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[TomJones76]

Gentlemen,
Earlier this week I discovered Dwarf Fortress... someone on The Straight Dope Message Board mentioned it... I downloaded it on my lunch break at work, and I've been hooked ever since.
Awesome game. I won't be surprised if my addiction causes me to lose my job, my wife and causes my small business on the side to fail... and it'd be worth it if it did.
I've looked for the following:
Saved games I can download so I can look at one of these mega-fortress' some of you guys have built.
I've looked around on the forums and online, but I've seen nothing of the type. Anyone have a link for me?

[Razzums]

But that would ruin ever single fun thing about the game! D:

[RPB]

Game must not have very much depth if simply looking at other peoples' stuff ruins it completely.

[WillNZ]

Problem is nowadays fortresses are spread all these z-levels, so their size can be a little hard to depict. However, the old version has plenty of large, mega-fortresses. I suggest you look at Copperblazes. Not mine, but huuuuuuuuuge. Here's the URL.

Copperblazes

[TomJones76]

Come on guys?
No one has a saved game archive?
I wanna' actually see a dungeon with 50 dwarf!

[Dame de la Licorne]

Well, the fun part about this is everyone's is different, and you kinda have to learn by doing.  Just looking is no fun unless you're looking for something specific.  (At least, that's what I think.)  

[ErrorJustin]

Winz copperblazes is AMAZING. Links to other fortresses like it?

[Fenrir]

Dwarf Fortress is about the journey, not the destination.

[Dame de la Licorne]

quote:Originally posted by Fenrir:
Dwarf Fortress is about the journey, not the destination.  

Definitely, that's what's fun.

[RPB]

So... we have a fairly well-frequented website dedicated to sharing pictures of peoples' fortresses, but to actually watch a fortress in action, that somehow "ruins the game" all of a sudden? What the hell? Quit jumping all over the poor guy and his perfectly reasonable request.

[ November 11, 2007: Message edited by: RPB ]

[TomJones76]

No need to worry about my feelings; I've been frequenting online forums, newsgroups and BBS' since 1992 and I've developed fairly thick skin.
I just want a bigger sandbox to play in and to learn from.
I'll HAVE the big dungeon, and I'm working up to it, but I'll confess to some curiosity as to what it's like.
I tell you what, I can do some pretty amazing stuff at work that stuns the heck out of the guys I work with... and this game is harder than my day job.

[Silleh Boy]

I'd provide one of my fort's save games for you to look at, given it seems that you're keen to learn how to design a fortress (or in this case a dungeon?) from examples that you can play with, that i assume in this case is because you want to interact with it to see how it flows each part works in the example you're provided?

there's a few problems with my fortress' if i where to use them as examples, however.

one is that the save game folders are already getting quite sizable - even after compression, meaning they're hardly trivial for me to upload at this time, second is that i'm still experimenting with design concepts for efficiency and asthetics, and finally, most of my forts are on magma maps, that're notoriously laggy at the moment, pending code optimisations from toady to make the larger volcano's play more efficiently (that i'm confident'll come in due time.)

however, i'm sure that somebody else would have a better example of a map than i could provide, so i wish you luck in getting your sandbox to play in and learn from - and remember, losing is fun!

[Leerok the Lacerta]

Welcome to the game, Mr.Jones. Here's my current fort, which is built in the middle of a heavily wooded area. I've been lucky in that my starting position didn't have an aquifer, but an aquifer existed some distance away so my dwarves didn't dry out. There've been attacks by a titan, a hydra, a collosus, and two sets of goblins. Though there is no mountain nearby, I've been able to extract plenty of iron ore. I've also fortified my area above the ground with a rather large wall. I'm also in the process of building a glass tower for my multi-talented mayor.

Have a look and enjoy. Just extract to the (DF)\data\saves directory.
http://rapidshare.com/files/69119814/region1-win-1066.rar

And an animated gif that shows the progress of the glass tower thus far:

[ November 12, 2007: Message edited by: Leerok the Lacerta ]

[TomJones76]

Well, I'll be danged.
"You have reached the download-limit for free-users. Want to download more?"

I've never seen that site before in my life.
I'm at my Fortune-Big-1000 day job now, so they must be metering by IP and counting my proxy server... which means there are >10,000 folks sharing my IP.
I'll try at home tonight.

[Leerok the Lacerta]

Here's another link to the same file:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=kz8744yrm8d

Along with a gif of a titan I recently found in my traps before it perished.

This hasn't happened in the save I provided, though.