So that's a no huh? Maybe the /v/ guys who told me to go here were just being dickheads.

>>16483023

Maybe, maybe...

Is dat some boatmurdered I see there.

Try later in the day, most of the dorffortressfags are asleep right now.

Well since you asked. . .

Anyone know a good tutorial? I really want to get into Dwarf Fortress and play it properly.

I'm waiting on the new version to come out. With necromancy and better magic and all that crazy dorf-mode-in-adventure-mode hybrid awesomeness that's on its way.

Everybody knows /tg/ plays DF.

Better question, does /tg/ play Aurora?

>>16483045
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Tutorials

Should be all you need there.

>>16483051

>Aurora

Tried play that. Got demolished in the first few seconds by the sheer scale.

>>16483045
I watched the 51ppycup tutorials on yt but they're entertaining but far from comprehensive. Whenever I come across something I don't knwo about I check the wiki.

>>16483051
Aurora intimidates me. I've heard its less like playing a game and more like spreadsheet hell.

>>16483060
>>16483066

Thanks for the input.

Well the reason I posted was, I've got this dwarf who's been cruising around with a broken and slashed open foot for like 2 years now. He won't rest up, he won't go to the hospital, the dude's just too fucken tough. I've tried sending him in solo against squads of monsters to get him injured so maybe he'll go to the hospital but it's not working.

I'm worried his foot will get infected or something. Any ideas?

>>16483071
>>16483062

Yeah, I've been playing it for the last few days. The biggest flaw for me is how you have to modernize your fleet. When you research a new technology, such as fuel efficiency, you then have to put a new engine using this fuel efficiency technology together. Then you have to research this new engine. Then you have to put it into the new design, retool a shipyard to it and get all your old ships of that kind back to the shipyard to assign them to refitting.

Also, you have to expand pretty aggressively, because you can do jack-shit with the resources you have.

>>16482945
does fire burn? does water soak?
Just tamed my first aquifier. i feel like a god.

>>16483119

How exactly do you get past Aquifers?

>>16483121
I generally avoid them but if you know how deep the aquifer is you could cause a controlled cave-in to create a dry area which you could dig through.

>>16483121
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Aquifer#Dealing_with_aquifers

>>16483139

Which leads to my next question. How do you cause a controlled cave in?

>>16483152
At first, after looking at the wiki (which doesn't explain it very well) it seemed complicated but it's actually fairly easy.

If you create a channel all the way around an area, and channel away where it joins to the level above, it will fall.

>>16483152
Build a single support under a bunch of rock.
Attach a lever to it.
Have a dorf pull the lever, knocking the support out.

>>16483166
>>16483169

Got it. Will attempt an aquifer.

So no ideas how to deal with an injured dwarf who won't go to the hospital?

>>16483212
Just keep getting him into fights.
OR.
Put him into a small room full of weapon traps, and trigger them a bunch of times. Eventually, he'll get hit, and he'll go to the hospital.

>>16483212
Your idea of sending him out to fight solo seems like a good one.

Worst case scenario he dies.
Best case... invincible dwarf.

>>16483234
Danger rooms help with that as well, though they don't train strength.
Hey, injured foot or not, invincible is invincible.

>>16483225
>>16483234
I'll just keep getting him into fights then I guess. A weapon trap might sever his arm or something.

The guys just the perfect storm or what it takes to be a badass fighter I'd hate to lose him to infection. One time I accidentally left him outside for like an hour IRL time and he just stood there with a broken foot, getting sunburnt.

While I've been posting here I tried removing his bedroom and assigned him one in the hospital but now he won't sleep. He's ulrist mcnorris or something.

>>16483276

HOLY SHIT

>godly warrior dwarf
>wins against incredible odds
>walks out of battle unscathed
>only apparent vulnerability is his heel (foot)

You have created dwarf Achilles. He will lead your nation to greatness. The age of heroes is upon you.

>>16483352
actually lol'ed, good one man.

Just hope he doesn't meet a goblin archer named Hector.

>>16483352
But then, when one of his friends gets eaten by carp and he goes on a tantrum spiral...

I'm just waiting to get DF 0.32 released, I play very little anymore.

An another note: is there a way to get a dwarf non-lethally injured? All my doctors have their medical skills very rusty, thanks to an invicible squad of macedwarves.

standard advice for dealing with injured dorfs who refuse to go to the hospital is re-injure them somehow. when the doctor diagnoses him he'll treat the old injury as well as the new one. You could try causing a cave-in next to him (NOT on top of him, that's instadeath for anything ingame)

Well he's been rocking a broken/cut open foot for a long time now. when there's an ambush I send him out and he just kills them all. He can kill about half an evil horde on his own and the traps get the rest of them.

When he got injured he was just a shit-kicker nobody but since then he's become legenday in most combat skills and a champion.

>>16483381
A levered trap room with training weapons?

>>16483386
a cave-in eh? might give that a go.

I am in update purgatory.

Everytime I want to play it, I remind myself that an update should come somewhen "soon" and that it would be wasted effort to make something in this version. Then months pass and I think to myself that it has to be close NOW at least. And so on.

>>16483381

Try causing a cave-in near them so they get knocked around by the dust. Or drop them two z-levels with a retracting bridge or something.

yeah, its just been a long time since i played fortress mode like i used to

>>16483437
>>16483434
nice. My game drops FPS heavily when I make wide open areas like that.

