I Built A Skyscraper In Dwarf Fortress

Above ground forts have long been an alternative and wierd way to play Dwarf fortress, and if you've been here a while, you'll have seen me do it before, this time though the goal is not simply to build above ground, but to build rather a long way above it.
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[@thespiffingbrit]

*So this is what they mean by playing tall...*

[@Prodbysomari]

Spiff knows class when he sees it

[@EspressoStreams]

Just keep hobbits out of it

[@ivegotavandetta]

your turn next

[@sporkl3026]

Yessir

[@MrArthoz]

Eep... this caught Spiff's attention. Nothing to worry, DF is a perfectly balanced game so far...😅

[@burnin8able]

fun fact: the "despite the danger" addition to the migrant wave notification isn't as bad as it can get. I had a fort where a single forgotten beast showed up and it happened to be made of extremely hard stone and could shoot webs, making it borderline indestructible. it took my fort's population from 160 down to 70 in the span of two in-game days before it died. it took four years of constant tomb building to bury all the dead, and in that time the migrant waves were a bunch of real downers with lines like "migrants have arrived knowing this land could be their tomb" and things like that.

[@MasterOfManyMuffins]

This fort is built above ground. The dwarves are killing themselves willingly.

[@MrArthoz]

You need cage traps covered with cobwebs to trap troublesome forgotten beasts.

[@Llevellyn]

forgotten beasts can be easily trapped between two doors in tunnels and sealed down later

[@timothymclean]

@@MrArthoz Forgotten beasts that shoot webs are immune to webs. If they weren't, you could just point and laugh as they constantly got entangled in their own silk.

[@TurboSpaceKitten]

I had a run where somehow the dwarven species had been mulched down to 2 settlements, a low population city and a tiny village isolated to a corner of the world. My migrant waves where few and far between. And contained very few dorfs. But each and every one was an absolute basket case and some kind of God tier fighter. I genuinely don't know why the population was so low or what the main fort was at war with cause I never got attacked.

[@DderwenWyllt]

The local Elves: Elf 1: "Dwarves have built a settlement nearby" Elf 2: "Have you gone mad, there are no mountains in our Elven Kingdom" Elf 1: "That was true, but they built a mountain to live in" Elf 2: "Oh that is awful news, if Dwarves can build mountains no where will be safe from them." Elf 1: "It is fine, the wise Elven Elders have opened a portal to take us way back in time before the Dwarves were on this continent, we will have to live underground for a few centuries as the continent is made entirely out of mountains". Elf 2: "Thank the stars, I couldn't bear living next to those Dwarves" And so the Elves travelled back in time and lived for a spell underground beneath the mountainous continent, unbeknownst to them, they had travelled too far back in time and would spend the next few millennia living and mining underground. During this time, some Elves became shorter, stouter and therefore less likely to suffer mining accidents, the ones that didn't adapt to living underground decided to leave and live back on the surface as they grew to dislike their shorter cousins. Over the millennia, the shorter Elves became known as Dwarves, their extensive mining of the mountainous continent meant that entire mountain ranges were terraformed into vast fields and grasslands, eventually with no mountains left to mine they began building their skyscrapers once more and the Elves once again fled back in time unknowingly repeating the loop once again.

[@nightinthewhite3817]

that was great

[@EzraHuntzinger]

agreed@@nightinthewhite3817

[@timothymclean]

3:25: Two of the greatest perils of dworfhood-too much water and not enough water. 16:20: What caravan wouldn't be ecstatic to learn that their trading partners made unwisely extravagant purchases?

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Wow that's right, I hadn't noticed that lovely dichotomy in the moment. two extremes of the same scale... And yeah you're right, traders would be ecstatic to see that the fort throws it's dwarf-bucks around.

