Dwarf Fortress - My Recommended Settings (Beginners Guide / Tutorial)

[@jimlo]

Fantastic video! I've got a ~200 hours into DF now, but I've never really touched the settings as I didn't really know how extensive/impactful they could be. This reference definitely makes it easier for me to do so, thanks!

[@porkbean]

Very helpful, I didn't know what a lot of these options actually did. I tend to prefer smaller low-population forts but was worried I was missing out on the fun events, so I will definitely try tweaking the population triggers. I'd love to see a similar deep dive into the custom world generation menu, maybe with some tips on how to achieve certain results like steeper cliffs, more of certain biomes etc.

[@andrewrussell9458]

I didn't even know how much I needed this! Thanks

[@mcstronghuge]

Thank you for this! I plan on streaming a new fort soon and these settings and ideas will help me keep a narrative understanding of what's happening in my fort.

[@Corner5tone]

Great topic! I knew some of these, but didn't realize how extensive some of the settings were - interesting that you can create an authentic Player vs Environment option in savage biomes

[@BlindiRL]

It could literally be dwarf vs wild.

[@plansix9688]

This is a good video because it clears up a bunch of questions I had about the options. Side question: would it be possible for you to make your gameplay tutorials into one big video with chapters? I use those videos to refresh myself when I dive back into the fortress. It would be lovely if I could scrub through all of them at once. If not, no big deal. I’ll just run up the view count for you.

[@BlindiRL]

Would'nt that be reusing content? Maybe I'd have to think on it.

[@Phooenixification]

I started playing df like 3 years before the steam version, and while starting out i always thought the game ran way too fast, so if you're a beginner i would keep the game speed at 30-40. There is so much to learn and figure out and then you will have time to explore everything and still be able to keep up with things that are happening. I still play at 30 because i still think the dwarfes moves too fast otherwise. And the game feels "the same" from start to max cap of pop. Ofcourse this is a personal preference, just my thoughts.

[@Cheesedream]

Wait, you can slow the dwarves? I guess I really need to watch this video. lol. Just perusing the comments at the moment.

[@tbone80801]

The keyboard cursor is useful for many dfhack commands. It appears in dig mode when enabled. You can move it with the arrow keys.

[@Moonlord8941]

Thank you

[@JesseRoberts]

Great stuff, I've mostly tried to avoid messing around w/ settings (aside from pop cap) but after some serious cavern dweller shenanigans that more than anything else just annoyed me (and swelled my bronze/iron/steel reserves a lot) I'm ready to tweak at least that option!

[@sontiyo7113]

bruh i had to double check if my video is playing on 2x speed lol, relax please!! thank u for the helpful info though

[@RickBrennan]

Haha. Blind is normally pretty low key but no joke he’s on full speed ahead at the beginning here LOL.

[@MaJetiGizzle]

As someone who normally watched videos at 2x speed, including this one, I didn’t notice the difference.

[@BlindiRL]

Madlad

[@lusulesinistral6537]

@@BlindiRLok that’s funny, google gave me the option to translate ‘madlad’ into English. For those interested, it told me it means ‘expose’. I’m now curious what language it thought you were speaking, since I only speak English.

[@ker0356]

Blind has to keep up after putnam doubled fps

[@xzaratulx]

here I am After watching your brilliant let's play series I bought the game and start off with a settings tutorial. Not wanting to miss anything 😀

[@4Robato]

That was good, thanks! From time to time I like to play in ASCII but the layout gets bug out a lot. Is there a way to set the settings so it doesn't get all messed up there?

[@thetayz72]

It's cool that the difficulty is so granularly customizable, but is the game really that precise with invasion events, or is there some randomness? Having a guaranteed invasion upon reaching exactly X wealth of exactly Y size, etc. seems very gamey. I would like to have an option for a more vague threat expectation, maybe closer to how rimworld handles such things, so that I know things will get generally harder over time, but not precisely what I'm going to be up against.

[@BlindiRL]

Invasions depend on local populations and if you are at war with someone. No one around? No war. Tons of people around you are at peace with? Piss them off in trades and war. Kill a visiting noble? War. Its specific once you are at war with someone but its never 100% predictable.

[@krinkrin5982]

This is a really nice rundown. A little bit disappointed that you didn't talk about your world settings. Maybe for the next video?

[@BulletFestival]

Seconded. I, too, would like to hear about what world settings he chooses, and why.

[@BlindiRL]

I leave them all default aside from mineral scarcity

[@duckynoodles3560]

As someone who’s planning on picking up this game I appreciate this video,I never really played colony based games before so this will be my first one and as silly as it sounds the settings kinda intimidated me. Would love to see more tutorials regarding drawf fortress if you have made them already

[@BlindiRL]

I have a bunch of playlists.

