I Razed a tower, stole their books and put them in my library, seemed fine to have a necromancer fort until a thief started a fight deep inside the fort. Suddenly frame rates dropped to nothing as everyone kept resurrecting bodies and parts of bodies, some of which were intelligent and still hostile. 140 dwarves in constant congested combat caused me to retire the fort.
I had once slaughtered a lot of rams to keep the population down. But then a visiting necromancer got scared by a surprise goblin climbing out of my moat. So he proceeded to reanimate about a 100 pieces of wool. The following pile of people trying to bludgeon living wool took a 15 minutes to process, and release my framerate from its hostage
Your story is very reminiscent of mine. I wanted to have a pet necromancer, yet there was no need for tower raiding - for some reason my Dwarven civilization, The Bell of Vaults, had necromancers imbued. One necro just came with the migrant wave, Necromancer diagnostician. I created a special squad consisting out of one hero warrior, clad her into iron, bought her a flail. Wanted to have a Witch-King of my own, stupid fool. Then I wanted to have books with secrets of the life and death. My initial plan when I was starting fort was to create a tower like Tower of Babel. So it could be impossible huge, a spire of dwarven might and ingenuity. I had a necromancer tower like 3 days of travel NE of my site. So I sent a trained squad, Silvery Hammerers, to raid the place. Our kingdom was at war with humans, my Hammerers also raided their villages. My soldiers gloriously overpowered necromancers, their armor and hammers overcoming lies, illusions and magic of unworthy Deathbenders. It was a sign from Armok himself "look, you don't need those books". I never listened. Books were secured at closed section of library, then I noticed that my dwarves started to turn necromancers. What sorcery is this? - I shouted. We dug a nice treasure room with huge pit and little island in the center, I put pedestals there and Necronomicons. Then I found that soldiers brought a scroll with Necromancy and I was unable to put a scroll on pedestal. The number of necromancers was already 12. I dumbed the scroll and walled it off. My plan had a one necromancer in mind, 12 was too many. So I made a squad out of them. I thought to occupy the tower, sending unwanted necros there so they wouldn't accidentally ruin my mega project. Then the humans came, a band of 20-30 warriors, they wanted a parley, I thought they want those stupid necrobooks, they could have them. Yet they attacked my citizens, killing children playing in the fields. Burrows were activated and soldiers equipped. Yet I forgot that I send necromancers on their journey. They clashed in stupid way - humans shot a few of my bunnies... necromancer raised them. Human army ran away in fear, leaving a few child-killing scouts in their place. My warriors killed them and then the Hell was let loose. Necromancers were raising bodies, soldiers killing them. I thought their silver hammers will mangle zombies so they wouldn't be able to reanimate. I was wrong. My fortress is stuck in constant reanimation and fighting.
I would suggest for anyone regardless of pc to play at least once on a really small embark because it forces you to think and plan vertically something that will help a lot with fortress design on bigger maps. It's very common to see endless hallways of rooms on 1-2 z levels that probably should be stacked on top of eachother a lot more.
Using vertical space is also great for reducing travel time. I've taken to building bedrooms in "towers" rather than sprawling dormatories. It's much quicker for a dwarf to travel down a 6 z-level staircase than it is for them to traverse a 30 tile long hallway. Line it up right and you can have it so where a dwarf is never more than 6 spaces away from a temple *and* the tavern.
@@tubebrocoli For whatever reason after I implemented this design into my own fortress, I've been getting notifications that multiple dark goblin pits are economically linked to me, so there may be something there... (Kidding. I'm pretty sure it's because my fort is now the last bastion of my civilization surrounded entirely by dark goblin pits and no dwarves)
10:48 Falling unconscious on or fighting on stairs will make a creature fall down multiple levels. Never seen with ramps. 16:19 The "X" trick to select quality does not work anymore. Here it matches the "ibeX"
Oh yeah, I've always strived to minimize my use of stairs, and have grown quite fond of a kind of "corkscrew" shape as the spine of my fortress. A big ramp that circles down around a big pillar just looks cool despite it being more inefficient than just using stairs!
Oh my, so glad I watched this video. I was puzzled to the point of frustration why my open space dumping area never seemed to work. I never knew it had to have two squares with one for a dwarf to stand on. I wish the game informed us of it or required us to designate two squares before approving the zone.
Weirdly enough, when I dig a new block of my fortress, and I want to remove stones that lie on the ground, i make single tile garbage dump, mass select stones, and it does work. Maybe there are special dumping conditions for stone
It's not that it needs to be two tiles. It's just that you designate the tile the dwarf will stand on when dumping the item, and then they will prioritise dumping it into any empty space adjacent to that designated tile, including diagonals, and if there is no adjacent empty space then they will dump it on that designated tile. So in the video, he could have only designated the tile next to the open hole as the dump zone and they would still throw everything down the hole. PS. When you're designating a zone for an activity, it will tell you how many tiles you have selected are valid for that activity, so you can paint and unpaint tiles to check if they are valid.
I'd like to point something out for your gaming computers, DON'T RUN IN 4K RES! Just because you can run the latest stuff in 4k 120fps, that's not going to work in Dwarf fortress in my personal experience. The problem is if you have your desktop res set to 4K, and the game to 1080p (1920x1080) The game doesn't go full screen even if I set the Game to full screen, it just stays windowed, and going full screen with F11 on it is just as bad as 4K performance wise. So. change your Desktop res to 1920X1080, and run the game on the same res. change it back when you're done ;) This will bump up your entire game by a huge margin. It almost got me to quit the game before I realized this.
That sounds like placebo to me honestly? Dwarf fortress is heavily CPU bottlenecked, so things like resolution shouldn't affect performance nearly at all.
Hands down the best DF video for a beginner (me), my first proper fortress is now at 198 pop and my framerate is at 12-15... I have over 2000 stones, 3000 blocks and god knows how many items of all kinds, laying around in enormous stockpiles... While playing on a map with constant rain and I'm living inside a Volcano... Turning of Weather and Temperature brought it up to 35 fps, which is at least playable. But next fort will be 2x2 map instead of 3x5, and I'm rethinking everything I've taught myself about stairs and dumping items...
From my experience, there are different types of FPS problems. For CPU framerate, your video is surely true, it helps a lot. But, with new release, DF gained another problem; graphical fps performance. There are some setups, which include some nvidia graphical cards, that simply do not work well, or at all with steam release. In those cases, frame death can occur very realistically. Even with goodhardware setups, small embark and world sizes, pop cap eing low and management of items, game may become unplayable, even when paused. The general rule I've found that helps combat that is to have as little of textures/entities on screen at one time as possible. This means building as much vertically as possible, not building surface forts, having as little of big stockpiles as possible (either keeping things in workshops or maaaybe using quantum stockpiles), as well as not centering your forts around one big meeting zone, since that z-level may become unsee-able when heavily occupied by animals and dwarves. Game is crazy good, but it needs some serious optimization work done. As of now, it is near unplayable for some people who should be able to run it no problem with hardware they got.
