Hey Folks, Here's another video, This one was good fun, I enjoyed making some completely unnecesarily geometric shapes in a volcano. But what's the deal with all those ranged Goblins? I swear that's not normal, I expected Beakdog riders but maybe I've got my perception of difficulty scaling in Dwarf fortress all wrong. And I know I keep saying it but still, Thanks for all the support in all the various ways it's given. I appreciate you all very much.

I had a similar experience early in a run, where a Giant attacked while I had people out doing stuff, and he caught someone trying to haul some wood back to the base. That person, unarmored, wielding only a copper war axe, obliterated the Giant's toe so it collapsed to the floor, and was promptly beheaded, and my woodcutter just went back about his day.

>Force of Darkness invade fortress >Throws goblin socks around the border of your map >Refuses to elaborate >Leaves

The goblins leaving you a sock is something obscure and ritualistic. Like I fully feel this is somehow the highest yet most subtle insult in goblin culture.

When the death of a dwarven child brings relief rather than sadness, you know you're playing dwarf fortress

I found that when the traders came and wouldn't trade, they were waiting for one of their horses that drowned in a river, actually 3 dead horses with a ton of loot.

Really digging the architecture of your floors.

I once had a elven bard that kicked a forgotten beast that was basically a rocc in the head killing it instantly, i have never been more speechless, impressed and confused all at once from a game before

"It did smash in a child's head before it got there, but that's not necessarily the worst thing for the fortress." - Hazzor

This is why I love this game. Minotaur attacks and out of nowhere a "Crouching old-guy hidden badass" archetype comes along and sacrifices himself to weaken the minotaur for an easy kill.

If You want to make crossbowman work you need to make a wall behind the fortification, so they stay right next to fortification, they can not shoot when they are further away and make a floor over the archery tower so they can't climb the fortification and jump down the wall. As well as that just make it impossible for them to go down the stairs so just put hatch covers over the stairs and when crossbows are up there just forbid the use of the hatches. Make some stockpiles in the tower for bolts. I usually make a pretty high wall and a moat under it. Just beware that your dwarfs might dodge into the moat when they are attacked. I had a lot of FUN! with my lava moats but even water ones are deadly for your dwarfs because they can't swim for shit Forgott one thing, your crossbowman can have shields.

"... apparently beating minotaurs to death with their bare hands ..." Best quote. Very much enjoyed this video. Thank you

Great Video, just a quick tip: Lead is a really heavy metal, so making barrels out of it will slow down your dwarves carrying them. I suggest tin, zinc or aluminium as they are light metals!

In my game a giantess came, and after we all hid for a while she essentially became passive. She was still marked as "hostile" in the menu but never attacked. Eventually she died to a passing werebeast.

Nice fortress and well edited, those floor layouts were awesome! A small tip regarding archery ranges: if you channel down the row in front of the targets (west/left side in your case at 9:30) the bolts will collect down there rather than being destroyed by the training. Not sure if this is intended behavior but it helps prevent having to recraft bolts constantly.

I'm ravenous for Dwarf Fortress content right now and I can tell by the thumbnail that this should be good. I love how I can see the skill curve now.

So something I'm noticing. You should make a few temples. They don't need to be to anyone in particular, nor nice, nor large. Just a few 2x2 rooms will do. You'll want 1 temple per 6 dwarves. It'll tremendously help your moods.

Woah my inner inquisitor started freaking out at that floor design, lovely work haha

That Log of your sworddwarf reminded me of my Hammerlord who went 1v1 against a Giant, cracking both of his legs, making hin fall and then continued to bash his head in almost 4-5 pages long... really pages upon pages of "Bashes him with his Warhammer, cracking the skull".... i love this game

Your channel is an absolute hidden gem! I hope someday you get huge, keep the quality content coming!

Appreciate the amount of effort that goes into editing! All the cuts, zoom-ins and transitions help a lot with following DF, which leaves a lot to the imagination, even with a tileset. You really menage to bring out what's best in this dwarven chaos generator. The pacing is superb and makes this very interesting to watch. Keep up the good work, looking forwards to more!

a very fun use of volcano forts is mass glass production if you have sand available near it green glass is completely free, but still worth as much as the valuable stones, and can make absolutely anything that stone can, pots, furniture, and magma safe pump materials

The way you build your fortress is just hypnotizing

I have watched a LOT of youtubers cover this game and you are by far my favorite to have found. 1. you are not uploading livestreams only which is a big difference from most youtubers covering this game. secondly you are just good at making interesting videos with good dialog.

The small Bim reference made me hearty chuckle. Love the looks of the fort

I'm running my own goblin-surrounded volcano fortress! And from that I can confirm so far they only show up in increasingly large groups of archers.

I settled a volcano in the Southwest of my world, the fort of Earthenhollow, on the edge of the mountains and the cold, red desert. 2/3rds died of thirst early on, but about 6 survived. Our kingdom was the weakest of the two dwarven realms, and migrant waves weren’t happening. In the process of engineering a wind farm to power a pump stack for water, the thirst returned and left what few remained unable and unwilling to work. It was abandoned right on the very start of Summer 2003. I settled a frozen desert to the South and very quickly an undead army arrived. One dwarf sacrificed himself to board up the entrance with cactus floorboards. Hunger overtook that fortress, and I had to surrender it. I still have hopes that Earthenhollow can be reclaimed, and that those who died in the frigid South will be avenged.

