Dwarf Fortress - New Embark: The Mountain Fortress of Steam Edition

[@TheKyotoEffect]

I feel like watching this alongside your tutorials is especially helpful. I don’t feel so scared of playing dwarf fortress anymore. It also shows me that the whole game is not just something immediate, it’s a process. Thank you for your videos!

[@Luredreier]

Also, if everything goes wrong it's possible to reclaim your fortress and try to start over.

[@coreymccammon152]

@@Luredreier Oh? I haven't played DF in something like 15 years, so I'm hazy on all the old details and I was never particularly good at it. How would you do that? Just a new expedition to the same area?

[@Luredreier]

@@coreymccammon152 No, not exactly. Instead of picking a location you pick the reclaim option on the world map and pick between different abandoned forts, your own or those of NPC factions. Of course if someone settles in your fort and it's no longer empty then you can't reclaim it, you'd have to attack them and drive them out first in order to reclaim it. Buy the steam version and look through the options in the menu after world generation? You could also reclaim something built by goblins or humans or elves etc if you find something suitable from what I understand, although I've never tried that.

[@patricksullivan3628]

Glad I'm not the only one that reversed the scroll wheel. The default way just felt WRONG and my brain couldn't adjust

[@olaf5929]

I changed scroll to zoom in and out by default and zlevel changing is on keyboard. 9000% more efficient than trying to change muscle memory.

[@sisyr5615]

Yeah I do zoom in/out on scroll and use mouse side buttons for z-levels, works like a charm.

[@rosezy755]

@@sisyr5615 Do you know what that key binding is called for scrolling? I tried to do the same but couldn't find it

[@alexalexx3330]

felt wrong for me as well but i guess it makes sense because in this game you'll be scrolling in between levels way more than zooming in and out, i usually stick to a zoom level for awhile and sometimes adjust and leave it, say you build some stairs to a lower level, using scroll is quick, as if I were to reverse the settings, I'd have to hold CTRL scroll, I guess i got used to it like this now lol my only issue is when i open a menu and i'm trying to use scroll to go through the "list" which instead takes me through the ground levels, then realizing that the menu itself had displayed all items without any of them being scrollable.

[@Destroyahx2]

@@rosezy755 it is something like mouse/view cursor z. Then just switch mouse 5 and 4. Make sure it is the settings with the lower case e and c.

[@andreweaston1779]

I've been watching your tutorials. The biggest barrier to entry in this game is that the game is so dense. For example, I've had the game for about a week now. Yesterday, watching one of your 3rd tutorial, I realized I needed nest boxes for my chickens. Up until then I just kept wondering why my chickens weren't laying eggs. Then, I had to watch the video again because I assumed the boxes would be in the carpenter. It's a plus and a minus for the game, and your videos are a lifesaver.

[@TwoKnowingRavens]

Apart from Ultima Online - Dwarf Fortress is easily my favorite game ever made. I could watch/listen to you play this forever , keep it coming Nook!

[@CptSnarkyPants]

I miss UO. I used to train carpentry by hanging out at banks and handing out stool samples 😂

[@Alliegator93]

@@CptSnarkyPants UO is still kicking in private servers and such, i play a server called outlands which has a whole new map, and some more grinds to do

[@LambChop00S]

Thank you for showing where to turn off plump helmets in the kitchen. I knew it had to be there and looked everywhere but couldn't find it. Thank you!! I have loved your Dwarf Fortress videos for years. My big adjustment to the steam version is I keep forgetting the game is not paused while I'm looking at a menu.

[@Nookrium]

That still catches me, it's just a habit to hit space to unpause after building something :D

[@snafu2350]

IMO it should default too 'off' just like previous (ASCII) versions; prolly something a quick fix with a round tuit should appear shortly..

[@Piercemxpx]

I have a serious issue starting a video & needing to finish it before I delve into any more dwarf fortress, so this series has been my nightly binge for the past week, & I can’t express how glad I am that they are this long.

