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Strike the earth!

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dem dorfs man, dem dorfs.

First for holy shit this general is so fucking dead please toady help

Aren't they just silly?

>Dwarves in the tavern talking about the militia captain i JUST elected

i am a DWARF
and i'm digging a HOLE
diggy diggy HOLE
digging a HOLE

End yourself

youtube.com/watch?v=BGfcSpt4KqM

Finally! After spending two real-life days in caverns, I got out! I had to make my way to the closest dwarf settlement/tunnel, which was half a map away.

Things that came to pass while I was desperately trying to find my way out:
- Met a batman tribe. They were mostly eaten by a giant cave spider.
- Cut the GCS in half while it was busy eating batman.
- Tried to build an emergency stairway site. It didn't work.
- Kept my sanity (needs) in check by arguing with gorlaks after punching them.
- Killed another giant cave spider by throwing food at it.
- Made my way under a hillock. Tried to retire. Couldn't.
- Slaughtered 6 blind cave ogres.
- Tried various methods of extreme woodcutting in a vain attempt to teleport to surface.
- Got about 600 unnotable kills. Mostly crundles. Fucking crundles.
- Became a legendary striker by punching crundles.
- Went under a halmet. Tried to retire. Couldn't.
- Went under a town. Tried to retire. Couldn't.
- Met a tribe of antmen. They weren't friendly either.
- Tried climbing out god knows how many times and am still a "dabbling" climber.
- Lost one of my spare weapons. Probably threw it at a crundle. Whatever.

How do I undig?
How do I trade with caravans?
How do I get dwarves to do the jobs I assign instead of just milling around aimlessly?
What jobs do I give my dwarves when I can't figure out what jobs to give them?
Is it OK to have a handful of idle dwarves or are you supposed to make sure every dwarf is doing a job?

>How do I undig?

READ THE FUCKING WIKI GUIDE

>undig

HAH

fucking baited, nerds

Oh fuck I got got.

whats an easy way to find fun structures in adventure mode? What type of quests and such would take me to them?

HAHAH YOU GOT ME

back in my day, we said trolled

>I was just pretending to be retarded

rapist when

How do you stack items in adventure mode? I don't particularly enjoy having 3 pages of coins bloating up my inventory

I just started a one dwarf fort, any tips?

Try to keep that Dwarf alive.

dedicate stone slabs to all the dead migrants

I wasn't baiting.

Fuck off that's not me.

First off answer my question, why the fuck can't we undig? Have none of you fucked up digging a room? Also, thanks for answering my other questions btw. If you're wondering why it took so long to defend myself I was at work and can only post on breaks.

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I am and nowhere in that does it mention what to do when you mess up digging the room. I would be mad at you but I just pooped and wiping was not necessary.

>how do I undig
lol.

>how do I trade with caravans
Make a trade depot from the build menu, have a dwarf with the appraisal ability, move some of your goods to the depot, and have the appraiser go and trade.

>How do I get dwarves to do the jobs I assign
That's a very complicated question. A basic explanation would be to assign specific dwarves to specific tasks, and only those tasks.

>what do I give my dwaves when I can't figure out what jobs to give them
Whatever you may need. If you don't need anything, making them members of the military, or finding ways to severely injure them so that the medical dwarves don't get rusty is a good option.

>is it ok to have a handful of idle dwarves
If you've got more than about 20 dwarves, yes.

I will post bote until toady add botes and we can have fishing in the game

Thanks for the responses friend! I have a trade depot and I guess I can go to 'q' then trade depot to move in goods? What do I do when the trade guy starts asking me a bunch of questions though when the caravan arrives?

The liason?
He just asks what you want them to bring next year, and then lets you know what they want the most when they return.

And yeah, just press q and move whatever you want to trade.

I have long hoped for the announcement of making things float.

>embark on a random island in the middle of nowhere
>instead of just showing up somehow, liasons and traders sail in on a ship

You cannot undig, just dont fuck up. If you do build walls [b]->[C]->[w].

You can recruit soldiers as "entertainers" and they'll fight for you like bodyguards.

You could probably climb up out of there but if not find a pink tree and stand on the little pentagon tile after climbing over to one. Then cut the tree down.

see

Ah, yeah, I was scrolling down checking up on what happened while I was dozing and saw the one I replied to.

>why the fuck can't we undig?
Why would we be able to? How do you imagine one would "undig" in real life?

Holy shit, just build a wall in the place of the dug out rock.

