I Built A Skyscraper In Dwarf Fortress 

*So this is what they mean by playing tall...*

fun fact: the "despite the danger" addition to the migrant wave notification isn't as bad as it can get. I had a fort where a single forgotten beast showed up and it happened to be made of extremely hard stone and could shoot webs, making it borderline indestructible. it took my fort's population from 160 down to 70 in the span of two in-game days before it died. it took four years of constant tomb building to bury all the dead, and in that time the migrant waves were a bunch of real downers with lines like "migrants have arrived knowing this land could be their tomb" and things like that.

The local Elves: Elf 1: "Dwarves have built a settlement nearby" Elf 2: "Have you gone mad, there are no mountains in our Elven Kingdom" Elf 1: "That was true, but they built a mountain to live in" Elf 2: "Oh that is awful news, if Dwarves can build mountains no where will be safe from them." Elf 1: "It is fine, the wise Elven Elders have opened a portal to take us way back in time before the Dwarves were on this continent, we will have to live underground for a few centuries as the continent is made entirely out of mountains". Elf 2: "Thank the stars, I couldn't bear living next to those Dwarves" And so the Elves travelled back in time and lived for a spell underground beneath the mountainous continent, unbeknownst to them, they had travelled too far back in time and would spend the next few millennia living and mining underground. During this time, some Elves became shorter, stouter and therefore less likely to suffer mining accidents, the ones that didn't adapt to living underground decided to leave and live back on the surface as they grew to dislike their shorter cousins. Over the millennia, the shorter Elves became known as Dwarves, their extensive mining of the mountainous continent meant that entire mountain ranges were terraformed into vast fields and grasslands, eventually with no mountains left to mine they began building their skyscrapers once more and the Elves once again fled back in time unknowingly repeating the loop once again.

I like the idea of a tourist dwarf journeying to a strange above ground fortress to see all the strange animals they have. Look at this duck.

Idea/challenge: sea fortress; build in the middle of the sea with no permanent connection to the land. Find a sea frozen in winter, dig into the ice, build your fort before the sea melt. Completely secure halt the year and can be feed with automated fishing by turning a floor in a fishing net.

IIRC there are some external visualisers for DF, so you might be able to look at your tower.

A world entering the Age of Legends means that the total combined number of Megabeasts (Dragons, Hydras, Rocs, and Bronze Colossuses), Titans, and world-gen created major unique Demons has dropped below 1/3 of what it was when the world was created but the total is still greater than 3.

"Crundles and Cavetoads - the much less popular dwarf version of Dungeons and Dragons" really cracked me up!

3:25: Two of the greatest perils of dworfhood-too much water and not enough water. 16:20: What caravan wouldn't be ecstatic to learn that their trading partners made unwisely extravagant purchases?

For anyone trying to build a lot of constructions out of the same kind of bar/block, you can make it a little easier on your RSI by going into the stocks beforehand and forbidding all the types you *dont* want to use, so they don't appear in your select materials list.

I believe with ARMOK vision you should be able to see the fort in 3D if you really wanted to. Also cages with Elves in them!?! that would provide some entertainment for the dwarves.

Jokes aside, tower dwarves could actually be really interesting if written seriously, I'm taking notes for my worldbuilding.

I really love your laid back stary telling style. Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, even Zomboid which I hate. You do a great job

Have you ever tried building a fort using one of the non-depleting resources, such as glass or ceramics? A couple of years ago, I embarked on a site with fire clay, and ended up building a nice brick castle town. Took a lot longer to build than just stone cutting, but that was part of the fun.

The ages do in fact have meanings. You can find the info on all of them on the wiki, but the relevant one is that moving from the world's initial state (Age of Myths) to an Age of Legends means that roughly a third of the world's great monsters (dragons, titans, forgotten beasts and the like) have been slain. Next would be the Age of Heroes, then ages of Powers (noted by having 3, 2, or just one great and powerful monster(s) left).

Fun Fact: You can grow aboveground plants on any tile as long as at one point it has been exposed to the sun. Dwarf Fortress shoots beams from the top of the map vertically on each tile. Any tile hit by one becomes aboveground, any tile not hit is cavern. This means that you can never grow any undeground plants in a tile if it has ever been exposed to the sun, but also that you needn't give a flying toss about sunlight. This is especially useful if you come into possession of very useful aboveground seeds, like sun berries, whip vines (both used for the production of really nice, high value food and booze and, in the case of whip vines, the best flour), rope reed (linen, booze and paper) and hemp (textiles and paper from the leaves, edible seeds and flour and oil for soap from the seeds.) Effectively, you can make greenhouses out of solid stone with no natural light and plants will happily grow within

Probiotics gag actually cought me offguard the 3rd time.

I never fully realized my dream in dorf fort way back in the day, but I still think about it every once in a while. Someday, maybe I'll see that massive gateway tower pumping lava up to the top only to then spill off the side (forming a lava curtain,) and a set of lever-operated doors to either turn off the curtain or create a safe passage through it...

