Can I 'beat' Dwarf Fortress in just 6 years? 

Leaving soldiers on alert 24/7 to train forever is actually worth it sometimes, due to the fact that most combat skills have no effective cap. "Legendary" is achieved at level 15 in the skill, and though this isn't communicated to the player at all, level 15 is not the end. Most skills effectively cap out at Legendary +5, or, 20, because they just don't scale any further. Combat skills, however, largely do not. Armor user caps at 15, where your armor now weighs absolutely nothing on you - further levels do nothing. However, weapon skills, such as Axedwarf, and Dodger, Fighter, etc, continue to get more and more powerful as the levels go on. A Legendary +25 (level 40) Axedwarf will have a huge advantage over another fighter with a base Legendary (level 15) in their chosen weapon skill - and with a very very high Dodger, this can sometimes mean the dwarf in question is outright impossible to hit. So, if you want a core of 10-20 soldiers that just train and spar round the clock to become as powerful as possible so you don't have to constantly call up the entire military, it's not a bad idea.

In blind ogre's description it says "values family" "Seeks Harmony" and "Developed Empathy" I love him hope nothing bad will happen to him

Marksdwarfs have been bugged out to all hell for years, it's one of the "priority" things that they never seem to come around fixing.

I was honestly sad the gentle ogre was killed... that felt unacceptable. There should be a ability to put entities that arent part of your dwarf list under your fortress' protection. So any visitor would know they arent allowed to kill them just like visitors know they arent allowed to kill dwarfs for no reason.

I don’t know if you know this, but you can engineer a mist generator FAR easier than the one you designed in this video. You don’t need any direct water sourcing at all in fact, so no need to pump water up from the caverns. If you create a closed loop of pump stacks and use a pond dump zone to put in literally a single bucket of water into the system, and that water can loop endlessly and create infinite mist. You can create a simple one with as few as four pumps, but I prefer to expand it out to 8 in a larger square so the mist has a larger area of effect.

The monarch is a really interesting beast as it seems to be a way of sort of self-terminating a fort after a certain point. A monarch will always make their great adamantine demands, and it either results in a point of satisfaction that leads you to retire the fort, or it kills everyone.

I want to let you know that 'Dwarven caravan with 60 geese' has appeared in my D&D campaign as a travel encounter

I'm a big fan of the bedroom layer, this is pretty similar to how I like to do my forts as well, but I think you have the better actual design here.

Honestly this just builds into the RP of dwarves being super greedy

back in the day when training swords were first added there was a small mistake that made wooden training swords one of the deadliest weapons for a brief time.

You can sell items inside barrels and bins with out selling the bin. Also animals and population if I'm not mistaken can be tweaked in options.

I remember in one game my Fort became the Dwarfhome in the very first year. Somehow the rest of the entire civilisation was wiped out during world creation. And you know what? Having a King or Queen right from the start is rough - because they are so demanding! Trying to even get your dwarves bedrooms and enough food while a stroppy monarch is demanding a palace.

What I love about this game is that there are multiple ways to do this. I do plump helmets, cut gems, shell figurines, fine meals - And I am usually buying the third caravan out completely. I usually start with all seven armed and armored too... Let them learn the rest as they live. Came in handy last dangerous fort I started... Minotaur arrived 2nd spring.

I think I learned more lessons on how to play from this then I do from most of a dozen how to guides.

That is most likely best content in the platform about dwarfs keep it up

I once had a dwarf who was a legendary axe dwarf, legendary doger, strong, and fast basically perfect and had over two hundred kills from my fortresses long battles her axe adementine and so was a chest piece and helm and she was the last of my millitary dwarves as the rest died to demons from down below... she held the line for days I'm game not moving from her spor untill a demon came and eventually slowly moved down slaying demons left and right though getting more and more injured by toxic breaths and the lucky swing and eventually she got near the bottom missing a arm from another rbeast I had one of my dwarves lock her in with the demons as she killed and banished a few more back to the pits they came from but soon she died though her body was never retrieved she was given a entire layer of my fortress as a memorial and where new dwarves would be trained

the beeline for the king the ancient creature makes is absolutely hilarious.

