Comments on: Dwarf Fortress For Minors: Newbie Tutorials

By: Red Fortune

Red Fortune — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:57:36 +0000

@Serondal
Though some people call it an exploit, if you order your craftsdwarves to make stone mugs, then one stone becomes 3 mugs with the same value modifier as any other stone craft, which triples the output value of one stone, in the same amount of time. Tah.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:36:08 +0000

you can put a giant stone pile outside but your dwarfs will spend the rest of YOUR natural life trying to fill it and doing little else. It is best to let the stones stay where they is or do what I do.

Get a bunch of bins, get a dwarf to make stone crap for to sell to other peoples. That dwarf will work his entire life cleaning up your fortress trying to use every stone he can find to make more rings ect and he will slowly get better and better at it until he can actually make you tons of profit trading his bins of crap for useful items. You need the bins because other wise you’ll just be replacing all the stones with crafted stones :P The best thing in this game are bins and barrels, they make everything SO much easier.

By: aubergine-in-texas

aubergine-in-texas — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:43:07 +0000

rubble. I’m so new at this it’s not funny. but couldnt one make a giant stone pile OUTSIDE and have them haul all that stone outside? it’s not like rain will hurt stone. Do tell me what you think.

I’m working my way through tiny pirate’s tutorial and one thing that would make that so much more usable at least for me is an index of some sort. so if i blanked out in a couple of days and cant remember how to do X i dont have to scan over all the tutorials I’ve read so far to find one small command…( did this today )

i’m a long time player of ADOM and loved it until i lost my last DOS machine (i can back up a file in dos far easier in adom than trying to copy a file. That and I hated the windowed mode.) But anyway. this is looking to be a brain eating little game. hurrah.
au

By: MP

MP — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:22:07 +0000

God, this seems like such an interesting game…
Too bad the user interface is so hostile – this thing would make the best game ever otherwise…

By: Surma

Surma — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:18:03 +0000

You should have forbidden it, dug a route to water just to extinguish the flames then reclaimed it :P

By: Calistas

Calistas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:56:39 +0000

^ That is bloody awesome! Going to add that to my just-posted post!

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:46:49 +0000

When one dwarf got a mad look in his eye, grabbed a sheet of eagle leather and some silver, and emerged from his workshop three months later with the most beautiful quiver the world had ever seen, I knew it belonged on the back of Nil, the settlement’s legendary champion, a master of four weapons, and getting pretty good at swimming to boot. After a few months of fiddling with doors, Nil eventually strapped on the artifact quiver.

Life was good for a while. Goblins delivered more iron goods than we could ever use. We’d struck a thick vein of adamanite. The larders were full, the merchants looted, the goods organized behind locked doors to protect and control any moody dwarves.

Then a miner uncovered a strange room, covered with engravings, filled with smoke, and with moans of the damned. And the demons came. Spirits of fire, they filled the tunnels with burning dwarves.

Nil picked up his crossbow and gathered his squad of champions. He was fearless. His crossbow was a machine-gun in his hands. Demons fell. But Nil was injured, and the wound… smoldered. And smoldered. Nil left a trail of smoke behind him. At first it was his arm. Then his chest. His endurance failed, and after several weeks, Nil collapsed, and burned into carbon, along with all he carried.

All he carried, that is, except for the artifact quiver that was strapped to his back. This was a quiver of the gods– more beautiful than any dwarf could imagine, tougher than the rock we stand on, and as deadly as any demon. The quiver, of course, was on fire, but no dwarf that laid eyes on it could trouble him or herself with wondering why it was perched on a pile of cinders. One by one, each dwarf claimed the flaming quiver, and one by one, each dwarf in the settlement burned.

By: clovus

clovus — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:05:22 +0000

@Malagate: Thanks. I actually started reading the tutorial when I got home. When I got to the Dwaf Management program I suddenly wanted to try this game out again. Also the detail about putting a blinded goblin a pit was very intruiging.

By: Malagate

Malagate — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:49:44 +0000

@Clovus, when it comes to dwarf management, look at tutorial 6 that tiny pirate made, he shows ya how to use another dwarf management program that makes assigning what all the dwarves are doing a lot easier.

Also @ Mister Yuck, if you think there are no explosions in dwarf fortress then you are gravely mistaken, as all dwarven alcohol is about 1,000% proof and will make a massive explosion upon ignition. Some of the more devious traps make good use of this during a siege…

By: anon

anon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:14:12 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/user/captnduck
these tuts over all other tuts
also boatmurdered

By: tonypiz

tonypiz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:48 +0000

This game is evil. I just completed the first two tutorials and, despite the fact that I continued repeating myself “this is way too complicated, I’ll never remember all the shortcuts, there’s too much stuff to undestand…” I couldn’t avoid staring, with a strange fascination, at all those little dwarfs digging, and building, and digging again. I left the game for a while to browse the Net, and they went on… digging and building. They live!

By: Mister Yuck

Mister Yuck — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:45:33 +0000

But I like games with explosions…