I'm going to start searching the forums for answers to my questions but I'll post my first adventure experience and see if some of you want to throw out a couple quick answers and read about my untimely death at the hands of the human presser mummy.
I've been playing fortress mode for a while so I have the basics down so thought I'd try my hand at adventure mode. I've interspersed a couple newbly questions that I just couldn't figure out regardless of how many keys I mashed.
Right off the bat I couldn't figure out how to start an adventure game in my existing world where my fortress was currently at, I thought I had read in the forums people exploring their own fortress but for the life of me I couldn't find an option to embark a new game in the existing world. Not a huge deal, I created a new world and started an adventure mode.
Story wise I had a great time, I started out looking for a fight and to be killed and I found it quickly. The local villagers were being terrorized by some shape-changing beast, they told me the location and name of the beast but not where the location was. No matter how many times I spoke with the locals about surroundings they refused to disclose the actual location where this beast was??? No idea how I'm supposed to find that specific location so I just wandered around. I started out by killing a couple coyotes in the woods to get the basics down. No problem with the coyotes. I then looted the remains, butchered the corpse, started a fire and tried to cook and eat some of the remains. Took me a minute to realize I first had to remove it from my pack before I could interact with it but so far so good. I didn't see any kind of cooking? I settled for just heating it using advanced interaction and eating it, I ate the brain and liver and didn't get sick so I'm assuming that's just fine?
Now with the basics down, let's get killed. I found and immediately raided a tomb, I had read previous horror stories of mummies on the forums so I thought that could be fun. I walked through a room of peasant skeletons, up a stairs, dodged or deflected several traps, somehow picked a lock on a gold door (any way to melt that down and take it?) when I had no lock-picking skills as far as I knew but hey, I'll take a gimme. I started looting bags and some misc. other pretty useless items and sure enough, a human presser mummy appeared and was nice enough to take the time to start a dialogue with me to let me know he was going to kill me first. I tried to run back down the way I came but he had apparently animated the peasant skeletons in the room I had walked through to get there I think? Or did he summon them from nowhere? But they came up the stairs and blocked my way and within 4 hits sure enough, I died. I wonder if I could have somehow destroyed or moved those remains outside before triggering the mummy if those were the ones he actually animated. What a hoot though.
I immediately started a new character and went right to the tomb, the mummy and skeletons were gone and I looted my old hero (free stuff!). I really wanted to loot the traps, they had high quality silver weapons but I could not figure out how to take them. It said there was nothing to take even though I could inspect and see there was and trying to hit "u" to interact with the mechanism did nothing, so how can I disassemble those traps and loot the weapons???
I left the tomb and wanted to find a merchant to sell my wares too, this proved difficult, I went through my starting area and no merchants. I saw a big walled city to the east and thought I'd try there. I got there and to my amazement the entire city was abandoned! It looks like everyone left in a hurry too because absolutely everything is still in the shops and rooms! Cabinets, bags, and misc. stuff everywhere, did I just get really lucky here? All of the items are Large size though, is that human-sized or larger than human? I thought I'd give it a try but couldn't figure out how to take the items from the cabinet! Once again I can't pick it up, I couldn't "u" interact with it and attempting to remove an item from a container only allows me to remove items from MY containers so how can I start looting all of this "stuff", I mean it's everywhere!
Finally on a technical note after about 20 minutes of playing I would take a step and the game would freeze up for about 30 seconds, then let me take another step and do it again. I have to save/quit and come back in and then it does it again. Computer resources are fine, cpu tooling around 40% and over 2gb memory free, DF is using about 600mb, everything seems fine there and I never had a problem in fortress mode like that even after playing for many hours.
All-in-all I had a great time, I really wish I could find a merchant to sell my "stuff" to and then I think I'm going to try going underground for a spell.
I'll summarize the questions from the wall of text:
1. Adventure mode in existing fortress world?
2. Interacting/looting traps, cabinets, and grates?
3. Gold door? Sounds like it will make me rich, how can I take it?
4. No cooking? Just heat coyote brains and eat?
5. Mummy, was it animating skeletons in the burial I walked through or does it summon them from out of nowhere?
6. Is large size human-size or larger than human size, whereas dwarf would be small size then?
7. Adventure mode lagging out after about 20 minutes of play?
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Topic: First experience with adventure mode, had fun and just a couple hang-ups. (Read 1942 times)