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[thatnewyorker]

Found out about it on a 4chan's /v/ board a few years ago. Back then it was all the rage on the board so I decided to give it a shot. I didn't have Dwarf Therapist or any 3rd party utilities or know about tilesets and I didn't even know about the wiki. It took me months to figure out how to play the game.

[Sutremaine]

Sonic 2006.

I found Something Awful's LP of that, watched it, and went through the archives looking for something similar. Decided to click on the one marked Dwarf Fortress and was incredibly confused by the screenshots but enthralled by the text. At that point the game was on 40a or about that release, but I decided to play the 2D version for a bit. Never got past the magma river, because I was having too much fun with planning layouts.

[Valikdu]

Stumbled upon the Boatmurdered archive and read it.

[Mlamlah]

I found DF when visiting the friend of my other half, he mentioned a game he'd heard of but never tried, and we downloaded it and i fell in love with it a little bit.

[EvilBob22]

During the development of the Fall From Heaven II mod for Civilization 4, there was a discussion going on in the CivFanatics forum about possible underground tiles.  One of the down-sides was the lack of "good" tiles and low food amounts, so someone said something along the lines of, "What about putting in giant purple mushrooms, like the plump helmets from Dwarf Fortress?"

[chaosgear]

Screw you guys. Reading this thread made me curious about the tvtropes page for DF. I had stuff to do...

[Zerathzul]

Also TVTropes. Like the rest of the tropers, it means I've been spoiled on most of the big surprises. Ah well. There's a lot more to discover in DF than just the circus.

[Baccar Wozat]

Turn left at Greenland.

Seriously, though, it's one of those things that popped up a lot on other forums.

I was a 3-year veteran of WoW (retired) who was itching to get back into coding his own Roguelike (which would have just about everything that WoW should have had but didn't), and also to playing various similar RLs to see if they had what I wanted in a game.

Now, the more I followed the goings-on at Angband, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and FreeBASIC forums (the last not being a RL, but my language of coding choice), the more I heard about Dwarf Fortress and the more puzzled I became.

I'm one of those people who don't really see the point of using ANSI text when tile graphics will do the job just as well (although I respect Toady's decision to stick to oldschool display methods), so I've only come here occasionally to see how it was coming along.

One day, someone at DCSS forum referred to DF as "when it's completed, it'll be the greatest game of all time". What?!? That clunky thing that crashes during worldgen?

So I lurked around these forums more, and then I heard about the Phoebus tileset, and then I saw DF Masterwork, and then I read about CaptnDuck's LPs, and then I found out about the O'Reilly book, and then I read about SA's Boatmurdered...

One day I'll write the chapter where I can finally put down DF and get back to work on my Roguelike. But that day is not today!

[Organum]

I was reading Three Panel Soul and they had a few funny comics about DF. I decided to check it out. A short story with a spectacular ending.

[chevil]

Back in 2008 I was looking for games that I could play without the use of a mouse. DF was among them and I played it for about four to six hours before quiting. Years later I saw an article in PCgamer about DF geting necromancers, wampires and werecurses and gave it another try. I am still playing.

[Kazima]

Pretty sure it was VGPat

[Snowdog]

I don't remember of what precisely brought me to DF it was so long ago. I do remember that I first read the ENTIRE wiki after which I read Boatmurdered and got hooked. I started my first fortress thinking that the difficulty was exaggerated and quickly discovered why Boatmurdered was always covered in miasma. I was in love, but the object of my affections only wanted to tear me limb from limb.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I was recommended it by a friend on the (now defunct, I think) picture wars forums some time in March 2008 - so in about a month I'll have spent 5 years playing df on-and-off.

On that note I'm making a stab at playing again at the moment for the first time in about 8 months. Wish me luck.

[Thundercraft]

I distinctly remember watching YouTube videos when I stumbled across a vid on it, though I can't remember the name. (I'll have to find the video and username now...) But it was a fairly impressive looking fortress viewed through Stonesense.

After that, as I recall, I looked for more videos on DF and found some by captnduck. I particularly remember "DF tutorial 40 - 3D tour" as the fort seemed super impressive and 3Dwarf only added to it. I bookmarked the heck out of it and started reading about it. And watching more videos. It was a while later before I actually started playing.

[shovelmonkey]

I read about it on Eve-Online's forums, of all places, about a year ago. Hooked ever since. My EvE career has since dwindled