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I decided I wanted a well near my hospital, so I rerouted a surface river down 10z. I underestimated water. I flooded down half of my fortress, but two brave heroes, Edem and Catten were able to dig out a drain. Unfortunately, in order to complete the drain they had to mine into the flooded area and were overcome by the torrent. I lost several more in recovering their bodies. They all now share an honored memorial tomb so no one forgets their brave sacrifice.

7:40 I laughed for a good while when you gave this explanation about treefelling as it reminded me of my first ever contact with the Steam version of DF. I am a veteran player, had a *big* DF phase that eventually mellowed out for a few years. Seeing the game again pop up in Steam fueled my desire to play again. And so I did. Being a bit rusty and having a brand new UI I figured I might aswell just play the tutorial and see how it was made. Generate a small world, and I get the "play now?" tutorial prompt. "huh, no carefully prepared embark... I guess the tutorial will choose a sensible starting location and wagon. Let's see how it goes". So i clicked it. The game set me up for a tutorial partly on an evil biome right off the bat. Instant _fun_ as they say. So there I was, trying to relearn the game before anything worse came to happen. First thing first, chop some wood from the untainted part of the map aaaand... a dwarf has died crushed under a tree. Not a minute into the tutorial. And before I had finished laughing it reanimated and killed the rest of the crew. I can only imagine if this happened to a new player, what a legendary first contact it would be with the good old mantra that *losing is fun*

You are the reason that I'm actually able to understand and enjoy this absolute gem of a game! Thank you so much for all your work and helping newbies like me

At about 36:00 you may want to ensure that you have a 3 tile wide path to the trade depot so that your visiting traders can bring wagons. Otherwise they will only appear with what they can carry because the wagon can't make it to the depot.

Following your tutorials, I have run into a hilarious problem: the starting fortress is so nice that I am flooded with guests, migrants, etc. to the point that nobody does anything because fortress government can't keep up with everyone and they all just hang out in the tavern, brawling and leaving the corpses to stink up the dancefloor. Nobody seems to care enough to move them or stop socializing; they just get into worse and worse moods.

My favorite thing was my first attempt on steam edition, my wood cutter lived a total of 3 mins before he cut down a tree that was next to a small pond. He decided that instead of being on the safe side of it (where the land is) he would try to wade into the water to get a good angle (I was trying to chop it not even for the wood, it was just in the way of my irrigation system and I wanted it to look nice) He cuts the tree, the ground gives out, causing him to sink in and drown. I only noticed when it said he’d been missing for weeks. I completely ignored the surface collapse because it had been happening all over way to the north of me so I figured it was just the area next to the river.

I much enjoy these videos, but they could really benefit from having selectable chapters on the specific topics you address. So you can get to them quickly. With the amount of information in Dwarf Fortress, you'll want to re-watch a lot of specific things a few times before you've fully absorbed them. To do that, you have to know what information is in which video, and where exactly.

A friend of mine really got into this game and wanted me and other friends to also get into because he plans on making a Succesion game like Boatmurdered with us. It's the first time I'm playing a game with such complexity and it's hard to get into as a newcomer. I can honestly see how I can really enjoy this game, but it would take a lot for me to be able to actually enjoy it without feeling stressed. This video series will really help me ease into it and enjoy the game as a whole. Thank you for this.

This series is a lifesaver. Your ability to clearly and simply explain how to navigate this game has helped me get my footing more than anything else I've found so far. Thanks!

You channel and videos are fantastically detailed and informative, as well as very impressively thought out. Thank you for all the effort you put into this.

You should really use the button next to the minimap with an arrow pointing at an x to set the f key hotkeys to zip your view around the fort to preset locations, allows you to set a location and press the corresponding f key to instantly move there, instead of just f1 to take you to the wagon. You can quickly move up or down floors without needing to scroll up and down.

I love this series! Thank you for putting your time into this. I know Im not the only one when I say that I appreciate your efforts into this. 🙂

What you might want to do, for those of us who want to play along exactly, you might want to provide your seed so we can get the same map as you. Just a thought, loving these tutorials man.

