Dwarf Fortress - Praise Armok!

oh god, xD

Mh, the most best thing is still my home-made flying, fire-and-venom-spitting slade colossus.

 

Baconite.
Awesome.
Btw, we have a person on these forums named warrfork. herpaderp.

*reads Deon*

This mod will be awesome.

Deon is like the god of roguelike modding.

 

Started playing a human succession fort with my brother. Hopefully this will be exciting in the later years. However, I made it a challange for my brother, since I dug out a moat around the beginning town area, which I underestimated the space and now he has to deal with overcrowding. I think he's starting to put all the poor people outside the moat and walls. Our military sucks since I rely on this 66 year old legendary swordswoman with wooden equipment due to the lack of ores.

I'm trying to play as humanly as possible, so digging a quarry to mine out ores is a must. It made it extremely difficult to dig downward, and I've only penetrated the first couple layers.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to equipment your military without using metals?

 

Hmm.
I rate it a 6.5/10 on the witty joke scale.

I got a solution for overcrowding tough, just build upwards. Use clay to build, even unbaked clay will do.
And without ores you cant really do military.
If you have sand, you can make green glass serrated discs.

 

You guys are way too advanced for me. Ive only ever played a handful of games a few builds ago. I only ever managed to build a half assed fort and then lose for one stupid reason or another.

 

DF is counted in versions, not builds.
Also, i only played 3 forts.

 

Just got back into playing this, after MANY years! Hardly remembered how things worked. xD

Trade for it?
Alternatively, you could just put EVERYONE in your military, and make a fuckton of crossbows and bolts. The sheer number of shots flying means you can generally hold your own against basic nasties. ;)

 

Wonkyth is a ex-dorf?
:O
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I mean 3 or 4 IN TOTAL.

(the fourth one consisted of accidently (!) embarking on a waterfall for the SECOND TIME and then having my carpenter throw himself off the waterfall and then adbandoning.

 

My first fort fell due to starvation.
Then there was a reclaim thing inbetween somewhere that i dont remember too much.
Then i had another fort that fell to the powers of water pressure, was my most fun fort so far. (was a pretty sweet embark tough, 2 rivers coming into one river at a waterfall, wich allowed me to set up 3 bridges, maximum gobbo control.)
And then the adbandon due to the suicidal carpenter.

To think of it, i never even touched magma :(

 

If there arent many action fags around this weekend Im so giving this another go.

 

Have fun raging at the menus <3

I'm currently playing as a slade colossus adventurer, if anybody wants the raws i can give them.
(it can also fly and spit fire. and the kicks are venomous)

 

Ow shiiit!
In my current game, I'd set myself up in a nice river valley, fairly safe location overall. I had a population of 160 after only a few hours, had food coming out the wazoo, five artifacts, and had found a few massive veins of gems. Through trading off shit-tons of Masterful mechanisms, I'd even got myself a barony! :D
However, since I hadn't met any kind of hostility so far, I'd neglected to do any more than have a few dorfs armed with crossbows and wooden bolts. Yeah, it was an accident waiting to happen...

Ten goblins, armed to the teeth, came down from the far end of the valley. The first to notice them were the fisherdorfs, who scattered. It's a good thing they did as it gave me a little time to prepare as the goblins chased my unfortunate fisherfolk hither and thither. The few that weren't distracted by the poor, pathetic sight of my fleeing fisherdorfs headed straight on up to my fortress, and quickly found their way to my Great Hall, where I'd been hosting a feast for the past two seasons. I'm actually surprised how little damage they did, but I guess children cant run very fast, and so the others escaped while my young were massacred. :(
By this time I'd finally assembled a squad, but their crossbows weren't much good for the close-quarters of my tunnels, and they only managed to take down one before they got their faces smashed in. However, it just so happened that I'd missed an able warrior during the creation of the first squad: an Adept Macedorf! Previously he would have been unarmed, but fortune had it that he passed by the corpse of the sole goblin I'd killed, and had yoinked it's mace! :D
It was amazing! This lone Macedorf laid their entire raiding party to waste in a matter of minutes, and only had a dented head and a smashed hand to show for it! :P

Unfortunately, the story doesn't end here. The invaders had killed over 30 of my dorfs, not to mention a great many pets. Ordinarily, this would be painful but manageable, but not today: It was all too much! Over the next two hours, 80% of my dorfs were in a constant state of tantrum, to the point where they got nothing done. As a result I had a good many unburied corpses lying where the blow of a mace had put them, and the few dorfs who had kept it together long enough to cart a corpse soon filled my twenty-slot tomb. Oh the nightmares. Ghosts everywhere. Not only were they driving me insane, but they were also driving my dear little DORFS crazy too! :( Soon they stopped just throwing tantrums and started losing their minds, the more destructive of them doing a full table-flip, going Berserk, terrifying and killing yet more dorfs.X3

So here I am, in a beautiful valley fortress, surrounded by bunnies and ponies and skellies. Population: 50 and dropping.
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:D

 

Duh
When my dwarves die the other dwarves doesn't move them to the refuse pile. How do I move them?