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[MAurelius]

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Hello all,

While some might already be aware of this, I have been managing a fortress known as Anvilquested in a reasonably popular Youtube series for nearly a year now, in what I believe to be one of the longest-running and largest Dwarf Fortress series on Youtube set in one specific world.

The main focus of my series has been the world-building, and after a few episodes in of planning and initial set-up, we spend the beginning of every episode profiling a dwarf (named after viewers), their feelings and interests and what's been going on in their life. I also use tools such as Isoworld, Legends Viewer, and Stonesense to help flesh out the world.

The dwarves of Anvilquested have faced it all, from goblin attacks, were-beasts, megabeasts, and forgotten beasts of all varieties. They have built an arena, a four-story underground tree-garden with balcony cafe, numerous quantum stockpiles, the minecart-powered spike-trap apparatus found here in the forums, and they have even completed a secret project to [redacted] their way down into [redacted] and built a bastion in the lowest depths of the world against the [redacted] of [redacted]. The dwarves of Anvilquested are hardy and iron-willed, and so do not suffer from the emotional weakness the dwarves of other forts succumb to.

The Youtube playlist can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM7yEwbhGUoqk1o5eR482hxcDPKbwqYiJ

The fortress was retired recently but the series continues on as the human hero Aurelius Steelballs explores the world of Namnitom and travels to Anvilquested to pick up a unique sword and shield made out of [redacted]. I consider this mini-series epilogue to be the cherry on top of the Anvilquested sundae so have gone all-out with music, sound effects, custom artwork by Dwarf Comic, and wacky text effects. This epilogue is still in progress and I heartily encourage you to join in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-t67XzwMkY

I hope you enjoy the saga of Anvilquested, what I consider, at least, the most complete DF series on Youtube. Death is all around us...this is truly horrifying.

-Marcus

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Ah marcus it's Marvelous to see you have a bay12account its mickey and i hope you can become active on these forums

[MAurelius]

Thanks Mickey - that must not be your Youtube username - I'm glad you're enjoying the series!

-Marcus

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Yeah mickey hart is my youtube username gonnah figure out how to change it eventually

[callisto8413]

Was a very good series and enjoying the adventure mode.  Everybody must see it. A very clean, crisp looking fortress also.  Mine always look like ant hills.

[MAurelius]

Was a very good series and enjoying the adventure mode.  Everybody must see it. A very clean, crisp looking fortress also.  Mine always look like ant hills.

Thanks Callisto! I'm really happy you like it. I always plan my fortresses ahead of time because if you just add stuff as you need it (which is a totally viable way of doing things and doesn't hurt gameplay at all, it's just not my style) you will lack the visual cohesion. Someone in the comments joked that it was OCD fortress, and while that might go a bit far I get what they're saying.

-Marcus

[solarfall]

Marcus,

I'm a new Dwarf Fortress player, and I watched a lot of "Let's play" to learn about this game, and I have to say your serie is by far the most interresting I found (even if I skipped the profile part on the end). I really enjoy the way you practice the game, and the way you describe your game.
I learned a lot thanks to you, and Anvilquested is a great inspiration for my actual fortress (The Project, more precisely, I'm trying to dig a 2.0 Project, even if it cost many dwarfs' lives...). I experiment the same Marksdwarf bug by the way...

So, just thank you !