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[Meph]

Meph,

Do you have a good link for a beginning modder?

The wiki, the modding questions thread, and any big mod. Download mods, look at the features you like, try to understand them. Ask if you dont know. trail and error. Thats about it.

Btw, when it comes to Adventure Mode: I am a complete noob.

[misko27]

When I learned to set things up without thinking about it. Yeah, kinda boring, but it was the step from "Your biggest enemy is your ignorance" to "Your biggest enemy is the things that want to kill you".

[Swonnrr]

The one thing that no tutorial talk about.

When i lost my favorite and most usefull dwarf... accepted it, moved on, and rebuilt.
When i accepted imperfection, and said "Ok, hug it. I'M GONNA REBUILT ON THE CORPSES OF THE FALLEN. YOU HEAR ME, FUN?! I. DONT. CARE."
And stop whining about your whole family being shreaded alive before your eyes, kid! You're thirteen, go back carving that stone!

[dig_for_!!sparklies!!]

When I became efficient and comfortable with the interfaces of df, and also they no longer looked like a scrambled heap of ascii characters but actual *things*.  I still feel noobish with the more complicated things, like machinery and steel production, but since I've attempted and completed a few megaprojects, I feel like I'm more intermediate than noob.

[nuget102]

For me it was when I- oh wait, nope still a noob. I find it hard to get past the second or third year.. Not always due to attacks (although once I did encounter the secret fun...) but sometimes because I get kinda bored. Or rage quit before I can perish. Or my dwarfs starve.... Or die of thirst.... Stupid cold biomes... Yeeeeaaaaaa i'm a nub.

[RenoFox]

When I made the first fortress that was safe enough to get boring. At that point I stopped using traps and danger rooms, and have been happily bathing in blood and corpses ever since.

[Telgin]

The one thing that no tutorial talk about.

When i lost my favorite and most usefull dwarf... accepted it, moved on, and rebuilt.
When i accepted imperfection, and said "Ok, hug it. I'M GONNA REBUILT ON THE CORPSES OF THE FALLEN. YOU HEAR ME, FUN?! I. DONT. CARE."
And stop whining about your whole family being shreaded alive before your eyes, kid! You're thirteen, go back carving that stone!

Still working on this myself.     Any time I lose a valued dwarf I have to fight to avoid savescumming, trying to justify it as BS gameplay mechanics that wouldn't make sense in real life.  Sometimes I win those fights with myself, but not often.

Otherwise, I'm not sure what the moment was that I finally realized that I was no longer a noob.  I think it was around the end of my third fort, where I had a 20+ soldier army of mostly legendaries clad in steel, a population of about 140 all with homes and food and drink, and when a problem came up I knew how to fix it or could interpret the wiki well enough to solve it.

[itisnotlogical]

When a fort of mine managed to survive long enough for there to actually be some unnecessary dwarves. It's a wonderful feeling to watch your miners continuously work without having the cook, farmer and woodcutter run over to put the stone in a stockpile.

[NullForceOmega]

I managed to overcome newbiness when I realized my 18 year old fortress had survived 3 tantrum spirals and a loyalty cascade and it still would not die! Releasing HFS universally crshed DF on that fort, I finally abandonned after I finished cleanup and atom-smashing extraneous objects.  Ziraltogal, you will be missed.

[enizer]

The one thing that no tutorial talk about.

When i lost my favorite and most usefull dwarf... accepted it, moved on, and rebuilt.
When i accepted imperfection, and said "Ok, hug it. I'M GONNA REBUILT ON THE CORPSES OF THE FALLEN. YOU HEAR ME, FUN?! I. DONT. CARE."
And stop whining about your whole family being shreaded alive before your eyes, kid! You're thirteen, go back carving that stone!

hah! you know that highly desierable stat for soldiers, "does not care about anything anymore"
i think you got that

envy you to be honest,
personally, i have a strong temptation to savescum when my favorites die
that's my OCD fighting the knowledge that i will have more fun if i keep going.. but but but...

[the1337doofus]

There is no such thing as not a newb. There is " new newb who knows nothing (I'll just cut the zombies up! ) " , "newb who's been around long enough to figure out how to create a fortress (OH GOD ZOMBIES URIST DO SOM- Andthey'redead.)", and "newb who has been around long enough that he knows stuff, buthe still gets his ass kicked, but not quite as easily ( .....Dammit, you stupid f*cking dwarves. This is not my fault.)". I started considering myself the middle when I managed to get a working fortress for five years without resorting to walling up the entrance and subsisting on plump helmets and plump helmet wine.

[Toaster_Dorf]

For me it has to be when i abandoned my longest running fortress, why? hidden fun stuff? hordes of goblins?

Nope, simply got bored due to the peaceful settings, no risk no fun. had a thriving economy a fully equipped army and had slain a few FB yet it lacked the thrill of difficulty, so when i selected abandon fortress, i knew i was moving up in the world.

[wierd]

Hmm.. probably when I realized I didn't need the wiki anymore for anything besides a quick reference on something, and that I had developed muscle memory for the hotkeys.

[firaro]

i realized i was no longer a newb when i managed to design and construct a meeting hall with an unnecessarily big waterfall because my mist generator my dwarves were loving was too ugly. then i stopped playing for a while and now i am newb again referring to my old designs for how to make things

[Crazy Cow]

Probably the first fortress I got bored of and abandoned before it was destroyed by some violent outside force, rather than during.