Day[9]'s Day Off - Dwarf Fortress P1 

The best part about Dwarf Fortress steam is that the DF developers, the Adams brothers, have been developing this game for 2 decades for FREE. They lived entirely off of donations for 20 years. Then they made 5 MILLION dollars in 24 hours on the first day of the steam release

This game doesn't seem all that much more complicated than Dwarf Fortress

I remember the first time I learned about Dwarf Fortress. Like so many, I randomly ran across the archived story of Boatmurdered and instantly fell in love with just how deep and rich the game could be. I could never get too into the original version - I always had problems parsing the ASCII art - but I'm so glad for this UX overhaul. Absolutely legendary game.

On my first, and current, run I just decided to build an above-ground wooden inn and tavern instead of an underground fortress. And the game just lets me do that. I have 50 staff and guests at the moment and have built a three-story wooden inn with tavern on ground floor and accommodation above. The inn is named "Wayward Paths" and will accept any travelers to stay. I don't do any stoneworking or metalsmithing. I just keep the place full of food and booze and let everyone party. My population is growing a bit so I think I will build a few houses across the road for my higher-class citizens, and a Sherrif's Office and jail. Get a nice little wild-west-style town growing. And, yes, I know I'm gonna get in trouble with the elves for chopping down the forest, or attacked by goblins, or some big monster at some point but that's fine. I'll just restart in the same world and maybe one day revisit the ruins of my first settlement. Might send a few elves off first to make an elvish forest nest somewhere.

I just want to say that DF is THE absolute best game ever made. It's as fun as it gets, you can be creative, get a huge laugh, share your stories with other DF players, it's amazing. The devs should really open source it when they retire, because this amazing piece of engineering (this is the most incredible simulation ever made - including scientific ones! ). Huge thanks to the Adams brothers for making it, and again for making it so easy to use in this version. This is a true product of love. I really don't know how something as good as this can be created again, it's a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

After playing Dwarf Fortress for about 10 years now, and always convinced from the moment I started playing that this might be the best game ever made, it's so heart warming to see all these new players getting into the game and having !FUN!.

Seeing how often Sean is just o_o makes me happy as a Dwarf Fortress player, EVERYTHING NEEDS A SCROLLBAR

OO so happy for this series because learning the game has been terrifying

Finally, a game that isn't actively trying to ruin me financially. Been a while, Day9.

This is like watching a kid at Christmas, it's wonderful.

9:12 "And we have two cats" - Two Cats - this reminds me, that we can get a better shot of the Thermonuclear Catsplosion with these graphics now.

The thunderstorm sounds got me looking up from my computer and checking outside so many times. It sounds so convincing.

I'm so excited for the developers.

Oh! A Kruggsmash shoutout! Cool man!

Absolutely correct that the difficulty of DF is overstated. I taught my non-technical wife the classic version (with a tileset) in an afternoon because she loved the idea of the game. It's really a teaching barrier. Anyone who knows a few basic concepts can have a sustainable impregnable fortress up quickly. The controls of the classic version are all prompted on screen - they are just odd and occasionally inconsistent. There are few hidden features, and plenty of great tilesets were (are) available.

the music...its so beautiful!

"Slow down a lot and hang out with your pal, Day9" is my new life mantra.

I'm actually really glad this was your first video. It was so nice going through the tutorial by listening to you Day9. It's been a while since I watched some of your content, but glad I did. Good to be back, hope for a full series on this game. Love ya man, keep it up! Liked, for sure.

Day9, the greatest storyteller of our time playing the greatest emergent behavior game? Count me in

You have no idea my level of excitement when I saw this video! Dwarf Fortress is my favorite game that I wish I had time and a computer that could play it. It’s amazing.

so excited for this play through!

The "this is the game" thing literally made me sob from laughing too hard

I'm so happy to see Day9 play this.

On the right clicking to close menus, PoE does a similar thing with the spacebar. Inventory, map overlay, passive skill tree, whatever you have on your screen, spacebar makes it disappear basically without fail. In a game with so many different menus it's really nice to have.

I know I am late, but I love seeing somebody so happy at discovering things in this game.

"So I played this game Dwarven Fortress for about half an hour last day..." "Cool so what'd you do? Battle a dragon? Found ancient relics? Learned some new spells?" "I dug a hole."

I think my favourite trap I've seen someone make was a minecart filled with spike balls, he would push it from a tall height and it would slam down on at the end of the track and throw the spike balls down a hallway, like a building sized shotgun

Watching this video is what's going to get me into Dwarf Fortress, always wanted to get into it.

"This doesn't seem that much more complicated then Dwarf Fortress" Correct, DF is indeed always just a bit more complicated.

I'm surprised that Sean went through and did all the tutorial stuff in one block. When he was playing... oh heck, I forget the game, but it was a zombie apocalypse'y AAA title, he spent a fair bit of time critiquing the tutorial for putting him through "Hey, here's this mechanic!" and "Hey here's this other mechanic!" without giving him the opportunity to actually use the things he was being taught. Maybe it's the genre difference that makes it better here, but it feels like Sean is opting in to doing the same thing to himself here. XD Still, glad to see him having fun!!

So complicated day9 will let chat backseat game, i love it!

My favorite game, my favorite streamer. Best day ever

all day9 vods are of the highest craftsseanship

Oh no, not again! You are going to have me trapped in this game for the next month.

Game of the year, omg

If there are some devs who actually deserve money, it's Tam & Zach. I know it was never the point, but I hope they get rich as hell with the Steam release, Notch style!

