I Survived 10 Years in Dwarf Fortress

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thank you for watching

[@okeoi]

If you're having issues with lack of drinks, the dwarves are likely cooking/eating all their drink-making foods. You can disable brewable foods in the kitchen section of the labor menu, I think.

[@KokoplaysMB]

I had that disabled but at that one point we just had too many new people and lots of visitors and were just not producing enough.

[@okeoi]

@@KokoplaysMB Trade for more food early on with things like cut gems and your dwarves will never run into a food/drink shortage.

[@snickle1980]

@@okeoi That was my latest plan with fortress #10. I dont feel safe until my food and drink are up past 500 ea. How important is a kitchen cooked meal? My dwarves started to get upset about the uncooked food by year 5 or so...i think.

[@okeoi]

@@snickle1980 As soon as you have some food stored, start making lavish meals. It's a big mood booster and barrels filled with masterpiece meals can be valued up to nearly 10k in trade. I trade cut gems for the first couple of years then just start selling meals and buying out entire trade caravans.

[@hurricanestarang]

Find a reliable gather spot whether it be on the surface or a cavern, make TWO breweries, it should take long at all.. I have one kitchen and two breweries and I'm always at 1500, 1500

[@0xbaadf00d]

One of my forts failed, interestingly. I chose a magma pipe location, but at least then, those were surrounded by imps. My plan, breed a huge army of dogs and lead them to take control of the magma. I made so many of them the game started to slow down a bit, which I considered a trigger to start the assault. Dogs go in following their master, hundreds of them. Imp sees the dogs, and breathes fire. The dogs catch fire and panic. The on-fire panicking dogs cause other dogs to ignite leading to a chain reaction. The heats reaches a level where the fat in the dogs melts and leaks out, causing pools of burning dog fat everywhere in my fort. Nobody makes it out alive. I guess I should have shaved the dogs beforehand, were that possible.

[@KokoplaysMB]

I love the stories this game writes, so beautiful!

[@AurelienCarnoy]

Waw

[@kiseki8351]

This was both amazing and painful to read (poor doggies)

[@Corner5tone]

That was hilarious! Thank you for sharing.

[@dang986]

It's crazy, I too once had a legendary dwarf named iteb who was head of military and head doctor. Stood by himself up to a hydra that had wiped about about 150 dwarves, I didn't get to see the end of that fight bc the game crashed, this was in vanilla fort. Dr iteb lives on

[@dang986]

Also killing eleven traders, based lol

[@KokoplaysMB]

Itebs are chads

[@Tor469]

I would definitely read a book about being locked in the dungeon after not crossing the drawbridge in time, forced to hide from a forgotten beast. After the colony somehow learns your alive, you explain its weakness and it finally goes down

[@Amaror2]

Dwarf: "Oww! I stubbed my toe!" Koko *cocking shotgun*: "Shame. Get the poets."

[@KokoplaysMB]

That one made me laugh out loud, thank you mate :D

[@GreenScrapBot]

5:38 "Who could be the Vampire? Surely not that one dwarf with pale-greenish skin... 🤔🤔 " 😄

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yeah I suck at that, being colorblind I don't get all those different color tints on dwarves..

[@GreenScrapBot]

@@KokoplaysMB Oh, sorry, did not expect that! I was wondering how you did not notice them while scrolling through the dwarves list. Since the premium release, Vampires, Necromancers and other undead can easily be spotted this way. Reminds me that DF has no accessibility options yet.

[@KokoplaysMB]

@@GreenScrapBot Don't worry, I blame it on my Twitch chat for not pointing it out when I asked them if that dwarfed seemed sus..

[@spencersullivan4447]

A good way to find out vampires (at least if their dwarves who live there) is to check their thoughts tab I got a vampire early on and found them out because they were “dismayed as seeing blank die” nobody else had this thought so I locked him up

[@KokoplaysMB]

Nice catch

[@JakeTalksGamesYT]

Must have been a recent vampire. Older vampires dont feel emotion the same

[@matthewsanchez7953]

"I don't know who thought it'd be a good idea for children to deal with goblin prisoners, but it wasn't me." ME: nervously glancing at the children's chores tab...

[@KokoplaysMB]

Devs know exactly what they did there..

