Let's play Dwarf Fortress!

[Zablorg]

Rightio chaps, you know the drill. Our destination is the dreaded scape of Xemtar, the Mythical Land!


Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to accompany your six fellows to stake out a holding in this dispicable place of serenity, and get filthy rich, leaving in the soil the taint of dwarvern craft. If you are not selected for this monumental task, you may arrive at the fortress during the migrant waves, to join the endless toil for the glory of the Mountainhome!

The King is now taking suggestions for where to host this exhibition, and in the meantime you and your fellows have been instructed to fill out this here form, including your name and skills. Your caravan of supplies will leave for the site as soon as all is prepared.

Strike the earth!

[Losonti Tokash]

What the hell is this?

[Zablorg]

Oh, right. If you haven't heard of Dwarf Fortress, this is this wiki, which contains a pretty full description.

[Phantasee]

I find it amusing that Losonti is confused about how a "Let's Play" thread works, considering the link in his sig.

Which, you know, could be updated once in a while, Los.

[Academia Nut]

Sign me up as one of the miners. Those guys get badass right quick. They also tend to drown or get incinerated by lava or attacked by subterranean monstrosities a bit more often, but hey, this is Dwarf Fortress. If the game doesn't end in madness and fire, you're doing it wrong.

[Peptuck]

Sign me up as a hunter and/or a woodcutter/woodcrafter.

Mostly for the axes.

[Losonti Tokash]

I find it amusing that Losonti is confused about how a "Let's Play" thread works, considering the link in his sig.

Which, you know, could be updated once in a while, Los.

I was referring more to the game itself.

Also I can't find the disc so I'm sort of boned at the moment.

[Covenant]

I'd be down for some Dwarf Fortress. I was a Master Mason in the previous LP of DF, but I'd just as happily be whatever. It's always fun to die in a new way.

[Vendetta]

I shall lend a sturdy arm and well-kempt beard to this endeavour.

I expect neither to last.

[Vendetta]

I was referring more to the game itself.

Dwarf Fortress is a citybuilding/management game in which you run the titular fortress of dwarves, taking care of their requirements for alcohol, shelter, alcohol, food, alcohol, defence, alcohol, ores and stones, and alcohol.

The natural enemies of dwarves are carp, cave spiders, and elves. (In previous versions the natural enemy of the dwarf was the elephant)

Most every element of the world is modelled in overwhelming detail, and it's all presented in Ascii.

[Joviwan]

Let me chip in my many pointed helmet and well notched spoons. Assuming I'm the cook. If I'm not the cook, then whatever implement I'm using, it will be well notched.

I hope my death is stupendous.

[Zablorg]

Two more dwarves are required, if only so their bodies can be used to make clothing.

Also, any suggestions where we should go?

[Rawtooth]

Rawtooth the Hunter lives again! May his beard growth never stunt due to the unnatural levels of "open sky" he is exposed too in his work!

As for location, I vote for right here. It gives us a good location with two defensible rivers, our backs to the mountains and avoids getting closer to what I believe to be the purple swamp and what ever the hell that bronze/red shit is. We are surrounded by nice green things, with easyish access to the lake as well as the sea.

[Zablorg]

And unless anyone else wants to join, I shall play as myself. Preperations will begin shortly.

Now, for the most part I shall manage what we take, so I'll simply ask, should we take an anvil and some iron immediately, as I would advise, or should we stock up on other supplies and earn enough to buy one in the winter?

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Hawt diggidy daffodil, has anyone seen the developement log? Come the next update I shall mod the dwarvern race to have

Blood of beer
Bones of adamantine
Muscles of plump helmet
Skin of leather
and hair of rope reed.

And all will be kickass.

[Rawtooth]

And unless anyone else wants to join, I shall play as myself. Preperations will begin shortly.

Now, for the most part I shall manage what we take, so I'll simply ask, should we take an anvil and some iron immediately, as I would advise, or should we stock up on other supplies and earn enough to buy one in the winter?

Depends on whether or not we have a blacksmith with us at the start in my opinion. Blacksmith means bring the anvil, while if we don't have one we can wait until one of the new immigrants comes along before we purchase our selected tool with which to bend the very bones of the earth to our dwarven will.

[Zablorg]

Well, we could have Joviwan be the blacksmith, as he didn't specify anything else.

[PeZook]

*huffs up after the caravan*

Me! Me! Take me, too!

I'm a farmer! You can use meeee!!!!

(seriously, you can modify the party size in the ini files)

[Karza]

Toss me in there as well, please. As I recall, the last time I volunteered for a DF game, I arrived in a pink dress (despite being male both IRL and in-game), and soon went nuts, rushed out and got eaten by ants. Can't be much worse, can it? Er, can it?

[Vendetta]

Toss me in there as well, please. As I recall, the last time I volunteered for a DF game, I arrived in a pink dress (despite being male both IRL and in-game), and soon went nuts, rushed out and got eaten by ants. Can't be much worse, can it? Er, can it?

Toady personally adds hundreds of interesting new ways to die to every new version.

These days they have things like 3D building and excavation, which means new ways to flood, drown, and collapse your fortress.

Also, Elves eat what they kill in sieges.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I cry foul in this, Ive already got a dwarf fortress thread. I even posted screencaps! you are just trying to toady up to the pleables by offering to name YOUR dwarfs after forum members!

[Vehrec]

I'll volunteer for a Fisherdwarf on the condition that we put the fortress near what I assume is that giant ass lake at the top of the world map. Yes it means we'll be right on top of the water table, I don't care. Imagine the carp that must be in there!

[White Haven]

Oh my, a protofortress, and it's filled with dwarves. I can't possibly let that go White Havenless.

[Darth Onasi]

I'll never understand the popularity of Dwarf Fortress. I mean, I'm not one to criticise a game for it's graphics, but it's an ascii nightmare that gives me a migraine.

[Vendetta]

Like many of the best strategy games, Dwarf Fortress tells good stories.

Not the kind of overarching planned narrative most people associate with videogame stories, but the kind that emerge from the properties of the game by fluke and chance, like the time where the newbie scout in X-Com walks through the UFO doors into the face of three Floaters and guns them all down in a single heroic turn (rather than dying instantly, which is their usual fate).

[Joviwan]

Well, we could have Joviwan be the blacksmith, as he didn't specify anything else.

I did say something about being a cook, but a blacksmith is just peachy as well! My anvil will have many notches.