Dorf Fortress

[Tom the Cat]

Yup, my Smith just became a Legendary Wrestler. He's thirsty and probably going to die before he can drink from the many full casks of booze we have just feet away from them.

[Tom the Cat]

Abandoned the fort when:

-3 seasons had passed
-Fox 1 was still alive and beginning to heal
-Fox 2 had showed up
-My militia were only subsisting on water and starvation was beginning to settle in

Wow. Undead are kind of pussy except for the fact that they're goddamn immortal and will scare even your most seasoned veterans away from your booze/meat stores.

[Tom the Cat]

Started a new place and am off to a great start. Lost my Mason/Miner of my original seven to a stupid mining accident, and have seen herds of Elephants roaming the area, but generally this fort is moving along nicely. Once I get a well and a garbage pit set up I should have all the major accoutrements. I'm also wondering how easy it is to set up underground forests in the new version. If I had that, my dorfs could effectively wall themselves off from the surface at this point.

I seem to notice some glitchy behavior in the new version requiring finished goods, or particularly the clothing the dead dorf wore. It's like everyone keeps putting them away in the same bin, and then someone else comes over and adjusts how it's stored, and a third person adjusts it further, and so on. It's not a matter of them taking anything, there's just a cycle of dorfs accessing the same bin over and over, one after another. It's bizarre.

[Wilbur]

0.31.03 is up, undead should no longer be immortal.

[Tom the Cat]

well god dammit. perfect timing, Tarn

[Gretyl]

Dorfs Illustrated: http://www.nzfortress.co.nz/forum/showt ... hp?t=20768

[Tom the Cat]

So. Awesome. I wish I had the attitude to stick with an obviously doomed fort for the random win like that. Once I feel like a place is doomed, I usually just abandon ship and start a new one.

[daoist]

OH FUCK YES man that story rocked.

[Cody]

whoever did that is wasting their time. They should be super rich by now if they weren't playing DFort. The graphic design and story-telling are superb.

[Gretyl]

Who says they're not super rich and just killing their idle hours?

[Cody]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magaz ... wanted=all

[Gretyl]

07/03/2011: Did some arena testing on the batch of 8 critters. First I gave squids the brains I had forgotten... squid men don't have skulls, so when I set them on each other there were a greater number of deadly kicks to the head before they all drowned in the air.

can't wait for next release

[Gretyl]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of-dwarf-fortress.html?_r=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=all

It’s like a jalopy with a V-12 under the hood. “The processing power that Dwarf Fortress uses is on the same scale as modern engineering software for designing aerospace hardware,” says Ames, the engineer. “You have more complicated simulations in Dwarf Fortress than when you model the aerodynamics of a wing.”

finally, something to hold over MA's head!

[MarcusAurelius]

Would you prefer nerdy technical response, drunk response, or let it go?

[nippletwister]

Just make a quick passive joke.

Well done sir.

[Prison Mike]

Would you prefer nerdy technical response, drunk response, or let it go?

How about you pull off the insecurity trifecta and make a drunk nerdy technical response while pretending you don't actually care at all?

[MarcusAurelius]

prison mike: knows how the internet works.