The Most Complex Game Ever Made 

congrats bro

Yoooo that's class

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As someone who's only tried the text version of dwarf fortress (and gave up fairly early because everything was a pain to navigate and see), that last thing made me wheeze

@@zitronenwasser There were really good texture packs back then for df. Made the game SO much easier to look at

That actually summarizes the game pretty well

Craft the world in a nutshell?

sounds on brand for dwarfs lol

The cats have become dirty due to the beer Cats lick beer off Cats become drunk Cats vomit Cats become dirty Cat licks off beer vomit Cat becomes drunk Cat vomits....

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

I’m getting this game now

@@no_social_skill1369 family guy moment

No way could Dwarf Fortress have animations. Instant CPU death.

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I really like games with simple graphics because you know the developers' focus was almost entirely on the gameplay.

Looking forward to year 2050 when we will have computers fast enough to run Dwarf fortress with animations

Shit, it can barely run on the current hardware lol

Oh WOOOOOW, and no one have commented on that, both of you are a LEGEND 👏👏👏👏👏. Mad respect. Probably the first time i truly wanted to meet a character in real life, she's goated.

On a MISSION.

That's WILD I should check this game out. I like old graphics but I maxed out at Risk and Shining Force when it comes to strategy games lol

"I think I made the carp too hardcore..."

@@WackoMcGoose they swam so hard that they kill fisherdwarves

@@BirdsBestAnimal "A cat walks into a bar..."

I have over 200 hours on the steam version and the total amount of soap I have made is two bars.

screw the soap honestly, i prefer breeding cats till my computer dies :p

Do you keep dropping it or something?

@@Purfait you'd have to make one TO drop first

@@ThePhantom4516 what if it was almost done and they dropped it

i mean.. they punched a child based asf dog

@@hi28 Yep. Accurate modelled dog tbh. My old bull terrier the only time she ever attacked a human was when she saw some father hit his kid, and she went terminator on him. Thankfully he recognized that though innapropriate, jazmine was just trying to protect the kid from what she thought was an attacker and went full momma dog mode, so declined to report the attack. Pretty much straight away booked that dog into obedience classes and she never bit someone again, but in her mind, she was just defending a child. My cat on the other hand will attack anything with a face, including me if I'm more than 30 seconds late to feed her lol

If they ended up making peace and the dog became the guide for the guy it would truly be peak writing

Why punch, hot water IS much better

You gotta get underground ASAP and then stockpile everything from the wagon into the hole you dug.

One of my more successful forts in Dwarf Fortress for Steam was constantly harassed by all types of birds. From giant ravens to cardinals that took turns picking out my dwarven children who went too far.

@@MrPervSan Burrow commands will let you stick the children in safe places. Keeping them off the surface is pretty simple.

On one of my embarks the tree that my only woodcutter was chopping down fell on him and killed him. In another of my fortresses every time a dwarf would try to drop something in the garbage dump hole, they’d be attacked by bones and wool and skulls. I eventually figured out why: my surgeon was a necromancer, and his child daughter was always playing in the refuse stockpile next to the garbage dump zone, and so she had been reanimating everything in the garbage dump. This game provides a constant supply of you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up emergent behaviors and that’s why people love it.

The same happened to me on my very first fortress because the tutorial dropped me into a wild biome. Giant Wrens killed ALL of my dwarves except a last one which they let to slowly bleed out with only one limb left. I had to abandon the fortress because waiting for the last one to die took too long.

You mean about the curses? If your dwarves don't pray to their deity for a long time there is a chance they might get cursed to turn into either vampire or a werebest.

I have never played this game, only learned about it through a RU-vid Gamer, but it was my immediate guess as to which game they were speaking about.

Not even Dwarf Fortress is as complex as Dwarf Fortress

if the game had good graphics it would not be the same

Or perhaps the simulation eats so much processing power that there's not enough leftover to draw much more than text or sprite graphics.

