Let's (actually) play ... Dwarf Fortress!

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  1. TheBoff

    TheBoff Member

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    I don't know how many of you play dwarf fortress, but I think there's a fair few, and I expect there are people who will find it fun, but haven't played it yet.

    Dwarf Fortress is one of the biggest success stories for Indie gaming. Created solely by one man, written in C, he get's just enough money in donations so that he doesn't need another job.

    In the game, you start out with a small band of seven dwarves, who have travelled far from their homeland with the goal of creating a new fortress. You essentiually control the dwarves as they dig out their new future. The graphics are merely ASCII (!), but don't let it put you off.

    If you haven't already played dwarf fortress, download it from http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/, and follow the tutorial at:http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Your_first_fortress

    I'm no great shakes, and most of these community succession games fail anyway: sometimes hilariously (look up boatmurdered). THIS MEANS YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BECOME EMBARRESSED IF THE FORTRESS FAILS UNDER YOU. Even if you mine into a river, you shouldn't worry, as we'll probably just savescumm.

    All you basically do is that each person plays a year of game time in turn, then passes the save on to the next person. You are meant to humorously log what happens during your reign,Unfortunately, it doesn't work in XP 64bit (this is from experience, so I don't know about Vista), but there are versions for mac, and it runs fine with wine under linux.

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  2. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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  3. -Mayama-

    -Mayama- MANLY MAN BITCH

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    I suck at it and im in, if you are a pussy like me and you fear ascii than dl
    the game here with a tileset: http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.htm

    Oh and if you started tp play the game and want to take part in the, lets play.
    Dwarf Fortress is actually best if everything goes wrong :)
     
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  4. Skyrage

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    Empires DF succession game?

    Heh, this whole succession game deal just keeps growing amongst communities which is awesome to see.
     
  5. DeadReckoning

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    oh my....... the fortress will DIE under my leader ship.....


    *DeadReckoning has Migrated - Useless Forum Person!-*

    *goat had babies!*

    doo dee doo
     
  6. TheBoff

    TheBoff Member

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    I'm taking that as a yes...
     
  7. Dawgas

    Dawgas Banned

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    I'll do it, but DONT FUCKING DARE SAVESCUM
     
  8. mr_quackums

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    its odd, i was just thinking of this game a few weeks ago and randomly a friend at work, who i introduced to dwarf fortress a loooong time ago, comes up to me and says "ive wanted to start playing dwarf fortress again but just havent"

    too much planing for me to be in the succession game, but name someone after me please. preferably not just a hauler.
     
  9. Hendar23

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    Remember the DF motto: Losing is fun!
     
  10. Beerdude26

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    So are we doing this or what
     
  11. TheBoff

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    Yeah: I'll make a start later tonight, I think. I gave it a while tyo make sure everyone hwo wanted to could sign up.
     
  12. blizzerd

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    i currently am the proud owner of a fortress with 24 dwarven but somehow they are turning unhappy :s anyone know how to fix this?
     
  13. Drag

    Drag Member

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    Booze.
     
  14. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    And maybe coffins to throw your soon-to-be-deceased dwarves in :p
     
  15. -Mayama-

    -Mayama- MANLY MAN BITCH

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    ...and more booze so they can stand the loss of their friends
     
  16. Skyrage

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    And one badass sized dining hall with high quality stuff in it....and maybe have it connected to a secret channel filled with water/lava....you know, for those just in case scenarios :P
     
  17. Drag

    Drag Member

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    Anyone got an idea what it takes to have the fortress become a duchy? Got 200 pop cap dwarves with 200.000+ wealth hm...

    Edit: Holy shit its 2.000.000 wealth O.o.

    As for your game I wish you good luck with the starting position. Just make sure the position has water :P in some form.
     
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  18. -Mayama-

    -Mayama- MANLY MAN BITCH

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    flint,river,lava,sand,wood would be awesome

    but we could of course play in an artic desert with polar bear zombies
    or completly surounded by haunted lava :)
     
  19. Dawgas

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    Why not make a dwarf fortress on a beach

    NO MOUNTAINS NO LAVA NO STONE SAND AND WATER ONLY
     
  20. mr_quackums

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    exactly. ihad one one of my original 7 be attacked by a wolf and when the first caravan came all the other dwarfs forgot about him and his hunger/thirst sent him into a homicidal rage. after drafting my entire fortress to put him down they became depressed. smoothing the walls of the dining room and throwing a few statues in there cleared their guilt right up.
     

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