Thank you for restarting, the extra explanations and context are very helpful.

Thanks, Definitely one of the best videos so far, looking forward to this series

This is an excellent start, thank you so much! I only just started this game yesterday and to say the depth of it is overwhelming would be a complete understatement!

Liking this new series a lot! Somehow I find these types of videos still very entertaining even though I've played DF on and off for 10+ years

Excellent work as usual. My first experience was back around 2011 for a week or so before life kept me from continuing to play. So these have helped dust off a lot of memories and skills

Thank you for the effort. Restarting was a very good move indeed.

This is an awesome idea! It has really helped my play through majorly. Thank you so much for doing this!

Really really helpful, fast and to the point. Super series!

This is so helpful. Giving context for why you are doing something in a play through is so clarifying. Only been playing this since the Steam version so a total noob, but you've really helped me get started! Keep up the good work!

Ohhhhh YES! I hadn’t started your other series yet, so this is PERFECT timing!

I love this series so far because I used to play DF years ago and I got quite good but stopped playing for a while, so this is a good refresher

Liked and Subbed, your tutorials are a GODSEND to new players like me. They are incredibly helpful and i would like to thank you!

The first tutorial series started out amazing, I was able to understand the game thanks to you! Episode 3 and 4 felt a little rushed, but I'm very glad to see this new series! Thanks for doing it for the community! Happy to see your channel growth, you derserve it!

This episode was great! Really looking forward for the rest of them :D

A solid foundation for newcomers and that's coming from one! I did manage to figure out a good chunk of this on my own, but didn't think to dabble in the nobles menu let alone build a throne. I'm particularly happy I figured out farms, managers, brokers and bookkeepers since they're clearly core features. Maybe now I'll survive more than two years and get a start on my military! Seriously, cheers for this my man.

watched lots of tutorial vids and have to say yours is the most comprehensive and detailed

This is easily one of the best introductory videos on Dwarf Fortress. Big fan of these and the streams.

YOU ARE incredible! Thanks for the tutorial! Can't wait to get cracking with my own DF!

Thank you. I never heard of Dwarf Fortress before the Steam launch, nor did I ever hear about a KZfaqr/Twitch named Blind. I love your easy to follow guides and you really make this game more manageable to play. Thank you for providing me (up until now) with 20h of fun Dwarfen gameplay and the hours of content about them.

Wow that was fast since the poll, awesome. I haven't played in a while, so I'm looking to this for a refresher. Good stuff

I really like the way you teach this tutorial. You have an excellent way of relating what is important without over explaining and getting lost in the details, you are fast enough to keep it interesting and avoid dead air time and just have a pleasant tone to your voice that is authorative and still entertaining. I am looking forward to watching the rest. I have been playing for months and already picked up on several important details I have missed that will make a big difference in my future games. I hope to see more from you in games we both find interesting.

Hello just started playing dwarf fortress, and out all I guide videos I saw this one of the most comprehensive beginner guide. I actually feel confident playing the game thank you!

I wanna say I love your videos. Thank you so much for these tutorials. I've wanted to get into dwarf fortress for so long, but i just hadnt had the mental energy to properly understand the asci version. Youve helped me and my dwarves more than i can express Thank you

this video is really saving me. keep up the amazing work and videos, and thank you'

I love these kind of tutorials and explained videos with jump cuts in them. As some one who never played the game I want to get a feel for it, how the early mid and late game is like. Hope you continue this series

Conscise and well explained. You've put all the necessary tips for a good start in under an hour. I've also noticed the effort you put in a script and progress you've made with editing and manner of speaking - keep it up!

I'm excited to watch through this new tutorial. Understandably, the first time around some things were left out such as getting all productions ready in preparations for Strange Moods. But all of your content has been extremely useful for me to get started with this game. Can't wait to see where this fort goes. When it does inevitably go to shit, I would love to see that as well!

