Too busy anticipating the next release.

I'm considering making a FLCL tribute fort.

A giant iron with waterfalls in it so at the flip of a switch I can make it belch out huge clouds of mist.

Eh, my forts are boring as hell. I farm, I eat, I drink.

>>3465453

FUND IT

>>3465453
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

AND KOBOLDS LIVING IN THE VALLEY BELOW!

A dragon appeared, Set fire to my Trade depot killing all the humans and got caught in a cage trap , failing to kill any dorfs. Well, until they decided
to carry the burning goods into the food stockpile.
Out of 110 dorfs only 22 are still alive.

>>3465528
>>3465453

The game is too easy to win the same old way. I have had several fortresses where one champion in masterwork adamantium single-handedly kills all of the daemons (MINE A LONG ONE SQUARE SHAFT INTO THE PITS THEN WALL IT OFF IMMEDIATELY THEN MINE ALL THE ADAMANTIUM AROUND THE PITS WHICH YOU KNOW NOW WHERE THEY ARE THERE I RUINED IT FOR YOU), sieges, megabeasts, everything, every dwarf has a god damn royal dining room, etc.

I've been dreaming for a long while of building the self-aware fortress which will maintain a food and drink homeostasis, so you can just close the front door to avoid sieges and go off the computer for a few hours, leave it running. I'm not yet exactly decided on how it might work best.

This is what I've come up with so far, you could have a wall which separates the kitchen and farm complex from the rest of the fortress, and another behind which the stills are. In the walls there are mechanically operated doors. There are several stockpiles, depending on how careful you want to be, say a first stockpile and a second stockpile. There are pressure plates in the corridor to the first stockpiles of food that open the gates to the farming complex. Same thing for the drinks stockpiles. All fields and kitchens and stills are set to produce/repeat/all seasons.

Sadly I haven't had the time to play DF recently.

>tigress paladin

OH GOD FAP FAP

>>3465483
Yeah I have the same problem, I've event started making forts in very dangerous areas and so far all have been relatively fine except for one that started by a haunted river.

A whole river.

Teeming with an undead water ecology.

Zombie freshwater crocodiles, skeletal hippos, zombie/skeletal milkfish, zombie stingrays, a few carp of both varieties and misc other undead fish that were too many to name them all.

That was just what was in the river (the only source of water on this map BTW), the woods and hills were filled with undead beasts that I had not taken into account. Knowing the area was dangerous I had take a host of dogs to fend off attacks while we dug in and sealed ourselves off, many swarmed to the rivers where they were dragged under by the godless monsters, drawn by the blood from the wounded that got away the undead horde was roused from the depths. Crawling lifelessly towards us we desperately hacked into the chalk below trying to make a chamber big enough to accommodate all dorfs and suppiles. Alas it was too late the moment we got there, we had started too near the river right in it's bend surrounding us on two sides. The dogs drew attention to us too quickly, we had no time before the tide of darkness fell upon us and while a few of the walking dead were smashed under the hands of the settlers the weight of numbers pressed down upon us.

We tried to flee to the hills, abandoning the wagon as a lost cause, to try and break the earth and survive on what little we had. The zombie ogres soon put an end to that.

>>3466024

Later I sent a team to recover the site, The King saw fit to send no less than SEVENTY fully armed martial dorfs to this forsaken place. Unfortunately as soon as one fell the others began to go mad with grief, some wading into the river to exact revenge only to drown while others lashed out at each other in a blind fury. The expedition tore itself apart in half the time the original did, soon the rivers ran red with blood for miles around.

I shudder to think of the unholy army of zombie dorfs that now inhabit that site, some 70 dorfs in full armor and armed to the teeth lurking by that river ready to claim more innocents to swell their ranks.

I HAD A FORT CALLED ANUSWATER.

THAT IS ALL.

>>3466024
>>3466035
Holy jesus titfucking christ

>>3465982
Self sustaining forts are pretty easy if you have a cave river.

Unlimited water from that, you can flood and drain areas to grow trees underground, and mud also grows crops.

Done.

I had a fort that was built back and forth across a chasm once. Nice place, got it to mountainhome, then got bored and abandoned.

Then I went in as adventurers from time to time and fought the constantly respawning chasm creatures that now also spawned through my fort since it was connected to the chasm.

