You all have inspired me to finally try out multiplayer dwarf fortress. So far I failed at the multiplayer, but I managed to telnet into a server listed on the dwarf fortress multiplayer steam group. I'm pretty sure I'm not rendering all the graphics correctly, since a whole bunch of things just didn't appear. The server also appeared to be using some kind of reveal all tool, meaning I was ridiculously lost.
I should note that I wasn't getting announcements, my k key descriptions were blank sometimes, probably whenever there was an unrenderable character. I should also note that I usually play with fresh mac os x installs off the website, no raws editing, no external tools at all. I'm used to seeing blue water, and red magma instead of the 0-7/7 deal. Thats why I was quite impressed when I saw a red tower of 7/7s at ground level. The fort had 250 dwarves, 80 idling about, plump helmet farms all around, but what I was most impressed by was this incredible magma pump!
10 zlevels deep.. wait, how did they get magma here without a pump stack... wait... why are the red 7s mixing with the blue 7s... Hey its an obsidian farm! Incredible! Wait... Shouldn't that be making obsidian...? Why does my idle count keep dropping? Hold on, those blue 7s... those are water right... and those red 7s...?
OH MY GOD ITS ALL BLOOD EVERYWHERE THERES BLOOD EVERYWHERE THEY'RE ALL DYING EVERYONE IS DEAD OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE!? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN NO!? I quickly paused and logged off. Best of luck to yall
Server was apcguy.dnsd.me 8000 for people interested.
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