Bumping for hopeful lols?

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/

It's a good read, there are two other LPs of DF as well.

Like this op?

Bumping for Dwarf Fortress thread.

>>107097522
WHAT

>>107095766

I think more or less everyone has read boatmurdered by now, its pretty much required reading for new players. Good stuff though

>>107097522
Fluffy Wamblers are OP

ill dump some images i screencaped in the last few days

>>107097930
>body lodged in another body.

Oh Dorf fort never change

>>107095471
Nobody, NOBODY told me that cave ins can crash through multiple floors if there was room underneath
FUCK.
OFF.

>>107097930
ebka osphuro is a human hammerman, i severed its head also

find what is wrong with this

>start new fortress
>take a slow approach, smoothing and engraving a large meeting hall early on
>make bedrooms for the original 7 separate from all others and give them each a well along with two in the meeting hall
>channel a brook down about 5 z levels into a reservoir of sorts
>use floodgate to prevent mroe water entering in an attempt to decrease the water pressure
>everything working well, turn attention elsewhere when traders and then a goblin ambush show up
>go back to fort and entire z level flooded, leaving mud all over my 30x30 meeting hall and 21 3x3 bedrooms all of which had been smoothed and engraved.
>fuck it, flood rest of the fort and start again

This was where it was supposed to land
You can clearly see the ice blocks landed at the walls, but crashed through the floor where the rooms are

FUCKING HELL.
ALL I WANTED WAS TO IRRGATE

YOU THINK THIS IS BAD?

FUCK OFF

Picture related.

>>107098273
WELL, NOW IT IS!
THROWING ICE CUBES FUCK YEAH

>>107098056

>His upper body is gone

wat, is he just a pair of wood burning legs?

Some of my military dwarves are being lazy fags and instead of grabbing the weapon assigned to them will run right outside and try to punch armored goblins as they get shot at with steel bolts then hacked to death with steel whips and steel swords.

Fucking dorfs

The only nice thing about this is, the mining shaft at the center is being flooded instead of the whole fort

I can salavage this.

This freaking kid. The moment he turned 12, he was elected mayor of my castle fortress. Must've been adorable or something.

>>107098384
he is only missing from his head to his stomach

JUST A FLESHWOUND!

CANT TAKE IT? SOUNDS LIKE ELF TALK TO ME BOY

>>107098624
Actually, liars usurp the mayor status.
So he was probably expert liar or some shit.

>>107098675
I read that it was whoever has the most friends. And since kids just sit around all day talking to everyone...

>>107098351

I dun geddit

>>107098862
glass takes charcoal to make.

Charcoal is made from wood.

>>107098675
Yeah he was actually legendary in just about every social attribute, so it's not too surprising. He literally sat around in my statue garden for 10 years throwing parties while my masons made the castle.

pic animated

>>107099067

Ah yes, been too long since I played

>>107099067
Really, that's the joke?

Damn that's weak, even if you don't realise you can just use magma.

Can someone explain how to channel water underground that wont freeze evaporate or flood my fort? I need to build a well for my hospital

>>107098862
It didn't really make sense, considering the glass was made using magma forges/furnaces. The merchants would just show up on the map then go berserk or otherwisely insane in an instant. Was in .12 though, which had plenty of diplomacy bugs/FEATURES.

>>107099323
Put a grate in the channel, that'll stop it freezing.

Will I understand all of those if I play Dwarf Fortress ?

>goblin ambush on first years of fort
>this little guy gets dragged through at least 12 tiles while getting stabbed with a silver spear
>he looks like he has been through a god damn mincer machine
>doctor casually strolls in after battle ends
>drags him and slumps him on a bed
>i don't have plaster powder, soap, or ANYTHING, i actually have to designate a hospital on the fly
>remember that i don't even have a well, poor guy is probably gonna die of infection

>>107099773
>a few minutes later he gets up and starts crutchwalking
>HE STARTS HAULING BOULDERS WITHOUT EVEN CLEANING HIMSELF
>my face when he somehow healed completely within the same season
sounds like dorf fort

>>107099571
Probably, it'll take a while though.

i'm a fairly clumsy player, i've been working on "how to pierce an aquifer safely", but every time i try i manage to lose a dwarf and injure another. i build my hospital before i build bedrooms.

The only mega project I ever finished, the dwarven star destroyer.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-9990-pointedthundered-dwarvenstardestroyer

Any body have more megaprojects to show off?

