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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #75 on: April 12, 2018, 05:51:37 pm »
I happened to blunder into the article on 1d4chan. Followed its link to Boatmurdered.

Fairly certain my classmates (had read a large chunk in the latter half of a computer class) though i had gone insane cause I kept getting the giggles after reading it.

Read through to Genmclod, and started playing religiously since just before the 34.01 release.
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #76 on: April 12, 2018, 08:54:50 pm »
Quote from: snow dwarf on April 10, 2018, 06:45:23 am
I remember seeing a minecraft dwarf fortress texture pack a long time ago.

I also recall a tool that would export DF fort maps into Minecraft.
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #77 on: April 13, 2018, 03:31:29 am »
Quote from: SalmonGod on April 12, 2018, 08:54:50 pm
Quote from: snow dwarf on April 10, 2018, 06:45:23 am
I remember seeing a minecraft dwarf fortress texture pack a long time ago.

I also recall a tool that would export DF fort maps into Minecraft.
yes, but it had some unbearable flaws.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138366.0
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #78 on: April 13, 2018, 04:44:57 am »
No, there was another one that would export the actual forts.
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #79 on: April 13, 2018, 05:10:38 am »
Quote from: Japa on April 13, 2018, 04:44:57 am
No, there was another one that would export the actual forts.
oh, that sounds amazing - but we already had the discussions on how the DF blocks/tiles should be represented in MC and it is rather difficult to make it look nice and be representive at the same time.
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #80 on: April 13, 2018, 05:15:43 am »
It did look pretty good, actually, but it lost compatibility with any modern DF version, and nobody updated it.
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #81 on: April 13, 2018, 05:18:03 am »
Quote from: Japa on April 13, 2018, 05:15:43 am
It did look pretty good, actually, but it lost compatibility with any modern DF version, and nobody updated it.
ah, i guess i know which one you mean.
its main flaw was that it let MC generate villages etc over the existent DF world.
but we're deriving... :D
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #82 on: April 17, 2018, 07:46:03 pm »
Quote from: Japa on April 13, 2018, 04:44:57 am
No, there was another one that would export the actual forts.
Somebody used it on Towersoared, IIRC.
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #83 on: April 17, 2018, 10:55:45 pm »
Quote from: Pvt. Pirate on April 13, 2018, 05:18:03 am
Quote from: Japa on April 13, 2018, 05:15:43 am
It did look pretty good, actually, but it lost compatibility with any modern DF version, and nobody updated it.
ah, i guess i know which one you mean.
its main flaw was that it let MC generate villages etc over the existent DF world.
but we're deriving... :D

That's not the one. You're thinking of the one that would export a df world map.

That said......


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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #84 on: June 08, 2018, 01:30:28 pm »
I don't exactly remember how I discovered Dwarf Fortress, but I have a vague memory of googling for some ASCII rogue-likes that are still being developed (this was around 2012 or something). In the 80's/90's I had played Moria/Angband/ADOM/etc. quite a lot and had some kind of nostalgic urge to play something similar when I stumbled upon DF and immediately thought "this is exactly what I've been looking for my whole life."
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #85 on: June 08, 2018, 05:14:12 pm »
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Re: How did you discover Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #86 on: June 08, 2018, 06:14:52 pm »
Asylum of the Three Immortals on YouTube.

Coincidentally, I take my project's name from this story.
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