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[tukadian]

I've been playing the same dwarf fortress world for a couple weeks now, about 20 years in the game, and have recently begun keeping a play log as I went. After a while I decided that it would be fun to start writing journals from character's point of views similar to the excellent Bravemule story. Where this was a shared world, with several fortresses already haven risen and died in this period of time it got me thinking that the easiest way to track all of the disparate information for story-writing purposes would be to create a wiki so I could easily cross-reference characters, relationships, deities, artifacts and so on.
Obviously it's a bit lacking in detail early on in the world's history due to me not keeping any actual records for a while and having to rely on the in-game legends mode, gamelog and seperate save files, but I plan on being much more meticulous as this goes on, including images of the fortress, and character profiles of the dwarves living in my fortress.
I'm currently deployed to Afghanistan with the Canadian army, so I've been doing this in my off-time at night to amuse myself, satisfy my OCD/ADD (I try to do everything in exact detail but tend to get distracted by those details), give myself something to think about at the gym and exercise my creative writing.
Again the site is kind of patchwork at the moment, I only started it about 2 hours ago after all, but I have uploaded my main play log, some fight details, and began cataloguing artifacts, important historical figures and civilizations. Eventual plans are to use all of that to create some fun journals, stories or art inspired by the game history, and you are more than welcome to do the same.
Let me know what you think, or any suggestions/help you might have.

http://df-chronicles.wikidot.com/

[Terrahex]

This is pretty cool, but I suggest using more pictures to make it less of a daunting task. Many readers including myself find that pictures breaking up text walls makes the article much easier to read. Still really cool

[tukadian]

Thanks. Yeah I plan on putting up more pictures now that I've had the idea. I never took any screencaps throughout my play because I never originally planned on posting it, so from here on in it will be a bit more graphic. I still have a bit of a problem uploading large pictures though because of my internet connection here in the desert.
Also when I get home and have access to my paints I want to start illustrating some of the funnier aspects, like Momuz hanging off of the backside of an elk by her teeth, with an axe in one hand and a baby in the other. I'm not a "great" artist, but it'll be fun to try.

[tukadian]

Been making some good progress on the wiki the past couple days. I downloaded the Legendsviewer tool which made it a lot easier to gather the information from the legends, and see world map info. So I'm slowly updating some pictures now. It takes forever to upload large picture files with a max 5 kb/s transfer rate.
Took some screencaps of Zarethedod as well, so I can start loading those on the site slowly to give more of a visual. Figured out how to do templates for categoried pages like artifacts, sorted out the front page and news feed, and put up a full list of my current Zarethedod reclaimers; The Bloody Saviors. What a task that was, over 90 dwarves... Now I can start putting up their descriptions and bios as I go, like I did with Bembul here. http://df-chronicles.wikidot.com/dwarf:bembul-axellina-tradeabbey-the-sensitive-lure
One of my goals is to be able to use the notable historical figures from this world to run a D&D campaign when I get home. That way I can have Bembul Axellina interacting with my players, giving them clues as to where to find artifacts in the dungeon and so on. Or the human civilizations bordering the town providing a safe haven. The adventure is basically going to be a Tomb of Horrors style dungeon crawl, with the upper levels still being a settled dwarven outpost, as a town for them to retreat to and recuperate, and the lower levels being an insane mess overrun with traps, undead, crazy camels and demons. My players won't know what hit them.
Then as I run the D&D campaign, or play spin-off adventure games on seperate save files. I can put information on the characters as they are in they "alternate worlds". I think it'll be fun to look back on in a couple months time.

[Intrinsic]

Sounds a very daunting and extensive task, good luck with this!

[tukadian]

Been spending a lot of the time on the wiki lately, getting the basic infrastructure up, updating my list of current dwarves and uploading civilization information. The hardest part has been crossreferencing between the English and Dwarven names for everything. It ends up being a bit of a pain in the ass. As I was being pretty busy with that I haven't had too much time to actually play DF until last night, but when I did play yesterday something awesome happened. I was attacked by a minotaur, which was less than awesome, but then she proceeded to murder goblins and dwarves alike… using a pair of pants. I can imagine her snapping it like a wet towel or something. I would imagine she would have tried to strangle someone at least once, but she seemed pretty content to just bash people to death with them. Kill count is in the picture below.

[MantisMan]

This sounds like a cool project.

I've gotta get into adventure mode once my current fort crumbles so I can kill things with increasingly unlikely weapons.

Also, it's nice to see another Canuck on the boards.

[tukadian]

Thanks MantisMan, I've been enjoying this project so far, but I've been having a dilemna. I downloaded the LNP 2 days before the 2012 version of DF came out, and then deployed, so I'm running on the old version. I'm about halfway through downloading the new one, no easy feat on Afghan internet, but I don't know if I should just transfer my new saves over, or generate a new world with it?
I really like my fortress of Zarethedod "Desertboredom", but I don't know whether I should just put that world into cold storage and generate a new one that takes advantage of the new features, or import the save. Any suggestions?

[slothen]

seems more natural to make a wiki for all your fortresses/worlds instead of just for one.  However if you're upgrading to the new version, there's not much need to abandon you fort, and even if you do, there's again not much need to generate a new world.  Multiple fortresses on one world means those forts share the same past history, and you can do a better job fleshing out and learning about that one world instead of a new one for each fort.