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[snow dwarf]

I remember seeing the ASCII for the first time,
the purple, brown, yellow and all the other colors on the world map and not having an idea what shit was.
The magic of seeing the "O's" and the happy little faces and... Man. *dwarfy tear*.
It's amazing how now I just see everything in the ASCII.
I make things out of marble for my dwarves even though I as the player can't really see a difference between it and any other white stone.
It's unbelievable what DF does to your brain.

Nostalgia thread

[HmH]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Militarydwarves who trained by engraving the quarries.
Tentacle demons rushing out of the adamantine chamber, leaving their crazy playthings behind.
Entire threads wiped out of existence after someone won the Most Evil Deed contest.
I've watched carp drag a legendary axedwarf into the river and tear him to pieces.
All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain.

[PlumpHelmetMan]

My first glimpse of legends mode. For my first several games I had no idea it existed, but then I noticed it, checked it out for sheer curiosity, and ended up in awe of the stories it told about my worlds that I otherwise would've had no idea about.

[carnivorn]

I still think about the first fort where I made any headway with the military screen. I started with an animal trainer who I gave some social skills to be my expedition leader, and she struck up a romance with my militia commander almost instantly. I drew them, based on their descriptions, because I loved the idea of this disney princess dwarf and her knight in shining ≡bronze armour≡, watched over by her horde of trained cave crocodiles. I miss that fort :')

[Vercingetorix]

Hard to believe it's 10 years now that I've been playing DF.

I still remember that one night in the summer of July 2009 when I first found out about it.  I was playing a heavily modded version of BGII: Shadows of Amn and googled "sleeping dwarf" as there was a quest related to the dwarf sleeping in the Copper Coronet.  That turned up the old Magmawiki page for noise and I started browsing through it, downloaded a version of 40d...and the rest is history.  I don't remember my first fort but I do remember how awesome it was when I checked and saw 0.31.01 was released.

[ibanix]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Militarydwarves who trained by engraving the quarries.
Tentacle demons rushing out of the adamantine chamber, leaving their crazy playthings behind.
Entire threads wiped out of existence after someone won the Most Evil Deed contest.
I've watched carp drag a legendary axedwarf into the river and tear him to pieces.
All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain.

I see what you did there, and I approve.

[Lozzymandias]

I remember my first fortress on 40.24

It was a mountainside with terrifying wilds around it. 6 of the first 7 were killed in the first spring by a giant undead wolverine. No immigrants made it to the rough perimeter till the next spring. Leaving 1 dwarf to bury his 6 friends.

I followed the story of that dwarf. That kind of thing can change a dwarf. He was slain by a were mammoth the next year, and his corpse got up and charged the traps gate. He would finally join his brothers in the crypt of the founding seven.

[mirrizin]

My first tantrum spiral, which included the vampiric mayor being beaten to death by a child, and one lone survivor of the fort, standing there, training with her copper axe in the midst of the carnage.

We rebuilt.