My character had little analytical capabilitys and thought of everyone as a "mighty warrior" - even a child i found in a forest. He responded to me, that indeed, he was a mighty warrior, but i should not fear. I asked him, to jon me on my adventures, but he then replied, i should watch out for someone older. x)
@@Robert-vk7je I wish we could start as a child in adventure mode. I really want to reenact Chucky and then going on a heroic mission to fetch a dragon's sphincter from a still breathing dragon.
''There's no way a kobold could murder the king in single combat and usurp the throne of a humon-only kingdom.. Nah our new kobold king was simply elected and is spreading silly rumours to amuse the locals and gain popularity''- says the average citizen then goes about his day.
I remember a video by Major Jef, where he snuck into a goblin tower, found a goblin child and wrestled it. He took off the child's loin cloth and then strangled the child with its diaper. He did because he was curious if it was possible and it was. 30/10
Man i remember i was playing the human demigod. I managed to defeat necromancer with his army but was slaughter on the way by donkeys. No kidding. My injuried hero got attacked by a pack of wild donkeys. I killed 7 donkeys before they finished me off in their own blood near a river.
I love this game, once had an axe dwarf save the fortress from 3 werebeasts, and she was bit by one, so she fucking cut herself in half. the other dwarves basicly made the fortress in to a shrine for her, half of it was her fighting, the other half was her committing seppuku. fucking brilliant game
A couple years ago an old online buddy told me this game was epic, he was also schizophrenic and off his meds. He was trying to explain it to me while I watched a tutorial. THIS IS what I NEEDED to see to understand.
Man it feels like you need to have something wrong with you in the head to play dwarf fortress. I was told multiple times i was insane for playing this game (i play in ascii). Theres something different in how our brains work compared to a normal one, where we can see a dwarf full of thoughts and feelings whereas they just see a smiley face or nothing at all. The ascii visuals fell naturally on me the first time i played but when i tried explaining it to my parents they couldnt even get a syngle symbol.
I didnt realize I had been attacked by a were-mammoth in Adventure mode. ~1 week later i turn into a full blown mammoth in the middle of a town and get murdered by the entire guard. That game is nuts.
Do it like me, just build a raising bridge for an entrance and seal the fortress to outsiders. Bridges are indestructible. The safety of the state is paramount, turn your fortress into a dystopia.
Screw the fisher-dwarves, they were meant to save the fort from the were-beasts by sacrificing themselves... Bare the gates until everything dies, even our own men... We can not risk Were-Guinea Pigs getting in, they will be the death of us all. (To be honest, this is really a very dangerous situation in Dwarf Fortress. They may sound cute, but, they easily weigh 3x as much as a dwarf in Were form, move and attack 3x as fast and are incredibly infectious.)
That happened to my first fortress, a werelizard attack the merchants and one of my dwarfs got a scratch or something, few years later everything went to shit.
Two Events in my past Fortresses that I like to share, first: I once had a fisherdwarf get his stomach ripped open from a falling tree. Luckily for him he had Masterful Regenerative Ability, and his bleeding stopped very quickly.... while he was still outside. Before he could return to the fortress, an animal type he was afraid of appears... and he JUMPS into a river. Normally this would mean the end of our trusty Dwarf... but apparently he used his insides that were dragging behind him as a floaty device. I still can not explain this... Second story I like to share is less elaborate but always good fun: Turning my Entire Army into vampires by forcing them to drink a vampires well I forced down a well... and blood let him into the water contaminating it.
I had to pause the game for a bit, since it's the kind of game that can take up a lot of time. On the bright side, I have most of a geology degree now.
Ill admit I just cant seem to muster the patience to actually play but its always fun to watch, read, etc about all the ways it goes horribly right (come on we need wear [giant] sponges)
I ran an entire fortress on the produce I could harvest from cats. Cat meat, cat fat, cat bones, cat leather, and cat offals. This is why I always buy two cats, male and female, to ensure that if my agricultural project fails to be developed the first or second year I can fall back on eating the cats. Make sure that they're not adopted before you slaughter them! Yeah, about those damn werebeasts, they're fucking everywhere! My latest fortress fell to the spread of lycanthropy, to be specific it was werehyena disease that spread through my fortress without me ever realizing this till it was too late. The first dwarf to attract the disease was most likely one of my soldiers, who did kill the second werebeast that approached my fortress and died just outside the massive entrance. The first werebeast was a human wereraccoon, and seeing that the first diseased dwarf turned into a werehyena I can discount him, the first werebeast to attack my fortress, as the progenitor behind this plague. The second and third, and so on, dwarf to turn all turned into the same weretype: the werehyena. To detect this corruption it took me six in-game years and one goblin siege. The fortress had been semi-stable, few deaths, and a military that made short work of anything. Sadly, I did not have the ability to provide my military dwarves with metal armor, but I did equip them with leather armor, a shield, a spear, and a crossbow each; with 150 bolts shared between ten dwarves. Their skill as soldiers made up for the lacking equipment. The main issue was the supply of agricultural produce to keep my stills going; my meat industry was kept going with fish, cats, unassorted wildlife, and bovines - yaks mainly. This changed after the fortress gained notoriety with the local goblin fortress after I've exported over 10,000 in value in one go with a distant human city. The goblins attacked and I ordered everyone into the royal dining hall. My military moved to block off the entrance. As the military and the goblins butchered one another in the long entrance corridor leading to the trading depot of my fortress, my civilian dwarves were brawling for their bearded lives. Several dwarves had turned into werehyenas and were attacking baby dwarves and their parents in a frenzy. This had almost one hundred civilians to throw themselves against the werehyenas. Body parts, offals, teeth, blood, vomit, mangled corpses everywhere, and equipment were pilling up in the dining hall by the second. The last goblin was torn to pieces by a group of wrestlers, one carrying her child in her arms. I released the civilians from the burrow assigned to the dining hall and replaced the dead soldiers. I had yet to notice the piles of dead in the dining room, which is why I didn't notice another mistake I made when reestablished order to my military. When I noticed the dead werehyenas and dead dwarves I sighed and began going through a list of possible ways of containing the spread of corruption, which I discounted as I saw the extent of unbridled butchery that had spread blood almost throughout my entire fortress. Then my military began to die in their barracks. I paned across my fortress and saw more and more werehyenas dashing down long mountain corridors, ripping into defenseless dwarves, killing cats and other animals. I conceded defeat and retired the fortress.