​@@lavatrexlike the steam edition?

@@joemck85 That's why we have video cards nowadays.

@@exapsy and they were all inspired by VIM

This concept is legitimately horrifying

This was actually the original premise of the game: you were supposed to go as an adventurer and explore an abandoned fort to find its secrets and the reason it fell. Then the developer decided that it would be fun to also get to make that fort and things spiraled from there.

@@thereinforcementshavearrive What is horrifying about that?

@@jasoninthehood9726 well one story I read had their fort fall to demons If you find the ruins there’d likely still be a crap ton of demons

It’s rimworld on crack

Veteran of the Classic version, I can confirm that the deadliest thing in your fortress is the Fortress. Until you find the Clown College at least.

Gotta look up the town of “boatmurdered” really great dwarf fortress collaboration. You won’t be sorry

I honestly thought you needed the body. I’ll have to try that. Thank you!

@@OnADock I believe dwarves prefer to have bodies put in tombs, but the tablet memorials are also available if you lose the body through melting or having their atoms smashed. A skeleton waterfall is probably preferable to a ghost waterfall.

If your fortress gets large enough and wealthy enough to become a barony and have a Baron in the nobles menu, you will also be able to assign someone as the fortress’ Champion. The Champion role doesn’t mean much in the current game version - they’ll just lead combat demonstrations like a militia captain will - but I always use the role as a nice reward for any heroic dwarves. Your speardwarf definitely counts. You said you made some statutes of her, but you can also give her a really nice bedroom, build her a really nice tomb, etc. and you can assign her to wear or use legendary artifacts as a symbol of her Champion status. (On the nobles page that’s what all the crown buttons are for.)

​@@jordanbradford7729 so doing this will boost morale and all dwarfs will want to do something heroic too? Is that how this game works?

@@Oiljackeryes other dwarfs will feel inspired or joyful, they may even write songs or carve pictures that may spread throughout the world. I’m not sure specifically if they get inspired to do something heroic, but they will definitely talk about the event

@@NBH-xh3nq damn that's amazing

df=dangerously funny

This fact isn't fun at all. :(

WHAT THE HAHAHAHAAHAHA

@@cccbbbccc5910 Welcome to Dwarf Fortress, next episode we talk about the mermaid bone farms, which were so fucked up that the devs cut back the sale price of mermaid bone.

Ah sweet. Man made horrors beyond my comprehension

@@ildar.ishalin.chelovek well I can comprehend these man made horrors perfectly fine so idk maybe you have a skill issue or smth

"I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead..."

I almost included the cat story in this video. I laugh every time I read that one and it's such a great example of how all the systems in this game interact.

Is that Boatmurdered?

@@ardensetiawan353Yes, that last one is Boatmurdered.

How about that fortress entrance that could not close because a butterfly was stuck in it? XD

@@Mewseeker That is also Boatmurdered.

I had no idea an Olm was a real animal. lol.

@@OnADock Yeah, that is totally fair, they're one of the strangest animals I know of! There's actually a lot of folklore about them being baby dragons, which is super interesting, especially because they look the part

the hell thats an axolotl

Just remember to add water AFTER your done. Seriously though, sounds like that would be a badass bar. Underground with a waterfall running through it just cuz. Just don’t mention the ghosts

I actually found out about slaves to Armok while writing this video, but I ended up cutting any actual explanation of the title since it didn’t really add anything in a video about Dwarf Fortress. It is cool to look at that piece of development history though!

dwarf fortress, but 3d doesn't sound like a realistic task even in 2023. Maybe we'll get something like that in the next 20-30 years, but the best we have right now is probably minecraft

@@RADZIO895 with a fuck-ton of mods

Just geld them.

Or as a preventative measure you can just geld them.

so a horny jail?

I tend to cage animals in DF too once their population grows to big and then sell that to the elves for other animals, which... well, you can guess where this leads to. But once in a time, the elves then arrive with a breeding pair of... say... tamed tigers. Or something that could be war trained....