The Stair patter sure is one of the most asked things on the Discord server, I did not take in consideration about the possible path options, so now I could optimize better my forts.
First watch missed his comment that this only works in trade tab and not in stocks tab. he said you can trade it off. My apologies. The "search" by "X" tip does not work, he showed it on screen between 17:00 minutes and forward. When x was in search, only showed ibex pants and when he took it out their were x(cave spider silk pants)x on screen. Also found this to be true when I tried it. It would not show all x(item)x items. But knowing to get rid of them is still a very useful tip. Thanks for the videos blind!!!
Yeah search only cares about the name of the item, more specifically the original item type name. You can't for example search for named items at all either, you have to search for their type, for example if it's a crown you have to type in crown instead of its name. I hope they improve that
I think dwarves creating things all the time can also impact framerate, disbling many standing orders can help. For the beggining is very useful that they are able to do stuff, but with time I wish everything could get managed with your manager and orders, but many conditions seem not possible and they always keep farming and other tasks.
pretty sure you only need the one square next to a cliff or pit, zoned for dumping for the dwarf to stand on and they auto throw into a hole if there is one adjacent. apparently sometimes they might also jump (maybe fall?) in if the hole itself is zoned too.
This answers a problem I had with a recent fort. It had a large dump zone outside for dumping remains mostly, and there was a single 1x1 natural pond next to the dump zone. The dwarves would always go to the square next to that one, even though it wasn't designated in any way, to dump stuff into it, even if meant a much longer trek. This must have been why!
Here's a tip from me, don't wall in werebeasts or vampires, find a way to kill them asap. A walled in werebeast that is affected by some form of strange mood will completely destroy the framerate while it's trying to escape. My werepanda woman dropped my fps from 110 to 17, and I had to sit there and create waterflow into her chamber then wait a torturous amount of time for my entire moat to be filled to 7/7, and it was just miserable tbh. It's a boring way to handle these things but just atom smash em away before they become a bother
Could you expand a little bit about stairs pathfinding? Or link to a resource talking about it? While I have been playing DF since before the 3D z-level, I don't usually check forums or advanced discourse, just the wiki when I'm stuck with new things and playing by myself. And that point about stairs might explain part of my fps issue on very fast computers this past half decade. I'm usually doing a central 3x3, with a row of 3 Up stairs, then a middle row of floors (ideally glass floors to bring in some light), then a row of 3 Down stairs. Slightly longer to walk, but it avoids a creature falling down 30 z-levels (as dwarves tend to do a lot) and other benefits for exploratory digging into caves. It should have even lass pathfinding options than your cross pattern, but I'm not sure I understood what path the little buggers where looking for exactly.
I think the pathfinding is referring to the dwarves deciding which direction to go. On an X they usually have two options in ascending/ descending with a max of 5 options if they are in the middle. On a 3 X 3 they always have 9 options at each level which is 1.8 to 4.5 times more options. That could make a difference with a hundred dwarves walking up dozens of levels. On the negative side is that in the X they are more likely to have to crawl over each other.
I would like to point out that when you are searching though your stocks for "X" it's returning clothing that that has "X" in the name of the material (Ibex leather), but not actually searching for "X(clothing name)X". Very frustrating, but I don't think there is currently a way to sort specifically for worn out clothing.
To help whit the fps I 'automated' my dumping zone using a minecart. I do work quite well even for clothing but I do feel they should be more option for stockpile for tatter clothing and corps/body part the latter in particular has a hard time separating rotting part from still fresh and usable ones
Hopefully the next time you get to talk to Tarn Adams you can ask him if the search bar will be improved soon? I would like to search for "xx" in the stock screen but it doesn't work it only pulls up things with the letter "x" in the name
Your tutorials are required viewing... lol though I usually see them after the fact. I just got my first successful fort up and going, nearly 200 bois and a maze with a Minotaur. (It took me AGES to figure out how to get the cage down there... and it still wouldn't hook up to a lever so a brave dwarf had to pay the ultimate price for.. well my amusement I guess... or science. Yes science) Anyway, just saying I'd never have gotten this far without your videos... or not nearly as quickly. Thanks for everything you do man.
I've never in my life heard someone describe slower/ lower-end PC's as "smaller." To me, a "smaller" PC is something like a Raspberry Pi or a NUC. Like, I get what you're describing, it's just a weird way to say it
Do not turn off temperature thats a very bad advice you will get game breaking bugs once something will create heat like lava or an enemy, the tiles will still get heated and become permanently unwalkable unless you turn it back on
I had an fps death when an imp decided to crawl out of the volcano to spit some bars at me, he started a fire and it got a couple dorfs killed... the problem was some of my dorfs wanted to collect dead items or whatever but were being held back by the expanding fire, one dorf would rack up hundreds of canceled actions in 2 seconds, that and probably a fuck ton of temperature checks.
Yes but this is fixable after the fact. It takes some work but you could fully recover your frames with burrows or by simply waiting for the fire to burn out. This is not fps death it's just slow down due to outside factors and is totally fixable.
Hi Blind! I'm a recent subscriber, but I've played DF on and off for a decade or so. If you are looking for material to make tutorials about I would really appreciate a thorough guide to the detailed world generation. Haven't really found any good guides out there, especially not up to date ones. I'm personally looking to create a bit of a Dune world with large, open underground caverns. I suppose I can't just have deserts as that would screw with most other civilizations but maybe half / 75% ?
Ctrl+Alt+Del > Task Manager > Details > RMB (right mouse button) on Dwarf Fortress > Set priority to high (on windows 10 you need to repeat this step each launch or just use program like "Process Manager" and create rule for df so priority will be set automatically). This sets the amount of time allocated for df on cpu (game can do more calculations in same time). WARNING - DON'T SET TO REAL TIME
I've been reading Putnams thread on fps, if I understand correctly, your stair pillars shouldn't affect line of sight, since its the *checking* for LOS which is where the slowdown is, not the actual seeing another dwarf.
the X search on the stock menu doesn't work. It showed you the worn Ibex clothing because Ibex contains an X, but didn't show anything else that was worn. It seems there is no way to quickly select all the worn stuff from your dwarfs innumerable rooms and cabinets...
