Be Right Back, Uninstalling

So, I've been milling about with dwarf fortress these past 2-3 days, and wow. It is more indepth than I ever thought, but the learning curve seems to plateau really really hard at some point, and then it becomes second nature, unfortunately.

At anyrate, reading Boatmurdered's quality quality stories, makes me make this thread. If anyone would like to run a more detailed compendium of our turns, knock this thread up.

Welcome to the fantasy world, aptly and randomly generated: The Enchanted Universe of Forever. Quite an extreme name for such a docile place. A group of dwarves sent from the capital sets their sites around a forest, and, here the story begins.




Beachedcudgels? What kind of name is that? I'd ring that rotten dwarf's neck if I ever found out who thought of that. Brings to my mind a bunch of soggy shit. Too late now, I guess I'm dealt what I'm dealt, as the other dwarves seem absolutely ccontent with it.

So, we're in the middle of a goddamned forest, and guess what? It's flatter than the bosom's of some of those elves at the capital. On top of that, theres nary a fucking hill in site! So where do we go? Into the goddamned ground, like wee little hobbits.

Here we set up a fine dwarfly carpenter's and mason's workshop. We immediately dismantled our now useless wagon into wood, and we stockpiled it in what is to be our trading depot's location.


here are our measly rooms, piece of shit they are, not even enough room to stretch our beards.


Fucking plump helmets are sprouting, and no one's even paying attention. Plump helmets! You can't do anything wrong to 'em, love em myself.


Our dining room, kitchen, and fishery are up as well.


And as if we didn't have enough goddamned work they took the time to smooth the dining room out.


Ah! I should be expecting a trade caravan this autumn, so alas! Trade depot in the wor- PLUMP HELMETS!!


Goddammit son of a bitch! Why would any dwarf build a piss yellow trade depot. Yellow is such an undwarfly color. I would have it dismantled at once if we didn't have a million other things to do. Seven of us, what kind of idiot sends 7 dwarves to live by themselves?



Today, I walked into our stockpiles, and what do I see? NOTHING! A great and terrible tragedy! Where's an axe when I need it, I can't possible bear to live now.


Ah, so we the lads and I were diggin out the entrance a bit more, and as Kubuk was standin on a ledge, we took the ground right out from under him! Ahhhahahaha, his face was so priceless.



Oops.


Kubuk stood right up, and went downstairs to tend to his wounds.



Ah yes, what separates us dwarvly dwarves from those hobbity hobbits. A proper fortress comin' about, no need to be embarrassed now when other dwarves come. Its no longer just a damned hole in the ground!



5th Galena, 201, late-summer:

Someone took all the pig tail and brewed it into delicious brew.
On a completely different note:  we now no longer have any clothing material


Can't believe it, half a year, gone! What work have we gotten done? Hardly any, I hope more dwarves arrive from the capital soon, we sure could use more useful hands around here.

So is this like one of those dwarf fortress diaries
Where you do it yourself for a really long time until you win/get bored/die

Also the Enchanted Universe of Forever :3

You should get the tile set.

Can caravans reach that depot?  Playing it close!

(08-18-2009, 08:51 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: [ -> ]You should get the tile set.

I have the tileset on my desktop, where it looks nice. But its too big on my laptop, and is absolutely FUGLY when I reduce the size.
Plus I thought I'd dwarf up a bit and use the SHITTY GRAPHIX.

Someone should show me how the game works.

I've been idling with 7 dwarves for I don't know how long and got pissed.

Three-key quickstart:

'd' designates areas to be dug, trees to be chopped, etc.
'b' builds or places items.  Workshops, tables, chairs, doors, beds...
'q' allows you to interact with built items.  So, add build order to a workshop, create a dining room from a table, or bedroom from a bed.

There's way more, of course...  The wiki is helpful. It's mentioned in the other DF thread.

Sponson.

You're officially my best friend.

I don't think I've seen anyone else here use the regular character set.

Oh, AnyKey did. He took bad aspect screenshots though so he gets less appreciation.

(08-19-2009, 12:54 AM)Chronomaster link Wrote: [ -> ]Sponson.

You're officially my best friend.

I don't think I've seen anyone else here use the regular character set.

Oh, AnyKey did. He took bad aspect screenshots though so he gets less appreciation.

:C

Long story short, my laptop power-crashed at 50% power, and upon restarting all my dwarves became retarded.
Rotting groundhog chunks were left on the floor until it miasma'd the whole fucking fortress for a couple months. Chopped trees would leave behind wood logs, but the dwarves could NOT recognize them as such, so would not stockpile nor use them in construction, which put my barrel making abilities into a mess and then the beer making ability into a bigger mess.

GG Fuck this for now, getting Marxo and G-rad into this game.