>>16483451
AI pathing issues.
It considers every possible path for every dwarf, and that adds up quick.

>>16483460
well that's what I figured but I made every cavern a low traffic area and didn't gain a single fps.

Feels bad man.

>>16483451
understandable. back when i used to play heavily, it was on a p4. in the case of the underground arena, there was only one way into it, and a restricted area was set on the corridor leading to it to keep dorfs from pathing into it unnecessarily.

OH LAWD IS THIS AN EXCUSE TO START DUMPIN MAH DORF FOLDER

>>16483497
mite b cool

YOU BET YOUR OBSIDIAN ENCRUSTED ASS IT IS

>>16483493
It's.. beautiful.

I don't know why, but I love the way large DF screenshots look.

>>16483505
How the fuck do I make a blood lake?

>>16483225
>>16483386
>>16483397
Now I'm imagining a pack of well-armed dwarven doctors hunting for patients.

"That's a pretty nasty wound you've got there. You sure you don't need some treatment?"
"Nah, it'll be fine. It's nothing as bad as the time I -"
[STAB]
"- AAAUGH"
"Look at that, I told you it'd get worse. Prepare the operating room!"

>tree droofoc

no captha,"tree dorf fort"

anyone else looking forward to the reworked sites?

i sure as fuck am.

My current fort is intentionally tiny and cramped (see screenshot: there are two more z-levels, one about the same size and one smaller). I've got 140 dwarves. Normally I'd be getting 20-30 fps with that population, but it hasn't even dropped below 90 this time. Something to consider for people who experience fps problems.

I wish my dwarves had flood detection

I'm kinda new to this whole dwarf fortress thing, how would you summarize it in one sentence?

>>16483553
Cool story generator

>>16483553

Losing is fun.

>>16483562
>>16483563
Those are boring have you got anything good?

>>16483553
Shit just got quack.

>>16483541
back when i played regularly, i found the best fix was limiting my z-levels of sky and running water/magma works

then when 0.31 came out, the key seemed to be limiting embark space and z-levels more than anything else.

recently put together an i5 system, from the p4, and loaded up my old saves, and hit max fps in each. now i just can't get hooked on fort mode. on the flip side, i had quite a bit of fun fucking around in the updated adventure mode.

rolled 2 = 2

>>16483549
You cut out the best part of that joke.

>>16483567
Well, fuck you too, mister.

>>16483567
This describes it best.

>>16483567

Urist McHerbalist cancels Gather Plants: Interrupted by Honey Badger.

>>16483553
Dorfs make cool fortress, cut down trees to piss off violent cannibalistic Elfs and find underground clown colonies.

Also necromancers now.

>>16483581
Dude I haven't laughed that hard in ages.

>>16483553
LotR Mines of Moria meets the Sims, if the Sims were a bunch of Bipolar OCD alcoholics who occasionally go crazy and make beds out of, I duno, nothing but rat forskins or something.

>>16483629
Well the first half was good.

>>16483553
Begin with 7 Dwarves, end with the world burning down around you.

>>16483657

>>16483661

>>16483666

Dwarf achievements list. How many have you gotten?

>>16483657
>>16483661
>>16483666
>>16483673

Fuck yeah.

>>16483689
gimme a sec to count these

>>16483689
>kill 5 creatures with exploding booze bombs

Wait, what? I must research this.

I don't like immigrants. They can never do anything useful and they just steal the booze of hardworking folk. Since I am no nazi, I don't want to create death chambers, so I will just have them rot in a slum outside the proper fortress. That also makes for a nice defensive puffer in case of invasions.

Now, I still want to trade. How do I make a double-door-system to ensure none of those dirty immigrants sneak in with the trade goods?

I've been thinking about an elevated room with 2 z-levels, a trade depot on the first level and grates between first and second. When cycling, it locks up completely, water flows in from above until the second z-level is filled. Then we wait for a while and finally open the floodgates in front of some vertical grates on z-level 1.

What do you think?

>>16483038
Hilariously, this. I just woke up and I fuckin' love me sum DF

do barrel bombs even exist? I can't find any info

>>16483841
It's when fire touches alcohol, so it's not exactly controlled.

>>16483864
is thee an article on this? How the fuck do i start a fire?

>>16483871
Magma, chained dragons or fire imps.

I think there's magma turtles in there too for some reason. Have fun trying to capture any of these, hehe

>>16483871
You don't, that's the point.

Unless you somehow chain a somewhere and then release a creature into his line of sight, onto which he then launches flames, which may be directed to your bomb ...

>>16483888
>>16483892
That's kind of confusing. the wiki says this:

Note that setting booze on fire will not cause it to explode (nor has it ever done so) - however, exposing it to high temperatures will cause it to boil away (and the wooden barrels themselves can also be set on fire)

Like most of the things listed on that achievements list exploding booze is probably completely random. Just don't keep your stockpiles near your magma pumps.

>>16483902
Time for SCIENCE!

I've not posted this one since I screengrabbed it.

Somebody science this shit. I don't have any way to start a fire.

also, if I do think of a way to start a fire, what's the most potent drink in the game?

>>16483928
HERESY

Where is your magma?

>>16483939
I have magma but it's full of demons and stuff so I don't really wanna mess around with it atm.

>>16483938
They're all equally potent at the moment as far as I know. Toady hasn't got around to alcohol proofing yet.