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The best thing about adventure mode is that you can directly control a creature using the same combat system used in fortress mode. Since you have direct control you can do stuff like grab something's throat, strangle it, bite down on it, and tear it out. Stuff that should be possible in fortress mode but which the AI won't actually do.

Check the Wiki for detailed controls and such. Some of the stuff is a little outdated, but still very usefull. You don't need to worry about food for instance.

Actually I recently went through great pains to try to make everything on the wiki accurate with regard to adventure mode. Tell me if this helps:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Adventure_mode_quick_start

P.S. You will die a lot. Horribly. Violently. Everyone does. 

This might be the only piece of information missing from the wiki at this point.

Try killing him or arranging a magma accident.

In order to help save the noobs I decided to start working on improving this:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Quickstart_guide (fortress mode "quick"start)

Most of this was originally written by GhostDwemer. I organized it into a lot of headings, elaborated on some stuff, updated it with some stuff for the latest version, and put some stuff in "tip boxes".

It still not really supposed to be a full tutorial as it doesn't always tell you exactly which key to hit exactly when, but hopefully it says enough that people can look up missing details without too much trouble. The goal is still to have something that people can use without a specific saved game (like Bentgirder) that's somewhere between a tutorial and a reference docs.

It would be great if someone could walk through the whole thing to make sure it's coherent and nothing major is missing, but any feedback (especially from people who just started learning the game) would be helpful.

I hear DT is looking for a project manager, isn't it? I'd love to shut DGC down and tell everybody DT does it all now.

Not sure... At the very least someone is keeping the memory mappings up to date with newer versions but I don't know of anyone adding new features. I've heard of some people working on a mac port though.

I wouldn't be a good project manager though because I haven't written any C++ in forever, and I've never done anything with Qt. I did download the code and got it building on my laptop, and I downloaded lua and got it building under the Qt IDE with qmake, but I haven't done anything beyond that yet.

If I do manage to add lua support to DT, I wouldn't want to implement DGC myself though. Basically I'd just implement something sort of like the current advanced search feature that lets you enter complex boolean expressions to find dwarves matching a certain criteria, except that you'd be able to write full scripts and not just search expressions.

Basically this would allow you to create DGC for DT as a lua "plugin" script. It could come standard with DT or not. And, anyone else who wanted to make some sort of fancy decision-making script could do so as well. Who knows what people might come up with.... Anyway, it seems within the DT vision statement of being a decision support tool.

(lua is very simple and somewhat similar to javascript)

Maybe you could just happen to dodge on top of a prone opponent, then grab them so they can't move, but I can't find a way to intentionally move on top of a prone enemy. alt+direction just causes an attack.

I actually tried standing on a hill with a bogeyman on a ramp the z-level below, doing a takedown/throw on the bogeyman from the z-level above, then using alt+direction to move into the open space above the bogeyman causing the adventurer to fall onto the same tile as the prone bogeyman.

While it makes a great WWF move, falling a z-level caused the adventurer to become prone and I was unable to stand up before the bogeyman did.

So I can't find any reliable way to do this....

Anyone working on a military tutorial? if not maybe I'll do it....