For a game that was notoriously lacking graphics, procedural portraits are a huge leap that I wasn't expecting. Skeleton in a helmet looks so cool!

"huge adventure mode fan excited to play it for the first time"

The reason I bought this game recently is because adventure mode is coming out in April. I figured that gave me enough time to learn fortress mode and get one set up for adventure mode. This, of course, led me to this channel.

As a new DF player that joined in with the release of premium, I've never played adventure mode. However, I am definitely looking forward to playing it!

The music from the Fortress mode update was so good that I genuinely find the new music the part of this update I am most excited for.

You can grab treasure, books, resources, go on quests, Hunt monsters, fight undead, explore temples, throw mugs, create a brand, and more. There are possibilities already, and the updates will be cool too.

oh wow, at first I was very unsure about the new healing methods in the game, but now I'm rather interested to how it could be implemented in both fortress mode and adventure mode. It could be that healing rituals and stuff could spread like medicinal techniques in fortres mode, where physicians would research and write about it in libraries and potentially use them in hospitals. I can also see it being a sort of interesting way to build a character for a party in adventure mode. Now thinking of it, there should be healing rituals for specific sort of injuries, like a different thing that heals your bones from the thing that makes your nerve connections come back

Hearing that this won't break my saves is a massive, massive relief. I'm so excited to see my old forts from a closer perspective - and possibly find out where all the soldiers i lost to weird military bugs ended up

I played adventure mode for a very short while in classic many years ago. The idea of it is really cool, but I had a hard time getting into it. While I do enjoy roleplaying I think I find management more fun and fortress mode is a great combination of the two. Really looking forward to giving adventure mode another go after this update and maybe I'll be able to get a better sense of what I'm doing this time.

The portraits look so cool! I think that will add a ton of flavor to adventure mode, and also fortress mode

I have nearly 200 hours in DF on steam and I have never played adventure mode. Im really looking forward to it!

The deities actually having a use will be very interesting. The procedurally generated lore of the world is one of my favorite parts of the game. Maybe the demigods will just be able to talk to gods through the normal prayer option but peasants have to use the dice? Maybe gods of death will be able to grant the knowledge of life and death like they can in legends mode. Pissing the gods off to get turned into a werewolf or vampire might be an actual downside if being unfriendly with the gods has other effects.

im super looking forward to the new music in particular

I hope they make it so you can convert people to other religions in Fortress Mode. I've never been able to get people to convert and I don't think it's actually possible yet.

totally agree! even just finally dipping our toes into myths and magic is really exciting!

I honestly very much enjoy the low fantasy vibe of DF. Not just the lack of wizards arbitrarily calling meteors out of the sky, but because the game actually takes the time to simulate what that might actually look like - where as a lot of fantasy media, books included, just handwave everything. Drag a fucking massive bit of rock out of the atmosphere and slam it into the ground? The ground is remarkably unchanged by the sudden arrival of a meteor. There's not much more than a slight misting of dust where the meteor exploded. I have never liked that in fantasy. And consequences, to me, are more the spirit of low fantasy, than just the amount of magic flying around at any given moment. But they've always said they want "sliders" and variables for world generation to account for stuff anyway. So theoretically, the game should account for all tastes.

I just got dwarf fortress on steam a few weeks ago. I'm still very much a noob, but I'm super excited to try adventure mode. I really love they idea of doing a roguelike adventure in the worlds that I generate and really get to know the world and cities in it. When I generate a world I always fly around and check out all the cool places that were generated and think it'll be fucking sweet to go there as just a dwarf.

I'd been thinking about bouncing back to an ascii version of the game with a tileset to try out adventure mode but hadn't gotten around to it yet, so now I suppose I'll wait till April.

I never played the original DF, although I downloaded it once. I like the Steam version, but I don't have a lot of interest in Adventure Mode, so I'm more interested in features that will affect Fortress Mode, like the procedurally generated portraits and map graphics replacing the red squares. I will probably give Adventure Mode a go, though.