The humble river fortress "Twoballs of squeezing" was attacked by several agitated gaint magpies in the year 251. 5 hapless dwarves were mortally wounded during that attack.
I do 3x3 stairs in the main shaft but the central square is clear, usually with a pedestal displaying an item the dwarves using the stairs will enjoy or just engraving it. I guess that doesn't have pathing problems. Am I missing anything?
This video was already out of date. The stairs thing has been made almost completely useless as that part of the code was optimized heavily back in october.
Can you do a video on traps please? I feel like I'm on top of the basics. But complex traps, megabeasts, trapavoiders, dodge-me-traps... There's a lot to wrap my head around.
This is kind of a very specific question but I have a map with a *ton* of light aquifers and I really hate running stuff up to the surface to trade. Is it possible to make a 3x3 spiraling ramp stairwell down and if I do will it have the same problems with the aquifers leaking? I guess this is a round about way of asking if ramps on damp tiles leak too or if I'll just have to make a giant mega structure project and build each floor out.
Looked everywhere on the internet and in game to find how how to change the embark size the way you clicked on it, never even occurred to me to try because mouse is still so alien in DF..
The game is bugged. For many people, it runs at like 10 graphical fos and many more cpu fps with dedicated graphics (me included), which makes no sense at all
I had so many animals killing mine. I setup a drawbridge linked to a pressure plate in my inn and put their pasture right over that drawbridge and my issue just kinda solved itself.
what's the best way to kill cave invaders and stop them from coming? I have a plague of batpeople and they just keep spawning. killing them doesn't seem to stop it. at this point it feels like opening the caverns is a one way ticket to fps death. i'm in the single digits on a pretty good machine.
Turn off invaders in the settings until they get fixed in a patch. You'll still have to clean up the current waves (I have like 100 olm-people still milling around). But at least it stops the ceaseless flood. You can turn them back on later if you want.
Will you do a video on how to fix marksmen squads not picking up ammo? This is easily reproducible if you carefully plan a loadout with bolts and crossbows
I made an ass of myself arguing with my friend that framerate death doesn't exist due to one of your clips man, I believed that and scorned the ign review that was terribly good. Framerate death 100% exist and is the real fort killer. Thankyou for making this video
It can happen in the same way it can happen in any sandbox game. Is it an active issue? No. It used to be 100% unavoidable and would happen after 5-10 years in game. Now its 95% fixable and can be avoided in most situations. Its a knowledge issue not a game issue. Cities skylines will scream to a crawl if you built a full scale city. Dwarf fortress is the same. Framerate death is dead. Framerate issues can be fixed.
Wonder if engraving a huge area, or just engraving a lot in general causes frame drops. Would think that each engraving polls for dwarf moods around them. I tend to engrave noble rooms and sometimes larger areas completely, and it feels like doing this is the first step for low FPS in my forts.
So it looks like the main offender really is number of dwarves though, when even on your what Im assuming is a decent pc it slows to 15fps when you go past 200
cool tips. Stupid Q not related to FPS, in your tutorial i saw you had notification box for migrants, and i wonder how you enable it.? I've edit announcement.txt to add BOX but seems this do not work.
I have a nice computer. I have a fort thats stuck at 20 FPS for some reason. im not sure if its lava underground that i havnt uncoverd? maybe its because im at a volcano? but all my other forts have been fine.
Fiddle with temperature. Unless stuff is burning actively it should not be a problem. If you recently sent a squad out to fight off map check if any of them are stuck somewhere like in a tree.
Well my frames were constantly down to ~14 fps even though i have a 4,7 Ghz ryzen 5. I just realised that the game ran on 1,7ghz, because it somehow didnt make the PC to boost the CPU to full clock speed on "energy saving mode". I switched to "high performance" and not it's at 50fps. Which stil isn't a lot, but much better
I'm willing to take an FPS hit to use 2x2 stairs. I really, *really* prefer 2-wide corridors to 3-wide corridors, aesthetically and 'cause I get annoyed if I have to shoehorn double-doors in at the end of such a corridor. My loss, I know. Literally!
Putnam recently profiled the game and found that pathfinding doesn't actually take that much computation time in a mature fort. My experiments with stairs also show me there isn't a huge difference to using block stairs like this, either.
@@ChristesII Yep, I read the thread on the bay12 forums awhile back. but line of sight stuff does affect frames/ticks (though that has been tweaked recently), so the cross/X shaped stairs with walls does help some, while a 2x2 will still add to LoS issues.
The parentheses means that the item wasn't created within your fortress. Like at 16:48, he has a (copper toy axe) that he would have purchased, and a -lead toy axe- that he crafted. (Obviously he wants to poison his children.)
I prefer 250-yr-old worlds just because I find it very annoying to click on dwarf and, instead of a birth year, being told that they've been alive since the literal dawn of time. It's very weird.
@@nzeusman8215 Max age is 170 so none would be from the birth of time. Still, changing start time to have a DOB seems odd to me. When I start at 100 yr old world none of my dwarves are over 100.
I recently had a weird occurrence where my entire fortress randomly grinded to a halt while I was attacked by a group of agitated bird people (FPS were down to 3). After it became unplayable I tried restarting the game, which didn't help. So I tried reloading the fort from an earlier save point and it finally continued to run normally, even past the point when it originally slowed down. No idea what was going on and it never happened again after that...
@@BlindiRL Sounds about right. Although I don't use doors for sealing off my fortresses and everything was open at the time. The place where the fighting took place outside my fortress was a complete mess, there were items strewn around and a lot of dwarves fought and died at the same time.
I had something similar happen with my fort earlier this week. I had sealed a forgotten beast in the caves (a giant quail with fire breath), and that was going fine for a few years. Then a force of cavern dwellers (batpeople) appeared on that side of the cave, and got into a huge fight with the beast. Framerate went down to like 1 fps, the interface was very laggy, I couldn't click on anything, it took multiple attempts to get the pause button to even work. The forgotten beast had fought and destroyed the entire 20+ force of batpeople, and fire was everywhere. Oddly, when I saved and reloaded, everything was fine. The fire was still spreading and the cavern dwellers were dead, but the framerate was back to normal. So whatever it was, reloading the map fixed it.
Personally, I've always just stuck with 2x2 stairs, and never had a problem. Maybe it's not quite as efficient as the 3x3 X pattern, but it's nowhere near as bad as the 3x3full everyone does. :/ Who knows why that seems to be everyone's default design.
The number of pathing options should be pretty similar- 2 or occasionally 5 for the X shape and 4 for the 2 X 2. The X takes up more space and is slightly harder draw up.
in my fort when i had temperature it was mid winter but the water on the surface was not frozen once i turned tempereature back on after 1 or two days everything froze
This game was running well for me. Until I ran it in windowed mode to have quick access to the wiki. I've had it crash since then. Once I get around 200 with a bunch of stuff on different levels. It stops responding and then comes back. If I put inputs in it it will crash.
