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Dwarf Fortress

Nov 12 2008, 8:29 pm
By: Elvang

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Nov 12 2008, 8:29 pm Elvang Post #1

Dwarf Fortress is a ASCII game where you can either play in a roguelike Adventure mode or Dwarf Fortress mode where you build a fortress, among other things...

In adventure mode you control a single dwarf and explore the world on foot, doing whatever you want. In Fortress mode on the other hand, you take control of upto 200 dwarves and attempt to create a fortress somewhere in the world, fending off sieges from nearby races, avoiding schools of carp, and hoping the undead elephants aren't in your area. The cool thing is that the generated worlds are persistent, for example after you lose a fortress in fortress mode you can go in adventure mode and find your fortress again and explore it.

So does anyone else here play it? It's rather fun once you get over the initial learning curve (the wiki helps greatly with that). Its easy to mod, and there are graphical tilesets for those of you who don't like ASCII. Also, Boatmurdered wouldn't exist without Dwarf Fortress.

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Nov 12 2008, 10:45 pm

MadZombie Post #2

Tried it, It looks so basic that is justt to complicated for me. It feels like theirs too many thing going on at once. maybe one day when i have ALOT of free time ill try this again.

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Nov 12 2008, 11:56 pm Elvang Post #3

I was on my 4th fortress before I got the hang of it, helps if you follow this for getting started. Then you just screw around and look up stuff when you want to do something new, like building an atom smasher or flooding the map with magma.

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Nov 13 2008, 2:05 am

MadZombie Post #4

OIC, I FORGOT TO GIVE MY DOODZ BOOOZE. The learning curve is so damn extreme :\

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Nov 13 2008, 2:42 am Elvang Post #5

Water is used for wounds only, for everything else theres booze xD. It also helps if you don't start in an area with undead roaming about.

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Nov 13 2008, 12:23 pm

MadZombie Post #6

Quote from Elvang

Water is used for wounds only, for everything else theres booze xD. It also helps if you don't start in an area with undead roaming about.

I have problems when i strat to actually make a "base" or "fortress" or w/e u wanna call it. The only thing to do was to make my "Base" underground which started out pretty awsome you know... then when i started making workshop everything started to suck. When i mine i'm supposed to find Stones and rocks and stuff right? i could find NONE which ment no doors tables or seat which means i cant make my dining hall. I just said F it and dug under a pond and AN HERO'd my dwarves cuz they all drowned lol. =]!

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Nov 13 2008, 7:00 pm Elvang Post #7

lol, usually the top layer or two is composed of soil, with rock under that unless your on a mountain or dig into a cliff. Also, starting out near an ocean = bad idea, tons of water underground. You'll be digging along and suddenly notice that your housing area is underwater.

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Nov 13 2008, 7:40 pm

MadZombie Post #8

Quote from Elvang

lol, usually the top layer or two is composed of soil, with rock under that unless your on a mountain or dig into a cliff. Also, starting out near an ocean = bad idea, tons of water underground. You'll be digging along and suddenly notice that your housing area is underwater.

they should really mention that... dam. Btw the Liberal Crime squad game is pretty entertaining too.
http://www.bay12games.com/lcs/

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Nov 14 2008, 7:34 am Elvang Post #9

I remember checking that out, rather humorous

. Supposedly some time in the future the GUI for Dwarf Fortress will be updated, but its rather low on the list of things to do, most people are looking forward to new ways of getting their dwarves to massacre nearby civilizations, and new ways to kill off their nobles. Building traps has to be one of the funnest parts of Fortress Mode, not to mention the dwarves themselves do some crazy things over time.

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Nov 16 2008, 4:14 am

EzDay281 Post #10

Collapsable Box

Some odd collections of anecdotes from my friend over the past couple years. I'm sure I've got more in my logs, but bleh. >.>
Personally, I never got into it. The graphics were a pain to decipher on my poor eyes, and I'm too lazy to bother learning all the rules.

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Nov 16 2008, 5:49 am Elvang Post #11

I lol'd a couple times reading that, I've had similar experiences xD

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