dwarf fortress

I will say that that paragraph sounds hilarious.

I might look into this game.

Yeah. That game is hard as frick. Takes awhile just to understand what you're looking at on the screen.

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I got around 100 dwarves, but I spent all my time building bedrooms for those frickers, and then I didn't have any food and elves attacked and killed half my dwarves. Has anyone figured this out? What have I done wrong?

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First step is building a food infrastructure. Those frickers can sleep on the ground at first. Keep in mind that a lot of triggers are attached to fortress wealth, so be careful of what you are doing. Especially when it comes to building, engraving rooms and such.

When you are at 25 dwarves or such, you need to start giving consideration to defense. You did something to piss those elves off, probably cut down too many trees or something. Or traded them something wooden. But even without that, you'll start getting thief raids long before then by Kolbolds, and you probably didn't even realize it.

When you start building wealth, you probably want to do it in large scale steel production. Its worth its weight in gold literally in game valuation, but at least when you start making your fortress value skyrocket, you are doing it with lots of pointy things.


And if any of this attracts the attention of newcomers to the game....for the love of God get a tileset for the game. Don't even try to waste time trying to train yourself to translate the Matrix code.

One bit of interest about this game: Mojang has been open about the fact that it provided the inspiration for Minecraft.

Deep can be anywhere from 20 layers down to just above the magma sea.

But iron tends to be shallow anyway.


A really good embark can be extremely hard to find.

You want at least deep metals and shallow metals (note the plurals), and Flux stone (an needed ingriedent to make steel), with no aquifer.


I prefer to have sand or clay in the mix as well.

If you are short something, don't forget the value of trading. It's not dwarfy in the slightest, but I have had a lot of success with an agricultural build in poor embarks, building windmills to grind flour as fast as possible to sell in barrels.