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[Lorgothae]

Hey, new player here.  I was just wondering if you can start a new fortress without abandoning your old one?  Even though it is my first fort, I'm doing pretty well with my current one, and shows no signs of decline.  But after having read the wiki and the forums, there is a lot of stuff I'd love to try with a new fort from scratch - do I have to Abandon my current fort to do so?  The fact that the continue screen seems to want you to select which save to continue from(even though there is currently only one option) seems to make me think you can, but I have no clue how to do so.

[Kagus]

Should really be in the gameplay questions forum.  Oh well, we may never recover.

Anyways, the multiple save screen refers to different worlds.  It is entirely possible to generate a new world and start a new fort on that world without abandoning your first fort (on the first world), but you cannot start a new fort on your first world without abandoning the old one.

That was confusing.  Here's a simpler explanation:  One world, one fort.

[BurnedToast]

If you are not particularly attached to your dwarves you can abandon the fort, then reclaim it later when you want to play it some more. You will get all new dwarves but all the buildings and stuff will stay there (though the items tend to scatter around everywhere).

[Keldor]

Just create a new world, and you're good to go!

Of course, you could just make a backup copy of your world's save, and go from there...  In fact, if you just copy and rename the save directory, I think it will even show both on the continue playing menu.

Still, it's probably easiest to just generate a fresh world, after which you just have to pick which world whenever you load.

[ April 28, 2008: Message edited by: Keldor ]

[pushy]

Save your game and quit, go into the DF folder, copy the region folder for that world and paste it in the same folder (making a copy of the folder). Restart DF and it'll think that there are two worlds, though they're both (technically) identical except for the folder name. Abandon one and you've still got the other  

But yes, aside from that little exploit, it's pretty much as Kagus said: One world, one fort (at a time)

[Lorgothae]

Alright...thanks for the info guys.  Ends my confusion at least!

And my apologies for posting in the wrong forum.    :eek: