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Having never previously been able to get into Dwarf Fortress, I ordered the physical book (because I like physical books) which I just got today. And I'm not even to the point of embarking and I'm already "stuck".

I generated a world according to the book's suggestions (savagery very low, minerals everywhere, medium everything else) and then, following the book's instructions, I tried using the site finder to find an area with low savagery, medium temperature, flux stone, no aquifer, multiple shallow & deep metals and >=some soil. No results. I generated another world and tried the same search. No results. I generated another. No results. I generated a fourth world using the largest world size. No results. On this same world, I tried tweaking the site finder settings to be less picky. No results. On all of these searches, the only item in the list of site finder settings left in red was "Flux Stone". Am I doing something wrong or is it just really hard to find flux stone? I'm getting tired of waiting for worlds to generate and searches to finish. If I am to use more lenient settings with the site finder, what settings are OK to change to find a good starting location?

Of course, I don't know if having a flux stone or not is a big deal, but until I know what I'm doing, I want to follow the book's instructions.

Same thing is happening to me.  I'm on my fifth world without a valid site, with flux being the missing ingredient.  Given that world gen takes a fair amount of time, this has been excruciating.

I'm sure I could always trade for it, but there's no guarantee it would come with the initial caravan.

[edit] I should pay more attention - apparently all you need to do is set the minerals to spawn with slightly less frequency and you're golden.[/edit]

Quote from: postal83 on September 08, 2011, 12:57:42 pm

Yeah I noticed this too, it is pretty annoying.  I just hope they fix it with a patch or something.

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I'm doing it all the time. You just need to level a bit.

Your damage and sever power goes up with your items and skills.

I think he was talking about the mouse sensitivity

Right now I am the last person I expected to support Bethesda, but I do have a quick point to make about the menu system.  The main gripe I am hearing is that it isn't a concise view of all of your skills.  Point in fact, you can only see about a third of them at any one time.  However, that doesn't seem to be an attempt to obfuscate or (conversely) overly-simplify the UI.  That's the UI designer trying to take the game further away from the grid-of-numbers that it once was.

If you are one of the people angry about the constellation skill screen, try and imagine a situation in which you need to see *all* of your skill numbers at the same time.  Then ask yourself if - in that scenario - you are min/maxing.  You probably are, and that's something they seem to want to avoid.

With Oblivion, min/maxing was essentially a requirement.  Lord help you if you inadvertently leveled off of Athletics - suddenly you're surrounded by high-level daedra and all you can do is run a little bit faster.  If you wanted to be truly successful in Oblivion (and to a lesser extent, Morrowind) you absolutely had to carefully plan your build from start to finish.  How many of us, in our first Oblivion playthroughs, got absolutely destroyed at the first Oblivion Gate after spending some time leveling up on sidequests?  You either had to run the main quest ASAP before you leveled up too much or you had to wait until you were maxed out and fully enchanted.  That seems to be one of the major things they are trying to change for Skyrim.

TL;DR - if there's no need to micromanage your skill gains, do you really need to see all of your numbers at once?

Vamp is easy mode. You heal every hit, usually for more than the enemy does, and at level 2 you can eat corpses for hitpoints. EZMODE

I had a reply all thought out for this, talking about how a mediocre build with Vamp goes bad, but a decent build with Vamp goes great.  Then I couldn't stop staring at your avatar, and the words left.

I'll just leave this here

Based on the usage of lava for the meatus, I'm guessing Mr. Copper may have an STD.

I am disappoint.

You and your same-vertical-resolution monitors.  I have a 1600x1200 to my left as a secondary, my main is 1920x1080.  As for why there are pixels cut off, that's because mine's an in-game screenshot rather than a full prntscreen job.

With that being said...

I made that world exclusively to be my house - no mining, no sky island farming, no meteors, nothing.  As you can see, I have done precisely nothing with the space I flattened out for myself.  The construction project isn't stopped due to a shortage of material, it's stopped due to a shortage of imagination.

Though I must say I *am* proud of my organization. The six rooms along the center of the house are color coded.  Each has two chests; the left houses raw materials such as bars and bricks, while the right has all of the armor and tools for that material.  The back walls provide an at-a-glance means of identification.  From bottom to top, it's Copper, Iron (stone wall due to non-existence of iron wall), Silver, Gold, 'Other' (Shadow,Necro,Meteor,Jungle), and Hellstone (backed by red brick).

You may also notice the 16 chests in the top of the tower.  These each contain up to 5 copies of 4 items apiece, and are in alphabetical order (chests 1-8 on the left, 9-16 on the right).  Unique items such as those found in chests or crafted from things found in chests (or basically anything magical) take up 13 chests, for a total of 52 items.  The next two chests contain monster drops (bones, hooks, etc), and the final chest is just miscellaneous stuff I couldn't find any other place for (Cobweb, Jungle Rose, Glowing Mushroom Seeds, Gems).

I have almost every item a few times over, but I haven't found a Flamelash, a Whoopie Cushion, and now a Wizard Hat.  Oh, and I still need to craft three more phaseblades - Red, Yellow, White.  I have the gems, just not the meteorite.

okay, first time playing since the patch.  After spending an hour or so exploring a cave system, I remember that you can resize the window now.  I hit Maximize, of course, and immediately joygasm.

Finally got me a full set of Cobalt!  ...but I needs me a Whoopie Cushion.  And a Flamelash.  And a bunch of meteorite.

Then my collections will be complete!