Well crashing is something different. Have you tried reverting to an autosave or putting the game back in full screen? This is odd cause windowed mode has always been more stable.
how often does it do the active world updates now, I thought it only checked the world state when you you interacted with the outer world like when migrants, visitors or diplomats show up.
Really? Frame rate death doesn't happen anymore? Check out the steam forum. This is a bigger and more current issue than you think. I've been battling for to keep my FPS above **7** for 3 campaigns once I reach around 100 population. It kills me each time. I've tested this on 3 separate computers and have similar results, with my newer laptop trouncing my way more powerful desktops. I have a 9900k, 6900xt, 64 gigs of ram--and in a default 4x4 world from the start, the max FPS I can reach is 30-40. Your FPS with 200 population is anywhere from 5x-10x better than my fps with 6 dwarves. I have spent maybe 15 hours trying and testing things, testing different systems, configurations, settings. And it's all the same. I took a game with low fps, I killed all my dwarves and destroyed nearly every item--and it didn't change the fps. There's something else going on. By the way--not using compressed saves about doubles the save speed I realized. So yesterday I bought a 13900k cpu/motherboard. The things I go through to be able to play! PS, love your videos. You rock--I've never watched more videos on how to play a game in my life.
Thank you! I think the disconnect here is my definition of fps death. Back in the day it was inevitable. The game would gradually slow untill it was unplayable. That is my definition. Currently the game can have framerate issues however the vast majority of them are solvable or at least avoidable. When I talk about fps death I mean issues the game had pre ver40. These days it's almost always possible to save a fort with optimization.
I just installed DF (Steam version), normal sized world but 5 years history. Other than the first two guaranteed migrant waves I haven't gotten any new migrants, and I'm now in winter of year 6 (I've gotten the "no migrants have come" message several times). :/ I understand the why - that no civilisations have had a chance to form, but damn... :( I intended to have a quieter first fort, enemies-wise, but not a complete absence of migrants. :/
Do invasions deplete the civilizations population numbers? EG. 40 elves invade me, I kill them now are their 40 less population of elves from where ever they came from ?
Sometime I smirked like a senile, last time they make a satire joke about the need of beefy computer to run minecraft, which become real... Then now, need beefy computer to run something that look like galaga... 😁
My low power PC with a i7-11800H, 32gb ram DDR4 and a rtx 3060 is struggling with 100 dwarves loweing the framerate to 50 ._. i'm definitely trying this
I Razed a tower, stole their books and put them in my library, seemed fine to have a necromancer fort until a thief started a fight deep inside the fort. Suddenly frame rates dropped to nothing as everyone kept resurrecting bodies and parts of bodies, some of which were intelligent and still hostile. 140 dwarves in constant congested combat caused me to retire the fort.
Well, thats at least a decent story. :D
I had once slaughtered a lot of rams to keep the population down. But then a visiting necromancer got scared by a surprise goblin climbing out of my moat. So he proceeded to reanimate about a 100 pieces of wool. The following pile of people trying to bludgeon living wool took a 15 minutes to process, and release my framerate from its hostage
Your story is very reminiscent of mine. I wanted to have a pet necromancer, yet there was no need for tower raiding - for some reason my Dwarven civilization, The Bell of Vaults, had necromancers imbued. One necro just came with the migrant wave, Necromancer diagnostician. I created a special squad consisting out of one hero warrior, clad her into iron, bought her a flail. Wanted to have a Witch-King of my own, stupid fool.
Then I wanted to have books with secrets of the life and death. My initial plan when I was starting fort was to create a tower like Tower of Babel. So it could be impossible huge, a spire of dwarven might and ingenuity. I had a necromancer tower like 3 days of travel NE of my site. So I sent a trained squad, Silvery Hammerers, to raid the place. Our kingdom was at war with humans, my Hammerers also raided their villages.
My soldiers gloriously overpowered necromancers, their armor and hammers overcoming lies, illusions and magic of unworthy Deathbenders. It was a sign from Armok himself "look, you don't need those books". I never listened. Books were secured at closed section of library, then I noticed that my dwarves started to turn necromancers. What sorcery is this? - I shouted. We dug a nice treasure room with huge pit and little island in the center, I put pedestals there and Necronomicons. Then I found that soldiers brought a scroll with Necromancy and I was unable to put a scroll on pedestal. The number of necromancers was already 12. I dumbed the scroll and walled it off.
My plan had a one necromancer in mind, 12 was too many. So I made a squad out of them. I thought to occupy the tower, sending unwanted necros there so they wouldn't accidentally ruin my mega project. Then the humans came, a band of 20-30 warriors, they wanted a parley, I thought they want those stupid necrobooks, they could have them. Yet they attacked my citizens, killing children playing in the fields.
Burrows were activated and soldiers equipped. Yet I forgot that I send necromancers on their journey. They clashed in stupid way - humans shot a few of my bunnies... necromancer raised them. Human army ran away in fear, leaving a few child-killing scouts in their place. My warriors killed them and then the Hell was let loose. Necromancers were raising bodies, soldiers killing them. I thought their silver hammers will mangle zombies so they wouldn't be able to reanimate. I was wrong. My fortress is stuck in constant reanimation and fighting.
I threw way too many enemies that were all hostile to each other in the same pit and it almost ended my fort.
Almost the same story, but things ran just well enough for me to play it out, the fort lived, but I lost 60 dwarves fighting the undead hoard 💀
I would suggest for anyone regardless of pc to play at least once on a really small embark because it forces you to think and plan vertically something that will help a lot with fortress design on bigger maps. It's very common to see endless hallways of rooms on 1-2 z levels that probably should be stacked on top of eachother a lot more.
Using vertical space is also great for reducing travel time. I've taken to building bedrooms in "towers" rather than sprawling dormatories. It's much quicker for a dwarf to travel down a 6 z-level staircase than it is for them to traverse a 30 tile long hallway. Line it up right and you can have it so where a dwarf is never more than 6 spaces away from a temple *and* the tavern.
@@kevingriffith6011 so basically, Goblin pits
@@tubebrocoli For whatever reason after I implemented this design into my own fortress, I've been getting notifications that multiple dark goblin pits are economically linked to me, so there may be something there...
(Kidding. I'm pretty sure it's because my fort is now the last bastion of my civilization surrounded entirely by dark goblin pits and no dwarves)
10:48 Falling unconscious on or fighting on stairs will make a creature fall down multiple levels. Never seen with ramps.