[@Mozenator]

Spot on about Andor! Hopefully they don't ruin it. Also keep making steam DF content and tutorials please, it's really difficult to translate old tutorials to the new version.

[@yeahnahman4217]

Just wanna point out how good the music is for this game, I’m not a veteran of the old game and I haven’t played the new one yet, I will it looks great but the music... wow I just listened to the entire OST and it blew me away absolutely beautiful

[@corpsefoot758]

Labors of love always stand in a class of their own :)

[@weedanwine]

yup music is amazing for this game, already got over 100 hours in I think, and not getting tired of it lol

[@jaymata1218]

i made like 60 beds.... set a work order and was wondering why i kept running out of wood... lesson learned😂

[@PierreLucSex]

Encrust them all for the glory of Armok !

[@justgarrick]

I've heard about df for a while but I couldn't get into it because the graphics were just too complicated for me. Since this release, I can now experience this classic game fully

[@c0ldn3s5]

just turned 37 in august and ive discovered this game for the first time in my life about a week ago... i might be in love with it. im not sure ive ever played this time of game and never thought i would love it.

[@laveyanist]

I'd never really heard of Dwarf Fortress before, and within 48 hours of its release, I'm at 18 hours of playtime. And I think I got it pretty late release night and didn't get to play much night 1

[@TheNinjaDwarfBiker]

glad you like it!! I wonder what the people think of the UX and UI. They made it so much better but it's still kinda clunky since it inherits from the previous game

[@Njordin2010]

@@TheNinjaDwarfBiker i liked the old one better lol but only because of muscle memory. Plays as easy as driving a car but learning was as hard as learning to drive

[@INFJ-ThaneTr]

😂 casual gamers are funny

[@dadagaming1260]

Rimworld and DF Me: Watch, buy game, play lil bit, watch watch watch watch....

[@Adamthegeek70]

Wife and I have been watching you play this. definitely getting it.

[@baltakatei]

14:30 Whatever you do, DON'T delete the default archer uniform. As of 2022-12-33 a bug prevents archers from automatically equipping ranged ammunition on user-created uniforms.

[@kettelbe]

33-12-22? Lol

[@RFC-3514]

@@kettelbe - I think 33 dwarf days is approximately 11 human days.

[@DonmenDragon]

So much DF content Nook i love it. Im up to a 204 population fortress and when a 2 headed monster arrived he got destroyed by my war dogs pastured at the entrance of my fort together with my mostly iron armored 30 soldier strong guards. Then my second siege arrived and the bastards found a way over one of my walls and slaughtered a bunch of my animals. They paid with their lives. One thing i noticed though is that the order to pickup items dropped from the dead keep getting forbidden eventhough i set it to gather. Not a big problem i just unforbid using the icon on the bottom right of the toolbar and see it only as a slight annoyance. Im at the end of year 107 though so going great. Keep up the amazing work.

[@WunnSEN]

For me, being a Rimworld guy. I'm LOVING the game but my one thing that is really hard getting used too, is the game running at generally a lower frame all in all, my brain automatically registers it as lag and it isn't it is the game

[@drogz]

your brain sounds dumb

[@Ekdrink]

As another rimworld guy picking up the game there are so many features the games need to take from eachother😫

[@captainmaim]

Need some help with my military org, we got wiped out by wild boar men (and women.) We fought the bacon, and the bacon won.

[@captainmaim]

drives me nuts that I can't mouse-over stuff in your stream and see what it is, lol!

[@Piercemxpx]

What did you think would happen? They are wild boar men (& women). You beefed with the pork. You got swindled by the swine. Need I say more?

[@captainmaim]

@@Piercemxpx Unfortunately for us, my entire fortress was full of Hasidic Dwarfs, and the Boar Men attacked on a Friday at sundown. It was not kosher...

[@Piercemxpx]

@@captainmaim 😂😂😂

[@maxdead3164]

I know your pain.. I got wiped by agitated giraffes..