I would happily watch more dwarf fortress videos like this one and want to encourage you to make more! Thank you for the entertainment!

Damn, you've inspired me to be more creative with my layouts.

Great job turning a chill game into an entertaining video throughout. Really dig the editing.

The 40k styles on the fort are amazing *Chef's kiss*

This was a GREAT walk through. A new player here and learned so much. Thank you

The best way to wrangle marksdwarves is to station them inside a roofed pillbox, and lock the door behind them to force them to only use their ranged weapons at anything in range. The roof is Important; without one they'll jump over the fortifications if necessary to get their targets within whacking range.

you're one of my legitimately favorite youtubers, at least recently, I love watching your content, can't wait for more!

KZfaq autoplay rolled me into this, and despite not being a Dwarf Fortress kind of person normally, I really enjoyed it. You have a great narrative style! Also, fantastic voice. Instant subscribe, looking forward to more stories of Dwarves and other such things!

You have such a great voice for story telling. Please keep up the great editing work and keep playing these kind of games. I'll binge watch everyone... yes even hour(s) long videos :D

High-quality and comfy. That architecture is eyecandy.

You should definitely make more of these. I really enjoy the pace, a fun watch. Would love to see it go longer and watch you do more things like attack other civilizations.

19:32 all the flowery language left her body as that guy kept wailing on her 😭

Its my first video of your channel. Nice edits and summery! Its really awesome to see dwarf fortress got so many new people with the Steam release. Hopefully we will see even more stories sprout out of our sandbox.

Always happy to watch your new releases, dude. I dunno what it is, but I think your pacing of narration is what makes these videos on-point.

Really love your Dwarf Fortress videos, the possibilities are endless for every embark and world gen

Your build layouts are so sick!

Just found your channel and really like it. Kenshi and Dwarf Fortress are two of my favorite games because of how they just unfurl a story before you with your inputs. And these videos are great, with the perfect amount of humor!

Great narration. You've earned a new fan.

I very much enjoy watching these dwarf fortress videos! Your storytelling using a storytelling game makes them all the more fun! I would love to see some of the more advanced systems in play from the game, and what you think of them through one of your forts! Thanks again for your hard work!

So happy I found you! you have become my new night time watch while trying to sleep. so perfect

You have made telling a Dwarf Fortress story to an art. Masterful I love this format. I haven't messed with any liquid mechanics yet.

great video, i like how you told the story of the fortress and showed it evolve with good pacing.

The in-line memes are so perfect. I love this video. I'm gonna check out your channel

I really like the background music in your dwarf fortress videos. Your geometric shape drawing is also strangely soothing.

Came back to watch this again after starting my own playthrough, lovely vid i must say and i love your fort’s design

“Bin is obsessed with rings” Oh of course “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.” Also you live in a volcano wtf did you expect lol.

goblin army with siege equipment shows up Leave behind a sock leave Refuse to elaborate What a strange bunch

That Bim part was hilarious, great video man

35 dwarves in a fortress: hide until minotaur goes away that 1 herbalist migrant: am a isekai protaganist

All I needed to hear was "be rewarded for faith in the chaos gods" lol blood for the blood god skulls for Khorne!!

so well edited ! BIM made me crease. keep up he good work i hope you can make full time

I was waiting for the next episode after i discovered your channel in Xmas. Happy new year btw!

Great video! It's oddly calm and relaxing to watch Keep it up^^

This is mt favorite dwarf fortress video so far! I love your editing style.

1st episode I've seen but so far this is the only Dwarf Fortress channel close to what Kruggsmash is doing

Love the dwarf fortress videos! I wish you the best!

Basically when you go to set up a temple you'll see names which are in yellow as oppose to the normal ones. These are the names of various religious groups who exist in the fort via at least one faithful. As long as the temple is set to be a temple of an existing religious group you can recognize a holy dwarf.

Watching you make your fort so pretty and that little trick with the stair building...makes me want to start over! My current fort is fairly standard and a bit slapdash, but this is just beautiful!

I love that youve never messed with magma and you know a ton about the game. I know nothing about the game and my second base was under a volcano and I have been experimenting with magma since 8 hours gameplay. What a great game that there is so much versatility in both play and implementation. Love the videos, learning a lot from ya. Props for actually trying to pronounce these crazy names

So the thing about ranger dwarves, the name of the game is setting up your defences so that there is zero chance they'll be able to get within melee range. You need to have like towers/gulfs/inaccessable areas that they can be that can shoot their crossbows from, but can't really path from. A sort of sniper's nest, if you will. You can create a tree-stand like thing if its access is from deep underground, not at its base, and the place the dwarves can peer out from is at least 3 tiles high. Or you can position them across a gulf/ravine/canyon if the ditch seperating the sides is at least 3 tiles wide and 3 tiles deep. Basically dwarves, especially in combat, will see 2 tile gaps as a challenge to overcome, whereas 2 or less they're like "Pfft. I can jump that." Unless they're just trying to path for a job. If there's even a 1 tile gap they'll never consider it.