You should learn to code I believe in you

Should check out Kenshi, it's similar in that regard

@@GruntKF can it work on a potato PC? That game's been in my head for some time

@@Dhruvvrma9224 ah not sure, it is a bit demanding since its 3d. could always "borrow" it and see how it runs on your machine lol

@@GruntKF ok , thanks bro

ah... hidden secret fun.... did you hear about the player that colonized the circus somehow?

I actually lost two dwarfs Based on my inclination to put the trash compacter in a pit. So pro tip do not do this. You can literally just put your trash compactor on the surface (or anywhere) and it's fine

Dangerous cave dwellers that live near the valuable minerals is a crazy double entendre I picked up on that I don't know if that's what you meant but it was hard as fuck

Also works for getting rid of Mayors.

@@tymera The trick is to put a trash storage on the surface (must be in open air to work), designate a trash dumping zone inside that trash storage, and then order your dwarves to dump your threadbare clothes and other junk in there. It will rot away relatively quickly, and because it is a dumpsite, not just a storage, there is no limit to how many items can fit in there.

Oh! I've heard of this thing! The "atom smasher", right?

I have yet to play it, but DF is less about being good and more about enjoying losing hilariously. Yeah there are people who know how to make seemingly indestructible fortresses, but that isn't what it is about at all! A lot of it is telling your story.

Yeah, I feel just the same, I really find the idea of complex rich stories and the world building present on DF incredibly interesting, but as with many other games alike, I struggle with the slow gameplay and all the managment they require to fully explore their potential.

I started playing the game learning from Quill18 videos - still the best tutorials for DF that you can find on RU-vid

The first rule of Dwarf Fortress: Losing is fun!

Yep that's what I did lol

who cares when it's abandonware

Something like that is planned, not the revenge part though.

I began playing once.. 6 years back.. couldn't handle the controls despite having played ASCII-based dungeon explorers and similar games. Moved on to Rimworld and loved it.. Began using Linux as my only OS, made my own vast arsenal of commands in Linux and Vim. Became quite confident about this game and started again. Nope. Will try again in a few days

@@certainsomeone186 yeah I played DF long ago, when Rimworld came out i got into that. when i heard DF got a make over and had graphics more akin to Rimworld i decided to jump back into it. The world needs more games like DF and Rimworld. Not everyone likes games with insane levels of complexity, but it's a niche that is horribly underdeveloped.

Technically, the waterfalls in the tavern is actually the key stone to keeping the whole fortress together. Probably stopped countless bar brawls. At least until it didn't.

It can be built in a way that's perfectly safe, but it was open from the topside. Easily avoildable mistake.

I'm fairly sure the game has this as a built in feature

that's what legends mode is for though I guess it's not a summery as it is the entire history of the world and every named entity, named item, every event and all the settlements

One time I had a dwarf get inspired to make something and he did something like this. He laid out on a tapestry on a bench the ENTIRE FUKING HISTORY PAST PRESENT AND ALL FUTURE things in my world down to details like how many socks we had who died where they died when they died how may stocks I had details and dates of it all. Craziest thing that ever happened to me

@@lif3Savedhissoul brooo that's crazy

@@lif3Savedhissoul It was a bug, the same that created Planestacked, maybe the most famous artifact of this kind. Sadly fixed by now.

@@BrianPotterProductions too much so, honestly. Needs a new shtick.

He's very obviously imitating dunkey, probably in hopes of achieving the same level of popularity.

