I'd recommend isolating each bed with walls that have fortifications carved in. That way, if you're dealing with a werebeast outbreak, you can put them in the beds and wall them off, at least until the following moon. It keeps them quarantined and protects the innocent.
THANT YOU! You just saved my miner. I pulled a coddle and had him dig a channle over the living courters, causing a massive cave-in. He requiered extensive surgery, pools of blood are every, but he survived and is already back on his feet. I was vary fortunet to have a surgen migrate in two minutes prior to the accident. The video was vary helpfull, now I got to get back to walling off the cave-in zone.
Perhaps the proto-fortress I'm building for the next video can evolve into a let's play of sorts. It revolves around a neat concept that I'm considering making the norm in my forts.
@@Tekkud Not to rush you, but I'm excited for that new video. Any idea when it'll release? Also I notice the hospital isn't on the ground floor. Is it a tower you're building or some kind of fortress in the trees type concept.
Thanks!! Started playing a week ago and I'm on my 4th fort.. damn dead horses in the pub, damn 50 undead elves... damn goblins and my under equipped dorfs(and lack of iron).. Your videos help a ton!!
I like to see such game mechanics videos! You probably didn't say about how the medical skills influence on a patient. In a next video you might say about how many plant tiles you need to grow in order to avoid overproduction (my forts had thousands entities of plump helmet and quarry bushes which slowed my FPS). What I've already found out by experiments: - any plant planted by a legendary farmer grows to a 3 units-stack (in average). - 12.9, 6, 3, 3, 5, 7.8 - it's how many stacks in a year do one tile of certain underground plant give (ph, pt, sp, cw, qb, dc respectively). You just need to know how many times in a year do dwarves drink, eat, sleep and change clothes. All the information above might be useful in calculations of farm plots sizes and food production planning in general.
Two more inconveniences of overproduction: - almost all the drinks and food are made of one source. And dwarves don't like monotonous food. - many food hauling jobs.
That's not a bad idea. I have been thinking of the next "advanced basic" topic, and farming could be it. I spent most of an afternoon dialing in my production and setting up overstock sinks, so surely it's worth sharing.
2:15 To save you a wiki trip: a traction bench is made in the mechanic's shop, with R, from 1 rope, 1 mechanism, and 1 table. The quality of the components doesn't impact the result, only the skill of the mechanic. And it's a good enough way to use crappy tables. 3:25 Speaking of thread... hospitals are the only place where dwarves will use hair. Hair results from butchering animals with fur (cows, yaks, horses, mules, reindeer, the occasional Forgotten Beast, etc), and is _technically_ a form of thread, although it doesn't have an entry in the stockpile, and can't be woven or used in any other way. You only have 3 options: let it pile in butcheries forever, atom smash it periodically, or create a dump zone in the hospital & dump it there so dwarven suturers will (sometimes) pick it up and use it for sutures. Options 2 and 3 can be used in parallel :) 3:45 The '1 bar = 150 units' also applies to metal bars, which is how melting metal objects results in fractional bar outputs. This knowledge won't impact you in any way, and is basically useless trivia.
Alright, you got me. I thought hospitals were hard.. This was an amazing video! Next time, wells please! And what if you do not have a river and can you prevent it from freezing? Pumps for clean water, etc? X . X ❤
Hospital tip: The amount of beds you need are equivalent to the amount of dwarfs you expect to get injured. I know that sounds obvious, but think about it. You have one or two beds for "accidents", then one bed per dwarf in the military. You wouldn't need more than that, because if you're in a scenario where all your squads are down and more dwarfs are getting injured, then the fortress is probably lost. Another tip is to place all of your beds in little "cubbies" in the wall with a door blocking them off from the main room. See the diagram below ####### ###O### ###┼### This is a precaution against lycanthropy. Dwarfs who survive a were-ostrich attack can be locked in the room, preventing further infection.
Thanks, this made me realize you need to build the chest from the build menu, I was using a stockpile with bins and wondered why it didn't get the consumables.
No mention of forbidding candy threads from going into a hospital, did that get patched out or will your precious shiny blue stuff still end up sewn into some dwarf's stubbed toe?
