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Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I decided to use the Mayday tiles and version I did because I've had a lot of people tell me they couldn't get into the game with the ASCII default set. Even a few cute icons help immensely, and by using a fixed version the tutorials will not get out of synch with the game.

I guess in future I may need to post "what has changed" updates to the blog, but I figure if someone can play through 12 tutorials on an old version they will happily work out what new oddities Toady has coded in in a newer version

Offer a very basic, play-along tutorial. Like this one.

Bedrooms are inside, but 3x1 rooms made of logs are to good for them!

Just had an emo death spiral on an outdoors only succession game on quartertothree.com. Have gone from 105 dwarfs to 27 in 2 seasons.

Now that things are stabilizing I am making more bedrooms (bad ex rulers!) and trying to assign dwarfs. Unfortunately my assign list has only a half dozen dwarfs on it, not the 20-or-so non injured or just arrived.

Thoughts?

In my tutorial 6, from my sig file, I talk about using Dwarf Manager.

I sort of had about the same instinct as you - losing track of my dwarfs and their jobs, but then Dwarf Manager and custom professions solved the problem for me.

Using custom professions I group like dwarfs ("crafy" profession is all dwarfs with a craft skill - to which I then turn on all craft skills for all) and manage them in blobs. Works well.

I usually have around 20%+ of the fortress doing nothing but hauling, I never concentrate on these folks, they just work. Craft, food, metalworking, mining and masonry/engraver dwarfs I manage as blobs, turning hauling on and off as required. Stuff gets done, I have control, jobs aren't left incomplete. Works well I find.

Decent tile sets and play-along tutorials. Hence my video. And all the other stuff Toady won't tackle yet: better graphics, UI, controls, point and click world creation and game setup, etc

Awesome tutorials - they're the inspiration behind my "play along" tutorials (see my sig block). I fully intend to send my mediumly-trained recruits over to YouTube to continue their DF training once I'm done with my 10-or-so tutorials!

Yeah - the frozen wasteland is a little harsh for the AAR I have planned. I'd need quite a thriving fortress before I could get my megaproject underway (Obsidian island), and I'd rather strike out on to it earlier.

Pretty amusing thought. And imagine if you could get all that magma all over the glacier at once. Massive obsidian river!