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SWOON! at My Gravitas:
After spending hours reading tutorials I think I might be ready to tackle this game
I can't figure out how to get the graphics mod to work so I'm not looking at ASCII the whole time, which isn't a great start as starts go
Edit: So far so good actually, except after a certain point my miners stopped mining, and haven't mined since. They now earn their keep sitting by the wagon and going down to the warehouse every now and then for food
Boro_Bandito:
just go into the wiki and dl one of the graphics packs, you basically just replace the raw folder I think, 'sworked for me so far, ish, can't get the mayday pack to work with the new version and that's the best looking one, plus the guy's website seems to be down. So instead I'm using another one that looks okay but they're so fucking small, like, I need to get a closer look at things to actually be able to do stuff. Also, seriously, I'm never able to find any mud, so I can't farm since every place I pick seems to be made of solid rock.
SWOON! at My Gravitas:
What I did to get mud was mine a square separating my fortress from a small underground body of water. It flooded part of my fortress a little, but once it dried up a bit I was left with plenty of space to farm. Oh yeah, and it should tell you whether or not there's soft earth underground when you choose a place to embark
Edit: I figured out the reason why my miners were just loafing around, and that reason is I'm a goddamn idiot
KharBevNor:
Even though I completely suck at playing DF, I do read the forums now and again.
holy shit
HOLY SHIT
KharBevNor:
I literally twigged Dwarf Fortress last night. Essentially, I just hadn't been assigning dwarfs work orders, so they would never actually do anything. Now I'm rocking out.
Though unfortunately, my first fortress turns out to be basically on a swamp. The ground is completely waterlogged below 3 z levels down, and I can't get at any rock. I'm trading glass and wood crafts with dwarven caravans for any rock and metal I can get, but my defense is kind of shite: luckily there isn't any particularly aggressive local fauna (apart from this fucking raccoon who keeps stealing my coal, of all things) but since I can literally only arm my dwarfs with wooden weapons and leather armour, and I've got no rock to make mechanisms, and only wooden doors, I'm dreading the first goblin siege. I'm currently working on an elaborate system of moats, irrigation channels and pump stacks to try and drain enough soil that I can get down further, but it's hard work. Because I have no mechanisms for raising floodgates I have to send in intrepid teams of dwarven scuba divers to physically insert them and remove them by hand. I have drowned a lot of pet cats.
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