more goblins too!
Generally, they weren't much of a threat. ...until Futureworm came along! He got a little too close, which then caused the goblins to release their entire quivers on him!

In hollywood style, dispite sendoing out dozens of arrows, they all missed.

Oh, also, they killed Zeor's pet dogs.

PB, your fort updates are just wonderful. I was totally rofling. Here's the deed to this thread. Please don't tell me that you're gonna get your entire outpost wiped out by a single spider?Dude, have you seen a giant cave spider?

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They're worse than giant desert scorpions. Worse than GIANT DESERT SCORPIONS, I tell you!

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Once more into the breach...

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Glass? Crap.

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These guys are bolt making MACHINES.

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Here is SupSuper making 3 masterpieces in a row. I love him.

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The new channel for the river water supply works smoothly, and by "smoothly" I mean "doesn't drown everyone".

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Here is Melon removing a floor. While standing on it.

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Here is Melon getting knocked out.

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The secretive dwarf collects an ungodly amount of materials for his inspiration. Please start before you ask for more glass.

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Well, he got everything together and finished it up. I name him "JohnnyNet" since that was that one guy whose sigworm had a bow. See how clever I am? SEE!?

...wait, a blowgun?

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9503/picture13wu8.png

Yes, he made a blowgun. I had no idea those existed. I excitedly scoured the wiki to see if I discovered something new, but alas! I had been beaten to the chase. My time will come, though...

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Damn, now we'll actually have chain mail. I found it so entertaining how the mayor would continuously forbid the export of something I didn't have.

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GAH.
How does a goblin get all the way down into the food storage without anyone seeing him?

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The farmers run in terror, but brave Lancersteels attacks the menace!

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He attacks the menace a lot!

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The goblin is knocked unconscious and the child goes free, and Lancersteels is showered with praise!

...actually, he goes right back to wandering around doing nothing, leaving the unconscious and still quite alive goblin in the food stockpile.

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How do they keep getting this far? Do you guys just decide to ignore the goblin until it steals a baby?

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I lock all of the doors before the thief can claim one of them (Which would make me unable to lock it) and the entire squad chases him down!

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Evidently, I forgot one of the doors, but he doesn't actually claim it for some reason, and I lock it right in his face. Methinks he is quite screwed. IS HE!?

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Yes.

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The unconscious goblin in the storeroom is scaring people away from the food they want to eat.

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A dog finally gets fed up and rips up the goblin.

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"Took joy in slaughter", eh? I guess that's exactly what you'd expect from a "charming murdurer". The Obscure-O-Meter rates this reference at maximum obscurity.

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Zeor and his mining buddies play a rousing game of "see who can dig the channel underneath the other to send them plummeting to their doom".

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Hey! Sweet! Merchants! I guess I'll just bring all of my... oh. They're elves.
Well... I guess I could take their cloth... *grumble grumble*
Also, leaving? I never even noticed they were there. Gah.

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I get everyone to work on expanding the dining hall to huge proportions. Unfortunately, part of it used to be a lake, so I have to build a ceiling AND a floor over the remaining murky pools. Bah. Implement a system to build more than 1 tile of floor/wall at a time, please.

Pigbuster has claimed a thread.
Pigbuster has began work on a masterpiece.

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Don't do it! You have 2 children to look after if that other kid wasn't actually eaten by the goblins and was just enslaved maybe!

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...well that was easy. She's holding her baby as she's making it, too. Looks like she's going to be a legendary craftsdwarf. I need a new cook, so I choose Traxada. Obvious decision, really.

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Paul.Power achieves the maximum bookkeeper rating due to my enormous wealth. Woo.

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Hmm. Another kid. I switch things up and name them "AndromasTaylop" or something similar to that.

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I notice that there is a TON of vomit outside, and it's practically everywhere. I learn later that this is because my dwarves are so used to the dark underground that the bright light makes them rather nauseated. So, uh... yeah.

I'm rather dissapointed that I cannot collect the vomit, actually. I just want to have the novelty of making a vomit pit. A blood pit wouldn't be that bad either, if I played as goblins. And if excrement is ever implemented, well, then I would have all the workings of my very own Saw movie.

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Poofer finally finds someone who loves him. :p
"Honey, it's time for us to have a talk about your spamming problem."

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Finally Saffya trains some War Dogs.

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Looks like I've found some ugly yellow rock, too!

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A baroness, you say? OHOHO!

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Won't you leave us alone?

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FwdAdm finally gets revenge on the one who killed his mother.

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Why is it that you guys can spot a thief from across the entire map, yet you fail to see one run through the most populated rooms in the fortress and into the storerooms?

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And another goblin is killed! Apparently. Didn't take many pictures of this one.

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Seems like the dwarves dug through to City 17!
Either that or I put this into my DF pictures folder by accident.