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[misko27]

I think it depends on the definition of newb a little. After all, having mastery of the game is not required to ascend from newb status.

[LoneChipmunk]

I feel I am still a newbie in a few ways, but I can manage to get a fort to survive and thrive. I guess, overall, when I started building things like oversized cisterns to flood entrance gates and building pump stacks to fill it (and pressurize the output) I stopped being a total newbie.

[Loud Whispers]

I don't recall a specific time where I stopped being a newb. Everything was a gradual learning process, with each mistake propping me further up the difficulty cliff. If I had to choose though, it'd be when I first took on the goblins and won.

[mirrizin]

I am working on my first pump stack for my first ridiculous stupid dwarf trick. That might count for something.

[Iceflame]

I realized I am no longer a noob when I first weaponized corpses and bodyparts without following a step-by-step guide.

[Dark_Toker]

Been trying to learn this game since about 2009 or so but new to the forum I can just about get my fort up and running with magma forges/smelters without needing the wiki and I managed to forge my first candy weapons last night but still a noob yet.


DT

Correction 2011 lol

[Iceblaster]

After I lost two nights of sleep to it...

In other news, I did get one badass military guy.

[Sutremaine]

When I could look at the in-game lists and more or less know what most of the options did, and do common tasks by muscle memory. Unfortunately, the latter means that I need a screen in front of me to know which lists d-b-d uses.

2 of them are kind've cheaty exploity,

'Kind have cheaty exploity'?

[Nyxalinth]

I still feel like a newb.  But I felt less newbish when I began experimenting with attempts to deliberately attract !!Fun!!.

[illarion]

When I successfully established a stable fort between the chasm and the magma river, without losing any dwarves.

[fractalman]

my most recent fort, I finally mined my first bit of adamant, and am actually organizing my workshops.

[Lielac]

Okay, I'm definitely not a newb anymore. Why? I've repeatedly broken a siege in less than a week, such that the traders for that season show up on time with nobody the wiser. Sweet Armok I love my Happy Fun Death Pit.

[ImagoDeo]

'I know enough to not flood my fortress probably and when I talk about the game to non DF players their eyes gloss over'

This has been me since about two weeks after starting to play in earnest. I just now realized it.

[WoobMonkey]

When I started playing fullscreen, and found myself annoyed by the list of commands popping up and obscuring my view.

That, or when I finally figured out how to completely automate multiple military squads, from scheduling through equipment.

I'll consider myself adept (as opposed to just 'not a newb') when I can go from 0-point embark to massive logic-gate dorfputing.  So, in another few years, perhaps!

[kingu]

When i beat the clownrush using my army, at an evil embark close to a tower and using an open door handicap. (no drawbridges or walling off).
Thats when I felt a bit less newb that is still a newb though