Dwarf Fortress - Praise Armok!

NEVER use the lazy newb pack, it ruins everything. I had a hard time playing it first time like everyone. I played a bit, left for a month, then again repeated... This was going for a year, eventually I slowly learnt everything by myself. The wiki is a great source for first timers. Today I one hit dragons and titans in adventure mode
Forint plz do it for grosci

 

Hey, i already use LNP. I am not crazy enough to play with ASCII (or something) graphics.

 

I think textures just ruin the game, imo the ascii stuff is clearer. You better learn the original symbols, one day you will need it

 

fuck
i keep trying to get into this game, no matter how hard i try i just can't
2confusing4me

 

Ascii allows for the imagination to work freely, its actually immersive - imagine that
You can see many more tiles in a ascii tileset rather than just using pure tiles , because tiles are normally bigger to and need more pixels to make up what you're trying to see. Its a battle of view distance over quick draw readability.

I have this same problem playing cataclysm dda.
Df is still looks like encrypted chinese to me. Ill learn one day.

 

I tried to play with Ascii today, so many symbols & colors (i was on snow) :ooo
it was like watching this http://www.laboiteverte.fr/les-gif-hypnotiques-davidope/gif-hypnotique-007/

I prefer playing with the CLA graphic set.

edit: i actually enjoy playing DF with CLA . I am doing almost nothing in-game for now (mining, assigning stockpiles, understanding things, stairways etc..) but it's funny.

 

I went on a bit of a rampage in Adventure mode

After that, I proceeded to the nearby market, where I shouted out that I had murdered elves, and was spat on by at least 5 elves. I then started a massacre, but I was killed when about 10 elves grabbed my throat at once and I suffocated.

 

EXPLOSION. ARE. THE. ANSWER.

 

Well. Explosions are the answer to dwarf domination. GG

 

Yes. I normally have alchol in a 3 way tunnel leading in to my fort, with flood doors and lava drop above. It is AMAZING. Explosions.

 

In arena mode, put some wall mid-air (lava+water), it will collapse and make a beautiful colorful explosion with all kinds of gems in it. I think it's an easter egg.

 

God, I hate caverns. I lost half of my best squad and several civilians because of a group of creatures from below. Three are currently critically injured in my half set-up hospital.

 

It was my first cavern encounter (I'm still a bit of a noob). My fortress almost fell apart tantrum-wise as a result of it. Still, I'm getting a heap of animals from the cage traps I set up around the stairs into the cavern.