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DWARF FORTRESS! New version is out!

Joseph Silverman
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Joseph Silverman polycounter lvl 17
And the wiki is updated to a point where it's kinda playable for a newbie.

For the uninitiated, basically, this is the best city management game ever. You manage six dwarves attempting to start a settlement in the least hospitable world imaginable. And then you do something stupid and they all drown to death.

The new version added a ton of stuff, over a year in development. Most notably massive underground cave systems filled with scary shit. Dig too deep searching for ore and expect to get mines of moria shit everywhere.

This is an absolutely amazing, open ended, one of a kind game buried under an inscrutable and complex Roguelike style interface. If you aren't willing to grapple with an obtuse interface for a few hours and look up questions on the wiki/forums, this game probably isnt for you. If you can deal with that though this is the most exciting release of the year.

Changelog:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Release_Information

Version of the game with tileset packed in:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Tileset

Closest thing to a beginners guide for the new version on the wiki:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Starting_build

There's no way i'm the only one here playing this all day instead of drawing.

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