Awesome! I might have to try an attempt at this speedrun myself looks very fun

I cant stress enough how much fun DF is. My current fort actually managed to capture a giant Roc and tamed it as a warbeast... can wait to assign it to either my Millitary commander or champion and slaugther my enemies with it

“War is expensive and time-consuming” -Britain in the 1800s

The geese will "be headed" to the butcher, i liked that pun

hey i love this whole series of weird fort challenges. I tend to binge the whole playlist during the work day. the storytelling you extract from game "features" is hilarious and always on point. keep it up man

if you're alright with messing around on the surface, you can build huge farm plots aboveground for stupid amounts of plant food if you're alright with 90% of your dwarves being planters

I think this might be the first time ive seen the circus successfully opened during a playthrough. Good job.

Haven't watched yet, but I'd be impressed if you managed this feat without use of food or trap cheese. Look forward to seeing your choices when I watch later on!

You can click on bins and barrels now and it will drop down a menu to be able to select individual items inside. Very neat!.

I lol'd at your reaction to the awful accidents suffered by adamantine bait, that certainly nobody could have foreseen

One of my favorite ways to make a lot of valuable food is to cook forgotten beasts into roasts

Try a fortress where you commit to coexisting with the elves(Beginner's Tip: Clay and sand, and make sure you have access to coal or the clay and sand won't go anywhere... though that's if you wanna go HARDCORE and not cut down ANY trees even before being told not to.)

Love seeing Dwarf Fortress vids! Keep it up!

i love the way this game builds a story

this hits the vibe so fucking hard i could listen/watch to these videos you do for hours

oh yeah, if you wanna deal with hell without finicking with Marksdwarves, setting up a Ballistae hall works just as well, and civilians can handle them too

You're my only source of good Dwarf fortress content. Thank you dude!

40:26 Does having tiny individual tombs have any major impact compared to a mass burial chamber filled with coffins and slabs? From my playthroughs the dwarves all seemed happy enough to remain deceased with just that.

Woah, nice work on the clowns! I had no idea that the circus was so barren, though; it'd be sweet to set up throne rooms down there if it were fancier.

This is the best dwarf fortress content on youtube

Stopped watching before the spoilers. Good quality video mate, I enjoyed it.

I love these challenge runs. It's some of my favourite youtube content there is. Thanks for making them.

What I did for this was to lock the dwarf in a workshop, and dump items in from above - only the most valuable type of each item the dwarf requested. Result: Adamantite Mechanism, get that in an adamantite lever. Dumped that right in the middle of the 100 overlapping bedrooms I had set. Result: WE'RE RICH WE'RE RICH WE'RE RICH WE'RE RICH WE'RE RICH

Cheers mate, love your content, keep it up champ :D

This video gave me more information then some lets plays of 20+ episodes. Keep up the good work.

goddamn that's a lot of geese

This is the best video ive ever watched. I'm dying for more

I always love to make or better to have legendary wood crafter who can make tons of wooden bolts from the start, selling them for crazy amounts

this is dope, loving the DF content bro keep it up!

Im VERY new like just bought the game an hour ago new. I'll be subscribing to the channel, realistically how many dwarves can you get in you colony? 100ish 500? 1000s? When my newborn goes to sleep I'll actually be sitting down to try my first fortress and I will probably be spending the rest of my day on this channel.

These Dwarf Fortress videos are fking fire. Keep it up, subscribed.

Brass is my favorite Alloy

I have no ideia what i just watched but i think i get it this is like excel with darwes and pretty graphs great video

56:50 SOME BODY SAY ONE PUNCH? But i a bit confused, my english is my second language, when he say "The Hammerer" its referer to the name of the dwarf, his profession or he hit the beast with a hammer?

Loved this vid. Even learned a cheesy trick with the food to get easy trading goods for early trading!

what a concept, its something I've wanted to do but never pulled off. great vid as usual

Quick tip, the 3x1 reservoir for the pump stack is only necessary for transporting magma, with water a 1x1 reservoir doesn't shouldn't be any worse than a 3x1 reservoir.

