the people's fortress (Dwarf Fortress) 

when boredom drives you to start a class revolution

I'm reminded of The Conquest of Ale, the video essay which introduced me to dwarf fortress, in which the solution to nobles was to turn them into a vampire and seal them in a room neither able to die nor be let out.

I love these kinds of storytelling videos. Getting all the interesting bits without the downtime in between.

4:15 I think the Spearmaster casually biting the forgotten beast needs more attention :D

love the shorter DF videos you do. full playthroughs are fine but i love how quick and punchy your work is

This video was really good! Great work as always! The seven minutes are perfect for your style of video making!

For a non Dwarf Fortress Player and someone who is definitely checking out the steam version, you make such great content that is persuding me more to try out dwarf fotress. Thank you so much for everything, and please keep uploading

Absolutely adore your videos, only discovered your channel 2 days ago but loving it~

Im liking this series, my vanilla world ive been playing for almost 30 hours now just lost one of its major forts to a forgotten beast, I was surprised when you managed to keep 3 at bay, my best men and army could not even beat 1

Another great video. Never did more than dabble in dwarf fortress but these make me wanna give it a go

I first watched this video thinking you made it speechless, understood everything thanks to tight editing. Rewatched with sound. 20/10

Build wider hallways. Most of your problem with framedrops is from the calculations happening whenever your dwarves have to pass each-other in the halls.

This one didn't end in a catastrophic nervous breakdown! *They did a great job with the game...* And it doesn't absolutely have anything to do with the fact that he's getting better... Congrats thou! On making a succesful metropolis that is.

I love how the creativity to develop torture methods to dethrone the leaders can be a useful skill in this game.

The squads not going after the Forgotten Beast was probably due to the smoke/fire, flaming tiles are impassible, and the game does not like pathing through smoke.

What a great video and series. Definitely will be keeping tabs on your playthroughs!

I've been playing Dwarf Fortress for a few months now but I wanna say that this was the video that inspired me to get the game

Just binged your backlog of videos, love the style of videos you make keep it up! Wouldn’t mind a longer format video too! Thanks for sharing your stories with us.

Dwarf Fortress: the game where you kill monsters not to defend the lives of the fort, but to free us from the FPS drop.

This is really good, becuase of your videos I wanna give the new dwarf fortress a go

The steam version is my first time with the steam release and i think i need an opinion on someone experienced because i think i accidentally chose the best location to make my fortress,it is a grassland with a good amount of trees a small river lots of ponds closest other beings are 6 days travel region full of friendly dwarves and some human hamlets across the sea the underground is full of ore with a ton of gold the closest thing to enemies are some kobolds that just pass by and do nothing and a cyclops and giant that easily died to my professional military composed of mercenaries attracted to my tavern that joined for soldiering,i seriously expected more challenge but with this many food and no problems i have focused on testing out the mechanics of bulding mechanisms

You can use burrows to tell dwarves where to stand.

this is pretty much exactly what im looking for in dwarf fortress content, thanks for the effort dude.

What is more grandiose? Making another base for a civilization with many, or to make a stronghold that outshines the rest of that civilization? Changing the history of that civilization the better.

Hey hoodie hair! Loving the Dwarf fortress vids and super excited to see what you come up with for the steam version. Keep up the great work :)

Very nice to watch and listen and easily digestible videos, looking forward to any more in the works

To be fair, I'd just walled up Meli and rerouted neigboring passages for the time being. Wonder how long would it last there. If long enough? could even replace usual wall with glass wall.

kkkk u did handle a hydra with that fort, that's impresive.

I was curious and had to look....there's actually a Mountainhome% speedrun category 🤯

i lost access to my other account but somehow hoodie hair is still in my recommended praise be the algorithm

If you make hallways not one tile wide you will have much better fps. Still, not a lot that can be done about the temp calcs of the caverns burning down.

*Me hearing about the hospital description* Yeah...that sounds about right for dwarf fortress

LoL, "put her in there, with the forgotten beast".

these storytelling videos are why i have any interest in this game. while a majority of the videos around DF seem to be mostly tutorials, they lack the characterization and narrative examples required to enjoy the game. you do a wonderful job of this and i greatly enjoy all your DF videos. keep up the good work.

Currently running a metropolis fort, my goal right now is to get some holdings so that i can send the less specialized dwarves away and get some of my precious frames back

Can’t wait for more forts in this world, definitely if you reignite their civilization.

i had that same problem with a fire beast and none of my soldiers went to attack it. It's probably a bug related to dwarves not wanting to run into smoke or fire

dude this same thing happened to me! a fire demon came into my base and i wounded it enough to make it lose its ability to stand and it was also blind so it just was in the middle of my fort floundering around blowing smoke and fire. my dwarfs also wouldn’t attack it because i think it was too hot for them to go near. that’s what someone said online. had to wipe bc it killed my frames

I just discovered your videos and they're amazing, this bite sized highlight content is perfect for DF

No gods, no masters.

