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[blaster339]

Well yeah I'm a noob at DF, I've only started playing on the New Years and I find Dwarf Fortress VERY Interesting
So yeah all I do is mine, build buildings made of stone, train military, trade.
I have no idea how those pump things work lol

[toomanysecrets]

When I was a noob I built danger rooms with 10x training spears per tile and I "autodumped" all my loose stone, but I've since felt pretty cheap about both of these.

[askovdk]

As a new player you should experiment and start many new forts to find your game style.

One of the good old threads ( http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=94422.0 ) talks about Simulationists, Constructionists, and Gamists.

The important lession is that there is no 'right' way to play DF. (You are only wrong if you don't enjoy it. ;-) )

[Myshaak]

Heh, my first game (not counting tutorial) was building a huge, high watertower with floodgates at it's base. Thanks to water pressure opening those floodgates resulted in a powerful tsunami sweeping goblins into drown-room. Until building destroyer came and flooded my fortress, everything went fine 

[Nuoya]

I was afraid of zombies. Now they are just another infinite resource.

[Pirate Bob]

Cage traps.  Everywhere.  It really spoils the !FUN!... 

[thegoatgod_pan]

My first fort had a huge entrance convered in stonefall traps, used only 1 z-level (I couldn`t figure out the symbols well enough to get which button shifted z-levels  until well into the fort). I did learn how to savescum and use cage traps.

What killed it was the bright idea of using a lasher to "train" my piss-poor militia by releasing it right into the barracks (which didnt even have a door). This was before the coup-de-grace improvement to combat so the goblin proceeded to casually cripple the militia and then dance around the hallways causally crippling all the dwarves I tossed at it. Something like 50+ dwarves lay screaming in pain around the hallway, then fall hit and I couldn`t even savescum. My first abandon.

[Oaktree]

I had a sprawling fort with workshops scattered about, pastures all over a 4x4 embark, and the traps in my tunnels at the *far end* of the tunnels.  Poorly understood military organization, burrows, and various commands that make fort management easier.  Lost 15-20 dwarves to an ettin and handled a minor tantrum spiral as a result.

Read the forum and wiki a lot for ideas for improvements and essentially used the fort as a testbed for some of them; animal ambush detection, archery bunkers, "grinders", etc.

The next fort was started with a much better idea of how to organize things, structure the fort for expansion and exploitation of resources, and how to keep it defended.

[Scootagoose]

Many things. The worst among them was thinking I needed to vent out my butcher's shop with a hole outside....Goblin's walked inside the hole and killed everything.

[JimboM12]

Building huge underground storage rooms for stuff like wood and stone, before i understood how garbage dumping worked. 

[Thormgrim]

learn to use Quickfort and Dwarf Therapist.
Especially quickfort, I spend as much time trying out ideas in excel as I do in DF... maybe more

[KtosoX]

The times before I knew how burrows work... or how mass dump designation works.. or even before Dwarf Therapist *shrugs*
Those were very dark days.

[strongrudder]

Building huge underground storage rooms for stuff like wood and stone, before i understood how garbage dumping worked. 

Oh man, this takes me back to the giant sprawling finished goods stockpiles I had in my first fort.... before I learned about bins.

[JimboM12]

Building huge underground storage rooms for stuff like wood and stone, before i understood how garbage dumping worked. 

Oh man, this takes me back to the giant sprawling finished goods stockpiles I had in my first fort.... before I learned about bins.

I know that feel, bro.

[Urist McRas]

My first meeting with wildlife: croc frightened my woodcutter. Finaly croc got angry and attacked my dwarfs. My only weapon was the woodcutter's axe, but the woodcutter just ran away from croc. So I abandoned my fort before first caravan.