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[Elephant Parade]

1: There is already a DF mod in progress. I found it on Minecraft Forum a while ago, so I don't know if it's still being developed.
2: Are there any good Bay12 servers? I requested a whitelist for Silverstar, but I've been waiting for a day now and I'm getting bored.

[Remuthra]

I tried to start a modded server once, but no one was really interested. It would be nice if we had more servers.

[Elephant Parade]

I prefer vanilla servers (as in Survival without lots of shops and commands and stuff, not free-to-play Creative) myself. However, there are some mods I like.

[scrdest]

1: There is already a DF mod in progress. I found it on Minecraft Forum a while ago, so I don't know if it's still being developed.

coughplayTerraFirmaCraftcough

[Elephant Parade]

Notch just tweeted to tell everyone to play Dwarf Fortress.

[Graknorke]

Notch just tweeted to tell everyone to play Dwarf Fortress.

IDE: Markus wants the entire fanbase kept busy for a few weeks for reasons.

[Elephant Parade]

What reasons? I am curious about these reasons.

[Neyvn]

Notch just tweeted to tell everyone to play Dwarf Fortress.

Oh NO!!! Soon the forums will be filled with the vile scum of the Minecraft Community... We had nice things here for a while T_T
I will be setting up a safe camp for us true Bay12ers to retreat to in case the Mass of Scum becomes too much for anyone to handle. We shall set up traps and countless other things to keep us safe...

[Graknorke]

Notch just tweeted to tell everyone to play Dwarf Fortress.

Oh NO!!! Soon the forums will be filled with the vile scum of the Minecraft Community... We had nice things here for a while T_T
I will be setting up a safe camp for us true Bay12ers to retreat to in case the Mass of Scum becomes too much for anyone to handle. We shall set up traps and countless other things to keep us safe...

Nah, the dickery over there only happens because the moderators facilitate it.
I mean, over here, if someone were to get pissy because someone else's mod used a body template they did or something and they complained to Toady "He copied my mod my copyrights win make him stop", Toady would just tell them that they have no right to stop the other person; and then drop the whole thing.
On the MC forums you can actually get permanently banned for using part of someone else's mod.

[scrdest]

Notch just tweeted to tell everyone to play Dwarf Fortress.

Oh NO!!! Soon the forums will be filled with the vile scum of the Minecraft Community... We had nice things here for a while T_T
I will be setting up a safe camp for us true Bay12ers to retreat to in case the Mass of Scum becomes too much for anyone to handle. We shall set up traps and countless other things to keep us safe...

Nah, the dickery over there only happens because the moderators facilitate it.
I mean, over here, if someone were to get pissy because someone else's mod used a body template they did or something and they complained to Toady "He copied my mod my copyrights win make him stop", Toady would just tell them that they have no right to stop the other person; and then drop the whole thing.
On the MC forums you can actually get permanently banned for using part of someone else's mod.

Puh-leaze. Dwarf Fortress is notorious for its turnover rate, so the worst demographic of Minecraft kiddies will be filtered out pretty quickly, and I think that not that much of Minecraft Community follows Notch's Twitter anymore ever since he moved onto next projects; in fact, the homepage of Minecraft Forums used to have Notch's Twitter feed, but ever since it'd been replaced with Jeb's.

[PTTG??]

Dwarf Fortress has long had a very good community, and what has made this community great is the acceptance and assistance with which it greets new players. We help newbies, and they help us by (often enough) donating to Toady One.

Notch giving us a shout out is great- we get new players, (who more or less sort themselves out- you need to be kind of patient to stick around long enough to really learn DF, so the bad ones leave in a week or less), and Toady One gets more cash, which in turn becomes more features for DF.

So I'm happy.

[Kagus]

So I was damned late to the party and finally splurged on buying this along with a gift copy for someone in the IRC.  Been tooling around with it for a few days now.

Still just working with vanilla for the moment, but gotten reasonably far.  At the moment I'm just trying to find some way of making an effective iron/gold farm that doesn't take days upon days of gathering resources and then realizing you made a mistake in the design so you have to do it over again...  I actually designed a semi-effective trap mechanism for dealing with entities, I just haven't found a way of getting enough of said entities to fall into the damned thing.

So, instead, I just wait until the nearby village (which I built with my own hands and populated through a VERY tedious process that now, finally, has resulted in a somewhat decent populace) pops an iron golem, at which point I coax him into the Nether and get him to beat up pigmen for me.  The piggies drop gold, he eventually gets stomped and drops iron.  Everybody wins.

[forsaken1111]

sounds usable but incredibly manual. Hit youtube and search for 'iron golem farm' for some fantastic automated vanilla designs.

[Kagus]

Yeah, I know.  Y'know what kind of resources those things need?  We're talking thousands upon thousands of blocks, not to mention clearing the space and making it out of blast-resistant blocks if it's a gold farm in the Nether, and finding some way of leading those idiot villagers around to where you need them in order to get an effective golem farm if it's an overworld iron generator.  It's a hysterical amount of work...

[Remuthra]

If you want iron, you can also make a spawn tower and kill lots and lots of zombies. If you want gold, do the same thing but with pigmen. If you build it underground, it doesn't need to be so blast resistant, and you need to clear blocks instead of placing them.