Guess what.
He was posessed as well.

>>107100236
at least it's not a kid that makes a gabbro figurine and then you have a legendary stonecrafter that you can't use

>>107101116
Not a fan of stone pots eh?

>>107099956
Fuck the aquifer. It adds too much work for no gain when building a fortress. I simply disabled it.

>A frogman jumped out of a well and surprised Sibruk, one of the military dwarves. He killed the froggie pretty easily, but then he somehow got stuck in the well. So now little Timmy there is dying of thirst because he can't drink from the well that his fat ass is stuck in. His friends don't seem to have any trouble drinking around him. I guess they brought straws or something.

This fucking killed me.

>building a massive set of walls above ground so I can have a courtyard
>half of the fort works as masons
>see idlers jump up to 30, letting me know that the walls are done
>start building a tower outside
>SIEGE
>unpause, knowing that I am completely safe behind my walls
>Urist McMason has been killed x25
>the construction of one piece of wall was suspended

My singular prisoner isn't being fed or given water. He's starving and dehydrated, and I have a lot of idlers with nothing else to do. I have empty buckets and everything else.
What do?

oh my god.
My dwarf just made an adamantine mail shirt artifact. It is worth 1090800 dorfbucks. Jesus hell.
Screenshot in a second

>>107105886
Make a little stockpile either side of his chain, one for food and one for booze, then use the 'take from stockpile' command from them onto your main stockpile.

If he's in a cage, attach a lever to it and have it pulled.

>>107105886
you have to have food and beer stockpiles next to the chains

>>107105945
Who should I give this to?

>>107106011
>>107106021
Someone finally got around to bringing him a bucket.
The dwarf died when the water-bringer was three tiles from the cage.

>>107106251

I once lost all 4 of my miners and their romantic partners when I mis-designated a dig pattern and forgot to give them a way back up my mining shaft.

I was greeted with Urist McMiner has diedx4 followed by Urist McMasonx2.

That was bad...

>>107106169
Holy fucking shit.
Well.
Artifacts have like what, 3x modifier to defense?
Since it's a mail shirt, you should be able to layer a breastplate on top right?
Select a dwarf with "Quick to heal, Sturdy/strong" feature, and train him up dawg.
Train.
Him.
Up.
He will strike the gods.

>>107106989
Unless he gets hit in some part that isn't his chest.

>>107106989
And deck him out with like 6 cloaks, 3 hoods and few shirts and all the other pieces.
He'll be like a fucking juggernaut, only blunts can really get past the armor, and with ridiculous deflect/block even that can be negated.

Only real threat is poison/plague/fire now

filename

got this bugger yesterday, haven't seen him since [my 3rd cavern is about 1/4 explored still - I'm trying to block off 2nd and 1st]

Just one of my militiamen being a sick dorf baller.

I'd like to add though that this beast put 3/4 of my fort unconscious with his breaths. Then another beast came around and killed everyone in their sleep.

>>107107115
Yeah you got a point, legs are typically easiest to damage in a full armor, because even with like 4x trousers + greaves and shit, it's still less deflect chance than fully decked out chest with like 4-5 shirts, 4 mail shirts and a breastplate + cloaks.

Helm and hoods are no brainer, shit's gonna save you when you go unconscious, since everyone tries to decapitate you whenever they can

>>107107528
Decapitations are strangely satisfying

Currently generating a big world with 500? year history. Gonna embark next to a volcano and try some metal industry. Anything to keep in mind? Also im tired of plump helmet farms. Is it possible for dorfs to live entirely on animals, or something? just something else than plump helmet farm plots.

How protective is a set of steel armor of exceptional quality? One layer of everything.

>>107108109
Can't brew animals, and it's hard to produce enough mead to keep a fortress going.

Why not farm something other than plump helmets?

>>107108385

Dunno, just been going with plump helmets cause they can be planted all seasons. MAkes me sad when my dorfs complain of having the same food / drink all the time though.

>>107108385
Listen to this man, set up couple of farms, sweet pods for instance, can make dwarven wine i think?
Pig tail farm can support a clothing industry and give good 8-10 dwarves jobs, and allow military dwarves to stack few shirts and trousers for more defense

>>107108456
Make five 2x10 plots, farm everything but dimplecups.

Quarrybushes need to be processed into bags at the farmer's workshop, everything else is ready to be eaten, cooked or brewed.