[@Cothfotmeoo]

I was definitely glad to watch a lot of these vods. I've heard a lot about Dwarf Fortress but hadn't seen a ton of gameplay, especially not for a long time. The vampire mysteries was an incredible time. XD And letting the forgotten beasts deal with each other was a great plan. Well played!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@CommanderTato]

Damn, dwarf fortress looks fascinating. That version with sprites for everyhing is the best thing who happened to the game. Someday will take the time to learn to play it effectively, complex game and hell to manage the building aspect. I always sucked on that aspect as a player in other games haha.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Give it a try, it's worth it

[@olgagaming5544]

@@KokoplaysMB Where to download this sprite mod version?

[@KokoplaysMB]

@@olgagaming5544 it's the Steam version

[@olgagaming5544]

​@@KokoplaysMB Ahh, they finally made DF into a playable game without needing to install visual mods that never work for an average person.. I never thought it's possible

[@OCinneide]

@@olgagaming5544 The mods were really simple to use?? I booted up my old school laptop and I had an ancient version of DF on it along with the launcher and it was really easy checkbox for whatever style you wanted.

[@skyguyflyinghigh]

just as a warning about the moat... the thing thats happening is the dwarfs ai tells them to "dodge" in combat to an adjecent tile which can be a perfectly safe tile of drawbridge... or moat of lava, or 20 layer drop, so yeah, not super safe... also with werebeasts i don't think the chance of infection is 100% so it's a good idea to have a few "quarantine" areas with drawbrides as a doors and see if they turn or not if they've been attacked

[@o2CleaR2c]

This is better than any Netflix series. "The moat proved to be more deadly than the enemy" ROFL

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks! :D

[@autumn-876]

on god this is the only game where this kind of video is actually helpful for me. Bought it on sale knowing my love for all things esoteric, and it's been a lot to pick up. Ty for making the content!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Glad I could help!

[@vanguze]

Wonderfully told. I have had a lot of new encounters I haven't seen before in the cavern layers.

[@hurricanestarang]

Mind blowing that the caverns are just an unseen map under the surface of the world map.. literally every forgotten beast is just roaming around constantly

[@KokoplaysMB]

And every forgotten beast eventually makes it to Pullgear..

[@dr3ubrub664]

I think i had this one time where i saw a human swordsman who single handedly killed a swarm of fully armored goblins effortlessly and was still unharmed and unfazed by the end of it, and i really thought he was an anime mc way back then

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

My enemies are many. My equals are none. - That guy.

[@snickle1980]

Which setting creates the best gameplay? 5 years? 50? 100? 250? At some point, I understand that the map will become crowded with evil, and lag... _and evil lag._ But if i start in year five...nothing really happens. Dwarf fortress is filled with hard choices. =(

[@tubebrocoli]

I like setting it to 100, or letting the story run to 150-ish. Too much more and the necromancers kinda run over everyone. History length doesn't really affect lag, it does affect save time considerably, though.

[@KokoplaysMB]

100 would be a nice middle ground I feel like.

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

I pick a small world, low civs, and low sites, and five years in I still get plenty of action. But I also play with added ratflok, gnoll, and beastman civs. If I play any longer into the game, most of the choice spots are taken or inhospitable due to evil faction proximity. 100 years in, half of the settlements are one day away from 5-6 massive evil sites, at a minimum. If I settle on the doorstep of my parent civ, I drown in immigrants rapidly. With my settings, forts often last a decade plus and I'm not in a rush because I naturally level up on par with the other civs and I don't get swamped or overwhelmed. My last fort, which I retired because I didn't make the luxurious tavern's pool right and it looks stupid, lasted 20 years with a capped 120 pop through a mod (which can be changed in settings but the mod just lowers cap in the game so you don't have to manually edit it every time.)

[@snicklestudy6309]

4:44 The "Pure Stakes"...I mean... I'm not saying they're _going to be vampires,_ but....

[@xNightbound]

"as punishment he was confined for 228 days and scheduled for a severe beating" hahaha - its crazy to see how good at the game you are. I wouldn't know where to start to capture a forgotten beast. im strugging keeping my dwarfs happy and lasting 3 years

[@KokoplaysMB]

It was fun times :D

[@coobro6629]

a werecapybara is the least intimidating name ever. Also I'm using this as a reference for my fortress since I'm new

[@KokoplaysMB]

Good luck with your fortress!

