I Spent 100 Days in Dwarf Fortress 

A classic, I played it every day in class and people thought i was a hacker

"No, its not a game it is my excel spredsheet"

@Sonic Boom I used to play it on a work PC and told people it was code. I think you underestimate how dumb people are

@@adrianvenegasmendez7708 "Damn, my man's spreadsheet is FUCKED UP"

@Sonic Boom If im being completely honest, as someone who basically had a phone in their hand when they were born i have seen some pretty stupid people when it comes to tech. Even i didnt know wtf i was looking at originally when i found DF and i was surprised when i eventually found out it was a game.

Im pretty sure you're supposed to do that in dwarf fortress

@@sopadefideos5636 There's no reason to do that in Dwarf Fortress.

@@sopadefideos5636 People might start ones first fortress watching df wiki and its layout has multiple floors. Actually dwarves don't like noise from workshops (while they sleep) so keeping their bedroom deep underground is recommended in wiki. (or isolated in same floor.)

Pretty sure this game came well before rimworld

@@LegenDUS2 Workshops don’t make noise anymore though. Just mining, woodcutting, destroying buildings, engraving, and making fortifications.

Don't make the same mistake that Khan Noonian Sung made!

Yeah I see a ton of noobs building like this, they dig one z level down during the tutorial and proceed to build their entire fort on that level. Make sure to dig down! 5-10 z levels in the beginning is a good start. Once you mine out a bunch of rock underneath, you can use it to make rock blocks (each stone makes 4 blocks) and use those to build UPWARDS on the surface too!

Learning optimization techniques in DF takes the game from 'oh this is neat' to 'wow this is insanely powerful'. A furnace that takes coal from a linked stockpile and turns it into coke, that then gets put in another linked stockpile. 1 Z level below that there are furnaces for metal bars that use close stockpiles for the or and can fetch coke from just a few steps away. That feeds one Z level down armorsmiths, weaponsmiths, and craftsmiths. No massive travel times to random stockpiles. These same operations can be applied to other complex production chains, such as farming to dyed cloth and clothes. Without supply chain optimization it can take ingame days to get an output like a piece of armor or socks. With the optimization it's nearly impossible to run out of stuff.

Yeah, I had the same thought: "he is playing like Rimworld". An important reason to dig is finding the good minerals. You have to dig!

I'm so interested in this game but at the same time the concept of Z-levels really scares me away.

the eyesore version of it

@@sossololpipi9633 Well, first cars were kinda shitty too :P This analogy is actually very fitting, as horses were almost exactly what the car industry wants to achieve right now - self driving, running on bio-fuel, low emission, no need for additional infrastructure - yet outdated, janky and making your butt hurt everytime you try to use it :P Perfect Dwarf Fortress analogy. Also, I kinda like the original ASCII style, probably because I'm not familiar with many ASCII titles apart from maybe CDDA. So for me it's very unique, and has its charm.

@@sossololpipi9633 i would have slaughtered you were it not for the laws of this land

The better words would be inspired by, not foundation, that would be saying a lot of games use Dwarf Fortress game engine.

Even Minecraft

@Abraham Johnathan how do I make overhang in walls?

​@@Yogarpg you can build a ramp or stairs next to the walls so your dwarfs can get on it, then start placing flooring on that level to make a roof

@@rustyfisher2081 You can just build a 1-tile floor overhang on the outer side to prevent climbing. Some foes can fly, though...

Think of amount of people he'll butcher for leather and organs.

Is Cannibalism allowed?

@@ChocoSlime not in classic df

Sadly, you cannot butcher anything sentient. However, there's many mods

@@alwinwinter1645 Well, you can, but we've decided we don't like that and will get you locked up in a tiny square room for the next 10.000 days against your will :D

Randy has nothing on the twisted shit DF pulls. You want a challenge? DF delivers, if you look for it. Say, a glacial embark? That's EVIL? And when things die they come back to life as super-fast super-strong revenants opposed to life that will kill anything that moves? And when it snows, the snow is bloody and acidic and infects anyone caught in it with a deadly disease that rots them from the inside out? Oh yeah, and when they die, there's still that whole reanimating-as-uberzombie issue. And to top it off, throw in the occasional random forgotten beasts wandering by with murder on their mind? They tend to do things like shoot webs, radiate deadly pestilence, fly, or breathe fire as well. And did I mention *dragons?* Yeah. Rimworld is tame by comparison.

@@bitbucketcynic DF is much more detailed on small things, its a perfect story gen game. Rimworld is nice game but not as detailed as DF. Atleast in vanilla

​@@koko2274 df is more about focusing on the bigger events of the world, compared to rimworld focusing on the individual events day to day. If your highest level fighter dies in rimworld, oh fuck. If your highest level fighter dies in df, you won't realize until 2 in game days later and you got like 5 others

honestly, i miss the multilayer system in df, why not dig up or down for resources?

@@alexanderlipowsky6055 Huh? But you can. Not sure what is missing there.

@@leoleo1035 I think he's talking about in rimworld

@@leoleo1035 talking abt rimworld, i miss being able to dig up or down to get more ressources on the same map, building storage, housing and so on layers down and having my main layer as tavern/fightinggrounds.... but rimworld is my fav of the two so i am stuck... unless there are mods, idk

@@alexanderlipowsky6055 there are mods indeed

Game came out 1 day ago i have 130.4 hours played

​@@joe2thpapuahh yes dwarven physics enjoyer

There is mod If I remember correctly, where you can dig down and construct basements and such.

