Dorf Fortress

[daoist]

I need a faster way to drain the river. I'm thinking a few dozen pumps.

[daoist]

while my carpenters are churning out screw pump components, I've been working on my war room and shoring up defenses. Just in case those carps grow legs and come knocking.

[Cody]

[CREATURE:FISH_CARP] [NAME:carp:carp:carp] [TILE:224][COLOR:3:0:0] [LARGE_ROAMING] [AQUATIC][UNDERSWIM][IMMOBILE_LAND] [MODVALUE:3] [GENPOWER:3] [PREFSTRING:protruding mouths] [ALL_ACTIVE] [POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30] [CLUSTER_NUMBER:5:10] [BENIGN][MEANDERER][NATURAL] [PETVALUE:50] [BODY:BASIC_2PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD:SIDE_FINS:DORSAL_FIN:TAIL:2EYES:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:MOUTH] [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH] [ATTACK:SECOND:BYTOKEN:TAIL:slap:slaps:1:2:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH] [SIZE:3] [MAXAGE:20:30] [NO_DRINK] [CHILD:1][CHILDNAME:carp fry:carp fry] [FAT:1] [BIOME:RIVER_TEMPERATE_FRESHWATER] [BIOME:RIVER_TROPICAL_FRESHWATER] [BIOME:LAKE_TEMPERATE_FRESHWATER] [BIOME:LAKE_TROPICAL_FRESHWATER] [STANDARD_FLESH] [HOMEOTHERM:10067] [SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:500]

[Gretyl]

THE MURLOCS ARE COMING! THE MURLOCS ARE COMING!

[Gretyl]

lglglglglglglllglllggll!

[daoist]

making a guard tower across the stream from the entrance to my fort, atop an elite subterranean archery school.

[Gretyl]

Do they learn how to arc bolts around slabs of meat?

[daoist]

first we work on the ability to shoot straight. baby steps, these are dorfs we're talking about here.

[daoist]

Every single time I have an elvish caravan, there is an ambush at the same place the elves enter the map and the goblins slaughter them. Then I go kill the goblins and take all the elves' stuff. I love it.

[Warlock]

Every single time I have an elvish caravan, there is an ambush at the same place the elves enter the map and the goblins slaughter them. Then I go kill the goblins and take all the elves' stuff. I love it.

Have fun when the Elves show up with an army to kill you

[Cody]

Every single time I have an elvish caravan, there is an ambush at the same place the elves enter the map and the goblins slaughter them. Then I go kill the goblins and take all the elves' stuff. I love it.

Have fun when the Elves show up with an army to kill you

this is the most fun.

[Gretyl]

That's why I build all wood/meat/bone deathtraps in a special entryway to my fort, for when the elves come a-callin'.

[daoist]

water is seeping into my river somehow.

[Tom the Cat]

dun dun DUNNNN

[Silver Chalice]

water is seeping into my river somehow.

Does it rain a lot at your fort? I think when a river is drained, it acts like a murky pool, and will be partially refilled with rainwater.

Unless you're talking about lots of water. Then I dunno. I've never tried a dam before.

[Warlock]

water is seeping into my river somehow.

Clearly you have Carps disguised as Dorfs sabotaging your master carp-extermination plan! The only recorse is to go on a murder spree until you find the spies!

[Gretyl]

Clearly!

[daoist]

water is seeping into my river somehow.

Does it rain a lot at your fort? I think when a river is drained, it acts like a murky pool, and will be partially refilled with rainwater.

Unless you're talking about lots of water. Then I dunno. I've never tried a dam before.

Yeah I think it must be rain. I'm setting up a pumping system so I can rapidly drain/fill the river. mwahahahahaha

[daoist]

It seems the way it handles rain is every year to just plop 1 depth of water into all of the rivers/lakes that aren't full. I've set up permanent wind-powered pumping stations to remove the water. I have a large underground tank I can use to make flooding kill chambers later.

Also I am building roads to the edges of the map to help the damn retarded caravans make it in. Also I've got a crows nest going up over the entrance to give my archers a chance against these bad guys.

Population is 120 and no sieges so far.

[daoist]

SIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGE!

[daoist]

lame, they stopped the siege and fled after the archers killed only one of them. They didn't even make it to the traps.

[nippletwister]

SIEEE...

[daoist]

AC adapter crapped out on my main laptop, so no dfort for a few days until I get a replacement

[Warlock]

Wow, I wish I could play the game like this:
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=43260.0




On a side note, these features might tempt me to play this again:
http://dwarffortress.com/2009/10/16/hig ... ss-talk-3/

[Cody]

crickies that looks sweeeeet.

