Dwarf Fortress

[Linliel]

there is none for the current version, that one is okay but you need to know a few things about the newer version, namely that you have to flood underground farms and bookkeepers are very useful.

[Qalbert]

2cat

[Shiroikage]

That one

i said it was a good question because i don't know

[Shiroikage]

Well right now I'm just trying to learn what dorfs are and how dorfs do

Do you know of a tutorial for the current version?

I don't think there's any good tutorials for 0.31.03/04. I play 0.31.03 because there's no tilesets for 0.31.04 yet and there's also some nasty crashing bugs in .04,

Honestly, I wouldn't follow a tutorial, you'll learn slower than just fucking around. The game's very indepth and a tutorial doesn't really scrape the surface of all the different ways to play. It will teach you the basics but you can learn those pretty easily by just failing while playing normally. The motto of the game is "losing is fun" so you may as well have fun instead of following boring tutorials.

Just search the wiki when you need to find something out and search the tutorial as a reference.

[greatandfoolish]

i trapped my miner underground somehow so i tried to dig up, i ended up drowning him with an underground lake

[Shiroikage]

i trapped my miner underground somehow so i tried to dig up, i ended up drowning him with an underground lake

When building a staircase on flat ground with earth above, you must designate a down square on the level above and construct a down staircase on the level below. In the cases where a miner is trapped (and have I ever had some miners trapped in some bad situations), you should give the miner the mason labour and construct a staircase from some nearby rock, he'll build it then dig the down staircase.

[greatandfoolish]

why are you so amazing shiro

[Not Kuno]

We should get a spam game going. 1 person plays for a year then the next person plays for a year etc.

[#686578]

I have no idea how to trap cats but they're fucking everywhere now

[Conrad]

2cat lol

[#686578]

I think I might've figured out how to make people do stuff other than what they originally want to do though. I think I finally got a jewelcrafter to mine but I'm not 100% sure.

I created a new game not following the tutorial just fucking around like you said Shiro and I'm like 2 hours in and idkwtf is going on or what I'm doing but I do know expansion and building is taking fucking forever just 'cause I have 2 miners and apparently it takes forever to mine dolamite

[#686578]

I tried to dig up under a lake and flood my fort 'cause I was bored and idkwtf else to do and it wouldnt let me

[greatandfoolish]

shiro save me, a ratman is attacking my dorfs and i dont know how to fight it off

[Qalbert]

sic a male kitty and a female kitty on the ratman

[Shiroikage]

We should get a spam game going. 1 person plays for a year then the next person plays for a year etc.

I'd do a succession game.

[Shiroikage]

shiro save me, a ratman is attacking my dorfs and i dont know how to fight it off

It's late, but if you're playing current version you need to make a squad. I could explain how to do it but I'd just be repeating this:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Attack

Military is much more complex than this and I'm still learning the many nuances of the current military interface but it's very powerful. This is just the basics of how to get some people to attack something, though.

[Shiroikage]

i am the most likely person in a succession game to get rolled by goblins

[Krye]

You mentioned Forgotten Beasts and made them sound like a big deal.

Do crazy ass monsters come in and destroy all your shit and then you have to start all over?

Does destroying powerful monsters grant you any special treasure?

[Shiroikage]

Yeah, all fortresses that aren't boringly conservative will probably eventually get fucked up by something. Often failure comes in the form of some crazy ass monsters or some not so crazy ass monsters. Early goblin sieges can be buttfucks. Some titans and forgotten beasts are unkillable under current mechanics so you need to find some way to seal them up. Some forgotten beasts are unstoppable wrecking machines. Doing certain things can release randomly generated demons which are killing machines.

If you don't get killed by monsters, there's a bunch of different ways you can lose a fortress. Sometimes not having plant cloth is enough to grind your fortress to a halt.

Generally there's no treasure for killing stuff (one sort of exception is some circumstances that give you an adamantine longsword) although you can make equipment using the remains of forgotten beasts and what not. This stuff is usually decently high quality.

And yeah, when your shit gets wrecked you need to either rebuild or enter reclaim mode to try to retake the fortress.

[Shiroikage]

I once just about lost a fortress because we had no plant cloth and someone went insane because he wanted to make an artifact using it but couldn't and then his family went insane after he died. It just about sparked a terrible death spiral.