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[Captain Willy]

It happens 3-4 times a year. I get bored and quit dwarf fortress for 2-3 months. But then...this urge starts to build up in me to play DF.

I tried to fight it so that I may function like a healthy human being, it has been almost 5 months but the urge is too strong.

Maybe I'll read some posts to quench the urge, but it only makes it hungrier. Maybe I'll read an article on the wiki, but it only beacons the urge.

But...no matter my attempts the urge won. I started a new fortress about 3 hours ago, and I'm still playing...

May Armok be with me. 

[arbiter787]

You know, the same thing happens to me. But only for DF. I don't have lapses where I don't play SS13 for example. But just recently another DF urge has built up in me, and now I'm playing again. However in a few months I'm sure I'll stop again.

[Ianflow]

I started playing in August
I played for a couple of weeks, made good improvement after the first two forts that wouldn't have lasted a year due to bad design

I came back for a week in December, went for 2 years in the game, needed to do school work

I came back to that same fort right after V-Day, got obsessed a week and a half ago
That decent fort lasted past the first goblin invasion, but I could sense a tantrum spiral was brewing (due to a girl who ran in front of a firing ballista and my mistake of designating the zone in front as high traffic, thinking it meant don't go through here), and abandoned

After multiple attempts that never end in complete failure (I often abandon or stop playing that save entirely), I have gotten better, and my challenge to myself is now, obsessively, to breed kobolds
My obsession will last at least another month I estimate, before I go back to inactive in relation to playing the game. Likely due to my obsession with embarking and making well on that alone

[OcelotTango]

Yeah, my urge to play DF also waxes and wanes in a similar interval.

[Sulacsol]

I think I'm more addicted to these forums than the game, honestly.

[joeclark77]

I'm actually giving DF up for Lent, and so far have been successful.  I'm still on the forums every day.  And instead of playing the game I'm working on programming my own roguelike/fortressbuilder game.  So I'm not sure I can really say that I've resisted the urge.  (By the way, the annual 7-day Roguelike challenge starts this weekend, if any of you aren't aware.  A perfect time to try programming your own game.)

[Bavette]

The Urge is a strong thing to behold. There was The Hobbit in Jannuary that got me building gigantic gold encrusted underground cities with mega magma forges, and recently I found out about Bravemule so then there is that...
Before there was the need to replicate the amazing (and quite dwarvish) architecture from the castles of A Song of Ice and Fire series.

[eusebius8806]

I'm similar. right now I'm "off" dwarf fortress. I haven't played in about 3 weeks and likely won't for a month of two. However, the entire time I'm away from DF, I still think about it, check the dev log and forums and mull any new things I can do in my next fort.

But when I'm "on," DF is all consuming. I will play for 4 months at a time, every day for as long as I can manage. I will run established forts in the background at work and play it like an idler game and only intervene when I'm needed. Then I come home and play for three hours making strides to improve the fort. I will think all day about how to improve my fort, how to do something new, build a new room type, squeeze extra productivity out of an underused industry (for me that's the clay industry), how to streamline my major industries.

And then that fort will die, I'll adventure for a little bit, start a new fortress and have this empty feeling. I think the empty feeling is two-fold, first, I feel empty because I miss my old fortress. even though I'll implement new ideas in my new fortress, I still miss the old dwarves. My forts tend to last 20+ years  and I come to know and love certain dwarves. I will never forget Nish Uristinol or Sarvesh Cugnacen or Tun Olthilistat. When they died I was truly saddened. I ran another 20 year fort after I lost those friends but I just felt like I was going through the motions. after that fort died, I started a new one and haven’t gone for more than 2 years on that fort. I think I just need some time to mourn.

Second, I think the empty feeling is partially attributable to the world not progressing after world gen. I like to play in the same world for as long as possible and get a feel for its history and culture. However, my current world has been out of world gen for 50+ years. a lot of the historical figures are dying off and I've killed most of the things to kill as an adventurer. the world itself is dying and there's just not as much fun to be had because of that.

Ultimately, I think you've hit the nail on the head, it's just this urge. I've done this a few times and always come back.

[Crazy Cow]

I'm actually giving DF up for Lent, and so far have been successful.

What is this Lent you speak of?

[MrSparky]

I'm actually giving DF up for Lent, and so far have been successful.

What is this Lent you speak of?

It's a Catholic thing where you stop doing/eating/verbing something you really like for the 40 days prior to Easter Sunday. It's supposed to be a demonstration of your devotion to your faith.

[Gavakis]

I'm similar. right now I'm "off" dwarf fortress. I haven't played in about 3 weeks and likely won't for a month of two. However, the entire time I'm away from DF, I still think about it, check the dev log and forums and mull any new things I can do in my next fort.

But when I'm "on," DF is all consuming. I will play for 4 months at a time, every day for as long as I can manage. I will run established forts in the background at work and play it like an idler game and only intervene when I'm needed. Then I come home and play for three hours making strides to improve the fort. I will think all day about how to improve my fort, how to do something new, build a new room type, squeeze extra productivity out of an underused industry (for me that's the clay industry), how to streamline my major industries.

And then that fort will die, I'll adventure for a little bit, start a new fortress and have this empty feeling. I think the empty feeling is two-fold, first, I feel empty because I miss my old fortress. even though I'll implement new ideas in my new fortress, I still miss the old dwarves. My forts tend to last 20+ years  and I come to know and love certain dwarves. I will never forget Nish Uristinol or Sarvesh Cugnacen or Tun Olthilistat. When they died I was truly saddened. I ran another 20 year fort after I lost those friends but I just felt like I was going through the motions. after that fort died, I started a new one and haven’t gone for more than 2 years on that fort. I think I just need some time to mourn.

Second, I think the empty feeling is partially attributable to the world not progressing after world gen. I like to play in the same world for as long as possible and get a feel for its history and culture. However, my current world has been out of world gen for 50+ years. a lot of the historical figures are dying off and I've killed most of the things to kill as an adventurer. the world itself is dying and there's just not as much fun to be had because of that.

Ultimately, I think you've hit the nail on the head, it's just this urge. I've done this a few times and always come back.

I feel the EXACT same way.