[@bejarrodar]

In case you haven't found out yet if you hold ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel you can zoom in and out

[@rafdawg1769]

I was searching for a steam version lets play and I found this one! Watched another one but the dude was SOO slow with anything, took 2 hours for the gameplay to even start. I'm gonna enjoy this series a lot :)

[@JunebugTheGoodra]

You know you got a good community when you at best nearly reach views equal to subscriber amount as of the time I post this comment + the video timeline shows viewers are actually watching the video almost throughout. Keep up the good vids dude

[@khildrak]

"First Most important things...roundabouts" LOL

[@Nebuchadin]

For the missing mouse inputs, zooming out one level and upping your graphical fps to near your screen's refresh rate helps a lot.

[@ysf-psfx]

Oh goodness, I don't think I should run the game at 144 fps

[@Nebuchadin]

@@ysf-psfx I do and haven't had any problems so far and run at 144fps. They really knocked it out of the park with this version, and even more so with the latest patch.

[@ZuNk]

@@Nebuchadin One thing i noticed is that the higher the fps i set, the faster the game was running, like i couldnt keep up with what was happening. Everyone was just zooming around at insane speeds lol

[@iDraxxi]

@@ZuNk I played df2014 years ago, and didn't consider this. Set my fps to 144 and was wondering why the developers made the speed option so fast now by default! What was I thinking that makes so much sense now.. months were passing by, mashing my space bar any chance I could get 😂 it wasn't THAT bad honestly but I do think I will turn it down next session. Edit: looking into it I'm pretty sure games just faster than i remember

[@Nebuchadin]

@@ZuNk Lol, that's probably because you changed the GAME FPS, not the GRAPHICAL FPS, they are two separate options. While game FPS, found in the "Game" tab in options, is more like "Steps per second", which changes game speed (Default 100), graphical FPS, found in the Video tab, is what i was talking about; that option is the ACTUAL frames per second in which the game is presented.

[@praiseyahwehandyeshua6543]

I just started this game and I already know it's gonna take me a month to learn to play

[@aleck9820]

love your beginners guide, all my lazy friends now refer to me, even ones who have played dwarf fortress before it was on steam.

[@Calibidious]

I've been curious about this game for a while but always heard the learning curve is ridiculous. But hey maybe I can get the gist of it by listening to you play while I do my dental assistant college course work.

[@Fkitilltank]

Going to have to try this, looks great. Coming from “masterwork dwarf fortress”

[@eldheimm]

You can press "M" to autoselect mining buddy. Save you bunch of time ;)

[@snickle1980]

look at all the peaks and valleys in the slider that shows viewership. 😁 kinda wild.

[@titanicpat1275]

Last time I played was in the Ascii Graphics. Will be diving into the pretty steam edition soon! Can't wait!

[@joehelland1635]

man cant wait for Jan so I can buy DF :) been playing this game since 2005. Such good memories.

[@minismethegreatoutdoors8880]

Im sure I am late to help but from another streamer who prepared careful, they bought one of each cheese as it gives one barrel each for a very cheap and easy barrel start. ;)

[@Nookrium]

Yup, that’s a great early tip. Free barrels!

[@snafu2350]

A very .umm.. cheesy way of getting more barrels. Ofc, it works similarly to the way of starting with a bunch of bags (buy 1 of each seed type) &c, which a lot of veterans do ;) The reason to prefer bags over barrels is simple: barrels (or equivalents) are easy to make almost from start: just use rock pots. Bags require cloth, which may not be so easy to quickly come by initially: it's at least a 2-step process with a waiting period while the pigtails or WHY grow to be harvestable

[@sunnymon1436]

So of the two categories of games (menu games, and parkour games) - this is a menu game.

[@Rustygiz]

Andor ftw. Loved it too

[@dawngubb1255]

Shells, can you crush them for calcium, gardens or paths??

[@haggisllama2630]

no... but you can turn them into crowns!