Wow, your channel is an amazing find! I love those DF videos, buddy. I'm leaving a comment so YT's algorithms help you grow even more. Keep up the good work my man! BTW, THANK YOU A TON, I'm a long time DF player and I have like 300 hours on Steam version, but I didn't know about "bulk bedroom setting", was always doing it one by one...

It's the wrong quality table at 15:32 - A masterful item is only worth 2x, with +30 bonus value added per item. Hence why masterpiece bolts (in stacks of 25), have so much value just from that flat value alone.

delighted to see another upload from you ♥ and good for u getting a sponsor too !!!

was rysn meant as a refrence to the stormlight archives or not?

Used to be that having over a hundred dwarves and a million units of wealth on Year 2 wasn't that hard if you knew the game mechanics, but the Premium release really changed things with its adjustments to item valuation and trade, and made it quite the challenge to not have a slow start.

I feel there's a certain Irony in the second death caused by the horror.

Why wouldn't you have just made a barracks with beds for the marksdwarves to be stationed in? That way they can just sleep there while stationed.

Do you like, have a side channel of VoDs or long form DF play? You seem quite experienced and would love to see raw footage of you playing to learn more. :P

So that’s what seven symbols of power meant! I made one of every single piece of furniture in the throne room out of adamantine and he still wasn’t satisfied. All along I had what I needed at my fingertips? I’ve moved on but that’s still good to know

Favorite youtuber on the platform by far, I wish I could pay you to do this FT.

Please PLEASE create more of these. I find each one absolutely enthralling.

I think the pen/pasture is too small for the amount of geese you wanted, I'm still relatively new though. also i wanted to ask why Geese? I've heard Turkey is preferred due to them giving leather! Please let me know if I am mistaken!

I love these type of videos you make

It took me a decade to get a Fort Worth 1 million dwarf bucks built on 250 plus dead dwarves and then I see this

ahhh the circus with all the candy and fun clowns you can enjoy

The dwarfs racing in building wealth of a fortress xd

Amazing work!

@5:40 Blacksmith does not = Weaponsmith. Weaponsmith = Weaponsmith. 😂

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I love watching these videos soo much fun❤

Training up a fisher dwarf or two will keep that legendary cook working non stop its ridiculous the ammount of stuff dwarves can fish up

Dwarven cheese is the best cheese [52:52]

No way are you also a big litrpg guy? I saw those audible reccomendations haha. Just starting dwarf fortress, largely from your content, super fun and a great price to relax while mini painting too

With the marksdwarves, I believe you have to cancel the hunting labor for all of them. Uniform issues or something come up when a dwarf is both a marksdwarf and a hunter.

you can click on containers to open them then sell things inside the containers and unselect the containers themselves to sell goods to elves

Huh... So... The most delicious place for beasts.

14:16 why does he make little ramp divots like this?

Make rock pots to store your food and drink in for trading with the slimy elves that look down their long noses on us food masters

Cleaper what have you done ???

dude your videos are so good

Oh man, knew you were going to Hell for this one. What else is winning?

Minute 12:30 what you did with lava?? You dig the ground or you drop lava on ground??

going medieval now has water!!

Nice tileset

true aussie legend

getting tweaked on that sewer brew

Carefully engineered cheese lmao

Is that the Steam version, to have such an easy of use UI ?

great vid!

a few tips on how you kept your FPS so high through all this?

I love these videos.

I don't get it why people won't cage small animals that don't need pen/pasture. They don't need to be fed and it helps with frames a lot!

Is there an apprenticeship system where one skilled dwarf can teach someone else their skills?

the issues you ran into with the marksdwarves are known bugs, not intended behavior. they are currently a bit stupid.

aw man, what an amazing story but I had to stop it because the spoilers. This stuff is way more amazing that whatever slop came out of Hollywood

Their asking for a gield won't yield. Maybe you should give them some gilded armor