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DF Gameplay Questions / Some Newbie questions
« on: December 13, 2012, 11:33:37 am »
First of all, hello everybody!
I'm very new to the game, having started playing less then a week ago, and this is my first post here. I hope I'm doing everything right (I hope this is the right place for my questions), if not, please tell me and I'll try to go to the right place(s).
Well, I'm about a year into my first fortress now (expected it to fall much sooner, but since no threats arrived yet and I haven't struck that magma vein that seems to be on just 3 floors below the ground, it still stands strong - in fact, the biggest threat so far was my initial utter inability to get my dwarfs to chop wood, which was thankfully solved by Dwarf Therapist), and while with guides and wiki and the likes I think I managed to do fairly well, some questions just can't seem to be answered so easily, and I'd be really thankful for some tips on those:
1.) Okay, this is more of a hardware then an actual gaming question: How can I combine Jolly Bastion tileset (I downloaded the most up to date version) with Lazy Newb pack (also most recent version)? I tried various different ways of putting the files in there, but it. just. won't. work. And admittedly I'd REALLY like to use this tileset... I also like the graphical ones, but I like how this combines beauty while actually being very similar to the vanilla experience.
2.) When will there be another caravan? I utterly FAILED the first time they came to my fortress, doing diplomacy with them but having not gotten to actually trade ANYTHING. Will there be another chance to trade with the same civilization, or will it always be different ones? ... I hope I did nothing to scare them all permanently away from my fortress. O.o
3.) I'm admittedly also still a bit confused about the trading system. So I have to move the stuff I want to trade to the Trade Depot while the caravan is there? It's probably the about hardest to understand thing in DF I stumbled upon till now.
4.) So on one of the first floors down, I struck damp stone. So this means that maybe magma goodness will come sooner then I could've ever guessed... however, I'm not very keen on just flooding my entire fortress with the stuff. Any means of telling where the stuff is when I got that message? And I'd be very thankful for a few easy suggestions how to, once found, approach that stuff safely.
5.) So I'm interested in animals, and taming wild creatures intrigues me a lot... So I started producing needs for cage traps, and have set an animal trainer whose making first steps by turning my dogs into war dogs. What I could need some help with is - What is a good way to place those traps? I am living in a calm biome, so no aggressive creatures right now I could lead into traps at my front door. However the wild animals just seem to appear on random places on the map for a short time, then vanish again... Any tips on how I can make some of them my own?
Well, that's all for now. I hope I phrased my questions understandable, I know there's lots of text... and that they're not too stupid either XD
Thanks in advance,
DwarvenCat
I'm very new to the game, having started playing less then a week ago, and this is my first post here. I hope I'm doing everything right (I hope this is the right place for my questions), if not, please tell me and I'll try to go to the right place(s).
Well, I'm about a year into my first fortress now (expected it to fall much sooner, but since no threats arrived yet and I haven't struck that magma vein that seems to be on just 3 floors below the ground, it still stands strong - in fact, the biggest threat so far was my initial utter inability to get my dwarfs to chop wood, which was thankfully solved by Dwarf Therapist), and while with guides and wiki and the likes I think I managed to do fairly well, some questions just can't seem to be answered so easily, and I'd be really thankful for some tips on those:
1.) Okay, this is more of a hardware then an actual gaming question: How can I combine Jolly Bastion tileset (I downloaded the most up to date version) with Lazy Newb pack (also most recent version)? I tried various different ways of putting the files in there, but it. just. won't. work. And admittedly I'd REALLY like to use this tileset... I also like the graphical ones, but I like how this combines beauty while actually being very similar to the vanilla experience.
2.) When will there be another caravan? I utterly FAILED the first time they came to my fortress, doing diplomacy with them but having not gotten to actually trade ANYTHING. Will there be another chance to trade with the same civilization, or will it always be different ones? ... I hope I did nothing to scare them all permanently away from my fortress. O.o
3.) I'm admittedly also still a bit confused about the trading system. So I have to move the stuff I want to trade to the Trade Depot while the caravan is there? It's probably the about hardest to understand thing in DF I stumbled upon till now.
4.) So on one of the first floors down, I struck damp stone. So this means that maybe magma goodness will come sooner then I could've ever guessed... however, I'm not very keen on just flooding my entire fortress with the stuff. Any means of telling where the stuff is when I got that message? And I'd be very thankful for a few easy suggestions how to, once found, approach that stuff safely.
5.) So I'm interested in animals, and taming wild creatures intrigues me a lot... So I started producing needs for cage traps, and have set an animal trainer whose making first steps by turning my dogs into war dogs. What I could need some help with is - What is a good way to place those traps? I am living in a calm biome, so no aggressive creatures right now I could lead into traps at my front door. However the wild animals just seem to appear on random places on the map for a short time, then vanish again... Any tips on how I can make some of them my own?
Well, that's all for now. I hope I phrased my questions understandable, I know there's lots of text... and that they're not too stupid either XD
Thanks in advance,
DwarvenCat