The great mountainhome of Khazad-Up. Bonus dorf points for settling on a volcano and making tower from obsidian surounded by lava with mandatory temple of armok over lava pit.

Hey Hazzor, hospitals need regular tables for surgeries. Traction benches are only used for healing multiple bone fractures. Took me WAY too long to realize the only healing (from non-bone related injuries) my dwarves had been doing for as long as I've been playing this game was just bleeding into bedsheets until their wounds coagulated on their own. That aside, I found your channel a while ago and I was hooked the moment you said something about the copious amount of goblins with their asses out in every tavern. I'm looking forward to your next projects!

Really made me happy that you willfully disrespect those knife-eared, no-beard-havin', beer-less, bean-burpin', tulip-twirlin', salad-suckin', , flower-fartin', field-frolickin', arboreal, whimsical-arsed, hedgeborne, fairy-fondlin', carrot-kissin', babyskinned, bird-talking, mole-molestin', toad touchin', pansy-pickin', tree-hugging, treehouse-dwelling, goblinkisser leaf-loving elves. They deserve nothing less! ROCK AND STONE

Man, I just found your channel yesterday and have been binging on the Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress videos. They're some of my favorite videos and I am so happy I've found your channel!

of course you you can. Build a 200 z level fortress on a pillar suspended in an active volcano once. Pulling that lever to drop it onto the mineshaft, demons were currently crawling up, was heart wrenching. but remember, loosing is fun.

Living high up and fighting with ranged weaponry? Damn, you basically made a bunch of Dwarves into elves!

I play Adventurer Mode with AdvFort mod, and managed to force new stairways to exceed the z-level limit on the map. I found that temperatures at those levels are so low that all of your possessions will start to degrade from freezing, even steel and divine metal. If you don't get back down quickly enough, you will freeze to death. In fact, you'll continue freezing after getting back to moderate temperatures, so if you don't retreat quick enough, you can still freeze to death hundreds of ticks after getting back.

Hey folks, Dwarves have occurred above ground once again. But this time rather significantly above the ground, way up there. What do you think? should I turn the Tower into a Zoo full of intelligent and wonderful beasts to be gawped at and mocked by visitors?

Having played the og DF, it's fascinating hearing the music and seeing totally different graphics

really cool to find a famous youtuber before they're famous, loving all of the content so far!

I really hope this style of non adhd yelling soothing voice content catches on

ah, the new generation have discovered the classic "Stupid Dwarf Tricks" marvelous

Your comments about staying indoors was heard by my relatives, and now they worry that I'm afraid of mythical beasts roaming around outside. They're not joking. Ugu

I can't seem to spot the Dwarven AtomSmasher in your forts? As a veteran of the old DF versions this feels like a must in any fort for neatly cleaning and amusement.

14:40 ngl it wasn't too funny the first two times but the third time was perfect comedic unexpectedness, law of threes comes in clutch lmao

I swear the red 'unhappy' symbol that pops up next to dwarves looks like the Kool-Aid man.

DF is such an amazing experience.

Since being here from 1000 or so subs I can truly, honestly say that your channel has quickly become my favourite. The speed in which you are able to pump out content and the quality of said content is something to behold. I have to say, I see you being in the millions within a year. Keep it up boss, always checking to see if anything new has popped up!

If a world passes into the Age of Legends, it means that there's only 66%-33% of the remaining megabeasts in the world.

you could trapped hydra , i think they even can be tamed:D , i admit im a bit addicted to traps but they make combat so much easier , especialy for getting exotic pets.

There is actually a 3d renderer to dwarf fortress.

Funny as always 👍 keep it up and your follower count will reach six digits in no time

I’m always happy to see more dwarf fortress. You’re definitely my favorite RU-vidr that covers this game (and one of my favorites in general)

So, one of the more recent forts that I started translated to--I shit you not--Browntown.

That was awesome and you're hilarious, man. Great video!

Just to note, any tile that has been exposed to sunlight can be used for above ground farming. This means you could use the bottom floor of the skyscraper or an offshoot on the bottom floor for a greenhouse, or in a separate fort, channel from the surface to the third cavern layer and grow strawberries at z level -180

"much like myself, they only exist to lay eggs" is a fantastic line

Man builds Tower of Babel, gets surprised when the gods send threats his way.

Where's my fucking bedroom, Haz?

"God damn it Urist i told you that you were holding the blueprint upside-down"

I like dropping stuck caravans like 30 z levels down to 'dispose' of them. I feel like the hinges in the floor and the lever at the far end of the room is enough of a warning for the fair minded elf, dwarf or human to reconsider entrenching themselves in my depot.

What the heck? Ahoy? Maybe not, but definitely a legendary quality voice. Oh god that dragon is going for the tower!

