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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    Well, this was a quick fortress:

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    Unusual weather immediately, which turns out to be... molten rock.

    WELP!

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    What the fuck is with the over-abundance of messages in the game regarding blisters?

  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Henroid wrote: »
    What the fuck is with the over-abundance of messages in the game regarding blisters?

    Every single bodypart on my dwarves were roasted alive by molten rock. The game keeps track of all these body parts independently, so we get all these messages at once.

    Reclaiming failed that time, same issue, but I got a piece of charcoal made before the rain. Going to try again, I should be able to get some bronze forged, then in the reclaim after that I might get a pick made, and if so, I should be able to survive. Mostly.

    I think it'll be hilarious to see a bunch of goblins try to invade. They'll be melted alive.

    KiTA on
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    It's no wonder the game chugs on my computer. It's not just keeping track of that crap for dwarves in your fort, but all the wildlife and hostiles all around on your embark zone.

    Instead of adding features, I think Toady needs to look into streamlining the game, it's getting to be a bit much.

  • Amikron DevaliaAmikron Devalia I didn't ask for this title. Registered User regular
    That is the opposite of what he should do, MORE DETAIL. We need gaming rigs designed purely to play DF. I want to know that individual cells are dying in these motherfuckers!

    *twitches*

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    That is the opposite of what he should do, MORE DETAIL. We need gaming rigs designed purely to play DF. I want to know that individual cells are dying in these motherfuckers!

    *twitches*

    Does Dwarf Fortress make use of multi-cores?

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    That is the opposite of what he should do, MORE DETAIL. We need gaming rigs designed purely to play DF. I want to know that individual cells are dying in these motherfuckers!

    *twitches*

    Does Dwarf Fortress make use of multi-cores?

    No, he couldn't figure it out so he gave up trying.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    That is the opposite of what he should do, MORE DETAIL. We need gaming rigs designed purely to play DF. I want to know that individual cells are dying in these motherfuckers!

    *twitches*

    Does Dwarf Fortress make use of multi-cores?

    No, he couldn't figure it out so he gave up trying.

    Mmmmmmaybe he can enlist some help? I mean, it would really help the game out since multi-cores are kind of the performance boost things rely on at the moment.

  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    He doesn't want help.

    What's important to understand is that he isn't making this game from the point of view of creating something for other people. He's making it for himself and letting other people play it if they want to.

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    Toady isn't interested in your sane suggestions

    Honestly DF could be a real cash cow like minecraft if around 40d or whatever before the big revamp a while ago he had worked on bug fixes and streamlining the experience rather than barbers and lung blister mapping

  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Second reclaim attempt. The previous guys got enough bronze made that I could make a pick, so my miner dove into the mountain with gusto.

    Everyone else died to the molten rain, most of them crawling into the burrow I had set up inside the mountain, away from the rain with their last breaths.

    The last dwarf started getting a tunnel system setup. Not to survive in, as the food and drink is trapped outside, but for future generations to hide in. In the midst of this, he took time to drag his friend's bodies out of the way of the trade depot he was setting up.

    About halfway through this process he goes outside for a drink, and the clouds darken...

    Welp, 3rd reclaim attempt, or give it up and try for something a bit less =fun=.

    KiTA on
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    How are you going to get caravans and immigrants into a molten-rain laden place?

  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Henroid wrote: »
    How are you going to get caravans and immigrants into a molten-rain laden place?

    This sounds like a problem for ~teh outsiders~, considering my plan at that point was to seal my entire fort underground and just survive with the original, shellshocked, 6. Whichever batch of them survived the reclaim process. No doubt the original 6 would have children eventually, and the outsiders, well, I don't have to worry about them until the ghosts appear.

    SKY BRING PAIN

    Hilariously, the first goblin invasion would no doubt involve them all dying to the same molten rock...

    There was a small square in the lower right that didn't involve molten rain, alongside the brook. I was straddling 3 biomes -- 2 which appeared to be the same, haunted, hill, and one that was a standard grassland. If I had known there was a molten rain problem I would have set up a burrow immediately on the safe grass and started the fort there, but, welp.


    Instead I think I'm going to gen a new world with every setting on max -- 1050 years of history, large map, the works. A standard map with 1050 years of history takes about 2 hours, so I'm not sure how long this one will take. Might be finished before Monday?

