Dwarf Fortress: The rise and fall of dreadthrifty 

"Cats adopt dwarves." Ah, the cat distribution system at work

Howdy there Tex Hope your doing well, just thought I would say hi back. Thanks for all the great shenanigans, and hope your doing well Brother.

I actually did have cast iron toys as a child! And yes, they were quite heavy. However, it was less "throw your back out" and more "you could bash your friend's skull in if you annoyed you" kind of heavy...

I will watch any Tex longplay purely on the basis of Tex's voice being soothing ASMR

Tex may not be great at Dwarf Fortress, but he is great at being Tex.

Bitchin'. Now I'll need to get back into Dwarf Fortress. So happy for Tarn and Zach's success over this last year since they took Dwarf Fortress to market. The two of them earned every single penny. If you've not picked it up, please consider it. Few games are more worth a purchase. Always a class act, Tex. I hope Kruggsmash knows how you shout him out every time you Dorf.

I think I remember that quote or phrase a few years or more back when it was said "You can make 20 average games over the course of time, or you can make just one extremely good one."

Tex, you are NOT good at Dwarf Fortress... but you ARE entertaining. And since this is being posted on RU-vid, that strikes me as the most important point.

I’ve been having what I call the fisherdwarf’s curse. Every time I task a dedicated fisherdwarf to do that job after some time of building up my fort, initially not having them do that job because we were busy getting plants and vegetables as fruits to go as substitute food and drinks, they ALWAYS get murdered violently by a werebeast. And the collateral damage is also a dwarven child.

Ever since the earliest version of Dwarf Fortress, I've always fallen prey to trying to go too big too fast.

I would love to see one day Tex guest star on Ross's Game Dungeon.

Tex, I'd just like to say how much I enjoy your longplay stuff. It's a rarity these days, so I appreciate it. Thanks man.

I have actually been watching Kruggsmash for longer than I have been watching the BPL. The fact that Tex is a vocal fan always makes me happy inside. Keep spreading the good word Tex, you beautiful b@stard.

The Lava Giraffe mod was one of the best mods Hatt made for the game. I loved that you could have a fort subist on only their firey, dairy produce.

Hell yes. Dwarf Fortress has been my favourite game for about 15 years. It is, with no irony whatsoever, the most ambitious, visionary game I have ever seen. So many hours making mods, firing up forts and adventures, and witnessing the most entertaining stories videogames can offer. I can also second the Kruggsmash recommendation. Start with the legendary tale of the walrus man adventurer and his merry band of badgerpeople.

Boatmurdered is well worth the read, thank you for the suggestion. I took a day out of the middle of watching this to read it, couldn't stop. (far off trumpeting echoes menacingly)

Dorf Fortress and Tex just took me through my On call Fix it spree today. Thank you for being their in other peoples times of turmoil. Im going to bed now.

Along with others, I wish to express my appreciation for the long form play/content. It, and you, are a welcome distraction and companion in bleak times.

Wow Tex, Your fireside chat around 1:06:00 was massively inspiring. I seriously hope you and the team keep going, love the content.

Looks like Tex is in his happy place!

At last, some peace with Tex and dorfs, much needed. Thank you!

A Weird thing. The dwarf fortress (old) main theme is used in the hospital I work at as hold music. Someone, somewhere, in possibly IT or HR set it and its just been like that for like a decade.

Tex, can't tell you how relaxing it is to just chill and listen to your voice, thanks for all you do.

One of my favorite playthroughs was of Dwarf Orpahange. A nearby kingdom was completely annhilated by a goblin hoard, and I received 3 full migrate waves of just children, till my population was more than half orphans. Said hoard then showed up at my fort.

10:11 Normal people live in fear of their folly being witnessed. Tex fears his being immortalized in song. We are not the same.

Just discovered your channel and I love watching Kruggsmash's videos, I've watched almost all of them over the last year. Every time I hear someone mention "ficus" I think of an old commercial where someone was trying to get insurance to pay for damage to their house or car but they only covered damaged caused by ficus trees.

I guess that Necromancer didn't want a Dwarven HOA set up in his neighborhood XD

Re: rock jugs -- As I recall, in some parts of Germany, beer is traditionally served in these big stone mugs. And the waitresses at beer gardens will bring out like 6 or 8 of the things at once. And yes, these ladies' arms are very very toned.

The fact that you refer to the SA Let's Play forum as being from 'back in the days' makes me feel old. I am not one of the true elders, but I believe I was there in the forum when Boatmurdered happened... wow, it's been an age. Also, Tex? I'm of the opinion that Dwarf Fortress is a perfect fit for you. You say that you are not good at video games, but DF is not about being good. It's about the journey you go on, and the stories you produce along the way. Having been marathoning some of your LPs recently, I can confidently say that, whatever skill you may or may not have? You are excellent at stories.

Surely that room is shaped like a diamond for good mining luck.

