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[Lord Dakoth]

A friend and current forumite got me interested in the game by rambling on about his incessant modding. After he showed me his massive magma trap (which majestically backfired) I decided that I had to play this game.

After a few hours of trying to get past worldgen, I gave up. I returned a few days later, and learned to "read the Matrix" within a week or so. I would have died without "look here."

[bombzero]

I want you all to think back to your first time playing dwarf fortress, now funny thing is it may not be the time you think it was.

i recently remembered that a LONG time ago, about when i was 6-7 i played an ASCII game about dwarfs, and gave up in what i now believe was worldgen (derp)
i just found it kind of interesting that my first time i played DF was earlier than i thought. jogged back into memory by someones post in the help section i believe.

so what do you remember about your first time playing DF? did you give up in 2 minutes? or did you struggle on for days before figuring it out? or did you even get it right away?

So you're 15 now? Since it didn't actually come out till '06?

.... late 16's, my estimate was slightly off... by the way, DF was a HELL of a lot more confusing than. no tilesets had been really developed, no major documentation etc etc.

[Trapezohedron]

First Time: WHAT DA HECK IS DIS SHIZZ???

Later in a few months: Heck yeah, cage traps!

Even later than that: Attempt to make useless dwarf-operated goblin grinders and repeaters, and hope I don't suddenly breach into the aquifer.

[Putnam]

It was before 31.19, so far as I know. I remember embarking on a human town, but I also remember channeling to make all my hallways (didn't understand what "channel" meant ) and being confused when I couldn't see my dwarves as they were going through them. Then I locked one of the starting 7 in their room because I had no idea how doors work. (I built a wall around the entire room then built a door on the outside:

 XX
↓X
 XX

Just pretend ↓ is a door and Xs are walls.)

I do remember playing way earlier and not figuring out how to dig, though, so that may have been in 40d.

[miauw62]

Hmm, that was a long. very long time ago. i dont really know why i stopped, i remember following the pedguin tutorial (less popular then the others on youtube, but better) and eventually giving up for a reason i dont remember.
I have now followed another tutorial from a guy whos name i dont remember, got there from the lnp thread, he seems to have stopped
My first fortress died by starvation/not enough beer.
My second fortress due to a flooding accident. Which i then watched amused as my entire fortress flooded, seeing dwarves die in the rooms that were left unflooded.

[i2amroy]

The first time that I got to play DF was back in40d when Toady decided to expand compatibility to macs. I remember that I had watched my friend play several time before that and he has told me some pretty funny stories, but since my family was a mac family I was unable to play until compatibility was extended. I stuck to the wiki like glue for my first few months of playing, and I believe that on my first try I managed to make it all of the way to the first goblin ambush, which is where I ended up being stuck for my next several run throughs until I was able to defeat them.