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Author Topic: Is the built in manual out dated?  (Read 817 times)

blueeyedlion

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Is the built in manual out dated?
« on: March 04, 2012, 03:18:04 pm »
Just starting to learn to play the game and I found the built in help manual with '?', but I want to know if it's at all outdated before I dive in.  Thanks in advance!
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Linkeron

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Re: Is the built in manual out dated?
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2012, 07:28:56 pm »
Outdated? Not that I'm aware of. Vague? Very much so.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Quickstart_guide <THIS

EDIT: Wait, that's an old guide. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Quickstart_guide <THIS. REALLY.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2012, 07:33:37 pm by Linkeron »
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blueeyedlion

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Re: Is the built in manual out dated?
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2012, 11:07:11 pm »
That flowchart in the link is the most useful flowchart I have ever seen.  Thank you.
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Re: Is the built in manual out dated?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2012, 08:31:36 am »
I think ingame manual is such unclear and hard to use. Wiki is best tutorial for DF.
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Re: Is the built in manual out dated?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2012, 09:18:08 am »
The manual won´t get you very far. I tried getting into DF by reading it, but it just doesn´t have enough precise information on how to do stuff. The wiki however is excellent. I´ve read the play-along tutorial which is stickied here and from then on looked up everything else in the wiki. And asked a lot of questions here. And it still took me a couple of weeks to halfways get into the gameplay.
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