I've been watching a lot of DF lets plays and tutorial and this is far and away the best one

Thanks for all your work, helpful and enjoyable

Thanks a lot for making these tutorial series!

My lady bought me this game for christmas, and i immediately searched up tutorials for how to play. Your videos were the first i saw, so i hopped in a bath and put it on. Fantastic and informative content. I will most likely be watching all of this series. One question i do have, because it for whatever reason super irks me - How do you remove those piles of stone and gems all over the place? Its making my ocd go nuts lol

I appreciate all the work you're putting into your tutorials :)

This is so helpful seriously thank you so much. I've been wanting to get into DF so badly but it's very overwhelming at times, so having you walkthrough everything makes learning the game a lot less frustrating.

Thanks for the video! Didn't know about the ability to specify the amount of mugs in the meeting room. Well, that, and the 7000+ other things in DF I still have no idea about.

Started playing DF a couple weeks ago and have been very slowly learning. I already learned SO many things from just this first video in the series. I can't wait to watch the rest and get rolling. Loving all of this. Thanks so much for all the time and effort!

As someone who voted for you to continue the old fort . . . . after you had decided to make the new one technically, but, wanted to say, this is a fantastic tutorial and a great start for a new series. Always looking forward to more, whatever you do; finally being able to play this game has been a treat, everything you've done has only made it better.

You have really outdone yourself with these videos, thank you so much.

Thank you for these tutorials, total life savers!

Blind thanks for these videos, they are helping me alot. Cheers man.

I'm extremely glad to have found your videos, and grateful to you for making them. As a newcominger to DF since Steam release, I'm fascinated with it. That fascination is frequently coupled with frustration as I doom one fledging outpost after another under my clumsy and misguided (while well-meaning) attempts to starting a good fortress. This first video has already been of tremendous insight.

Just wanted to thank you for these bite sized tutorials. They really help!

I've made like 6 different worlds striking Earth and getting lost and messing things up. Enjoying your work. Thank you. 20 years of development. I'm stoked.

Awesome. Really enjoying your tutorial. Not as basic as other ones, so it remains interesting without making me feel stupid. haha. Keep them coming.

Love building with Jet and Chalk for that black & white look ;). Also, had a whole layer once with rock salt and microcline (pastel pink and cyan) my fort was sooo beautiful!

After literal years of reading the wild stories about the game but never having the mental fortitude to play it, I picked up this version and it's amazing beyond every description I've heard. My first death: a cat climbed up a tree, couldn't get down so it started making so much noise the carpenter tried to kill it. It failed to kill it with a crossbow so it tried to climb up with a ladder. Once up there it also got stuck because a monkey stole the ladder. They started to starve, so they decided to eat the cat, raw. It became bloodthirsty, jumped down the tree, broke both legs then and attacked a child, which killed it with a pinecone, and grew up to become the mayor.

Super helpful to start a game for a newcomer. Thanks a lot

Splendid tutorial! I've lost 2 dwarves while chopping trees, b/c somehow *within* the trunk there was a hidden floor of soil... depending on agility I think, sometimes the dwarves get away when it collapses - then I get a message telling me they're fighting a dust cloud... sometimes they drop unconcious and recover, and then there were those I lost... I haven't been able to figure out how to spot the danger beforehand, though. Looking very forward to learning more about aquifers!

Very nice video 👍 i will watch all episodes 👍😁

Awesome episode, keep it up! 😁

This was so helpful, thank you!

God, thank you. I just grabbed this off steam and I don't think I've ever had so many tabs open in chrome. Things were NOT going well at all. Happy to restart following this fantastic tutorial.

i just started and i have absolutely no idea what i'm doing so i'm here watching every single beginner's guide i can find

You’ve got great videos man. You’re a good teacher, too.

That is a beautiful valley to embark to.

Good on you for updating old work 👍

Just an FYI, I found that dwarves will smooth floors under beds, just not some other stuff like pedestals and statues. I only bring this up because in the other video you specified beds couldn't be smoothed under. Thanks for the videos man. o7

I have tried to play DF over the last week, and watching this video has inspired me. I have so much to learn, but I honestly want to get to your level of expertise. Looks incredibly fun.