It manages itself, if you have a bed and a table AND A CHEST! Well at least, your medics don't do much without a chest I think. I designated a hospital that was max size, individual rooms for all the beds, put long tables inside, and stockpiles for cloth and thread and splints.... items in the stockpiles, 0 thread or splints in the menu. Was so confused. Thanks for the video
I heard that healthcare will be altered in next version or somewhen. Like, hospital being location, and traction bench requires power to set bone. But beside that, I'd guess it'll be as easy as it was before.
Huh? Why automate bone traction with power when you have 2 to 3 muscly dwarves grab and pull to set the bone and use clever lever action /screws and rods to fixate and provide traction to the bone, like in the real world?
@@pazz1239 I don't know- maybe dwarves finally decided dwarven power is not enough for sturdy dwarven bone, and use mighty power of the water (or wind) instead. Urist McSetmybone : Aaaa
@@LegenDUS2 Welp. Guess thats a progress in dwarvan medical science. Hopefully someday their anaesthesia will also progress beyond alcohol and a solid knock to the gob.
I've heard that tables and traction benches should be next to beds, so that when a resting injured dwarf is moved for surgery, they aren't roughed up too much. But I have no idea if that is true.
I watched a dwarf toss her baby into a shallow pool of magma when startled. Though I can't speak for the likelihood of it, I'm sure having a dwarf carry another any distance has a non-zero chance of getting 'roughed up'.
my dwarf's punctured lung was stitched together like one would sew together a ruptured balloon. now she permanently at low health and alternates between healthy and winded every game tick. did she get stitched up before actual surgery or something? i feel this could have gone better. especially after another dwarf bled dry with her leg mangled up to the hip and was crutch free and pink skinned after a week
Dwarven healthcare is easy: "Alright everyone, if you're hurt, a werecreature, a noble, or a vampire, then take off all your armor and clothes, and stand on this drawbridge over lava. You'll know when healthcare begins."
I've played this game for years and never knew 1 spool of thread = 15,000 threads. I've always thought I needed my dorks to make 15000 threads just for 1 hospital
Yeah, the game never really provides an opportunity to understand these numbers. When I first saw them, I had to have the wiki explain why my hospital needed a mountain of thread.
please please dont ever delist these vids. I prefer 47.05 and creators have been removing or hiding their old version tuts. Thank you, these vids are amazing!
I really love your straightforward explanations, but really think the videos would be easier to watch if you showed the game at a lower resolution, or zoomed into the areas of interest. I find when watching a game played at higher resolution it can be hard to see what's going on.
Poor guy just wanted to help train your medical dwarves. I do have to say I didn't realize that was only 5 of each item. Those numbers looked intimidating more than anything.
Oh no, the were-creature FUN was mostly a result of using my fort for filming rather than playing. I thought I could get lazy for the sake of video production... I was wrong. Not saying that these simplistic hospital setups don't have weaknesses, but they can be accounted for by a player who's paying attention.
One of my favorit !!fun!! moments was: I had a MASSIVE tavern, that held everything. A bar fight broke out and everyone was involved. Everyone got an infection .... too soon for soap....
I'd recommend isolating each bed with walls that have fortifications carved in. That way, if you're dealing with a werebeast outbreak, you can put them in the beds and wall them off, at least until the following moon. It keeps them quarantined and protects the innocent.
THANT YOU! You just saved my miner.
I pulled a coddle and had him dig a channle over the living courters, causing a massive cave-in.
He requiered extensive surgery, pools of blood are every, but he survived and is already back on his feet.
I was vary fortunet to have a surgen migrate in two minutes prior to the accident.
The video was vary helpfull, now I got to get back to walling off the cave-in zone.
I would love to watch a fort playthrough of yours. these vids are great
Perhaps the proto-fortress I'm building for the next video can evolve into a let's play of sorts. It revolves around a neat concept that I'm considering making the norm in my forts.
@@Tekkud Not to rush you, but I'm excited for that new video. Any idea when it'll release? Also I notice the hospital isn't on the ground floor. Is it a tower you're building or some kind of fortress in the trees type concept.
Thanks!! Started playing a week ago and I'm on my 4th fort.. damn dead horses in the pub, damn 50 undead elves... damn goblins and my under equipped dorfs(and lack of iron)..
Your videos help a ton!!
