I can usually burn through year 1 in an hour or two I think
dwarf content: one game I sent a dude out to wrestle with an elephant and when he went to punch it in the face the elephant lept out of the way and off a cliff
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Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
my computer is pretty slow! almost a decade old now
plus I run pandora in the background and that eats up a lot of speed
had my first two deaths in my fortress tonight. part of my fortress collapsed (I assume I had something set to be channeled out and the miners cut away the supports)
it smashed into the floor, then THAT floor gave way and smashed into the one below it
and this continued for 5 floors, injuring the miner and a grower that happened to be walking under it. They also smashed right into my jewelry shop but the jeweler was out at the time
I was like DANG that is some cartoon bullshit
then right after that It happened again, injuring another peasant that I'd just handed a pick to and so I deselected that little project for a while and scolded my fortress
it was my first foray into the healthcare system, and it was pretty awesome. I got to make soap and splints and a traction bench and I can only shudder to think of the poor dwarf under the knife of my Novice Everything Surgeon
some hunter kept trying to use my soap, which is apparently a bug vov, but i militarized him and that shut his ass up
MINER - 2 completely shattered and broken legs (he actually didn't go unconscious, he DRUG HIMSELF AROUND TO COMPLETE MINING JOBS, THE FUCKING ANIMAL. I was like "that'll do, man, goddamn go to the fucking hospital"
2 broken arms
red spleen
several cracked ribs
cracked floating ribs
red liver
broken feet
just generally fucked up
GROWER - 2 broken hands, and lots of yellow and red stuff all over, passed out like a VAGINA at the end of his fall
PEASANT - 2 broken legs, 1 broken hand, red liver, red lung (I think), lost an eye I think as well, and more
unfortunately, after a hard-fought battle, the shitty doctor lost both the miner and the grower
as members of the original 7 and 2 of his best friends, they have been given lavish accommodations for the afterlife and their rooms have been boarded up
That's why I never designate dining halls. My dwarfs never get to have parties, they just bottle everything up and weep into their expertly made beds every night.
I like undesignating party areas if the parties are getting in the way of productivity
ALL PARTIES ARE CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
work hours have been extended from 50 to 80
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I just watched my roommate play this for quite awhile. One dwarf took over a workshop room and drew pictures of quarries and skeletons for hours. He was a milker, and I'm pretty sure he was sad that there was nothing to milk.
We have no idea what we're doing. He's trying really hard to build a moat, but almost got his legendary miner killed. She dug a stairway so fast that she escaped the onrushing water. Legendary!
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Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
okay I have a shitty military getting set up because GOBLINS OH NOOOOO
I have a squad of 5 and a squad of 2, under different captains
I have the 5 set to hold wooden training swords and a shield and are decked out in iron armor
the 2 are assigned crossbows, no shield or buckler, leather armor, and bone bolts set to be used for combat and training
now the squad of 5 is set to train every month with 4 minimum for training, and they do, they go to their assigned training barracks and do whatever, demonstrations, etc
HOWEVER, One of them never goes. he's still got the civvy look to him and is doing civilian tasks, I thought under his thing it says unassigned orders or whatever, but I seriously can't figure out why he's not obeying the squad orders to go train
the 2 are assigned 2 archery targets, and are set to train on them. The targets are set up corrects, but they also never do it, they're still both civvies
I swear I've looked through the wiki and gone through their steps a hundred times, disbanded the squads, put them back, still the same problem
now my questions
1) How do I get that one squadmember from the 5 to actually participate
2) how do I get the 2 marksdwarves to train on the targets
3) the 4 guys out of 5 that are actually training don't seem to be gaining any skills, none of them are very good, so are they just shittily teaching each other? How do I get them to train faster, maybe spar?
For the marksdwarfs, have you given them ammo to use (m-f)?
Though in general marksdwarfs seem a bit hit and miss. I've got truck loads of bolts/targets assigned to them and they still love to bash each other with their crossbows.
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Raneadospolice apologistyou shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
yeah they're assigned bone bolts for both combat and training
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woo okay i think i got it set up
I THINK I had the civilian alert messing with things
they seem to be training well now
unfortunately because I was so focused on this and solving it, I forgot to keep an eye on my fortress as a whole and my dwarfs ran out of alcohol
I get that it's hard, but having to study to play a game is major negative points.
I hate the way the current medical system works (regardless of bugs), I think it could certainly be consolidated into nurses, surgeons and medical chief.
I haven't tried out the military aspect yet (still reading), but it seems tedious even without the bugs.
All in all though it seems fun, and an excellent break from Minecraft.
I get that it's hard, but having to study to play a game is major negative points.
I hate the way the current medical system works (regardless of bugs), I think it could certainly be consolidated into nurses, surgeons and medical chief.
I haven't tried out the military aspect yet (still reading), but it seems tedious even without the bugs.
All in all though it seems fun, and an excellent break from Minecraft.
I never did the least bit of studying. Just dozens upon dozens of miserable flaming screaming slipping in fear-vomit deaths.
