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Basic Goals: you gotta get them.

-Make it through the first winter
-Reach the Dwarven Economy
-Seiged for the first time
-Ambushed for the first time
-Have at least one champion in your military
-Survive an Ambush
-Survive a Siege
-Experience emotion towards one of your dwarves
-Reach your fortress in adventure mode
-Kill a semi-megabeast in adventure
-Become the enemy of a civilization
-Find at least one underground feature (both, in dwarf mode, and adventure)

Advanced:
-Fun with magma
-See every underground feature
-Water structure
-Mega-construction
-make a creature on your map extinct
-build an arena
-build an execution chamber
-Do something that makes you feel absolutely dwarven
-Get through an aquifer
-Fortress on "unsustainable" land
-Learn acsII graphics

Extra-curicular: Overtime fun stuff.
-Play a mod
-Make your own creature
-invent a new weapon
-join a community fort
-Do a bloodline/succession game
-Challange fortress
-Run a community fortress
-Report a never before seen bug
-donate to Toady

I pass with flying colours.
Except I have no money, therefore cannot donate to Toady.

This is awesome beyond measure, but I'd like to see the implementation of the Team Fortress 2 silhouette mantra: Making every silhouette different and distinguishable enough to be immediately recognized at a glance.

It really adds an awesome touch of personality to silhouettes.

Of course, I'm no artist or 3D designer, so what do I know? 

{The journal seems to be less weathered at this point.}


The fortress has ground to a standstill. We cannot dig anything out, as our picks remain in the river or in the broken hands of Spelguru. There isn't enough dwarfpower to clean the fortress up. The cats are killing all the vermin and creating miasma clouds everywhere. A massive firestorm was sparked by the exploding corpses of the humans. There is foul work afoot. Humans don't usually explode like that.

The animals are still overpopulating. We are stuffing them into a single cage and hope to sell them to the caravan that comes in a month. We do not expect any immigrants to come soon. For now, we will have to be contented with two and a half dwarves running the fortress.

The dogs seem to gather around the Death Room. They are drawn to the psychic imprint that Markavian's death had on it. Maybe it IS a nexus of power now.

The pyramids are resonating...


{The journal has been acknowledged by Mayor JT to be an artifact of history and fate. It will be guarded by Champion Squad forthwith, and only Philosopher NullAshton will have access to its sacred text.}

{Oh, it turns out that the torn pages are just glued onto the later parts of the journal. That's odd.}


-avian died today. I have plans to replace him, since we need another mechanic. Sure, the deathtraps need building, but damn if I'm going to let him adopt all those animals. Seriously, what kind of upstanding dwarf has TWENTY pets and a wife?

I don't think he's suspicious of that death room he built. I mean, he DID put all the weapons into the mechanisms and assured me that the door was impenetrable. Did I say death room? I meant "Nexus of Power", yes. Of course.


{The torn pages... Are even more torn. Further investigation into the journal is mandated by Philosopher NullAshton.}

In one of my latest fortresses, I was making an above-ground barracks/fortification tower/megaproject. I also built a moat.

So in the middle of the construction, I'm suddenly not happy with my bridge roofs (roofs made out of bridges) because I realize that they won't show up in 3Dwarf. So I deconstruct them and a bit of the flooring in between them.

The floors crash down, through the 3 z-levels of the above-ground fort, through the moat through the food stockpile, through the bar/block stockpile, and into the great hall.

A dwarf dies in the process, and the recently-opened lava channel is thundering towards the new hole in the moat.

I don't know how I did it, but I managed to seal off the moat and rebuild everything before the lava death arrives, at the cost of the food stockpile.

4 in-game months later, I accidentally cave in a cliffside.

It, again, punches through the lava moat, into the refuse stockpile, and ends up in the weapon stockpile. Only this time, the lava moat has lava in it.

The firey death invaded my fortress. I just gave up, dug direct passages to the magma pipe, sealed off the exits, and watched as my fortress descended into madness. A dwarf went insane from the get-go, tore apart a child, and threw himself into the lava.

The rest of them huddled in the main hall, maybe thinking that the lava would not reach them.

It did. It killed them all.

Except for one dwarf, who went into a fey mood and managed to get into his room a second before the lava death sealed it off.

He ended up starving to death shortly after.

I remember this same thing happened with N (a little physics game with a ninja and a... Well, if you respect yourself, you'll look into it).

If you ran a media player in the background (WMP, Winamp, and VLC worked fine), then you'd get a noticeable FPS boost. The developers' excuse was "Well, maybe the Ninja likes music".

Are people not allowed any dissent from the opinion, "Toady is god.  Let us worship him."  Gimli is not (since so few of you seem to have checked) a new poster deciding to do some trolling.  He is a long time follower of the game who is disappointed with the lack of visible progress since his last visit.  I would assume, at the risk of being foolish, that he was expecting actual game play changes when his brother told him to check out DF again.

So just cut him some slack, and let him voice his opinion.

This isn't a "You said something bad about Toady, so you must be idiotic" type of response.

It's more of a "You honestly have the guts to complain about a FREE game that ONE person is making, without even donating?" type of response.

There's a difference between kissing butt and standing up for independent developers.

I don't worry about the tantrum spiral. My military dwarves are either so badass or so terrible that they all die instantly or win epically, respectively. You heard me.

But yes, the last time I had a really big military, the dwarves were busting out babies nonstop. As soon as a baby turned into a child and then into an adult (2 years), a new baby popped up.