    KiTA on
  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    Same theory behind going into an undead area, really. Get yourself inside the mountain, seal off the entrance immediately, and completely ignore the outside world. Any immigrants and caravans are their own problem. If you get a siege? Hilarity ensues as the undead hordes above swarm the armies and kill them, leading to yet more undead hordes.

    I just wish they had added Necromancy to the available dwarven job set. It would have made embarking in an evil aligned area much more interesting.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    You could always build a complex series of tunnels wide enough for caravans to enter, once you identify how they'd try to come into your zone. As soon as they enter, they can duck into the safety of the tunnel, and travel through the dark caves to your civilization.

  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    Supposedly Goblins make similar tunnels during worldgen, but they're not fully realized yet -- eventually, once goblins start using sappers and miners to really ruin your day, it'll be possible for them to burst out of tunnels in the middle of your fortress.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    That's why I institute a policy of no idle citizens. If you can't craft anything, prepare or fetch food in any way, or mine, you get put in the military. EVERY DWARF MUST DO HIS PART.

  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    My fort in "Utopia" is really awesome.

    Until I ran out of food.

  • DemiurgeDemiurge Registered User regular
    KiTA wrote: »
    Supposedly Goblins make similar tunnels during worldgen, but they're not fully realized yet -- eventually, once goblins start using sappers and miners to really ruin your day, it'll be possible for them to burst out of tunnels in the middle of your fortress.

    I hope it'll be like Dungeon Keeper and they can't mine through smoothed walls.

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  • Amikron DevaliaAmikron Devalia I didn't ask for this title. Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Toady isn't interested in your sane suggestions

    Honestly DF could be a real cash cow like minecraft if around 40d or whatever before the big revamp a while ago he had worked on bug fixes and streamlining the experience rather than barbers and lung blister mapping

    I know this is going to sound crazy, but he doesn't want it to be a cash cow really, not sure if you guys read that news story about toady last year, but the guy is perfectly happy making the game HE wants.

    edit: Here is the story, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of-dwarf-fortress.html?pagewanted=all

    Amikron Devalia on
  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    I was off by a few hours, the max size, max everything world only took 2 hours 39 minutes to gen, which is only 39 minutes longer than a standard world gen.

  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    By the way @KiTA, you're fucking nuts.

    Keep it up. :^:

    DisruptedCapitalist on
    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • Firmus_PiettFirmus_Piett Registered User regular
    "A Great Elephant twisted into humanoid form. It's crazed for blood and flesh. Its eyes grow amber. Its charcoal hair is long and shaggy. Now you will know why you fear the night."

    Dear god, they're back for more!

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    That is the opposite of what he should do, MORE DETAIL. We need gaming rigs designed purely to play DF. I want to know that individual cells are dying in these motherfuckers!

    *twitches*

    Does Dwarf Fortress make use of multi-cores?

    No, he couldn't figure it out so he gave up trying.

    Mmmmmmaybe he can enlist some help? I mean, it would really help the game out since multi-cores are kind of the performance boost things rely on at the moment.
    I know somebody who tried to help him on this very issue. He wasn't ungrateful or anything but he just said it wouldn't happen after trying for a bit.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    Quick question as I am just getting back into this game. Have coins been fixed, or do they still mindlessly scatter coins everywhere?

    PSN: DignifiedPauper
    3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
  • ArchonexArchonex No hard feelings, right? Registered User regular
    "A Great Elephant twisted into humanoid form. It's crazed for blood and flesh. Its eyes grow amber. Its charcoal hair is long and shaggy. Now you will know why you fear the night."

    Dear god, they're back for more!

    Werecarps.

    We're all fucked.

  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    Quick question as I am just getting back into this game. Have coins been fixed, or do they still mindlessly scatter coins everywhere?

    Still broke, so he disabled the economy until it's fixed.

  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    WereCarp would be a terrifying creature indeed... My god.

    Also, thanks for the update, it's been since 31 that i've played, so I've not experienced vampires or were creatures.

    PSN: DignifiedPauper
    3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
  • TheOtherHorsemanTheOtherHorseman Registered User regular
    WereCarp would be a terrifying creature indeed... My god.

    Also, thanks for the update, it's been since 31 that i've played, so I've not experienced vampires or were creatures.

    The most terrifying shapeshifter. A carp that turns into another carp.

  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    Wouldnt a WereCarp be harmless, Since it would airdrown?

    Zombie WereCarp on the otherhand..

  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    Archonex wrote: »
    "A Great Elephant twisted into humanoid form. It's crazed for blood and flesh. Its eyes grow amber. Its charcoal hair is long and shaggy. Now you will know why you fear the night."