Then reclaimed.

Holy shit. There were 170 chasm creatures in my fort. Naked mole dogs, trolls, batmen, antmen, snailmen, etc. It was a freaking massacre. The fort ate three 70-dwarf reclaim teams. The third team finally won, though most of them went crazy. I survived a few more seasons, but abandoned again. The walls were covered in blood from the occasional dwarf that would go apeshit and slaughter people, or the chasm creatures that hadn't been found to start with. I had literally thousands of bones.

>>3466108
Not self sustaining, self managing.

If you have an active farm with no other control and you walk away from the computer, one of two things will happen unless you have the exact right amount of farmed squares: either it will fill your stockpiles with plump helmets and you run out of booze because of no barrels and get stuck in a barrel hell if you have no wood, or your dwarfs will eventually starve.

Also, since you will probably have a lot of idlers if you leave a fort to run and don't assign mining tasks, there will be childbirths, so even an exactly balanced amount of farms for your current population will not work in the long run.

>>3466186
No booze won't kill a fort that has a river supplying water.

Farming is automatic enough that it's self-managing. Just come back eight hours later to 10k plump helmets and dwarfs drinking water.

The only problem is all the auto-pausing.

>>3466249
Won't kill a fort but will eventually slow dwarfs down to a point where they can't complete orders anymore. At least according to the forums.

New mother, and best soldier.
Decides to carry new born baby into battle with her,
axe wielded in the other hand. Kills 4 goblins no prob
untill she reaches the big armored chap with the double handed axe. The Baby explodes in a shower of gore and the mother tears of both the goblins legs....
I swear she blocked the axe swing with her baby.
Covered in baby blood i fund out later she was ecstatic.

I'll have to find a suitable site for the iron thing. I might have one on a mountain, but it doesn't overlook the region. (If I could just stick it on a hill by a river, that'd work better.)

The rest would be simple. No doubt that it would leak water, so I'd have to surround it with drainage and put a deep drainage pit under it, but it could work.

my current dorf fort is using the sergal mod with the growable trees mod,i swear the ethics on DF brings out the life of the sergals.

Crude diagram of some of the fort's features, subject to change. Counting the handle on the top, it's 18 Z-levels tall, but only a little over ten or so spaces wide. I figure this could either be a major industry building (perhaps with a magma reservoir somewhere if I can find a spot with enough headroom for this thing AND a magma pipe) or just a fancy home for my stoneworks or craftworks.

>>3466705

The front view seems to be missing a line.

>>3466705
Your architecture is not as effective as possible. Instead of one main stairway, build several small ones with one next to every workshop.

>>3466705
I see what you did there...
*coughFLCLcough*

>>3466705

Another thought just occurred to me.

This thing, by necessity, has to be connected to a power source. That means somewhere in the guts of the building I can place mills, and with a bit of seed trading and foraging, I can get three colors of dye. (Four if I settle in an evil zone, but that's not as fun as it sounds most of the time and I'd have no chance of building something like this in a timely fashion.) With mills turning out dye, dyers could work here dyeing cloth. If I also have silk, this could be my chief export easily. More importantly, iron? Cloth? GET IT?

So I drafted two dorfs into the army, pretty standard procedure. Decided to have them spar with each other so they wouldn't suck in an actual fight. Now, I was pretty new to the game at the time, so I didn't realize that my Dwarves had both picked up iron spears instead of wooden weapons. The result, of course, is that one of them was mortally wounded.

The wounded Dwarf was taken to a bed, but he was in pretty bad shape so I figured he would probably just die or something eventually. For several months he lay in that same bed bleeding to death, but he just clung on. Then, one day, he miraculously got up.

While his body was healthy, however, his mind was not. Apparently lying in a bed in excruciating pain for several months makes dorfs go a little crazy. He ran out into the hallway and killed some poor guy's pet (it was a donkey or something). Now, I figured that for this dorf there was just no going back, so I had the army go in before he killed anything else.

Obviously, the troops made short work of him. But who was the one who struck him down? As you can expect, fate was cruel- it was the very Dwarf who had wounded him in sparring and caused his condition in the first place.

