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Xgen

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« on: June 09, 2016, 05:51:33 pm »

Hi! I been playing Dwarf Fortress for a while before I joined the forums. About a month, I think. I wanted to play Dwarf Fortress ever since a year ago, but it was so buggy. Now I played it with a LNP, and I had lots of fun game overs to my fortresses.

-My first "Game Over":

*I started a fortress somewhere near a river*

*Lots and lots of alligators (about a dozen)

*I didn't know how to set up a military and fight them with my seven dwarves

*Instant Game Over

What I learned from that experience: Losing is fun

-My second "Game Over":

*I started near a river again

*I immediately set up a plump helmet farm

*The plump helmets were not getting harvested

*Vermin ate them

*Instead of looking up for help, I kept letting my dwarves replant them

*Things kept repeating until I ran out of plump helmet spawns

*Built a butcher's shop and killed all my animals for meat

*Meat not being moved to wagon

*Tried to wait for a caravan

*Watch my dwarves die of starvation slowly

*Game Over

What I learned from that experience: I needed a food stockpile, duh.

-My Third "Game Over":

*Things were going good, got a nice plump helmet farm, constantly brewing dwarven wine, a small dormatory, migrants came in.

*A wild Weretortoise appeared!

*No traps to defend my fortress

*Military was only a squad of 1 axedwarf, 1 hammerdwarf, and 3 wrestlers.

*Finally got the weretortoise killed with the loss of two wrestlers

*Much later, two of my dwarves turned into werecreatures, and conveniently, they were my only axedwarf and hammerdwarf

*Nobody could defend themselves

*Game Over

What I learned from this experience: I needed a hospital and traps as soon as I can make them cause I'm never gonna know what will happen next.


I had some more game overs. But right now, I have a successful fortress with a mayor, a queen, lots of weapons, and breeding dogs for war training.
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Tawa

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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2016, 05:54:39 pm »

Belongs in DF discussion. There's a "move topic" button near the bottom of the page.
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Xgen

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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2016, 05:55:25 pm »

Cool. Thank you!
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2016, 06:03:24 pm »

No problem.
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Xgen

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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2016, 10:50:18 pm »

Just bringing this thread to the first page! :D
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Atian the Elephantman God

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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2016, 07:06:12 am »

I remember my first fail, I didn't know what to do so I kept on pressing buttons and before I knew it all of my dwarves starved to death.

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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2016, 12:01:00 am »

My first fort fell to a particularly nasty wereass (my favorite were creature tbh) and the resulting infection. The attack forced me to barricade the dwarves in the fortress when a siege showed up. Trapped with the horrible creatures their friends had become. Been hooked ever since.
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Xgen

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« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2016, 09:21:30 am »

Anyone got more stories to tell?
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« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2016, 01:44:17 pm »

Anyone got more stories to tell?
Typically they do that in their own thread.
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