Dwarf Fortress

[OFudd]

played 2 first years, first time all died of thirst, 2nd time figured out enough to survive, now reading the entire wiki six hours so far...

[Fake from State Jarm]

I know how to irrigate, gather the seeds for terranean crops, build the plots and so on, but I cant get anything to grow on them. perhaps I need to pick a more active person to be grower. there's always someone who won't do their job, and you need every single one of them to do work in the beginning. w/out functioning minerS, lumberjack, carpenter, mason, mechanic, grower, brewer, architect, not to mention hunter/fisher/butcher you are basically fuct.

[Commisar Gaunt]

you have to select the crop with q and pick which type of plant you want


I have tons of plants now--a hint, gather plants, and then build some outside plots to grow them. I grow prickleberries year round.


Oh, and my last fortress died of thirst b/c I had a massive immigrant influx and only one still... it was a massacre X_X



The fortress I'm on now has over 100 people in it, including a working fortress guard and militia, which I rotate people out of so they all don't suck at life if anything comes out to kill them... No goblin sieges yet for me, just a ton of goblin and kobold thieves stealing stuff. One goblin made off with a baby, and the mother freaked out in the fortress guard barracks. She didn't last very long.

[Mr_Cynic]

How do you assign jobs?

[Commisar Gaunt]

http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Controls




here is the master hot key list... it's a life saver till you get em down

[Mr_Cynic]

Wow.  I definitely don't have the time to figure that out.

[Fake from State Jarm]

you have to select the crop with q and pick which type of plant you want

i've been doing that. apparently my grower doesnt go and plant the seeds or something. when it's working, do you see plants on the farm plot?

[Commisar Gaunt]

hmm...


did you assign him the job? like, did you manually make sure that "farming" was lit up in his job list?



when it's working and your farmer is going his job, a square on your tilled field turns from squiggly to straight every time he plants, which pretty much means there is a plant planted there

[Grand Poobah Marx]

Wow.  I definitely don't have the time to figure that out.

[Grand Poobah Marx]

Wow.  I definitely don't have the time to figure that out.

[OFudd]

Wow.  I definitely don't have the time to figure that out.

overcame the learning wall!  my god, pumps, windmills, levers, caveins, traps!  this is freaking amazing!  it took like 20 hours to get through the learning wall, now I'm into the fun part...

my best fortress lasted 9 years... a colossus and titan were rampaging thru it, then I managed to lock them in a room and spent a year building a trap tunnel for them, but as soon as I opened the tunnel they caught sight of my dwarves, became enraged and busted out the locked door... finally had to abandon with just one crippled soldier in bed dying of thirst, and a baby dwarf crawling around the basement among the bodies, it was so sad.  her profile said: "she has witnessed death recently she has lost a mother to tragedy, she has lost a father to tragedy, she needs alcohol to get through the day, she is starving"

[Fake from State Jarm]

what was her name, that we may remember her

[Commisar Gaunt]

haha, amazing


I can't wait till the army system in this comes out


it's an awesome game, right? I'm pretty happy I found it!

[Grand Poobah Marx]

lol, keep stories coming!

[Commisar Gaunt]

I built a fortress near a volcano.


I started to harvest the volcano's magma goodness, and had no trouble until a magma man and TWO fire imps decided that it would be fun to set fire to everything.


They started with a sneak attack, killing my best magma forge operator. Fine. I just stationed my military force there, so they wouldn't come back.

Months went by with no further attack. By then, my fortress had grown quite a bit, and I didn't want to waste any of my militia's time with a pointless task. Minutes after the squad leaves, the magma man and imps are back, killing two engravers (I was detailing the stone EVERYWHERE in my fortress), all three of my furnace/forge workers. And a baby. A BABY.


Needless to say, a vicious struggle ensued, burritos the magma man in pieces, the imps riddles with arrows, two dogs burnt to a crisp, and a newly blind marksman, whom was crippled for life, lying in his bed to this day. I keep getting messages every other minute or so saying "Farming Job Cancelled: (whatever the hell his name is) has passed out from pain."

[OFudd]

what was her name, that we may remember her

the closest translation into english is "syrupfingers"

[Fake from State Jarm]

has anyone actually seen a purring maggot? what biome?

[Commisar Gaunt]

lawl


it's funny that you can only milk purring maggots

[OFudd]

lawl


it's funny that you can only milk purring maggots

they only purr when you milk them

[Commisar Gaunt]

lawl


it's funny that you can only milk purring maggots

they only purr when you milk them

   ME TOO