Subbed for the narrative. Good work.

I just discovered your channel thanks to the KZfaq algorithm and it's exactly what I've been looking for. I'll be keeping an eye out for more. Cheers.

This was spectacular, I loved every second mate

now this is gaming

I see that chaos star good sir! Blood for the blood god

Just got to say, I am in love with that bedroom layout and may use it in my next fort

Spiffing Brit was right, this channel is about to explode. Great vids, fun stuff thanks.

Love this format, keep up the good work!!

fun video! this video is why I tried tackling a volcano. its a one chunk volcano on an island so its had a lot of interesting quirks

Dwarf dies horrendously: *James May laughter intensifies*

That dwarf who beat a minotaur half to death with his bare hands shouldve gotten a fuckin throne room of a burial area.

Absolutely love these, getting into the story for a brief period and then maybe bringing upon your own demise and moving onto to some new victims.... I mean dwarfs 😉

I appreciate that the combat log that said the dwarven child's head burst into gore after being kicked next said he was unconscious

I have yet to give this game a shot - played a decent amount of Rimworld. But I love hearing the stories and seeing people who know their stuff a bit more than others play around in it. Thanks for making these videos! Hoping for more in the future :)

More, I desire more! Seriously though, take your time. I'm becoming a big fan of your videos.

Im so glad i discovered your channel! Your videos are very high quality and i cant wait to see your future content!

I highly recommend always using "prepare carefully" and giving at least one dwarf good medical skills, and give another one 4 points in biter, 3 points in wrestler, 2 in dodger, and 1 in kicker. Then the first thing you do is set up a doctor's guild for your one doctor so he can teach others some of his skills and learn from any migrants with higher medical skills. The combat dwarf is just to throw at anything really bad that arrives early on while your other dwarves at least equip some shields and axes. Also, for dungeons, I highly recommend adding some bars. For early dungeons I think you can use a wall grate instead, but I'm not 100% sure. I think the only difference is that projectiles can pass through bars but not grates. In any case, the bars allow you to give your prisoners food and water without actually entering the cell, and you can have the bars facing a high-traffic area to allow jobless dwarves to interact with the prisoners. You can also get up cells with some basic furniture to allow your manager or bookeeper to keep working even from prison. I personally like to make my prison cells part of the hospital and also part of the main generic church at the same time. I have the bars facing into the big multi-denominational church, I make include most of the cell as part of the meeting area for the church. Only the spot with the chain is designated as dungeon area, and I link that to the hospital - I also mark the hallway at hospital territory. So basically, the prisoners can keep meeting their prayer needs, they get food and water through the bars without anyone needing to enter the cell, the door can be locked if they're going to be in there a long time so if they berserk, they can't break the chain and escape. If there's a chair and table in there, they can keep doing administrative jobs. And if they end up hurting themselves, or getting a beating from the hammerer while in prison, they'll get prompt medical attention because the hospital is right outside the jail, and any time someone commits assault and gets obliterated by the ninja bartenders, they can easily be transported from the hospital to the jail after they give their confession. Bonus points if you put the hammerer and dungeon master's office next to the jail. But put the captain of the guard's office as far from there as possible if you do, that way dwarves don't have to walk all the way across the map to report crimes and can choose to either report at the "police station" where the jail and main offices are, or the guard captain's office (which is best placed next to the barracks - also, if you form a squad with the guard captain, all of those squad members will act as "police" for the fortress). As for archery, crossbowdwarves are best used after you have some fortifications up. If you don't have a chokepoint with fortifications to shoot through, crossbows aren't going to help you much and you'll just get them killed by sending them into battle. However, it can be worthwhile to arm up a group of crossbow dwarves that also have high hammer skill and give them iron or steel crossbows, or to sprinkle one or two lightly armored crossbow dwarves in with a squad of better armed melee specialists, to serve as an early distraction and keep enemies busy while your better-armored dwarves take their sweet time lumbering over to fight.

Bro your videos are honestly great fun.

ah shit now I want to play more Dwarf Fortress really nice production btw, super smooth editing!

Man, your layouts are nice and so well planned. Mine are haphazard and I lean heavily into the 'oh crap I need another guild hall' theme in my builds. Here's to many Gembishes in your future! Given the lead barrels, I don't know how well you'll hold out :P I love this game lol

Amazing video once again!

OH NO CHAOS DWARVES

15:44 the poor dwarf, gelded in battle, no honor in the enemy

What a great video. I love this style of narration :)

Such an amazing channel! Keep up the good work. Your story telling and voice sort of remind me of the channel called ahoy. Surely a good thing!

you are one of the better ones, thanks. and the ending was neat

really like the faster paced dwarf fortress highlights

That James may: our man in Japan refrence was peak!

you've gotten me into dwarf fortress. its very neat

I really love your videos dude, keep going. And strike the earth!

you sir are a brilliant artist, earned a sub here, bravo

Sometimes its nice having a Goblinite Vein nearby since it can be a more reliable way to get lots of copper and iron equipment early on.

Best video you've made yet!