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Post by D on Jul 23, 2010 11:29:48 GMT 10
So, before I go about actually posting the nonsense, I'd like to get your folks' opinion: Would you give a damn watching me build a crazy fort, with your inputs/blueprints? Those who don't know about dwarf fortress: It's about dwarves. In a fortress. But no lol. It's actually one of the most detailed and incredibly intricate simulation games and it's technically still an alpha. but, to tell you... your dwarves can be: miners doctors carpenters brokers traders weavers stillers blacksmiths axedwarves macedwarves..... And waaaaaaaaay too many jobs to list. But: This is a game where it is possible to watch combat unfold on the cellular level of damage, where one dwarf can take out 30 goblins on his own, where dwarves can (and will) be killed brutally by carp, and where all sorts of weird crazy KIPPERS happens all the time. To pique interest, I send you to; df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page And for an example let's play and what crazy KIPPERS you can make in DF, i send you the best Lets Play of all time: BOATMURDERED. lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/intro.html Let me know what you think. I have the first year of posts ready to go. |
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Post by I, Farmer on Jul 23, 2010 19:16:15 GMT 10
Heh. I just found out about that game yesterday.
Yeah, go ahead with it. It'll be interesting to see if it's worth pulling the packages over to my BASH terminal in order to play it.
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Post by stupid hos is my enemy on Jul 24, 2010 4:34:40 GMT 10
What the fuck, Farmer. Can you not just say "I'll give it a shot and see if it's worth playing" without having to imply that you have a clear, close-up view of your large intestine in the same sentance? I mean, fuck sake.
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Post by iBishyT on Jul 25, 2010 1:28:47 GMT 10
What the f uck, Farmer. Can you not just say "I'll give it a shot and see if it's worth playing" without having to imply that you have a clear, close-up view of your large intestine in the same sentance? I mean, f uck sake. Yes he's annoying, but there's no need to pop a blood vessel over it. |
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Post by Admiral Mundane on Jul 25, 2010 1:35:52 GMT 10
What the f uck, Farmer. Can you not just say "I'll give it a shot and see if it's worth playing" without having to imply that you have a clear, close-up view of your large intestine in the same sentance? I mean, f uck sake. Yes he's annoying, but there's no need to pop a blood vessel over it. Pop a blood vessel? Compared to other posts Fade's made, this one is fairly calm. Ontopic: Yeah, go for it, D. |
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Post by D on Jul 25, 2010 2:17:00 GMT 10
Fair nuff. I'll start formatting the post tonight and have it up before bed.
Mind you, the first year's fairly boring. other than some neat blueprint ideas, there was literally nothing that really happened.
However, this is just the beginning.
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Post by The Pletch on Jul 30, 2010 14:03:34 GMT 10
What the f uck, Farmer. Can you not just say "I'll give it a shot and see if it's worth playing" without having to imply that you have a clear, close-up view of your large intestine in the same sentance? I mean, f uck sake. Yes he's annoying, but there's no need to pop a blood vessel over it. Telling Fade to calm down is like asking a hurricane to ease up on the wind a little. Also, with the recent release of DF2010, the game has one of the most detailed medical systems in existence. Each segment of a creature's body (down to individual digits, IE fingers and toes) has three layers of flesh: skin, fat, and muscle, each of which can be burned, pierced, severed, etc. separately. And dwarven doctors and surgeons have ways to fix every. Single. One. |
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Post by I, Farmer on Jul 30, 2010 21:56:45 GMT 10
Get really angry.
Aye, just had a play with it. It's damn good.
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Post by Geewoody on Aug 19, 2010 8:11:09 GMT 10
failbump because I'm confused
I've been trying to get into this game recently and I have a really stupid question. How do I keep my food stores pumped up? Farms don't really seem to yield anything, and in my current game migrants just stopped by and polished off my food reserves. I am currently waiting to see how long they can survive on a diet of pure booze.
EDIT: And the migrants refuse to do any work. AND according to the announcements a cat has just adopted one of my dwarf children. I am so confused.
EDIT EDIT: Just realized I had to assign jobs to the migrants... *facepalm*
EDIT EDIT EDIT: nvm, they're still being useless
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Post by The Pletch on Aug 20, 2010 4:31:09 GMT 10
When you create a farm, select it by putting the cursor over it in the [q] menu, then tell them to plant plump helmets by pressing enter over that option. That's your standard "food" crop. If you used the standard start-up haul, you should have some plump helmet spawn left over from when your dwarves devoured the entire stock of them. Chefs can then make said helmets last longer by cooking.
You can also build a butcher's workshop to kill and cut up animals, which can then be cooked (their bones can be used for training bolts for archers).
Migrants won't do crap until they've been there for a little while, and even then you have to assign them specific jobs. All they'll do until then is haul crap.
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Post by Geewoody on Aug 20, 2010 9:50:41 GMT 10
HRRRRM, are you using the newest vs.? Below ground farms require mud now, which has been goddamn ridiculous for me (maybe im doin it wrong), but I did get some decent farms going by sending out hordes of dwarves to gather plants on a daily basis to build up my seed stocks. And um... Butchery... How exactly do I get a good supply of domestic animals and hunters? I got a hunter once, which I think worked because he already happened to have a crossbow and quiver. (if I don't bother to arm them and have weps in stock will they grab one on their own? Do they even need a specific weapon?) Unfortunately, I think he wondered off and died.
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Post by The Pletch on Aug 20, 2010 11:52:05 GMT 10
I'm pretty sure farms still work if you build them in a soil layer (usually the first one or two layers down). If not, you can get animals by assigning dwarves to be trappers and/or setting up cage traps outside. Elves are also known to bring a couple for trade with their caravans.
If all else fails, get two cats (one of each gender), wait a year, harvest the resulting sea of kittens.
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Post by D on Aug 20, 2010 12:11:43 GMT 10
*Wrong wrong wrong wrong~~~*
All farms below ground must be irrigated and become muddy soil. All farms above ground automatically work and grow above ground crops.
Honestly, butchering that many kittens in the newer versions will result in a mass overflow of miasma as you simply do not have enough haulers to keep up with the massive influx of cat meat, skin, kidneys, livers, hearts, brains....you get the idea.
Kill like one or two donkeys. you'll have about 50 food from that alone. Also, fishers. Two to three, and one fish cleaner, provides a steady influx.
Oh, also herbalists.
Another good way, my personal favorite, is to request every single food type in the game from merchants at max priority, and then trade them a large series of useless but valuable crap (see, gemmed crafts) for massive stockpiles of food and booze. FindersKeepers had well over 20 game years of food during its fall if it just up and stopped all production of food.
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Post by Geewoody on Aug 20, 2010 12:38:37 GMT 10
Yep thanks, I basically got it now. Unfortunately, I set weapons and picks for high priority with the first trader for some stupid reason. (and some cows, yay!) I have INSANE amounts of gems and gold for later use though. Time to prepare some traps and soldiers... (and possibly find a nice cavern to "exterminate" and make half decent farms in) I'm having a hard time finding craft-able metal at the time being, though. Sent out miners in all different directions in an act of desperation.
SIDE NOTE:
My gem cutter trained his cat to take out his refuse. Sweet jesus.
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Post by The Pletch on Aug 20, 2010 14:18:56 GMT 10
i demand to know how this is done
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