I actually played Nethack in-browser a few months before I played Dwarf Fortress because I was bored and trawling links on TVTropes or something. The experience I had actually sold me on ASCII games. At first I didn't know what I was doing, but I did find a cool anti-magic cloak. I also knew how to kick down doors. So, I kick down a door that happens to be a shopkeeper's space. The debris from the door goes flying inwards and the keeper is furious and tries to kill me. However, I'm wearing an anti-magic cloak! All his magic bounces off and hits him instead! So I mamage to kill him first and now I'm left in a room filled with free stuff! Excited, I start checking out all the items and trying on all the better armor. I equip a cool magic wand that shoots lightning or something. But then, a kobold enters the room! So I shoot him with my magic wand! Unfortunately, the kobold had picked up my discarded anti-magic cloak off the shop floor (because I unequipped it earlier to try out the different clothes) and the magic bounced back on me! I immediately exploded and died! I must've laughed for a good five or so minutes because of that.

@@conspiracypanda1200 lmao nice

Other great "real roguelikes" include: -Brogue, it's free! And also weirdly pretty for an ASCII game. It's relatively simple but IMO it's a really smart take on the genre. -Cogmind is seriously the most underrated roguelike. It's *shockingly* in-depth, especially whem you realize it's got a whole branching storyline with quite a lot of lore attached. You play as a sentient robot in a mining facility. There's BattleTech-ish customization, weirdly deep combat and a cool focus on simulating the way enemies communicate with each other & stealth. - Pixel Dungeon. There's quite a few different forks of it. It was designed for mobile, but it actually does a great job of making the genre playable on a touchscreen and doesn't have the problems most mobile games have. - Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is pretty much a "zombie survival" roguelike, although zombies are the least of your worries. This is the kind of game that simulates every major component of the car you found on the side of the road and lets you perform surgery on yourself to get robo-legs. Project Zomboid was directly inspired by Cataclysm but still fails to reach it's level of depth. - Tales of Maj'Eyal is an interesting one because instead of items it's focused hard on having an MMO style hotbar. It's really a fusion between traditional roguelike and something more like Diablo. - Rift Wizard is kind of a more modern, minimalist take on ToME - Caves of Qud is a Morrowind-inspired game that also takes a queue from Dwarf Fortress in that it also has randomly-generated history (although nowhere near as deep). It's sort of a YT darling for being pretty and... weird. Very weird.

I played so much Nethack way back when it was still a new game. "c" (lowercase) was a cat and "C" (uppercase) a centuar. That was a truly awesome game, it didn't need graphics. In fact I think the "tile sets" that came later actually made it worse.

really? Thats crazy. Like what? I remember playing a solo adventure mode back in the day, where I ussually turned into a vampire. is that kind of stuff in the steam version?

@@eduardofreitas8336 the steam version didn't release with adventure mode and at the moment adventure mode is in beta with regular updates

Dunkey is my favorite creator to steal delivery cues from. Huge influence on me tbh.

@@OnADock we can tell keep up the hard work and you’ll start to develop your own style i’m sure

People make a lot of weird assumptions about needing "new tech" to do cool stuff.

@@colbyboucher6391 More like "I didn't think game could be that complex without having old computer lagging as hell"

@@cpp3221 Oh, it did, quickly. Honestly DF still starts to lag out past 150-200-ish dwarves.

you will figure it out something, 1 sell them, preferably make crafts out of them then sell 2 make a stockpile for them on top of lava, 3 or under a bridge while closed then open the bridge and smash them to atoms

@@tonyhart2744 Between 1000 to 5000, it is not clear due to players reporting already known bugs.

The programming language itself is not really that complex, only if you start making complex things, it gets complex

@@christophhofer303 I guess I should say that it is complex in that it's the ultimate sandbox.

@@saul-goodman He's trying to be videogamedunkey.

I was so proud of myself when I constructed my first pressure controlled, self-refilling water reservoir. Then some time later of course I had the wrong level pulled, and channeled the whole river into my fort. (Since then I DECONSTRUCT that damn lever after the automatism is in place)

Early 2000’s was a bit of a weak era for PC exclusives if you weren’t into mmos tbh.

I mean, I'd say Morrowind was a PC game first and foremost. The Xbox port felt pretty clunky by comparison.