    Dear god, they're back for more!

    Werecarps.

    We're all fucked.

    They shift and immediately drown in the air.


    Supposedly weres won't attack their own kind while berserk. So if you can get an infected dwarf in your fortress (apparently unlike vampires they do NOT migrate to your fortress) you can infect your entire military in this way.

    But KiTA, why in the hell would you ever want to infect your military with a disease that causes them to horrifically murder anyone nearby every few weeks in game?

    Were-creatures heal to full from death every time they shift. If you have a dwarf that is missing two arms, has permanent spinal damage, and cannot walk.... if he shifts, he'll be a fully healed were-creature, and when he shifts back, he'll be a fully healed dwarf.

    So what you do is you set up a burrows for your infected military and "new recruits", full of traps and locked doors, someplace down a tunnel away from the rest of your fortress. You set up training equipment there, and someplace in between set up an airlock (maybe via bridge) with a food and drink stockpile... and you lock the military in there. In the event of an invasion, you unlock the military's tomb, and let the were-elephants of Bronzecage storm out to meet the Goblins.

    Picture that mental image for a second there. A huge goblin army, being met by say, 5 dwarves, bursting out of a staircase that's being held shut by iron bars that swing open. As the Goblins begin to charge, a horrific trumpeting sound is heard, stopping the charge dead in it's tracks. The goblins look around, casting eyes to the hills nearby.

    "Wotz dis, Re'nforcm'ts?"

    "No boz, itz... itz... itz dem!"

    The lead dwarf grins, his beard splitting in three as two huge tusks split out from each side of his smile, and his hand, holding a leg of plump helmet and giant thrips roast, begins to split like an overripe grape as it changes color to a mottled grey...



    I like the idea of them "accidentally" leaving a goblin or two alive but bloody and beaten to go return to the Goblin kingdom... Hey, they have... 4 weeks... until the next full moon. Plenty of time to figure this shit out, right?

    Supposedly the combat style they use counts as wrestling, so if you have a bunch of legendary wrestlers, you're golden.

  • RendRend Registered User regular
    Considering the likely outcome of that fight, I'd think it more appropriate if it used butchery instead.

  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    Well, I starved to death. I spent so much time getting things going that I didn't take care of food.

    God damn it.

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Just started a new fort in the newest version. Had to wait for DT to be updated. Looking forward to finding were creatures and vamps aplenty after reading the awesome stories here.

    sig.gif Gamertag: KL Retribution
    PSN:Furlion
  • MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    Started up a new fortress with the new version. Kept seeing this guy's name pop up in other people's Legends entries, wanted to see what he was all about:

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    Man, that sure is a lot of notable kills, I wonder what else-

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    Nope, I'm done here. I'm not doing this.

    Is time a gift or punishment?
  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    holy goodness that's a lot of fucking kills.

    PSN: DignifiedPauper
    3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    If he's still alive, find him.

    If he's dead, what the hell killed him.

  • MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    The best part is that he isn't really doing anything. The Dwarves in this world are just grinding themselves into paste against this guy for no obvious reason.

    Also, "The Mellow Jungles" is the most sarcastic name for a territory ever.

    EDIT: No, he's still alive. He isn't even the most interesting demon in this world. The other one (the only other one) settled in a human civ in the year 5, and has lived the past 545 years in complete peace, publishing hundreds of books along the way. Including, my favorite, Civilization: My Greatest Mistake.

    MegaMek on
    Is time a gift or punishment?
  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    MegaMek wrote: »
    The best part is that he isn't really doing anything. The Dwarves in this world are just grinding themselves into paste against this guy for no obvious reason.

    Also, "The Mellow Jungles" is the most sarcastic name for a territory ever.

    EDIT: No, he's still alive. He isn't even the most interesting demon in this world. The other one (the only other one) settled in a human civ in the year 5, and has lived the past 545 years in complete peace, publishing hundreds of books along the way. Including, my favorite, Civilization: My Greatest Mistake.

    Wow.

  • MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    Yeah, this was the first time I actually used the Legends viewer to get a sense of my worlds history before playing. This is how I found that Necromancers (and Demons!) really love to write books. Apparently. Every necromancer in this world went from great personal tragedy -> finds screts of life and death -> write sappy autobiography (probably some serious revisionist shit in these too, these guys seem vain as hell).

    Is time a gift or punishment?
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