Dwarf Fortress Illustrated Playthrough
polycounter lvl 17
This guy is the man. This is wonderful, i think everybody here will appreciate it:
http://www.nzfortress.co.nz/forum/showthread.php?t=20768
http://www.nzfortress.co.nz/forum/showthread.php?t=20768
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How awesome is it going to be when we can have a game with the depth of dwarf fortress, but also with amazing graphics.
i'm afraid I can't. I tried once, but I couldn't play it. The screen did strange things that I didn't understand. Letters and symbols were everywhere. My eyes began to water. As I scrabbled on my keyboard with the dexterity of a zebra in a tree, I began to lose hope. My attempts to click the strange glyphs with my mouse were fruitless. I imagined the countless dwarfs behind the screen who were dying of hunger because I could not find them, and cried.
Incredibly arcane, hard to learn indie one man show city building dwarves oh god monsters game that is also a roguelike and doesnt have graphics without modding. Its current version is also buggy to a point of being fairly broken:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=71580&highlight=dwarf+fortress
There are just so many, and I am awful at making sure my dwarves eat, and get water. Especially in the winter. Ech.
DF is great. I spend days making a channel to gather lava so my fortress can be made of melted sand. Then one of my dwarfs goes berserk and kills most of the colony... I leave his body in a dungeon with a plan to bury him when the damage is repaired... Unfortunately his body decays and the rest of the colony dies to toxic miasma.
http://www.timdenee.com/
Anyone else having troubles with not being able to find any farm-able areas underground? I played through most of the tutorial that was linked earlier, and that's the only time ive been able to farm underground without having to try and build irrigation (which normaly ends up as more 'fun')
Great game tho. Playing it reminds me of the things i got interested in games for.
To irrigate you need
a water source
2 levers (b - T - l)
4 mechanisms (Mechanic's Workshop, b - w - t)
2 Floodgates (built from a Carpenter or Mason's Workshop)
a room dug in a soil layer
* dig the farm room near the water source with a 1 square entrance.
* dig a tunnel right up to the water source but not into the source.
* place a Floodgate in the tunnel. (b - x) and one at the entrance.
* build the levers near the entrance floodgate.
* when a lever is built press q and add new task the the lever (a). (f) Link up a FLoodgate. and choose on the Floodgates. this takes two mechanisms. one for the lever, one for the Floodgate.
* do this for the other lever too.
* to open or close a Floodgate press q and choose a level. press P to pull the lever and open/close the Floodgate. Remember it takes a second or two for the gates to close. Floodgates will disappear from view when open.
* open the source Floodgate.
* dig through the wall let the water in.
* let you dwarf out of the room.
* close the Entrance Floodgate and let the water fill the room. You only need to let the water cover the farm room not completely fill it.
* once the water has covered all the squares that your farm will cover shut the source Floodgate. now just wait for the water to evaporate and you've got a muddy room ripe for farming.
Looks like maydays tileset there ?
i played with the mayday graphics set, but i grew frustrated with the ui
ea need to get round to making dungeon keeper 3 and looking to df for inspiration
Behold the Oilfurnace, by Tim Denee.