@j Nice idea. The issue is that it is very difficult to run with. Tantrum spirals and general mayhem is still going to affect them negatively. The lycanthropic curse must be of the same kind or they'll see each other as rivals. When they transform they enter a berserker stance and this means that there is a good chance they'll attack each other despite being cursed with the same lycanthropic curse. They also have a high chance of going stark raving mad, so keeping them happy is beyond just a cute challenge. They do not need to eat, drink, or sleep; neither do they die of old age. The fact that they do not need to sleep can affect them adversely mentally. More obscure issues will affect your fort negatively that most forget will happen each time a dwarf transforms: they will remove their clothes and any productive activity will drop to zero for days. Once they return to dwarf-form they'll start searching for their clothes. Your military will also be throwing around their gear, except weapons and other handheld items or items slung over their backs or hanging from the side such as quivers, causing them to run around naked every time they transform. Politically dwarves transforming and attacking other dwarves may cause a loyalty cascade (civil war) and economically this may lead to a major reduction in trade since it is difficult to know exactly when dwarves are going to transform. If your transformed dwarves attack other factions it is almost guaranteed you'll start a war. Since I'm not very good at this game I tend to avoid this type of challenge.
@j I prefer vampirism, they don't lose their minds at the same rate as lycanthropes. Infecting dwarves with vampirism is also much easier since the vampire is easier to control and, more importantly, to find and isolate. Spreading vampirism can be done by contaminating your water source with their blood. Whilst they are proficient liers, they hide their true name and all to gain access to your fort, it is still very easy to spot them by looking at their skills, their visual age compared to their actual age, how many children they have, social associations (Friends, groups, factions, etc.), and by observing them breaking against orders. They will give you false information as they ignore orders, such as claiming they're fetching items from a stockpile but they're actually roaming some corridor and moving away from your stockpiles. Therefore, I try to imprison the vampire until I find an opportune moment to use them. Lycanthropes I'll mob with my military and then I try to find any dwarf that has been bloodied so I can isolate them in a room with drinkables and food until the next full moon. If they transform I'll wall off that room for good if I haven't installed a kill-trap to clear the space of the unholy creature infesting it.
Speaking of coins, someone in the forums mentioned that he was fighting a dragon and was out of weapons. So he started throwing whatever was in his pockets at it and his spare change hit it on the nose and it died. One guy started a debate about "honor" and sounded legitimately mad that people thought the fight was cool and there was a flame war between him and everyone else.
I just spent an entire afternoon setting up my first paper industry including dealing with a bug that stalled production so that my two ASCII scholars can write books. What is Dwarf Fortress? In one word: Autism. One of my favourite games.
Why was I recommended this video? I get to watch a quality Ssseth video while some inane fivehead who's clearly never played dorfortress interrupts with quality commentary like "Oh.". Great. Thanks RU-vid.
Dwarf fortress is one of a kind. Tarn Adam's story is so simple yet bizarre. This guy is a fucking legend. He will definitely be the metric to which development quality is contrasted with for a long time after the collapse of ogranized game development. I'm somewhat upset that you didn't play.
And then your computer calculated 250 fucking years of history for that world. Depending on your computer it might also take 250 years to finish. And then it is yours. And like an abusive lover it will carress you and beat you senseless Asmongold: What the fuck...
This game reminds me of an ant-colony simulator I worked on as a CSC major in college. Even had the disaster scenarios and enemy colony implementation. It's strangely surreal.
Add VR Chat to the main trade hub in EVE Online and let people play Dwarf Fortress in planetary interaction. As adventure mode on planets, add a blend of Minecraft and Space Engineers (or even better, From the Depths). You can watch RU-vid and browse the Internet in stations. If you own a VR headset, you can see it on a flat hologram projection, like those in Tony Stark's workshop. Friendly AI chatbot included. Your avatar gets a Facebook account and your in-game friends and guild/corporation are automatically added. Continue the free to play model.... --> Absorb the population of the Internet.