@@happytomato1135 yeah though it's not currently updated to the latest patch. I think it's literally called z-levels. I think it tends to make combat fairly trivial though.

@@happytomato1135 the z-level mod use lots of workarounds and hacks, to let Rimworld actually support z-level, the entire game engine will have to be re-written.

@@happytomato1135 a

To be fair, the game is balanced around being on the same z level

Aaaaaaaaa

The ui changes in the steam release really make it so much easier then the classic versions of the game

@@Azamyth I hear some people complain it's not as good as DFhack, dwarf therapist and lazy newbpack

Rimworld players generally can transition to DF easily, and vice versa.

@@namvo3013 They gonna be updated to new version, so not a big problem.

@@namvo3013 The new UI at the very least made Dwarf therapist and lazy newbpack "optional".

this video has me T H R O B B I N G

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Yess pfff 😍

been many years since I last played but the closest thing to hydroponics is using water to make a stone floor muddy to enable farming. that or you just dig in soil to get a soil ground. much safer then having a passage to the caves. you can also dig a pit on the surface, floor it up then use the pit to grow surface plants safely indoors, same trick works for bees I think.

No hydroponics ingame, but you can make a whole sewer system for various uses. Also don't really need hydroponics, as you can cultivate in underground clay/sand.

Not out on steam version yet but id love to see it when it is

It does and I'm tired to pretend that it doesn't. Jokes aside, it does and it comes as Cook by default - as all things DF, I could be wrong..but I did run out of seeds and plump helmets. As the Kitchen settings screen only shows what you have in stock...we are now back at the time where people run out of food due to cooking all their plump helmets (when they harvest one, they end up cooking it and it doesn't show on the Kitchen screen anymore). RIP my seeds, had to wait a year for a caravan. Game's still legendary though, and much smoother to play for hours.

a bit to ADD for me tho. Song changes every 30 seconds.

Low pc probably

I've had zero crashes within 6 hours of gameplay. I'm playing on my i5-6600K with a 1060 6GB (I built this PC back in 2015, it's running the latest build of Windows 10). The game installed some old stuff like VCRedist 2015 (it happened so fast so I'm not 100% certain if this was indeed the version) and some other stuff I haven't seen in ages but overall that might be something worth looking into. Also, look into limiting your FPS as it appears to affect the calculation speed of the game (everything's so "zoomy" at high FPS) which might be causing crashes (old-ish game/engine running on modern hardware is always a tricky thing). Best of luck to yah!

Ive had zero crashes in 7 hours Not sure what to tell you but it works good for lots of us

I've had none, and I've not heard about it any so it's likely a niche problem

None I have strangely have had none

the sprites is only a year or two old. the mechanics are 20 years old. rimworld in my opinion is a scam game compared to this lol

also many more sprites to come, next is all the baby animals i believe

Did you reach the point where goblins attack?

@@everynametaken no, i didn't meet with anyone, except some merchants who wanted to trade with me

@@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 I think you simply didn't play for long enough... takes more than a few months.

@@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 Also your fort needs to be a certain value to be worth a target

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Diggy diggy hole!

yes

I wonder how he could have spent 100 days in game and made a functional fortress with everything

100 days is like 15 min without pause

Raids will usually occur if your civilization is at war with somebody. However, they can be rather easily avoided by settling in areas where there are no races or civs you're at war with. Of course, that can always change if you piss off some traders, send a squad to pillage somebody, let a fight in your tavern spiral out of control and result in the death of an influential member of another society, etc.

The game doesn’t just send you raids to create conflict. It’s less of a “game” than rimworld per se. You could go years without seeing any real enemies if you play cautiously and don’t provoke anything.

For one thing he hasn't managed to trade yet. Sieges are attracted by traded wealth, not value of the fortress. Also dwarf fortress years are 12 15 day months if I recall, so it's only been a little under a year, the first goblin Sieges usually show up second winter. Past that, goblins might not be at war with his parent civ, present on his continent, or they may even be extinct in world gen, which doesn't happen often, but is still possible. Dorf fort is a lot less 'video gamey' than rimworld, raids don't just materialize at your map edge, they spawn from populations, have leaders,, cross the map towards your site, and have a goal in mind, (usually just stealing stuff). It's been a while since I've played so there might be more going on with all that than I've said. Tarn Adams is a madman.

Generally speaking stuff like raids in DF is based on wealth of the fortress, which means that the new players usually tend to have pretty chill time when they are figuring the basics (unless the embark had some unexpected inhabitants), while the more advanced ones quickly reach a point where they matter enough in the world to start getting unwanted guests.

traditional race to pick a fight with is the elves, because they are annoying with their "protect the trees" attitude. you can trigger the war by mass deforestation or trying to sell them wooden items. also the easiest to learn way to defend yourself is to use traps (stone fall traps first then replace with weapon traps). to make traps work with wagon paths the easiest way is to make going through the traps the shortest route note people get in each others way and so can take longer paths to avoid the traffic jam. so its best the trapped path isn't just a single one tile wide path. I preferred multiple 1 tile wide paths that all linked together every 10-20 tiles. by using 1 tile wide paths you can dig multi-tile deep pits on either side so that when the enemy dodge the weapons in the weapon traps they can occasionally fall in the pits. been a long time since I last played so things may have changed.

I would suggest you making a more impressive dining room as it greatly influences dwarf mood. Make a food and a drink stockpile nearby to lower walk time.