Still find myself falling asleep to funday Monday playlist, keep doing you Day9

Food (gathering, farming, fishing etc.), Building Materials (stuff, somewhere to put stuff, Social ops), Army Construction (tools, tactics, leadership). Seems strait forward to me. :) This is a civ builder, not a caveman squat. You want a hospital it's not gonna be those 6 squares... it needs supply closets 9-12 squares full of chests, patient rooms, offices etc. That said you start with 7 bodies.

Right click to close menu is excellent. Feels so much faster than having right click bound to context.

Funny surprise I had one my first run. Everything going fine, then suddenly an alert that someone had died. I went to location and it was one of my woodcutters who hadn't gotten out of the way of the tree he was felling. So, workplace accidents ARE a thing! I guess with better management I will create teams of workers who specialize in the appropriate skill in the future. Oh, and I threw his body in a ditch behind a hillock so others wouldn't have to look at it, and now his spirit is haunting my inn. So I have a haunted inn. How cool is that?!

"This game doesn't seem all that much more complicated than Rimworld" Oh boy. Oh Sean. Dear. You have no idea. Rimworld is maybe like 5% of what Dwarf Fortress is.

Ha, the cat having such a complex personality must one hundo percent be a bug, and it's EXACTLY the kind of bug we DF veterans know and love. At least, animals never used to have such extensive personalities.

FYI to viewers - if Dwarf Fortress looks too intimidating for you, try waiting until they release Adventure Mode for the Steam Version. I found it to be waaaaaaaaaaaaay more accessible managing only ONE person as opposed to an entire colony of dwarves, lol.

Loam is a MtG card, must play for Dredge decks. Also, I love that the ~ is to suggest an approximate number, you don't actually know how many whatever you have unless you keep good records, which requires a dwarf to perform that job. Otherwise it's just a guess, "eh, about 20?" Btw, Tarn has said in an interview that people that play the game are more like QA, the real enjoyers of the content are the people that watch or read the stories. As the game tells you, losing is fun!

STRIKE THE EARTH

How am I supposed to watch every Elden Ring VOD when he starts dropping DF VODS

Within the first 45 seconds, man states, confidently, "For any of you who are unfamiliar with Dwarf Fortress, this is the most rich, deep, remarkable simulation game that has ever existed... period." You don't know DF until you've played DF. Glad you got to try it out for the first time!

Yeeeaaaaa booiiiiii, dig deep, dig greedy

I'm all for a simulation game play where Day9 has more incentive to pay attention and focus. He's always so ADHD about RimWorld.

When I came back to finish this video, the thunder in the background kept making me think it was real thunder as its just muffled enough to sound right through my headphones... That's pretty cool.

57:40 yeah I remember when I first opened that and saw 800 different variations of wood

Absolute favorite dwarf fortress series was written by rock paper shotgun

Whoa, you're voice changed since the last time I've seen you, wild, good to see you're still around!

omg day9 playing df is so based

you have finally made it

I played a little Dwarf Fortress and haven't touched it in ages, but I'm excited to watch this... I heard about this releasing with better graphics (without having to mod it like I did because my god the ASCII graphics I just cannot) and also mouse controls (which it's like... How did it take so long?)... Really interested... I think I would've bought it if it was like 10 dollars, 40 just doesn't seem low enough that I could buy it with reasonable certainty that I wouldn't regret it a fair bit if I stopped playing which is fairly likely given I'm not a big management person (I do CK2 and EU4 as my most complicated games) and this game is INSANELY complicated... That said, how can you not appreciate the stories? I mean, the game has werezebras... And Werebears... WEREBEARS!!!

Looking forward to these series, this game is bejujular

Steam version of Dwarf Fortress seems more simpler than Rimworld to me.

I was waiting for Day9 doing this 👍

Did you ever finish Outer Wilds? I remember you enjoyed it, but we only got two episodes.

I was wondering if you’d jump on this! Haven’t watched yet but I hope you had a good time with it.

It's no Aurora 4x, but what a game :D

Best comment of the stream came @19:25

Are you the host of the magic the gathering show on Geek and Sundry? You look very familiar at any rate 😉

Okay, it's over. Day9 just became a Dwarf Fortress exclusive channel. Sorry, but that's just what happens once you play this game.

Probably a dumb question: what did he change the keys to go different layers to? I am like Day 9 where I use the wheel to zoom. But struggling to think of good alternatives for moving to different layers.

I only was feeling overwhelming in Factorio and Satisfactory :)

Fuck yeah!

3:53 Those people are lying or stupid. Many years ago the brothers added a donation function on their website.

the game is kinda cool but i wish it did a better job of telling you how things actually work. Like it doesn't tell me at all what soils are better, how big bedrooms should be, etc...

oh shit

Monitor their thoughts to identify problems that you can solve.

35:56 I hate the fact that I can relate to that. Self-control is sometimes a bitch

.... to me this is not complex enuf... I want Dragon Ball Z mods + 50 races ability to create antimatter and travel to other galaxies , as well as be able to transform anything into basic matter components , fission fusion matter to create indestructible OP alloys... And I want everything milkable

Not knowing what the game is about at all, I scrolled through the video.. and could only find clips of Day9 reading. So essentially, it's a book! *no seriously though, is it fun?

ur audio is off by like 3 minutes yo

it's weird that I can comment, usually in submod only ... :( Poor people aren't real people

dear day 9 i love ur videos but you should grow a beard...for the ladies! thanks ! ilu

Did I hear a Rock and Stone?!