[@manug2508]

@@haggisllama2630 Yeah, or literally decorate your dwarves underwear with it - DF can be hilarious :D

[@vonsch9793]

You can turn them into cheap early training armor too, though not all pieces. Can combine with bone and leather for full training sets. Need to be hit on armor to train the armor skill which at high levels lets you move and fight better while armored up with the heavy stuff.

[@Monkeyman5625]

45:10 talk about biting the hand that feeds you

[@ADobbin1]

I'm curious if you can resettle settlements that have previously been abandoned or destroyed by other factions in the past history. As in are there ruins you can rebuild and restore their former glory?

[@Nookrium]

Ruins yes, you can reclaim those with a new group of 7 dwarves

[@wakkosick6525]

Instead of rock door you look for Basalt door, granite door, chalk door.

[@arvetis]

I'm sure you notice at some point, but I don't think your wall is covering your original entrance. Might be how that axe got stolen.

[@InservioLetum]

1:19:01 _"A UI for normal people"_ ...I felt that to my *BONES.* I miss Norton Commander so much! 🤧

[@TheBuddhamachine]

happy to find this channel 😁

[@tyreldor4942]

Im late, but watching through this is fantastic. Thanks for the content!

[@sarahw1371]

Dung beetle joke was worth my time alone

[@clint4527]

This guy learn me to play, years ago, via he stream s.. he s good one.

[@alejandro-hc6ms]

-Just bought dwarf fortress. -Looking for someone who plays the game without cutting any play so i can see every bit of stuff he does so i get a hang of the game -Finds this video -Its 4hours -its 36 different videos

[@Terashi]

I'm looking forward to when Adventurer comes to DF Steam.

[@zickbone]

well i made a 200 dwarf fort in a gypsum mountain, that was annoying had to use all my cloth to make bags to hide the gypsum in 3x3 hospital squares preferring 999 plaster powder.

[@commiecat5879]

Make stone beds require cloth or leather and maybe dwarves like them less or something I like the flavor of them finding them uncomfortable no matter how many furs they throw on

[@Nookrium]

Can't do stone beds, they can only be made with wood

[@commiecat5879]

@@Nookrium I'm saying what could be not what is

[@Nookrium]

@@commiecat5879 ah, gotcha

[@RFC-3514]

The game already has stone beds. They're labelled "floors". ;-)

[@commiecat5879]

@@RFC-3514 *gestures at the most spikey area of the floor* "Fun"

[@joelvannatta3266]

Wait, so dorfs want a cabinet AND a chest in their bedrooms?

[@baalzhamon8491]

don't know why, but that thumbnail reminded me of Storm's Nordavind album

[@quickpawmaud]

The stones! The stones everywhere!

[@BigRigPC]

How many soldiers should I be shooting for, for the early game, does everyone need to be able to fight eventually? Like in Rim world, or does just a few fighters work?

[@amnesiacangel7212]

I need a mod that makes them Fraggles instead of Dwarves.

[@jrs2071]

Have to enable keyboard cursor them macro work

[@waffletrot9252]

wish we had the seed for this map ;(

[@Sprayer-px3tu]

How do I find a map where the river cuts so nicely into the mountain like here?

[@Nookrium]

On the embark screen you can select elevation to help. Most brooks in mountains seem to make these canyons

[@stafuishi1613]

Question, how do you guys get magma forges? Do you make the lava go up or make the fortress go down?

[@RFC-3514]

Is the list of deities fixed (after they're generated during world creation) or does it start only with gods known by your dwarves, and get expanded when new people (who worship other gods) arrive? I think it would be interesting to organise a fortress "per god", assuming you get a good mix. Ex., god of forests and animals on ground level, then a level dedicated to a god of war (with barracks and forges producing weapons), maybe a level above dedicated to a god of knowledge (with libraries, etc.), a deeper level dedicated to a god of the underworld, and so on. But if the list gets updated when new people join, you might end up having to move things around a lot.