I like to see such game mechanics videos! You probably didn't say about how the medical skills influence on a patient.
In a next video you might say about how many plant tiles you need to grow in order to avoid overproduction (my forts had thousands entities of plump helmet and quarry bushes which slowed my FPS).
What I've already found out by experiments:
- any plant planted by a legendary farmer grows to a 3 units-stack (in average).
- 12.9, 6, 3, 3, 5, 7.8 - it's how many stacks in a year do one tile of certain underground plant give (ph, pt, sp, cw, qb, dc respectively).
You just need to know how many times in a year do dwarves drink, eat, sleep and change clothes.
All the information above might be useful in calculations of farm plots sizes and food production planning in general.
Two more inconveniences of overproduction:
- almost all the drinks and food are made of one source. And dwarves don't like monotonous food.
- many food hauling jobs.
That's not a bad idea. I have been thinking of the next "advanced basic" topic, and farming could be it. I spent most of an afternoon dialing in my production and setting up overstock sinks, so surely it's worth sharing.
2:15 To save you a wiki trip: a traction bench is made in the mechanic's shop, with R, from 1 rope, 1 mechanism, and 1 table. The quality of the components doesn't impact the result, only the skill of the mechanic. And it's a good enough way to use crappy tables.
3:25 Speaking of thread... hospitals are the only place where dwarves will use hair. Hair results from butchering animals with fur (cows, yaks, horses, mules, reindeer, the occasional Forgotten Beast, etc), and is _technically_ a form of thread, although it doesn't have an entry in the stockpile, and can't be woven or used in any other way. You only have 3 options: let it pile in butcheries forever, atom smash it periodically, or create a dump zone in the hospital & dump it there so dwarven suturers will (sometimes) pick it up and use it for sutures. Options 2 and 3 can be used in parallel :)
3:45 The '1 bar = 150 units' also applies to metal bars, which is how melting metal objects results in fractional bar outputs. This knowledge won't impact you in any way, and is basically useless trivia.
Instantly surprised. DW made easy. Thank you so much lol.
Another excellent explanation video, thank you!
Glad you like it!
awesome video, thank you very much for this lession!
Alright, you got me. I thought hospitals were hard.. This was an amazing video!
Next time, wells please! And what if you do not have a river and can you prevent it from freezing? Pumps for clean water, etc? X . X ❤
Hospital tip: The amount of beds you need are equivalent to the amount of dwarfs you expect to get injured. I know that sounds obvious, but think about it. You have one or two beds for "accidents", then one bed per dwarf in the military. You wouldn't need more than that, because if you're in a scenario where all your squads are down and more dwarfs are getting injured, then the fortress is probably lost.
Another tip is to place all of your beds in little "cubbies" in the wall with a door blocking them off from the main room. See the diagram below
#######
###O###
###┼###
This is a precaution against lycanthropy. Dwarfs who survive a were-ostrich attack can be locked in the room, preventing further infection.
Thanks, this made me realize you need to build the chest from the build menu, I was using a stockpile with bins and wondered why it didn't get the consumables.
No mention of forbidding candy threads from going into a hospital, did that get patched out or will your precious shiny blue stuff still end up sewn into some dwarf's stubbed toe?
This is a beginner tutorial. If you've somehow broken through to FUN land, all you'll be doing is having FUN for the rest of the game.
@@chaoswraith You can get candy without going to FUN land. You just have to be careful.
Thank you for making this video, if you ever do make another tutorial video could you make one on prisons and jails?
It manages itself, if you have a bed and a table AND A CHEST! Well at least, your medics don't do much without a chest I think.
I designated a hospital that was max size, individual rooms for all the beds, put long tables inside, and stockpiles for cloth and thread and splints....
items in the stockpiles, 0 thread or splints in the menu. Was so confused. Thanks for the video
Love your DF videos :)
I heard that healthcare will be altered in next version or somewhen. Like, hospital being location, and traction bench requires power to set bone. But beside that, I'd guess it'll be as easy as it was before.
It very well could be. I'm expecting to write a new set of tutorials when the Steam version drops.
Huh? Why automate bone traction with power when you have 2 to 3 muscly dwarves grab and pull to set the bone and use clever lever action /screws and rods to fixate and provide traction to the bone, like in the real world?
