Dwarf fortress

[Greep]

Yep, ya'll can ignore that. Wasn't planning on so many migrants so yay for mass starvation.

But... I have food in the barrels, but everyone's off chasing down vermin.

luckily food doesn't rot when in barrels (except raw meat/fish) so I just keep a few hundred/thousand units spare.

[Lord Herman]

I was doing some exploratory mining when my dwarves struck...

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CHEESE!

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Edit: nm Me read gud.

[Lord Herman]

I think you misread. He struck cheese.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Question about above ground plants. Can I enclose them? Do they continue to grow as long as they get light and are "above ground" does the indoor/outdoor matter? I was planning on doing the above ground in glass blocks.
Not that my glass worker is doing much else since his buddy the gem cutter was killed by imps and all that raw glass is just sitting there.

[Rockphed]

Question about above ground plants. Can I enclose them? Do they continue to grow as long as they get light and are "above ground" does the indoor/outdoor matter? I was planning on doing the above ground in glass blocks.
Not that my glass worker is doing much else since his buddy the gem cutter was killed by imps and all that raw glass is just sitting there.

Yes, you can enclose above ground farms. You can actually use anything to enclose them.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Okay another question. Will the enclosure help prevent cave adaptation? I have another area I can set as a meeting area where I dug my well out. It's walled off so no worries about seiges.

[Lord Herman]

Hmm... I'm awfully tempted to mine out all that cheese (or orpiment, as the game insists on calling it). I've thought of a few uses for it:

- Make a cheese sculpture garden. It'll be a functional meeting hall, but the smell will keep the dwarves for throwing parties there.
- Construct a catapult, and bombard invaders with giant hunks of cheese.
- Use it as bait in a giant mouse trap.
- Build it into a large circular shape, and wait for it to go moldy to make the world's largest camembert.
- As above, but also rig it to explode when the right lever is pulled.
- Build a cheese pit, for use as a horrific execution device.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Lob the cheese at your foes with catapults

[Artanis]

Okay another question. Will the enclosure help prevent cave adaptation? I have another area I can set as a meeting area where I dug my well out. It's walled off so no worries about seiges.

Depends on your definition of "prevent".

If you mean "prevent" as in "keep your dwarves from barfing all over the roofed area", then yes. If you mean "prevent" as in "keep them from getting cave-adapted in the first place," then only areas open to the sky - with no roofs of any sort, including grates - will prevent/cure cave adaptation.

[TheSummoner]

Build a wall around a hollowed area. Will offer the same protection without the adaptation.

[tribble]

is it possible to tell what layer of rock a place is from the world map?

also, is it possible to set a tileset over my current copy of DF so I dont lose my current data?

[Artanis]

is it possible to tell what layer of rock a place is from the world map?

also, is it possible to set a tileset over my current copy of DF so I dont lose my current data?

On the right it tells you what rock layers are under each biome when selecting an embark site.

I have no idea regarding the tilesets.

[The_JJ]

Alright, for my next act, experimenting with lava.

[Lord Herman]

Alright, for my next act, experimenting with lava.

Have Fun!

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Okay I caught a fire imp with my cage trap. Now what do I do with it?

[Destro_Yersul]

also, is it possible to set a tileset over my current copy of DF so I dont lose my current data?

Sort of. It's not possible to do exactly what you say, but if you download the Dwarf Fortress game with the tileset built in, you can transfer the save folder from the non-tileset game and everything will work fine.

[TSED]

I still want to find some kind of special stone that dwarves can eat as a delicacy.


It would be amazing. "Rock Roast Stew." "Stone Vodka." Yes.

Okay I caught a fire imp with my cage trap. Now what do I do with it?

Kill it with fire!


Err, wait...

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Write to the Toady One. That idea is awesome.

[Zeful]

I wouldn't make it a layer stone, like pudding stone. I'd have a gem found soil layers that would be cookable.

But yes it is awesome.

[TSED]

Soil layers? Nah.

It's stone, after all.

[Greep]

heh, like rock crystals, have it be sugar crystals. Then you can make rock candy.

But enough puns >.>

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Got a moody dwarf in my clothier's shop. He wants silk. I don't have any silk. Well at least I can lock the door and keep him from doing too much damage when he goes insane. He also only has 1 friend so he won't be missed.

Well maybe I'll get lucky and a caravan will arrive with silk. Then again I never requested any so...

[Artanis]

Got a moody dwarf in my clothier's shop. He wants silk. I don't have any silk. Well at least I can lock the door and keep him from doing too much damage when he goes insane. He also only has 1 friend so he won't be missed.

Well maybe I'll get lucky and a caravan will arrive with silk. Then again I never requested any so...

As far as I've seen, the dwarves will bring you silk no matter what you request. Not necessarily LOTS of silk, but they'll bring you silk.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

They did indeed bring silk. I traded away some of that usless narrow crap I looted off the gobbos. He's building me something now.

[Justyn]

As far as I've seen, the dwarves will bring you silk no matter what you request. Not necessarily LOTS of silk, but they'll bring you silk.

Unless you request a lot of other things, or a few really heavy things.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Well got a artifact silk turban. Lots of bone and leather on it too. And as a dramatic backdrop of its creation, I got ambushed by goblins. My military (elite wrestlers armed with copper training swords) made short work of them, but 2 humans died. I think they were escorting the dwarven caravan and decided to hang outside. Anyway free loots off them. My armorer was outside at the time (i think he was grabbin a fish from my fisherdwarf) and escaped with minor injuries.

[Arachu]

You get a turban, at least 5th place on the list of badass hats, and I get an earring (which I'm not even sure can be worn).

Also, my first fortress had cave spiders. None of my other ones did.

I just read "Cave Spider" on the wiki, and apparently, since there was no chasm at that fort (or cave that I'm aware of), there was an underground river at that site.

I think I mourn that loss more than I mourn the loss of the fortress itself (not much; I got to kill the renegade woodcutter at least)...

In related news, I'm about to reclaim a fortress . Anyone have some advice on marching an army into an unoccupied hole in the ground?

EDIT: Waaaaiit; my World 1 fortress is in an Evil region. So, I'll reclaim it later.
Still, advice would help; I tried the whole Reclaim thing before and wondered what I was doing before promptly saying "I'll just sort it out next time" and quitting...

[Greep]

wow I just made a elephant roast[64] stack worth over 10,000 and it wasn't even masterpiece. They sure value their food O.O

[Arachu]

'Tis a delicacy, as it be rare. It be rare on account of how hard it 'tis ta kill the giant buggers.

Kind of like cows before bulls were domesticated ...

... But with building-crushing tusks