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Hi,

I am a newbie, I am looking for a game, just to view that has stuff like irragation built and makes use of waterwheels and axes so I can see how they work. It is preferable if they work with mike maydays version of DF but if not I will try and find the exact working version for the saves.

I was actually advised to look in these forums, which I am in the process of doing and I notice you are having community games or something? Is that where people take a turn of a save then mail it on or something? Just reading and it sounds interesting.

Hi,

I have made a fort on say level 1, everythings mined out, now on part of a hallway floor directly above it is a black area, unmined but I can see it has some coal, anyway I want to from level 1 in my fort get to level 2 , so I do b C then choose stairs, it builds the stairs but I still cant get UP one level .

I will attempt to draw.......
  *****
*         *
*   BU   *
  **** *
Lvl2 ^

    ####
   # SS#
  #     #

Lvl1^

BU = Black unimined
* = rock edges which I dont want to mine into but want to dig UP and go up via a stair from my fort main level
# = Fort walls created when initially mined out
S = 1 tile wide stairway

Thanks again
 

haha yeah the same thing happened to me

What I ended up doing was offering them some stuff to smooth relations, I did this a couple of times, then the third time I tried to do the same but it turned out there was some wood in one of my bins lol

On that note do elves take issue with wooden bins?

Yeah the Tuts are awesome, I have actually been able to learn alot on my own after doing these guides as they give a good solid foundation knowledge of the game, dont get my wrong Im still learning but they have helped immensely and made me fully realise that a text game , if done correctly like DF is always going to exceed the depth of any graphical game.

I'm just checking back to see if there are any new guides up, but Im guessing C.Duck will be enjoying his new year

I cant wait to watch some of the new guides when they come, its just I have a glass industry setup, clothiers, forges and a whole host of other stuff. I currently have a baron, hammerer and tax collector and my residents are for the most part, happy! However with not having the game experiance I have done things in a somewhat disorganised way, this is because alot of new things are happening in game so I think next time around I will be better prepared but the guides would be useful.

Some future guide considerations:

Continuation of your defense setup
How to smelt and forge weapons
How to setup glass, collect sand
How to collect cave spider silk/functions of looms and clothiers
Optimum stock piles for the above
How to build towers (Outside)
How to use traps, mechanisms (Maybe how to make portcullis , which opens via an inside lever? and other cool traps stuff)
Defense capable of working against megabeasts
How to use gear assemblys and also how to use floodgates to flush water out a river
How to use pits

The above is just some ideas for future guides, much of it I have figured out thanks to the solid learning base I have through watching the guides. Whatever you come up with I will be happy with but one things for sure this game has mammoth scope! Anyway no doubt you have your own ideas but just thought I would post these and in actually in regards to the forges, its not to hard to  figure out their use after what the guides taught.

Good luck with any future guides and enjoy your new year!

Okay that decides it gonna give it a blast, I did read somewhere that you get to see your engravings or something

Thanks That makes sense I will do that!

Thanks, also btw sorry for reviving this topic but I dont see the point in starting a new one.

I also need large gems but i am cuting them now and dont have any yet, with a finite amount I was thinking, start making glass, so does it still work to make large glass gems , its just I checked the wiki and it says you cant however after reading this topic it seems like you can?

I havent tried making glass yet, I hope it isnt too bad to setup

Another thing on the mandate it has large gems 1/1 does that mean I have met the mandate?