@@pazz1239 I don't know- maybe dwarves finally decided dwarven power is not enough for sturdy dwarven bone, and use mighty power of the water (or wind) instead.
Urist McSetmybone : Aaaa
@@LegenDUS2 Welp. Guess thats a progress in dwarvan medical science. Hopefully someday their anaesthesia will also progress beyond alcohol and a solid knock to the gob.
Your doing the lords works.
Thank you.
These tutorials will come in handy once DF gets popular once it releases on steam
Moar plz, keep up the good! We need more DF folks, hoping Steam version releases soon!
I'm hoping as well. More is on the way!
I've heard that tables and traction benches should be next to beds, so that when a resting injured dwarf is moved for surgery, they aren't roughed up too much. But I have no idea if that is true.
I watched a dwarf toss her baby into a shallow pool of magma when startled. Though I can't speak for the likelihood of it, I'm sure having a dwarf carry another any distance has a non-zero chance of getting 'roughed up'.
I keep seeing this tile set... where do I get it???
or does it no longer exist???
my dwarf's punctured lung was stitched together like one would sew together a ruptured balloon. now she permanently at low health and alternates between healthy and winded every game tick. did she get stitched up before actual surgery or something? i feel this could have gone better. especially after another dwarf bled dry with her leg mangled up to the hip and was crutch free and pink skinned after a week
Very good video!
What graphics setting is this? I like how the walls are rounded and has a clean look.
Not a secret elf, huh? That sounds like something a secret elf would say!
Make sure it has access to water not just drinks or injured dwarves will die of thirst.
Dwarven healthcare is easy:
"Alright everyone, if you're hurt, a werecreature, a noble, or a vampire, then take off all your armor and clothes, and stand on this drawbridge over lava. You'll know when healthcare begins."
What tileset u using?
Phoebus
I've played this game for years and never knew 1 spool of thread = 15,000 threads. I've always thought I needed my dorks to make 15000 threads just for 1 hospital
Yeah, the game never really provides an opportunity to understand these numbers. When I first saw them, I had to have the wiki explain why my hospital needed a mountain of thread.
I found out they were easy when I first tried to make one, but I probably thought it was difficult before that.
I certainly assumed they were difficult, until I bothered to set one up and yeah, you know the rest.
please please dont ever delist these vids. I prefer 47.05 and creators have been removing or hiding their old version tuts. Thank you, these vids are amazing!
I think the hardest part about the hospital is making soap.
Truth. I wonder how much it costs in a prepare carefully embark.
@@Tekkud just get some dirty-cheap lye and a dog, then you can make soap
If a Dwarf Fortress player tells me something isn't complicated, I know to stay as far away from it as I can.
I create my hospitals with rooms with a small hallway and door that I can lock then wall up if I get someone that's been bitten by a ware-creature.
Great idea. I suppose the world of Dwarf Fortress calls for such precautions.
I really love your straightforward explanations, but really think the videos would be easier to watch if you showed the game at a lower resolution, or zoomed into the areas of interest. I find when watching a game played at higher resolution it can be hard to see what's going on.
I began doing tutorials at some point in full zoom. I agree it's not an easy game to follow visually, even with finger points and a tileset.
Nice video, but I don't quite understand the title - mu-lesson?
the mu symbol is used to denote "micro" in metric measurements, so in this context it is a "micro lesson"
@@Tekkud Ah! Right, thanks. For some reason I forgot about that.
Where are the barbarisms?
This would require a much longer video to cover...
Poor guy just wanted to help train your medical dwarves. I do have to say I didn't realize that was only 5 of each item. Those numbers looked intimidating more than anything.
lets GO
I guess you found out the FUN way that that's not how you should setup your hospital. in-case of night creatures
Oh no, the were-creature FUN was mostly a result of using my fort for filming rather than playing. I thought I could get lazy for the sake of video production... I was wrong.
Not saying that these simplistic hospital setups don't have weaknesses, but they can be accounted for by a player who's paying attention.
One of my favorit !!fun!! moments was:
I had a MASSIVE tavern, that held everything. A bar fight broke out and everyone was involved. Everyone got an infection .... too soon for soap....
lame
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his is very complicated ha ha