Bay 12 Games Forum

Weathers in DF can be really funny.
Now it is winter and the ocean is frozen. A snow storm has come, But only the ocean biome snows, the forest and grass land is sunny.

The color doesn't look right. But that is it.

Why do you want to punish her? She made an otherwise plain game more interesting.
 

I only play fortress mode. I've created some adventurers, but I'm not into that mode. My play pattern is quite simple. And I don't like big projects.

When I retire a fort, I lose the motivation to explore the world. Sometimes I start a new one, basically to try a different biome. Then what?

The problem is, we can't see the changes we do to the world. It is not like we can conquer other civs in fortress mode. If there is a way to let the game run for several hundreds years like in the world gen screen, it could be more interesting...I would like to see the great great great ...grandson of my militia commander becoming a king, I also would like to see a cursed artifact dwarven baby bone pick killing a descendant of its creator 500 years after its creation...but I don't think it is practicable to play the same world for hundreds of years.

So I always scrap it, create a new world, scrap it, create another, scrap, create ....

tl;dr
Do you keep generating new worlds? Or do you have some good reasons to play on the same map?

In most cases, iron is good enough. But guess it still can't kill bronze colossus so steel is still preferred.

1) Minecart track
2) Siege machine. I build them, but I have never used them to kill anything.
3) Magma piston
4) Windmill
5) Waterwheel
6) Pump stack
7) Glaze
8| Crystal glass
9) Catch vermins
...

Oh, it seems if the map is big enough (perhaps bigger than 2x2), pulling a lever that links to a draw bridge or spike trap can cause notible lag.
I noticed it caused 1 second pause on a 4x4 map(all caverns, magma and HFS revealed), like a cave-in. I know my computer is old, but still this is worth to mention.

I'm currently playing a 1x9 heavily forested map. I built an atom-smasher and linked it to a pressure plate. Every time a dorf stepped on the plate, the game lagged(frame jumped, although the fps counter didn't show it).

I guess draw bridges can force the game to recalculate the path finding map, which may take a while if the map is big.

Thikut Regberdan, Armorer has created Tokthatnoram Nonshutdebish, a steel breastplate!

They finally made something useful.