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i love waking up from a nap to hear "why should we save the child" softly in my ear. it was the most jrr tolkien "why should i get rid of the ring" moments ive had watching this

I love you Frog

one of my favourites forts i ever did was where i had an enourmous library and it was a centre of knowladge worldwide, full of scholars from around the world bringing and writing books about philosophy, medicine, history, and more. a lot of the economy was then based on supplying that library, so a big paper industry, where you have the choice for your scribes and scholars to either use books or scrolls. in the fortress we made both, as any world class library should have, and the process to get to those looks a bit like this: Paper is made from cloth plants mashed into slurry (at a quern/millstone) and then pressed on a screw press. with the paper then you need a scroll roller, made from, ideally, a light material, so the dwarves can carry them more easily around the library. then you need someone to put together the scroll roller with the paper to create the scrolls the scribes and scholars will use to write new discoveries and knowledge. codices (what the game calls actual books) require a two step process, even more complex than the scrolls. what im trying to show is that df is an incredibly deep game where you will always be constantly learning, kinda like an untamable beast. the amount of big systems this game has for just such a small feature as it is having a library is incredible. theres a knowledge system where discoveries can be made of new twchnologies, be it of engineering philosophy or medicine. sadly this is just flavor right now, since those don't affect anything in gameplay just yet, though there are plans of course. one tip i would recommend after you feel comfortable doing so is to play with smaller chance of mineral occurance, the way it is in the legacy version. it was made as default to have all the metals everywhere for the amount of new people, but for me and many more it is honestly a worse experience. it really is a better game when you dont have absolutely everything at your fingertips such as with the higher ones. and also it really fits the story telling of the game, with the 1 or 2 metals you do get, they become kinda like the identity of the fortress; theres a kinda of rp feeling to it, what fortress are you gonna get this time? a mighty golden palace, or a proud bronze fortress with heavy bronze maces and coins and such? that of course when you get around the mark of the 100 population to properly set up the economy. anyways, enough rambling, hope you keep enjoying the wonders of discovering df, strike the earth! EDIT: forgot to mention, if you're curious as to what point the story telling of df can be taken, i would recommend the youtube channel of kruggsmash, it really is the best channel on youtube of df and it introduced many classic players including me. he tells beatutiful and epic stories of fortresses and dwarves with some great hand drawn art of the things happening. hope the comment was worth a read lol, love the vids

I love that a child in pain on the floor and all the adults were walking past thinking "he should be in the hospital... But I'm not a doctor so not my problem"

Having the hospital next to the tavern is unintentional pro-level DF fort design

Here we are at the Dwarf Fortress altar of Ambiguous Amphibian. Proceed to place your tributes on the stone, we must ensure the mountain gods will be merciful to his dwarf clan. Long live the Amphibian dwarves.

Honestly that gremlin seemed like a swell guy as far as light-fearing cave critters go.

The Dwarf Fortress wiki is a really good resource for anyone new to this game. It has really good beginner guides and even flowcharts for workshops and production. Also if you ever wanted to know what the frick is flux stone.

Archimedes described the Archimedes Screw, weird coincidence that he discovered something that shared his name. Also in general... water seeks its own level, as seen in the function of a u bend which is used in toilets and sinks to prevent gas coming up from the sewer. For the weekend, read chapter 8 and be prepared for a test on chapter 7 on Tuesday.

Fungus comes into your fort when you open the caverns since the spores start growing.

I suck at these types of games but feel compelled to keep playing them anyways.

I was literally just hoping for this... and here it is. It has smoothed into being like so many hall floors

"It's Dolomite!, Baby!" - Professor Farnsworth

This is so cozy. I got this in background while I am just relaxin and half snoozing with my dog in the sofa. Please keep doing these!

Just a reminder for everyone that the dwarf fortress wiki is extremely detailed and extremely helpful for learning how things work. It's not updated to the stream version yet, so descriptions of the UI for things will only reflect the classic UI, but the actual information about items, and ingame mechanics will still be accurate. It's not some minimal nearly useless wiki like some games have, it's got some very detailed explanations you won't find anywhere else (for example, how actual damage calculation works in combat, if you care to dig that deep).

35:06 dining room is for individual dwarf's personal rooms. Change your dining room into a tavern from a meeting room. Dwarves will start coming in and use tables and chairs

Honestly love the foray you've undertaken of learning this game and showing that it can be able to played by beginners, and how messing up is the best way to learn. I'm really curious about getting it, but I've recently done a deep dive into both Project Zomboid and Rimworld so my time is a bit spent already

dwarf fortress Boatmurdered is the greatest tale ever told

You don't have to do heavy editing with Dwarf Fortress content to get me to watch, I play it as a watch and always need more content. It's a pretty dense game with a lot of stuff to learn, and everyone seems to play it differently. I might not be around for the live streams, but I will watch all the videos in this series within a day or two of the upload.