16:19 The "X" trick to select quality does not work anymore. Here it matches the "ibeX"
Oh yeah, I've always strived to minimize my use of stairs, and have grown quite fond of a kind of "corkscrew" shape as the spine of my fortress. A big ramp that circles down around a big pillar just looks cool despite it being more inefficient than just using stairs!
I like doing 2 wide round stairway going around a pillar, I wonder if it's still possible
Funny enough, that's how the game generates ruined dwarven fortresses.
Got to agree. Something about a spiral staircase really sells the depth of the fortress over a simple one-block staircase.
@@Inglonias They are similar! Though, I make the path down/up 3 tiles wide and each level ten tiles long.
Have You considered running a waterfall down the middle pillar in this corkscrew?
Map size
Embark Size
Weather
Temperature
Locked Doors
Stairs - most possible directions with the minimal possible options - X, 'squared circle', ramps.
Populaton caps (trigger size) /Enemy caps.
Garbage dump/lava/atom smasher/damaged Xclothing/Amount of items - trading.
Oh my, so glad I watched this video. I was puzzled to the point of frustration why my open space dumping area never seemed to work. I never knew it had to have two squares with one for a dwarf to stand on. I wish the game informed us of it or required us to designate two squares before approving the zone.
Weirdly enough, when I dig a new block of my fortress, and I want to remove stones that lie on the ground, i make single tile garbage dump, mass select stones, and it does work.
Maybe there are special dumping conditions for stone
@@bakedpotatokekw that's because it's the same level. OP is wanting to drop stuff down a hole. The dwarf needs a spot to stand on to access the hole
It's not that it needs to be two tiles. It's just that you designate the tile the dwarf will stand on when dumping the item, and then they will prioritise dumping it into any empty space adjacent to that designated tile, including diagonals, and if there is no adjacent empty space then they will dump it on that designated tile. So in the video, he could have only designated the tile next to the open hole as the dump zone and they would still throw everything down the hole.
PS. When you're designating a zone for an activity, it will tell you how many tiles you have selected are valid for that activity, so you can paint and unpaint tiles to check if they are valid.
I'd like to point something out for your gaming computers, DON'T RUN IN 4K RES!
Just because you can run the latest stuff in 4k 120fps, that's not going to work in Dwarf fortress in my personal experience.
The problem is if you have your desktop res set to 4K, and the game to 1080p (1920x1080) The game doesn't go full screen even if I set the Game to full screen, it just stays windowed, and going full screen with F11 on it is just as bad as 4K performance wise.
So. change your Desktop res to 1920X1080, and run the game on the same res.
change it back when you're done ;)
This will bump up your entire game by a huge margin.
It almost got me to quit the game before I realized this.
That sounds like placebo to me honestly? Dwarf fortress is heavily CPU bottlenecked, so things like resolution shouldn't affect performance nearly at all.
Hands down the best DF video for a beginner (me), my first proper fortress is now at 198 pop and my framerate is at 12-15...
I have over 2000 stones, 3000 blocks and god knows how many items of all kinds, laying around in enormous stockpiles... While playing on a map with constant rain and I'm living inside a Volcano...
Turning of Weather and Temperature brought it up to 35 fps, which is at least playable. But next fort will be 2x2 map instead of 3x5, and I'm rethinking everything I've taught myself about stairs and dumping items...
From my experience, there are different types of FPS problems.
For CPU framerate, your video is surely true, it helps a lot. But, with new release, DF gained another problem; graphical fps performance. There are some setups, which include some nvidia graphical cards, that simply do not work well, or at all with steam release.
In those cases, frame death can occur very realistically. Even with goodhardware setups, small embark and world sizes, pop cap eing low and management of items, game may become unplayable, even when paused.
The general rule I've found that helps combat that is to have as little of textures/entities on screen at one time as possible.
This means building as much vertically as possible, not building surface forts, having as little of big stockpiles as possible (either keeping things in workshops or maaaybe using quantum stockpiles), as well as not centering your forts around one big meeting zone, since that z-level may become unsee-able when heavily occupied by animals and dwarves.
Game is crazy good, but it needs some serious optimization work done. As of now, it is near unplayable for some people who should be able to run it no problem with hardware they got.
The Stair patter sure is one of the most asked things on the Discord server, I did not take in consideration about the possible path options, so now I could optimize better my forts.
Same, I had no idea until now!
First watch missed his comment that this only works in trade tab and not in stocks tab. he said you can trade it off. My apologies. The "search" by "X" tip does not work, he showed it on screen between 17:00 minutes and forward. When x was in search, only showed ibex pants and when he took it out their were x(cave spider silk pants)x on screen. Also found this to be true when I tried it. It would not show all x(item)x items. But knowing to get rid of them is still a very useful tip. Thanks for the videos blind!!!
Yeah search only cares about the name of the item, more specifically the original item type name. You can't for example search for named items at all either, you have to search for their type, for example if it's a crown you have to type in crown instead of its name. I hope they improve that
I was just about to comment on this, I had the same experience
It works in trading.
@@BlindiRL I am sorry for the incorrect comment, understood after watching VOD.
I think dwarves creating things all the time can also impact framerate, disbling many standing orders can help.
For the beggining is very useful that they are able to do stuff, but with time I wish everything could get managed with your manager and orders, but many conditions seem not possible and they always keep farming and other tasks.
Hope you'll do a vid (or a few) on the world map and raiding! Also, blueprints, lol. Love this series, thank you so much!
Most likely thing causing your fps issues is cavern invasions, the game continues to spawn enemies there indefinitely, turn cavern spawn off
pretty sure you only need the one square next to a cliff or pit, zoned for dumping for the dwarf to stand on and they auto throw into a hole if there is one adjacent. apparently sometimes they might also jump (maybe fall?) in if the hole itself is zoned too.
This answers a problem I had with a recent fort. It had a large dump zone outside for dumping remains mostly, and there was a single 1x1 natural pond next to the dump zone. The dwarves would always go to the square next to that one, even though it wasn't designated in any way, to dump stuff into it, even if meant a much longer trek. This must have been why!
@@HumanistAtheist guaranteed haha, mystery solved!
Here's a tip from me, don't wall in werebeasts or vampires, find a way to kill them asap. A walled in werebeast that is affected by some form of strange mood will completely destroy the framerate while it's trying to escape.
My werepanda woman dropped my fps from 110 to 17, and I had to sit there and create waterflow into her chamber then wait a torturous amount of time for my entire moat to be filled to 7/7, and it was just miserable tbh.
It's a boring way to handle these things but just atom smash em away before they become a bother
Was the panda behind a door or fully walled in?
