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[Farmerbob]

Just got the e-book. Very excited to learn this game. I'm having a very hard time finding a suitable site. Every time I think I've found a nice flat, aquifer-free, flux stoned, warm, forested site, I double and triple check my site, then I make preparations and embark, only to find snow all over the place. Or that the only place to carve out a fortress is a level above or below. The book doesn't seem to cover extreme elevation shifts in the walkthrough. In short I'm stuck on Chapter 2. Please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. Using latest vanilla DF, no add-ons.

Thanks!

The snow thing is easy enough to deal with, but you need to use an advanced feature - advanced world generation.  I don't like sites that freeze either, so I simply adjust minimum temperature up by 20 degrees in the world generation system.  Not sure if the book explains this.  The Dwarf Fortress Wiki does, however, if I'm not mistaken.

As for the drastic elevation shifts, while you are looking for an embark site, there are a few alternate views of the land that you can use.  One of them is an elevation view, to show you how quickly the land changes height.  A volcano will always be 9 "*" elevation shift tiles in a square.  If you find a volcano of 9 "*"'s surrounded by a bunch of 0, 1, 2 numbers, it means there is a volcano on flat land, which is weird, but I find them fairly regularly.  About 1 in 30 volcanos on my volcano heavy maps have them.  Again, I make adjustments in the world generation settings, which change how the worlds are put together.

*note* raising volcanism on a map is said to reduce the number non-igneous layers on a map, which can cause problems if you want to have a steel industry.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Advanced_world_generation#Temperature

[AdamAndEvil]

That helped a ton.  Thanks!

[vaaern]

I'm curious in how this ebook get's updated. I'm planning on getting it from a dutch site I'm more familiar with, but I do want updates to it if possible.

[mwanafalsafa]

Just came across this book on Amazon while looking for other gaming books. It may get me back into Dwarf Fortress after a few-years hiatus...

But I too am wondering about updates... On Amazon it says that the book is "current to the April 2012 releases." Given the pace of DF's development, this seems like a deal breaker. But apparently there's updates... what is the most recent edition?

[Farmerbob]

Just came across this book on Amazon while looking for other gaming books. It may get me back into Dwarf Fortress after a few-years hiatus...

But I too am wondering about updates... On Amazon it says that the book is "current to the April 2012 releases." Given the pace of DF's development, this seems like a deal breaker. But apparently there's updates... what is the most recent edition?

Toady seems to be close to releasing a new version soon.  It has been a very long time since the last version.  A lot of changes are incoming.

[Showbiz]

Hello

Does somebody know if the book has been updaded to DF 2014?

[Button]

Hello

Does somebody know if the book has been updaded to DF 2014?

It has not.

Also, please avoid raising dead threads.

[SalmonGod]

I deem it a worthy necro.

[schlake]

Hello

Does somebody know if the book has been updaded to DF 2014?

I learned from the book despite it being out of date.  Very little is different enough to make a difference.  And the book made all the difference in the world in my attempts to learn to play.  I'd failed repeatedly for a couple of years to learn.

[Iamblichos]

Yes, I forgive this necro, because I was looking at my copy and wondering the exact same thing.

When I bought it, 2014 was about to drop and there were vague promises that it would be "kept current".  Those promises seem to have been mere puffery.

[Jigowah]

I don't care about the updates or it being current.  This book helped teach me all of the fundamentals and was fun to read away from the computer.  It is still a fantastic introduction to the game.

Also, this picture of the book that I found long ago puts joy in my heart and iron in my veins.  It helped me realize what I was getting into.