Dwarf Fortress

So I found out, Ogres are able to breach doors. Yes, I didn't knew that... Fortunately, I had a dragon. I caught him and was preparing to build him a golden Chamber. He now roams free again. I lost all but two survivors. Wish them luck.

aka. The Massacre of Kinsack.

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Some migrants came to visit. The bad news hadn't spread yet. Together they tried to slay the seriously injured dragon. They all died.

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A story I love sharing from an older version of the game and unfortunately the only one that I kept track of as I was left stunned at the result.

A forgotten beast Cyclops decided to pay my dwarven city a visit, so I sound the call to seal the city as I let the hunters act as a vanguard to get my dwarves inside. Unfortunately, the cyclops makes quick work of them and I only just started getting my military in order after getting my iron production started.

So here I quickly assign one of the early recruits to the role of Captain of the Guard, in the role of delaying the foul beast while I scramble to get a militia going to drive it off.

Little did I expect for this single dwarf to not only stand up to the cyclops in single combat but brutally kill it too.

I know cylcops are fairly low on the danger scale, but still to watch and read the logs as this greenbeard dwarf digs into a forgotten beast like I am reading a God of War fanfic was glorious.

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Hi, on a regularly basis I start a new game and leave my old site abondoned. They annoying part was always to redo the most basic work orders. Finally, I wrote a primitive bash script, which uses xdotool to add those work orders. It does have some drawbacks, it can only handle the first 17 items with conditions. After that, only adding new ones is possible, xdotool is not able to scroll down the window. One is able to change the coordinates of the buttons to be clicked, simply inside the script. Also it works in Linux only.

Maybe it is of use for someone else.

I've had some really weird artifacts made in the past, but I think this one takes the cake just by the choice of item alone.

Bonus artifact description:

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This is the coolest corpse/refuse disposal system I've built yet. A couple stockpiles collect the garbage, and the mine cart pulls from those. When it's full, a citizen pushes it down the track to be dumped in a nearby lava lake!

Not your average goblin thief

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In the year 131, King Pangolin Ushrirvod the 1st of that name, of the Kingdom of Paperprice of the Hoary Channels, decreed the making of two figurines and a wooden crossbow. King Pangolin loved figurines and crossbows, as the storeroom was full of decreed figurines and crossbows, and the king also banned the export of said figurines and crossbows. He went to the stores every day, counting figurines and crossbows.

It so happened that Prince Akumunol Caughtmountains, eldest of King Pangolin's sons, was at that time completing his apprenticeship in Figuremaking under the craftsdwarf Master Katumrith Speakerbells. The prince had a love for stork leather, and leatherworking was his passion from a young age. However, due to his father having an unhealthy interest in figurines, was pressed into learning Figuremaking, as all dwarves (even Princes) is required to learn a proper dwarvish craft.

Due to some underhanded political maneuvering by the Kings political enemies, spearheaded by Vole Titlethsigun, Mayor of Paperprice, the mandated time of completion for this batch of figurines was missed, and the King had no choice but to incarcerate his son in the dungeon. Tied with the Legendary Silver Chain "Voldiksis", in the presence of 20 caged goblins, the prince spent his nights singing softly to himself enduring the taunts of the goblins.

It so happened, in that same year, the goblins laid seige to Paperprice, and demanded release of the goblins caught cruelly in traps by the clever dwarves. The King denied this request, and war broke out. In the first wave of attacks on the city, King Pangolin was slain, and his son, Prince Akumunol became king. He had to complete a further 27 days in the dungeon before he could be officially crowned king, so from his dungeon he successfully orchestrated the defeat of the goblins, even though it cost the lives of over 100 dwarves, more than half the population of Paperprice.

King Pangolin was laid to rest, with a exceptional gabbro stone memorial, reading: "In Memory of Pangolin Ushrirvod, Born 71, Bled to death, slain by the Goblin Stasost Juiceseduced in Kok Ukas, "The Assaults of Cremating" in the year 131, king of the Hoary Channels, 110 to 131, Loving Father and Husband, United with Giant white stork leather."

And King Akumunol banned figurines, immediately decreeing the construction of Leather ornamental bags and hoods.

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As the title states. I don't want him to get into the fortress so I have to painstakingly lock the doors to keep him from entering. I don't care if he's locked up in the fortress I just don't him around my dwarves.

So yeah, this actually happened to me. I have still to continue on this save file.

I mean check this shit out. This is prase!

!And this is Prase Opal!

And this (above) is Prase Opal!

Title really says it all. I am a new player. Every time I try starting a fortress and I get to an underlying cave.

I start a farming plot. Set them to plant plump helmets only for all seasons. I make sure they (my dwarves) don't use the spawn as cooking material. And still they seem to be harvesting them without getting any new or extra seeds back in return.

What gives? Am I forgetting something here?

just that, I was wandering :)

So, I just dealt with a kobold thief and of course he escaped. I read somewhere that to avoid thieves best thing is to "chain a tamed animal" to the entrance... only problem is I have no idea how to do that. Any advice? Thanks!

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Thought I'd lay a trap....

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Caught quite a few!

So I've been under the impression that locked doors could not be destroyed.

My mistake became apparent as the doors leading in from the caverns started to started to fail!