[@coobro6629]

@@KokoplaysMB thanks. hopefully my dwarves dont meet a bloody fate like the other times

[@DuduRossetto]

Wow, I really really liked this format!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks, I'm trying something new to see how it goes!

[@robertwatts7894]

can you image what Hatedrags is like, its most likely a living hell

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yes, yes it is

[@Warrigt]

the giraffe and capy sprites are beautiful

[@KokoplaysMB]

So true

[@JonesCrimson]

Tip for Elf Trading: Since they won't accept anything with meat, bone opals, shell opals, or wood of any sort that really only leave metal and stone goods. Of those, the best value per material ratios are Goblets. Generally, I put up iron and platinum goblet work orders and stockpile them in a place accessible near the depot.

[@cromulentarcher]

Congrats on 50K!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thank you brother!

[@ape_man504]

Tofi the Forgotten Beast 🔥

[@stafuishi1613]

Please continue this save, I keep coming back to this video.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Maybe™

[@Jayswitch24]

This was hilarious. Damn I love DF

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@zackawesomeness2506]

Tofi was the fortress’s greatest threat and greatest protector. Basically Godzilla

[@KokoplaysMB]

So true

[@ThatOliveMrT]

Vampires that are dwarf are always blue. Disabling visitors at the tavern would've helped

[@cutehulhu3864]

This video taught me how to have fun playing dwarf fortress.

[@KokoplaysMB]

My job here is done

[@night8434]

I watched the whole thing expecting to see how your fortress ended at year 10, but it never did. So, how long did you went on after that? Maybe do another video of your fortress reaching 20 years. Nice video, i was immersed from start to finish.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks! My plan was to survive for 10 years, so that's where it all ended. I didn't play after that.

[@scummyOfficial]

Hey, I just wanted to say your fortress is awesome! I’m brand new to Dwarf Fortress (Although I am not new to the genre) and it’s videos like these that make me want to get better at the game to hopefully make my own story out of a fort one day. I may be stuck with the ASCII graphics on the free version of the game but that’s not gonna stop me :) Anyways your video was great and I hope you play more of this game!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@CrankYxMankeY]

Just watched ThatGuyGlen's video on how this game was made, and I've never wanted to immediately buy a game faster.

[@KokoplaysMB]

You should, it's great!

[@snakeofminthumbugs330]

"I survived 10 years in DF" I thought you were supposed to last for nearly a hundred years, I'm on my first year and barely keeping my fortress together.

[@KokoplaysMB]

When you make it to 100 years let me know please.

[@saint5322]

Love this type of videos

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@Aidanomic]

Great video Koko! Really enjoyed the format!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks buddy!

[@crysthiangonzalezfuentes7181]

I did this in my first run of the game 😅 I didn't know that it was a challenge but definitely it was strange getting hordes of +70 monsters every month

[@deathlord8251]

Poor monker wanted to be the one to die from a vampire but I stole his chance. also man I never realized how much fighting was in the caverns it was forgotten battle royale, rip Tofí the true MVP that had the most kills

[@KokoplaysMB]

What a way to go down in history

[@Danila438]

Walls around the moat could safe many lifes.

[@KokoplaysMB]

You're not wrong..

[@alexh8809]

God bro, so many people having fun with this game and i feel like i cant make it past 30 mins without following a guide and being afraid of unpausing the game because i take too long to figure things out :/

[@KokoplaysMB]

Don't be afraid to fail, it's part of the fun.

[@dumbleking5172]

Turn of "Animal hauling" in the chores tab if you don't want them to do the work. Also, for those better armed and skilled enemies, better have an escort to tag along your prisoner caravan, they can break out of confinement and try to wreck havoc as they escape. You can "build" the cages if you want. The wiki says you can strip thier equipment, but idk how. I got lucky, but I knew how bad it could've been and so far, my dwarves falling 1z level into a pool of water for swimming practice posed more threat than the goblins do for they might land on thier throat, the injured part explodes into gore and a major artery is exposed. That pool has a couple soap bars dropped in it and a poor skeleton of someone who died in there. It's been sort of refurbished into a bathhouse (Wiki says it's possible mainly from the older versions) but so far, no one is keen on using it.

[@speeksasfada]

Partid, not perfect full potential, but this is now perfect

[@Si4koTushxD]

...... another forgotten beast arrived.....

[@vegmonster]

Amazing video 👍

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@robbietheweirdo]

how many dwarfs dued from the moat by the end?

