Dwarf Fortress: Travelling Bar Brawler edition

Aloraydrel · Post by **Aloraydrel** » Sun May 29, 2016 1:59 pm #181614

Bottom post of the previous page:

how far down in the stone layer do you go until you start building your main hall? I always like building mine around caverns

Lumbermancer · Sun May 29, 2016 3:46 pm

Wyzack wrote:Deploy some archerdorfs

No military, I barely got first wave of migrants. I made ad-hoc squad made up of my Hunter, he went killed 2 monkeys but got tired and wounded so I had to disband it. That only made apes angry as they started to steal the entrails of their fallen brethren.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Sun May 29, 2016 9:26 pm #181770

Lumbermancer wrote:Fucking langurs are pestering my grazing animals. What do.

Don't bother with military squads for pest control

Just make a shitton of bows and bolts and set all your dwarves to hunting
Bonus points: Those kobold thieves won't want to come to your fort anymore, and if you do need a military you always have skilled archers to recruit from. Plus crossbows train hammer skill too, when they're used in melee.

Alternatively, you can set your hunters to carry swords if you have some obsidian around, more risky, but the potential for new recruits is pretty great. Most animals don't fight well enough to worry about losing anyone. Unless you're dealing with giant things, then you definitely want ranged hunters. Also melee hunters basically have to run after a target until the target runs into something it can't get past. Consider building some trap fences to support them

You may want to make sure there are no GCS in your caves before you let dwarves hunt in there

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon May 30, 2016 3:24 pm #182043

I am like two versions of masterwork behind the current and i keep getting crashes. Really sucks, as this is so far a very sucessfull fort. Got a good militia clad in heavy steel and we absolutely wiped an undead incursion using only longswords. Shit was cash

Supermichael777 · Tue May 31, 2016 3:59 pm

If the code drops we have to become Dwarf Forteress 13 the coderbase, after stealing goon's version

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue May 31, 2016 5:59 pm #182452

If you really wanna reclaim that you should have all your new embark dorfs be hammerers with weapons so you can crush the zambies

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Tue May 31, 2016 8:01 pm #182497

I just use quantum stockpiles for everything

Aloraydrel · Post by **Aloraydrel** » Tue May 31, 2016 9:40 pm #182526

TheWiznard wrote:I just use quantum stockpiles for everything

I do this for stone since fuck wheeling stone. I miss when stone was easy to carry

Lumbermancer · Tue May 31, 2016 9:49 pm

TheWiznard wrote:I just use quantum stockpiles for everything

That's cheating.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:45 am #182633

go into the [o]rders tab and instruct them to collect refuse from outside. If that does not work set a garbage dump zone behind a door, dump all the remains there lock it afterwards to keep them sealed away.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:27 am #182718

Lumbermancer wrote:
TheWiznard wrote:I just use quantum stockpiles for everything
That's cheating.

okay maybe not everything but I totally use at least two every fort for wood and stone near my production level

I don't feel guilty about it at all

Aloraydrel · Post by **Aloraydrel** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:44 pm #182811

CosmicScientist wrote:
Wyzack wrote:go into the [o]rders tab and instruct them to collect refuse from outside. If that does not work set a garbage dump zone behind a door, dump all the remains there lock it afterwards to keep them sealed away.
Alright. Is there any reason for a door to become unlocked? When I sealed my warehare dwarves into the hospital, it got unlocked once and even became pet passable even though I turned it all off. Two doors in fact, both exclusively leading to the hospital. I just don't want a miasma ridden room to become open at some point.

I thought werecreatures were building destroyers

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 4:54 pm #182813

They are. Werebeasts will actually bust the door down rather than unlocking it. Not sure how it would become unlocked, sometimes door locks can be picked by gremlins but it gives you a notification and makes you reclaim the door if this happens. If you are super paranoid you can link a drawbridge to a lever and have it raise blocking the entrance. Raised bridges count as walls and are currently indestructable

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:22 pm #182823

Goblin and kobold thieves can technically lockpick doors without warnings. However, last I checked they only do so when they've already got their path set through the door before you locked it. And it's unlikely you'd find them as deep in your fort as a hospital

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:50 pm #182888

You will know if you have been robbed because q notification of " a theif has made off with a (item)"

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:47 pm #182979

Thieves are immune to cage traps, but you can technically still capture them if you KO them on a trap

That said, they are revealed by any of your creatures(Dwarves or pets/animals) being adjacent to them, at which point they will try to run. An exception is dwarven children, who will instead be kidnapped by goblin thieves if given the chance

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 10:50 pm #182982

XSI wrote:who will instead be kidnapped by goblin thieves if given the chance

Picture of a goblin kidnapper thief.

