Bay 12 Games Forum

I had some minor frustrations about this change, but having read this thread I think it's just right. I actually love having kids doing chores, and playing more of an active role in the fort.

Now that I think about it, dwarves have such long lives, they might be considered "kids" until they're 30 or 40. I mean, that's a LOT more "realistic" than a 12 year old adult, in the context of the game. An apprentice system, related to guilds maybe, would be a fascinating dynamic, I hope they're considering something like this for the future!

Using Steam version, I was trying to send a few raiders and tribute demand missions out, but it doesn't seem to work.

Specifically, I send the mission out, they spend a bit of time away, then I get the (non-major) announcement that they have returned, but nothing else, doesn't seem to bring any loot, or really do anything at all.

Am I missing something? New version is bugged? Something on my end?

There are mission reports in the World/Civ info screen, you can check if there was a report.

Quote from: Bumber on October 25, 2022, 08:27:03 pm

Quote from: Thisfox on October 23, 2022, 08:56:57 pm

Looks like there was a massacre at the Mountainhomes.

The dwarven bard is performing Massacre at the Mountainhomes. The singing is not bad.

Probably one of those AI bards, the
HAL-bard

That pun has me utterly poleaxed.

With the steam release upon us, I thought maybe people might like to post your standard designs for your most used buildings or activities, like temples, libraries, kitchens, etc. A little knowledge sharing, a little showing off if you like. I'll get things started out with my usual hospital layout.

Zone: Rectangular selection because of doors - Hospital & Meeting Area -> Location: Doctor's Guildhall
Well: Meeting Area 1x1, Location: Doctor's Guildhall (prevents outsiders from lingering by the well)

Space to lock/wall in dangerous patients as needed. Central stair. Bucket stockpile. It's small if you get hit with more than 16 wounded at a time and/or have violent patients taking up beds, but by then you usually have much bigger problems!

I love Speardragon! Damn, that really looks spectacular, I doubt my computer could run that front end, it chugs along pretty hard with 200 dwarves just using newb pack and Phoebus. Is that Masterwork, or some other cool thing I haven't checked out? Thanks for sharing 

Cleaves the Icy Gloom still lives, and I'm just starting to engrave the bedrooms and attractions. The bedrooms for the common dwarfs are 1x3, and feed into each other, kind of branching up. I've played with this design a lot. My last base it looked more like a maple leaf, with the noble housing (three connected 3x3 rooms that fit into the 1x3 room pattern) breaking up the sections of the leaf. (ETA: Ah! I found a design pic ) Ultimately the smaller rooms will have one each of cabinet and chest in economic stone. I set my fort right in dolomite, so I'm soaking in expensive stone, and my +5 legendary engraver is working his way around the residential level. The dining room just ticked over into legendary happy thoughts!

I mean, I'm basically turtling behind cage traps so far on this fort, don't even have a military yet, but I sort of agree with you about the difficulty level once you understand the mechanics, and I'd love to see (is this a scary thing to hope for?) deeper gameplay. It seems that Toady is interested in making difficult experiences going forward, so I'll be looking forward to whatever comes next. The mood system really is fascinating, and I wonder what models of trauma he's studying to build dwarfbrains.

Rimworld is another great game for sure, but for me DF lands squarely in a sweet spot between hustle-survival games like Rimworld or Don't Starve and gamey builders like Banished or Stonehearth. I've also been spending a loooot of time in Oxygen not included in the last year, as the updates keep coming out and raising the bar relentlessly. But the difficulty is engineering, not gunfights, and it's not quite so arbitrarily punishing as Rimworld. That's more my speed. And cute. Cute is always a plus!

Speaking of cute, I can't wait to post more pictures of this fort once those levels are all smoothed and possibly engraved! Dwarf outposts have followed us out to this frozen, empty part of the world and it's really quite neat to take world development into consideration for my NEXT fort!

Immortal, I am using a few pieces of DFHack stuff, but I haven't really picked at any of the commands. I wasn't trying to make circles on this fort, I was looking for more organic shapes that kind of folded together. Actually, before I added the library/museum "cap" it looked almost like a brain, which was really interesting and I may explore that in a future base - but I had a vision for this three-hall layout this time around. Like, this society reflects on their faith and the wisdom of their royalty, but all stand before the study of and search for knowledge! So of course the library had to be at the top. I even made the museum linked to the "private" library, so only Cleavesfolk may view our greatest treasures!

Is it prohibitively complicated to install additional graphics options in Windows x64 PyLNP? Are there directions somewhere? I do not have deep technical skills, but wanted to try a few different things from the file depot (e.g.: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12781 )

Thanks in advance!
ks

Then generate a new world and play.

This helped some, thank you. Is it possible to update the graphics for an existing world/savegame?