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I just don’t like when other people patronize designed fortress or something you experience, when really they couldn’t do 1/10th of the stuff they say given vanilla.

(Tell them about how your doctor is doing something silly)
Criticizer- “Why is that guy whose given personality is your doctor...I would never etc”
(Can only do because therapist)

(Early necromancer siege)
Criticizer- “You lost your fort in an early siege? Your fort should be done by now”
(Can only do because fast dwarves)

DFhack fastdwarf is truly a cheat/hack (wouldn't call it a 'mod' for pedantic reasons).

Dwarf Therapist doesn't let you do anything you couldn't normally do, it just makes it so you don't have to spend an hour going through dwarf profiles making notes about them and deciphering their stats and skills from their description.  And I have done that in vanilla.  Once it took two hours to go through a twenty dwarf migrant wave.

I think the real issue is that your friends are one-upping jerks.  Sharing anecdotes is supposed to be for mutual interest and camaraderie.  It's not about bragging about "achievements" or showing off your "l33t dorf skillz."  Efficiency and competence are nice and all, but they aren't virtues to be slavishly pursued.  Interesting stories are born of conflict, i.e. when things go wrong.  No one wants to hear a story about a time when everything went perfectly and there were no problems and all challenges were defeated easily or bypassed.

Also, Dwarf Fortress is not a competitive game.  If someone is gloating about their accomplishments or 'skill' (rather than just sharing it as an interesting story) they are completely missing the point of the game.  This isn't Simcity or Farmville.  You don't get online dick-hat points for spending hours grinding out a really high fortress value.

On another note, the RAW files are there and mod-able because a core part of the game is personalizing your own experience.  As a single-player game it's not "cheating" to edit them, especially because their is no "winning" in the game.  Exploring what can be done with the game and trying to learn and break its internal systems is a game all on its own.

Tavern brawls can generate Curses if the Tavern & Temple share a tile.  You can also get Cursed by knocking over a bookcase in a Library-Temple combo.

So like a brawl spilling out of the tavern into a temple zone?  You can't assign one tile two zones/locations.  Or am I misunderstanding?

Maybe if you find a forest dense with the big 2x2 highwood trees.  They would grow big and high enough to make it worthwhile.  It will just take along time.

	|	Radical	Moderate	Fundamentalist
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Elves	| |	Elves are no worse  than humans	Elves are as  bad as goblins	Elves are worse  than goblins
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Tileset	| |	Tilesets, visualizers,  and lighting engines	Tile sets are  preferred	Vanilla Only
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Mods/Hacks	| |	Total conversion  modpacks	Lazy Newb Pack	No Mods
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!!FUN!!	| |	It is terrifying!	It is sad, but not unexpected.	It was inevitable.

While it's true that the DF2014 performance has improved since the original 40.xx release , older versions than DF2014 (the 4x.xx serie are all part of DF2014 ) like 34.11 by example  ran faster and so allowed for less tricks to be used to keep good enough fps.

I will take your word for it.  I haven't tried running new versions on an old machine, or old versions on my new machine.

1x1 embarks were also possible at one point,

You can still do 1x1 embarks.  One issue is that you can easily run out of metal ore or other resources if your fort lasts for many years.  Also having enough trees for wood supply may be an issue.

but considering low fps means everything even the simplest of task takes forever to be done and make it so incredibly boring, those tricks are currently the only way i found to no stop playing the recent versions of DF as i didn't needed that much self imposed limitations in pre-DF2014.

Whether my FPS is 60 or 15 doesn't matter so much to me because either way I always have netflix, youtube, or twitch going on my second monitor.  I'm also usually combing through Legends Viewer or typing up a seasonal log entry on the fort's progress.

Also, newer versions of Dwarf Fortress run faster and more stable than older versions for me.  A couple months ago I played a 40.24 fort and it didn't run as well as the 44.12 forts I've played since then.

DFhack hermit

Blocks all caravans, migrants, diplomats, and forgotten beasts (not wildlife).