learning the secrets of life and death (Dwarf Fortress)

Exploring the mundane lives of necromancers.
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[@burnin8able]

the fact that after scouring all the classic adventure locales you discover that a boring human town has what is essentially a "Necromancy for Dummies" book on display at the local library

[@michaelbuckers]

It was more of an extremely jargon-heavy alchemy research paper, seeing as it takes maxed out reading skill to even understand what it says, but the point remains.

[@StylishHobo]

Beware the menacing, evil tower of...*checks notes*... Snugglebushes

[@KoenPrins]

"Luckily I had a save file where I was cursed by an Opossum Goddess and became a Vampire." Only in dwarf fortress.

[@christopherg2347]

"I used to be a adventurer like you. But then I read the secret of life and death."

[@townbug]

its kinda funny to think that theyre only doing nothing in these prisons because theyre thinking "eh, these walls will crumble sooner or later"

[@smuttbullen]

What an extremely satisfying end to this short saga, it reminded me a lot of Arcanum with their long lived dwarfs that would come across as conservative in their scientific progression because unlike the relatively short-lived humans, they would still be around to experience the consequences to their technological breakthroughs.

[@lechking941]

so how often did the dwarves hate their own breacktherows

[@azzzertyy]

your dwarves can become necromancers in fortress mode, just raid a necromancer tower for their books and youll probably find one, and if you have a library your dwarves will slowly become necromancers (its REALLY buggy, i had a goblin thief that was resurrected by my goblins 20,000 times, and would try to steal from them every single time they were resurrected, leading to an infinite resurrection loop that killed the fortress)

[@tiagogarcia4900]

For more information on necromancers I recommend "The Empire of the Necromancers" by Clark Ashton Smith. It's a wonderful short story that exposes how a pair of necromancers can build an empire, and lose it soon after by their own laziness.

[@xGhost4000x]

I love that once they learn the secrets of life and death they just immediately chill...

[@dvsaleios]

Comedic masterpiece. Pure and simple.

[@felix56p]

7:06 I love it when they claim a bunch of different artifacts from a distance, it's like they're flipping through an IKEA magazine and falling in love with every piece of furniture in it also, 7:45 -- the Library of Thieves is a perfect name for that, considering the context

[@aniibozelda]

hydro homie hoodie hair confirmed

[@TheLetterH111]

Great little short story. Theres something kind of beautifully profound about your conclusion. Ill bear this video in mind when i become an immortal necromancer

[@TheLetterH111]

Also I want to say that your writing is improving every video. Really enjoyed this one

[@Kyrkby]

Finally, a video that doesn't seem to contain that many crimes against huma- 2:56 What the fuck.

[@chillerwhale1655]

So that big scary called the master was probably a demon. You can learn their true names and recruit or banish them, leaving the goblins leaderless. I recently had a world where I recruited a male/female pair of bull demons and had them settle down and start a family with my dwarves. Took a bit of dfhack but it’s really fun to mess around with. You should do more adventure mode content!

[@arkosilaura]

If i had understood it correctly, necromancers have two types of resurrect spells; 1. Raise "dumb undead", which raises a dead creature back to life, but it will be hostile to everything, including the necromancer that raised it. 2. Raise "intelligent undead", which will raise a dead creature back to life with their former allegiances intact and capable of receiving complex orders. Usually friendly to the necromancer that raised it.

[@egoalter1276]

Unintelligent undead are non hostile to other umdead. Intelligent undead keep thejr alligence, and this is what he raised, which is why it was hoatile to him. He has juat attacked it afterall.

[@daridon2483]

​@@egoalter1276 Makes sense. You just got killed by someone and then 5 seconds later you find yourself resurrected by that same person, with your memories intact, and expecting to take his orders. Like bro, do you expect me to be nice to you after you killed me? **** off necromancer

[@yegorshem]

I messed around on adventure mode as a necromancer and i found out a few things. 1. Multiple types of raise dead spells possible that give different type of undead. 2. More powerful raise dead spells can raise intelligent undead that have their own spells and powers. 3. Intelligent undead will be hostile to player if you killed them. If you get them in your party and they your friend but die to an enemy then raise them they will remain your follower and friend. 4. intellegent undead only possible from named huminoid creatures only basic zombies from anything else. 5. Lastly real easy to get overpowered by getting 1 or 2 intellegent undead and running in wilderness killin critters for zombie horde.

[@TadaGanIarracht]

If you save before entering the tower area and then just spend a couple of tries to sprint in there and find the book , you can become a necromancer without already being undead. Still a vampire necromancer is much more edgy than regular necro

[@theprinceofmilk2510]

toady changed (broke) syndrome given Interactions in 0.50, which is extremely frustrating as a modder, but seems to effect necromancers as well

[@ARx-mb6ig]

*affect

[@ohnonot]

My favorite video yet. Love your content!

[@Corner5tone]

That ending included some really insightful economic analysis (even if it just seemed like common sense)! Great work dude, love your videos!

[@ozdevil4564]

Finally some more adventure mode gameplay! I'm so excited for a update on that regard

[@asdfasdf-dd9lk]

Hey babe wake up, the new hoodie hair video just dropped !

[@Ancusohm]

Great video! A fascinating investigation into necromancers. 🙂👍

[@tiagogarcia4900]

Two Videos for the price of one! Truly one of your finest work.