I find the population sizing to be so funny. I had 20 dwarves for about 2 years game time then suddenly I got like 60+ dwarves entering the 3rd year. And since I had bad priorities I couldn't mine everything I wanted. So when I had 40+ dwarves enter my outpost I was absolutely shocked. Like what they're all gonna need a bedroom now! Honestly like the migration feature more compared to force hiring people in RimWorld. And it all runs so well. I've been looking to get into this game ever since Minecraft came out but the ASCII art through me off so I put it aside. It's so awesome the game has so much detail while being the way it was and it isn't even finished yet huh. I so want to get into modding this game like no other.

My first fort was going I thought surprisingly well and then we got some sort of ash zombie disease that popped off when a cat ran into an 'object' and died and then reanimated and killed I think other docile livestock, who then became ash zombies and then killed my entire population except for one dude who was fishing at the time extremely far away. A blessing of this game is that it seems like you can get a fort on its legs pretty quickly relative to other punishing colony sims. The tricky part of this one is i don't know why any of that happened, I just know that it did.

"He's going to drown? HE'S GOING TO DROWN?".... Well I would like to see that as well." Lmao

Lol the glass maker refused to drink irony

Not sure if you caught it but your seed check for the brewery is wrong. You need to be checking that there are MORE than 100 not less than. The way you have it set up, it will only make beers when you have LESS than 100 seeds, up to 500 beers. There's a button to change the operator on the condition line

I had some great luck with running 3 teams of 6 militia, all rotating so there is always one squad training while the other 2 are on leave.

Eyyy, thank you for the shoutout to Dastactic towards the end of this video! He's a good tutorial-runner as well. Finishing up his latest series actually led me to your play-through, so he's got traffic coming your way for sure!

I am so glad Dwarf Fortress has become ever so slightly more accessible lol. I was going to pick it up myself but I really do not like the 3Dish tile set they chose. Haven't seen a way to change it yet to one of the classic sets unless I am just blind. But the UI is really a cool and more simplified version.

Looked like rocks in the tunnel slowed the flow of water. They certainly moved in the current which is really cool.

I love watching people experience how amazing dwarf fortress is, like at 21:05

Can't wait to see what crawls out of the lava ;)

The home of Paddling does not sound like a hall of healing sounds like a Slaneesh themed fortress training room.

Yeah my dude! Fort Gerald Williams! You're killing it, bought the game and having a great time thanks to you!

A shout-out to my guy Kruggsmash if you like Dwarf Fortress storyline based content. Dude has some great vids, full voiced and some great stories AND now is also doing some DF Steam gaming!

im loving getting into DF, my dwarves have yet to experience the "fun" but im sure its soon approaching.

Might I recommend having little stockpiles around your workshops. It's a real boost in efficiency also on your little stockpiles you can set a stockpile to pull from so the dwarfs will fill up the smaller stockpiles when stuff gets stored in your more general, larger stkpl, also putting a wine stockpile in your tavern helps a ton. Stockpiles your stockpiles.

My cousin has been talking about drawf fortress for years.....and describes it much as you do.

Love this game , hype to see some of my fav YT creators try out some Dwarf Fortress. Strike the Earth !

My first projects are moats, giant underground reservoir filled from the river, establishing a cavern fob. If you just leave your base open to the cavern then you'll get wrecked when the first horror spawns down there I'm still pretty new with only a few hundred hours

I love falling asleep watching these, my dreams get wild

Look at the sub menus, they will tell you what you need for the Tavern ... Coffee for mugs, area for dance, sub stockpile for drinks... Seriously, read the requirements of the various menus and that kid would have been treated.... You need in an emergency all the medical staff in the hospital. Use a barrow to get them there and have 2 Dwarves fir diagnosis ... One with your Military.

Oh, and I hope you've heard of Boatmurdered. :)

One of the best games! In germany we say : Rimworld sein Vater!

"My uncle even drowned in a vat of Taft-family molten steel!” “He didn’t drown he burned up…” - It's Always Sunny

That moment when dwarves decide to build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Currently playing these vods in the background as I make another attempt at 'beating' Factorio. I must launch a rocket before I am allowed to strike the earth!

My current fortress is the first I've done in my current world, and I'm planning on keeping this world until it becomes too unstable to use. The world the fort is in has a certain world generation feature turned off, causing goblins to not exist within the world at present. The end goal of this fort is to tunnel deep into the hidden things that release those goblins and their ilk upon the world. This fortress is also situated right in the midst of the most bustling area of the world, with numerous civilizations of all stripes right nearby. So this will essentially be an apocalypse. After this fortress has been abandoned to ruin after breaching the forbidden depths, my next fortress will be one of survivors - a group from one of the nearby dwarven civilizations settling far away from the carnage.

KRUGG SMASH BRO......the king of DF and Das Tastic

ive never played this game but it gives me nostalgia feels for some reason. its nice to watch :D

Loving this series!

6:04 really? That is all u remember from that one dudes LoveMountain challenge run where he can only get population from breeding and that ended with great luxury for the dwarves with only one unexpected tragedy

i really like your storage floor, i made sections of workshops along the wall to the stairs in the northwest and southeast sections and it looks and works very well, also for easy trading just let your gem cutter go wild, easy value for little weight.