[@TheSadowdragonGroup]

And yet, this puny edifice still doesn’t compare to Armok’s Whisker

[@elsurexiste]

12:10 - No entiende, yo no hablo español

[@timothymclean]

@@TheSadowdragonGroup No mere mortal could build a tower _that_ high. It's like the Tower of Babel, except that the dwarves building it would be cursed with terrible frame rates instead of death.

[@QuartzChrysalis]

I like the idea of a tourist dwarf journeying to a strange above ground fortress to see all the strange animals they have. Look at this duck.

[@ludovicm5585]

Idea/challenge: sea fortress; build in the middle of the sea with no permanent connection to the land. Find a sea frozen in winter, dig into the ice, build your fort before the sea melt. Completely secure halt the year and can be feed with automated fishing by turning a floor in a fishing net.

[@shivurr9714]

its actually completely possible, and not entirely unreasonable to do this in places it doesnt freeze, certainly leads to some interesting happenings too if you are on the right biomes, your framerate WILL suck until the great work is done though, unless you are willing to get creative and go the long way, but as with most stupid dwarf tricks those are best sought after instead of spoiled

[@ludovicm5585]

@@shivurr9714 your reference to framerate dropping is big clue.... I'm gona try!

[@ShaCaro]

​@@KainYusanagi I second checking Kruggsmash because his content is great, but that is absolutely not what Northbridge is about.

[@MyDude199]

@@KainYusanagi I did that also but on a much smaller straight, sadly, game doesn't recognize sides where enemies come from, so you have to defend both sides.

[@KainYusanagi]

@@ShaCaro It most certainly is about building out in the middle of the ocean when it freezes during winter. He just left it open on either end for any forms of travel, but any Dorf Engie could easily see that just using drawbridges at either end would allow for it to be sealed up ("can be blocked off").

[@maximus6568]

"Crundles and Cavetoads - the much less popular dwarf version of Dungeons and Dragons" really cracked me up!

[@EatYourPants1]

Hey Hazzor, hospitals need regular tables for surgeries. Traction benches are only used for healing multiple bone fractures. Took me WAY too long to realize the only healing (from non-bone related injuries) my dwarves had been doing for as long as I've been playing this game was just bleeding into bedsheets until their wounds coagulated on their own. That aside, I found your channel a while ago and I was hooked the moment you said something about the copious amount of goblins with their asses out in every tavern. I'm looking forward to your next projects!

[@quarreneverett4767]

Damn soubds like a party

[@artemefimov8215]

Period party

[@sirvelociraptor2590]

Well thanks, that explains my problems with dwarf surgery lmao

[@MrDoctorDen]

IIRC there are some external visualisers for DF, so you might be able to look at your tower.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Yeah I thought about checking it out in Stonesense but I remember having a nightmare using it years ago so just turned to AI instead

[@willowism]

@@HazzorPlaysGames stonesense works pretty easily now

[@Gregory_Swan]

@@HazzorPlaysGames you gotta try it again, man i'd love to see this tower in 3D

[@willofthewinds3222]

I already can visualize it: literally an upside-down pyramid

[@AztecCroc]

A world entering the Age of Legends means that the total combined number of Megabeasts (Dragons, Hydras, Rocs, and Bronze Colossuses), Titans, and world-gen created major unique Demons has dropped below 1/3 of what it was when the world was created but the total is still greater than 3.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hey folks, Dwarves have occurred above ground once again. But this time rather significantly above the ground, way up there. What do you think? should I turn the Tower into a Zoo full of intelligent and wonderful beasts to be gawped at and mocked by visitors?

[@KorotasGeckoGamingCorner]

One suggestion I'd make is put some hatches on the stairs leading to the caverns or have it so you can better seal them off in some way in case a particularly threatening forgotten beast wakes up

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hey now there's a novel idea, no idea why it didn't occur to me 🤔

[@silasrock4663]

Yes.

[@Enderov]

Cosmos is all what left, dwarven space program when?

[@silasrock4663]

@@Enderov real.

[@thomasbraithwaite1381]

Jokes aside, tower dwarves could actually be really interesting if written seriously, I'm taking notes for my worldbuilding.