>>107108158
Pretty good against say, couple of goblins and arrows
a set of steel with a nice weapon can lead to 1 dwarf vs 6-10 medium sized mob into victory.

Basically anything that's not blunt won't get past unless it's really fucking dangerous.

>>107108714
Oh, good. Guess I'm ready for invaders.
Got ten dorfs all geared up and good to go.

How many bandit camps will I have to destroy to get my adventurer some engravings in a fort?
Or will I have to do something truly remarkable, like kill a megabeast/dragon?

>>107108985
No way of knowing really, you're more likely to see engravings of you taking out a megabeast though.

>>107108982
Sounds good, looks like you're near requirement for sieges and shit.

Don't underestimate ambushes though, they come in multiple groups - Many forts crumble when they engage one group of say, 5 goblins, only to find 10 more ambush groups once they engage.

Treat ambushes as though they're full blown invasions. They don't fuck around.

>>107108985
try to have 500 or so notable kills.

With even a 140 year history there is a ton of shit for dwarves to engrave and you have to do lots of shit to be randomly generated into one.

Is there anyone else who likes to limit their pop cap as much as possible? I'm not even talking about the FPS death; I just love those little, cosy forts with no more than 20 dorfs. It's almost like playing vertically challenged sims.

>>107109313
Have you tried Kobold Camp?

Sounds right up your alley.

Dwarf fortress threads should be archived automatically.

I haven't started the game once but I read ever post of every DF thread whenever I see one

>block original 7 off from any immigrants to try and make a 7dorf underground, safe fort with immigrants unsafe above ground
>decide to let my 16 immigrant dwarves attack the dwarf merchant
>they suddenly want to kill eachother
>can't make a coffin or memorial slab outside since everyone is dead
>the dwarves inside can't make a memorial slab because they have no idea what is going on outside
>a pair of harmless ghosts floated around my fort until my initial 7 were killed because I didn't realize that a tribe of batmen were in the cavern

>>107109313
I like to have a decent amount of grunts to build walls, floors, fortifications above ground and haul shit around. Other than that, if you're going for a compact fort, you might want to have every labor represented by a single, legendary dorf.
And about ten schmucks that haul, build walls and act as your military.

>>107109426
Welp, if you're trying to not miss any threads, I suggest using something like http://catalog.neet.tv/v/ and scouting for DF threads.
...This is also why I like it when people use this or a similar image as the OP.

>>107109584
>tribe of batmen

now i am an avid player of DF, so I know what the batmen are, but it always gets me anyway

>>107109867
>my face when I read it

Is it possible to dam up a river when it freezes and build a dwarf hydro power plant, so to speak? I've never bothered with building corkscrews, pumps etc, but is there any way to use naturally flowing water to generate power?

My current fortress is built into the walls of a 16 units broad river that freezes at winter, and I need a mega-project I havent tried already.

>>107106169
>image of Giant Bat

Dwarven Batman.

>>107110269

Sure you can.
Build a water wheel, aligned to the flow, directly above the water flow - make sure to channel if it's a brook.
Then get axels to transfer power out of the water wheel(s), and do whatever you want with it, probably feed a pump stack, or feed a waterfall machine for happiness.

Best of luck!

>>107111293
Wouldn't it just stop the spinning, since it's one Z level above the water?
it'll just stop the power supply right?

>>107111589
Because of
DWARVEN SCIENCE

I've been trying to build a massive pump stack, but for some reason, some of the pumps don't get built. The materials get hauled on to the building and then they get scattered all over the place, designation gone.
It has nothing to do with burrows, and the stack is identical, but only some of them get built. What do?

>>107111293
Fuck. Does it work that way? Even if I build the shit "inside" the dam? I seem to recall water doesnt freeze if it's inside.

How do i find a volcano to embark on.

>>107112860
If you are using the ASCII it should be a red ^

>>107112712
Not the same guy, but I think there's couple of categories for freezing?
First being tundra ice, which isn't your case
Second being outside in colder temp
Third being water in contact with ice?
So if it's multi-layer river, ice should spread from water that's outside into inside, or touch ice floor somewhere?

Juggling ideas, you could close floodgates before season ends to preserve water I guess? That's kind of setting yourself up for a disaster, since you'd have to remember every year

>>107112860
Guess what I found, a volcano in the tundra.
Sounds fun!

