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Tolisk

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Noob help.
« on: March 31, 2012, 10:03:25 pm »

Any suggestions? I really am a noob, and I found out that deserts can be a tard to play without tonnes of microing, even if it does boost my fps by 200%

Any tips on how to live in a desert area would be helpful.
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Re: Noob help.
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2012, 10:08:57 pm »

If you're in a desert, the main problems are going to be wood and water.

Wood is easier, since you can get it from caravans and it's cheap to embark with. You can also breach the underground caverns to find trees there.
Breaching the caverns is also the way to get water. I recommend finding the water (if there is any, some caverns have none), channeling a hole out of the cieling above it, then building a well (a block, a chain or rope, a bucket, and a mechanism are needed).

Until you get water, try to stay away from anything that could injure your dwarves, since resting dwarves will only drink water.
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Re: Noob help.
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2012, 10:19:54 pm »

I was doing quite fine, till my dwarfs decided to get stoopid while channeling an area out so i could have an underground above ground plant farm.
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Re: Noob help.
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2012, 10:35:58 pm »

As far as trees go, get an area with soil floor somewhere in your fortress, then breach the caverns. Cave trees will grow in the soil area, you don't have to enter the caverns proper to get the wood.
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Tolisk

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Re: Noob help.
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2012, 10:44:27 pm »

K, got it.
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Re: Noob help.
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2012, 03:00:31 am »

there sometimes are rivers and brooks in a desert. It helps to find one of those for water supply.
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Re: Noob help.
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2012, 07:29:48 am »

Found a pocket sized aquafier in the desert, it gives clean water.
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Re: Noob help.
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2012, 07:30:57 am »

that's even better.
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