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[Zeff]

I'm recording myself talking while I build up a fortress with a few interesting features right off the bat, screen is good quality though you're going to need to turn your sound up

Hopefully I'll fix that but I'm already 2 hours in...  building a fort with a walled courtyard, irrigated some underground for farm and have just reached the point I'm going to be producing plenty o food. Have almost completed an atom smasher garbage dump and am currently planning a water powered pump to create a waterfall right in the middle of the stair case.  Will be building an atom smasher drainage system as well.

As I talk I mention what keys I'm pressing and the first video starts with downloading from mayday and configuring the important bits. Then I generate a small world with 5 years history and talk about selecting a region.  2nd video I talk about selecting a region and preparing for the journey including taking into account what kind of place you're going to into your strategy.

This game is finished, I feel I showed a number of concepts people will be interested to know including where to find hidden fun stuff though did not explore at all so be warned those who watch the final episode, what you see in my vid are only the first of the challenges that await below.

Achieved most of our objectives, the waterfall and drainage system appeared to be running stable and the added flood protection would hopefully prevent any overfill anyway.
We had a stable food and booze supply despite a shaky start though we never really did move out of the initial settlement, sand caves
Didn't make 200 dwarves. Remember seeing population 72 a lot in the game though I think it peaked over that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Easily could of if I'd continued building and not dug into the adamantine

1 - Installation and world generation - YouTubeHD (note error in config, changed fps where I intended to change gfps)
2 - Selecting your region and preparing accordingly - YouTubeHD
3 - Getting started with the necessary bits - YouTubeHD
4 - More getting started and adding our first dwarf to the military - YouTubeHD
5 - Building a farm, food store, dining hall and other stuff - YouTubeHD
6 - Building an irrigated farm and other game play tips - YouTubeHD
7 - Building outer wall and flooding the farm - YouTubeHD
8 - Building a refuse pile and more building up - YouTubeHD
9 - Unit screens, mining out haematite veins and some migrants arrive - YouTubeHD
10. More building up and planning out the water wheel and waterfall - YouTubeHD
11. Linking power and building an atom smasher - YouTubeHD
12. Recovered after a pc crash, outdoor farm underground and creating an archery squad YouTubeHD
13. Setting up archers uniform including ammunition, but couldn't find archery target so changed him to axedwarf YouTubeHD
14. Hotkeys and sealing off a cavern we've opened from above then digging around it YouTubeHD
15. In this one we set up a still close to our plump helmets and continue working on our pump house YouTubeHD
16. More work on the pump including a little bit of fortress flooding, migrants and more on selecting recruits for the military YouTubeHD
17. Starting up a wood fueled metal shop and more pump work...  it'll be worth it I promise! YouTubeHD
18. Finally testing the pumps and why not to use kill orders, showing how to use station orders to get things killed next time YouTubeHD
19. Channelling and building the atom smasher drainage system YouTubeHD
20. We finally switch on the water fall for the main stairs, pressure plate activated atom smasher drainage works a treat! YouTubeHD
21. Flooding the bottom staircase and tweaking the drainage system to fix it. Progress on metal shops and killing some rhesus macque with the station order we made earlier YouTubeHD
22. Using cages, checking out our engravings and statues and finding another cavern YouTubeHD
23. This time I talk about the Chief Medical Dwarf and the Medical screen. Sealing the fort and building the private quarters. YouTubeHD
24. In this one I talk about backing up your saves, assigning an individual a particular piece of equipment in equipment screen and some fort tidying YouTubeHD
25. Exploring, setting up a workshop restricted to a particular dwarf and flooding the fort, again YouTubeHD
26. Digging new shaft to deal with flood and setting up the captured rhesus macque for a slaughtering, and failing. YouTubeHD
27. A forgotten beast comes and leaves again, more dealing with floods and trade with the dwarves YouTubeHD
28. Running the second atom smasher and drowning a miner, population 50 YouTubeHD
29. Cleaning up after the flood and making a new trade agreement with the dwarves YouTubeHD
30. Dealing with refuse, rescuing dwarfs trapped in plumbing and building a pressure plate triggered overflow floodgate YouTubeHD
31. How to open your world in legends mode..  I stopped this one when I went back to the game YouTubeHD
32. Kobold thieves are starting to show up more regularly but just general progress and finally expanding storage in this one. YouTubeHD
33. Releasing the animals and failing attempt 1 at auto sealing in case of flood YouTubeHD
34. More on the project to prevent flood and a goblin ambush! YouTubeHD
35. More development on drainage system flood measures YouTubeHD
36. Turning back on the waterfall, cleaning up, fitting out bedrooms and equiping your fort guard. YouTubeHD
37. 11:40 Another goblin ambush, 2 squads! YouTubeHD
38. More goblin attacks! YouTubeHD
39. Yet more goblins YouTubeHD
40. Building more and looking for magma YouTubeHD
41. Dwarf on dwarf combat and miasma YouTubeHD
42. Setting up a hospital and reading the health screen YouTubeHD
43. Finding magma and adamantine, starting to dig down into the adamantine... YouTubeHD
44. *Spoilers* MORE goblins and a taste of the hidden fun stuff YouTubeHD

Fun game, built a pretty cool little fort though if I weren't recording I would've spent a lot more time on the details and probably squeezed in a lot more production before goblin attacks came but none the less I hope I showed some interesting things and made machines easier to understand for someone and all that good feeling stuff.  Hoping people will post here in support of making this thread sticky but in any case, it was fun.

[Itsapaul]

I'll take a look when I get to a comp with speakers, but I must warn you I'm very particular about my embark dwarves, so points off if you go nuts with em =P

[Zeff]

Updated to ep 11, this is as much as I've recorded now...   lookin forward to some feedback so I know what people would like to see

[folgsam]

As a grower, how do you deal with the fact that you cant plant hemp in fortress mode?

[Zeff]

As a grower, how do you deal with the fact that you cant plant hemp in fortress mode?

would be interesting if dwarf fortress got a black market system and the guard worked to stop the trade...  maybe one day when economy is done

[Zeff]

14 is ready, uploading 15 and 16 now so they'll be up in a few hours

[Zeff]

Up to 18 though Youtube hasn't finished building the different resolution views yet... 19 and 20 are queued for upload

[Zeff]

21 is up but youtube are still processing, should be available in HD after a few mins

[Zeff]

24 loaded now.. probably record more later tonight

[Zeff]

Not sure if there are thread subscribers but I see a few people watching these as soon as they finish uploading so I'll post here when I'm playing, 28 coming soon and 29 already queued

[Zeff]

Back at it again today, 31 is up now and have queued up to 33

[Hans Lemurson]

As a grower, how do you deal with the fact that you cant plant hemp in fortress mode?

I have always had my suspicions about this "Rope Reed" that the elves are so fond of.

[Zeff]

Fun game, built a pretty cool little fort though if I weren't recording I would've spent a lot more time on the details and probably squeezed in a lot more production before goblin attacks came but none the less I hope I showed some interesting things and made machines easier to understand for someone and all that good feeling stuff. 

Hoping people will post here in support of making this thread sticky but in any case, it was fun.

PS if a moderator would be so kind as to delete the posts I made in the middle just bumping the thread that'd be awesome, thanks!

[Drago55577]

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