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[mnjiman]

Do not let the title be misleading, I do love dwarf fortress and its such a fantastic game, but I am on my second fortress (ever built) and i have yet experience 'fun' yet.

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fun basically meaning losing your fortress to something of course

My first fortress went to 200 dwarfs, 15 years.. and i found i wasnt getting attacked by goblins or being lead to any naterual fortress disaisters so i decided to build a second one near goblins. I stopped playing this one due to the amount of FPS issues i had..

this time i have the population tuned down to 110 dwarfs, I am radically killing all cats to avoid lag issues.. and I am on my 10nth year and survived three 100 sized Goblin sieges (im still waiting for 100 goblin mounted sieges, which I hope to wreck me).

I am honestly disappointed (and not to brag) that i have yet died due to newbieness.

Captain ducks video's are too good

[mnjiman]

I have an idea: I am going to go into a evil area! Muahaha


Edit: and i just realized that i solved my issue, lewl.

[LordSlowpoke]

Here's a challange for you:
Reverse-engineer Boatmurdered. Everything they did, you must do it too. Hell, you also have to use the same version, and create the exactly same world, find the exactly same site.

Giving us the save for true Boatmurdered would be a bonus for which you would earn my worship.

[Sarvesh Mossbeard]

Dig deeper. Until you find adamantine. Breach it.

[Khan FurSainty]

Start a fort in the desert, but don't bring any alcohol. Have FUN!

[Doppel]

Start a fort in the desert, but don't bring any alcohol. Have FUN!

This, except make it a terrifying desert without brook or pond and don't bring anything apart from 1 pick and 1 axe and 1 anvil and you're not allowed to trade or allow any migrants within your fort and always allow entrance to your fort from the underground.

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Second Forgotten Beast suffocated all of them with a frozen dust attack, FUN!

[Deathworks]

Hi!

If you are playing 31.xx you should have no problem at all - just breach the first cavern layer and look forward to uninvited guests and their surprise gifts.

Actually, that could then be a challenge for your creativity as you need to find ways to deal with as many of them as possible and any special talents they brought to bear (see various threads on the forums for details).

Deathworks

[Greep]

DF as is is pretty boring once you learn how to survive the first ambush.  However, there are many ways to challenge yourself.  The community games and stories sub-forum are full of interesting challenges and succesions.

[Hyperturtle]

I am continually irritated by the law-giver of the goblins, who shows up and seemingly oversees their attack and nimbly escapes before my soldiers can reach him.  Some day his head shall be mine!

[Hyndis]

If the surface world poses no threat, attack the underworld. I'm sure you're going to have lots of FUN.

Even better, embark in a terrifying biome.

Skeletal cave dragons? FUN! 

[Rotten]

Are you playing 31.xx?
Breach the Funcave (under the sea)
Never complain about how easy anything is again.

[mnjiman]

im scared to breach it

Can i prepare traps first?!

[Mr Frog]

Okay, but apparently traps aren't as effective now :/
The critters in the first level aren't too frightening, but they will at least give you something to do. I would recommend building a drawbridge so that if an unkillable FB pops up you can prevent it from entering.

Are GCS's as common as they seem? Their webs are everywhere, but I've only found *one* so far... And yes, I am aware that they can cloak.

[Kza]

If it's too easy, embark on a small haunted saltwater island. It's fun stuff. Or dig until you breach the outer reaches of the clown circus. Either way is acceptable.

DF isn't hard by any means. You need to make your own difficulty by doing the stupidest things possible.

[digitCruncher]

I am playing no farms (Specifically, no underground farms, overground farms are OK, but really really hard, especially with the other requirement), and no inexperianced dwarves. What this means is that aside from Architects and nobles (which are never randomly generated), if a dwarf has either no skill, or only dabbling skill in a job, it cannot do it. Period. Fun times

It sucks when your plant gatherer or brewer dies, however But that makes it even more fun I also like the 'realism' of the fact that dwarves don't know everything How many of you can make booze, make a bed out of wood, build a floodgate, hook the floodgate up, perform surgery and deal with broken bones, and construct a 200m high tower? But dwarves can (slowly)