Met posted:

Turtlicious posted:

Hempuli posted:

nutranurse posted:

The moment Toady adds in any kind of mechanic where you can have ownership over other sentient creatures the DF mod forums are gonna get real ugly real fast.

Archonex posted:

One of the only threads to get locked for being too horrible apparently was closed and deleted because someone modded in genitalia so they could simulate raping people in adventurer mode.

VerdantSquire posted:

I think a big part of the "too much stuff" problem is also how many different kinds of stuff that you eventually accumulate. IIRC, you can have two functionally identical sets of wool shirts, but if one shirt is made of sheep wool and the other is made of troll wool, they have to be tracked as two complete different items, even if the statistical difference is utterly negligible. I honestly believe that Toady should make an attempt to really simplify the thousand and one different kinds of materials into simple "Wood", "Leather", and "Cloth" resources. Or at the very least, do it by dividing them into Low-Quality, Average-Quality, and High-Quality versions if you really want to keep an eye on the difference between lovely cheap wood or first-rate quality timber, just so long as it's a difference that actually matters. Seriously, nobody gives a poo poo about what particular race of a species that a piece of leather is made from. The only variations that Dwarf Fortress should be tracking are the ones that would actually affect a player's decision or can actually change poo poo in world gen history, because continuing to track trivial stuff isn't really viable if you also want the game to remain playable, especially once Toady starts to try his hand at more advanced item tracking.

Nietzschean posted:

Speaking of other games! Can we get a list of DF-alikes? Gnomeria, AKA "Gnome Fortress" is the closest to the overall feel of DF that I have seen so far, but Rimworld is also good and there are others. On the topic of Rimworld, I just watched the first episode of some random youtuber's LP series of the new build and it's looking pretty

Nietzschean posted:

I guess I am just too dumb to get it? I see ASCII-like tilesets such as CFA and Geoduck, which require me to look at things like division operators and other punctuation marks, and I see graphical tilesets such as Phoebus and Spacefox which show me barrels and doors. GemSet looks like the former. If it is somehow special in a way that those are not, I do not see it. I'm not trying to be facetious; I am assuming there is something obvious that I am missing but I have no idea what or how to see it.

Airconswitch posted:

edit:never mind

stephenfry posted:

can anyone get me an account token for dwarffortresswiki.org?

e: nice bannable 0content responses, my question stands. At least explain how I am dumb for asking for a registration token on a related wiki that posters here probably already have accounts on.
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ee: hah no I see, gently caress me for using a non-desktop user agent. consider yourself unpsyducked. Let my pusillanimous failure stand as testament of use to pretty much no-one.

Gus Hobbleton posted:

This is a yak wool sweater. On it is a covering of vomit. In the vomit is the remnants of ☼mom's spaghetti☼

necrotic posted:

LNP comes with mouse support on by default, I think. And you can't view outside your embark area, so I don't know what your problem there is. Do you mean its stuck in the lower right corner and you can't go up or to the left?

Lareine posted:

I like rivers. They have a source of shells. Also an infinite source of water without having to deal with aquifers.

PublicOpinion posted:

My lazy strategy is to try and have all my bases covered in the first couple migrant waves and then just let new arrivals do whatever. If I notice something is taking too long to happen I activate the relevant labor on the first idle dwarf I see.

Gibbo posted:

It's a little unintuitive how you've had a membership since at least 2012 and still double post multiple times a day.

EthanSteele posted:

Speaking of!! I tried making marksdwarf squads and doing the "make a uniform, then make a squad and give them the uniform and then they'll get ammo" thing and they still won't practice in the archery range! Dang it

hbag posted:

idk if its just me but doing poo poo like this just feels like... ruining the point of the game

ChickenWing posted:

I had a child claim a craftsdwarfs workshop ages ago (no idea actually how long). He's asking for rough gems, cut gems, wood, rock, cloth, and metal bars. So far he has accumulated one iron bar, one unit of hematite, one cut gem, one log, zero rough gems, and about a jillion units of wool cloth. Can I do anything about this, or is he doomed to sleep contened upon the world's hugest pile of cloth until the end of his days (which may come about sooner than expected at this point )?

e: to be clear, I have surplus of everything he's asking for, unforbidden, and a variety of plant and silk cloth

ChickenWing posted:

Naturally, right after asking this I was able to google the right combination of words and found an old-rear end bug that's still hanging around in some fashion. Basically, your moody dwarf can claim something that they're not allowed to have, for some reason (in my case, I think it might have been that I stopped letting children do chores?), and then they'll just keep grabbing everything that's not that while they wait for the item to become accessible.

Tea Party Crasher posted:

Oh that's interesting, going from a game that you couldn't play with a mouse at all (at least as far as I remember) to one where you need it.

This is good insight, thank you. Especially going the extra mile with the hack devs, I'll definitely do that

Griddle of Love posted:

The answer to this is going to have to be arbitrary. I'd almost recommend rethinking the question altogether, and figuring out what kind of a challenge you want, because it sounds like you would like to have a bit of a challenge to figure out how well you can roll with what DF can throw at you.

frytechnician posted:

And now, as of last week, Tarn said the following about senior management in game companies:

"They can all eat poo poo, I think they’re horrible, and I think they’re bad people."

In short, the more I find out about the game and the devs, the more pleased I am with my purchase.

PC Gamer Article posted:

"Three to four years from now, what are [Dwarf Fortress] sales looking like?" pondered Adams in a chat with PCG, "What kind of decisions do we have to make [with] burn rates and all that stuff?" Considering the possibility of making those hard decisions some day down the line, Tarn wondered if the experience would give him "more empathy for the people that lay people off.

"No, I don't f***ing think so," he concluded. "They can all eat s***, I think they're horrible, and I think they're bad people."

Which is a pretty definitive statement all by itself, but Adams continued: "These decisions, they don't sound practical. They sound like they're driven by greedy, greedy people trying to make some kind of venture capital thing work out.

"There is this stench of rot at the top of things where the reasons people get laid off is because of funding structures and bad incentives and stupidity," said Adams, damning execs for firing people "that they shouldn't fire because their company will fall apart, but I guess maybe that helps someone's bottom line somewhere or gets the right air inside the right golden parachute."

[...]

But for now, Tarn and Zach Adams say it's full-steam ahead with DF's development and incoming Adventure Mode update, which hits this April. "[We're] still fundamentally excited about what's possible, and not feeling encumbered ourselves by any of that… we're gonna keep shining the light forward, and hopefully continuing to inspire people."

darthbob88 posted:

Things and knowledge, yeah. If my dwarfs can learn to domesticate elk birds or the like, I should be able to send them to the mountainhome and buy elk birds in my next fortress.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Wait, you can retire your fort to run itself now? That's amazing, actual incentive to keep playing the same world and just stop a fort and start a new one when you get bored of it.

cheetah7071 posted:

my understanding is that if you tell a squad to station somewhere, they'll feel free to chase enemies anywhere, but try to return to that point whenever they're not fighting. If you tell them to defend a burrow, they will not leave that burrow for any reason other than because they're about to starve or dehydrate