[@ham8426]

Had to tweak the number of cavern invaders on my game cause pc is a potato. Wish I had a better control of how long the break is between invasions, sometimes they feel like they can happen twice in a week, which might be because the invaders are cave swallow people and their pathing seems shitty and tend to hang around their spawn with only 2 or 3 folk making their way to our doors so several raids get stuck around and stack up or clearing one raid happens at the same time a new one shows up.

[@tanakakhan]

Blind...I love this game, and so far I've sunk almost 400 hours into it. But one thing I'm having trouble with is aquifers (and by extension water power and pumps)...I JUST don't understand how to deal with them. I've watched every KZbin video I can find but people talk about them so technically or so rapidly it just goes all over my head. Any chance you can do an episode where you do an "Aquifers for Dummies"???

[@BlindiRL]

I'm not sure how to reexplain them more then I already have..

[@Kite403]

In all my time learning this game, I have yet to mess with the in-game options like this ^-^" Thank you for this video! I'm going to reformat some notification settings now lol Edit: Can't wait for the DF Hack video as well! :D

[@mittraw2446]

This is great, thank you! How about turning off sparring notifications? Is there a setting for that?

[@mklpa123]

Hey, kind of a dumb question but, did they remove the difficulty setting from the settings menu you access from the main menu? Cause I can't find it in my tabs

[@Kamion991]

Open saved game and then settings. Not found from main page

[@allones3078]

So Difficulty does not show up on my settings screen why is yours different than mine?

[@BlindiRL]

Load the game, its tied to save games. Not the game itself.

[@Alabar3000]

I didn't realize multithreading was off by default. My number one fortress killer is fps which isn't very *fun* so maybe with that things will be better...

[@ababbab765]

I have seen LOTS of trolls they tend to live in the first cavern layer on good biomes! You probably dont see them much because you never play on good nature biomes just untamed wilds I would guess XD but yeah they COULD be bugged to be only in that biomes but I do see them very frequently on my good biome fort but none of my others

[@BlindiRL]

No, not wild trolls. Trolls with weapons as part of goblin armies. Kind of two different things.

[@MyZk089]

Most important settings to world gen is setting minerals to sparse.

[@jogurcik13]

Btw does DFhack support steam cloud setting sync?

[@BlindiRL]

Nope, but you can just copy paste the settings files.

[@dominikortiz2539]

Could you do another video on water pumps, i tried to copy your exact video and i cannot get the water to pump from Z level to Z level

[@BlindiRL]

It'd have to be a complete guide covering lava and water. I'll see what I can do.

[@dominikortiz2539]

@@BlindiRLheck yeah! Also love your content, your guides have saved me many a troubles and taught me things i thought i already fully comprehended! Keep up the good work brotheman

[@NeonOwlLatch]

Can you share your announcements.txt file?

[@jallen1556]

play this vid at 75%

[@jallen1556]

you can track this cursor quicker and understand what tap needs to be selected

[@jogurcik13]

Tutorial we need but don't deserve

[@frenchgundam9079]

And my naive ass thought he was smoking cigarette. He's on on dwarf sugar lmao.

[@Bigslam1993]

When you talk about end-game frame rate, it would sort of help to know your CPU. Not really necessary... but it would be nice for context.

[@BlindiRL]

Ryzen 7 7800x3d

[@Brychu665]

Pro tip: Listen at 2x Speed

[@benjaminjones8782]

if you wearer to give it thatht this think that you just made, the video that I HAD to watch inside. of the emine recomendations, was a video. then I watched I and will rate it 5 starts

[@ratrattuson3034]

0.5 speed

[@Fuzzatron3000]

How much Adderall did he take before hitting record on this one WHAT 😅

[@BlindiRL]

I take vyvanse thanks. My normal dose, 30mg. But this was recorded at 7pm and I am mostly off the effects by then.

[@GrippingGroossyCoffee]

Uh

[@redstone1538]

I was like 420

[@felipepontes3384]

English is not my main language. Kkkkk i find this hard to keep up... so fast speaking

[@cassiofm7]

Brazilian?

[@felipepontes3384]

@@cassiofm7 yeahh buddy

[@SoftBreadSoft]

English is my main language and it's hard to keep up 😅 it sounds normal at .75

[@jayroi1814]

I'm always so weirded out by how the way you speak makes it feel like the video is playing at 2.5x speed and i'm fucking canadian lol

[@ivyivyyiivvvyyyyvy]

Would have appreciated an explanation of what the difference between "Report" and "Report (active)" are. Otherwise very helpful video!! (like all your tutorials)