Fishing is overpowered, insanely useful video called "Succeeding with 6 Dwarves" College of Dwarfology by RNG Strategist, solves the food/clothing/crafts(money) issues indefinitely with just your starter dwarves. You can even fish underground with artificial water sources or cracking open an aquafier. Also check out the Modular Water Reactor by Twisted Logic for infinite power generation with just a water wheel and screwpump using basic wood items from carpenter's bench.

I really want to get this game, just waiting for it to go on sale. I am playing through you!

It would totally make sense that it came up. The water is going from an energy state where it has velocity and a certain height to no velocity and the same height, which means energy is lost somewhere. In real life the still water would have a higher level, gained thanks to the diffrence in velocity.

First heard about you from your collab with Trupen in Factorio. Very pleased that I did. Enjoy your content immensely. Don't really have any advice or tips or anything, other than the knowledge from watching some of Quill's videos years back that getting comfortable with trade and getting some kind of tradable good that you can stockpile can help immensely. If I recall, mugs were his go-to. Why? A goblet order gets you a cup (wood), or a goblet (metal or glass), or just a mug (stone). Order a bunch of 'Goblets" and forbid all materials except stone, get a bunch of mugs. Lots of stone lying around can be turned into lots of mugs for lots of profit. Having all of your trade good contain a similar word ("mug", in this case) makes it much easier to find all of the thing you wish to trade off. Just search for the word when you are requesting goods to be delivered to the depot. Anyway, cheers!

ty rob, i def have been muddling through this one, i know that i'll enjoy it once i learn, this game is right up my alley, thanks for the help and inspo, i appreciate that you have the platform and are so available to me, do they have a multiplayer mod yet? i just wanna see you sculpt a mountain with lime

you can crush things and cause sink holes using draw bridges and levers, do what you will with this knowledge :)

Dorf Fort looks really nice now.

I love how you gave a shoutout to Daztatic His videos in Shadow Empire inspired me to buy the game

Alt + minus or equals changes the fps which effects the speed of the game. 50fps is much better

dorfs do always be diggin

Did you know: If a Dwarven child becomes possessed and decides to stand still for 3 weeks before suddenly attacking a passing miner, that miner will use their pickaxe to excavate the childs lung?

Computer code involving math? Amazing! ;D

I heard of a guy who used pumps to throw the ocean up and back into itself in a shore fortress. Created a dry area next to a wall of water, then used ballistae to hunt whales.

Dwarf Fortress is looking good. I'd sure like to see smooth movements from one tile to the next, and the ability to see everyone/thing sharing a tile. Maybe its too much to ask. I'm already getting used to it anyway.

Another great one from you! 🙂👍I hit the like for you, ambiguousamphibian!

Didn't Sseth say it was this game that you could get caught playing in its original form at work, and your boss would think you're just working on a spread sheet?

I have some notes I've taken while learning if you want em

BEWARE the run ending undead echidna it literally will kill all your master dwarfs due to a bug where they can’t be targeted properly

When you plan to start another world/fortress, look up a few crucial mods please. They keep the game vanilla, they are patch/UI only. - Deon's missing Plant Graphics - CaZsm's Squad & Burrow Icons - See-Through Smoothing Designations - Interface Tweaks Specifically "interface tweaks" out of many things replaces the "X" in squad window with a trashcan icon. It makes sure you do not disband squads when trying to close the windows. "X" was a bad design choice.

Just lost 2/3 pro miners mining straight into a lava lake on -40ish xD

11:43 wait, did she die during a Strange Mood?

hotkeys *are* cool

Which stream was this? I'd like to watch you on Twitch but have no idea where to start... lol Which stream is episode 3?

I wish i could get my copy of the game would allow me play for more than a couple of min before crashing. I will have to hope for stability patch.

I don't see why you need a whole pit fall to collect arrows it's satisfying but is that the only way

For both AA and anyone watching, _everything_ in this game is simulated. When my friends were really into DF ages ago there was a shitpost mod that set cats average internal body temperature to 40,000°U. For reference, dwarves spontaneously combust at 10,508°.

Be careful! Digging far too deep will result in danger!

23:00 NOOOO A JUMP CUT, NOOOOOOOO!

With the possessed requesting stuff, are you supposed to have someone drop all those materials by the possessed one to make the master craftwork?

hi ambiguousamphibian!

My fort is imaginary therefore invincible, owait never mind

Looks better than warcraft 3

I can never forgive you for what you did to that echidna ;__________;

more MORE

i couldn't quite catch the names of the other channels, can someone mention them?

Pog lets goooo

Is it possible to just make your fort outside?

Phrog

I really want to dig deeper into DF but geez is it overwhelming at times.

Frog

@ambiguousamphibian I see you like square and square like shapes as a house layout.

You would know water after all, being an amphibian... you are an amphibian right? Just to clarify, wouldn't want any ambiguity about that. XD.

I discovered DF from Quill18 about 10 years ago lol.

i doubt you'll see this but a tip for you dwarfs wont share tables, its one table per dwarf, as EXTREMELY dumb as that is so having seats shared between tables is a waste sadly

Promo'SM

Please play more DF and less Rimworld. There really is no contest.

Can you please turn up the game sounds and music it adds much needed atmosphere and context