Dwarf Fortress - Despite the multiple let's sperg threads, we never had a general

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Dwarf Fortress in summary for normies: A top-down overly complex rouge-like, combined with a management sim and no graphics (unless you dl a tileset). You control a colony of dwarves and try not to die too quickly. Deaths are inevitable though and losing is FUN.
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An event in my current game:
After getting my fort up to around 170 dwarves, I got too relaxed and didn't seal off EVERY cave entrance, leaving one small area overlooking a cave lake open so my dwarves could fish. Eventually a forgotten beast in the form of a giant, winged snail that shoots webs, took notice and by the time I tried to block off the staircase it was already flying up it and scared off the dwarf hauling stone.

So with my two military squads (one archer based, one melee based) I put them in the hall entrance to the caves to await the beast. It showed up, webbed all my melee troops, archers shot it, lightly injuring it and keeping it at bay for a while, eventually it charged through, slaughtering both squads in a few seconds, this pissed off the rest of the fort which then zerg rushed it. As you can imagine it was a bloodbath.

Finally a lone miner got tired of it all and walked up to the beast and simply lodged a steel pick-axe into its brain, killing it instantly.

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iirc, there was a general somewhere, at some point.

I haven't played in a while. I got Factorio. I was never happy enough with my starting areas, and I'd build a new fortress after ~5 minutes in each.

Holy fuck I was lazy.
 
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Dane said:
the other day one of my dwarves got punched in the dick so hard that it castrated him.

I love dwarf fortress.
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Yes, I love it when Dwarves become so good as fighters/wrestlers that their punches, kicks, and bites can cause a creature to explode into gibs.

Also I'm about to abandon my current fort. I've left it running in the background for some time and it's about 11 years in and I'm starting to get temporary freezes now. I might try to run DFhack to clean it though.
 
>Be me
>make a character in adventure mode
>make that character be a man-hamster
>spawn in
>no one is around
>walk around and find a black bear
>decide to attack it, so I can level up
>get both of my arms ripped off
>remeber that I put a point into biting
>try to rip the bear's fucking jugular
>bleed out
Despite how horrible the situation was, I still had fun.
 
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My favorite DF game was back in the version 40D era. I had embarked on a site with a bottomless pit (this was before the underworld was implemented) and I was planning on using it for garbage disposal. I was getting the first few tunnels dug out when a giant bat flew out of the pit and killed three of my dwarves. I drafted my two miners, my carpenter/woodcutter, and the other dwarf and had them attack it. They managed to kill it, but the two miners died outright and the carpenter was fatally wounded. I tried to get the surviving dwarf to bury the bodies and hold on until we got some migrants but he tantrumed and attacked a cow, and the cow kicked him to death. A whole fortress dead in less than five minutes.
 
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My favorite fortress was built in a similar place in the 40D build era as well. I had bridges going back and forth across the circular chasm connecting levels built into the walls of it and even built a hanging stronghold in the middle of it eventually. I only began building into the chasm when I had enough crossbowdwarves to secure the place from those goddamn giant bats. Once everything was squared away the fortress made a lucrative business of harvesting Goblinium from foolish Goblins. The entrance had multiple archery towers from which my crossbowdwarves could rain death, and after the seige was softened up I unleashed a mixture of axe and hammer dwarves. The slaughter was legendary and the loot haul to was immense. Why do goblins love to bring silk socks to battle so that I can sell them to those dumbass elves? That profit along is way before melting down their Iron armor and smelting steel with those ingots can bring you.

Goblinium is a rich renewable resource. :story:
 
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Well, here's a few highlights from years ago when I really started to get into the game...

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Here's when I fought a pterosaur and survived. I didn't have a strong military at the time and we still won.

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Oh, and one of my dwarves made this as a legendary item.

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I am a dwarf fortress newbie and had a hilarious series of events occur. I get a notice that a dwarf child is dead, and then all these notices about other dwarves getting traumatized after seeing the corpse. I search far and wide and cannot find the corpse. I build and place a coffin in hopes it ends up there, but no dice. Finally, I have miasma in my central stairway from top to bottom. Looking more closely, someone had put the corpse in the dump site I had set up for loose boulders! I delete the trash pile in hopes someone would bring it to the graveyard. No one does. I ended up creating a corpse zone out in the woods and someone finally took care of it. What a nightmare!
 
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I tried to get into it because my favorite streamer Vinesauce Joel likes it, but I just can’t get the hang of it.
 
KiwiKritter said:
I tried to get into it because my favorite streamer Vinesauce Joel likes it, but I just can’t get the hang of it.
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I would say work up to it by playing a roguelike or something. It is hard sometimes to go from modern fully 3d games back to ASCII.
 
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I would say work up to it by playing a roguelike or something. It is hard sometimes to go from modern fully 3d games back to ASCII.
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Eh, if the ASCII is too much for you just install a tile pack. I know the running gag is that only scrubs use tile packs and real OG dorf fort niggas don’t even see the ASCII. They see blonde, brunette, redhead...

I’ve been playing dwarf fortress for ages and I use tile packs. But I’ve stepped away from the game to see how different it becomes due to burnout. When I come back to it, I’ll probably have to use tile packs since the ASCII won’t be fresh in my mind.
 
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