>>3466767

Now at this point, I was shocked. But the story doesn't end here. The miserable dorf who had wounded his friend and comrade, and then killed him, was having some pretty unhappy thoughts about the whole ideal, as one might expect. Fearing that he too would go crazy, I removed him from the army so that he wouldn't be carrying a weapon if he did. Meanwhile, a local crossbow-maker entered one of those strange moods. He went down to the crypt, where I had neglected to make enough coffins for the recently deceased Dwarf to be properly buried, and found his body lying on the ground. Out of his bones he made a crossbow.

Upon witnessing this, I immediately placed the Dwarf who had killed his comrade back in the army, and equipped him so as to be sure he got that very crossbow. For many years, he battled the enemies of the Fortress, remembering with each shot from his friend's bones the terrible price of reckless sparring.

>>3466737

I'm building a large iron with three floors at least partially devoted to making it shoot mist on command.

Do you think I'm concerned at ALL with efficiency?

>>3466769
lol that's awesome.

>>3466737

Also, observe closely.

Those aren't workshops. That isn't a stairway. Dark teal is open space.

It's the water-works.

>>3466769 here

Unhappy thoughts about the whole *ordeal*, not ideal. Excuse my typo.

>>3466773
No, probably not. Just makes me RAGE every time I see a non-optimized fort. The game has turned me into something hideous.

I love this thread so much.

>>3466814

You'll get over it when you realize that a 11x11 column/tower can be made impenetrable and profitable in under five years. People had a huge optimization hard-on back in the 2-D days because you just had to. You had limited space and only one chance to make it work, and not only that you had only two dimensions of space to work with. Now you can make that space EVEN MORE OPTIMAL with a limited amount of work, leaving the rest of your land free for... well, nothing. You'll never come close to using it all.

Since the game is so easy now, the only point in playing is to goof around. It's ASCII Garry's Mod.

I decided to kill off my GOD FORTRESS and start in a terrifying zone.
On arrival, one of the miners commented on how quiet it was...
In the distance a trio of skeletal mountain goats were wandering aimlessly, but not close enough to be a threat.
After a couple of hours of mining out the entrance, the very same miner was dead.
He had stuck a bottomless pit.
SUDDENLY, SKELETON GIANT BATS EVERYWHERE!

>>3466705

I look forward to the day a giant bearded robot sprouts forth from a child's beard to defeat a giant beard that also came from the boys beard. BEARD.

>>3466852

Oh god.

I can see it, in the same style. All the characters in FLCL with beards. Huge fucking beards. Even Canti has a beard. The giant hand thing has a beard. The cat has a beard. The guitar has a beard.

>>3465415
>tigress paladin

But Vah Shir can't be paladins! They're agnostics!

>>3466863
GLORIOUS!

>Simon Ikkultib, miner, cancels start fistfight: interrupted by batman.

"... Uh... Go batman!"

>Simon Ikkultib, miner, has been struck down!

"Goddamnit batman."

I once drained a volcano into a large hole ten Z-levels above it using power from a river on the other side of the map.

I had a fort a while back, can't recall the scenario I decided to set out with (I usually decide on a specific scenario for the expedition, rather than randomly play), but I do recall one specific event.

I usually name my rulers, to keep track of what they get up to. This ruler was a woman dorf named Xarathim, a mason who usually sat in her room accounting the fort's production. One day she mandated the construction of something, large gems I believe - things that appear randomly in gem cutting, so I eventually ordered some gems to be cut.

Unfortunately, not enough large gems were produced and Xarathim decided that someone had to be punished. The vexed ruler decided that one of the craftdwarves was to blame for the lack of gems (even though it had been a gem cutter working on the production order), but the Guard did not have any cells to lock him up. Growing increasingly angry, Xarathim took the law in her own hands and murdered the offending craftdwarf, becoming branded a horrible person overall (I fully expected the Guard to kill her, but they continued being quite ineffective).

I watched Xarathim wander about the fortress after the grisly deed, and I noticed that she was deeply depressed over the event - because she had recently lost a close friend. Turns out the victim of her rage was her best friend in the whole world, and I can only imagine her crying "WHY DO YOU MAKE ME DO THIS!?" as she bludgeoned the man to his death.

When I asked her to engrave some walls, she carved some pretty emo stuff.

>>3466899
Just like every woman

>>3466886
Don't fuck with the goddamn batman.

My epic engraver is making pictures of kobolds stealing and being killed by dwarves.
He really hates those bastards.

