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Dwarf Fortress - Getting Started (Beginners Guide / Tutorial)
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00:00 intro
00:58 where to buy dwarf fort
01:09 creating a world
01:56 saving the world
02:28 embarking in the overworld and selecting a location
06:07 (Strike the Earth) navigating the playfield and
08:32 Looking at things, Stockpiles and surface harvesting
10:42 Jobs and kitchen screens
13:00 Digging
15:35 Chopping wood and farming
18:54 Stone Working and Furniture
19:42 Bedrooms
21:04 Pasturing livestock
21:54 Taverns and Brewing
25:53 Fishing
@heinyhxc 10 ай бұрын
i started doing all the stuff like setting up stockpiles and things while paused and immediately had a dwarf get annihilated by a gator in the creek next to the wagon lol
@rumplstiltztinkerstein Жыл бұрын
Guys. Just to point out that there is absolutely NO NEED to choose a bigger starting area, as pointed out by @Blind. While horizontally it might not look that larger, you can dig deep, reeeeeaaaaalllyyy deep. You can create a tower of 200 floors and still there would be a lot of room to expand above and below.
@jamesderiven1843 Жыл бұрын
While the game allows you to choose a bigger starting area, it HATES you actually doing it and will make your life hell.
@b9904 Жыл бұрын
❤
@b9904 Жыл бұрын
I have a 2yr old gaming laptop and the amount of stuff in my fortress 6 hours later notably slowed the game. Not bad, but notable. So, I now start on medium maps on 3x3 and the speed improvement was stark past the 6hour mark and on wards.
@dm0ney743 Жыл бұрын
Im not a beginner but I still enjoyed the video
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
yay
@thisguybro Жыл бұрын
I have 200 hours. I still feel like a beginner haha. Still watching videos like this.
@ultimatekao Жыл бұрын
I have played on and off for a decade and still learn new things from these videos 😂
@JarheadLief 11 ай бұрын
Wow, so you must be pretty good!
@justgoosing9662 Жыл бұрын
This game is so damn addicting man. Learn new stuff all the time, and great topics here.
@archaeologistify Жыл бұрын
It's always a good game when the progress is irl in your brain :)
@santapoca Жыл бұрын
waited for the steam version to get into this game, these videos have been a great help
@ovrsurge4689 Жыл бұрын
I was waiting for the steam release to get back into dwarftress. I think the first version I played back in highschool didn't even have 3 dimensional trees. The 3d trees was a big update and made peace with the elves more viable when you could get multiple logs from one tree.
@SnipesMcFinley Жыл бұрын
21:28 the arrangement of logs
@RootVegetabIe Жыл бұрын
Perfect timing! Quick question, please: How do I get my dwarves to climb out of the screen and give little kisses to my belly
@TempoTrack 3 ай бұрын
HAHA
@jakedanielsen4512 3 ай бұрын
I emailed the devs but they didnt reply with shit
@colepolitzer Ай бұрын
Press Control then q ,q
@austinkaylor8084 7 күн бұрын
😳
@DumpleShop Жыл бұрын
As a new player, I appreciated you pointing out the slopes, because I felt so dumb when I saw one of my dwarves walk up one and realized they were passable 🥺
@ElvencloudYT Жыл бұрын
Just want to say you were a pleasure when I randomly clicked your twitch channel a couple years ago - and a pleasure to listen to here while at work. This game is quite overwhelming and you made it much easier to parse. Well done!
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@soybean9098 5 ай бұрын
There are plenty of "overly" complicated games I try to get into, but only a few do I put the effort to actually get into. Hope this is one of em because I love the concept.
@StoKill Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tutorial!
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Happy to help!
@EroticBananaz 5 ай бұрын
Appreciate it
@endrankluvsda4loko172 7 ай бұрын
Thank you! I just bought this and was almost immediately overwhelmed lol. This seems like such an awesome game; there's so much to do! But yeah after trying a few worlds on my own and not being able to figure out the basics even after following the in game tutorials, I turned to youtube for help.
@laka0013 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this! Really helpful for a beginner to DF like myself
@KaikuPen 7 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for this! The in game tutorial takes the training wheels off way to early, and moves so fast through the steps that I ended up with an inefficient horribly built fortress, I dint lose, But I knew that the first conflict or Disaster would mean death.
