Bay 12 Games Forum

Been slacking today, because of this:

Noby Noby Boy

Normal update today

Part 27: In this episode i explain magma forges, and some miscellaneous stuff like roads, sculpture gardens & ponds.

Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 27 - Magma Forging, roads & ponds: Youtube HD

Here finnaly is magma forging, also some other othings. I have the next episode recorded to, its all about glass, that will probably come up tommorow. After that the next one after that should be machinery. Im really getting close to the end here now, i dont have much material left. I have a couple of update ideas: dwarven economy, the king, clothing, creatively taking care of captured enemies , but thats about all i can think of at the moment. Sure it's not everything, im thinking of leaving out soap for example, but people should have to find out some things by themselves.

Also i have a question for you guys. I have multiple military squads, 2 were wrestling squads, but others were intended to be weapon squads with mixed weapons and a hammer squad. But for some reason, all my dwarves do is wrestle. I got 2 hammerdwarves from a new batch of migrants, stuck those in a squad with some other trainees, all set to hammer. But for some reason all they do is wrestle, and the hammerdwarves eventually become wrestlers, elite wrestlers and then champions. I have 39 champions at the moment, its ridiculous. So is this a bug in 40d9 or have i overlooked something? There are more then enough iron hammers around,  and they were carrying hammers till they became wrestling champs. What is going on?

I'm surprised you didn't do an episode on magma and pumps. That reaction is quite a bit different.

You do know that the series isn't over right?

I have some pumps standing around, would be a waste not to show them on video. I dont know when, magma forges and glass are probably up next. That or an extra video since i have the game saved with 2 full goblin packs about to run into a line of traps.

I fixed most of my FPS problems by now, stopping the pumps and stopping water movement helped. Allthough i probably should try to turn the temp and weather off yeah.

Also, im very certain that whatever i do next, it will not be dwarf fortress related. It'll be something else, i need variety in my games .

Anyway, update:

Part 26: This episode will have more on magma, and also i will explain floodgates, levers, bridges and how to link them up.

Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 26 - Floodgates, Levers and Bridges.: Youtube HD

Man im happy thats done, i had a lot of technical problems making it. First i found out after recording that the sound was fucked (even though i recorded this straight after 25, and nothing was changed). Then recording sound again failed to, so its now a patchwork of sound bites over the original video. And on top of that while i was subbing, about halfway, i tried pressing "undo" once in camtasia. That was a bad idea, all my subs were instantly gone, Bah.

Yeah dwarf fortress is a game more suited to SSLP's , and im not planning on starting one of those anytime soon. Though ill prolly make some extra videos at the end of this series. But at one point, this series will end.

After that, i don't know. I had plans to LP either aquaria, or Little Big Adventure 2 at one point. There are also some other cool indie games that could use some attention. Also whats important is if i have enough time to LP games, which might change in a month or so. I'll see what happens when this series ends.

Sorry guys, i planned to do an update tonight, but preparing is taking really long. Also i filled the moats with water using pumps, and now my FPS has gone to a crawl, making it take even longer. Im using 40d9 to . Its prolly just the 125+ dwarves running around in an 8x8 zone, together with all the water movement lagging my CPU badly. Man i wish this program was multicore, i got a quadcore, if it just used all that i wouldn't have a problem.

I dont know if ill have any time for updates tommorow either, but i'll see what i can do.

EDIT: oh and that link is fixed

First off, thanks again for the great videos.

One question that has constantly entered my mind when watching your videos is: "How do you safely build these water channels without causing your miners to drown?"  And in the magma video, you had started a small forging operation, but how did you crack into the magma pipe without flooding that room with magma?  It's just something that I don't understand.  Do you build some kind of doorway that can block the flow?  And if so, when you crack that final wall open, does the dwarf die?

Thanks!

This is going to be in the next video (not today, maybe tommorow). Basicly what i do is first dig out  the path but leave a 1 tile wall between the magma. Then i place fortifications right in front of that wall. If i want to be extra safe, i build floodgates in front of that fortification walls. Then i build some stairs up, go above the tiles that are holding the magmafrom the fortification, and channel those out.

With that, the magma can flow in, but has to go through the fortifications, that filters any nasty enemies out, then has to go through floodgates if i have any, and it goes where i want.

When the magma is in your channels, channel out 1 spaceso the magma forges will work, and your done, you have a working magma forge.

Oh, and do remember to close of the channeled tile that opened the path with a grate/floor. I had a fire imp climb in that way, luckily he didn't do much damage.

Anyway more on that in the next vid, probably tommorow.

EDIT: well things happened and "tommorow" is over, and tommorow is saturday. Next ep will be sunday or monday.