So I decided to leave them to their fates and wait out the goblin ambush. Let’s kick their asses!” A ton of dwarves ignored the order to go to their burrows, and just ran out to the river to fish and got beaten to death by goblins. I thought, “no big deal! Everyone to the meeting hall, Steel Gryphons to the bridge. However, soon after I had a goblin ambush. I found my first cavern in this fortress, captured some of those big ol’ mushroom eating cow things, killed a troll (a baby my speardwarf brought with her punched it in the face, which was hilarious) without issue, killed some Antmen, caged a lot of naked mole dogs that kept running into my fortress (right into those cage traps). I abandoned this fortress later, though, because it made me mad.

My third fortress, and I’ve gotten hang of the game fairly well. Not at the game, because its a lot of fun, but I can’t help but hate all of my dwarves with a passion. That was my batch of fun for the day!ĭwarf Fortress is a game that brings out my inner anger. By that time, the second squad of goblins had made it inside and finished off the last of the dwarves. Then, after she finished off the goblins, a dwarf threw a tantrum and ran up behind her, punched her in the back of the head, knocked her unconscious, and kicked her to death before calming down. They got in, killed almost all of my dwarves until the brave Expedition leader grabbed the only sword and cut one of the goblins in half, and impaled the other two after taking a crossbow bolt to the chest. Then I got a goblin ambush, but I couldn’t pull my drawbridge because ghosts scared everyone away from the lever. One ghost ended up killing about four other dwarves. I couldn’t get another built in time before all those dead dwarves became ghosts, and started scaring all of my workers. Then one of my dwarves got possessed, and took over my craftdwarf’s workshop to make something, as I was trying to make plaques to memorialize the dwarves. All ten of them just jumped down there and died. Tons of dwarves kept dropping down there for some reason, and eventually I got a migrant wave. Why? There was a waterfall nearby, with a huge drop down to just a small river created gorge. I’d say I was doing fairly well, however, I noticed that my dwarves kept going missing. I’m fairly new to this game, so this was just my second fortress. So, I’m gunna kick this thread off with a story of my own. OR get the Lazy Newb Pack which makes the game much easier to pick up and get running, especially if you want to use a Tile Set so the game is not in ASCII Perhaps you’d like to tell a story? Ask questions? Figure out what the hell this game is? So THIS thread is a place where I’d love if people would just get together and talk about this amazing game. Whether your kingdom within the extremely advanced world gen pissed off the local elves, or you stupidly settled close to a necromancers castle and you constantly get attacked by the reanimated dead, or, more likely, your dwarves will succumb to tantrums and begin to murder eachother, leading to everyone having tantrums and eventually every dwarf going berserk and butchering everything in sight, or flooding your fortress with magma. However, you cannot ‘win’ Dwarf Fortress. It’s horrible UI, ASCII graphics, and confusing controls seem daunting to most, but once you learn the ropes of the game, it is incredibly entertaining. The game is one of the most complex, difficult, and non-user friendly games ever designed. The game has been in development for a decade, and still has another 20 years to go before they even think they’ll be out of the Alpha. It is one of the games Stonehearth obviously takes a good amount of inspiration from, and a lot of other games are trying to at least somewhat replicate it. This is a game all about building a fortress to inevitably have fun and having to start over. Well, as I said in my qubicle topic, I’ve recently gotten into a little game called Dwarf Fortress.

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