[@bepnewt]

How did he get all of the containers/barrels in the inn for the food/drink to be stored in?

[@Zabe_B]

late but i dont think geese need pastured either, i pastured only my hoofed livestock and im sure my goose would have starved to death by now if it was going to. after all the stray horse starved after i didn't notice some random migrants brought it with them and the goose is still fine. it would have died of starvation long before the horse even arrived if it needed to be pastured

[@Luredreier]

14:24 The recording only works with keyboard inputs.

[@sprhowie]

What's the map seed for this!! I've never seen a river cut so nicely through mountains with good pasture all together

[@DEATHFISH3000]

maybe I am blind but: how do you get the top bar to display approx supplies like food, drinks, seeds etc?

[@brodouken257]

Make sure your resolution is correct. It might be getting cut off the edge of your screen.

[@DEATHFISH3000]

@@brodouken257 turning off scaling did it, thank you!!!

[@nonnac1695]

@@DEATHFISH3000 if you set scaling to on but change the setting “maximum interface width” to your screen resolution (3840 for 4K), everything will fit and it’ll be larger

[@StarlasAiko]

Would it work to set up a storage zone to only take crates and barrels until it is filled up and then change to what I realy want in there (food or drink or such) to have nothing laying out in the open on the floor?

[@Nookrium]

That's a good idea, set a generic pile then smaller more specific ones near the industry. You can select specific stockpiles to pull from so your crafters can stay nearby to craft and haulers can move items around for them

[@snafu2350]

@@Nookrium Simply make 5x5 workshops with a stockpile surrounding the 3x3 'shop, set to that 'shop's finished items only. You can then designate this as a 'priority pull 'pile' for whichever destination's 'pile you wish the finished items to end up at (ofc, a dedicated 'pile near the workshop for its assorted raw ingredients helps massively as well! :) )

[@amol1608]

so how do you know the consumption of materials? for example, how do you know how much ash does your farm need at the start of every season for fertilizing? also, how much food do 19 dwarves consume? is there a metric for that, or you just need to try and see?

[@Tr0llTh3W0rld]

for fertilizing, you need to make potash in an ashery, and I believe the farm tells you how much you need in order to fertilize with the left checkbox next to "fertilize every season", should say 0/# and you just need to check that after making potash.

[@fpypnts]

Also yes if you look on the wiki it’ll tell you how much food each dwarf consumes per season or month or whatever it is. Can’t tell in game but you should just use work orders to automatically keep a good stock

[@snafu2350]

@@fpypnts Yep; Nook is (in)famously poor at using work orders efficiently in any game they're available for use, sadly :( That being said he did give it a good try in one of his most recent (pre-Steam) DF runs, so perhaps he's retained some of those memories.. but at first glance it looks like the answer's 'no' :(

[@ericwold825]

I would GLADLY PAY $10 for the earliest copy of this save file, just so I could build on the same map. Just sayin' :)

[@MMarcuzzo]

Nice!!!

[@voidling2632]

they can't drown in a brook 👀

[@karlshaner2453]

How were you able to embark on a "mountain" tile?

[@Nookrium]

Mountain is fine as long as there’s something not mountain included

[@karlshaner2453]

@@Nookrium Thnks for the info...

[@laziboi5285]

I wonder if this game has a mod where you start in a 40k themed hive city

[@ShiroEldah]

There's Underhive but I think it was not updated for like 10 years.

[@Jackoff_icial]

came here from your tutorial series! can you explain why you make workshop rooms 3x4 rather than 3x3?

[@Nookrium]

I like to have a small spot next to workshops for a nearby stockpile (stones for the mason, wood for the carpenter, etc) It's also a bit of a leftover habit from the old DF days, workshops used to have some of the squares impassable. That made sure no matter the shop dwarves could always get to it easily

[@Anomen33]

Is there a reason people do not build walls for rooms and just smooth them out? As someone that has played a ton of Rimworld it feels odd and I was curious.

