Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 01 – World Generation & Finding a site

do you not use numbers for elevation like you do for cliffs on purpose?

yeah he sounds british

It’s a dutch accent I think.

DF’s controls are pretty weird, but I didn’t have that hard of a time with it. I think people are too lazy to try to figure things out or look stuff up on the wiki. Everyone exaggerates the difficulty so of it so much.

For those unfamiliar… If you can get past the ASCII-ugliness (or perhaps think of it as 8-bit era retro, like BASIC programmed games on C-64 or 800XL), it’s a really in-depth city-building/strategy game like the Age of Mythology or the Caesar series. Actually it’s probably more in depth than those games (and not just by digging), because of dependencies and other things that can be done. And unlike most games, everything is in the folder and with no registrys – so it’s thumb-drive portable.

I like it when there are screw ups like that. I like to read their thoughts and jealousies cause one of them decided to take the 1×2 room and now regrets it.

Never knew that, But then again I am rather like the growing list of failed fortresses.

I think half the fun is telling others about it all going to shit in a blink of an eye and having to abandon the fortress. I remember digging wrong once and flooding a map … more often than not though it comes down to starving and watching them all throw tantrums and break things..It.s just plain amusing to me.

On another note after watching all your vids, I think things will be better for my dwarves

@galacticSatisfaction It’s a free game. Google for it.

You uh, minimised it?

Not exit, eh?

a quick tip for people who are new to dwarf fortress. when selecting a location try to pick a spot where the mountains have sand. you can check this by moving over the mountain and looking where it shows the types of ores. With sand you can make farms , sell glass and build with glass.

nope, the game was meant to be played on one go.

If you dont like the game your in atm, or made some bad decisions since your last save, just crash the game using CTRL+SHIFT+ESC and killing the dwarfort program. Then it wont save your progress and the next time you start DF it loads the previous save.

Is this a game you buy or on a site?
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Looks kina neat