The easter tsardom (TS) has a succession game going on right now, if you would like to join in the fun PM me.Anyone doing a AAR on it?
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Lol @ that weapon value, it will attract massive armies of enemies to rape the dwarves.
On the other hand, that weapon will rape any enemy :D . If I had to guess, I'd say a spear like that would do about 10-16 times the damage compared to a normal quality iron spear. :P
For pasture just use the zone? I haven't had any problems with it wether indoors or outdoors. Although I have noticed sometimes one of the pastured animals will try to make a break for it and start running all over the place and a dwarf will automatically be dispatched to put him back in the pasture.
I got tired of having to mantain grazing herds above ground on one of my forts so just dug a huge indoor garden, breached the caverns and waited for the grass/fungus to grow everywhere before moving the whole operation there (was mostly a test fort to see which animal would be best as far as food and wool source for textile industry).
....Use burrows and alarms. The classic 1 dwarf gets stucks outside, dies, then every single dwarf in the fortress rushes out to grab his socks is something I only experienced once before I decided to learn how to use them. Also yes, slaughter all pets that you didn't personally assign. As long as it doesn't push them over the edge one bad thought from pet death is easily countered.
Also, I almost never use a meeting room these days. As a result most of my dwarves have no friends, passing aquaintances at best. If you get unlucky and some popular "I'm friends with everyone" dwarf happens to die at the wrong time it's usually tantrum spiral for the entire fort.
Well you're free to try and play your Fortress as a candy and gumdrops fairyland if you like. When the last dwarf gets chopped to pieces by invading goblins, imagine me saying "I told you so".
Anyways, if you want to get really fascist, I also have a state-sponsored breeding program to create super soldier. It mostly entails separating the child from the mother and chucking him in a 1x1 pit filled with dogs and cats, all burrowed on that one tile along with a stack of masterwork roasts for food, meaning they constantly attack each other. So far the kids all have good fighting/dodging, are covered in scars and "don't really care about anything anymore". I took the idea straight from the forums so I can't take credit for the sickness of it XD.
Oh and the vast majority of my dwarves live in disgusting opulence. At least 3x3 rooms for singles, 5x5 rooms with 3x3 dining rooms for families. Bunch of gold furniture, engraved walls, etc.
Yeh the danger rooms are just exploity. No fun. And anyways they're not super soldiers per say cause still susceptible to tantruming. Then you have a potentially insane killing machine let loose inside your fort, which probably will trigger the other killing machines into madness, end fort. Soldiers are alrdy the most likely to tantrum, especially if you keep em training constantly throughout the year, which gives a "was furious about long patrol duty recently" line always present. If they socialized a lot and have many friends, and a few of em happen to die in a digging collapse...
Also, I almost never use a meeting room these days. As a result most of my dwarves have no friends, passing aquaintances at best. If you get unlucky and some popular "I'm friends with everyone" dwarf happens to die at the wrong time it's usually tantrum spiral for the entire fort.
Dwarf Fortress sounds awesome.
That's because it is awesome. Complexity of this game will make your head explode. I always enjoyed such games.
That's because it is awesome. Complexity of this game will make your head explode. I always enjoyed such games.
just to know : what's the best adventure mod or fortress mod?The fortress component is far better fleshed out at the moment. Adventure mode is fun to goof around in for a little while, primarily because of the hilariously brutal combat system.
HOW DA FUCK THIS ISHT WORKS!?
Shit is crazy!
I'm so fucking boss,i got fucked up by some Cursed Ash Cloud,now i'm a cursed bitch,i don't need rest,food and drink,i'm brutally cutting people un 2 parts,noone can stop me,already slaughtered people in 2 villages,and tons of goblins and bogeymen,damn i gotta love this cloud... the only problem is that EVERYONE wants to kill me, but they just can't do that.
I feel like boss.
well, you built a bridge with nothing to go over!
dig my coffee friend dig!
(je crois que c'est ça le problème, t'as un pont mais ils peuvent passer parce que le pont est au même niveau.)
Bridges should block when raised even if it doesnt cover a hole. I did a whole seaside fort with locked seagates and canals using raiseable bridges. Did you build it to retract or raise to the left? There is no retract directions, it's just plain retract and it makes the bridge dissapear.
Been playing this for two days, after having watched the same video tutorials as Kafein, and have run into some problems. I can't seem to find out how to get my war dogs to guard an area, can't get them to attack an enemy by command either, which is a problem since they are my defence in the early game.
Is there a way to prioritize jobs? Some tasks that are really important seem to take forever.
I have a succession game on the go with a few guys, Its is a war-hammer mod so plenty of enemy's. I was looking for some others to join us in the game. Also Phobeus graphic pack.
What is this warhammer mod? I never heard of that.
*Edit*
its based on orcs, chaos humans etc. so think of warhammer/dawn of war.
Right here!
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5268
Is there a way to prioritize jobs? Some tasks that are really important seem to take forever.
I usually put war dogs on ropes(b-v then assign a dog after its build) to have them guard a spot. Usually they only function as thief/ambush spotter and arrow magnets, slowing down invaders and diverting their attention so the military has a bit more time to get ready.
My fort at the moment has about 150 dwarfs and over 50 of them are children which sucks.
Seems that there's a Dwarf Fortress rip-off (http://gnomoria.com/) coming out with fancy, stonesense-like graphics.
visitors can't see pics , please register or loginFuck yeah!
I love reading stories about people's forts. I got this game on two separate occasions and couldn't get over the UI (see: fucking none) I am now content to read the stories and laugh my ass off. :P