Aloraydrel · Post by **Aloraydrel** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 11:58 pm #183009

My necromancer siege ended with the necromancer running off with his zombies as he went onto the screen. Kinda sad

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:21 pm #183221

Maybe once the next masterwork update drops i will try my hand at another dwarf fortress community game, maybe orcs this time

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 4:34 am #186068

Tried starting another orc fort with the guys named off people on this page of the thread and got 2 uraks(strong fighters) 3 snagas(goblinorcs) 1 artisan and 1 dreamwalker(witchdoctor, who I took btw :^) ) but shortly after starting like mid season my game crashes, and it happens with every fort; on masterwork. apparently after looking around it has something to do with TWBT or some of the mods I checked on in the masterwork launcher, I still have to try out changing them to see if I can get it to work

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 4:46 am #186073

I think switching off twbt can fix existing games, but don't quote me on that. Also what kind of orc was I?

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Sun Jun 12, 2016 4:54 am #186077

I made you one of the uraks who I made both into woodcutter/axeorcs/pseudo military , I don't think it saved though because I don't think I enabled save on embark

1g88a · Post by **1g88a** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:36 am #192558

Devlog update, new upcoming features listed.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

Spoiler:

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 2:06 pm #192643

Masterwork mod just got updated to include humans in the latest version of Dwarf Fortress. Started another human fort and it brought back so many fun memories of the tgFortress13 game. Anon3 and Galvatron slaying an army of invading frogmen, Galv with our only sword and Anon3 with his bare hands. Master of Gunnery Robert Cop and his fabulous moustache falling in battle holding off the jerrys orcs, the power hungry mages guild and their plot to release the living dead on the fortress over a petty grudge. That was probably my favorite community dorf fort game I ran, maybe after Axecarnage when we released all those demons

EDIT: Also Lumi Pharon exhuming his dead wife, placing her corpse in a furnished room with a veiwing window and making her undead with a monolith. That was fucked up but pretty cool

Went back and re-read the whole thread. Makes me want to do another one, but i am not sure what could be done differently to keep it exciting and fresh

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 5:14 pm #192685

IE someone please convince me to run another game and i will once more carry us to human glory

tedward1337 · Post by **tedward1337** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:05 pm #192706

How do I build guns and shit while playing as human Fort?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:07 pm #192707

If it is the same as it was before you just need to make a human contract from rock at the craftsmans shop, build a foreign workshop and then run the reaction there to hire a human gunsmith

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:32 pm #193357

he finally added 64 bit support

praise

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:16 pm #193427

But has he added multicore & multithreading processing?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 6:02 pm #269197

This just in fucking based Toad is on the warpath to making the game even more amazing

http://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-c ... -pcgamertw

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 6:52 pm #269254

Hmm, maybe i will try an orc fort sometime soon when the hankering strikes me again

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:35 pm #383602

Better Strike the Earth, smelt the steel, weave the adamantine because soooooooonn we'll be able to send our dwarves to finally cleanse the world of knife eared cannibal savages

Pillaging and razing are now options from the fort mode 'c' screen. You can bring back one piece of loot or one livestock critter per dwarf that returns from the raid (you can decide to turn either option off before they go.) Since we don't have actual production to replenish site stockpiles yet, we're handling it with a simple placeholder variable. The size of the raiding party vs. the current population of the site determines the depletion percentage, and the percentage repairs itself 1% per day if the site is inhabited. The percentage is the chance that an individual dwarf's loot action fails. So a ten dwarf attack on a small village can cause future pillaging to reduce returns or fail outright for months, while a 150 dwarf raid on a capital might cause a ~10% dip in returns for a few weeks. In the (distant) future, this can be replaced by numeric resource piles. Livestock, on the other hand, is actually taken from the site's animal population pools, regardless of the percentages.

On my first attack on a human village, the dwarves returned with a yak, a goose, and an alpaca, as well as a nicely decorated yak waterskin... and somebody's oaken crutch. When I sent a single dwarf to sneak into a goblin tower, she came back with a pair of silk goblin shoes. We might end up weighing them against picking up a bunch of junk after I try some larger raids, if the results are always that disappointing, he he he.

I still need to clean up a few issues with the razing code and make non-historical figures defend their sites. We're also considering throwing in an ongoing tribute option if the winds are favorable.

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:15 pm #383626

Cattle raiding soon(tm)

FantasticFwoosh · Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:10 am

Time to raze plenty of elven settlements with a roaming band of adamatine axelords, cutting down all thier catpeople (soon)

Razing is now complete. If you manage to drive off the inhabitants (whether you destroy all the structures or not), the site will become uninhabited and switch symbols on the map. Damage should be reflected in human towns if viewed later in adventure mode, but in sites without damageable structures, the inhabitants can still be evicted. An entire civilization you are at war with can theoretically be reduced to migrating refugee groups, but I have no idea if that can be achieved with a fort's worth of dwarves in practice. Skill and equipment matter and have a large effect on individual skirmishes, so it might be possible if you train and outfit squads very well. We'll get to combining your forces with other, larger forces off-site later.