[Tom the Cat]

Someone just jizzed in their pants.

[Gretyl]

Next Halloween, I'm gonna dress up as the stereotypical Dfort player and recite that video's transcript from memory to anyone who asks what I am.

[Gretyl]

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Great story or greatest story?

[Gretyl]

Also, update risin'!

• Fix the annoying cat bug

[Warlock]

A siege and a megabeast is where they went insane with how difficult the game is? Really? Trying to setup a damn irrigation system is a hell of a lot harder than dealing with a goblin siege (that is: with enough understanding of how the game works, you can make your fort pretty goblin-proof without much trouble).

If anything, put the dorf in there that goes insane because he can't craft something out of glass on a sand-less map (most annoying thing ever, you can't even trade for sand)

[Gretyl]

Well, I agree there's a certain degree of pants-shitting the first time you set your fort on fire that's greater than those first three hurdles combined.

[daoist]

I can't wait for the update; the goblins are supposed to be able to deal with your impenetrable fortress.

[Tom the Cat]

Depends on the terrain. Usually you can count on 15-20 subterranean levels. In the new Dwarf Fortress 2010 that's coming out in a few months there will be 50-100 subterranean levels on every map with dozens of caverns to explore.

[Gretyl]

Nice reputable source you got there.

[Warlock]

Honestly, the game lags enough on high end machines without adding 50 more layers of crap going on

[Tom the Cat]

Nice reputable source you got there.

I trust the dorfheads on /v/ to be as knowledgeable about DFort as anyone else.

[Warlock]

Saw this posted somewhere:

[daoist]

it's from threepanelsoul.com so far I've found 2 DF themed comics there. Is there a way to find just the DF ones?

[Tom the Cat]

it's from threepanelsoul.com so far I've found 2 DF themed comics there. Is there a way to find just the DF ones?

No. There are only 3 I think. Maybe 4.

[daoist]

That's sad. I want that guy to do more. Love the art, love the humor.

[Warlock]

I like how he put the ascii character on their heads

[daoist]

Yeah, love it.

[Warlock]

Looking through the archives I found these as well:

[daoist]

With toadyone's reports seeming to get closer and closer I'm having a hard time not getting super excited.

[daoist]

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=50643.0

Hell yes, multiplayer dfort.

Definitely going to set one of these up for us. Of course, df2010 is supposed to drop tomorrow, hopefully it'll be compatible, so I'll wait till then.

[Gretyl]

Color me interested!

[Tom the Cat]

Tom Twocat has been taken by a fey mood!

[Silver Chalice]

Worldgen GO!

[Cody]

so this is out already? Shit, that's gonna be a problem for me. I was hoping to get out of the house a little this weekend.

[Gretyl]

I hear dorfs love playing with you on Easter.

[agent_o4]

The site seems to be down. nm just really unresponsive.

[agent_o4]

and is there a mac ver of the new?

[daoist]

he hasn't gotten the mac or linux done yet.

[agent_o4]

so I tried irrigating like I had before to make a farm, tunnel from river -> door with lever -> room -> door
the flooding worked ok but now the water doesn't seem to go away, stays at 2 or 3 /7 depth

[agent_o4]

made room bigger that seems to have done the trick.

[Warlock]

Wow, their site is all kinds of screwed up today.

So how exactly does multiplayer dorf fort even work? Isn't everything pretty much uniquely generated to the user? Seems like it'd be hard to opperate two fortresses at once if they are both using different maps/worlds. Or is it something completely different?

[daoist]

it's something completely different. It all runs on one computer, and people telnet in. Only one can run a fort at once (can have multiple going, though) and everyone can chat.

[Warlock]

So it's not really multiplayer, they just added in some kind of chat function

[daoist]

it's turn-based.

[Warlock]

it's turn-based.

Like Boatmurdered?

[daoist]

Yeah, that's the idea. But this way since it's all in one place and there's no zipping and emailing, it should be able to stick around.

[daoist]

oh and a cool thing, unlike the old system, if you want to play some dfort you can connect and if nobody is at the reigns you can just start playing.

[daoist]

can't get to the site? http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Main_Page has mirrors

[Tom the Cat]

Man, I can't even remember how to get a list of all the visible creatures on the map. Starting a new place, "Flamefenced."

[Tom the Cat]

Ah, it's [u]. Which isn't on the list of commands. Derp.