@@BlindiRL Fully walled
Could you expand a little bit about stairs pathfinding? Or link to a resource talking about it?
While I have been playing DF since before the 3D z-level, I don't usually check forums or advanced discourse, just the wiki when I'm stuck with new things and playing by myself. And that point about stairs might explain part of my fps issue on very fast computers this past half decade.
I'm usually doing a central 3x3, with a row of 3 Up stairs, then a middle row of floors (ideally glass floors to bring in some light), then a row of 3 Down stairs. Slightly longer to walk, but it avoids a creature falling down 30 z-levels (as dwarves tend to do a lot) and other benefits for exploratory digging into caves. It should have even lass pathfinding options than your cross pattern, but I'm not sure I understood what path the little buggers where looking for exactly.
I think the pathfinding is referring to the dwarves deciding which direction to go. On an X they usually have two options in ascending/ descending with a max of 5 options if they are in the middle. On a 3 X 3 they always have 9 options at each level which is 1.8 to 4.5 times more options. That could make a difference with a hundred dwarves walking up dozens of levels. On the negative side is that in the X they are more likely to have to crawl over each other.
I would like to point out that when you are searching though your stocks for "X" it's returning clothing that that has "X" in the name of the material (Ibex leather), but not actually searching for "X(clothing name)X". Very frustrating, but I don't think there is currently a way to sort specifically for worn out clothing.
3:44 me on my way to make a 16*16 embark
Omg the get rid of items with the X search is so smart!! Thanks!!
To help whit the fps I 'automated' my dumping zone using a minecart. I do work quite well even for clothing but I do feel they should be more option for stockpile for tatter clothing and corps/body part the latter in particular has a hard time separating rotting part from still fresh and usable ones
Yea, you can use the QSP minecart technique to dump either into a big shaft or into lava.
This is a question I have, like I've got stacks of skeletons and skulls, teeth, etc. But I'm not sure if they are trash or useful for crafting..!
@@edmundbasham67 Skulls can occasionally prove handy for strange moods, I've heard
Hopefully the next time you get to talk to Tarn Adams you can ask him if the search bar will be improved soon? I would like to search for "xx" in the stock screen but it doesn't work it only pulls up things with the letter "x" in the name
Your tutorials are required viewing... lol though I usually see them after the fact. I just got my first successful fort up and going, nearly 200 bois and a maze with a Minotaur. (It took me AGES to figure out how to get the cage down there... and it still wouldn't hook up to a lever so a brave dwarf had to pay the ultimate price for.. well my amusement I guess... or science. Yes science) Anyway, just saying I'd never have gotten this far without your videos... or not nearly as quickly. Thanks for everything you do man.
I STILL WONT LISTEN! YOU CANT STOP ME!!
Great video. Thank you.
I've never in my life heard someone describe slower/ lower-end PC's as "smaller." To me, a "smaller" PC is something like a Raspberry Pi or a NUC. Like, I get what you're describing, it's just a weird way to say it
Do not turn off temperature thats a very bad advice you will get game breaking bugs once something will create heat like lava or an enemy, the tiles will still get heated and become permanently unwalkable unless you turn it back on
I had an fps death when an imp decided to crawl out of the volcano to spit some bars at me, he started a fire and it got a couple dorfs killed... the problem was some of my dorfs wanted to collect dead items or whatever but were being held back by the expanding fire, one dorf would rack up hundreds of canceled actions in 2 seconds, that and probably a fuck ton of temperature checks.
Yes but this is fixable after the fact. It takes some work but you could fully recover your frames with burrows or by simply waiting for the fire to burn out. This is not fps death it's just slow down due to outside factors and is totally fixable.
@@BlindiRL didn't mean fps death but yeh I quickly learnt about burrows after that, it all makes sense considering I had no idea about temperature lol
I was just thinking about this. Thanks for the video.
Hi Blind!
I'm a recent subscriber, but I've played DF on and off for a decade or so. If you are looking for material to make tutorials about I would really appreciate a thorough guide to the detailed world generation. Haven't really found any good guides out there, especially not up to date ones.
I'm personally looking to create a bit of a Dune world with large, open underground caverns. I suppose I can't just have deserts as that would screw with most other civilizations but maybe half / 75% ?
That definitely sounds possible!
Salford Sal had some great video on tweaking world gen. I think she pretty much covered all options.
th-cam.com/video/0Hcx0PEXdaE/w-d-xo.html
Ctrl+Alt+Del > Task Manager > Details > RMB (right mouse button) on Dwarf Fortress > Set priority to high (on windows 10 you need to repeat this step each launch or just use program like "Process Manager" and create rule for df so priority will be set automatically). This sets the amount of time allocated for df on cpu (game can do more calculations in same time).
WARNING - DON'T SET TO REAL TIME
I need help please. I can’t seem to figure out which setting changes the amount of mobs that spawn to attack me during sieges.
I've been reading Putnams thread on fps, if I understand correctly, your stair pillars shouldn't affect line of sight, since its the *checking* for LOS which is where the slowdown is, not the actual seeing another dwarf.
the X search on the stock menu doesn't work. It showed you the worn Ibex clothing because Ibex contains an X, but didn't show anything else that was worn. It seems there is no way to quickly select all the worn stuff from your dwarfs innumerable rooms and cabinets...
it doesn't recognize the status X as a part of the item's name
It did a week ago. After recording and fiddling it works in trading just not in the stocks screen.. for some reason.
The humble river fortress "Twoballs of squeezing" was attacked by several agitated gaint magpies in the year 251. 5 hapless dwarves were mortally wounded during that attack.
I'm sure some balls got squeezed... D:
Good info, will have to bookmark this one a just in case its needed, I did like the bit about advanced map info , thanks
Have you ever messed around with traffic zones? Wiki says those can help too, but I'm sure they can also do more harm than good if used wrong.
Yep, can also help but I wanted to keep the time on this video down and stick to simple things that work effectively.
Would like to see a vid on traffic zones at some point, and how to make them efficient, please.
I do 3x3 stairs in the main shaft but the central square is clear, usually with a pedestal displaying an item the dwarves using the stairs will enjoy or just engraving it. I guess that doesn't have pathing problems. Am I missing anything?
This video was already out of date. The stairs thing has been made almost completely useless as that part of the code was optimized heavily back in october.
@@BlindiRL Didn't know that, thanks for the info and the quick reply.
The door tip really saved my fort.
:D
Can you do a video on traps please?
I feel like I'm on top of the basics. But complex traps, megabeasts, trapavoiders, dodge-me-traps... There's a lot to wrap my head around.
