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[Pseudointellectual]

This is not a troll.

I've played a ton of Fortress mode and I want to play Adventurer mode. However, it seems like the main fun of this mode would be taking quests and killing monsters. However, whenever I do this the quest monsters kill me utterly. The Wiki advises me to do tedious things like swim in circles in a puddle or throw rocks for hours in order to become effective. But I know there's people playing this and having fun. What do I *do* in adventure mode?

So far the only fun I get out of it is exploring the world. One neat thing I discovered for example was after creation a bunch of fortresses in the world and not venturing outside of them, when I explored the world in Adventurer mode I found that all the Dark Fortresses had been taken over and cleaned out by elves. There actually wasn't a lot of room for adventure in that particular world. 

[Vilien]

Try to gain a few levels on wild animals before taking on any semi-megabeasts. Also, use meatshields.

[Creamcorn]

Don't forget about chasms, look in goblin citadels for them but watch out for the dreaded GCS and also you may want to set your adventure messages to a low amount if you do plan on going to them.

[Soadreqm]

Go to a human town at night and gouge out everyone's eyes. Or just walk around the world map and kill random encounter animals. Or lose a fort to a siege and go destroy the invaders. I think the combat is pretty fun, with all that ruthless semi-realism of the game keeping track of every body part individually and occasinally letting you hack limbs off. And in the next version, keeping track of every wound individually. Not to forget the eye gouging.

[ProfessorA]

Find a biome with zombie animals in it: first encounter with a solitary zombie predator (bear, cougar, etc) lie down and hold '5' and let it hit you until you take serious damage or get tired/hungry/thirsty.  Should train up your shield skill.  Use the 'c' menu to set attack prefs to close combat and train wrestling at the same time.

[Necronopticous]

The Wiki advises me to do tedious things like swim in circles in a puddle or throw rocks for hours in order to become effective. But I know there's people playing this and having fun. What do I *do* in adventure mode?

Skilling up can make adventuring a lot more fun since you're about a thousand times less likely to die randomly. You don't have to spend hours unless you want your skills to be ultimate. Just spend 20 minutes or so leveling up your throwing skill so you can do some damage at a safe distance.

Also, if you're really scared of your skill-up time going to waste upon death, there's always the option of backing up your save after getting that out of the way.

[Aspgren]

1. Take 100 levels in throwing.
2. Find elven children.
3. Throw rocks at elven children until they die.
4. Throw the dead elven children at other elven children until they also die.
5.

[Neonivek]

If Fortress mode is unfinished then Adventure mode hasn't even been worked on.

Your not going to enjoy Adventure mode other then pure experiementation for a long time because it really hasn't been worked on pretty much at all yet.

Caves are mindless, Whole towns attack you, Hardly any sources of income, and weird encounters.

Play Adventure mode for a bit of fun but don't really expect it to be all that great for a long time.

[Demonic Gophers]

Don't forget about chasms, look in goblin citadels for them but watch out for the dreaded GCS and also you may want to set your adventure messages to a low amount if you do plan on going to them.

This.  Finding a goblin tower that's next to a chasm can give you a nice battle to take part in, either helping the goblins fight off hordes of intruders, or cheerily killing everyone you see.  Either way, you won't have everyone in the area specifically hunting for you.

[Roundabout Lout]

I find enjoyment out of killing wildlife to level up.
Once leveled up, I recruit a group of adventurers, and find the elf civ I loathe the most. About as epic a battle you can get until adventure mode is worked on.

[Aspgren]

You could do a reversed Noah's ark.

Find two of every animal, slay them and throw their corpses into the ocean.

[Aldaris]

You could do a reversed Noah's ark.

Find two of every animal, slay them and throw their corpses into the ocean.

Hmmm, interesting..
Let's see, dwarf adventurer, some weapon that doesn't launch your target away too far or chop them up too much, this would be more awesome if you first make an osidian cliff stickig out into the ocean in order to throw the corpses into it with style, oh yes, this has potential.

[Katsuun]

Have you already depopulated the world of all civillizations? Good place to start. That or trying to storm Orc holds. Assuming you have the Orc mod.

[Greiger]

Unmodded I just pick proficent swordsman, proficent armor user competent wrestler novice swimmer and go do village quests.  If the village gives you a quest to kill anything other than a giant, minotaur or ettin at first go someplace else.  After some practice you may be able to handle cyclops or some weak war leaders.  Once yer legendary you can try real megabeasts like dragons or titans.

With modding I mod a dragon to have a grasping mouth and to be play now able, dig out a little cave for my dragon in fortress mode (tinyest zone possible) then go around as the dragon collecting goodies for my cave.

Spoiler: Extra tips (click to show/hide)

 
-If you played fortress mode beforehand and when you get to a village and see the message "The wagon has been scuttled" look for a single wood log lying around someplace in the village.  Once you find it push 'g' over it.  You will find pages upon pages of free goodies.  This is what happens to the wagons and all the stuff they carry when they get back home and can contain things like traded steel weapons and trap components.  It is not considered stealing by the civ apparently trade wagons are communal. Sell what ya can't use.

-If you played a fortress beforehand try to get ahold of some trap components for throwing.  A large serrated disk is my favorite, but a giant axe blade is best damagewise.  If none are available an extra spear or quiver full of bolts or arrows makes good throwing ammo.

-Keep an extra weapon you are skilled with handy, especially if using a weapon that can get stuck, like a sword or spear.  If you lose yer weapon to a stuckin against a large enemy and twisting the weapon til they die is not an option it can be faster to just take out the backup then retrieve yer first.

-Pushing c-a-c(think that's right) when you start adventure mode can be the difference between life and death.  If i remember the binds correctly that stops you from charging an enemy(which is how dwarves end up in the river when fighting carp) and causes you to always try to dodge enemy attacks.  Charging a larger opponent usually does little more than get you stunned and prone, and dodging gives you an extra chance to evade an attack in trade for some uncontrolled movement.  Just be sure to turn dodging off if near a dangerous fall.  The automatic doesn't always work properly if you are wondering.  Once you get better at adventure mode and know enemy sizes better feel free to change these on the fly.  Charging is still effective against smaller opponents, and not dodging a kobold charge can cause them to be stunned on the floor.

- If you have the strength, layer your armor.  Clothing provides some protection, but platemail on top of 2 layers of chainmail provides much more.  Greaves are better than leggings, high boots are slightly better than low boots.  Quality modifiers count.

- Speed is important, while equipment is good, don't carry so much that your speed is greatly reduced.  A speed of 1001 makes you faster than almost everything in vanilla.  Mostly just excluding elves and high skill humanoids.  Adventurers rarely start with their speed over 1000 (or even at it) but it is a good goal to aim for.  Good armor user skill reduces or nullifies the slowdown from anything being worn, including the backpack so it's a good idea to start with armor skill.  If you are in trouble and you have a speed over 1000 try to outrun your enemy.

- Sneaking is your friend.  It is rather easy to train so I don't put any starting points into it myself, but it can save your life.  Even at dabbling sneaking enemies won't notice you unless you end up within 2 tiles of them, and as long as nobody is looking when you start sneaking you can do it anywhere.  When faced with an archer the most effective strategy is to jump behind the nearest tree start sneaking, then either get away or close ground with the marksman.  More skill makes you harder to spot close up and reduces the speed penalty for sneaking.  At legendary+5 you can sneak at full speed.  Be careful when sneaking however, at low skills the enemies will move many times more often than you will, which can put them close enough to spot you before you get a turn to react and move away.

[Retales]

Is it possible to somehow mod the game so that you get more skillpoints at the beginning of the game?