[@theblackdragon7321]

I believe with ARMOK vision you should be able to see the fort in 3D if you really wanted to. Also cages with Elves in them!?! that would provide some entertainment for the dwarves.

[@bvansenu]

DFHack has a feature called stonesense that gives you a 3D look at your fort.

[@crimsonharvest]

For anyone trying to build a lot of constructions out of the same kind of bar/block, you can make it a little easier on your RSI by going into the stocks beforehand and forbidding all the types you *dont* want to use, so they don't appear in your select materials list.

[@Terrahex1]

I really love your laid back stary telling style. Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, even Zomboid which I hate. You do a great job

[@AlluvianGarald]

Have you ever tried building a fort using one of the non-depleting resources, such as glass or ceramics? A couple of years ago, I embarked on a site with fire clay, and ended up building a nice brick castle town. Took a lot longer to build than just stone cutting, but that was part of the fun.

[@tsbol2201]

That part where you were trapped inside a tower watching a monster slaughter everything around it was equal parts funny and terrifying.

[@magetsalive5162]

I never fully realized my dream in dorf fort way back in the day, but I still think about it every once in a while. Someday, maybe I'll see that massive gateway tower pumping lava up to the top only to then spill off the side (forming a lava curtain,) and a set of lever-operated doors to either turn off the curtain or create a safe passage through it...

[@jurasj00]

Probiotics gag actually cought me offguard the 3rd time.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Very good.

[@notoriousgoblin83]

Fun Fact: You can grow aboveground plants on any tile as long as at one point it has been exposed to the sun. Dwarf Fortress shoots beams from the top of the map vertically on each tile. Any tile hit by one becomes aboveground, any tile not hit is cavern. This means that you can never grow any undeground plants in a tile if it has ever been exposed to the sun, but also that you needn't give a flying toss about sunlight. This is especially useful if you come into possession of very useful aboveground seeds, like sun berries, whip vines (both used for the production of really nice, high value food and booze and, in the case of whip vines, the best flour), rope reed (linen, booze and paper) and hemp (textiles and paper from the leaves, edible seeds and flour and oil for soap from the seeds.) Effectively, you can make greenhouses out of solid stone with no natural light and plants will happily grow within

[@collin4555]

This is most valuable wisdom

[@zZzZzyxel]

There's something about how you pronounce Darwen names that tickles my brain. Love to hear it. Anyway, great video, as always. Top notch storytelling.

[@MrCK900]

Really made me happy that you willfully disrespect those knife-eared, no-beard-havin', beer-less, bean-burpin', tulip-twirlin', salad-suckin', , flower-fartin', field-frolickin', arboreal, whimsical-arsed, hedgeborne, fairy-fondlin', carrot-kissin', babyskinned, bird-talking, mole-molestin', toad touchin', pansy-pickin', tree-hugging, treehouse-dwelling, goblinkisser leaf-loving elves. They deserve nothing less! ROCK AND STONE

[@xzardas541]

The great mountainhome of Khazad-Up. Bonus dorf points for settling on a volcano and making tower from obsidian surounded by lava with mandatory temple of armok over lava pit.

[@enkephalin07]

I play Adventurer Mode with AdvFort mod, and managed to force new stairways to exceed the z-level limit on the map. I found that temperatures at those levels are so low that all of your possessions will start to degrade from freezing, even steel and divine metal. If you don't get back down quickly enough, you will freeze to death. In fact, you'll continue freezing after getting back to moderate temperatures, so if you don't retreat quick enough, you can still freeze to death hundreds of ticks after getting back.

[@Prodbysomari]

I really hope this style of non adhd yelling soothing voice content catches on

[@entropic-decay]

The ages do in fact have meanings. You can find the info on all of them on the wiki, but the relevant one is that moving from the world's initial state (Age of Myths) to an Age of Legends means that roughly a third of the world's great monsters (dragons, titans, forgotten beasts and the like) have been slain. Next would be the Age of Heroes, then ages of Powers (noted by having 3, 2, or just one great and powerful monster(s) left).

