10 Things you Should Know Before Playing Dwarf Fortress 

I really think the corpse hauling for children and the cooking plump helmet spawn should be off by default for new embarks. Also, don't eat the puppies...wait until they grow up...then eat them.

I recall having a huge FPS drop after a dwarf having a strange mood got stuck in a tree. That was certainly a wild time

"Am I a monster for having the children haul the mangled corpses of their relatives to the rot pit?", "no, it's the children that are wrong. "

I don't think I've ever been in a position where I thought "I have too many dogs". Then again, I've started assigning a war dog to every child in my fortress, because every child needs a dog and (generally) a snatcher is no match for a war dog. I'm sure the children would feel safer with a war grizzly though, I just gotta tame a few.

I genuinely thought that somehow the weight of a falling tree was destroying a random nearby grass floor tile because i had dug under the tree layer and not built supports... but it's just where the roots used to be. To be able to make trees fall over, roots and all-- Dwarven tree cutters are way more advanced than I ever would have expected. They don't even use an axe to fell the tree, the push it over and cut it up to move it. Hilarious

This is a solid list and I appreciate the placement of #1. The friend who initially got me into DF talked up a lot of old mechanics/bugs that had been changed long ago by the time I started playing, which I didn't found out until months later. lol

That last tip is extremely useful. I was wondering why the children are always playing in the most dangerous, ridiculous places lmfao. But it's just because they completed a job and then stayed put after instead of going somewhere else to play.

so... is the battle axe also used to cut down trees? I honestly don't see a "forge a woodcutting axe" only battle axes and giant axe blades.

Hyped to go to dwarf fortress school

The explanation about trees removing the tile below them when cut down explains so much...😊

Putting cabinets and chests in the rooms is important. Destroying garbage is important for longevity of fort.

damn this is useful and im not even a new player. Had no idea about the kids hauling corpses, and ive been assigning both cutting and mining to my dwarves for ages!

"Eat the puppies; it'll increase your frame rate" Thank you for today's Discord status, sir.

Ah yes the infamous puppy slaughter galena year 104

I learned a lot but drowning in this video. I think I can apply that to real life too. I'll update when I find out.

You're really coming into your own with these voiceovers. Keep it up!

I've already started playing but I love a good list of things to know before I do that!

I'm so attracted to the premise of games with emergent gameplay and world building, but the barrier to entry is so darn high that I haven't gotten over the hump. I feel like I should start in another "emergent" type game with a lower learning curve -- something with training wheels, so to speak...Wondering if anyone might recommend one or two options for me. Prison architect, Project Zomboid and Rimworld are a few I'm currently looking into. Also Songs of Syx, since the demo is basically the full game for free.

Great info. Thanks

Thanks Blind!

really good set of tips

You are explainin everything so good whit a good voise and a minimum of spoilers!!

thanks blind!

I didn't think I'd learn anything new.. .and yet.. I did. Thanks!

I've been meaning to test this If you attach a door to a lever does it no longer get taken over by another creature when it goes through it?

For the diagonal water trick, does 'pressure' include resetting the highest Z level it will want to flow to? IE, If I have a cistern on the surface and route it down some Z levels to come out of a diagonal or diagonals, will it want to try and fill that space up the Z level of the cistern still? Or does it now treat where it came out of the diagonal as the 'source' Z level?

Hey man... I think you should do one of these every release... Well especially if it changes something... Every major release there's such a huge bump to the meta I like to dig through these What's the most effective tactics available kind of posts all the time so why not. Just killing the silence while I'm working solo. Dreaming of dwarves and beard stuff. Yeah I just made it weird... 😂

Another hint for food and alcohol: Some trees (apple, cherry, etc.) produce fruit. If you set up a gathering zone around the base of those tress and make sure to have a stepladder (which you should have by default if you didn't remove them from the embark screen, or can be made from wood), the dwarves will gather this fruit, which can be cooked or brewed into alcohol. A wide variety of alcohol is important for happiness, as dwarves get bored of drinking the same thing all the time.

I would love to see an indepth cooking explanation, from farm to food. I always run out of seeds

4:53 "If you're clear cleric cutting trees"

Can you do an guidance vid focused on clean water... Or am I being too paranoid about my wells picking up muddy water? I'm even going two deep...

Yeah, I have like 600 hours in the game and I didn’t know about civilian uniforms lol. Thanks for the info!