@elay2272 8 ай бұрын
thank you,. you have a great skill to tell quick and clear whats important
@dariuscardren Жыл бұрын
Good tutorial!
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@26:25 "they will prep un coocked fish," insert explaination how how to set a water source, a fishign area, and storage for uncooked fish, a reminder of how to use pots and barrens, how to place them into uncooked storage lots. also how to fish!
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
"greetings, and welcome back to another episode of exploring 'Dwarf fortress':tutorials. i am your host, blind."
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
They fish anywhere. You can set a fishing zone with the super clear "Fishing zone" in the zones screen.
@captainmaim Жыл бұрын
I've been playing since December, and watching Blind videos about it since launch on steam.
@chashagin1 Жыл бұрын
Blind, your tutorials are spectacular and got me into this masterpiece of a game. Thank you and excited to watch a new Tutorial series! Love that KitfoxGames is investing in content like this! Would enjoy some videos on optimizing fortresses now that I can maintain a fort for some period of time before I'm overwhelmed by Fun. I'm sure there's all sorts of cool stuff that can be done with minecarts, storage zones, assigning workshops to specific dwarfs, ramps vs stairs, wheelbarrows, bins/barrels, optimizing where to place workshops relative to Caverns, etc.) Also it'd be great to understand how to get the most value out of major tools like DFHack and/or Dwarf Therapist for those of us new to DF via Steam.
@ChaoticPsyche01 Жыл бұрын
I'm not a beginner, but I feel obligated to watch these videos because every time I feel like I know what I'm doing in dwarf fortress, I get to experience some Fun
@xinlou6707 3 ай бұрын
This series helped get into it, what amazed me is that the world you created is constantly living like you can embark to make 2nd fortress and the previous one is there same as you can go adventure mode create demigods and put them all in one fortress and wrestle demons for fun :D
@CasualBeans Жыл бұрын
I love seeing tutorial videos because I played 3 forts before I figured out farming. I always learn new tricks!
@MrDaAsif Жыл бұрын
Incredible tutorial. DF always intimidated me but this gave me the confidence to get started. Thank you!!!!
@gnollman 11 ай бұрын
Not a beginner (any more), but this is a great, concise, and very relevant Getting Started tutorial. Nothing overly complicated, just your basic 'stay alive' video. The tutorial series is great work, keep it up!
@JSparrowist Жыл бұрын
Very helpful!
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@kingmonday2918 8 ай бұрын
Holy shit I watched this to get a refresher as I hadn't played in months and my goodness there was so many things I never new and better ways of doing stuff... Well done. I'm more dwarf than I've ever been right now.
@sorrenzz3610 8 ай бұрын
Hey man I got this game a few days ago. Been playing Qud but then I saw this. Seems quite an amazing game
@s7robin105 8 ай бұрын
I just got this game and this was very helpful. Thank you
@Karboluk Жыл бұрын
I know you resisted making new tutorials for a while, but I have to say that you're quite good at it. Skipping important but confusing descriptions is an important skill to not swamp new players, and you have it.
@ObliqueXuba 11 ай бұрын
yeah, too many people get a bit too excited at sharing their full knowledge all at once, while putting it in the most literal terms when it is easier to digest if you phrase it better and pace yourself.
@Torgoth1 Жыл бұрын
Despite seeing a ton of tutorials over the years (including some of Blinds) I can never get enough of his DF vids. Thanks for putting this up here. You’ve done a great job with keeping it succinct and accessible…a tough challenge with something like DF. I probably missed it but was there a seed for this map? The embark looks like a really cool site. Love the idea of a fort on a cliff overlooking a waterfall.
@alex_lll 8 ай бұрын
Good tutorial - provides good start and doesn't span multiple hours.
@brandon8667 Жыл бұрын
The depth of this game is crazy. I'm playing it like Rimworld with a Z axis, full well knowing I'm scratching the surface.
@0DeadSoul0 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video! Even though I am no longer a beginner I still learn something new or am reminded of something I forgot.
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Great to hear!
@Critterdale 8 ай бұрын
Nice video thanks
@clearsmashdrop5829 11 ай бұрын
I don't think I've ever put my still into a Tavern. Have'nt played the game for 6 months....now thiking of starting a new Fortress just to do that. :)
@BrimstoneVomit 3 күн бұрын
Thank you, Sir. Amazing introduction to the game. I've known of Dwarf Fortress since its inception, but couldn't get past the ASCII graphics to try it. Eventually assumed it was just a proto-Rimworld/Gnomoria game and didn't need to try it. But this world/history generation stuff? I thought Soulash and Archmage Rises were doing something novel by including it. Turns out Dwarf Fortress is the O.G. that I should've been playing all along. Oh well. Better late than never.