My engraver loves merpeople, art, and dogs, and consequently engraves exclusively these things (the art part comes into the engravings of engraving dwarves)

>>3467060

Engravings of dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves engraving dwarves

>>3467100

Your dorfs.

My dorf's.

Dorf's dorfs.

Dorf dorf dorf.

>>3467100
It's developing this way :(

I had a fortress where roughly 90% of the engravings were of buckets, buckets surrounded by Dwarves and buckets surrounded by screaming dwarves.

I stopped making engravings after a while.

>>3466863

>>3467379

And then... then the walruses came...

Sometimes I pull the wrong lever.

Sometimes my fort is flooded with lava.

I deconstruct them now.

>>3467388
Commander Amarao's beard should be more of a goatee or even a soul patch.

Or just obviously fake.

>>3467390
Walruses fap to really weird shit...

Testing my irrigation system... here goes

>>3468163
That fucked up beyond belief

What are the irrigation secrets?

Mood check, does /tg/ want me to post a furry tigress paladin comic?

>>3468679
Probably not a good idea. We just had some troll trying to piss off /tg/ with pseudo-sergal threads.

>>3468679
only if it involves tentacle raep.

>>3468742

Nope, just T&A.
It's a D&D parody.

How about now?

>>3469000
do it

Okay, storytime!

Takes some pages for the paladin to appear.

Ta-Dah!

Any reactions?
I thought it not bad.

The country bumpkins and pound notes weren't good gags, but otherwise quite entertaining.

>>3469043

Not sure if want...

It was, overall, the epitome of mediocre.

Unfunny and crowded artwork.

That comic is an early work by that Anderson guy if my geek-fu isn't wrong.

>>3469351
It's actually easier to read now on my 1024X786 22' display than in original dead tree comic format.

Anyway. Iron fort guy.

Back from work now.

Should I build it?

The very first time I found HFS, I ended up digging into the very bottom of the pit. You know what came out after me? A Demon Lord. Not Toads, not Tentacle Rape (that came later though), nor a few Spirits of Fire. Just a single Demon Lord. He then ascended my giant elaborate ramp staircase, and despite my best efforts, proceeded to open up a can of whoop ass on my entire fort. In the very first moments of battle, he struck down 5 Dwarves including my leader. He then proceeded to go on a rampage throughout the warehouse/ stockpile district of the fort, setting people on fire, and in total killing over 40 Dwarves.

But in the end we killed him. A single Hobunk Miner struck the beast in the head with a pick, and knocked it unconscious, where then almost 20 Dwarves swarmed in and beat the fucker to death.

We got some good engravings out of it before OH MY GOD TENTACLE MONSTERS WHAT? WHY?. Which is a funny story in it's own, as I sent a unskilled Adventurer into the fort to check it out later... and immediately ran into the one that killed so many it got it's own name. What happened? I panicked and threw a bolt at it and lobotomized it. Boom. Headshot.

Keeping it alive till I go to bed.

Dorfs forever!

>>3469735

Yes.

>>3470253
It's obvious in thumbnail, but you can't even really see it in full size. Mind blown.

[f1ip] neet

My newest fort:

Mod code for War Bears and War Harpys(and mod so harpies can have kids, so you don't have to abuse the fuck out of the fact that harpies are only 2 points a buy)

No traps
No fighting dwarfs.

No locking the door.

Just thinking about a goblin siege being torn to pieces by big ass bears and harpies is fucking hilarious.

>>3470294

Yeah, that was kinda disappointing. Though also sort of cool.

It might have helped to actually finish it (a lot of the gray stone is scaffolding, basically, while I filled in the rest of the face.) But then that fort got boring in general so the project died.

>>3470253
Huh. I guess it IS Kefka.

I was thinking some sort of Eldar Farseer what with the shoulder things.

Just a little longer so I can read it all...

I am required by contract to post this.

How do you guys get tilesets to work?
I tried just importing one, and the menus wouldn't show up right
Then I tried using DFG and the screen never gets any smaller (even when I use the int.txt)

bump fo nefarious reasons

I've switched to playing 2D only nowadays. It's more fun to get a group of 20 immigrants, 15 of whom are nobles, and have your 90-dorf-fort drop back to 40 tantruming headcases by next year. Who starve because they're too busy destroying buildings to build farms and wiped out the roads and trade depot long ago.