I just watched my roommate play this for quite awhile. One dwarf took over a workshop room and drew pictures of quarries and skeletons for hours. He was a milker, and I'm pretty sure he was sad that there was nothing to milk.
We have no idea what we're doing. He's trying really hard to build a moat, but almost got his legendary miner killed. She dug a stairway so fast that she escaped the onrushing water. Legendary!
You've got a strange mood on your hands - the milker wants to build something he's seen in a dream, but doesn't have the materials (in this case it looks like he wants bones and stone - probably a certain type of stone, or maybe stone blocks rather than just lumps).
If he can't make his masterpiece, he will go bonkers. If you're lucky, he'll just get depressed and forget to eat. If you're unlucky, he'll rage and try to kill everyone.
Either find the materials he needs quickly, or lock the door to the workshop.
So some goblins decided to show up and wreck my fortress. Somehow, my novice wrestler was able to kill 2 of them before they left, although they had already killed 20 of my dwarves.
Days went by as the surviving 8 dwarves slowly slid into a never-ending cycle of death and destruction. My legendary crafter, who somehow survived the attack, went apeshit and destroyed the entire dining hall that I had built. All hope was lost.
goblins can't penetrate walls or channels, so in the future you may want to wall off your entrances and make them only accessible through lever-linked drawbridges that unfold over a channel
goblins can't penetrate walls or channels, so in the future you may want to wall off your entrances and make them only accessible through lever-linked drawbridges that unfold over a channel
It was like my second time ever playing, and I really wasn't expecting a goblin attack in my second summer. That seemed almost cruel.
Cruel is when your legendary wrestler gets posessed and demands adamantine strands, then ends up going apeshit in the hospital, ripping apart the invalids
I just watched my roommate play this for quite awhile. One dwarf took over a workshop room and drew pictures of quarries and skeletons for hours. He was a milker, and I'm pretty sure he was sad that there was nothing to milk.
We have no idea what we're doing. He's trying really hard to build a moat, but almost got his legendary miner killed. She dug a stairway so fast that she escaped the onrushing water. Legendary!
You've got a strange mood on your hands - the milker wants to build something he's seen in a dream, but doesn't have the materials (in this case it looks like he wants bones and stone - probably a certain type of stone, or maybe stone blocks rather than just lumps).
If he can't make his masterpiece, he will go bonkers. If you're lucky, he'll just get depressed and forget to eat. If you're unlucky, he'll rage and try to kill everyone.
Either find the materials he needs quickly, or lock the door to the workshop.
My marksdwarfs, while occasionally training at the targets, refuse to take arrows into battle and try to batter their opponents.
My melee troops, rather then wait at their station point for the enemy, would go out one by one to grab equipment from dead dwarfs or go to a previous station point.
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My marksdwarfs, while occasionally training at the targets, refuse to take arrows into battle and try to batter their opponents.
My melee troops, rather then wait at their station point for the enemy, would go out one by one to grab equipment from dead dwarfs or go to a previous station point.
you need to cancel your station points
and make sure your ammunition is useable in combat (looks like it's only been allowed for use in training)
AND, if you press "o", you can tell dorfs to ignore dead dwarf stuff
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My marksdwarfs, while occasionally training at the targets, refuse to take arrows into battle and try to batter their opponents.
My melee troops, rather then wait at their station point for the enemy, would go out one by one to grab equipment from dead dwarfs or go to a previous station point.
you need to cancel your station points
and make sure your ammunition is useable in combat (looks like it's only been allowed for use in training)
AND, if you press "o", you can tell dorfs to ignore dead dwarf stuff
I did the first two. My dwarfs decided eating goblin spears would be more fun
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that means I've just discovered that I've been playing for 8 hours straight without noticing
fuck you metzger
fuck you in your ear, sir!
how many dwarf years ran by in eight hours?
so
2?
I can usually burn through year 1 in an hour or two I think
dwarf content: one game I sent a dude out to wrestle with an elephant and when he went to punch it in the face the elephant lept out of the way and off a cliff
plus I run pandora in the background and that eats up a lot of speed
had my first two deaths in my fortress tonight. part of my fortress collapsed (I assume I had something set to be channeled out and the miners cut away the supports)
it smashed into the floor, then THAT floor gave way and smashed into the one below it
and this continued for 5 floors, injuring the miner and a grower that happened to be walking under it. They also smashed right into my jewelry shop but the jeweler was out at the time
I was like DANG that is some cartoon bullshit
then right after that It happened again, injuring another peasant that I'd just handed a pick to and so I deselected that little project for a while and scolded my fortress
it was my first foray into the healthcare system, and it was pretty awesome. I got to make soap and splints and a traction bench and I can only shudder to think of the poor dwarf under the knife of my Novice Everything Surgeon
some hunter kept trying to use my soap, which is apparently a bug vov, but i militarized him and that shut his ass up
MINER - 2 completely shattered and broken legs (he actually didn't go unconscious, he DRUG HIMSELF AROUND TO COMPLETE MINING JOBS, THE FUCKING ANIMAL. I was like "that'll do, man, goddamn go to the fucking hospital"
2 broken arms
red spleen
several cracked ribs
cracked floating ribs
red liver
broken feet
just generally fucked up
GROWER - 2 broken hands, and lots of yellow and red stuff all over, passed out like a VAGINA at the end of his fall
PEASANT - 2 broken legs, 1 broken hand, red liver, red lung (I think), lost an eye I think as well, and more
unfortunately, after a hard-fought battle, the shitty doctor lost both the miner and the grower
as members of the original 7 and 2 of his best friends, they have been given lavish accommodations for the afterlife and their rooms have been boarded up
there will be a short service in the dining hall
aka
PARTY AT THE TABLE
why you gotta make me re install
E: oh hey I can't cause the nets is too slow HA
but then the sadness feedback loops as the dwarves see and react to eachother getting more and more depresseed and then everything burns
ALL PARTIES ARE CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
work hours have been extended from 50 to 80
We have no idea what we're doing. He's trying really hard to build a moat, but almost got his legendary miner killed. She dug a stairway so fast that she escaped the onrushing water. Legendary!
