Dwarf Fortress III: Instant Fun : Just Add Magma

[Zexion]

I'll admit, I did not read through the past threads, and only looked through the first few pages of this one, but I was wondering what (if any) graphical mods are good? This will be my third time installing this game, and I feel maybe a better visual interface will let me stick with it for longer. Who knows?

I use Mayday, but it hasn't been updated to the latest version yet, so...

[Lord Herman]

I'll admit, I did not read through the past threads, and only looked through the first few pages of this one, but I was wondering what (if any) graphical mods are good? This will be my third time installing this game, and I feel maybe a better visual interface will let me stick with it for longer. Who knows?

I've heard good things about the Lazy Newb Pack. It includes several graphics packs to choose from and some utilities to make your life easier, and it has a launcher where you can change settings without having to dig into the game's ini files.

[Leecros]

I played Maydays for ~1 year before i decided to go bravely into the deep and tackle the ASCII code....


Also my girlfriend wouldn't stop bugging me about using a graphics pack....

[Arachu]

I've never actually used graphics, except the partial ones from the Fallout mod (they give everything graphics when complete, but mostly stick with walls and some icons otherwise).

Tell you what - I think I'll give Mayday's a look.

... As soon as I'm done sorting my tabs into three windows. TV Tropes is a menace, I tells you.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

I don't care for graphics. I just went with a font that looks nice and crisp.

[Lord Herman]

I use Cooz' tileset myself. It's square, and I like the shading.

[Aidan305]

Do tilesets work with Macs? I've never sure.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

As long as it's square, I'm good. Square makes planning fortresses that much easier, cause it looks just as it does when I plan on graph paper.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Square tile sets/graphic packs make it much easier to plan out and build the fort. I have to use one. Oh and the one I use is Cooz's.

[Leecros]

As long as it's square, I'm good. Square makes planning fortresses that much easier, cause it looks just as it does when I plan on graph paper.

I remember the first time i realized the non-modded game wasn't square....

I spent like 20 minutes trying to get a room perfectly square and then i counted to be sure i was right and it came out to be like 35X30(don't actually remember the exact figures).


AUGH!


I have a minor case of OCD and it just grates me, i've gotten used to it, fortunately.

Now i have to go organize my stone by color.....
I'm not that OCD you nutters...

[Zexion]

I just found the most epic fortress ever.

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[ObadiahtheSlim]

Always nice to see someone's reaction when they discover FlareChannel for the first time.

[druid91]

I am here to dispute that claim.
I see your flarechannel and raise you an Undergrotto.

And remember this was all built by hand.

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[Coidzor]

Random question. Are prehensile beards possible to make and be recognized as usable by the dorfs?

[Necroticplague]

Random question. Are prehensile beards possible to make and be recognized as usable by the dorfs?

Easily. Just look through their body parts for their beard entry, then add the [GRASPER] tag. I think that's how it works. I've done this with cat mouths before, in order to stop an annoying glitch.

[Leecros]

Easily. Just look through their body parts for their beard entry, then add the [GRASPER] tag. I think that's how it works. I've done this with cat mouths before, in order to stop an annoying glitch.

is it [GRASPER] or [GRASP] i don't recall.

[Rockphed]

I'm pretty sure it is [GRASP], but I seldom mod.

[Zexion]

I am here to dispute that claim.
I see your flarechannel and raise you an Undergrotto.

And remember this was all built by hand.

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*snip*

Impressive, but I think Flarechannel is bigger.

[Scuzzball]

I've been meaning to start trying to play Dwarf Fortress again(I killed everything by starvation last try, possibly) and will be trying the lazy newb pack, but where should I go to get the basics of how to play? While the wiki is helpful, it's also a bit confusing.
Thanks for any and all help.

[druid91]

Impressive, but I think Flarechannel is bigger.

Actually I need to look up flarechannel again.

But still Undergrotto is massive, I actually downloaded the save file.

Still a favorite thing to play when I feel like playing an established fort.

[Cogwheel]

So, does anyone know where I find the reaction for burning wood to make coal? Need to mod it, and I've searched everywhere.

Knowing how to make more stuff magmaproof would be nice too.

[Necroticplague]

is it [GRASPER] or [GRASP] i don't recall.

Sorry, I got it wrong, it's [GRASP]. Of course, if you mod the game this way, do be aware of one thing:many creatures share the same body parts. So if you mod it, and then another creature uses that body part, it would also have a prehensile body part. I forgot that, and when I made the cat mod, it ended up that all creatures with mouths had prehensile mouths. So I had to make a seperate "kitty mouth" just for cats. Until I did, I had wild animals capable of performing advanced grappling manuevers, since they now had a grasper to perform them with.

[Leecros]

Sorry, I got it wrong, it's [GRASP]. Of course, if you mod the game this way, do be aware of one thing:many creatures share the same body parts. So if you mod it, and then another creature uses that body part, it would also have a prehensile body part. I forgot that, and when I made the cat mod, it ended up that all creatures with mouths had prehensile mouths. So I had to make a seperate "kitty mouth" just for cats. Until I did, I had wild animals capable of performing advanced grappling manuevers, since they now had a grasper to perform them with.

1. Modding Beards to be [GRASP]
2. watch an elf bludgeon you to death with your own hammer via his beard
3. Delete that world and feel powerful
4. ?????????
5. Profit

one too many, but meh....

[Coidzor]

1. Modding Beards to be [GRASP]
2. watch an elf bludgeon you to death with your own hammer via his beard
3. Delete that world and feel powerful
4. ?????????
5. Profit

one too many, but meh....

You're doing it wrong if your elves have beards. Lousy no good elves stealing the beards of our women...

[Cogwheel]

So, adventurer mode. At times, the RNG is bad. Sometimes, it's amusingly terrible. Often, it's a little nonsensical but doesn't leave any real impression. Rarely, it's good. And once in a long while, it's completely amazing.

I just started a dwarven wrestler a while back (who since died).

It was one of those times.

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[Coidzor]

So, adventurer mode. At times, the RNG is bad. Sometimes, it's amusingly terrible. Often, it's a little nonsensical but doesn't leave any real impression. Rarely, it's good. And once in a long while, it's completely amazing.

I just started a dwarven wrestler a while back (who since died).

It was one of those times.

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Heh. It's like the game almost knows of Punchy McStonefist...

[Cogwheel]

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Why. Won't. It. Die.


My hammerdwarf eventually got his right arm messed up beyond repair, so no steel shield for him.

He then went on to down five more night creatures and is still kicking (with no armour beyond a looted cedar breastplate, at that). I'm not sure how.

He also has two companions - a mechanic and a diagnoser, both human. The mechanic is heavily injured all over, but it never seems to slow him down. He basically just leaps in front of stuff and tanks it, and appears to be indestructible. Leaves a trail of blood wherever he walks.

The good doctor, meanwhile, has faced two night creatures - giant ones - and somehow bisected them with a scalpel, sending the lower half flying.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Blunt weapons alone are underpowered. They can break arms and cripple a guy fast, but they have a tough time killing an enemy. I remember a thread on bay12games that said a mixed group of hammers and axes preformed better than just straight axes. The reason, hammers could cripple the enemy quickly while the axes finished the job. Meanwhile the axes wouldn't disable the enemy unless it dismembered the enemy.

[Necroticplague]

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Why. Won't. It. Die.

When it says Superdwarvenly tough, it means it.

[Leecros]

The last time i went through adventure mode i did it for lol's. I made him an Misc. Object User. The first cave i went into i picked up a rat and used it as a weapon. He surprisingly lasted a good while..... I think he died to Wolf 253 or something....