Dwarf fortress always brings back good memories for me, I remember a fortress by Jefmajor, what must be well over a decade ago by now, some above ground monstrosity of towers. I remember specifically how that let's play ended with all the dwarves gathered on the sky bridge before being dropped many Z levels onto the ground. Dwarf fortress always has amazing stories and I feel privileged to have listened, read, played and watched many over the years even as the years continue to make me more jaded Dwarf Fortress always brings a smile when I recall all the stories and experiences.

If you have time for a new ttrpg Mr. Tex, I suggest one called Adventurer Conqueror King System. I am using it, alongside a Dwarf Cyclopedia splat, for mine own Dwarf Fortress tabletop game. They are reclaiming ruins from beastmen, rearing bear cavalry, bullying elves with extreme prejudice, tweaking the beards of The Elder Moot and delving deeper...

My life is just a bit happier because BPL exists. Love you guys!

Dear Tex The bee farms are outrageous and affecting my sensibilities Sincerely, apiary aficionado

"They have knives in their foreheads" - Knife Fight City theme starts playing

Kruggsmash is the Bob Ross of Dwarf Fortress. Worth a watch for sure

Vote for dwarf fortress for all the things on steam! Steam awards are coming up! Even if they don't win, it will help the game get attention.

Sorry to hear that you are sick Tex. Keep up the good work and entertainment but not at the expense of your health, Please take care of yourself and know that you are treasured.

Tex wisdom is the best wisdom just like cats are the best people.

Hello Mr Tex, fellow long covid sufferer here. It sucks. If you haven't already, it is worth giving rosehip tea a shot. Mild but non-trivial anti-inflammatory effect, but without the gut ulcers associated with prolongued ibuprofen use. Warning: taste may not be lovely.

Funny as fvck, when i got the notification for this i was in the middle of rewatching the Oilchucked dorf longplay since yesterday I was on the fourth episode lol

Shoutouts to Boatmurdered? Nice! That was the Let's Play that introduced me to DF. Good times.

5 minutes in and I was already crying in laughter, "Fucking Unicorns" and "Goblins, fuck them too" 😂

I like how Tex just stopped trying to save the dwarves in strange moods.

Tex: (Builds silver tube wrapped in copper as his magnificent entrance) Me: Isn't that like... a lightning hazard?

I know this is late to the party, but Tex commenting on the grumpy nerd broker doing paperwork and being ignored by everyone reminded me so much of the old man stuck at the bottom of the exon-valdez in waterworld. "We got 3 feet of the black stuff left"...fine fine, die of old age or something already. "ohhh....."

Thanks for doing what you do. Being a positive influence is refreshing

I have a feeling all the traders found new employment under the necromancer prior to paying the fort a visit.

"Well, make your own Fortress buddy...." got me LOL. 16:35

This video reminded me of projects I need to run on my current fortress. At least once I fet above 100 or so. Because whats life without the immediate risk of total collapse.

Giving me ideas for my tinder bio lol. "5'6 a bit chubby but muscular, bearded. Interests/hobbies: playing music, brewing various alcoholic beverages, cave exploration, mushroom hunting/hiking, IRON." What's alarming is all of that is accurate I'm just an actual tall dwarf apparently

1:00:00 I've only ever once built a doomsday device in DF, a titanic water cistern as tall as the game would allow with a drawbridge at the very bottom that would explosively flood the map if opened. I was so proud of myself, until I had to use it and discovered I had missed a single roof tile somewhere and everyone drowned. Everyone but a single dwarven vampire who for some reason was a legendary swimmer. I headcannoned that he sabotaged that roof tile to claim the entire fortress and it's riches for himself when the floodgate inevitably opens. Good times.

The beautiful music alone is enough for me to purchase this game.

as per your thoughts at 32:54, I think most game devs know that. It's just that marketing, the higher ups and the average player doesn't

Dorf. It is good. (Kruggsmash is really good. Its super cool you shout him out everytime you play Dorf)

Long will We remember Dreadthrifty in the annals of Dwarven Kind...

Once any tile is exposed to sunlight, it is always exposed to sunlight, so you can cover those farms in your entryway, and they'll still produce.

You know, this stream made me finally pull the trigger on getting this game. Little did I know my fortress's rolling hills were in fact Nebraska Sandhills.

Thanks man, I really needed this today and didn't even know it. This game is indirectly referenced in one of my favorite books of all time, "You" by Austin Grossman (I always say it is sort of like Ready Player One for smart people who actually know a thing or two about gaming history and development) - The company in the past hit hard times and their savant-ish co-founder wrote some stock prediction software to sell to corporations in order to turn a quick profit. Later, they find out that the back end of the software generating the economic models was actually a dwarf fortress like game, where the dwarves living their lives and going about their business were generating the data which was then presented in a professional looking front end. It ended up being a bit of a disaster due to a persistent bug in the game engine which is a great part of the story on its own. One of the few books I have read more than 3 times, very much an underappreciated classic.

Unicorns are the official equine of Knife Fight City

All hail the great and mighty doorfs.

Instant sub from me for mentioning Krugg, i just came here from watching his newest DF episode lol

I watched all of this, not in one sitting, but there better be more.

This video is a match made in heaven

And this, my fellow Urists, is why you don't demolish the drawbridge.