Another method is using a raised drawbridge to crush the noble underneath. Good ol Atom Smasher leaves no traces.

You are a Legendary Videocrafter

Great video making

To make my work with nobles more worthwhile, I make them all join the military. If they are going to lead, they are going to be along side those they rule in the ongoing wars

I like how the main reason to kill forgotten beasts was the lack of fps xD

your voice is soothing my friend. great video!

Have you considered putting the trap door under the bed of the noble?

You can just make a burrow on a sacrifice bridge and assign the noble to it so that they don't leave

man oh man, ur content is flourishing bro

Workshops without doors? You are a true risk taker, sir!

This is the first dwarf story I’ve seen from DFP! Loving the video man :)

Ayy, I'm a new subscriber, great videos but as always a bit short for my taste as I like your content and would like to enjoy it for longer, but I get that Dwarf Fortress takes a lot of time to play/find interesting scenarios for videos and editing takes a lot of time as well I am guessing.

Regarding your forgotten beast --- sota means 'war' in Finnish.

+999 extra social credit, camarade

so how do you lower the raid population threshold from 80 to like...30?

Sheesh, the countess was fast as hell 6:02

Feed the beasts with nobles 🤩🤣🤣🤣

Dang those Beasts look so cool.

It looks like the countess escaped into the cavern layer. What happened to her?

This rocks!

killing nobles hasn't been relevant for a few versions now. It just destroys the stress-relief that shouting at nobles provides and leads to fort collapse

BASED

I'm patiently waiting for the Mac port to arrive. Hopefully, it'll be released soon. I can't wait to play the Steam Edition of DF 💖 Great video, by the way. I like your format & style :-)

God bless you comrade

Novgorod Republic moment.

Noble-slaying is a fun activity for the whole fortress!

For context it appears that no matter how big or small your starting civ is, you don't get immigrants for several seasons after the first two guaranteed waves. I deliberately made sure to pick a dwarven civ with 6k+ pop and set up my place right next to them and still I didn't get immigrants for several seasons. It might be a bug or oversight in how your fortress' wealth is calculated.

Just learned about your channel! Good stuff! Keep it up sis! 😄

Power to the people ✊

that's slow? my game always goes on 30 FPS

I love this channel.

Really like these story-driven series, very captivating. Also, how do you put individual items in a desired spot or chest? I didn't know you could do that

I'm planning to start making something similar to this on my channel. Love the content !

4:54 United States lore

get you some algorithm boosting comments comrade

Ah yes, regicide.

why make a mountainhome when you can make a forgotten beasthome

Love your cadence and voice :)

based premise

FREEDOM ! ! !

What is a workable max pop on the steam version?

awesome videos man

love to be on the cutting edge of a new trans dwarf fortress sensation :)) great videos all of them!

Dry soldier 77

Seize the means of dwarvism!

i really liked this video :] !!!

Ha! I like the idea of just splitting off from your starting civilization because you frankly outgrew them. Eat the rich lol

i _dig_ it keep it up!

Should I buy DF?

do all people playin DF have super weak cpus, or is the game really super heavy on your cpu??

Had with with a church, set them up kitted them out. Immigrants came, a big wave of them, doubled my pop just about. Guess what they asked for? Mhm, yeah another church. So I had to kit them out too. Well, I was cheering my little dudes along until the nobility started rolling in. And, my top dude, my head of state and of church started getting a little reachy. A crafts dwarf was accused of order of production violation against the head. No punishment. But my first death at a hundred pop was an open murder of a dwarf in the tavern. No one spoke rumors about that execution in the tavern below the church. The Roc was easily dealt with the well militarized squads, but the church's military leader was hurt. Out of 20 spear dwarves, I only could have imagined this 'hunting accident' or their boldness making them slip.

Only the french did the right thing

whats your pc specs? sorry i just wanna know since ure pc is taking a hit on all those calculations

I loved every second of it.

Based

Holy based

I think the nobles are a bit of a bitch, would like the idea that you don't have them but the dwarves in the society can issue demanda and requests. Like how's about they request building a swimming pool, they have a small chance to die but it lvls their swimming somthey have greater chances to survive accidents, or even weight training rooms, maybe museum and you have to hunt for relics for it.

Whys it feel like every DF player seems to build really crappy dwarf houses? I always make mine at least 3x3

Ah yes, this was inspired by the famous socialist writer, Kôrl Môrkz

monarchy is overrated anyways