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[LordBaal]

Hi everyone, I'm just wondering how do you customize your own experience in dwarf fortress. I always generate worlds with:
- No clowns or HFS.
- Mod goblins to eat and drink and sleep.
- Remove the NO_EAT, NO_SLEEP and others such those from almost all creatures.
- Remove creatures as bronze colossus, fire creatures, magma creatures, the elemental mens (mud, blood and such).
- I allow a single type of vampire and from 1 to 5 types of were beasts because they are cool. I also leave zombies alone because they are cool and I frankly don't know how to mod them (but I'm trying to find a way to stop single organs as skin or hair from reanimating, I would like Romero kind of zombies more).
- I have been toying with the mod that add firearms because firearms are really dwarfy.
- On a side note I dislike using traps beyond strictly hunting ends, all the enemies shall die by crossbow, hammer and axe!

Sometimes I fell like the worst dwarf player ever!

I do it because:
- The no clown worlds are supposed to be faster and less demanding on the PC once a can of HFS has been open.
- I greatly dislike high fantasy stuff such the aforementioned clowns and creatures that violate certain physical laws.
- I also don't make use of dwarf atom smashers or perpetual movement machinery. In other worlds I like fantasy worlds with as little magic as possible (if not at all).

I found that:
- So far, I played under such conditions and found the goblins stay around quite a bit even with the no_eat tag removed. In fact I have never see them go extinct on any of the worlds I made. As for the gameplay I still receive sieges from goblins and plenty of wild life both above and under ground.

I would like:
- To have technological advances like what I describe here.
- Have pipes for gases and liquids, as well as a waste system to have drains and manure making.
- Light and air being taking into account.

[Boozebeard]

That's funny, I'm kind of the exact opposite. 
Mod-wise, I tend to add more elemental men of different materials and some abilities that would make sense for them.
During Fortress Mode, I like to focus on training and breeding animals, engraving, and cooking. I can't have a fortress without a few imported, exotic pets and captured cave beasts.

[Putnam]

i play df with mods

a lot of mods

i've mostly just been playing my own mods and pik-pik fortress, though

[TomatoWalrus]

I like DF like I like my coffee: Full of alcoholic midgets who are hell bent on killing themselves.


...I think I need to find a new coffee shop.

[BigD145]

Strong, but with milk and honey.

[Tevish Szat]

I generate worlds with...
> No Aquifers
> Tons of layers "at bottom" so should I ever get around to opening the clown car, I'll find plenty of room to toy with
> Extra layers "above surface" for megaprojects.  15 is just pathetic.  25 is about my minimum and I often go for 50.  (100 I probably won't use and is really just lag-inducing)
> Extra layers "Above Layer 1" so I have breathing room when designing a primarily vertical shallow-fort.
> More beasts, so I get above-ground fortress guests more often.
> more good and evil for more diverse sites.
> Lower mineral scarcity, often around 1000.  I don't like losing a site with a promising surface because it's got little/nothing going on below.

I sometimes play the Pony mod and have been eying Legends of Forlorn Realms, but vanilla DF has a lot of depth I don't feel I've tapped into on its own.

I've found that...
My calling seems to be big construction projects, more than intricate engineering.  I can only just run a Magma Pump Stack, but if you need a 20-Z ice pyramid, I'm your man.  I'm also just a wee bit obsessed with aesthetics, so that I get a little twitchy if I'm building on "evens" for double doors and have to place a single, centered piece of furniture to designate the room.  There has GOT to be something fitting to go beside it, right? (lever or table beside a throne in a throne room, table and chair splitting the middle for a dining room, storage furniture like a cabinet for a bedroom...)

As far as challenge goes, I'm happier with a middling-sized fortress (popcap 40, with a child cap of 30%, means I'm hovering near 50 dwarves more often than not) for a long stretch to really get set up before that pop goes up and defense goes from being a minor annoyance with snatchers/thieves to a critical issue with ambushes and sieges.

[weenog]

I mainly do my customizing through the dorfs themselves.  Why settle on a flat spot for a megaconstruction project when you can get out the picks and make a flat spot?

[thvaz]

I'm a purist. No mods, no tools, no tileset.

[Loud Whispers]

I like my Dwarf Fortress ASCII, harvested straight from the plant. A blend of homebrewed mods that invariably make the world more Fun, like making Dwarf blood attach [LIKES_FIGHTING] to every creature it contacts - barring Dorfs of course. If it's making the game more Fun, it is in.
With my cup of Dwarf Fortress I like to have a big, big cup. The sky has to be the limit - and so I play with as much sky I want to use. 100zlvls of DF. Fewer minerals leaves my Dwarf Fortress mainly rich in solely tetrahedrite, galena and the microcline spires, meaning sprinkles of goblinite and imported bronzes complete the cup just a teency bit. A good blend of evil, neutral and savage biomes, the surface flattened in a nice loamy plain. Boiled, not stirred - with no aquifers.

[MrWillsauce]

Vanilla, except to give lady dwarves beards.

[MasterMorality]

Large continent
My own Mod, Thothgol race, available.
No boogeymen if I play adventure, 'cause they're cheap.
Ignore candy veins, because I don't much like invulnerable armour/supersharp blades
No cage traps.

[Meph]

My own mod. If I find the time to actually play it.

[LordBaal]

More often than not, people that make mods don't play that much beyond beta testing their own creations.

[Bavette]

That's why they got US, LordBaal, the players.
I prefer anything that could be harvested for tales and inspiration, both artistically and philosophically, so I often choose one mod and play with that to my heart's content and then jump back to vanilla; repeat.

I'm taking my cup of DF with Meph's mod nowadays, Masterwork DF, because the elves sincerely deserve a better fighting chance (Mithril) and drows are just cool. There are more stuff it gives, like making farming more rewarding, but the gist is this:
Fiery mountain beneath the moon; The words unspoken, we'll be there soon; For home a song that echoes on; And all who find us will know the tune.

[Donuts]

because the elves sincerely deserve a better fighting chance

... You use it mainly because of the mithril elves get? WHAT HERESY IS THIS?!