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[dontstrugglehoney]

yeah so i was playing and then i hit some wrong keys by accident, and i ended up in the middle of nowhere, how do i get back.

[bluea]

F1?

[FellMoodFox]

F1 will, assuming you've set no other hotkeys, take you to the site your wagon arrived at.
The (u)nits list also lets you (z)oom to a chosen dwarf.

[dontstrugglehoney]

gee thanks

[Reese]

I've noticed that F1 tends to become my fortresses main gate without my intervention, however the game defines that, after my initial wagon has been deconstructed.

If fall else fails, wait for your dwarfs to start doing what dwarfs do best and getting up to fun, and the game will pause and refocus on the offender.

[bluea]

You should also be able to use zoom on the stocks screen.

Look up something like beds. Hit tab to see an itemized list. Select one. Zoooom.

[2xMachina]

Or (U)nits, Zoom to (C)reature.

That's how I find my dwarves.

[SquirrelWizard]

I just follow the trail of vomit back to my fort, but the ways they've put forth work just as well.

[Time Kitten]

Just give up and build a new fortress wherever you are at, I say.

[Albedo]

I've noticed that F1 tends to become my fortresses main gate without my intervention, however the game defines that, after my initial wagon has been deconstructed.

When the game starts, F1 hotkey is automatically set to the site of your wagon.

Nothing about this "tends", but you might tend to put your main gate next to where your wagon landed.

[SquirrelWizard]

you can also set the F1 hotkey to another posistion if you want.

[killaconcarnage]

zoom out

[Reese]

I've noticed that F1 tends to become my fortresses main gate without my intervention, however the game defines that, after my initial wagon has been deconstructed.

When the game starts, F1 hotkey is automatically set to the site of your wagon.

Nothing about this "tends", but you might tend to put your main gate next to where your wagon landed.

I would have thought that, but, in my current ocean side fort, my wagon started one Z-level above my current fortress entrance and several screens away(I placed my entrance down on the beach), and hitting F1 centers the view on my underground, trapped entry corridor.

Like I said, it's possible that I remapped the F1 shortcut to my fortress entrance, but I don't know how I could have, and I certainly am not the one that renamed the shortcut to 'Gate'

[Time Kitten]

Perhaps it is a poorly documented feature that finds your gate for you.  Also, sea level is easy enoguh to find, just tab til you have your mini map and your fortress should appear as a bunch of Os(buildings/furniture) in a field of blue(friendlies)

[Untelligent]

Nothing renames the hotkey to "gate;" that's the name it starts with.


As for me, I don't have to worry about finding my fortress, because my fortress covers damn near all of my giant map (except for the large amount of terrifying open space between the ground and the top of the map). I do use hotkeys to quickly navigate around the map, however, as it's quite tall and hotkeys are faster than scrolling.