[@rareveur3623]

what a ride

[@goreobsessed2308]

Put a floor on top of the wall covering the inside of it should keep them from ever climbing out

[@underdoug]

Hardly as fun as dealing with necromancer escapees, though.

[@Blockinstaller12]

I still wonder how you managed to deal with the undead so easily. I once had a small siege of necromancer experiments where one of them took on 17 of my expert mace dwarves at once, killed all of them and proceeded to destroy my entire population after.

[@wyze7545]

Maybe because you have made maces, instead of spears or axes, maces are really bad against unarmored enemies

[@chrismanuel9768]

>Mace dwarves You were trying to kill things that absorb blunt damage by hitting them with blunt weapons. Gotta cut em apart.

[@SyrKonrat]

Necromancers really are the opposite to YOLO

[@propsurferminge4469]

Could you please make a video of a monster pit? and feed a bunch of enemies to the monster! and maybe show us some fortress designs?

[@Lovemelikeareptile]

Your vids are the epitome of awesome, thank you for sharing your creative genius with the unwashed masses

[@charliebeam3627]

Love your videos! Thanks for the upload!

[@RDR911]

This was a really interesting study! Thanks! ❤

[@MrBonebus]

finding the book can be the hardest part. it can be being held by anything inside or already off in some other city stolen in a raid

[@cameron571]

The new adventure mode is already so, so much better. I already found a slab and while it's not yet possible to use the powers I gained (as far as I can tell), at least all the literate guys on my team are immortal now and they're carrying the slab. I'm going to have them haul it back to my favorite fortress and use it as a pitstop where I can bring all my adventurers from now on to safely turn them into necromancers with a known artifact in an isolated spot, in a friendly city. I'm thinking of making a team of 5 mounted brown recluse spider man necromancer doctors, with the leader sextuple-wielding whips (the *only* weapon that a creature of that size can wield one-handed lmfao). The doctor grants free novice rank in reading, writing, and wordsmith skills - which I think is much more useful than the skills you get with the hunter profession (the only other useful one right now). I figure I'll start them all out as close as possible to my necromancer slab-town, and make a run straight for it to get a powerup right away. Maybe I'll also make them some special armor and weapons in fortress mode. I want to power them up as much as possible as cheaply as I can (as in, just by having equipment lying around for them to take), and then pit the 5 of them against the largest goblin fort I can find, and then retreat when only one is left standing so I can use that adventurer as a party leader for a real adventure. Those goblin forts are a nightmare to navigate though.

[@BloockW]

15 minutes holy moly

[@BloockW]

good job, hoodie hair!!!

[@channel_lurker]

The undead music is danse de macabre ^^ Also i prefere demons :3 a long time ago i recieved a migrant wave on the old version, one of the migrains was a devil. a demonic gyraf composed of vomit. i dont feel i have much choise in the matter of favorates ever since ;)

[@channel_lurker]

never did anything with him btw, i was still learning the game. otherwise i would have made a kick@ss dungeon for it too live in :D

[@channel_lurker]

This video got pretty deep at the end.

[@tr0j4npr1nc3s]

YEEES NEW HOODIE HAIR VIDEO U JUST MADE MY DAY YAAAY

[@chrisdonovan8795]

Great ending! Thanks!

[@ilari90]

We all learned a lesson here.

[@coolerkid7905]

An odd video but a welcomed one

[@hamblok0]

As much as I love the official DF tileset I really do miss the pre-steam tilesets I used to switch between, like gemset and spacefox or even the more graphical ascii-like ones like krugg's tilesets, taffer, wanderlust, etc.

[@ShieldAre]

The lesson that Dwarf Fortress ends up teaching, I think, is that necromancers are not really alive,. They are undead themselves, as dead as the zombies they raise. Upon learning the secrets of life and death, they lost their living force and soul, diminished their creativity, and were left with no living, breathing drive beyond a simplistic and lifeless obsession for schemes for power. Why be a cook or a warrior if all the people you would cook for, for whom you would fight, are puny mortals you know you will outlive? Why do anything today when you can do it on a tomorrow that will always be there?

[@dreamerofthorns]

Ahhhh, more hh videos to binge

[@RovingTroll]

WOOOOO MORE HOODIE HAIR!

[@Faehen]

Conclusion: dwarf fortress is realistic in that when someone claims that they have supernatural abilities they are most likely lying.

[@michalrotuski63]

I live this video. You are genius

[@teaconnoisseur6339]

love your df videos!

[@AzureDragon158]

Who would have thought that obtaining mastery over death itself would be so difficult?

[@Jason-fv4rg]

I love these mad adventures!

[@TheHighjaker]

What a profound ending

[@dinoxelby397]

nice

[@allones3078]

I think they need to be in danger to raise the dead

[@HansLemurson]

What would it take to get a necromancer that had a single horn and was missing an eye?

[@Ratoshi44]

wen next video!

[@21_315]

Good video, but are you feeling okay? Your voice is very raspy

[@hoodiehair]

yeah I'm fine, my voice is just like that sometimes

[@21_315]

@@hoodiehair oh, well I'm glad your okay

[@johannesgutenburg9837]

a truly based gamer. trans rights

[@hughguy3104]

comment 4 engagemnet idk i dont got anythin funny this time