[@frestdjm]

Smooth walls can eventually be engraved, adding to room/fortress value. smoothing also raises the relevant skill- you don't really want to skill your dwarves on engraving (which produces poor quality engraving) and instead just have them smooth everything to skill up, then do engraving from a high skill.

[@ipnade]

Some like building walls if they’re building above-ground forts like Rimworld; but dwarves tend to like living in caves, so the walls are already there, no need to rebuild them

[@ajobdunwell2585]

The build command is a bit finicky in the non steam version, it's easier to mine, maybe replace sections where there's gems or ore's.

[@snafu2350]

Just like RW, smoothed natural stone is tougher than even dwarven-constructed walls (plus built constructions may be destroyed by some top-lvl 'building destroyer' monsters). You can carve fortifications into it directly too; no need for the sometimes finicky different 'construct wall' then delete it to 'construct fortifications' task when you realise that's what you need in that spot: just smooth every natural wall then it's only 1 task away from becoming a fortification* Admittedly, constructed items are more desirable (wealthier => 'beauty' => happiness-making) than polished natural rock (& constructed walls are automatically smooth, making climbing more difficult), but frequently you don't want your wealth to grow (again, just like RW) due to its increased raid power & attraction *Don't auto-engrave (via muscle memory/game brain auto-tasking) smoothed walls unless you're absolutely certain you'll never want to use them for any other purpose: engravers get seriously unhappy if you destroy their pretty pictures by turning them into fortifications! :)(

[@RFC-3514]

Why would it feel odd if you've played Rimworld? In Rimworld smoothed walls / floors also have high beauty and more hit points than constructed walls. The main downside is you can't run wires through them, but there are no wires in DF.

[@dubstepbanane6277]

I set everything up the same way, but it always says, that I dont have anything available to make food out of? Is fishing your only source for easy meals? Because it seems, that for me that doesnt work

[@vonsch9793]

Check your kitchen settings labor/kitchen and adjust as needed. I turn off tallow of one type so I keep some for soap, but all the rest of the meat/fish/other stuff is set to cooking (the steaming plate icon rather than the mug which is drink). I go through the plants and decide which will be cooked (no seeds returned) and brewed (get seeds back.) You can cook some seeds in extreme need also. AND you can use drinks in cooking which typically bulks up your meals a bit. But be careful cooking with drinks since they are crucial. Maybe just set one type for cooking use if you have plenty. I prefer to bulk up my drink supply a lot, then if it gets extreme use a bit in cooking if needed. As far as raw food sources, fishing, butchering dead animals (from your animals, hunted, killed by whatever), cleaned fish (must be cleaned in fisher shop after caught), farmed plants/shrooms, and gathered plants/shrooms. A great way to get a lot of early food is to embark with at least one dwarf with 5 skill in herbalism. Use the gather plants command to designate an area and set tasks so only those marked as gatherer do the job. Unskilled dwarves are very slow at gathering and only produce 1-stacks if any until their skill gets trained, so not worth the labor. This way you also so what grows naturally in the biome and can get local seeds to grow "outdoors" topside. You can start with zero food and drink in this game, in biomes with more that sparse vegetation, and do fine using proper skill planning and labor focuses. Though if the biome is really nasty it's close to impossible since you need a lot more outdoor topside time. :)

[@dubstepbanane6277]

@@vonsch9793 Thanks a lot for the answer! I did not know I have to clean the fish. This game is really nice and I love community, so helpful :)

[@cozmodog2080]

any way to get this seed ? really like your map

[@Sprayer-px3tu]

What's the seed for your world?

[@RFC-3514]

Man... that sounds, like... deep.

[@RickJames-dd2yy]

How many people can you have in a fort and how many forts can you have? Also can you disable moods like you can on RimWorld?