Man, I'm so excited for when there's eventually a Mac version for DF!! It'll be awesome

By God, I am excited for a new soundtrack

I've played a little bit of Adventure mode, but I came in with Premium so it was always a little tough going. That said, I think I'm one of those people who would absolutely adore it based on what I did like about it, which is half of the things that are listed as problems haha. The combat system is so interesting, and really does help you get fortress mode a little more, and I just love exploring the world with my weird animal person superpowers.

df news is always great! thanks for the video :)

Blind, do you think it's a good idea to put a lot of work into a world or not get too attached to them at the risk of a future update making them unplayable?

This sounds like a huge block of dev work that will be finished. Looking forward to the post update release Tarn talk.

I've been excited to try out adventure mode since I started in premium

Been playing adventurer mode from the older versions of the free edition. It’s absolutely fantastic, I’m having an absolute blast even with ASCII graphics. Highly suggest playing to get an idea of what it’ll be in the paid version, although you’ll need a guide and google by your side.

I think that the most sandbox this game gets will be better, also for the modability and the addiction of other types of world like high tech, as mentioned on their website, i like DF to be this kind of armok sandbox where you can roleplay anything you want

I am dying to play Adventure Mode. I have never built a fortress in Dwarf Fortress in my entire life. I got interested in Dwarf Fortress because of Adventure Mode.

New to df, never touched adventure mode, what was the cabin building mode that was skimmed over? Is that like, literally building a house with your little crew of adventurers? Sounds like it could be incredibly cool, having your party retire to a self built mansion after years of adventure to grow old

I wish they add a guide to go outside from fort maze or cavern. I hate the fact being always stuck in there.

Used to play an older version of DF before the steam release, tried adventure mode a few times but couldn't figure out how to actually play it and went back to Fortress mode.

It was inevitable

Same excited for the demigod method

My experience with adventure mode reminds me mostly of Unreal World, a traditional roguelike survival game. Quite boring but I'm looking forward to any different paths the dev team might take in the future.

Adventurer mode main here

havent played Adventure mode. I tried DF a long time ago-- but I could not get into the text graphcis.

Yeah I play some fortress but my main mode is adventure mode for me. I also just got the game on steam today since it's getting close for adventure mode to come out.

Ever since the Preme Version was out i had been hyped for adventure mode. I will redo a quest of mine, Legendary Spider person Wrestler and strangle a Goblin demon lord to death!!!.

With Tarn and Zach hoping to make magic and healing fully procedural I am left wondering just how procedural and if the player can have any hand in it? Like say discovering or inventing even more ways to heal or cause certain effects with what the world has already given you.

Cheers thanks

My god i wish you could control individual dwarves in this game, I'd be sold. I just worry that ill have a situation where a swarf is starving and theres food right beside him or something and he just wont eat because the A.I breaks or something. Or an enemy is slaughtering dwarves and fighter or guard or what have you dont defend them, etc. if it isnt obvious, i've never played the game but thats something that really puts me off. Other question. Are there tech trees and progressing weapons, armors, etc? I heard when population gets high the game chugs and frames get low. I have a 3070, will that be a problem?

I am so ready for Adventure Mode. It's set to be released close to my birthday, and I refuse to see this as anything other than a gift from Armok for 17 years of devoted service.

Me when playing demi-god difficuly: 'Nah i'd win"

It was inevitable.

A concern of mine is whether we will need to generate a new world. I don't want to see a world with 10+ forts unplayable in adventure mode.

"Play as an animal person with animals and more animals" its like they know the furries are gonna be all over this

For me, what really kept me from bouncing between Fortress Mode and Adventurer Mode all the time in 47 was the fact that retiring and unretiring your fort screwed so many things up. Having all the booze gone is something I could live with, since you can play that as a game feature, but seeing all the artifacts gone from their secure rooms and needing to spend a whole in-game year just on hauling scattered items and replacing every single cabinet in the fortress was purely egregious. By the way, about the name, notice that every time Kitfox talks about Adventurer Mode, they type "Adventure Mode" -- is this another low-key name change like the simplification of the game's title a year ago?

This game was an investment

So can we kill gods in Dwarf Fortress now?

Dialogue can be a bit repetitive. It was inevitable.

SECOND!

4:40 - white male gets beaten

they should use AI to generate responses in dialogs, so they are not all the same.

The combat animations (around 4:50) could be easily misconstrued for something, erm, a bit suspect. I'll be kind and say it looks like the dwarf is being blasted with milk...