[@simonvanbaal4285]

I can't seem to spot the Dwarven AtomSmasher in your forts? As a veteran of the old DF versions this feels like a must in any fort for neatly cleaning and amusement.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Never felt the need personally, maybe it would help with FPS management later on but for this kind of content the forts don't tend to go far enough to need it. Also when you're using all your stone for building that handles a lot of the usual clutter

[@Eladnav1]

of course you you can. Build a 200 z level fortress on a pillar suspended in an active volcano once. Pulling that lever to drop it onto the mineshaft, demons were currently crawling up, was heart wrenching. but remember, loosing is fun.

[@huubvankoolwijk6223]

really cool to find a famous youtuber before they're famous, loving all of the content so far!

[@SclumboBigShoes]

Since being here from 1000 or so subs I can truly, honestly say that your channel has quickly become my favourite. The speed in which you are able to pump out content and the quality of said content is something to behold. I have to say, I see you being in the millions within a year. Keep it up boss, always checking to see if anything new has popped up!

[@BierBart12]

All of the random, stupid deaths in this made me wanna play this game again Also, sky dwarves are an interesting idea. Like the opposite of deep dwarves Maybe these are the dwarves who ended up becoming spacefaring in Deep Rock Galactic. Building a stone space elevator before the first rocket

[@badideagenerator2315]

They build spires at the tops of mountain ranges

[@ClayCaviness]

Great content! Love your narration style and you spin a good story with good editing. Watch out with fortifications, though, as they don't have sides. That is, an enemy marksman can walk up to your ground level fortifications (at least I think they are ground level) and shoot through them just as easily as your marksdwarves can. When possible, I put my marksdwarves and fortification up a z-level, and with an overhang to stop anything from climbing the walls. alternatively, trench/moat on the outside to stop enemies from approaching close will help.

[@117DeathWalker]

Your comments about staying indoors was heard by my relatives, and now they worry that I'm afraid of mythical beasts roaming around outside. They're not joking. Ugu

[@wilhelmschmidt7240]

DF is such an amazing experience.

[@Knight_Ferris]

I’m always happy to see more dwarf fortress. You’re definitely my favorite KZbinr that covers this game (and one of my favorites in general)

[@VarenvelDarakus]

you could trapped hydra , i think they even can be tamed:D , i admit im a bit addicted to traps but they make combat so much easier , especialy for getting exotic pets.

[@AmishMinister]

my prayers were answered! loving this series, absolute favorite lets play so far.

[@konterkraft8333]

Funny as always 👍 keep it up and your follower count will reach six digits in no time

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Thanks, and that'd be wonderful, I'll keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully I'll see you there.

[@simoneabelo]

Having played the og DF, it's fascinating hearing the music and seeing totally different graphics

[@JimKandol]

>Blob of fire just goes down instantly I had a Humanoid of Fire spawn in my cavern layer once, it just stood in the infinite water and made infinite steam, killing most things that tried to get close Eventually I managed to bait it out of the water and it died in one hit Things made of Fire have no defence

[@TourFaint]

There is actually a 3d renderer to dwarf fortress.

[@Leldy]

WAKE UP BABE, NEW HAZZOR VIDEO DROPPED!

[@TheStarrySept]

Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep it up big man!

[@thetubbe_drawing]

That was awesome and you're hilarious, man. Great video!

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

I swear the red 'unhappy' symbol that pops up next to dwarves looks like the Kool-Aid man.

[@kaemonomahony1379]

ah, the new generation have discovered the classic "Stupid Dwarf Tricks" marvelous

[@CrypticCode97]

1 minute in and already dropped a fart joke Are you even trying Mr KZbin man

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

I'm trying so hard that it's making me gassy.