@infinityfabrik 8 ай бұрын
You created a concise and effective learning tool for me in making this video. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Got two of your playlists lined up to watch next. Liked commented subscribed.
@raizer21able 4 ай бұрын
Thank you. I like knowing a bit about the beginning of these games before I go in deep. Thank you for the nice base.
@kunibertrandolf1886 Жыл бұрын
Hey, uhm, maybe a stupid question, but can I change that dwarfes just come flying in TOO FAST?? I love building and stockpiling first and getting inhabitants later while gradually upping general production and filling the spaces needed in such games but dwarfes just keep flooding in! I am very happy that the game seems to like how I handle builds and I never had a food shortage or got wiped out by anything yet but mostly because the amount of inhabitants just overwhelms me and I have to abondon the world for just being too much to handle for my tiny brain. I feel like as soon as I start my gem production and money comes flying in, the entirety of of the dwarf population just wants a piece of the cake, moves in and then gets increasingly angry because I literally cannot give 200+ dwarfs anough to do on two floors of housing, some production and some layers of strip mining.
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
If you go into the game settings you can edit the population cap.
@Kram1032 Жыл бұрын
In the options, limit the maximum number of residents and kids and what not. You can turn those up later when you feel more ready
@moltenwood Жыл бұрын
the latest version supports multi threading, which is a game changer
@Techfuse13 Жыл бұрын
Now I can be even more efficient during the start up phase of my next fort!
@rottenroadkill3311 Жыл бұрын
I have missed going to DF school with blind
@sidrat2009 6 ай бұрын
Thank you for your advice and video tutorial. The beginnings is always the most daunting as there seems to be a lot to do very quickly but you managed it all rather quickly. I wonder what happened to the original seven dwarves (getit!) in this play through?
@vanguze Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully done as usual. DF is a game everyone should give a shot at least once.
@johbowfor 8 ай бұрын
Brilliant, thank you so much!
@McDank41 Жыл бұрын
Hey Blind, I just wanted to say I’ve recently discovered your channel after learning about dwarf fortress as of last year! I’ve been binging all of “HeatStone” and wanted to thank you for uploading them to KZfaq I’m in the US Army and currently deployed so it really is nice to have the VODS whenever I’m on guard or something man! Although I don’t agree with all your political views I absolutely love watching your gameplay and the knowledge you have man! I hope you continue posting VODS (preferably in 480p as an option since we don’t get good signal out here) But thanks again man! I hope I can catch a stream one day!
@beepbop6697 Жыл бұрын
First off, thank you for your service and for watching our backs overseas. However, don't be surprised that your political views are likely going to change once you leave the armed forces. For the encodings, I'm fairly sure that KZfaq automatically down samples videos to support streaming over low quality / slower network connections. For example, this video supports 1080p (original upload quality) all the way down to 144p -- you can manually set the quality in the KZfaq playback options.
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
I will totally keep posting vods, however they've moved to my extras channel. Also it's okay to disagree. My takes can be kind of extreme and that makes it worse for some. Lastly. Thank you for your service.
@tangodroid Жыл бұрын
Great tutorial as always. I wish i had this when I was beginning with DF
@forsety2 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great intro! I decided to get the game thanks to you!
@BlindiRL 7 ай бұрын
Hope you enjoy it!
@forsety2 7 ай бұрын
This game is so good!
@forsety2 7 ай бұрын
Haven't slept. Just been dwarving. A werelizard almost took out my fort (down to like 15 dwarves) but it is thriving again after I quarantined the infected
@neilharper1858 3 ай бұрын
This video is brilliant. Helped so much with getting started. Thanks
@eeik5150 Жыл бұрын
Good video.
@phatgomeb0ss Жыл бұрын
Banger video
@Solice-lx8mk Жыл бұрын
Thank you for such an informative video.
@hey_how_are_ya Жыл бұрын
Do you have a video giving some little more advanced tips? Like how to automate food and drink production? I keep running out of seeds for one type of plant while gaining seeds for another. So i built several different plots of land so that i dont have to keep changing what to plant each season. Also is there a better way to make 100 bedrooms rather than manually selecting what to mine out?