I dont think i'll turn off weather and temp because of my obsession, but i'll definetely build a dwarven atom smasher.
Great vid. Just starting to experience fps issues with a max of 20 and have a beast of a machine
That might be a video quality more than CPU. I understand that can have a separate issue if it is cranked up.
can't the dwarves still move diagonally in the 2nd staircase example? will they try to path through the corners?
Larger world allows for more places to start up a fortress.
I like the Lava trash idea, I NEED it lol
I keep grinding down to like 14fps, but I also have around 250 dwarfs and they all have a lot of junk now
250 dorfs is asking the game to run in power point mode lol.
This is kind of a very specific question but I have a map with a *ton* of light aquifers and I really hate running stuff up to the surface to trade.
Is it possible to make a 3x3 spiraling ramp stairwell down and if I do will it have the same problems with the aquifers leaking? I guess this is a round about way of asking if ramps on damp tiles leak too or if I'll just have to make a giant mega structure project and build each floor out.
You need to dig a tube 7x7, smooth or build walls in outline of that space and build walls and ramps because traders with wagons need 3 tiles to move
Looked everywhere on the internet and in game to find how how to change the embark size the way you clicked on it, never even occurred to me to try because mouse is still so alien in DF..
The game is bugged. For many people, it runs at like 10 graphical fos and many more cpu fps with dedicated graphics (me included), which makes no sense at all
I'm running at 9fps on my steam deck and now I know why, thanks!
oh my god you actually did it
I had so many animals killing mine. I setup a drawbridge linked to a pressure plate in my inn and put their pasture right over that drawbridge and my issue just kinda solved itself.
A lot of great info here, Blind! Thanks!
Thanks Blind!
How do you get the filter to show you damaged things by typing x? when i do it it shows me objects with x in the name and ignores the damaged items.
what's the best way to kill cave invaders and stop them from coming? I have a plague of batpeople and they just keep spawning. killing them doesn't seem to stop it. at this point it feels like opening the caverns is a one way ticket to fps death. i'm in the single digits on a pretty good machine.
Magma is the solution and cause of all dwarven problems
Turn off invaders in the settings until they get fixed in a patch. You'll still have to clean up the current waves (I have like 100 olm-people still milling around). But at least it stops the ceaseless flood. You can turn them back on later if you want.
Will you do a video on how to fix marksmen squads not picking up ammo? This is easily reproducible if you carefully plan a loadout with bolts and crossbows
tldr don't let them use bins and only have one type of ammo available.
They won't use ammo the was crafted before the squad was created is what I've discovered, just make new ammo
I made an ass of myself arguing with my friend that framerate death doesn't exist due to one of your clips man, I believed that and scorned the ign review that was terribly good. Framerate death 100% exist and is the real fort killer. Thankyou for making this video
It can happen in the same way it can happen in any sandbox game. Is it an active issue? No. It used to be 100% unavoidable and would happen after 5-10 years in game. Now its 95% fixable and can be avoided in most situations.
Its a knowledge issue not a game issue. Cities skylines will scream to a crawl if you built a full scale city. Dwarf fortress is the same. Framerate death is dead. Framerate issues can be fixed.
@@BlindiRL watch any "lets game it out" video as proof, I swear his goal is to create framerate death in every game he plays
Seems like you've made a double ass of yourself now
@@goge957 Well, if its your intention to break something, something will break. Its another story when something breaks when used the intended way.
@@Jrock420blam How?
You embark 16x16 because big map go brr.
I go 16x16 so I have more room for graves.
We are not the same
Can you burn things with magma if you turn off temperature?
No. But you could always turn temp on and back off after the stuff burns
@@fpypnts seems so strange that something wouldn't melt to magma
Old be nice to have an option to save diferent options, or do that options save per map world?
Thank yopu very much, i play dwarf fortress literally on a stone with engravings on it.
Wonder if engraving a huge area, or just engraving a lot in general causes frame drops. Would think that each engraving polls for dwarf moods around them.
I tend to engrave noble rooms and sometimes larger areas completely, and it feels like doing this is the first step for low FPS in my forts.
I don't think that causes frame drop. The dwarfs are already running this kind of calculations, its just like a wall/floor the has more value.
I saw a clip last week that said mass engravings does impact FPS but I've not had a chance to test it yet
it looks like the "X" filter wasn't working. It simply showed you items that had and x in the name...
Another very helpful video, thank You!
So it looks like the main offender really is number of dwarves though, when even on your what Im assuming is a decent pc it slows to 15fps when you go past 200
You guys have frame rate issues?
how do i turn on the fps counter though? i cant find any setting or guide on how to do it in steam edition
It's in the settings (I think under "game"), just look again - it's there
Wish it was possible to access the source code for modding bc ive got several ideas for gpu accelerated computation
I don't know why they did this but you can no longer search X to find all the worn clothing and mass designate. No idea why they did this.
cool tips.
Stupid Q not related to FPS, in your tutorial i saw you had notification box for migrants, and i wonder how you enable it.?
I've edit announcement.txt to add BOX but seems this do not work.
NVM, there are in announcements.txt, but under D_MIGRANT* and not MIGRANT_ARRIVAL*.
Me likey the chaotic evil circle stairs
It is probably also a good idea to not have hundreds of livestock and prisoners.
I have a nice computer. I have a fort thats stuck at 20 FPS for some reason. im not sure if its lava underground that i havnt uncoverd? maybe its because im at a volcano? but all my other forts have been fine.
Fiddle with temperature. Unless stuff is burning actively it should not be a problem. If you recently sent a squad out to fight off map check if any of them are stuck somewhere like in a tree.
Well my frames were constantly down to ~14 fps even though i have a 4,7 Ghz ryzen 5. I just realised that the game ran on 1,7ghz, because it somehow didnt make the PC to boost the CPU to full clock speed on "energy saving mode". I switched to "high performance" and not it's at 50fps. Which stil isn't a lot, but much better
How do you enable to show the FPS on your game?
Oh just noticed now you can enable it in settings.
I'm willing to take an FPS hit to use 2x2 stairs. I really, *really* prefer 2-wide corridors to 3-wide corridors, aesthetically and 'cause I get annoyed if I have to shoehorn double-doors in at the end of such a corridor. My loss, I know. Literally!
Putnam recently profiled the game and found that pathfinding doesn't actually take that much computation time in a mature fort. My experiments with stairs also show me there isn't a huge difference to using block stairs like this, either.
@@ChristesII Yep, I read the thread on the bay12 forums awhile back. but line of sight stuff does affect frames/ticks (though that has been tweaked recently), so the cross/X shaped stairs with walls does help some, while a 2x2 will still add to LoS issues.
