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[RanDomino]

There's a category for it and the current winner (and only entrant) achieves Fun in 3 minutes 44 seconds.
http://www.speedrun.com/Dwarf_Fortress

Surely there can be improvements made to everything going on here.

Conditions?  Start/end points?  Strategies?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Fun is easy. How about trying to win?
Speed to wipe out goblin population of pocket world using only fortress mode (multiple fortresses allowed)? I guess you could allow an adventurer to clean up the farmers once their military is crippled.

[Egan_BW]

DF isn't a game you can win. And the ease of competing any given goal depends heavily on RNG. So not really.

[Geltor]

im surprised it took him as long as almost 4 minutes

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Ingame years would be more fitting, and less dependent on FPS. Using OOG seconds only benefits those with supercomputers.

[NJW2000]

You know, getting to HFS isn't veeery hard with no caves and only 4 ground z-levels. Which, I think, you can make an embark, though I've not seen it yet.
Aside from that, 7 miners as highest skill, as many picks as poss, maybe smelting equipment for a speedrun, unsure.

[NJW2000]

Planepacked x 2. Boom.

[NJW2000]

I was referring to the mountainhome thing. You need two planepackeds to get him over to your fort: one for wealth, one for trade.

[TheBiggerFish]

This doesn't make any sense, but then again, this is B12. ;P
PTW.

[NJW2000]

I reckon it would be quicker than making thousands of prepared items. Or how about this: use one planepacked to get to the wealth level required for the king to come (this is a thing, yes?) and the rest to get to pay the traders.

[Nunzillor]

Settle fort on the highest mountain in the world.  Create a magma pump stack to send magma to the surface from the magma sea.  Power the stack perpetually with aquifier flow.  Retire the fort. 

When all the world except for the fort is covered in lava, when Boatmurdered has been brought to its logical conclusion, then you have won.  That is the win condition that should be timed.

[TheBiggerFish]

@Nunzillor:Will that actually work though?

[Nunzillor]

You don't even need infinite aquifer power; just make a perpetual water engine. Though I suspect with the right design, you don't even need to do "perpetual"; just make the aquifer drain onto water wheels then flow off the map.

The latter is what I meant, use the aquifier with water wheels.  You don't necessarily have to make it flow off the map, however, as you can send it right back into the aquifier (I believe).  Other types of water engines sometimes require maintenance, mine always dry up and require a bucket brigade.  Perhaps I'm not quite building those correctly, however.

@Nunzillor:Will that actually work though?

I've seen it in previous versions of DF where forts were retired using DFHack.  I haven't tried it with this version yet using proper retirement.

[Trif]

I reckon it would be quicker than making thousands of prepared items. Or how about this: use one planepacked to get to the wealth level required for the king to come (this is a thing, yes?) and the rest to get to pay the traders.

The Planepacked glitch was fixed, you can't trade artifacts, and creating artifacts is pretty random and doesn't require much skill.

Becoming the mountainhomes is not very challenging anyways, the fastest way is if the king dies and one of your dwarves gets randomly chosen to be the new regent, and that's not very fun.

I think DF is not very well suited for speedruns because whatever "win"-condition you pick, people with faster computers will always have an advantage. Even if you lock the FPS at 100, good players will always be beaten by good players with better PCs. At high levels, speedrunning this game would just be a PC comparison contest, and I don't think that's in the spirit of the game.

[NJW2000]

Yeah, ingame time would be better. Didn't realise they fixed Planepacked, did they also fix the "trade an artifact in a barrel" thing?