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Isn't there a program that lets you design a fortress in, like, a spreadsheet, and then your dwarfs will carve it out?

When I made a jeweler workshop my dwarf was trapped behind the 1x3 wall and starved to death because I completely forgot about it.

"Hello?"
"Yes? How can I help you?"
"....Urist McWife?"
"Yes, that's me..."
"I regret to inform you that your husband passed away today."
"Oh my Armok! What happened???"
"He..... starved."
"What? But.... I packed his lunch just this morning!"
"Well.... he was... kinda.... sorta.... somewhat.... Well, he was walled in."
"He- wait, what?"
"Yes. He was building a workshop, and he accidentally trapped himself behind a wall."
"Why didn't you dig him out?!?!"
"We.... we were going to, but uh.... we sort of forgot."

Just found microcline, I think I am getting close, as in adventure mode caves have a crapload of the stuff in them.

That has nothing to do with it, it's just a symptom of worldgen/the biome you're in

Quote from: DarthCloakedDwarf on June 26, 2010, 06:27:29 pm

Quote from: TomiTapio on June 25, 2010, 10:09:11 pm

DF is less addictive than Warcraft because in Warcraft you have buddies and social pressure from your guild. You can't pause a WoW raid, you can only leave and hurt your reputation.
DF is more like SimCity and The Sims, where you can always start a new fort/city/character, try doing things differently. DF and Sims can have user-made content, little tiny expansions of the game.

If your significant other wants some escapism, he could lose himself in fantasy novels too, 400 pages per day. I don't think threats or disruption will work.

DF is MORE addicting than Warcraft because Warcraft is boring as hell. I stopped playing after 15 minutes.

So you stopped playing it after you, what, did a single quest? Good job.

I don't know about him, but I tend to spend 15 minutes just in Character Creation.

(Not in WoW, just in games in general... I've not sunk low enough for Warcrack)

First off, I like Rhino.
Secondly-
Real men model Dwarf Fortress with Legos.

Quote from: DarthCloakedDwarf on June 26, 2010, 04:04:43 pm

Quote from: zwei on June 26, 2010, 02:24:45 pm

I also embarked without anvil and pick (for fun), only with two axes. This means that I can not mine and am sad panda.

You embarked without an anvil? What were you thinking, man?

What? I do that all the time. I usually just buy one from the first tradesmen.

Same. It isn't worth the points on embark when I'm not going to need until after the first caravan arrives anyway.

Why does everyone hate the UI? It's almost as good as Aurora's and a lot better then many modern UI's for games I have come across.

I agree. There's definitely a few areas where it could use some work, and some things could be simplified, but on the whole I think the UI is pretty solid. 

Personal UI pet peeve: Hitting enter to build my wall, because I'm expecting it to work like Designations, or hitting u to mine, because I'm expecting it to work like Constructions.

I heard of a dwarf who had tow steel axes in his right hand, and a shield and training axe in his left hand, and wore 4 layers of chainmail.

Not as much stuff, but I still laughed at the mental image.