Bunch of other stuff such as raising your military tactica! skills. The 'Leader' skill may also be extremely useful at embark setup for predominately raiding orientated strategies in raising the success levels of looting other settlements going loud or kobold quiet.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:47 am #386256

there is LITERALLY nothing wrong with elves

Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:03 am

Deitus wrote:there is LITERALLY nothing wrong with elves

Disagree

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:39 am #386285

Deitus wrote:there is LITERALLY nothing wrong with elves

They eat the dead, including their own.

They also bitch at you for trying to sell them woodcrafts, which is doubly ironic if it was made out of the wood they sold you in the first place.

FantasticFwoosh · Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:05 am

Deitus wrote:there is LITERALLY nothing wrong with elves

Elves consistently reroll giant racoon's (meh) rather than giant bears in trade though a restritive trading agreement, fight dishonorably with showoff wood weapons and are overall vain (no really look in the raws, art modifiers to only ever talk about themselves at 80 - 100% upmark) materialistic (they constantly want new posessions as a need) & pretentious idiots.

Fuck that shit, get in there and take the animals you want.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 3:47 pm #386329

Wyzack wrote:Anon3 with his bare hands

*Paws

:3c

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 7:56 pm #448758

trying to pick up DF adventure mode again

please recommend mods

FantasticFwoosh · Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:03 pm

The best mods are the ones you make yourself, learn to RAW.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:05 pm #448766

FantasticFwoosh wrote:The best mods are the ones you make yourself, learn to RAW.

I mean, I can already do this shit a bit but for the most part I'm too fucking lazy
at most I'll be modding mods

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:28 am #470596

bump for it's been forever and the wiki adventure mode guide is not good at telling me how to tell which way my opponents are facing
or how to tell which way I'm facing
or how to change which way I'm facing

FantasticFwoosh · Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:38 pm

Move, the arrow will direct you, also infer from the text whether you're striking someone from the front or behind based on the direction they are moving also.

I've still got to outfit everything but i've finished my entrance/traphall for my fortress, meanwhile goblin merchants from small goblin civs i've been extorting are dropping their annual tribute and leaving, so far i've got a cave crocodile drum, some copper leggings, a troll fur bag etc in shitty tribute. Im still looking into my options on whether to simply kill the rest of the goblin civs to make my captive goblin state slightly more populous with some genocide/resettlement.

Vassals are supposed to be in the game in some form (toady being scatty with placeholder features probably), but i don't know how to invoke or form them, i was quite keen to have a goblin civ population ready to go wreck and trade with me until im strong enough to actively go mess with the dwarves in the next mountain range over but tributaries in their shitty cloth sacks are fine too as long as its unconditional free stuff.

Spoiler:

Bridges are concealing pits (to catch & injure dodgers) and are used for wagons to roll over into my fortress (before meeting the other wagon gates), i need to catch some monsters to stuff into the crevices in the wall released by pressure plates down the extended and fill out the rest of the cage and weapon traps down the 3x3 strip in the middle. Whole setup is named, tagged and hooked up to levers for manual activation.

Entire thing is overlooked by fortifications and catapults additionally for ranged aid besides from my military which can hang back, i do have lava nearbyish, but i dont want it here and ill sort something out for it (unless i push it into the pits)

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:46 pm #470737

kinda sucks that this is the only way to check or change facing but ok

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:15 pm #470744

I think S and one the of the modifiers shows vision cones

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:05 pm #470766

I shoulda figured sneak mode works, but isn't there something wrong with sneaking in the middle of combat?

As for modifiers, do tell.

Vile Beggar · Post by **Vile Beggar** » Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:19 pm #471039

last time i played adventure mode, there was not a whole lot to do besides grind skills and commit genocides, did they change it up or something?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:55 pm #471051

Vile Beggar wrote:last time i played adventure mode, there was not a whole lot to do besides grind skills and commit genocides, did they change it up or something?

there's quests
there's necromancy as a high-level goal
and then there's vaults to crack and butcher the (mimes?) inside

Lumbermancer · Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:29 pm

https://store.steampowered.com/app/9753 ... _Fortress/
play dwarf fortress

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:00 pm #482995

My, what an ugly tileset.

At least it has workshop integration so some kind soul will most likely put Mike MayDay's ORIGINAL AND BEST TILE SET ALL OTHERS SUCK on there.