[@RobertDThompson]

You've quickly become my favorite channel since stumbling upon it in September. Keep up the good work, and always prioritize your good quality over quantity.

[@torinpriddle6349]

Hey this is a pretty neat idea! Great video, love your df content!

[@user-du7dc1im6r]

This is an awesome vid, I’d love a part 2

[@tangerinacat2409]

Another awesome video as always!

[@lizardizzle]

"much like myself, they only exist to lay eggs" is a fantastic line

[@alexandrerossatoneto588]

i really enjoy your videos

[@psyxypher3881]

If a world passes into the Age of Legends, it means that there's only 66%-33% of the remaining megabeasts in the world.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Interesting to hear, is there a barren age that comes later?

[@user-burner]

​@@HazzorPlaysGamesThere is an age you can get for killing literally everything, but I believe you can only do it in adventure mode

[@pendantblade6361]

Man builds Tower of Babel, gets surprised when the gods send threats his way.

[@clem2526]

Just to note, any tile that has been exposed to sunlight can be used for above ground farming. This means you could use the bottom floor of the skyscraper or an offshoot on the bottom floor for a greenhouse, or in a separate fort, channel from the surface to the third cavern layer and grow strawberries at z level -180

[@Wannabeskittle]

All of this just reminds me of that time someone built a glass tower spanning from the surface to the underworld and grew crops down there.

[@hal3117]

I like dropping stuck caravans like 30 z levels down to 'dispose' of them. I feel like the hinges in the floor and the lever at the far end of the room is enough of a warning for the fair minded elf, dwarf or human to reconsider entrenching themselves in my depot.

[@EspressoStreams]

Where's my fucking bedroom, Haz?

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

In the Guinea-fowl room.

[@EspressoStreams]

@@HazzorPlaysGames ...A rooms a room. My smol people I come soon.

[@oscarlittle639]

​as somebody who owns guinea fowl, they are so ear-peircingly loud, aggressive, and can fly. I would rather sleep with the forgotten beasts.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Yes I've met a few in my travels and they can be very mean indeed

[@TheSpookiestSkeleton]

What the heck? Ahoy? Maybe not, but definitely a legendary quality voice. Oh god that dragon is going for the tower!

[@jackmaney4276]

So, one of the more recent forts that I started translated to--I shit you not--Browntown.

[@tisajokt7676]

14:40 ngl it wasn't too funny the first two times but the third time was perfect comedic unexpectedness, law of threes comes in clutch lmao

[@omgwtfcake]

You can actually channel into brooks which turns the tiles into normal empty spaces above water. This allows you to build waterwheels and such.

[@evilgibson]

@hazzor one thing i did way back in the day was the cart shotgun. Invite a raid and let loose a couple of carts loaded with gold bars 15+ z levels up. At the end, have something to stop the carts suddenly and watch all these heavy metal slugs just turn all the goblins/elves/squirrels to thick paste

[@kuznetsov9471]

Kind of want to see more of that fort, wonder also how well it would fare on a invasion.

[@gpenicaud]

This is good content, thanks!

[@ironreed2654]

This is good, do more!

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

"God damn it Urist i told you that you were holding the blueprint upside-down"

[@misticmaze]

Do you intend to do any more dwarf fortress content? I really liked these videos and would hope you will make more at some point. 😄

[@Orelldo]

Can use a 1 block wide burrow next to any fortification, and assign them to defend it. They will walk right up to the fort, and will be more likely to shoot compared to a station order

[@JilanoAlhuine]

nice lets play really like it!

[@tili4710]

You have a very calm and relaxing voice.

[@alexorth8152]

just so you know if you have a brook on your embark you are able to channel it out so you can use it for power

[@willowism]

the probiotic joke got me the third time round

[@deathhog]

You actually can use the brooks for water mills! Just have to channel the top tiles off!

[@Green_kamino]

I love this!

[@PerfectDeath4]

You can make underground farms that grow surface plants, simply have at least one square exposed to the light then you can cover it up as the soil has now been "polluted" by the sun.