>>107111684 here
I just noticed something.
Pumps are being finished. And then they break or get taken apart or something, with no interaction or notification on my part.
What the dick is going on?

>>107113042

I forgot it's name but this is the tileset im using, are the read V's volcanos? It says badlands, but i don't know really, i havent found any volcanos on the mountains in this world so far, does every world have volcanos`?

>>107113165
Took some extra wood, since my previous experience with tundra ended up wood starved for beds

>>107113189

forgot pic, sry

>>107113189
Badlands isn't same as volcano, it's just terrain type
if it has obsidian in material list, it's volcanic,
if it has bauxite, it's fairly high chance of volcanic activity
Otherwise you'd have to refer to your tileset.
>>107113171
That seems really strange, do the architects have access, and is the mechanic free to do the job?

>>107113240
Nice and easy, magma fairly high up so I can do whatever I want with it

Should really clear a water source

>>107113319
>>107113189
Maybe
If you move your embark zone over it it will say Volcano: "volcano name"
If it isn't a volcano it won't

>>107113532
I think the heat from the magma has that covered

>>107113532
Clearing some rooms and stuff
I should channel magma under those ice to melt them for irrigation and water source

>hunter runs out of bolts
>yeti enrages and chases him all the way into the fort

And he just ripped the miner's arm off.

Fuck?

>>107113743
That was a rather brutal end
yetis really don't fuck around

>>107113795
And he's just watching

Jesus christ, this guy's just watching from inside my own fortress

And he's got enough fame for name, surname, and nicknames

>>107097782

God, I loved Boatmurdered. It's written really well but it's popularity also made a lot of people trying too hard to mimic Boatmurdered in community DF LPs.

>>107098624

Dwarves who don't work often end up as mayors since they spend their time socializing and making friends in parties etc.

rather than wait for a slow painful death, I've opted for reclamation, wish me luck.

SWEET MOTHER OF ARMOK.

SHUT.
DOWN.
EVERYTHING.

>>107114039
Jesus christ, titan bird?
Man the stations, shit's about to go down in your fort

>>107113440
Yes, they do. To all parts of the pump. The pumps actually do get finished. And then mysteriously disassemble.
Might be some strange oddity with how pumps and mechanisms that are 'hanging' work. I'll see what happens when I build them manually, one at a time, from bottom to the top.

>>107113440
>>107113591

Thanks guys, finally found a site with a volcano.

>deep metals
>shallow metals
>flux stone

Yay / nay?

>>107114449

forgetting pic as usual

>>107114449
Take it.
No need to worry about fuel
No need to worry about metal
All you need is careful engineering to ensure magma doesn't flood and you can skip straight to metalworking.
Iron bins, Iron barrels errywhere

>>107114518
Make sure you can see the volcano in your embark square, otherwise your fort won't have it

>>107114518
>no trees
>no vegetation

hooo

>>107114518
Wait a fucking second, aquifer?
Do you know how to go through aquifers?

>>107114609

I have heard about the plug technique but never tried it. Also no trees, i know, final destination, stone pots all day erry day

>>107114449
Sounds great if you have trees and water availble.

>yfw none of the metals are any variants of iron.

>>107114609
Take some wood
Beds are only from wood, no alternatives.
Allowing for first couple of migrant waves before your wagon, taking 15-20 wood seems prudent, accouting for dismantling the wagon's wood.

My fort has a ridiculous amount of iron.

Currently have 744 Iron bars, 123 pig iron, 65 steel. Two fully armored dwarf squads too.

>harvesting blood thorns
>dwarven child following lumberjacks
>forgotten beast appears
>gigantic humanoid made of ice
>lumberjacks flee to surface
>dwarven girl intercepted by FB
>FB spits spinning frozen extract
>smacks girl in the arm
>small girl is mildly bruised
>small girl punches FB in the leg
>FB falls down
>small girl runs to surface uninjured
>FB promptly slaughtered by military

She was inducted into the military first thing when she came of age.

>>107115140
>20 dwarves
>6 page sieges

I think you may want to train backup squad.
They get bad thoughts if they are on duty all year round anyway

I had a bug where the game decided a good spot on my embark location for my dwarves to start at was a single tile that was 1z level higher than all the other tiles nearby, thus I had no wagon and had to instantly build stockpiles everywhere to stop foodrot

>>107115236
I have 120 dwarves and no dwarves constantly on duty unless training.

