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[DeathToGamer]

So, been playing for a couple weeks... I usually dont get far though, I end up running out of things to do or cant think of what else to do.

but I have noticed that it takes FOREVER to get a fort started, and I also feel like whenever I do underground farms they make all my designs and plans mess up.

I was wondering if there was a way to automate this first portion of the game, or do you always just have to suffer through before this thing happens that I have heard of all over these forums... i believe the term is FUN? (I also believe that there should be a disclaimer that this "fun" usually involves death, dismemberment, and/or mass insanity)

[lanceleoghauni]

No disclaimer necessary. Fun MEANS death, dismemberment and insanity.

seriously, what dictionary are you reading that says otherwise?

More seriously, you get the hang of it and the beginning becomes Very easy. THEN you start having to worry less about starving, and more about being ripped apart limb by limb by angry hordes.

[Shogger]

Very mature fortresses can be almost autonomous, to the point of being boring. The beginning, where so much can go wrong, is actually the funnest part for some people.

[lanceleoghauni]

I'm a mega constructor the automation lets me do Fun things.

[shadowclasper]

Same
I focus on getting my fort functioning to the point where I don't have to MICROMANAGE the damn thing. Then I begin agressively colonizing the underworld and figuring out how to flood =Redacted=

[Argonnek]

I prefer to have a slow buildup at the beginning, then, when I get 80 dwarves, I draft half of the population, make half of the remainder into doctors and then begin operation Hostile Takeover. This has happened twice. Both of them being failures does not, in any way, discourage me from trying a third time.

[lanceleoghauni]

my recent fort is beyond slow buildup.

It's freaking GLACIAL. 17 dwarves, 8 couples, some 40 children. no immigrants or caravans.

I'm also sealed beneath a river. but that's part of the fun.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

If the beginning of the game really bugs you, just pick an exceptionally nice embark location, start and play until you get to a point you are satisfied with, but haven't really committed to any big projects, then save, exit, copy the region save file as a backup.

Instead of starting new forts, make a new copy of your backup, give it a new name, and play the fort a different way.

Although I think doing different embark locations is half the Fun.

[Kza]

I never feel like my fort is done. I'm always doing ten dozen, usually VERY important things at once. I've been trying to get my housing section built because everyone wants one and the nobles have been whining, but I had to do it while completely out of food and booze, while the river froze over.

And while there was no farms built.

If you can tell, I didn't realize how amazing it is that I lived until I typed it up.
This is why Losing is Fun. But barely not losing is even better, like Bronzemurder.

[lanceleoghauni]

oh I agree, trudging on after the dwarfpocalypse is a great bit of fun, as your few remaining dwarves must navigate the burned out and danger filled remains of their home, magma flooding the main shaft, the Zoo full of dangerous animals toppled, leaving the survivors looking behind every corner for fear of running into the !!Unicorn!!

[UmbrageOfSnow]

No !!Unicorns!!, but I just survived a forest fire wiping out half the map.  I think it was started by a !!Swan!!.  Not sure how the swan caught fire, but I am playing a mod with fire breathing dwarves.  I just thought I had them all confined below the surface.

[Shrugging Khan]

Autonomy is one of the first things I go for. At rather be at war with everyone than to be reliant on them

But otherwise; Trade is fine too.