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DF Gameplay Questions / Fuel

« on: December 14, 2008, 10:01:33 pm »

Hey I started off on a mountain (which is missing lava, though the search said it would have some) and I need to find some fuel like coal and lignite, but I cant seem to find any anywhere! what z-level should I be digging at?

Also, 2 more random things;

1. Can you make a bed out of something besides wood?

2. Whats it like playing human fortress?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Differences between races

« on: December 14, 2008, 08:10:35 pm »

So I was wondering, are there any major differences when playing as a race besides dwarfs? I head that dwarfs cant use longswords or bows while elves and humans can, and then there's the whole armor size thing, just curios.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Forgetful merchant

« on: December 14, 2008, 12:48:18 am »

So it was my first year on my 2nd fortress (quite the 1st on the 1st year because I screwed myself over and ended up drowning 1/2 of my dwarfs, lol) and the 1st year caravan came, and everything was normal aside from moving the trade depot around a few times. when they left though, one of them forgot like, all their stuff and I have some crates of silk, some metal armor and other junk lying around right in front of the entrance to my fortress, and I tried organizing these, though, I realized that I seem to not be able to move the stuff aside from the caged animals, so, help!

Also, what was the most silliest thing you had happen to you/did in DF?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Stone weapons and armor

« on: December 12, 2008, 09:37:11 pm »

so i'm looking through things to make and I see the option to make armor and weapons out of my rhyodite stone, is this any good? Is obsidion good, or is metal the way to go? and, whats the most interesting item of armor/weapon you made?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Wondering pets

« on: December 07, 2008, 02:36:42 pm »

ok, thanks, one more thing, does anyone have any quick tips on farming?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Wondering pets

« on: December 07, 2008, 01:44:41 pm »

hey, i've just started out on a fortress and I noticed all my animals: some horses/donkeys, 2 dogs (and besides my cat who hangs around my food stockpiles all day) just seem to be wandering around outside, climbing a mountain ect., but I want then around my entrance, I got a tin cage although it doesn't seem to be doing anything, so is there a way to get my animals to stay in a specific spot?

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DF Bug Reports / Re: Game Window is bugged

« on: December 06, 2008, 08:20:50 pm »

ok, it turned out my download was corupted

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DF Bug Reports / Game Window is bugged

« on: December 06, 2008, 07:18:17 pm »

so I downloaded the game and put mayday's graphic mode over it but now whenever I start a game, it wont work in full screen because "Mode Switch Failed" and no matter what I do to the .init the window mode is as big as my screen and I can only see half the text up in the upper-right hand corner as apposed to when I first got the game and is ran in a rather small rectangular window which I liked, so can someone help me?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Newbie questions

« on: November 29, 2008, 06:20:33 pm »

Quote from: Magua on November 29, 2008, 06:03:47 pm

Various character sets: http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/List_of_user_character_sets

What would you suggest in terms of character sets?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Newbie questions

« on: November 29, 2008, 05:52:54 pm »

So I just recently heard about how fun this game is from /v/ and wanted to try it out, so I download it but I have a few questions first...

1. Should I do some major read-up on the controls and such first? Or should I just go dicking around until I get the swing of things?

2. Adventure or Fortress first? Which is fun for what?

3. I heard something about "2 different kinds of graphics" or something

4. Whats this about playing as a "human Village"?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

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