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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / How to stay entertained in DF
« on: March 28, 2010, 02:22:59 pm »
Firstly please don't take this as me saying Df is boring, in fact I think it might be one of the best games ever made.... ever! But for years now I've tried to get my self into the hacky slashy base building fun but I always seem to end up minimizing it to look up how to trade or acquire wealth and I just end up doing something else. As a side note I have not fully grasped the basics of dwarf fortress yet, as previously stated I do not understand trading and wealth. I've also tried attempting something new, like building a water fall (my first time
little scared that my dwarfs will die). So the community how did you find your self able to play dwarf fortress for such a long time and have it hold your attention? Also if you could give me some hints on how to make it more enjoyable (I'm not ready for mega-projects and the like) please drop a comment. Lastly I would like to thank the spell check for all it's done fore me
little scared that my dwarfs will die). So the community how did you find your self able to play dwarf fortress for such a long time and have it hold your attention? Also if you could give me some hints on how to make it more enjoyable (I'm not ready for mega-projects and the like) please drop a comment. Lastly I would like to thank the spell check for all it's done fore me
. Since then I've reinstalled Df quite a few times, but one problem is I can't delete all the original files for the original Df because when I downloaded it I didn't put it in a folder so all the files are all over the place. (Actual game problem down here) So what I've noticed is that every living thing in my game is always female at the start any ways, is there a tag for this in the raw? What happens usually is I'll start out with all females (I just you the "embark" button I never plan) then maybe if I'm lucky I'll get one maybe two males in an immigration. Although it's not uncommon to just have female. So can you help me?
) but that's another thread. The problem I face is once I reach a population of about 50 I don't have any more jobs for my dwarfs, it's become self sufficient IE I can feed every one and every one has place to sleep. I usually only have one type of each workshop (sometimes two for masonry). So should I have more workshops if so which ones and how come? (other then brewery i have plenty of those) Also I tend to be very slow in producing weapons/ armor for my military, again I only have one of each workshop. If I had more would my production speed up? Just gonna slip in another question here. It says in the wiki a well can still draw water from a source as long as the source is under the well, give or take a few z levels. My water source was 2 z levels down from my well and dwarfs would say complain about there being no water in the well. Yes the water source was 7/7.
or are they having baby's Va asexual reproduction
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