DF: The only game where you can bruise a dragon's kidneys.From the Dwarf Fortress site
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost in a randomly generated, persistent world.
Although Dwarf Fortress is still in a work in progress, many features have already been implemented.
* The world is randomly generated with distinct civilizations spanning over 1000 years of detailed history, dozens of towns, hundreds of caves and regions with various wildlife.
* The world persists as long as you like, over many games, recording historical events and tracking changes.
* Command your dwarves as they search for wealth in the mountain.
* Craft treasures and furniture from many materials and improve these objects with precious metals, jewels and more.
* Defend yourself against attacks from hostile civilizations, the wilderness and the depths.
* Support the nobility as they make demands of your populace.
* Keep your dwarves happy and read their thoughts as they work and relax.
* Z coordinate allows you to dig out fortresses with multiple levels. Build towers or conquer the underworld.
* Build floodgates to divert water for farming or to drown your adversaries... and don't forget the magma!
* Surgery, sutures, splints, crutches and more: care for your wounded dwarves instead of leaving them to fend for themselves.
* Seamlessly wander the world -- up to 197376 x 197376 squares total -- or travel more rapidly on the region map.
* Accept quests from the town and civilization leaders.
* The combat model uses skills, body parts, individual tissues, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, one-time opportunities, charging and dodging between * squares, bleeding, pain, nausea, various poison effects and much more.
* A dynamic weather model tracks wind, humidity and air masses to create fronts, clouds, rain storms and blizzards.
* Over two hundred rock and mineral types are incorporated into the world, placed in their proper geological environments.
* Add new creatures, weapons, plants, metals and other objects via modifiable text files.
* Much, much more...
I'm curious to know if anyone here's ever played DF or still plays it. I know at least one person here has
. (cough mesk)
Anyway,
You've probably heard of Dwarf Fortress before. Basically, it's a simulation of a fantasy world where you play as the leader of a bunch of Dwarves setting out to try and make a dwarven outpost ("fortress"). Think Minecraft but with 100+ people at once (all commanded by you), and with nearly all the boring parts automated (automatic crop harvesting being an example, sleeping being another).
Many people get put off from the game because of its ASCII-only graphics, or its confusing interface. If you want to give DF a try,
here is a very nice tutorial (and download link) that will cover everything that you need to know, and then some. The download link in that tutorial also includes a graphics pack, so you don't have to play using the game's ASCII interface!
If you want to see some screenshots/learn more about what the game is like, see
IskatuMesk's fortress or
my own fortress.
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