Dwarf Fortress

If I recall correctly, it's best to stagger stairs to avoid a prolonged fall.

I used to use channeling to create my various downward layers but I wanted a more compact vertical shaft for tight space. Somehow my dwarves don't recognize the stair set up. They can travel up and down to the lower layers but anytime I try and place say a bed or a door it says no access to the item.

Huh. If you zip it into an archive and post it on the Dwarf Fortress File Depot I could load it up and see if I can find the problem.

I probably have a bad stair built in the mix. Accidentally fat-fingered a key and built the wrong kind of stair. Just have to tear it out and remake it.

Probably. I definitely prefer stairs. It's too easy to mess up with ramps if you're not very careful about priority settings.

As I recall, having a central shaft is actually bad for pathing and decreases framerates. Better fort designs are more decentralized, with related industries grouped near each other in all three dimensions.

Ramps can be useful in that they allow a dwarf to move two spaces for the price of one, increasing their effective speed. However, they're easier to screw up than stairs. I usually reserve ramps for wagon access and use stairs for everything else.

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New release dropped! There's a lot of stuff to unpack here. Guild halls are a thing now, so that laborers can share skill training. Temples have been improved and priests function as priests, right down to comforting the stressed. Multiple relationships can form in various ways, like affairs or just remarriage. Dwarves don't even have to marry to have children anymore. Oh, and you can have pets in Adventure mode. Even pet them! You can make an entire party in adventure mode, now. And get tactical command of them.

Considering starting a new fort, anything I should look for at embark to make things fairly simple? (I have DF Hack and its associated improved site-finder.)

Also, how much impact does my chosen starter civilization have on things? (Edit: and does the distance between their existing sites and my embark change anything?)

Edited by Yinyang107 on Jun 26th 2020 at 5:06:19 AM

if you don't want to care about food at all really to start? I suggest bringing a rooster or two and a few hens, throwing them in a big empty room somewhere safe (they don't need food, but they need enough room or they'll start pecking each other). From there build a few nest boxes and roll in all the eggs.

I'm playing Rimworld recently, which is a really solid game, but it gets me thinking about my true love—DWARF FORTRESS. Been re-reading our succession games, want to find some new stories outside of some of the classics like Boatmurdered, Syrupleaf, or Bravemule.

I have been watching the game develop more on steam. I am hoping we get something before the end of the century. :P Seriously though they have made an astounding amount of progress on the game to date. When it drops I would love to celebrate with another succession fort game for old times sake.

Would definitely be interesting. Especially since it has been like ten years and I still do not know how the military works :P

Just how far along is the Steam version by the way?

Hard to say honestly.

New update on the Steam roadmap

DF has a release date. December 6 2022 for $29.99 USD

Trailer Announcement below.

YES!

I'm honestly mostly gonna get steam version just to support dev :'D I mean maybe ui is better now, but I used to play this a lot few years back in ascii mode, but I'm hoping getting steam version does inspire me to play lot more again

It does look like there are some UI improvements, but indeed, I'm getting it to support him (I'll admit that it's been a while since I donated to get a crayon drawing or story).

It is out get if you can.

I just started playing for the first time with the Steam release. This game is absolutely enthralling.

I'm terrible at judging how large nobles' rooms need to be. Either I build it too small and I need to cram every floor tile with statues and displays to meet their demands or I build it too large and and they're satisfied before I even start decorating. My King's Throne Room is just a 27 by 27 square room with an engraved floor. There's a platinum throne in there too because I made that in advance and figured there was no better place to put it, but the King was fine with just the engraved floor.

Edited by BOOXMOWO on Dec 11th 2022 at 12:55:19 PM

I believe having a wall that overlaps between multiple rooms lowers the value, so you might want to try avoiding that?

But yeah otherwise rooms don't have to be very large at all? I think 7x7 or 9x9 is the biggest I tend to go.

Edited by Lanceleoghauni on Dec 13th 2022 at 2:42:11 AM

Dwarf Fortress Steam Edition allows classic graphics mode

My first fortress has more than 400 coffins currently used.
We're not even on year 15.
Where the fuck can i find water? Like, i know there're cavern and stuffs, but at what depths? I think i'm in a mountain biome.
On a more lightehearted note, i've had a "Demon Spearman" be a loyal member of my military for the past ten years.

Edited by dArtagnanMusic on Dec 24th 2022 at 3:21:32 AM

You'll find the caverns at around Z -10.