The next locked doors lead to the clown cages......

Today I learned about the Ages:

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Calendar#Ages

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10753570

> Hello all. I'm not sure how to phrase my question, so bear with me. > > Is there a way in DF to slow down how fast it dishes out events? I find myself being overwhelmed by the events as they occur, and not being able to catch up on resolving them. > > For example, if I'm working on resolving the ramifications of event A, and event B happens. Then when I just start working on event B, event C happens. And before I'm done with event B, event D happens as well, etc. > > Everything from when dwarves get unhappy, to new arrivals, to when attacks happen, etc. > > Basically, I'm feeling piled on and cannot get out from under the pile. > > Another way of asking the question, can any trigger time threshold on the in-game calendar be slid out into the future for all events, like at a slower 2x or 3x rate? For example, instead of the check for new arrivals happening every year, have the check/arrivals happen every second or third year, etc.

I read on the wiki that discoveries are kind of pointless right now but this is very cool. I didn't know my dwarves could further knowledge in their societies, I like this a lot, even for just role play.

So... I just hit magma... bah... I looked for it! I dug like 150 levels until I got some warm, and now I realize I have no idea what to do with it. Any advice on how to handle the thing? Thanks!

Hello everyone, I’ve seen a lot of my friends play these types of games (mainly rimworld) and saw the complexity of this game and decided to pick it up. While it is very interesting, it’s also very daunting to me.

My guess is that I’m more used to rpg and fps games with a set goal of some sort whereas this game is very open ended with what to do. I am overwhelmed by all of the options in the game and I am wondering if there are others that feel the same. If so, how have you overcome this feeling or learned to enjoy the game?

An idea I have is to just go with the in game tutorials and see what happens without worrying about the outcome, maybe I’m caught up with doing everything optimally when I should just enjoy the experience.

Any ideas are appreciated, thanks!

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It was quite the battle.

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And it just gets worse. I tried to wait them out, but even when they left a few stayed behind, lurking in the treetops:

!Undead trees

I knocked over one tree with a ballista, and those creatures left voluntarily. I took about thirty casualties clearing out the second tree.

A year later, the horde returns, and right now I'm ignoring them because there's lots of work inside the fortress that needs done, and I've got a decent tree farm up and going. I'm thinking it's time for Operation FTW, but I'll have to wait until they leave to set up it for the inevitable third return.

Obviously giant creature war breeding is the goal. Any great candidates that are from good biomes for taming?

Do cavern invaders still cause save corruption/become completely unmanageable?

Also since it's been a long time I'm thinking of setting a lower population limit and taking my time. Do any of you have recommended settings for enemy invasions etc based in a ~50 dwarf cap?

They regret nothing!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/8294127

> This episode we talk about version 50.11 of Dwarf Fortress, and 50.11-r2 of DF Hack.

And any tips for potentially improving it?

I'm currently getting about 45 FPS with ~115 dwarfs. (limited to 150 max)

My world world was generated with 250 years history and has 1 fort that I retired after 6 years or so. 4x4 embark.

45 FPS is fine to play but it drops quickly after too many more dwarfs rock up.

Tip: If you have visitors wandering around your base, you can go under the knowledge task to see what all books they've read in their lifetime and what kind of books they are. That way, you can search for somewhat unusual types like novels, chronicles, cultural histories, biographies, autobiographies, dictionaries, dialogues, and etc.

I really wish this functionality was on the written objects screen. Right now you just have to go off of the title. This work, unfortunately, wasn't written in my fortress and we don't have a copy of it, either. That said, I do have a pair of autobiographies and some cultural histories.

What I would like to do is figure out a way to reliably make dwarves produce biographies. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how. The only requirement that I know of for a dwarf to produce a biography is knowledge of the biography topic, which can be obtained either from them reading a book on the subject (easy) to discovering it themselves (very, very hard and random). After that, I don't know if they have to be assigned to a library or not to actually produce the biography.

That sounds simple, but the thing is that dwarves are practically-minded. They seem to prefer to write manuals and guides about topics they know than novels, biographies, and etc. What if you had a dwarf that knew only of biographies and of no other topics, though? They might write one guide on the subject of writing biographies, but will they stop writing guides after that and start writing biographies?

The problem is, once you have a big library, dwarves tend to swarm it and learn about all the topics. It's hard to pick and dwarf that's "unpolluted," so to speak, and I suspect that if they've avoided the library that much, they'll be poor biographers anyway.

One idea I've had is the Dwarven Monastery. We take kids that just turned 18, which haven't had a chance to read books yet, and slap them in a private, sealed off room with writing materials, food, and drink. Toss in a bookshelf and make a tiny library only they can access. Assign them as a scholar, and throw down a book on biographies as inspiration. Then, see what happens.

Note that what kind of books your dwarves write has literally no gameplay impact. This is just for Armok and maybe internet points. Damn it, I want my dwarves to have quality literature!

Perhaps the best part of Dwarf Fortress is creating and sharing stories. Share yours below!

Starting a new fort series, thought I'd share it to the fediverse.

I'm also looking for fediverse alternatives for streamers ... I'm not really concerned about monetization or anything like that, just looking for alternate places to host my content and someday break the youtube chains.

STRIKE THE EARTH!