[@shardul52]

DEATH TRULY TERRIFYING.......... FEAR BE-GONE!!!

[@celem91]

Nice one koko

[@cheezpuffs3734]

Best video ever, i got inspired by it

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@cheezpuffs3734]

@@KokoplaysMBupdate: im a moutainhome now

[@KokoplaysMB]

@@cheezpuffs3734 that's amazing, let's go!

[@SCHMOBEX]

Recently tried the game for the first time. I absolutely don't get how to stay alive, I'm immediately start running out of food and drinks. When I start farms I don't have any seeds and the hunters/fishers don't catch shit. When embarking I spent a ton of points on food drinks and seeds and I still run out lol

[@KokoplaysMB]

Make sure you don't allow them to eat seeds

[@aniketdatta2450]

How do you even have so many battles!? I got bored with a fort after not getting a single threat in five years. Is this world more dangerous than others?

[@KokoplaysMB]

I believe later you start, more evil places will be in the world. Also your fort might have been far away or even inaccessible to enemies.

[@sirdoggydawg8600]

As a huge rimworld fan, scared off by the previous graphics of DF. After watching this I have never been so tempted to try it !

[@KokoplaysMB]

If you played a lot of RimWorld it will be easy to get into it. I've got 2k+ hours in RimWorld but never really played DF before this and it's pretty easy to get into it.

[@Wolfenacht]

I never played this game, can you not see the person entering the room to drain the blood? That's kind of a cool mechanic if you can't.

[@KokoplaysMB]

I could see them but I'd have to be looking at that room when it happened, and with how much stuff happens across many layers in DF, it's almost impossible to catch them in the act.

[@Wolfenacht]

@@KokoplaysMB Interesting! I plan on playing it over the weekend for the first time. Looks like fun.

[@vinceclark-dk3xf]

there a game like this but its set a zombie setting btw its called catalysm dark days ahead

[@KokoplaysMB]

CDDA is a completely different genre of a game.

[@vinceclark-dk3xf]

@@KokoplaysMB well you have a point but its still techn8cally simillar

[@bencollecott260]

More please dude

[@KokoplaysMB]

Maybe™

[@davekachel]

10 years isnt really to bad, not even in the ascii version. Most first fortresses either perish in the first year due to misunderstanding or last 30-50 years

[@saviour254t9]

Or FPS deatht

[@Son_of_Grimnir]

What a mods do you use?

[@KokoplaysMB]

I only used a couple. See-through Smoothing Designations, Squad & Burrow Icons, Obvious Engravings, Stoneworking Expanded, Bourbon's Dark Depths/Floors and Vanilla Two Handed Weapons.

[@Son_of_Grimnir]

@@KokoplaysMB Thanks)

[@adam3mil]

amazing video!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@ElCarnesX20]

Very cool!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@lexxluey]

who was the vampire? 😮

[@undertyped1]

The best underground defense are demons. This is because the demon's breed and create more demons, that means whatever comes from below will encounter an endlessly growing army of demons. However, you may ask, aren't those demons a problem for me as well? Yes

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yes, demons are definitely a problem

[@punkmroz2709]

Great video

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@SiberianOldPal]

Yes!

[@betrayed_gamer4264]

Memories of stream 👍

[@KokoplaysMB]

Good times

[@zakikong3210]

Yo Koko you have come a long way since rimworld zombie in the dark days....This type of narration and video editing reminds me of Ambiguos Amphibian influence lol🤣🤣🤣👍15:37 WTF Shogun, I see what you did there🤣🤣🤣 Poor sober Shogun🤣

[@KokoplaysMB]

That zombie series was like a year ago though, I've been doing this for almost 8 years.

[@zakikong3210]

@@KokoplaysMB yea...but ya blew up after the PZ series..keep at it and refined your art💪👍

[@emeraldplayer5635]

There's a lizardman in your tavern and you didn't even address it.

[@KokoplaysMB]

There were a lot of people in there, hard to spot sometimes.

[@sgt391]

This game would be a cool MMO

[@KokoplaysMB]

It could be, it definitely has the potential for amazing stories to be told. But I'm not sure how it would work... how did you imagine it?

[@kukulroukul4698]

@@KokoplaysMB im imagining...a DEAD game ! :) if even an well and nice put together game like EVE online faltered...then nothing can withstand the ''pest'' that MMO's are

[@ShaCaro]

​@@kukulroukul4698 EVE 'well and nice put together'? So basically your knowledge of MMOs is on par with your grammar: severely lacking.