[@Nookrium]

There's a cap in the settings (default 200) but the only thing keeping it there is the game tends to lag pretty heavily at high pop numbers. More forts, yes! In part 3 of this series I start conquering goblin settlements, plus, I'm a barony so I have another fort that has settled in my lands nearby. You can only play one fort at a time though, you can swap between by retiring and claiming the others. Just remember, the game continues to play and the AI will play your old forts while you're away.

[@alexalexx3330]

@@Nookrium does the AI keep on expanding the fort / building? Or it just keeps them alive?

[@MrMarar0]

You cant really disable moods, but if you keep your dwarfs fed, have enough beer, and make them new pants when their old pair is rotten, they are usually pretty fine

[@RickJames-dd2yy]

Allright sjoller thanks for the info. I always disable the moods on RimWorld because I never had any luck with managing it. Was to tedious. Colony would literally die because somebody was walking around in a trance and open the wrong door at the worst time lmao. But I definitely want this game I'll give it a try.

[@Njordin2010]

Where can i get that embark save / world file?

[@justmeowth9697]

why do you use natural cave walls as walls and not brick walls?

[@vonsch9793]

You can only engrave smoothed natural walls, not constructed ones. This boosts their value and gives passing dwarves happy thoughts. Alternatively though, you could build expensive gold or platinum block walls (assuming you can find/import enough) and that will add value, but those still can't be engraved. Some players will mines out ores or gems in the stone and fill the gaps with constructed walls, still leaving the rest natural to be engraved, others leave the ores and gems because they are more valuable (especially when smoothed and engraved) in place. Trade-offs.

[@VedyminX]

Can you save scum in this version of the game easily? I saw the option "save to new timeline" I guess it normally allows you to load the game even if your city dies?

[@o-mangaming5042]

Yes. And if you set autosave, it'll run each as a different save. Backups are nice.

[@sgtpepper91]

just turn off enemies

[@sammyroberts8902]

I have a butcher workshop and some animals but I can't slaughter them REEE

[@Natonada]

Woooooo

[@lenhartica2371]

Is there a reason you put your crafting spots in the 4x3 areas? I'm curious if there was a reason beyond aesthetics

[@Nookrium]

I normally like to slap a small stockpile next to the shop (wood for carpenter, stone for mason, etc) I just never set it up this time

[@lenhartica2371]

@@Nookrium I see. Thanks for the response

[@toomanyhungrycats0554]

Do the cat's still get drunk?

[@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305]

only thing keeping me from getting this game is how fast everyone moves.. my eyes are getting crosseyed just watching them zip around like the game is sped up.. how do you keep up with that..

[@mace3632]

You can change the speed of the game in the settings

[@deadvolume]

Sure it’s not a statue of a Borgyman?

[@snafu2350]

Actually, it makes sense that there's no picture: they're traditionally never seen (always behind you; in the closet; under the bed etc) ;)

[@deadvolume]

@@snafu2350 So, not hell bent on assimilation... then.

[@InservioLetum]

Name idea : *Anar Manaleg* ...he drives a hard bargain, that one!

[@Mark1231071]

Hey, Nook. Why is the other DF-Video unlisted?

[@SkySweeperSyn]

On the andor thing... Story is fine, but I fell asleep on episode 2 it was moving so slowly. I don't care about any of the characters because I know they all end up dead and I know where Andor ends up himself at the end of his story, so like... I don't care about the build up to that. Just makes me not interested in waiting for the show to get to the action. And I've already looked at the action scenes. They're fine. I just... I don't want star wars to be "relatable" or mimicking modern times. I want escapism and to be taken to a galaxy far-far away.

[@gurkengerd9981]

I'll need to wait till the brothers fix the performance. I have a beefy gaming pc and it is unplayably laggy to play for me. Mouse clikcs dont register 1/3rd of the time, wasd moves me 2 steps after tapping shortly and everything feels like it is hard delayed, like playing through a remote desktop. I feel ripped off of my 30 bucks

[@RealWorldMaverick]

Something’s up with your end cause I don’t got a beefy pc and it works fine

[@RFC-3514]

Well, "something's up" on a lot of people's end, including Nookrium's, because several of his mouse clicks aren't registering, either. And since they register in pretty much every other game, I'd say it's quite likely that DF is trying to use custom code to intercept mouseup / mousedown states instead of using the OS / DX functions to get mouseclick events (that get registered and stored even if they happen while the game is busy, so there might be a delay but they won't simply get lost).