I actually have 2 armored squads and 6 marksdwarves squads since I dont have to worry about bolts ever.

>>107098475
How did you get yours looking so nice?

>>107115312
I made a mistake of allowing all bolts in combat
Dem bone bolts don't do shit to iron armored goblins
I should've forged some when I had spare metals

>>107115349
Mine is maydays installed through lazy newb pack.
Takes about two clicks.

>>107115349

Oh shit, is there a source on that gif?

Well... everything went better than expected.

>>107115530
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC08Lx-zkhI

I found a better one

>>107115530
>>107115499
thanks! As for a source, sorry. :[

>>107115430
I just literally dont need to make those anymore. I just dig out a chunk of each z level and get a wad of iron. This location has massive veins of each iron type ore.

>>107115430

>play the new DF for the first times (when they finally fixed the marksdwarves)
>iron supplies are kind of low
>decide to make do with bone and wooden bolts since they were complete murder in 40d
>ranger squad (patrolling marksdorfs scouting the perimeter) catches a kobold thief
>the kobold takes multiple volleys of wooden bolts into it's hide but doesn't die
>disregard it as an odd coincidence
>next goblin ambush completely wipes out my rager squad.

After that incident I am no longer deploying my marksdwarves on open ground unlike 40d where a squad of marksdwarves could easily obliterate ambushes by themselves without letting a single goblin get into striking distance.

>>107116270
I only use Iron or Steel bolts for combat. for a seige I station my 60-80 marksdwarves just outside my entrance during a seige and my 20 close combat dwarves just above them. My combat dwarves only fight if something gets too close to the marksdwarves.

If I just wanted a small fort of ~30 people should I just edit the popcap to 30 or download KC and edit it's files?

>>107113171
Pumps in a stack have to support each other, if the ones below are getting cancelled for any reason, the ones they support will deconstruct themselves.

Best thing to do is connect an axle to the pump at the top, that way the stack is supported top and bottom and one canceled pump won't break any support for the rest.

How do you get dorfs to stud (gems/metal) decorate (bone/hoof/etc) the things you actually want them to decorate?

It is a pain when I have some furniture I need decorated and my dwarves will decide that this ONE SEED BAG needs 40 gems on it rather than an even distribution between all types of furniture or something.

>>107117234
Lock the jewler in with the things you want studded.

Is it worth embarking on top of a volcano without flux stone in the area?

>>107117936
You can get by without a local steel industry as long as your parent civ has steel items to trade, it'll take a few years, but you'll be able to get a bunch of steel for weapons and armour if you shop smart with them. (ask for loads of steel bars, steel anvils and trap components.)

>>107106169

I think the best recipient should be whoever the fuck killed the Giant Bat.

He/She should also be promoted to a position of militia captain unless the squad he's in already has a really qualified leader.

Goddamn that's a nice item. All I seem to get is a bunch of gabbro doors/hatch covers.

>>107117936
No.


...How many Z levels down can a marksdorf shoot? From 15 tiles away.

>>107118385
I think it's about 15 tiles in any direction.

>>107118385 here.
Never mind, my dorf was a tile too far to see the enemy.

I have a single marksdorf holding off a siege, they're just sitting there, getting shot at.

>>107118504
no, the reach lowers with Z level difference
unrealistically, but still so

I don't know the exact number but it should be around 1 tile per 1 z level.
Normal reach is some 20 tiles so 15 tiles up will be very ineffective

>>107118274
Still feels like I'll be better off finding somewhere with flux stone and just digging down. I generated a Huge world and scanned every tile for Volcanos, found 3, all of them are in Wilderness which limits the "fun".

One volcano is even on its own island with no goblins, elfs or anything near by. Kind of crappy!

>>107118344
the giant bat thing happened during history gen.

>>107119151
It'd be worth bumping the volcano number up so something silly if you want to find one in a good spot.

>>107119151
You are better off setting the advanced perimeters to a minimum of 100 volcanos and then generating a map of medium size, stopping it after 100-150 years. Much more chance of getting the kind of embark you're looking for.

>>farm fully functional and breweries at the ready
>>notices drink supply dwindling
>>we require more barrels
>>make barrels
>>dwarves stuff barrels with plump helmet
>>cook plump helmet
>>stuffs ready food in barrel
>>no drinks left
>>tantrum spiral

>>107120007
Build rock pots, forever.