[@snickle1980]

100 population...maybe my 6X6 embark is slowing me down...

[@ozdevil4564]

Poor bookeeper! Lol

[@KokoplaysMB]

F

[@snicklestudy6309]

..."Another Elven Karen Arrived"

[@redcabbage8910]

me when my favorite word is "promptly"

[@Sara3346]

Nothing compared to archcrystals but a good start.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@gummyspider8628]

Farengar ? is that you ?

[@Zlorthishen]

only 10 years, ROOKIE NUMBERS CHUMP

[@harmlesstherobot7181]

We real need a moat kill count.😊

[@KokoplaysMB]

xD

[@DreamingBlindly]

I'm here just watching this and playing DF and a pack of Hyenas come into my settlement not even 5 mins into a new game. Then I looked at the wiki and it said "their very low frequency rate means they may not even be encountered" am I f*cked or am i blessed by the yeen gods?

[@KokoplaysMB]

100% blessed

[@DreamingBlindly]

@@KokoplaysMB Blessed be the Yeen gods!

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

*Diggy diggy hole intensifies*

[@AJ-tk1uo]

Now try to survive 1 year in Adventure Mode.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Maybe™

[@Luredreier]

Consider isolating new arrivals, be rhey humans or dwarves till you know that they're safe? Reduces the risks of vampires and other beasts... If you get say 20 migrants and one of them suddenly dies to blood loss but those 20 haven't actually left a isolation area you'll know that one of them did it and can work on eliminating suspects from them instead of everyone else too...

[@KokoplaysMB]

For sure that would make a lot more sense, although the chaos was kinda fun as well.

[@mattcox4661]

Did single bad guy fall into the moat in those ten years?

[@KokoplaysMB]

Actually now that I think about it... probably not.

[@mattcox4661]

@@KokoplaysMB 😂

[@Alexandermhinton]

Nice

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@westdakota9180]

Anyone else bothered that bros got 2x2 bedrooms and 3x3 tombs

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yeah that sounds stupid tbh

[@westdakota9180]

@@KokoplaysMB hey maybe your dwarfs value death more than life, it could be a cultural thing lol

[@KokoplaysMB]

@@westdakota9180 good point yeah

[@rigfiercemen4104]

I struggle to have 20 dwarfs let alone 100

[@KokoplaysMB]

One can fun no matter how many dwarves one controls

[@ranixaurus2809]

Tofi was a gud boi

[@KokoplaysMB]

SO true

[@neroham93]

Walls work

[@luisphelipe914]

nice

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks

[@jardelainen8278]

Dwarves running in to moat is stupid

[@KokoplaysMB]

You're not wrong..

[@Cenourafnord]

A única parte que eu não gostei foi de matar os mercadores :( Mas o restante foi divertido :D

[@mateuszlobien6665]

😂😂 may he rest in pieces 😂😂

[@SleepyGaryBASS]

👍👍

[@zironemegeaz]

Moat > Dwarf thinking

[@KokoplaysMB]

Moat always wins..

[@zironemegeaz]

@@KokoplaysMB can you build walls around a moat bridge? maybe a better word for them might be pillars. so the dwarfs can't move off the bridge?

[@Vagabor123]

Dang, i wish this was ascii

[@KokoplaysMB]

Why though?

[@cheezpuffs3734]

@@KokoplaysMB nostalgia

[@cheezpuffs3734]

@@KokoplaysMBor just personal preference

[@danfurtado9158]

Could you always conquer sites and expel people their? Steam exclusive i have never ever seen that menu. But me noob 🆗

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yes

[@merephet3377]

Z level is your friend.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yes, yes it is

[@PrimeNPC]

I believe if this game had smooth animations it would be 1000x more popular

[@jackblackie4679]

These poor little babies know nothing of boat murdered

[@williambernad1944]

CRACK OPEN A COLD ONE comment got me to Like and sub.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Enjoy your cold one brother

[@prospect2664]

hoped that dwarf fortress would finally look nice in steam edition, but nah... its still horrible

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yes, DF is totally all about graphics.

[@prospect2664]

@@KokoplaysMB just wish it looked better...

[@tofu1608]

Ok me too

[@TheAwillz]

Lush