Wow ... a VERY cool embark area in this one ... I Love it when you get starting areas like that ... lots of places to dig ... heh.

You helped me so much! thank you!

Thinking about giving this game a try, videos like this make me want consider buying this game! Thanks

Thanks for these amazing videos

My brother recommended I check you out as I was finding the difficulty / complexity overwhelming.

Thanks for the video! It's great to have a let's play with the steam version from someone who knows what they're doing and isn't using a face cam. That said, I'm not sure if something has changed since I last played, but I believe you need a three tile wide clear path for your trade post (including stairs). Otherwise the wagon can't get in and they won't trade with you.

Loving this! Dude Grats to you in capitalizing on this games steam release, your effort is gonna make you a bag! Imagine playing dwarf fortress with near endless possibilities and actually being paid for it! When you get bored with farming, time to start a dwarves crusade! Bored with combat? Time to build a master crafting fortress! Done with crafting? Time to start digging the largest fortress you have ever seen filled to the brim with traps and resources to allow you to keep digging forever!

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Now i have the begining of a fortress running. Waiting for your next video '-'

I've always wanted to play a game like this, but woo, it's a tough one. Thanks for the insight, Blind.

Very informative!

thank you fort his tutorial fortress

This is great! Thank You!

Cheers mate - video was useful. Was a bit overwhelmed upon starting this game as the tutorial only really covers the usage of stonecutter and carpenter workshops.

Very detailed, nice

Great, these are helpful.

Settled in a place with no aquifer because it had a flux stone layer and lots of metals. Thanks to this video, I was able to turn the little brook in the opposite corner of the map from my base into a nearby water source!

Thank you sooo much! I didnt know how to get my mugs out of the workshop! Lol

Excelente tutorial

Love your videos. They realy help me getting into this. Tried the free version a few years back and just couldn't get into IT.. Still hard as i'm no native speaker but thanks to you and the new graphics i can slowly start to enjoy this madness

I’m now about 50 hours in and still picked up a few good tidbits here. Putting the trading post underground never even crossed my mind, for instance. Or turning off visitors at that first tavern to quash them. Also I’m still building too much like a human, straight lines everywhere (other than temples and tombs), I really need to think more like a dwarf, it’s so much more aesthetically pleasing. Finally, I’ve had garbage luck with maps. It’d be terrific to get a waterfall. This map is great. Good video, good process, good format.

I've transitioned away from using wood for barrels and primarily use jet if it's available. For reference, stone pots weight one-third as much as a barrel would if it were made of stone. Being the lightest non-economic stone at 1320kg/m3, cut by two-thirds it becomes 440kg/m3. Considering that *most* woods weigh in around 600kg/m3, on average jet pots are considerably lighter. In fact, jet pots are even lighter than ceramic pots; and there are only 5 barrel types that are lighter than the jet pot... feather tree, papaya, candlenut, kapok, and willow. Even assuming you had an abundance of those materials, it makes more sense to me to save those for bins, which cannot be made from stone at all. Also, if you're curious, you can look at a raw lump of stone or log to check its weight and get an idea how they compare. I just made a test pot, then compared its empty weight against the weight of most of my empty barrels.

haha playing your series like a DF... sometimes better to just start over and do it better. love it!

Okay, you got me! I'll subscribe

You could use the feature to find embark locations to show it to people and show how can anyone look easilly for a spot that have the attributes you seek, like Aquifers.

I wish I met with this game earlier but hey I find your channel and thanks a lot for the video I'll watch all of the guides and advice you to all my friends LONG LIVE THE DWARFS

I'm gonna be honest I figured Aavak would have had a video out first day. But he didn't so now I'm watching your playlist and I'm diggin it. This is gonna be a great series.

You can use work orders even if your manager doesn't have an office. So long as you have a small number of dwarves in your fort.

Making a large world is fairly quick and easy. Finding a place to settle down in a large world, hard.

Epic thx Blind