Make two 10x10 stockpiles. One for plants and drinks and nothing else, and one for every other foodstuff, including finished meals.

Allows max 20 or so barrels in the food stockpile, allow the full 100 barrels in the drink stockpile.

Rock pots. Stop farming. Start brewing. This should bring down the amount of plants you have taking up barrelspace, and produce booze.

Also, dont ever cook brewable plants.

How does this look for a volcano embark?
With the bottom right corner having the river and the top left having the volcano?

wait... rock pots can be used to store food??!?
why hasn't anyone told me this

>>are you a wizard.png

also what do you do with your remaining 20 billion plump helmet seeds

>>107120734
No deep metals. That kind of screws it. It means there will only be metals in the first few layes, and everything below will be rock and gems.

>>107120765
Is he on duty?

>>107120841
You stop getting seeds from plants at 200, you can buy more after that, but eating and brewing won't produce any more seeds, so I just store them.

>>107120734
No flux stone. No steel outside of trade.

>>107120841
Dump them in a nearby river. You should have a separate seed stockpile aswell, so they dont clutter up your food and drink stockpiles. You only need MAX 100 seeds, so if you have more than that, get rid of some.

>>107121039
>clutter

I'm farming everything but sunberries in my fortress, and have around 200 of every type of seed.

My seed stockpile has three barrels in it, they don't take up any space at all.

What about this one
The green stuff also has "Little Soil"

almost all of the 30 volcanoes are either in a tundra or encased by mountains

>>107114608
You can dig down to a cavern and get all the trees you want.
I bet you've only ever made easymodo embarks.

>Get a good and stable fort up and running
>Immigrants come
>Optimize everything for that amount of dwarves
>Good metal industry
>Suddenly fucking shitloads of immigrants
>No jobs for all of them
>Can't be bothered
>Abandon fort

>>107122600
>massive wave of immigrants come
>can't get enough jobs for them
>"Fine, be a fucking military squad
>only clothes, no armour, no weapons
>they took down an FB with no casualties
>on the way back into the fort they were ambushed by batmen and got destroyed
>abandoned fort

>>107122812
>ambushed by batmen
Oh god, I remember being worried because of batmen in my fort, the batmen had a year of preptime.

>>107122928
These ones just popped up, didn't see them on the unit screen once the FB was struck down

Do dwarves get faster or stronger from hauling heavy shit about all day?

>>107121798

>shallow metal
>deep metal
>not metalS

So there will only be one type of metal ore there, afaik.

>>107121798
Decided to embark with the volcano in the bottom right corner and river in the top left, one square down

Square is mostly mountain
Should I make a third miner but still bring an axe with me or bring a woodcutter?

>>107123865
I usually get more than one metal type even if it says that

Alright, bitches, try to contain your orgasms.
It's go time.

>>107124146
Nearly embarked in the wrong place, then I noticed the tildes.

>>107120956
What is that?!

>>107124259
The mountain is made of sand and magma.
>Bueno

>>107124402

I think it's just art

>>107123869
Can I edit pop_cap after embarking?
I was thinking of just having a max of 30 dorfs up until I get the fort running well

>>107125330
You can, but the game doesn't seem to respect low popcaps.

You might just want to make immigrant slums outside for the dwarves you don't want.

>>107117936

>>107126440

>>107126544

>>107126600

>>107126277
Or a drawbridge conveniently placed over the magma sea

>>107125330
I have embarked

We have native copper, hematite and marble as well as obsidian and some magma-safe stone
the marble is pretty high up in the mountain and the hematite is all over the place, if I can keep the seiges out and the moods in check this could be a very successful fort

FUCKING

PEASANTS

>>107127102
>if I can keep the seiges out and the moods in check this could be a very successful fort

Famous last words.

>>107126652
Oh god. Im used to just seeing the fell beast on pumpstack one!

I embarked in a terrifying biome, but nothing came for an entire year.
I couldn't figure out why, until I saw "Capybara has given birth to pups."
Apparently there was a huge family of 8 adult capybaras and now like 20 pups that were stuck all in 1 tile in a river, and thus didn't let skeletal badgers and the like spawn.

Haha oh wow. I went to visit my fort in adventure mode and apparantly the outpost liason from the mountainhome survived the spiral.

He was a legendary something because he slapped my shit with his iron pick. I was busy fighting troglodites and he comes in off screen from where my housing area was, kills four troglodites in one turn each then kills me in two turns through MASTURFUL IRON ARMOR.

