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  Jack the Lad posted:This got lost a few pages back. Would anyone mind pointing me towards a semi-recent guide, ideally not in ascii? There's this, although it uses the version before DF2012. It's been so long since 31.25/34.01 came out that I forget exactly what changed between them. You might have to go through http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.34:Tutorials and see which ones work for you.
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Jack the Lad posted:This got lost a few pages back. Would anyone mind pointing me towards a semi-recent guide, ideally not in ascii? This is an excellent play-along guide that myself and many others used to get started. It's for an old version, but the basics are the same.
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I started out with Bentgirder myself. Doesn't drown you in information, it tells you to do things and then explains why. The tutorial map itself is formatted for v31.18, but you can find that in the old version archive if you so wish.
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Jul 13, 2014 23:13
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I genned a world that had an "Age of Slum" and got really confused. Turns out that's just the name of some forest titan.
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Jul 13, 2014 23:23
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I don't understand quests in adventure mode. A lord tells me of nearby bandits. I go to their camp, behead the commander & troops, then claim the site as my own. I return to the lord and tell of my exploits, he just blankly states that it was inevitable. How do I close out the quest? Is it possible that I didn't kill all of the gang, since the camp still shows on the map?
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WhenInRome posted:There's this. It's not updated to DF2014 yet, but that doesn't really matter because the update didn't add anything significant to fortress mode. GorfZaplen posted:There's this, although it uses the version before DF2012. It's been so long since 31.25/34.01 came out that I forget exactly what changed between them. You might have to go through http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.34:Tutorials and see which ones work for you. Theodyn posted:This is an excellent play-along guide that myself and many others used to get started. It's for an old version, but the basics are the same. scamtank posted:I started out with Bentgirder myself. Doesn't drown you in information, it tells you to do things and then explains why. The tutorial map itself is formatted for v31.18, but you can find that in the old version archive if you so wish. Thank you all, guys - I'll give those a look. The flowchart to happy dwarves on the wiki looks especially handy. Jack the Lad fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Jul 13, 2014 |
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Despite the crashes (unable to enter the one large dwarf fortress), I'm enjoying adventure mode for the first time ever. I'm travelling around a world where a small goblin army - led by a humanoid megabeast and his mate - with Elf and Dwarf recruits - are circling a large Dwarven settlement, many inhabitants of which have fled and now reside in the various lairs that surround the area (pretty cool even if it's a bug??) My travelling companion, a nomadic lasher whose only grievance is the fighting between something and something before time began, appears to be very highly strung and will either flee or attack every encounter. Often both. We've just stormed a Dark Tower, only to find it already overrun by a friendly Troll army. Nevertheless we persevered to the top, only to find a hound-like megabeast who goes by the name of The Master. I was scratched - through the lung - sent flying into the far wall, where my head exploded into gore. Game owns. Is bronze armour the highest tier found lying around the world? I haven't yet come across anything besides that and copper. I'm considering creating a fort simply to kit my next adventurer out, but i'd prefer it if there was a less cheaty way.
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Jack the Lad posted:Thank you all, guys - I'll give those a look. The flowchart to happy dwarves on the wiki looks especially handy. That flowchart is fantastic, I used it and it really helps manage the chaos as you work through each node through an utterly unintuitive UI where every separate thing is done just a little bit differently from the others. In addition to the guides linked, I found it helpful to play along to a video like 51ppycup or Captnduck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g_SaPQpKbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHVZtRdtPdo just because reading, for instance, the worldgen screen versus seeing a guy navigate it on video while talking you through it step by step and explaining what's beeing seen where and when and why is very different.
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delboy posted:Is bronze armour the highest tier found lying around the world? I haven't yet come across anything besides that and copper. I'm considering creating a fort simply to kit my next adventurer out, but i'd prefer it if there was a less cheaty way. You can find iron fairly regularly, particularly if you reduce mineral scarcity in worldgen.
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I made an embark to a great spot and as soon as I arrive, caverns start collapsing. It's been collapsing FOREVER. The proficient miners could only get through two squares of SAND before I am alerted and zoomed to where a cavern I cannot see is collapsing. Over and over. Had to retire it because drat.
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holy gently caress how long does it take to 'update the world' when you select adventure mode?
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 I haven't played in awhile and this may be normal now, but all the pre-generated cities keep stacking up adjacent to each other. Just seems like a lot of urban sprawl and I don't recall this happening so thought it might be a bug.
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Man its good to see that it can still rain purple goo that melts your dwarves.