I have a squad of 5 and a squad of 2, under different captains
I have the 5 set to hold wooden training swords and a shield and are decked out in iron armor
the 2 are assigned crossbows, no shield or buckler, leather armor, and bone bolts set to be used for combat and training
now the squad of 5 is set to train every month with 4 minimum for training, and they do, they go to their assigned training barracks and do whatever, demonstrations, etc
HOWEVER, One of them never goes. he's still got the civvy look to him and is doing civilian tasks, I thought under his thing it says unassigned orders or whatever, but I seriously can't figure out why he's not obeying the squad orders to go train
the 2 are assigned 2 archery targets, and are set to train on them. The targets are set up corrects, but they also never do it, they're still both civvies
I swear I've looked through the wiki and gone through their steps a hundred times, disbanded the squads, put them back, still the same problem
now my questions
1) How do I get that one squadmember from the 5 to actually participate
2) how do I get the 2 marksdwarves to train on the targets
3) the 4 guys out of 5 that are actually training don't seem to be gaining any skills, none of them are very good, so are they just shittily teaching each other? How do I get them to train faster, maybe spar?
Though in general marksdwarfs seem a bit hit and miss. I've got truck loads of bolts/targets assigned to them and they still love to bash each other with their crossbows.
I THINK I had the civilian alert messing with things
they seem to be training well now
unfortunately because I was so focused on this and solving it, I forgot to keep an eye on my fortress as a whole and my dwarfs ran out of alcohol
cue 30 dwarfs drinking from the stream
hilarious!
get back inside you little shits
Look dude it's not my fault you went over a 10 level waterfall get over yourself
jeez
I get that it's hard, but having to study to play a game is major negative points.
I hate the way the current medical system works (regardless of bugs), I think it could certainly be consolidated into nurses, surgeons and medical chief.
I haven't tried out the military aspect yet (still reading), but it seems tedious even without the bugs.
All in all though it seems fun, and an excellent break from Minecraft.
I never did the least bit of studying. Just dozens upon dozens of miserable flaming screaming slipping in fear-vomit deaths.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO CRAFT WITH TURTLE SHELLS? YOU ARE A GOD DAMN COOK.
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You've got a strange mood on your hands - the milker wants to build something he's seen in a dream, but doesn't have the materials (in this case it looks like he wants bones and stone - probably a certain type of stone, or maybe stone blocks rather than just lumps).
If he can't make his masterpiece, he will go bonkers. If you're lucky, he'll just get depressed and forget to eat. If you're unlucky, he'll rage and try to kill everyone.
Either find the materials he needs quickly, or lock the door to the workshop.
how is that not fun
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My cook made a donkey leather tunic with a picture of his most recent masterwork meal on it, next to gods and kings
Days went by as the surviving 8 dwarves slowly slid into a never-ending cycle of death and destruction. My legendary crafter, who somehow survived the attack, went apeshit and destroyed the entire dining hall that I had built. All hope was lost.
And then the goblins returned.
3DS: 2981-5304-3227
It was like my second time ever playing, and I really wasn't expecting a goblin attack in my second summer. That seemed almost cruel.
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and even then
pfffffhahahaha
It's more making room for more useful dorfs.
Rane
Rane, stop lying.
Stonesense is a live display of what's going on in DF.
My roommate can't get it to display dwarfs though. Anyone had that problem?
Oops, we'll get right on that.
My marksdwarfs, while occasionally training at the targets, refuse to take arrows into battle and try to batter their opponents.
My melee troops, rather then wait at their station point for the enemy, would go out one by one to grab equipment from dead dwarfs or go to a previous station point.
I did not know this
can you access the commands via stonesense or do you have to switch back to DF every time you want to do something
having two monitors for one game
truly, we are living in the future
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
you need to cancel your station points
and make sure your ammunition is useable in combat (looks like it's only been allowed for use in training)
AND, if you press "o", you can tell dorfs to ignore dead dwarf stuff
I did the first two. My dwarfs decided eating goblin spears would be more fun
Did not know of the third. that's useful