Or Aurora. I downloaded it, but never actually got around to trying it out. The X series is also good. The game that I was intending to start with was X3: Terran Conflict. It's a Space Sim, and it was described to be as "space capitalism".
Dude honestly, I'm completely on asmongolds side on this. I also think that more games should adept from games like Dwarf fortress and SS13. There is no Heart of Azeroth or fukin island expedition there is just chaos and creativity and that's what the internet (and actually all of humanity) is all about.
@@Igelme True, but with how youtube is atm, that shit would be termination grounds and the fact that he is getting more and more traction, requires him to be careful.
Dwarf fortress the type of game where a giant mosquito tries to suck the blood out of a dwarf and instantly vomits and then dies 5 seconds later from alcohol poisoning because the dwarf was drunk and that means it just consumed 90% of its weight in booze in less than a second.
@@Thalanox and then promptly starting vomiting and dying of massive amounts of alcohol poisoning. Due to each paw being coated in basically one tankard of alcohol
@@u.s.shukla1100 Dude I get that the game is unique and you guys love it, but you cant sit here and tell me that the UI is fine with a straight face come on
Minecraft too but Minecraft took only the adventure mode part. Not the fortress mode. And with first person perspective. Minecraft is the most successful Dwarf Fortress-inspired game. Imagine if your game have "kids" and one of that "kid" is the most successful game of all time so far. You will be so proud.
I tried to get into the game but got overwhelmed over the fact that my hunter refused to hunt every fucking game for no reason and people starved to death cus of it. I might go back knowing this now. Assuming my hunters get off their asses and use their damned weapons for their profession.
I'm still playing now, in a war with the elves cause I tried to sell them a wooden chair, trolls are breaking up through my Wells, people are vomiting everywhere, the fortress is haunted asf and most of my clothes are made from the skins of dead pets. Completely successful fortress.
Dread Quixadhal imo, only a game with such shit ui could have enough love and care put into the mechanics of the game. The complete disregard for the ui is a testament to the sheer dedication and thought put into the mechanics and reward system
And yet, mastery of this UI, which takes more than a month, feels good. When you are no longer looking at your keybindings to do things. It is so supremely satisfying to have this level of memorization in the UI. Even more satisfying when you don't need a "texture pack" to play, but you use it anyway just because it's pretty and the artwork is nice. What always crippled me about the game was that any "long lasting" fortress brings your computer to its knees with lag. With individual turns of movement taking 30 whole seconds to process or more. You either lose your fortress early to stupid mistakes or bad luck... or lose it late to crippling lag. Someday, I want to own a computer that can run Dwarf Fortress beyond 150 Dwarves and a sprawling empire. Where I can modernize the fortress and make it all extremely efficient. Dwarf Fortress is the benchmark for your PC. Can you get to the Population cap of 200 Dwarves and pull the Sword in the Stone and have less than a 20 second lag between turns. If yes, your PC is amazing.
I play this game. It's awesome. I usually play Adventure Mode and in my current game I started as a dwarf peasant. It's far from my first game so I knew I had to get stronger so I went to a river to swim, which increased my endurance, strength, and toughness. I eventually encountered a dwarf-eating giant alligator, which destroyed the nerves in my left arm. In desperation I threw a stone axe at the monster, destroying it's spine. It was still alive so I strangled the beast to death. That was a while ago. Now my character has legendary toughness, endurance, strength, agility, willpower, kinesthetic ability and spatial sense. In addition my character is now a necromancer and I have a horde of over a hundred undead including a minotaurs, a cyclops and a Titan. Now my character seeks to destroy all goblin and elven civilizations in order to ensure the eternal hegemony of dwarves civilization over the continent my character lives on. Edit: My horde recently killed the demonic overlord of a goblin civilization. It's first sin was ever posing a threat to dwarf-kind. It's second was siding with the foul goblins, who exist only to torture and defile as shown in the documentary known as Goblin Slayer. It's final sin was that it was a fury, a one-eyed fox demon furry. Its death was suitably embarrassing: punched by a goblin skeleton so hard that it's lower body exploded. Now my character is trying to force it's way out the dark fortress, for my horde's disdain for life aside from my own is such that they would defy my orders. I still have several more goblins and their troll slaves to slay but my character now has a new issue to deal with, more dangerous than any for: remain loyal to dwarven ideals or try to rule the continent.
There's a notable story of how people designed a mermaid harvesting system where a pile of valuable mermaid bones would build up. It should be noted that things being valuable aren't that useful. They did it because they could.
aah, there was time i played df, but i found out just reading forums for random stuff was almost as fun. people takes making a efficient fortress designs to another level, and they call it science. Also battle stories, you cant make that s**t up. edited gazillion times for typos, and typos made while fixing typos.
Kinda funny, kinda sad that Asmongold only really starts salivating when he sees the view counts in the DF forums. But he is, after all, a streamer. That's his bottom line
Yeah because it's forsens fault, not the people who rip video from his streams and make money off of it. He's usually just eating breakfast when he watches videos.
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