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Farmerbob

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Re: "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress" - it's out!
« Reply #225 on: January 07, 2014, 02:51:21 am »

Just got the e-book. Very excited to learn this game. I'm having a very hard time finding a suitable site. Every time I think I've found a nice flat, aquifer-free, flux stoned, warm, forested site, I double and triple check my site, then I make preparations and embark, only to find snow all over the place. Or that the only place to carve out a fortress is a level above or below. The book doesn't seem to cover extreme elevation shifts in the walkthrough. In short I'm stuck on Chapter 2. Please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. Using latest vanilla DF, no add-ons.

Thanks!

The snow thing is easy enough to deal with, but you need to use an advanced feature - advanced world generation.  I don't like sites that freeze either, so I simply adjust minimum temperature up by 20 degrees in the world generation system.  Not sure if the book explains this.  The Dwarf Fortress Wiki does, however, if I'm not mistaken.

As for the drastic elevation shifts, while you are looking for an embark site, there are a few alternate views of the land that you can use.  One of them is an elevation view, to show you how quickly the land changes height.  A volcano will always be 9 "*" elevation shift tiles in a square.  If you find a volcano of 9 "*"'s surrounded by a bunch of 0, 1, 2 numbers, it means there is a volcano on flat land, which is weird, but I find them fairly regularly.  About 1 in 30 volcanos on my volcano heavy maps have them.  Again, I make adjustments in the world generation settings, which change how the worlds are put together.

*note* raising volcanism on a map is said to reduce the number non-igneous layers on a map, which can cause problems if you want to have a steel industry.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Advanced_world_generation#Temperature
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« Reply #226 on: January 07, 2014, 03:04:37 pm »

That helped a ton.  Thanks!
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« Reply #227 on: February 27, 2014, 06:42:18 am »

I'm curious in how this ebook get's updated. I'm planning on getting it from a dutch site I'm more familiar with, but I do want updates to it if possible.
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« Reply #228 on: March 08, 2014, 02:56:04 am »

Just came across this book on Amazon while looking for other gaming books. It may get me back into Dwarf Fortress after a few-years hiatus...

But I too am wondering about updates... On Amazon it says that the book is "current to the April 2012 releases." Given the pace of DF's development, this seems like a deal breaker. But apparently there's updates... what is the most recent edition?
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« Reply #229 on: March 08, 2014, 06:17:23 pm »

Just came across this book on Amazon while looking for other gaming books. It may get me back into Dwarf Fortress after a few-years hiatus...

But I too am wondering about updates... On Amazon it says that the book is "current to the April 2012 releases." Given the pace of DF's development, this seems like a deal breaker. But apparently there's updates... what is the most recent edition?

Toady seems to be close to releasing a new version soon.  It has been a very long time since the last version.  A lot of changes are incoming.
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« Reply #230 on: July 13, 2015, 10:06:09 am »

Hello

Does somebody know if the book has been updaded to DF 2014?
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« Reply #231 on: July 13, 2015, 04:29:05 pm »

Hello

Does somebody know if the book has been updaded to DF 2014?

It has not.

Also, please avoid raising dead threads. :)
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« Reply #232 on: July 13, 2015, 09:36:54 pm »

I deem it a worthy necro.
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« Reply #233 on: July 14, 2015, 11:09:16 am »

Hello

Does somebody know if the book has been updaded to DF 2014?

I learned from the book despite it being out of date.  Very little is different enough to make a difference.  And the book made all the difference in the world in my attempts to learn to play.  I'd failed repeatedly for a couple of years to learn.
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« Reply #234 on: July 14, 2015, 01:51:38 pm »

Yes, I forgive this necro, because I was looking at my copy and wondering the exact same thing.

When I bought it, 2014 was about to drop and there were vague promises that it would be "kept current".  Those promises seem to have been mere puffery.
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« Reply #235 on: July 14, 2015, 06:05:54 pm »

I don't care about the updates or it being current.  This book helped teach me all of the fundamentals and was fun to read away from the computer.  It is still a fantastic introduction to the game.

Also, this picture of the book that I found long ago puts joy in my heart and iron in my veins.  It helped me realize what I was getting into.  :D

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