@Joseph_Allan 9 ай бұрын
Giving this a second go around. Played 13 hours and gave up. Complex!
@BlindiRL 9 ай бұрын
You've got this!
@truefreak Жыл бұрын
Great intro to the game basics!
@facethefaceandmore44 8 ай бұрын
It’s definitely a game.
@maakkz 7 ай бұрын
One of the games of all time
@hansdampf640 4 ай бұрын
finally some concrete tutelage and no constant chatter bout how deep and complicated the game is,thank you!
@jamesderiven1843 Жыл бұрын
One bigger tip I might add is pausing long enough on the world gen screen to turn off goddamn werebeasts, do much to make the current version so unpleasant.
@pavloxis5158 2 ай бұрын
Werebeasts arent that bad. If the infect some dwarfs then exile them. Eazy
@RangerRick_1988 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic "remastered" tutorial! Excited to see more!
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
More to come!
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@24:48 could use a video on storage items, and in what stock zones they should be placed. i have noticed you lost trade off cut gems hidden in crates. or to optimize storage zones.
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
Who cares, Trade is busted. Does not matter if you lose out cause you'll make it up down the line in used clothing.
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@17:22 "how to stop a mining selected tile/secon/area after its been selected for mining!" i could use a video on baisc mining,
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
Hit eraser, erase area. Are you.. unable to understand basic ui functions or are you trolling?
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@14:13 if you could twitch stream a new embark, for the milestones, required for a survival, (ui, and ingame) so that then one may actually start a game and adventuring, picking up on your more advanced tutorials.
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
Check my second channel @blindextras
@w-dad4040 11 ай бұрын
Great videos, man
@tatawbr 16 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@zsanart_yt Жыл бұрын
High quality tutorial!
@nibnob9 Жыл бұрын
great voice great content keep it comin on youtube!
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@demonicbunny3po Жыл бұрын
Mostly watched to help this spread. Commenting for the same. I learned nothing! Then again, I’m not a beginner. I’m actively working on a mega structure, generational Volcano fort. I’ve got it carved out around the lava tube and am building structures in the hollowed out areas.
@thehedgehogarmy8930 10 ай бұрын
Good video
@robertstimmel1100 8 ай бұрын
I've always been interested in this game, but also a little intimidated. I bought it on day one when it was released on Steam and still haven't played it. This guide may be just what I needed to take the plunge.
@lausenteternidad Жыл бұрын
Finally, the trick to get waterfall
@stevendonaldson1216 Жыл бұрын
I'm not a beginner but hell if miss a great Blind Tutorial
@clintharris8519 Жыл бұрын
Great video! I know you've done multiple beginner videos, but .. please, please more!
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Will do!
@kommentarepostenwill 4 ай бұрын
Thank you
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@15:16 still struggling to stop my dwarfs mining when i made a mistake on where.
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
I.. can't help you there mate.
@Lucavii Жыл бұрын
How to give someone the itch to play DF 101
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@21:15 ooooh do an episode on how to care for, /claim elephants, if you did not start with them. like what do you need to keep them alive. breed them.
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
They are exactly the same as any animal. You can watch my animal pastures / husbandry on that. they graze on grass.
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@1:26 "set how long your history is going to run" needs deeper explanation. i set it to five years on pocket size world and got blasted by a dragon i assume, by the time i tried to place a pasture around my waggon.
@condorX2 6 ай бұрын
Falling tree is deadly for Dwarf 😅
@RuneChaosMarine 7 ай бұрын
@8:11 my f1 button is programed to bring up a webrowser by default and i do not know how to stop this
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@11:41 i have been attempting to strip mine an elevated area down to level ground.. elevation 1? or 0. i have been failing to modivate all 7 dwaf to do at early. does this video need updated for steam? also cut up in to the most basic of explanations.
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@13:20 do you not use a mod to allow you to know what is on each z level, mineral and water wize? demons and other cheese?
@Greud33 Жыл бұрын
Cool, thanks ! We need more videos like that !!!!
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@18:33 my field show up empty without anything to plant, is that becuase we did not bring them, and i did not harvvest plants?
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
Means you settled somewhere without plants.
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@15:05 how do i know if there is a asecond pick? need a wagon video, and how to operate from only the wagon. mile stones.
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
... click the wagon.