Dwarves and animals still get stuck up trees and starve unless found and somehow retrieved. Usually the first one knows about this problem is the death notification

Oh wow, finally my cemetary won't be mostly a child cemetary / playground anymore! Not that a lack of population was kind of a problem, but I sometimes did feel bad about that strange issue. Also I always thought it's the collapsing tree that tears holes into your top layer of your fort, not just the root square.

I should really not have watched this while having a cold with a nasty cough. Laughing with a cough is not a good combination ;) Wonderful explanation.

I mean, you do you. Also! Yeah, Dwarf Fortress is very stable and pretty awesome regardless. :3 Love your videos dude.

I smash extra cats and dogs by a bridge. I feel it's better than eating them. Also they are great for alerting the fort because they can detect hidden enemies. So tie some dogs to some pillars outside and no one can sneak in. Those pesky warebeasts are the worst. There was one case that some goblins didn't know they can enter my fort because there was a hole in my on-ground fort with stairs going up but no stairs going down (or something close to that, I can't remember). A stupid cat was hanging around the roof and pulled goblins to that single tile and when goblins saw the hole and dwarves inside it, they jumped in and ruined my fort. So be careful that rarely cats and dogs can invite enemies to your fort too.

Building a roof is one thing I still don’t know how to do if I made something inside a cave or outside

I've given those tiny bearded bastards master crafted toys, turned off all their chores and given them high level bedrooms, never seen a single war.... and they're still all either fumbling about in depression or going berserk. Nothing I do calms them down... or any angry dwarf that matter. Like I've built grand temples to their gods right next to dwarves that are bitching about needing to prey.... and they never go in them. I'll make a burro and assigned them to it... they still won't go. I haven't played in months since I got so frustrated at the fact nothing I do improves the moods of my dwarves.

the fps didn't go up and I miss my dog

Is there still a bug with the quivers getting equipped?

"eat the puppies, itll increase your framerate" legendary

Is the "seeds in barrels" bug fixed?

Pay 30$, you heathens.

*looks at list* Just ten?

That's why I keep running out of seeds 😭

Commenting for youtube to be pleased

I have a hundred hours in this game but half your tips were at the very least borderline game changing for me. No more individual plump helmet stockpiles, now i know how to turn off cooking them

"Legendary bugs are gone [...] but by default kids will play with the dead and turn into murderers" :D

#1 goes from confusing to i got this then to wth just happened and back to confusing. Then after a year or so of playing you can call youself familiar with the game 😂

I dont understand the point of rocks what you mean

I like that he didn't suggest gelding or anything, just kill the puppies I guess.

Caging animals doesn't require pause the game instead butchering the pup

Do children get good moodlets from doing chores, or is it something you can just turn off and forget about. Since I like most people have a fort big enough not to worry about laborers.

dfhack needs in addition to `ban-cooking seeds` a `ban-chores ...`

0:50 have to disagree with you there. i consistently have my animals get stuck up fruit trees when my dwarves are harvesting them

Turkeys. Turkeys are the secret. Renewable meat & leather.

losing is FUN!

I feel like the number one thing for new dorf players to know, is dwarves CAN drink water, but they will NOT like it. Dwarves prefer to drink exclusively booze, of any kind. Not that gross water, fish fuck in that y'know?

loosing is fuUUUUnnnnNNN

Yuck, even if it is convenient for water pressure, diagonal corridors always rustle my jimmies, I can't stand them in my forts, I'll never be able to do this.

What do i do when my dwarfs fear and slaughter every child that they make? Its not even a meme, genuinely what can i do

Oh. So that's why my children are all depressed.

first hopefully

Not too clickbaity, nice video. Eat the puppies, it will increase your frame rate.

Best ClickBait I've ever watched XD love the dry humour, but unfortunately I don't have any dogs for puppy pies :( Will kittens suffice ????

"Eat the puppies." Said like a true Chinese person.

You sound like Griffin Johnson the armchair historian

Haha don't talk about diagonal water on the subreddit. Those kooks will tell you it is cheating by exploiting a glitch.

I ate my new puppy and Hogwarts Legacy still runs like shit on my 10 years old laptop

as someone that hasnt played yet about half of these seemed not relevant to a new player

the free version also has graphics. stop being dishonest.

wtf are you talking about? I'm constantly having to deal with both animals and dwarves getting stuck in trees. Or finding starved corpses up in the branches later on.