Dwarf Fortress - Tutorial Lets Play | 04 (Trading, Temple and Militia Capitan ) 

Love the series, it's a great appetizer before I start playing the game for real (unfortunately still haven't bought it yet)! Plus, it's great to see your channel grow at such a rate after the steam release. (Also, you have a small typo in the title; I assume it's supposed to be episode 04, not 03)

Thanks for doing these! I know you said it was originally just 4 episodes but would love to see more.

I hope you keep doing this series, no bite size please! It's the most entertaining and useful on RU-vid right now... I also have a question uh, can dwarves marry and/OR have children? Do we have to make double bed bedrooms for that? :)

Omg that information about finding the trade info in the world map is a lifesaver!! As a complete newbie to DF I'm really enjoying all the content you're making for us, both shorts and lets plays :)

The title says #3, but it's #4

I agree with Marco. Please please please keep making this series! It really is super entertaining, really useful and I honestly don't know if I would play Dwarf Fortress without you holding my hand haha :)

Top content, best new tutorial for DF steam edition on youtube. Subscribed! Would love to see further episodes.

These are fantastic. It really helps to see the flow and reasons for building things. I'm facing a wall where it is a wealth of information and options. I sit and wonder.. ok, now what next and I dont really understand why I'd build things. So with this series, it has a natural reason to why you'd do x, y, or z, which then leads into a, b and c.. so then you should have d, e, and f. And so on. It helps erode that barrier of feeling overwhelmed and for a new player to DF, only coming into it after hearing stories I have no idea how to get to those stages. I love these series over the byte size clips. Thank you for them!

I don't have the time to catch your stream unfortunately. That's why I love the RU-vid format. Hopefully done content can be added here once in awhile. Thanks for all the tips!

hey man, great work on the quick tutorials and the lets play series! Can you make a quick guide on rails in the future by any chance? I seem to not be able to figure them out, and keep up the good work!

I've had my dwarfs in squads off duty this whole time!? I'm so used to RimWorld mechanics I'm surprised we took down as much as we did! Thanks for this tutorial series Blind!

Thanks so much. Total noob to DF and your vids are very helpful.

Love this series so far!

I appreciate these a lot, thank you

More of this series please!

YES! another video and the one i needed!

Look at me! I am the Capitan now! Jokes aside thanks a lot for the guides. Super helpful for beginners

These series are very useful, they're short and informative. I've never played the game, and I was kinda stuck with priorities for my fortress. Don't want it to end too early. Also, one of my dwarfs was in a strange mood, and it ended up with my first artifact. The unique copper mini-forge, Othilnakuth (All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. On the item is an image of two rose cut gems in copper). Have no idea what to do with it.

Man did I bungle my first ever trading encounter. I mined up a bunch of gold thinking that would be good as money, but the weight thing messed me up. So I only ended up with like 4 hoops of cheese LOL! This is my first time playing so I'm just messing around with the tutorial world right now.

Thanks so much for the great tutorials! I bought DF the same day it cam out after hearing about it for awhile as an avid Rimworld player. I think this series really makes the Quickstart on the wiki applicable to new players. Keep it up :)

I just made a squad with this tutorial and killed 6 annoying monkeys that were fighting my dogs (or the opposite. I don't really know who started it) 10/10

I wish I had your advice about buying all kinds of cloth the other day. In the spring of my 2nd or 3rd year, one of my dwarfs entered a strange mood and demanded spider silk, but I'd never seen the stuff so didn't know what to do other than wait for the caravan. By the time it arrived they were already running around the fort naked.

You've made several little dwarves much happier and less grumpy. They will toast to your name in the tavern.

I bought the game because of your series and now have to deal with this new addiction. Really fun iterative process of playing and learning on my own and then circling back to things I didn't understand previously in your videos. Could you make a tutorial about dealing with the dead? So far I got to make area to move corpses to, add doors so their stank doesn't propagate, build coffins, then ??? (had to put kid to bed so couldn't figure out the job/task that puts dead in coffin and then buries them or whatever. I'm sure there's plenty of other things to learn on the subject. I saw you have a tutorial for at least memorializing the dead, but I'm talking more there a guy the dropped dead in the middle of the room because someone forgot to store water for the winter.

Pretty sure my first world gave me no dwarven civs at all :') When I go to look at my map I can't find any blue squares, got only 1 migration wave and the trade convoy never returned a second time as well. It's the year 104 now. I'll make sure to watch out for this in my next world gen! Also nice to know that flashing name indicates legendary skill, was wondering about that! Liking this series, you're a great speaker.

THANK YOU FOR THE MILITA!!!

Hi, I have a question. When it comes to placing an object (beds, walls, doors, etc) through construction, is there a way to place multiple at once without going through the menu each time? (like in similar games, you might hold Shift or Ctrl) Thanks!

this should be number 4😁

Hey bro, nice Tutorial, but i have a question... Can we using the items that we bought in the trade depot?¿ For exem...Ur dwarfs use the food that u bought?¿

Your tutorials are fantastic...but why is my worldmap so different from yours? Zoomed out and the description box is on top of the map. What settings are you running in the interface area?

Hey what do yellow highlighted symbols in the equip screen mean? I know red means they don't have anything in that slot equipped and green means they do but what about yellow with the ellipse?

Hey hey, just letting you know that you misnumbered the video title, i believe its 04 and not 03 as it currently is. great video tho

Super helpful series! 10:48 they requested backpacks from me but trying to reverse-engineer how to tanner-butcher-tame/hunt animals was too much for this evening. I have 3 assigned hunters but there doesn‘t seem to be a hunting ground zone and they always do other stuff. How do I get a good learher production running? Cages and taming? But I can‘t skin birds for leather :D

Can you make a video on battles/sieges? I think it's the most important thing after you figure out the basics, yet there is no tutorial on battles on youtube (for the steam ver)

I can't find this answer out there: Are squad members able to do ther tasks like masonry and broker or do they become dedicated soldiers?

How do the blue water drop marking in the walls works when you mining out the mountan?

Great Series ty! Quick question- the dwarfs names appear in different colored fonts (purple, yellow, blue etc) does this mean anything? Thx again for the helpful tutorials!👍🙂

How do your transfer items from the trade post to your stockpile? Some reason it seems I can only bring things to the trade post

I noticed that there were different symbols sandwiching the text for "apricot minecart" do these mean anything? Thanks for uploading !

Can you make a tutorial for Cooking food and preparing finished meals? Also maybe 1 on life stock management?

"thank you good Sir" voice

Good, Good. A bit short.

Could you explain why do you smooth everything? Also why do you build wide corridors? do dwarfs bump into each other while walking?

Requesting a "Flood Gate" one of these : )

why do you throw rocks or "rock thrown"

i keep trying to enjoy the game but my crippling anxiety makes me think that im doing everything wrong.

Love ya bud

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Moooare, ñam ñam, I eat tutorials for breakfast.

After the initial two waves of migrants, I keep getting the message 'The fortress attracted no migrants this season'. Caravans still come, and I have lots of food, meat, drink, fish, open beds, two taverns, and lots of gold. Help.

This series is very informative but far too late. Now I'm ahead of it.

Thanks for the tutorial, can we extended it to medium and then advance stuff? Like metal work, advance military, making a dwarf specialist in something, the advance food making and crops. How to deal with a cave?