@sarahjane1975 9 ай бұрын
my 1st fort, I think there is no water, no river, no aquifer. just hit the 1st cavern layer and still have not found water (yet). should I give up?
@BlindiRL 9 ай бұрын
You could. Or keep digging and have an adventure.
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@12:17 how am i to be sure that the dwarfs i wish to have strip mine, are equiped with picks? do i not spawn with seven picks?
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
If you started with the default setting you have 2, if you started with prepare carefully then. Only you know if you did.
@ftumchgtumch732 9 ай бұрын
It's good to note that miners shouldn't really cut wood, and woodcutters shouldn't really mine. Also, a REALLY important point you missed is that brewing plump helmets is the only way to get yourself more plump helmet spawn (aside from trading or scavenging in the lower levels, which usually come a bit later in the game) this is the way you avoid one of the early fortress deaths... eating yourself into extinction...
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@14:05 "food beer and beds" what is the order of operations for a new player to get that started, along side chests and cabinets. are beds not able to be crafted of stone ? ok so i need wood a carpenter and a stone crafter ? a farm, a farm crafting thing, a farm, and a still? how do i get all that asap? what am i missing? bah!
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
stone pots, stone doors, storage, ... how not to agrovate elfs. i want 7 dwarves, set to go, asap, and then expand upon that, and my plans to strip mine the earth. water source should be added to this i am sure?
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
Set it to whatever you want. Its a sandbox game with literally no necessary set of operations,.
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
@15:48 how long does it take for trees to regrow ingame, if at all? does this help to prevent elf anger?
@BlindiRL 6 ай бұрын
2-3 years depending on the tree
@jonahdedini5958 7 ай бұрын
I was trying to make a staircase underground as shown in the video, however, when I dragged a square and scrolled to a lower level and clicked again, it did nothing. I also tried pressing m once I had the selected area but nothing happened either when I pressed unpause. I also noticed that when I dragged a square it was not set in place, I could still move around the size of the square. Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?
@BlindiRL 7 ай бұрын
To confirm. You clicked on the stairs tool and dragged a small square then moved down levels and clicked again and nothing happened? You can resize as you are dragging that's normal. I'm a bit perplexed by this description honestly.
@jonahdedini5958 7 ай бұрын
@@BlindiRLthank you! I figured it out. However, I have another problem. After playing for a while, all of my dwarfs suddenly died from dehydration. I also realized that right before this happened there was like 15 people that all of a sudden came to my fortress. Do you have any ideas how this happened?
@jonahdedini5958 7 ай бұрын
Never mind I figured it out.
@maakkz 7 ай бұрын
I’m curious, why do you say it’s better to have no barrels in the seeds stockpile?
@BlindiRL 7 ай бұрын
Makes it harder to get the seeds out. Kinda hard to explain.
@user-fl3tp1un7h Жыл бұрын
How did you draw the digging area for 8 rooms all at once?
@Fabiano_il_Flaco 9 ай бұрын
It's video editing power :D
@memedrogoooon 11 ай бұрын
Tried to play this on my own, trhee dwarfs die of thirst in the hospital XD
@suspiciousllama385 11 ай бұрын
I bought the game, and 10 minutes in, i hadn't even finished the tutorial, and my miner was just dead at the bottom of a lake i have no idea
@kalibstallings3079 Жыл бұрын
Brand new player here and as a brand new player is the tutorial important or should I just click out of it and follow this guys video?
@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын
Id do both
@kalibstallings3079 Жыл бұрын
@@BlindiRL gotcha thank you 🙏
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
im trying.
@RuneChaosMarine 6 ай бұрын
steam purchse
@randompopcat9615 10 ай бұрын
what mineral occurence do you recommend
@BlindiRL 10 ай бұрын
Frequent as you think you need I play on sparse
@donbert Жыл бұрын
Imagining someone who have never heard of Tarn/Zach to be confused why Gomez and Fester Addams (brothers) would be talking about DF stories… 😂
@denestasinalis Жыл бұрын
A few times you say things like, "Just do this, you don't need to know why." It seems like actually telling people why would be a bit more helpful for a tutorial video.
@highadmiralbittenfield9689 Жыл бұрын
The why of it would turn it into a 45 minute + video. Notice that he intended on this being 15 minutes and it already ended up being almost 30.
@renamkr1347 Жыл бұрын
Seeds on barrels are bugged right now
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