March 6, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.12 has been released.
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News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
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Now I'll never get in the coast guard
1) Make a dwarven fortress on a 3x3 section of a map. Create all artifacts that you can. Drop all artifacts.
2) Repeat until you have dwarven fortresses on all squares of the minimap.
3) Reclaim the entire area of the minimap at once. Reclaim all artifacts.
Not recommended for people who lack computers that come from the future.
1) Build in terrifying locales. More action = more fun anyways.
2) Don't use cheap tricks. In the previous version, I found that drawbridges, traps, and "cheap" doors made things too easy, and played without them. I also played without intentional floods to wipe out invading forces.
3) Make more soldiers! My goal was to make as massive of a military as possible. Maintaining a military of 25% of your troops is easy; maintaining 50% is seriously difficult. Sure, you think it's easy, until your legendary engraver punches your one brewer in the head AND IT EXPLODES and you don't have a backup. If you savescum, this isn't challenging; if you don't, occasionally crappy stuff will happen, and you'll get some adrenaline.
The thing to remember: this isn't an RTS. This is a roleplaying game. If you min-max, it will be easy. If you make an effort to do it your way, it will be hard-- but possible. Tell the elves to fuck off. Drown all your prisoners. Build a tower to heaven-- with a waterfall. There's a reason that they say that losing is fun. It's because winning isn't fun-- if it's even possible. Play to your principles, and not towards some boring ultra-efficiency, and the game is no longer easy.