>>107128271
bump

>>107095471
When will they make this game play better, like it's a bit to
"Hardcore" if it was shitty top down 3D characters it'd be an instant success and make millions. But with it being 2D and having to read tons of pages of advice to understand the most basic movement it's going to stay in the cbf to play list.

What's the best material to make bolts from? As in, most effective. I've heard that adamantine bolts are useless.

>>107128660
>they

>>107128271
Yeah steel picks tend to do that.

>>107128956
steel > iron > copper >>>>>>>>>>bone >>>> wood

>>107129072
where does silver fall on that gradient?
between steel and iron?

>>107129217
silver is bad for EVERYTHING except blunt weapons

>>107129217
Somewhere around bone afaik

>>107129054
Iron pick.

Also I think he killed everything left in the fort when I quit because before I started fighting the troglodites I found about 50 bodies of multiple kinds of creatures strewn all over the fort with fresh bloodsmears.

>make bajillions of adamantine armour
>to decorate the halls of mournstone
I need a life.

>>107129543
He probably killed them while you were around the other parts. Forts aren't active when you aren't in the same area.

>>107129564
>armor
>decorate halls
Nigga what

>>107129738
throwing armour stands in halways because i can;t find anything worth doing

Blossombanes had another accident with deconstruction...

Accidentally designated the roof of my farm to be removed. This punched -another- hole into my catacombs... Oh well, it's a marksdwarf's tomb anyway.

We've now lost two children to shell-demanding artifacts... the second of which lead up to the deconstruction accident... which almost lost a third... but he survived a 2 z-level plummet with debris with only bruised guts.

He puked his way to his bed.

I considered save-scumming... seriously considered it. Then I realized I had been playing for four hours.

Though, the next day I did savescum when one of my axelords wandered onto the drawbridge as a siege showed up, and got crushed...

My damned marksdwarves seem to always go for the furthest pile of ammo available to them.
How do I fix this?

>>107128660

Protip : it's not intended for dumbshits.


Also :

>overground fort (only small storages and basements allowed)
>erect a palisade with a drawbridge gate and water moat
>goblin ambushes can't do jack shit
>fast forward to a siege later on
>goblins ride on giant Cave Swallows and fly over my walls
>defenders get annhilated

DF freezes when i am about to embark. I select site, dwarf skills and items and click e, then it just freezes and nothing happens for minutes.

>>107131157
It's not freezing, it's hanging. How good is your computer?

>>107131314

Amd X2 2.8 ghz, 3.2 gig 800 mb ram, Radeon 6850

Thanks to whoever linked me to this thread.

So, I'm about to assault the lair of a Dragon with 18 soldiers. My character doesn't have a shield, am I fucked if the dragon breathes fire? Also, does anyone want me to stream it?

>>107131564
get a shield. the dragon will burn you to death yes.

preferably six shields

>>107131790
Fuck that shit, I'll slash it in two.

Oh boy here we go.

>First few days of dwarf fortress
>Make an embark in an area with a waterfall, my first time seeing mist, but I've seen in these threads that mist makes dorfs happy
>Mine into hillside, make meeting area right down by the base of the waterfall with the wall opened up
>Try to make well, have room set out and everything, time to designate to build
>"Autist McArchitect has cancelled build, blocked by hippo"
>WAT
>Look in the z level containing well, a whole family of fucking hippos is derping away in the place I designated for the well, and now that the water is in the room, I can't send anyone in there to evict their asses
>Allright, I'll try with a different room, on the other side of the river
>Mine it out, hippo autists haven't moved into the room yet, quickly designate for the well to be built
>Not even joking, fucking immediately after,
>"Hippo has given birth to hippo calves"
>OHNOYOUFUCKINGDONT.jpg
>"Autist McArchitect has cancelled build, blocked by hippo calf
>Fort has no water or booze because my farmer/brewer would do nothing but plant seeds, couldn't bother to even construct the still
>A month later, everyone starts dropping dead due to thirst
>The fucking autist dorfs didn't even tantrum before they died because they were so happy derping about in the mist

I love this game. Seeing greentext stories on /v/ is what made me decide to dedicate my time towards learning how to play it, and it, along with the countless hours I've spent playing since I learned have been well worth it.

>>107132321
A grate in the water will keep out random wildlife.

>>107132047
Well that was easy, went something like this.