Dwarf Fortress - Praise Armok!

Im sure that there has been plenty of threads on this forum about this amazing game but i have seen none lately. Drawf Fortress is a unique birds eye view game with millons of possibilities, litterally. You start with a band of 7 dwarfs and you must build your vast empire making food and alcohol for your dwarves. There is one problem though, monsters. hundreds possibly thousands of evil mobs in this game and you, your dwarves i mean must fend them off so save your fortress. Play dwarf Fortress learn more here http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ and also one of the most valuable tools i ever found for this game http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

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FUN

Spoiler: HFS

 

Never played it before, but i will soon!
I am currently having a planet-wide battle of getting the phoebus tileset to work!

 

Still never successfully made my way into hell. Always screw something up and have a boring lava-y death.

 

Haha, I might be up for that! A little, at least ;)

 

I don't see the point, personally. Nevermind that a fort takes *dozens* of hours to mature (anyway) ~ you're just flushing it down the drain. Which is fine when there's no longer a challenge... except that so much of the game is in building something new. Testing and debugging your machines, etc.

I usually get bored before then. I've seen the magma sea, and mined adamantium once. I've colonized the first cavern, and made my dwarves a presence in the second...

But there's no danger rooms in my forts, and strict limits on the use of cage traps. Meat grinders are generally a no-no, too. The more complex a trap may be, the more acceptable it is, etc. There's so many ways to cheat this game it's silly.

Sieges aren't a big problem (sometimes I play Fortress Defense mod) since I typically start out with a dwarf who specializing in teaching & leadership, and start his military training within the first few months. Within maybe two years I have got a few legendary fighters, and then I start training up the archers...

 

That would be fun and im guaranteed to FUN IT TO THE GROUND IMMEDIATELY, mostly bc im still pretty newb at it.

 

Hehe, I only just recently started using my Manager! xD

 

Anytime i play DF, i use the Lazy Newb Pack.

But i always die soon after starting due to aquifiers :l

 

My only real issue with DF is the horrible inconsistency in the menu layouts and operation and the damn near requirement to use dwarf therapist.

 

I never use Dwarf Therapist. :P

 

Wonkyth - that's insane.
Unless, you mean that you're using the integrated labours utility which comes bundled with DFHack.
The game is virtually unplayable without 3rd party utilities. It's part of the charm.

 

hes a complete masochist.

 

I'm a masochist to. I'm a complet newb and I don't use DF Therapist or DF Hack. But aren't DF players all masochist?

 

No, like, I only use vanilla DF, on it's own... >_>

 

I prefer chocolate.


How do you not play without any tilesets?!? o_o

play without a tileset*

Edit for them double negatives.

 

To many abstract symbols and colors to remember what teh fucks what. I would much rather just be able to look real fast and not have to manually inspect EVERYTHING!