Just take all the stone you removed and fill it back in. We already do other shit automatically undigging isn't that far fetched.

considering that DF sends waste to the netherrealm, there is nothing /to/ replace

Just take the rock you mined out and use it to build a wall. It's exactly what you described.

benis

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>Start fort
>Two kobold thieves show up, but get discovered immediately and run away
>They do this for five years and have show up at least eight times
>Always the same two
>This year they happen to get discovered by one of my legendary axelords
>Chops the first kobold's head off in a single swing
>The other kobold, standing quite far away, looks on in horror and is paralyzed by fear
>He doesn't move as his death approaches
>Right before the dorf gets to him he regains his senses and runs away in terror
>Dorf decides he has something better to do and stops chasing it, but right before the kobold gets to the end of the map he's shot in the leg by a hunter
>Barely manages to crawl off screen with an iron bolt lodged in his thigh
Shit, now I feel bad.

If they just asked I'd totally give them some legendary plump helmet roast.

Is that a new Feels Urist?

What's the significance of a soldier naming their weapons/shields?

I haven't tested how many if any of the artifact boosts apply to named weapons.

This is my very second fort, right after all my dwarfs turned into werelizards and slaughtered each other.

This is what I deserve for killing all those puppies

Pretty much bro.

Post your favorite dwarf fortress memes.

what are those * moving around on the map in adventure mode in Fast Travel?

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>delete original file
>upload crappy low resolution version
wat

I might just be stupid, here is the big one.
When I use to Post on Veeky Forums years ago, the users never open large files, because malware and all that dumb stuff, so I always for their sake would resize my images to be small low-res.
its a retard habit.

just embarked in a jungle and there is a human spearman already on site living in a little wooden hut, is this common? Never seen it before.

In the dead of night, typically.

Is it wood or leather?

Eh, I think folks here are cool with the big full versions.

Cool. Is he doing anything? Maybe you can build him a nice house.

Bump

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its leather
hes just idling in his house, hes marked as a visitor

Probably a bandit, possibly a roaming soldier, but they usually don't set up camps.

how the hell do I open lair latches? I keep finding them but are always locked.

Do water buffalo require a shitload more food for grazing compared to yaks?

alt+direction key

I just wanted to add civs
stuff like orcs or something
I never even touched entity_default.txt, what the fuck did I do wrong

That's just what happens when the site is mostly populated with a certain race. Happens all the time with dark pits turning into human pits after being conquered and such. I think it doesn't even need to be forcefully conquered.

well, that's a relief then
in a way, at least.
tomorrow I'll have to give adventure a go and test the orcs

So im following the great wiki guide given to our fort through the great scroll. In my deciphering I've made it to the part where I have set up a forge for my people and we need to look for iron. So we are trying to find iron underground but our fort keeps getting migrants.

It is near impossible for a young novice lord like myself to manage this many people, we are close to 55 in numbers and these people can't find work here. I'm trying my best to manage this many people but I fear the fort may come tumbling down. We have food but I don't know where to even begin with their moods and needs while we hope to survive long enough to make it through the guide.

Everything seems to be working out so far even though the fort has over half the population without work (idle). Our hunters won't hunt, we don't have livestock to breed, and we only have 2 (female) cats.

So I've come to you once again great scroll, please guide me to victory in leading my people.

>user felt slightly embarrassed after reading a post recently

Grow some shrooms. You embarked with plump helmets, right? With all those extra farmers begging for work you should be swimming in masterfully cooked plump helmet recipes and finely aged dwarven wines by the time the caravan comes and you buy all their meat, fish, animals and seeds.

Hopefully you'll be done digging 55 rooms by then, too and let's hope you embarked on a sedimentary layer, too: dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Sedimentary_layer

I would hit that.

Do you have every kind of work possible in your fort?
Gems Cut and engraved?
Are there fish to catch/clean?
Cooking and brewing?
Butchering?
Have you got someone making crafts out of the bones of the dead stuff?
Do you have all the plants outside gathered?
Do you have areas for your dwarves to pray at?
Do you have anyone that can make bolts (preferably wood and bone bolts)?
Are bedrooms and important areas engraved?
Are there excessive amounts of rocks everywhere? Make a 1 tile dump and order all the rocks to be dumped. Be sure to reclaim them when they've been hauled.

There's plenty to do. Even with 100+ dwarves, it's not too bad to have less than 10 idlers.

what do you guys think of gnomoria?

I have so many plants, how big of a farm should I have for 50 dwarves/how many farmers?

I cut a bunch of gems, how do I engrave them? With butchering I don't have any animal meat to use. How do I make crafts with bone?

Thank you guys for trying to help my fortress out! I knew the great scroll would help me!

>engrave
I meant encrust, my bad. As in, encrusting them on other things. Use the gem cutter's workshop.
Bone crafts are in the craftsdwarf's workshop by a bone carver.

Ok cool. What should I encrust my gems into? I'm assuming I can put them into a bunch of different things?

You don't choose, your dwarves just pick up random stuff from the stockpile.