[@aoifster8119]

Your narration style is, as always, excellent and makes me want more. But the effort you put into pronouncing all of these names is a cut above, even so. Great stuff! Question, though - is it... Entirely normal to have this many Forgotten Beasts show up at your settlement, this quickly? Just how forgetful ARE these Dwarves (and Humans, and Elves, and such I suppose...)

[@ClanWiE]

Zoo fort sounds neat!

[@wolf2403]

All I can say is, what if you made it go wider, building up the part that has the hospital unti it reaches the tol and doing the same with everywhere else gradually to ticken the tower? Also a few floors below where the staircase moves to the side and you can set up a line of defence for any incoming beasts.

[@OneMoreDesu]

Ahh yes, monarchy by bedroom size. The superior form of government.

[@tigsgotscrum9995]

Awesome bro

[@FlyingWeaselMan]

If you were to do readings of things. There are definitely a bunch of community forts that the internet can recommend. A lot of them are a good laugh and I think you'd have fun with it.

[@BackDoorSanta904]

Were you able to build up past z lvl 59? i built a Pyramid and 59 is the cap for me, it turned out great, but the dwarfs are more dangerous towards themselves than any goblin siege. I've had over 20 dwarfs killed from melee brawls in the tavern. Also, if you build a few cage traps in front of your drawbridge you can capture hydras and you can make a drawbridge going down to the caverns, so you don't have to worry about forgotten beast. And prepare for all those visitors that are going to be coming in stealing your shit or intimidating your dwarfs to steal it for them. Enjoy you're stuff, and looking forward to the next.

[@TatsuZZmage]

brooks are fine if you just dig the area it occupies out with a ramp then your water wheel works just fine

[@dfgrhbjkh]

14:06 …because we’ve got our staircase exposed like a stripper doing a handstand… and Im on the floor laughing, thanks for that!

[@Spamsgood]

this makes me want to give the game another try lol

[@asedtf]

Employees of Legbad 2: Human Office

[@herbertpocket8855]

Damn that subscribe suggestion got me good

[@ShadowmarkReturns]

Your voice is butter smooth

[@Isvoor]

Temple and guild petitions come (with default settings) at 10 people, so that's an easy way to figure it out.

[@ivegotavandetta]

Noo, zoo is sad. their left and right eyes will be covered in tears from being confined :C

[@camramaster]

Dwarf fortress- the one game where everything has a corpse or three next to every new expansion or special design!

[@Red-yt2dk]

Steam Dorf Fort looks like everything I didn't want from a GUI update The tileset and pallet reminds me of every other pixel art indie game, expecially the graphical update to Realm Grinder Wonder if there's a common ancestor in some free asset library people modify for their needs Requiring mouse input for a lot of interactions seems way slower than keyboard shortcuts, and the lack of a Dwarf Therapist feature seems like it'd make labor management a nightmare Not that DT is really a point in Classic's favor, being a third party program I personally struggle to tell what's actually going on with this particular tileset, though that's more because I'm used to the phoebus tileset. Oh well, Classic is still available for those who prefer it, and I hope the steam version gets worked on more

[@Jboy2000000]

Tower-Tec. Better living, overground.

[@80sVectorz]

Verigud!

[@gunthergiel7088]

Thanks for the funny story

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

No problem, thanks for listening.

[@CapFalcon]

Third probiotic joke still made me chuckle, who doesn't love a good fart joke

[@bravojr]

Bruh, You can infact make a VOMIT REACTOR, dig to hell, create tunnel, create party room with grated floor, Vomit, Vomit goes into hell, Explodes into hot vomit using doors shut and seal chamber into a new pressure zone.... Direct wherever you want, like Elvin caravan parking spots.

[@willisverynice]

I like how you got the second fart joke just in case you edited out the first one.

[@alloounou6900]

This guy is putting the pro in probiotic.