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Total Members Voted: 75

[callisto8413]

Just created a world with the latest DF.  Was using the Legend Viewer.  Looking over the legends and history I found out that one of the Dwarf Civilization has a Goblin King and the other HAD one at one point.  I found that weird but after looking closer at the legends (and the map) it seems that the two Dwarf Civilizations are in the middle of a couple of Goblin and Elf Civilizations.  The wars between them, for a history that was about a century and a half long, seems to be never ending.  The Dwarfs have Goblin citizens (or are they Goblin Civilizations with a majority of Dwarfs?) - who eagerly fight against the Elfish armies during the wars.  Much of the combat history is as much about Goblins fighting Elves as much as Dwarfs.

The Human Civilizations seem to be on the other side of the map.  I didn't even bother to look at their history - boring hairless apes.

I can't wait to start a Fortress and see who ends up in it.  Will I have Goblins showing up, acting like Dwarfs?  Will I have Dwarfs with Goblin names?   I don't even know how this game works anymore! 

THIS is why I LOVE THIS GAME!

Before I created this game I created a earlier one but rejected it.  Only 8 Dwarfs were alive in that world.   

[endlessblaze]

We need a thread to list all weaponized things and the weapons they are used it.

Tis would be beautifull.   

But yha, I don't normaly have much FUN but I love seeing the stuff everyone does

[ajar]

Magma!

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[Corona688]

Magma!

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What am I looking at?  I recognize almost nothing but water and trees in that wacky tileset.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I'm pretty sure it's Phoebus. There's a shitton of lava in a number of channels. Somehow, trees have managed to grow over the lava. The moment something falls into the lava, the entire map is going to become one huge firey wasteland.

[kahrkunne]

All of these things, but most of all: the community.
I pray to the gods every single night that I may never encounter any of you in a dark alleyway.

[ajar]

I'm pretty sure it's Phoebus. There's a shitton of lava in a number of channels. Somehow, trees have managed to grow over the lava. The moment something falls into the lava, the entire map is going to become one huge firey wasteland.

Yeah I was wondering about the same thing. the trees and logs were there the moment I started obsidian casting... Temperatures are on because I lost two dwarves poking the volcano tube.

edit: oh and btw, I noticed the dwarves using the trees engulfed in the magma as a bridge.

1st: The moments of success.
2nd: Magma!
3rd: Becoming rich and insanely rich.

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[StubbornAlcoholic]

The sheer ingenuity of the game is the main draw for me. If you want to do *anything* there's pretty much always a way to achieve it.

Also, strangely enough the community is one of my favourite things. There's a real sense of humour in the playerbase, and a gleeful sense of mischief regarding large Dwarf projects, especially those with bizarre "Dwarfy" goals (burning elephants, creating enormous gladiator pits, training hardened Dwarf baby soldiers, breeding an army of Giant Lions, weaponising inanimate objects...)

[Dunamisdeos]

The sheer ingenuity of the game is the main draw for me. If you want to do *anything* there's pretty much always a way to achieve it.

Also, strangely enough the community is one of my favourite things. There's a real sense of humour in the playerbase, and a gleeful sense of mischief regarding large Dwarf projects, especially those with bizarre "Dwarfy" goals (burning elephants, creating enormous gladiator pits, training hardened Dwarf baby soldiers, breeding an army of Giant Lions, weaponising inanimate objects...)

Training enormous always-burning baby elephant gladiators, who wield inanimate lions.

This is literally possible.

[SupremeSandwich]

Dunamisdeos i've gotta say i've been on this forum in the background for eons and what you just wrote is by far and a way the most sig worthy thing in the history of the universe
I take my hat off to you

[Dunamisdeos]

Dunamisdeos i've gotta say i've been on this forum in the background for eons and what you just wrote is by far and a way the most sig worthy thing in the history of the universe
I take my hat off to you

I have ascended to Mount Siglympus, to take my place at the summit.

No, Siglympus is not a disease, its a mountain. Gawd.

[Corona688]

I'm pretty sure it's Phoebus. There's a shitton of lava in a number of channels. Somehow, trees have managed to grow over the lava. The moment something falls into the lava, the entire map is going to become one huge firey wasteland.

Yeah I was wondering about the same thing. the trees and logs were there the moment I started obsidian casting... Temperatures are on because I lost two dwarves poking the volcano tube.[/quote ]Ahah...

It's because the lava isn't in the same tile.  The trees will merely be 'warm'.

[WalkerRiley]

I really love the micromanaging.  There is no other game that will allow you to control everything in such minute detail.

I love the lore that generates.  Every world is truly different.  Different history, heroes, conquerors, and each with their own legends.

I love all the quirky things that can occur.  That one time my first merchant caravan came from the mountainhomes and the liason happened to be a goblin was hilarious.

I love how each dwarf has their own history, likes, dislikes.  And if you really work at it, you can make every dwarf in your fortress feel like a king.

And I love the community that has sprung up around it.  Very rarely do I see anyone here being impolite to one another and everyone wants to help out and tell awesome stories of how their latest fort met its demise.

[LockeTalks]

[Corona688]