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Boatmurdered was definitely my first introduction to Dwarf Fortress. The first time I actually tried playing it, it was still 2D, so it must have been 2007 or so. I bounced off of it then but picked it up again a year or so later, and have been regularly playing ever since. I even did some very embarrassing Let's Plays (do people still call them Let's Plays? I don't think so, right?) circa 2010 that got more attention than I ever expected. I've always wanted to give streaming DF another go, but since then I've been to college, then grad school, and now work as a computational physicist, so I don't really have the time. Besides, the video game video/streaming space is completely different now, and I don't know how much appetite there is for more DF content.

OneFjef got me to notice the game

Now there's a name I haven't come across in a long time! Big dose of nostalgia right there.

For example, my laptop has an older generation i7 with 8 cores (well, as far as I know it has 4 cores, but they're each split into two "virtual cores"? This is an area of computer hardware that I know little about) running at 1.6 GHz. My laptop is great for running lots of programs at once and programs that can use more than one core (engineering and math software, mostly), but it's not great for something like Dwarf Fortress, which can only use one core.

One issue is that there are lots of different Haswell CPUs, with different numbers of cores, clock speeds, overclocking ability, integrated graphics, and what have you. You might have to look at the different models and pick one that matches the features that you're looking for, but you can ignore CPUs that sacrifice clock speed for more cores. Generally, bigger model number means better performance, and the letter K after the model number means you can overclock it.

In addition, the new generation of Intel CPU (Broadwell) is slated to come out in the fall (it's going to be on a 14 nm process instead of the 22 nm process that Haswell is on, which should mean big gains in performance and power efficiency all around) so it might be worth waiting until then to either get a Haswell CPU on sale or get a brand new Broadwell chip.

Correct me if I'm way off base here, but it seems like you're not much of a PC hardware nerd; if that's the case, I honestly think you'll be fine buying whatever CPU costs $200-$250 right now. If you're not into overclocking or benchmarks, anything at that price point will do you well, and you can ignore my big nerd rants above.

InsanityIncarnate, he did say "exclusively." but no, you're right.

If you've been in an evil biome, there's a chance that the ground was just covered in slime and you've been tracking that everywhere. Evil slime can rain down and has different names, like vile ooze and what not; I'd be that's what's happening here.

Wait, let's be a little careful with our terms here; do you have a graphics set installed, Obibun, or is that just a custom tileset? Switching tilesets, after all, involves only changing a line in the init files and definitely shouldn't affect actual gameplay. I don't recognize immediately what you're using, so it could be one or the other. I switched to a square tileset and have been having some small brewing issues (possibly related to the old container issues that were in 0.34, where everything in a barrel gets tied up at once) but have been able in the end to brew most things without trouble (I've had quinoa beer, for instance).

Just to second m-logik's post, I think the issue is that the contaminant system is a little weird. I've been able to make more than a few vampire adventurers, but only when drinking any liquid (including, say, another vampire's blood) "laced with [vampire]'s blood." My guess is that it has something to do with the game making a distinction between splatters/smears and contaminants, and only contaminants can pass along syndromes.

Well, this is all I've been able to do recently - it's a bit odd. The camera yellowed and desaturated it, and I took the picture at an off angle, but I think it still gets the point across. This is by no means finished - I think I'm going to remove the ship and redo the sky, among other things.

The medium is acrylic on canvas, just in case anyone was curious.

Great work as usual everyone! Exciting things are coming out of this thread.

Wow, Red Fortune, that's pretty awesome. The bright reflection from the moon seems like it's drawing my eye away from the focal point a tad, but that's not a big issue since it's balanced pretty well with the reflection from the lamp post.

Anyway, just a quick sketch from me. I had a little fun with this one.