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Dwarf Fortress => DF Adventure Mode Discussion => Topic started by: firefly28 on December 31, 2008, 11:45:16 am

Title: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: firefly28 on December 31, 2008, 11:45:16 am

Hiya,

Loving this game thanks to its quality, the sound advice given on the forums and captain ducks tutorials. Anyway I am starting to have quite a thriving fortress in fortress mode but I am curious, is adventure mode as deep and unique as fortress mode? and whats it all about? How does it work? What kind of game is it?

Know it sounds stupid but fortress mode far exceeded any expectations so I am just curious what adventure modes like? How does it tie in with fortress mode if at all?

Finally is there anyone here who likes adventure mode better than fortress mode?

Cheers!

Title: Re: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: KaelGotDwarves on December 31, 2008, 12:07:04 pm

Here to post obligatory "adventure mode is for piercing your opponent's brain with vomit, dismembering elves and throwing their limbs at children".

It's pretty awesome.

Title: Re: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: firefly28 on December 31, 2008, 12:20:01 pm

Okay that decides it :D gonna give it a blast, I did read somewhere that you get to see your engravings or something

Title: Re: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: Vincent on December 31, 2008, 01:00:59 pm

If your fortress is abandond/conquered, you can walk in, slaughter whatever beasties live in there now, and look at your dorf's engravings in much more detail.

Title: Re: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: Dakk on December 31, 2008, 01:28:04 pm

Adventure mode plays like a regular roguelike RPG. At the moment adventure mode is underdeveloped and not nearly as deep as fortress mode is, but its very fun in its own, sick yet amusing way.

Throwing is bugged at the moment, so you can basically pierce someone's brain with vomit or break their bones with sand, but it can provide quite some laughs, specially when you kill a giant by throwing a fly at him   :D

It also allows you to do everything you wanted to do with goblins and elves. Tired of elves bringing you useless thread and cloth? Go to the nearby settlement and break the druid's legs to teach him a lesson! Gouge their eyes out! Decapitate them and use the severed head to beat children to death! Strip them of their clothes and throw them back at their faces! Pinch their lower bodies! Stick a spear in their guts and twist it untill they bleed to death! Kill everyone then drag them near some trees and set everything on fire as a sacrifice to Armok!

Sorry, got carried away  ;D

You can visit other forts, civilizations, towns, settlements, caves, etc. You can also visit the ruins of your old fort, if it got conquered, destroyed or abandoned and loot everything you want, including any artifacts, and artifact weapons and armor can be very powerful.  :o You can also wield ANYTHING right now, so why not beat people to death using that legendary trumpet your craftsdwarf made? Or maybe throw that legendary anvil at an elf just to see what happens?

It can be very confusing at first, since adventure mode lacks much of fortress mode's interface, but once you get the hang of it, you'll play it at least once in a while. It may not be as addicting as fortress mode at the moment, but its being developed, and it is quite fun in its current state.

Title: Re: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: firefly28 on December 31, 2008, 02:15:31 pm

Quote

Sorry, got carried away   

lol no wories yeah that just makes it appeal to me even more, hehe jumping in now :)

Title: Re: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: CobaltKobold on January 01, 2009, 02:25:32 am

Quote from: Vincent on December 31, 2008, 01:00:59 pm

If your fortress is abandond/conquered, you can walk in, slaughter whatever beasties live in there now, and look at your dorf's engravings in much more detail.

If your init settings aren't already showing them to you. You can look at them in fort mode by changing the show_full_history or somesuch.

Title: Re: Loving DF fortress mode but whats adventure mode all about??
Post by: Yanlin on January 03, 2009, 08:10:27 am

Don't forget to catch an elven woman and avenge the deaths of your fellow humans/dwarves

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

First, make sure she can't hurt you by locking her limbs. Grab her clothes off. Throw them away but not at her. You want her to be alive. You then proceed to pinch the upper and lower body (Use your imagination for a better effect.) and even grabbing them. With your hands. Not your biceps or something. Choke her a bit if you have that particular fetish. If you mod the game so you can grab with your lower body... You grab her lower body with your lower body and proceed to lock and unlock it. Let your imagination fill what's going on. No pun intended. You could also skip the fight entirely if you just recruit a female elven child at a goblin fort. But that's only for pedophiles.

The best way to find such a woman is to recruit her as a companion.