I can't imagine the fun available were dragons able to fly. I think the innate agoraphobia exhibited by dwarves is hard learned. Living 'twixt solid rock seems safest when the world you live in has birds the size of blue whales, fire-breathing lizards the size of elephants, and elephants the size of even bigger elephants.
I remember having a city like this. Started the city with a huge wall, and the construction of a huge tavern-like building to live in, then built houses and buildings around it. Started off with wood, as I had a group set up for mostly wood work and cooking skills, though one was a dedicated miner. We still dug down, and keep our tomb, and later a couple of guilds underground, but the furthest most dwarves would go would be to the 2nd basement floor where the stockpiles were kept when space became an issue, and essentially made a checkpoint fort, nestled in the middle of a valley between two mountains that lead from the south into our civilization. We would fight hordes of Goblins along the way. Our military was pretty competent with the axes of their trade, and through periods of training in the winter, became a well-trained force. After having replaced a majority of everything with stone as migrants had come on, we had our first issue. Elves. Goblins weren't any problem, as we could hear them miles away. At a certain point, as the Dwarves were running down to grab boulders, a troop of elves managed to get close enough to the gate before a gatherer saw them as he walked outside to gather food. They came in and slaughtered of a lot of citizens, including catching the axemen off guard. We survived but with our fort now depopulated in such a manner, we went from 70something to 39 dwarves. Our dwarves were overcome with melancholy for when their loved ones still lived, and work slowed. A couple of failed artifacts as we lost resource replacement, as the Goblins had invaded with a caravan on the map, we lost our yearly caravan for a couple years, which lead to further depopulation, mostly of our axe dwarves and their family, who would often times be choked to death by a citizen. It became a bad neighborhood to live in really quick, back in the years of stress madness. Eventually we were in such a state however that, while we had enough good dwarves still alive, if with a hit morale, we lacked the ability to get to a lever in time and the gate was left open to the goblin horde. eventually we had gotten to the point where we had the dwarves who liked underground to have their own quarters, but by the end, our dwarves were proud enough and all armed, and attempted to hold down those quarters as well, but were all struck down after the loss of their families.
I've been playing Human Fortress for well over half the year now, I am happy to say that I am in the early stages of developing a cool and unique world when adventure mode drops with towers and forts for miles. I pray that the carpal tunnel wouldn't take me before the project is complete as most of the sites I choose are embarked upon by humans.
The "Tree explosions" that kills woodcutters happens when there are two trees right next to each other and one is cut down. It took me a few dwarven woodcutters to figure it out. The solution is to never cut down twin trees, unless you want to have a dwarf get wooden logs flying into his face at mach 3
Incredible. I love watching your videos and the shenanigans you get up to. I recently started an above ground castle for one of my forts but I may have started too big a project for how few dwarves I have. (Originally I had the fort capped to 30 dwarves)
I remember my first fort was almost kind of like a hobbit hole. I had a military that didn't know how to use shields and no draw bridge. A dragon eventually came and killed every single dwarf.
Here she first dug a moat several z-levels deep using a channel designation. Then, she built a pump stack, which consists of alternating screw pumps and a powering system. The powering system here is a water reactor. A screw pump pumps the water above a water wheel, which generates more power than was required to operate the screw pump. Thus, free energy. This pump stack was hooked up to the underground lake in the first cavern layer and it was pumped upwards.
I can't imagine the fun available were dragons able to fly. I think the innate agoraphobia exhibited by dwarves is hard learned. Living 'twixt solid rock seems safest when the world you live in has birds the size of blue whales, fire-breathing lizards the size of elephants, and elephants the size of even bigger elephants.
It's the elephants you truly have to fear. My grandfather told me a story one day about an ancient city called boatmurdered and...
Cave Dragons do fly tho
Wow, I've never seen a dragon in dwarf fortress before! It seemed really scary until it took a header into the deep end and died instantly.
Non-buoyant dragons...When will they learn that their actions have consequences?
You drowned a dragon?! I haven't seen that before. And sure, it was an accident, but it's still pretty neat.
I have to say, the variety of colors makes this one of the prettiest fortresses I have ever seen.
rounding to the nearest full moat lmao
I had to rewind it to make sure I heard correctly
How does this blocky square smol-castle look more appealing than my builds?