Pure 3h of hangin out with Tex online, is always a joy. Thank you Mr. Tex.

Definitely agree with the Krugg shoutout. His videos are great and he does amazing drawings to go with the storytelling.

Well time to get my pickaxe again and start digging. ty for video Tex

Thanks Tex. A little low today and this has helped re-centre me.

Just had an idea for a knife fight city movie where the main character is trying to become king of knife fight city and is on the quest for the knife horse, which is a unicorn.

Ok Tex, you convinced me. I'll support this game lol.

Looks like fun so i tried to play (V50.11, no mods). But it does not show the toolbar on the bottom and has also some other HUD glitches in non-ascii graphics mode under Win10 that render it unplayable other than in ASCII graphics mode. While I agree that game-play outweights graphics by far, I am also not used to that any more. A bit easing on the eye (maybe one railroad tycoon 3 or sim city 4 level) is meanwhile also required by me, otherwise I will get too confused. Hope it runs better for you Linux and Mac guys.

on the topic of krugsmash and his stories waddle squash is my feel good story from him

Oh man you keep this up I’m gonna go dig back into Dwarf Fortress and it’s deep deep madness

I still maintain that Alan Silvestri's best work was Flight of the Navigator.

2:28:30 - Which is slightly better than Mom finding the piss drawer.

Thanks for a relaxing evening before the work week starts up again.

There is an audio version of Boatmurdered on RU-vid that is actually very well done and worth a listen... But it is still best enjoyed AFTER reading the original yourself, so I will not be linking it. :P

The way cats adopt Dorfs in DF is not really that surprising, at least to me, or anyone else familiar with how cats were domesticated. Short answer is they were not, they self domesticated. Longer answer: Feline domestication began as humans settled down and began farming. This meant those newly settled farmers began storing food, as well as killing or driving away large predators that might be a threat to either them of their livestock. With all that stored food (relative to the wild anyway) vermin moved in, rats, mice and so on. The cats followed the rats and mice, and just stayed. Human farms were relatively safe, larger predators were kept away mostly, there was plenty of food in the form of the vermin, so they just... stayed, and eventually began to move into our homes. I also have a whimsical outlook on the domestication of dogs as well. I am absolutely positive that at least part of that process was a couple of kids wandering out to explore, and finding a cute fluff ball of a wolf cub. Bringing it back to show mum and dad they then began the refrain that parents still dread even to this day. Muuuuum, daaaad, can we keep it? While I do not think that is the whole story of how our best friends came into our lives, I firmly believe t is PART of that story. Us humans have not changed that much in the centuries since. Sure our societies have but we have not. Kids will be kids, that is as true today as it was 15000 - 29000 years ago when dogs were first domesticated....

Love watching you play DF. Always chill, always entertaining.

The lobster the trader brought you was actually a Dire Crawfish. The trader lied.

Nice comfy stream. Thanks Tex.

I'm just here for the obscure DS9 Dwarf Fortress references.

Man playing my favorite game, cool.

DrProfessorRobot has a "Lets Read" Of Boatmurdered, and Headshoots, If people want the text story without having to find it or do all the reading. He also has a Primer on how to know what the old screenshots say. It's very good, and one of my favorite things to fall asleep to.

Reclaim! Reclaim! Reclaim! The story of Dreadthrifty need not end with a minor setback like genocide.

Diamond shaped carveout. Very dwarfie.

Abyss is a classic, glad more people know about it

I really enjoyed this and would love to watch some more LPs in Dwarf Fortress.

Yep, I'm hooked. On my list of games to play once I can afford decent hardline internet service. For now I still have a few old comps running offline, one in particular I still play Fallout 1 & 2 on. Still hunting for my copy of Dune 2000. Man that was a hell of a good RTS game, and well I've grown up with the Dune series so yeah. If I could ask for any more "Tex Let's Play/Longemplay" episodes I would ask for those 3 above mentioned digital treasures of time stealing. and Griglak charge!! 😂

i love kruggsmash, your recommend clued me in.

I love you for shilling Boatmurdered. Ah, what a classic. I've gone back and re-read it a couple times too! Always worth the time.

I'm about halfway through right now and this is awesome

pringles chip can coffin, that's what i burried a kitten who died in a litter that i had at one point in.

Always love a good Dorf Ortress stream

i have watched you play this a couple times. Honestly it looks like so much fun. I really should play

Playing Pillars of Eternity at the moment, cheese comes from Black Oozes.

kruggsmash is to DF storytelling, as tex is to battletech lore

As a hooded RU-vidr once said, "unicorn ranching ain't easy."

hey tex, been a viewer for a little bit of time. you probably wont humor the idea, but several friends of mine were suffering from long covid as well, and after some bro science and a small amount of research, we came across supplementation of vitamin D (10,000 IU+ daily) and N acetyl cysteine (NAC) in the form of 500-1000mg tablets once or twice daily. they said they started recovering within the same month after committing to it. dunno if it will help you, its just some anecdotal stuff, but if you havent tried it, might be worth a shot? praying for your health either way