[@derrmeister]

2:12:00 I totally get where you were trying to go with that comparison, but a book is definitely not as inaccessible as ascii dwarf fortress. you don't even lose the complexity of DF's underlying systems just because it has graphics™ and a UI That obscurity of learning how to read essentially raw data out of basically spreadsheets is just a giant, unpleasant and unnecessary hurdle to an otherwise quite interesting experience. I appreciate the fact that you and many other people kept the journey of making Dwarf Fortress alive, by participating, but please don't depict the inaccessibility as a merit

[@Piercemxpx]

2:56:34 yeah right!

[@tkdrizzt99]

The random stones/boulders lying around that are ignored by the other sprites (dwarves, cats, tables...) drive me nuts, is there a way to get rid of those? I'm asking cause I'm interested in playing, not trying to get you to do something, lol, just general info question.

[@snafu2350]

@akqj9 Likewise blocks are a good choice for random non-economic rocks: 1 rock makes ~4 blocks & they're a lot lighter, hence quicker to haul to a (potential) construction site without a wheelbarrow! On the subject of speed-of-haul, note that different rock types have different densities pretty much equivalent to IRL. Eg cobaltite & microcline rocks (& mobile 'constructions' such as pots/barrels) are much heavier than eg jet or gypsum, therefore any object constructed from those rock types will take longer to haul than the latter (& take up more of a trade caravan's carry weight capacity) despite their pretty blue colour! :)

[@RimshotKiller]

You can also just create a dedicated rock stockpile and your dwarfes will haul the rocks there.

[@pison1000]

What is the song at 3:14:45?

[@Tr0llTh3W0rld]

it's kogunusan, from the game ost

[@wigger69]

Darude - Sandstorm

[@BishopToE5]

😅

[@dereknothanks7850]

Do you no longer have to put cave crops on wet cavern floors to grow?

[@vonsch9793]

If you want to farm on stone, you have to flood it and drain it then let the puddles (1 deep) evaporate leaving behind mud deposits which act as soil. If you are on a sand/mud/clay layer no need to flood. On the surface you have patches of pebbles/stone that can get in the way of fields sometimes. Can do the same with those. Build a wall next to them, a ramp beside it, then designate a pit one level up over the spot and have a job to dump some water in that pit. Once a dwarf dumps a pail on it, kill the job, deconstruct the ramp and wall and wait for the puddle to evaporate. Takes micromanagement or you can flood a lot more area than one tile which then take longer to dry up. Can't build a farm plot on a tile with standing water.

[@enrac]

I’d love to see this game on an ipad

[@CptSnarkyPants]

MAYBE the m2 iPad Pro has the raw power, but the UI would be hateful without a keyboard

[@fpypnts]

People play it on steamdeck

[@MelvinIsMerlin]

1v1 me in dwarf fortress

[@Lallander]

Is it possible your migrants are being killed by the hostile settlement as they move from the main halls to yours?

[@snafu2350]

Most likely explanation is that Nook was too miserly with his initial trade(s) & made no gifts. Initial trades require a hefty %age profit to succeed (now reflected in the orange/yellow/green indicator below); this reduces over time as your fortress gains prestige, wealth & fame & hence can 'overpay' & gift more value

[@Njordin2010]

Andor is one of the best starwars shows. Sequels and obi wan sucked obviously.

[@amnesiacangel7212]

Star Wars should NOT be all action and no characterization. It never was. The sequel trilogy is a bunch of contrived garbage and bad action scenes every other second. Andor is the best quality writing in the Star Wars universe since the OT. Objectively.