Right? Now I've got to try it myself. Ahahaha...(weep)
3:56 the amount of destruction that dragons in DF can bring is insane.
I remember having a city like this. Started the city with a huge wall, and the construction of a huge tavern-like building to live in, then built houses and buildings around it. Started off with wood, as I had a group set up for mostly wood work and cooking skills, though one was a dedicated miner. We still dug down, and keep our tomb, and later a couple of guilds underground, but the furthest most dwarves would go would be to the 2nd basement floor where the stockpiles were kept when space became an issue, and essentially made a checkpoint fort, nestled in the middle of a valley between two mountains that lead from the south into our civilization.
We would fight hordes of Goblins along the way. Our military was pretty competent with the axes of their trade, and through periods of training in the winter, became a well-trained force. After having replaced a majority of everything with stone as migrants had come on, we had our first issue. Elves. Goblins weren't any problem, as we could hear them miles away. At a certain point, as the Dwarves were running down to grab boulders, a troop of elves managed to get close enough to the gate before a gatherer saw them as he walked outside to gather food. They came in and slaughtered of a lot of citizens, including catching the axemen off guard.
We survived but with our fort now depopulated in such a manner, we went from 70something to 39 dwarves. Our dwarves were overcome with melancholy for when their loved ones still lived, and work slowed. A couple of failed artifacts as we lost resource replacement, as the Goblins had invaded with a caravan on the map, we lost our yearly caravan for a couple years, which lead to further depopulation, mostly of our axe dwarves and their family, who would often times be choked to death by a citizen.
It became a bad neighborhood to live in really quick, back in the years of stress madness. Eventually we were in such a state however that, while we had enough good dwarves still alive, if with a hit morale, we lacked the ability to get to a lever in time and the gate was left open to the goblin horde.
eventually we had gotten to the point where we had the dwarves who liked underground to have their own quarters, but by the end, our dwarves were proud enough and all armed, and attempted to hold down those quarters as well, but were all struck down after the loss of their families.
Gotta love that poor dwarf who was in the wrong place at the wrong time in 3:58 and got roasted by dragonfire
I've been playing Human Fortress for well over half the year now, I am happy to say that I am in the early stages of developing a cool and unique world when adventure mode drops with towers and forts for miles. I pray that the carpal tunnel wouldn't take me before the project is complete as most of the sites I choose are embarked upon by humans.
The "Tree explosions" that kills woodcutters happens when there are two trees right next to each other and one is cut down. It took me a few dwarven woodcutters to figure it out. The solution is to never cut down twin trees, unless you want to have a dwarf get wooden logs flying into his face at mach 3
This and every other story I've read about Dwarf Fortress gameplay has lead to me asking this one question:
How have the dwarves not gone extinct?
Living underground isn't the only thing they have in common with rabbits.
I look forward to your adventures, you narrate them in a most pleasing manner. Cheers!
Gotta say...there's Nothing like listening to hoodie hairs soothing voice while the girl from the exorcist screams Latin in the next room.
That is such a tidy looking fort! It appeals to my Virgoness and now I must try it. Thank you for continuing to tell great and inspirational stories!
Incredible. I love watching your videos and the shenanigans you get up to. I recently started an above ground castle for one of my forts but I may have started too big a project for how few dwarves I have. (Originally I had the fort capped to 30 dwarves)
'the forgotten beast fight club' 😂
That dragon was so cool! :D
"or rimworld addiction" kek
I remember my first fort was almost kind of like a hobbit hole. I had a military that didn't know how to use shields and no draw bridge. A dragon eventually came and killed every single dwarf.
There's no way a dragon just fell into your moat thats crazy. I still haven't ever seen one myself.
Love your vids!
#ForgottenBeastFightClub
Keep on creating bro, love your stories
wow, how you make 3:10 model?
it's a utility in DFHack called stonesense!
i jsut hahd t o banadon everyone iknow bu at least hoodie hair is stil here....
Newbie here, I just wanted to know how do you put water around your walls ? Thx
Here she first dug a moat several z-levels deep using a channel designation. Then, she built a pump stack, which consists of alternating screw pumps and a powering system. The powering system here is a water reactor. A screw pump pumps the water above a water wheel, which generates more power than was required to operate the screw pump. Thus, free energy. This pump stack was hooked up to the underground lake in the first cavern layer and it was pumped upwards.