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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: How can i properly to keep track of the fighting?
« on: December 23, 2013, 11:58:11 am »
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Life Advice / Re: religion, and how ive messed up, advice plz
« on: December 23, 2013, 09:16:47 am »
Write what you just told us in the blank journal. That's what it's for. 
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Suggestions for new Dwarf Fortress player
« on: December 22, 2013, 11:49:39 am »
Start with the basics (food, drink, shelter, protection). Simplify. Don't panic! 
Food is arguably the easiest industry in DF. A simple 5x5 plot of plump helmets will supply your fort with plenty of food and drink for the first couple of years. With irrigation currently disabled, just slap a farm plot in the first soil layer.
Food is arguably the easiest industry in DF. A simple 5x5 plot of plump helmets will supply your fort with plenty of food and drink for the first couple of years. With irrigation currently disabled, just slap a farm plot in the first soil layer.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Caves Colonization
« on: December 16, 2013, 04:12:01 pm »
^ I have always been in favor of cooking/brewing as "moodable" skills.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Caves Colonization
« on: December 13, 2013, 04:26:18 pm »forgotten beast meat is a fantastic source of wealth.Are lavish meals different from fines in anything but trading cost? I guess, the dwarves react better on these, but they seem to be reacting quite well to just fine meals, so if trading is not an option, is there really a reason to bother?
What I do is save up the meat-stacks until I have 4, then I forbid all other cookable items and make a lavish meal. If each of the FB's dropped a stack of 100 meat (for example) the result is an ultra-valuable 400-stack roast!
I do it for trading purposes, as well as the personal satisfaction of making a $1,000,000 roast. Sometimes I don't even sell it, I just wait and see how many years/decades it takes for my dwarfs to finish eating it.
You are correct there is probably no benefit to the happiness of your dwarfs of making a forgotten meat roast, vs. forgotten meat stew or biscuits.
I have also noticed the quarry bush bug/quirk where roasts can contain more than 4 stacks.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Caves Colonization
« on: December 12, 2013, 02:52:33 pm »
forgotten beast meat is a fantastic source of wealth.
What I do is save up the meat-stacks until I have 4, then I forbid all other cookable items and make a lavish meal. If each of the FB's dropped a stack of 100 meat (for example) the result is an ultra-valuable 400-stack roast!
What I do is save up the meat-stacks until I have 4, then I forbid all other cookable items and make a lavish meal. If each of the FB's dropped a stack of 100 meat (for example) the result is an ultra-valuable 400-stack roast!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Caves Colonization
« on: December 11, 2013, 04:10:48 pm »
One word: Hunters
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Vampirism and you
« on: December 10, 2013, 11:24:28 am »
My vampire has 200 strikes with a steel hammer waiting for her, when she completes her year in prison. Should be interesting.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Plebs vs Skilled Dwarfs
« on: December 09, 2013, 03:00:29 pm »
I simply leave my dwarfs with the skills they arrive with. By the time there are 100+ dwarves then you're practically guaranteed to have all the skills covered.
The one exception is if a dwarf has a Strange Mood and becomse Legendary in an un-enabled skill; I will enable the skill in that situation.
100+ idle dwarfs? No problem!!
The one exception is if a dwarf has a Strange Mood and becomse Legendary in an un-enabled skill; I will enable the skill in that situation.
100+ idle dwarfs? No problem!!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Newish player needing advice on fort expansion
« on: November 20, 2013, 12:00:59 pm »
I consider having a high number of healthy, happy, well-fed idlers to be "winning" Dwarf Fortress.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: [0.31.25] I think I've run out of migrants
« on: November 14, 2013, 04:54:48 pm »
Do you trade with the dwarf traders in the autumn? I've read this is necessary to "get the word out" to potential migrants...
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Trying vanilla DF - how do I sort my dwarves?
« on: October 09, 2013, 01:11:19 pm »
I just leave them with the skills they had when they arrived---once the population gets up around 100, then all bases are covered.
The two exceptions are: 1) make sure the relevant skill is enabled when an unskilled dwarf goes to legendary through a strange mood; 2) sometimes I assign labors for children when they grow to be adults (or not; sometimes I just use them as haulers).
The two exceptions are: 1) make sure the relevant skill is enabled when an unskilled dwarf goes to legendary through a strange mood; 2) sometimes I assign labors for children when they grow to be adults (or not; sometimes I just use them as haulers).
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: When did you realize you were no longer a newb?
« on: September 12, 2013, 01:58:21 pm »
The moment came for me when I figured out how to buy the entire first year dwarven caravan.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The 4 field rotation system
« on: September 12, 2013, 01:56:44 pm »
Great system!
Only comment/suggestion: Unless you are dying lots of imported cloth, I would recommend tweaking the ratio of dimple cups to pig tails.
Only comment/suggestion: Unless you are dying lots of imported cloth, I would recommend tweaking the ratio of dimple cups to pig tails.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Animal Overcrowding: How to Avoid?
« on: September 03, 2013, 09:55:32 am »
I put a Sculpture Garden in a mined-out soil layer (having first breached the caverns). My animals naturally congregate around the statues and eat the cave plants. No starvation, no animal fighting.