>>3473201
If you're in it for disasters, 3D is better because there's so much more that can go wrong.

>>3472791
Copy over the RAW folder and the art folder in data, then copy the use graphics lines from the Init files that relate to the tilesets. For me it's;
[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:800]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:maydayMax.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:800]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:maydayMax.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

Then go; http://pkf.olivepeak.com/dwarfcalc.html
Mayday tileset has 16x16 tiles.

This there any way that lets you see where the magma pool or underground river is before you unearth it?

I hate digging blindly trying to find them.

I'm bored so here's the next Third Eye comic.

>>3473547

No one? Am I destined to grope around blindly in the earth, seeking the faint warning of "Warm Stone Detected"?

His name is Demogorgon, goddamn. Not Demi-gorgon.

>>3473759
There were ways with the last version, see if you can open the save it v.39 and used D3dwarf veiwer to have a look.

Sadly, all the programs written for mucking about have been broken by the last updates.

Pic related, it's done with 3Dwarf veiwer, you'll find it in the Wiki.

>>3466064
Your fort's name's Anuswater? MY fort's name is Anuswater.

>>3473768

It's a parody so they don't use the official names?

Hm, are there regenerating monsters in DF?
Could I feed a fort on regenerating Troll sausage?

>>3466308

I lol'd.

>>3473881
There is a rapidly regenerating food source in dwarf fortress that can overwhelm you if not managed properly.

It's called "cat".

I played my first game last night.

No help, only ? rules, seven dwarves, 13 war dogs, 1 double humped camel, final destination.

nope everyone died

>>3473547

Gibbed's Dwarf Fortress Tweak

Look it up on the wiki. It's a little challenging to set up, but it has the latest version of Reveal, which lets you see features.

Well, those comics are better than 98% of all webcomics, but that isn't particulary hard in any way.

Even our drawfaggotry is better than 98% of all webcomics.

actually i cant stand penny arcade. tried to read it, got insanely bored. same with dwarf fort, which is a shame cuz i thought it sounded like a good time :(

>>3475324

I think he was referring to the stuff posted a few posts up, not PA.

I evidently have an aquafer on my Z3... do aquafers cover the whole floor, or is it more like a huge lake?

>>3475471

While I think you can get lucky and find a few holes in the aquifier or find some dry squares if your biome crosses over into one without an aquifer, in general the fucking thing is all over the level you find it in.

Volcanoes help, they have dry squares all around the magma vent.

>>3475504
Well I've covered about half the Z2 trying to find a dry space to go down, but I think if it comes down to it I'm going to mine out as much of Z2 as I can, and then wall off a section and see if I can get a screwpump to lower the water level some and hopefully find a few [1/7] so I can channel down to z4 and it can start to flow down

>>3475517
Yeah that will work, it's a pain to do though. Hope you've got some stone for building with, it's a bugger when the stone is under the aquifier.

As a side note, if you need to drain any water you can dig a channel into the aquifier so it fills up then drain any water you need removed into it, aquifier squares can contain unlimited amounts of water.

... furry... tigress... paladin...

Oh goddamnit, I fapped a little bit...

So, I'm still kind of a n00b at Dorf Fort, but something happened recently that surprised the hell out of me. I got ambushed by goblins, but there were 2 hostile Dorfs leading the attack.

Is this common at all??

>>3475866
No, that's only recently started to happen. I believe that Toady's fooling with the world gen made it so that some dorf's who were snatched as children while the world was generating grew up raised by goblins. Could be wrong though.

>>3475940
Yeah, that's a recent thing. Abducted dwarves, elves, humans, etc. will be raised in the abducting civilization (also happens to the survivors when one civ conquers another.)

I frequently get hostile humans in goblin attacks.

Captured Skeletal Giant Eagle babies. OH GOD, THEY RIDE THEM TO BATTLE!

>>3476086
You're fucked

>>3475552
Like drain water INTO the aquifer? I have a shitton of stone that I'm clearing out now, but the only water is in the aquifer, which I hope to get past somehow.

Also, do aquifers constitute the "magical underground forest" rule, or are those just pools and rivers?

>>3476040
That's not recent at all, check back on the devblog, characters have been defecting to their kidnappers civs for a long time.