I haven't been playing much DF lately, and my computer is off being repaired right now, but I went ahead and downloaded it onto my dad's laptop to see if I can have a bit of Fun between programming sessions... it didn't take long.
I figured I'd start with the first Worldgen in the "
Worldgen Cookbook" thread, to save the time of genning a bunch of worlds to find a spot I liked. I ended up in a forested area with a few hills and some magma. Now, I've used magma before, I've had fortresses built very near to it, but I've always walled it off in the past. This time though I did a quick check on the creatures list after I started and didn't see any imps or anything, so I just started setting up.
The game was destined from the start to be Fun. Not five minutes after I started, a miner was killed while digging out some ramps to clean up the edges near the fortress, so I could build a nice stone wall around the entrance... ramps. No complex channels, not a strange room, a few ramps. The idiot managed to dig out the only possible set of ramps in the only possible order that could create a cave in, and managed to do so while standing directly under the only floor tile that fell...
I figured I would be fine though, I brought two miners just in case (this happens to me reasonably often, perhaps I should pay more attention to my miners... nah, this is funnier). I got a little irked, and had to move my temporary "stockpile-of-everything-in-the-wagon" a little further away, cause my cats were ignoring the fire-snakes and I didn't want any exploding beer (fire and death I'm okay with, but not the beer!). After this I started work on a wall around the fortress (the other miner had finished cleaning up the ramps...) and got my workshops set up, no problem!
Yeah right. A couple minutes later an imp climbed out of the magma pipe and attacked my mason. He was fine, cause he had the two dogs I brought next to him, and they killed the imp, but this reminded me that imps can and usually do spawn a little bit after the game starts. So I immediately stopped all other jobs for my mason and had him start on the wall around the pipe. I wasn't fast enough. While everyone was out in the woods gathering resources another imp climbed out, killed the mason (who was still working on the wall) and flung a single fireball off into the woods (I think he was aiming for one of my cats...). I managed to get the farmer back inside, but everyone else was trapped between the fire and the river. I now have one, very unhappy farmer, and I have no intention of quitting
![Cheesy :D](http://97.107.128.126/smf/Smileys/aaron/cheesy.gif)
I'd completely forgotten why Dwarf Fortress is so much Fun! Mind you, this all happened before my first summer, so I'm challenging myself to keep the farmer alive until I can get some migrants. I'm going to have him/her take a pick and dig a path under the river, get the food, drinks and seeds though, and then seal it off. It's not as safe as the farmer would probably like though, I've noticed a large number of foxes around, and I was warned about cougars in the intro text...
![Cheesy :D](http://97.107.128.126/smf/Smileys/aaron/cheesy.gif)
Anyone else have interesting fire-related stories? We hear about horrible magma-flood accidents all the time, but now that I think about it, I've only heard of a few fire-accidents... maybe I'm just too far out of the loop
![Tongue :P](http://97.107.128.126/smf/Smileys/aaron/tongue.gif)
[EDIT]: A couple screenshots.
The damage:
![](http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv101/TimothySDev/Dwarf%20Fortress%20Stuff/th_DF1.jpg)
The fire actually hasn't quite gone out yet, and the other side of the river is just as green and lively as it was when I got here... I started on the wrong side of the river
![Tongue :P](http://97.107.128.126/smf/Smileys/aaron/tongue.gif)
![](http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv101/TimothySDev/Dwarf%20Fortress%20Stuff/th_DF2.jpg)