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Verviticus posted:holy gently caress how long does it take to 'update the world' when you select adventure mode? Depends on how big your world is. On my Small map it takes 20 seconds, I heard anything on Medium or larger is unbearable.
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PhantomZero posted:
Do you mean the dwarf fortresses? Right now that's just worldgen using the same symbol for big cities as for small hillocks - it's the same system as human hamlets in the last version.
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I mean, really. Even just 250-300 years of history in a Small region is roomy enough that you'll never run out of details.
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my dad posted:You can find iron fairly regularly, particularly if you reduce mineral scarcity in worldgen. You know it didn't actually occur to me that mineral scarcity would have that level of impact during the world generation. But of course it does! Clearly I'm forgetting what it is I'm actually playing. This game man, this game.
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As much as I love tunneling through vast expanses of dirt and featureless rock, I'll never understand anyone who sets mineral occurrence to anything less than 'frequent' on worldgen.
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Does someone have a nice map with some magnetite on it for Masterwork? Trying to gen a world with iron is driving me insane. edit: "Simple minerals" removes two out of three iron ores. What the gently caress. No wonder no Masterwork world ever genned iron. Average Bear fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Are all reclaimed Dwarf Fortress the same? Just miles of tunnels with doors and metalsmiths forges and statues? vv -Post buddies
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Is it normal for reclaimed sites to be full of forges? This place seems to be full of empty rooms, statues and forges. At least I can melt down some anvils if I don't find iron.
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I don't think you guys give Toady One enough credit coding this game. It would be a nightmare to keep up with all of the tiny details. I was just thinking of how I would simply handle speech responses based on a player's stats and encounters, and that alone gives me the creeps. He's done a good job, and I have no idea how he finds solutions to the bugs in his game so quickly. From what I've seen from interviews, he's a pretty intelligent person, PhD in Math, coding since five-years-old. He may be unorthodox, but he might be the Jimi Hendrix of coding, for all we know. I'm surprised the game isn't a lot slower than it is, even if it is only single threaded.
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'h' key to grab onto something, but you need to have one or both hands free in order to climb. Once you've grabbed on, you use the regular movement keys and it will give you options on whether to ascend or descend as you move.
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Peewi posted:Is it normal for reclaimed sites to be full of forges? This place seems to be full of empty rooms, statues and forges. At least I can melt down some anvils if I don't find iron. They are using Anvils instead of iron chairs for some reason. How hosed up is this games code and why does whatever sentience it have love Iron Chairs? Always with the Iron Chair bugs.
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pixaal posted:They are using Anvils instead of iron chairs for some reason. How hosed up is this games code and why does whatever sentience it have love Iron Chairs? Always with the Iron Chair bugs. You mean like the 2010 bug where chickens were laying chairs instead of eggs. At least I think that was the 2010 patch.
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Remember that bug where deconstructing walls teleports stuff around? Yeah, that's back.
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NiknudStunod posted:You mean like the 2010 bug where chickens were laying chairs instead of eggs. At least I think that was the 2010 patch. It was geese. Lay egg was not true.
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That was version 31.20. It didn't last very long as the current release.
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I hope Toady makes stuff more aggressive soon. I kind of feel bad about killing all these trolls. It feels like I'm massacring giant cuddly teddy bears
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quote:go baby! This appeared in my error log. I haven't the faintest idea what it could possibly mean.
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GenericOverusedName posted:Remember that bug where deconstructing walls teleports stuff around? Yeah, that's back.
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Internet Kraken posted:This appeared in my error log. I haven't the faintest idea what it could possibly mean. I also have this maybe it has to do with cleaning up excessive babies from the last patch? I have some followed by numbers that aren't zero it goes down after clean on the next go baby! sometimes but not on all instances of clean. It goes from 0 to 36 to 40 to 39 to 38 of the course of 217 lines of "errors" the only other error is path fail: raven,118,77,167 -> 103,58,184: Id #423:Path Goal Flee from Opponent:Station Owner at 127,86,184 Which seems normal to me.
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GorfZaplen posted:I hope Toady makes stuff more aggressive soon. I kind of feel bad about killing all these trolls. It feels like I'm massacring giant cuddly teddy bears I recruited a couple of goblins in adventure mode, and they randomly turned on me and fought to the death.
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Future of the Fortress reply today, excerpt:quote:
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Tenebrais posted:Do you mean the dwarf fortresses? Right now that's just worldgen using the same symbol for big cities as for small hillocks - it's the same system as human hamlets in the last version. No i mean the dwarf fortresses and elven retreats, they are all adjacent to each other. When embarking they are big squares right next to each other. Is it normal for the civilizations to build towns so close together?
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