How to display a FPS number in the left corner of the screen?
It’s in game settings
Could you have typed "x(" in order to find the damaged clothing to eliminate the false positives like "ibex"?
The parentheses means that the item wasn't created within your fortress. Like at 16:48, he has a (copper toy axe) that he would have purchased, and a -lead toy axe- that he crafted. (Obviously he wants to poison his children.)
I usually panic and throw some cats into the meat grinder.
I guess my FPS being cut in half by late game can be explained with my main central 4x4 staircase lol.
There also just seems to be some strange lag issues in v50.04 something to do with AMD cards and driver conflicts.
I have an Nvidia card, so that probably doesn't apply to me.
Does anyone know if DF Hack works for the steam release at the moment? Or if that's even planned for them?
It doesn't work right now. It's being updated and that's going to take a while.
I prefer 250-yr-old worlds just because I find it very annoying to click on dwarf and, instead of a birth year, being told that they've been alive since the literal dawn of time. It's very weird.
The dwarf god made them all? That's kind of cool.
But Dwarves get really old in the first place, not like elves, but still, don't they?
@@nzeusman8215 Max age is 170 so none would be from the birth of time. Still, changing start time to have a DOB seems odd to me. When I start at 100 yr old world none of my dwarves are over 100.
I recently had a weird occurrence where my entire fortress randomly grinded to a halt while I was attacked by a group of agitated bird people (FPS were down to 3).
After it became unplayable I tried restarting the game, which didn't help.
So I tried reloading the fort from an earlier save point and it finally continued to run normally, even past the point when it originally slowed down.
No idea what was going on and it never happened again after that...
Sounds like the birds were trying to path into your fort and could not. Probably a blocked path or locked door somewhere.
@@BlindiRL Sounds about right.
Although I don't use doors for sealing off my fortresses and everything was open at the time.
The place where the fighting took place outside my fortress was a complete mess, there were items strewn around and a lot of dwarves fought and died at the same time.
I had something similar happen with my fort earlier this week. I had sealed a forgotten beast in the caves (a giant quail with fire breath), and that was going fine for a few years. Then a force of cavern dwellers (batpeople) appeared on that side of the cave, and got into a huge fight with the beast. Framerate went down to like 1 fps, the interface was very laggy, I couldn't click on anything, it took multiple attempts to get the pause button to even work. The forgotten beast had fought and destroyed the entire 20+ force of batpeople, and fire was everywhere.
Oddly, when I saved and reloaded, everything was fine. The fire was still spreading and the cavern dwellers were dead, but the framerate was back to normal. So whatever it was, reloading the map fixed it.
i hope they tweak to improve frames
My PC isn't awful but I have to keep temperature off. It only takes one fire demon heating up a stairwell to send my FPS to zero.
Personally, I've always just stuck with 2x2 stairs, and never had a problem. Maybe it's not quite as efficient as the 3x3 X pattern, but it's nowhere near as bad as the 3x3full everyone does. :/ Who knows why that seems to be everyone's default design.
The number of pathing options should be pretty similar- 2 or occasionally 5 for the X shape and 4 for the 2 X 2. The X takes up more space and is slightly harder draw up.
in my fort when i had temperature it was mid winter but the water on the surface was not frozen once i turned tempereature back on after 1 or two days everything froze
Interesting. I had it off for two seasons in a recent fort and stuff still froze.
i usualy have painful 10 fps on my fort and temperature and weather were giving me like 1 or 2 frames
i guess my game might be lagging because i have 6k food 4k drink 4k plant 2k meat
This game was running well for me. Until I ran it in windowed mode to have quick access to the wiki.
I've had it crash since then. Once I get around 200 with a bunch of stuff on different levels. It stops responding and then comes back. If I put inputs in it it will crash.
Well crashing is something different. Have you tried reverting to an autosave or putting the game back in full screen? This is odd cause windowed mode has always been more stable.
Dedicated building for garbage disposal would be useful. My 10yo fortress is full of goblin skeletons and 20fps is not fun.
how often does it do the active world updates now, I thought it only checked the world state when you you interacted with the outer world like when migrants, visitors or diplomats show up.
Every time the game saves.
Really? Frame rate death doesn't happen anymore? Check out the steam forum. This is a bigger and more current issue than you think.
I've been battling for to keep my FPS above **7** for 3 campaigns once I reach around 100 population. It kills me each time. I've tested this on 3 separate computers and have similar results, with my newer laptop trouncing my way more powerful desktops.
I have a 9900k, 6900xt, 64 gigs of ram--and in a default 4x4 world from the start, the max FPS I can reach is 30-40. Your FPS with 200 population is anywhere from 5x-10x better than my fps with 6 dwarves. I have spent maybe 15 hours trying and testing things, testing different systems, configurations, settings. And it's all the same.
I took a game with low fps, I killed all my dwarves and destroyed nearly every item--and it didn't change the fps. There's something else going on.
By the way--not using compressed saves about doubles the save speed I realized.
So yesterday I bought a 13900k cpu/motherboard. The things I go through to be able to play!
PS, love your videos. You rock--I've never watched more videos on how to play a game in my life.
Thank you! I think the disconnect here is my definition of fps death. Back in the day it was inevitable. The game would gradually slow untill it was unplayable. That is my definition. Currently the game can have framerate issues however the vast majority of them are solvable or at least avoidable.
When I talk about fps death I mean issues the game had pre ver40. These days it's almost always possible to save a fort with optimization.
if you wanna go full chaotic evil lmao
I just installed DF (Steam version), normal sized world but 5 years history. Other than the first two guaranteed migrant waves I haven't gotten any new migrants, and I'm now in winter of year 6 (I've gotten the "no migrants have come" message several times). :/
I understand the why - that no civilisations have had a chance to form, but damn... :(
I intended to have a quieter first fort, enemies-wise, but not a complete absence of migrants. :/
Searching X no longer works, I and I am drowning in socks
Do invasions deplete the civilizations population numbers? EG. 40 elves invade me, I kill them now are their 40 less population of elves from where ever they came from ?
Sometime I smirked like a senile, last time they make a satire joke about the need of beefy computer to run minecraft, which become real... Then now, need beefy computer to run something that look like galaga... 😁
My low power PC with a i7-11800H, 32gb ram DDR4 and a rtx 3060 is struggling with 100 dwarves loweing the framerate to 50 ._.
i'm definitely trying this
Always have an atom smasher for the piles of ruined junk and vermin remains!
1 don't change the game files my history can't go over 110 else it dies
Put the dozens of newly hatched birds into cages. Also all puppies and piglets. No more eggs from freely roaming chickens.