That was interesting.

 

An unkillable, amphibious megabeast decided my fort looked delicious. It came in through the pond system, and promptly proceeded to annihilate two fully equipped, fairly well trained squads in adamantine armour, before massacering most of my civilians.

 

Goddamnit. Unkillable megabeasts are too much fun.

 

I was getting preparations ready to declare war on hell, too. Guess that will have to wait till my next save, where hopefully I wont screw everything up and make my military into a tantruming mess which takes two years and a lot of adamantine to fix.

That was interesting.

 

An unkillable, amphibious megabeast decided my fort looked delicious. It came in through the pond system, and promptly proceeded to annihilate two fully equipped, fairly well trained squads in adamantine armour, before massacering most of my civilians.

 

Goddamnit. Unkillable megabeasts are too much fun.

 

I was getting preparations ready to declare war on hell, too. Guess that will have to wait till my next save, where hopefully I wont screw everything up and make my military into a tantruming mess which takes two years and a lot of adamantine to fix.

And this is why you have a few emergency "lure-and-crush" traps ready.

I did, but due to an engineering "flaw" it failed to activate.

 

The lever was right outside the room with the beast, meaning any time a dwarf tried to pull it, they would get maimed near instantly.

 

Amphibious monsters, I can handle. Unkillable monsters, I can handle.

 

But Unkillable, amphibious, absurdly powerful monsters, and its all just too much fun.

 

 

Aside from that, I'm going to try my hand at modding. I already created a new metal, some weapons and armour, and a workshop.

 

Time to build me a new race. I'm thinking golems. Golems with molten gold blood.

I did, but due to an engineering "flaw" it failed to activate.

 

The lever was right outside the room with the beast, meaning any time a dwarf tried to pull it, they would get maimed near instantly.

 

Amphibious monsters, I can handle. Unkillable monsters, I can handle.

 

But Unkillable, amphibious, absurdly powerful monsters, and its all just too much fun.

 

 

Aside from that, I'm going to try my hand at modding. I already created a new metal, some weapons and armour, and a workshop.

 

Time to build me a new race. I'm thinking golems. Golems with molten gold blood.

Yeah, I read about modding, but didn't really understand any of it. Think you can paraphrase the more important bits for me?

 

And your collapsing trap obviously wasn't big enough. And you put the lever in the wrong place.

 

On a side note, I just had a mason go secretive. I tried to make him create a second Planepacked, but nothing I did worked.

 

Oop, he just finished. I now have a basalt table worth ~33k dwarfbux.

I'll write an explanation tommorow, it's kind of late and I'm sleepy right now.

 

And yeah, I know the lever was in a bad place, but I figured the chances of an amphibious unkillable monster were low enough that it wouldn't matter.

 

I erred.

Dwarf Fortress: The only game where having a panic box to protect you from everything is a sign of good preparation instead of partial insanity.

 

Then again, you practically have to be partially insane to be capable of playing Dwarf Fortress... :-k

Ross, I don't have a forge. I've been spending all of my dwarves' time on building an underground channel for water (later an aqueduct!), that I haven't gotten around to it.

 

 

 

How do you reach the magma sea? I've been using wood for fuel, since my map has sooooo much wood.

Ross, the megabeast got past your traps, then? I guess you should at least TRY the seige engines. That will help a bit..

Ross, the megabeast got past your traps, then? I guess you should at least TRY the seige engines. That will help a bit..

UNKILLABLE.

 

Ze traps, zey do nothing!

My dyer was possessed, and I didn't have the workshop he wanted. Then he went beserk and chased my milker around until he murdered him. This is what I did as punishment.

 

Retech, just dig down, dig deep, and dig greedily. Magma sea is usually on a z level between 20 and -35.

 

You'll usually find adamantine when you get there, as well.

Won't I hit the HFS? Right now, my plan is to seal up my fortress really tight. Then I'll dig away under it until it only has one support, which I will then destroy, sending my entire fortress into the magma sea. Any holes that I missed (or places protected by non-magmasafe materials) will quickly be exploited, causing lots of fun. :thumbup:

 

 

It's an expansion on sending a pod to the center of the earth.

The only way to hit HFS is actively seeking it. I wont spoil it, but you wont hit the circus unless you dig too deep and greedily.

 

I have big plans for my new fort. It's going to be a military fort, so the number of haulers is going to be reduced, and I'm going to train them all to swim and declare war on the ocean.

... Okay then, have fun with that. Now, i need to redownload dwarf fortress, but i know im not going to have time to play it.

You say that, but then you'll end up at 6:00 AM thinking "I could have sworn it was still noon."

 

I know I did.

dude, i actually don't have time. several pets recovering from various surgeries, videos to be re backed up, andvidoes to be refcorded, edited, and posted on youtube.

Don't worry Ross, I've already been there. I'm still not sure how they overwhelmed my fort, but it happened somehow. <_<

Hey, aren't Sea Monsters dangerous? Just curious.

They're pretty brutal.

 

But I must persevere.

 

Also, I think my worldgen is screwed a little. I just started a map, and immedietly I got "A section of the cavern has collapsed", and my fps dropped to like 2.

 

I think the magma sea is draining into hell...

 

Sidenote: I edited in some new weapons, armours and workshops. As well as a new metal. I'm not trying to overpower it, so it's pretty balanced, given that the ore is fairly rare.

er... i remember one time where ther was no magma sea... all i had was rock and rcok straight thru to z-level 70.

Yup, the new metal that I added in works fine. The ore appears in gold veins as small clusters, and it needs to be smelted with *spoiler* and silver to create a weaker, but much heavier version of *spoiler*.

 

And thus, blunt weapons are no longer broken.

Thanks for moving this, Wisp.

 

And to anybody just taking a look, I thought this would be better suited here now that it has died down in the tavern, so yeah.

 

Any other Dwarf Fortress players on Tipit?

Pfft. I wouldn't get your hopes up, if they liked it that much they'd probably be on Bay12.

I was rather hoping that there was at least SOMEBODY who played DF in here, Nex, but alas.

 

I mean, it's the best Indie game out there, no question, and the sheer depth of it all would put most other games, PC or console, to shame. And the fact that it's still in alpha and already stands up as a full game is incredible, too.

I was rather hoping that there was at least SOMEBODY who played DF in here, Nex, but alas.

 

I mean, it's the best Indie game out there, no question, and the sheer depth of it all would put most other games, PC or console, to shame. And the fact that it's still in alpha and already stands up as a full game is incredible, too.

 

Yeah, H&H and DF are really some of the best indie games. I haven't tried DF out *yet*, but from what I've seen/heard, it's a pretty nice game. You just have to download the right texture packs or you just can't get into it because of ASCII (the default look). You should get involved with their community forums. I hear that it's a great community and not full of douchebags.