@hazzor one thing i did way back in the day was the cart shotgun. Invite a raid and let loose a couple of carts loaded with gold bars 15+ z levels up. At the end, have something to stop the carts suddenly and watch all these heavy metal slugs just turn all the goblins/elves/squirrels to thick paste

You've quickly become my favorite channel since stumbling upon it in September. Keep up the good work, and always prioritize your good quality over quantity.

my prayers were answered! loving this series, absolute favorite lets play so far.

You can actually channel into brooks which turns the tiles into normal empty spaces above water. This allows you to build waterwheels and such.

Ahh yes, monarchy by bedroom size. The superior form of government.

just so you know if you have a brook on your embark you are able to channel it out so you can use it for power

i really enjoy your videos

Can use a 1 block wide burrow next to any fortification, and assign them to defend it. They will walk right up to the fort, and will be more likely to shoot compared to a station order

Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep it up big man!

This is an awesome vid, I’d love a part 2

You actually can use the brooks for water mills! Just have to channel the top tiles off!

Employees of Legbad 2: Human Office

Temple and guild petitions come (with default settings) at 10 people, so that's an easy way to figure it out.

Dwarf fortress- the one game where everything has a corpse or three next to every new expansion or special design!

Using Dolomite for the walls has me seething lol

If you got no mountain the build into....just build a mountain i guess.

Idea: An Actual Fortress. Must belong to a warring civilization with the ultimate goal of destroying that civilization's enemies. Ideally the fortress location would be one that would logically serve to guard against the enemy and/or serve as a staging ground from which to attack.

Tower-Tec. Better living, overground.

I like how you got the second fart joke just in case you edited out the first one.

Steam Dorf Fort looks like everything I didn't want from a GUI update The tileset and pallet reminds me of every other pixel art indie game, expecially the graphical update to Realm Grinder Wonder if there's a common ancestor in some free asset library people modify for their needs Requiring mouse input for a lot of interactions seems way slower than keyboard shortcuts, and the lack of a Dwarf Therapist feature seems like it'd make labor management a nightmare Not that DT is really a point in Classic's favor, being a third party program I personally struggle to tell what's actually going on with this particular tileset, though that's more because I'm used to the phoebus tileset. Oh well, Classic is still available for those who prefer it, and I hope the steam version gets worked on more

I am basically doing this. A 1x1 embark on a volcano with sand access. So I am making a green glass tower over lava.

Do you intend to do any more dwarf fortress content? I really liked these videos and would hope you will make more at some point. 😄

How about a wall fortress? You build above ground and can only expand sideways - either only west-east or only north-south, creating a very thick wall in the landscape that gets longer the bigger your fortress is

brooks are fine if you just dig the area it occupies out with a ramp then your water wheel works just fine

Hey this is a pretty neat idea! Great video, love your df content!

Zoo-scraper, different animals on each floor

You have a very calm and relaxing voice.

If you were to do readings of things. There are definitely a bunch of community forts that the internet can recommend. A lot of them are a good laugh and I think you'd have fun with it.

Kind of want to see more of that fort, wonder also how well it would fare on a invasion.

Were you able to build up past z lvl 59? i built a Pyramid and 59 is the cap for me, it turned out great, but the dwarfs are more dangerous towards themselves than any goblin siege. I've had over 20 dwarfs killed from melee brawls in the tavern. Also, if you build a few cage traps in front of your drawbridge you can capture hydras and you can make a drawbridge going down to the caverns, so you don't have to worry about forgotten beast. And prepare for all those visitors that are going to be coming in stealing your shit or intimidating your dwarfs to steal it for them. Enjoy you're stuff, and looking forward to the next.

Building tombs is a bad idea, just slab the one's who come back. Make a cemetary outside for it. you can also do hatch covers and holes in the ground.

14:06 …because we’ve got our staircase exposed like a stripper doing a handstand… and Im on the floor laughing, thanks for that!

There's a fun kind of drowning? I must be doing my pumping wrong.

A huge, POISONOUS dragon thing? I'm not saying that that shouldn't be the case, but it is a little bizarre, and you should be scared of whatever forced that species of dragon to evolve poison.

Third probiotic joke still made me chuckle, who doesn't love a good fart joke

I have an idea. Flood the underworld.

This guy is putting the pro in probiotic.

This is good content, thanks!

Not gonna lie that was a really good Spanish

Second video of yours I've watched and we're immediately 2/2 on fart & ass jokes... Is this the brand

the probiotic joke got me the third time round

Dwarf fortress pyramid

Noo, zoo is sad. their left and right eyes will be covered in tears from being confined :C

Your voice is butter smooth

Damn that subscribe suggestion got me good

god i love dwarf fortress

"... I deal with , too! When I get into probiotics!" - Hazzor, 2023

I wonder what would happen if strong Breeze would struck the tower

You should examine artifacts created by your dwarves, as they are usually detailed and engraved with a variety of cool or silly and entertaining things.

The thought of a dwarf tower makes me yearn for a 3D update. I mean the game has been in dev forever whats another 10 years?