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100killer9

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Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« on: January 31, 2010, 09:11:58 pm »
Hi. Our crack team of researchers have discovered that there are several ways to WIN dwarf fortress. We've only found one.
Play a no items, no skills challenge on a glacier for 5 in-game years.
Share any pointless wastes of time ways to win you've discovered yourself.
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Quote from: Fastler on January 17, 2010, 05:08:32 pm
Just out of curiosity, what DOES Dwarf Fortress smell like?
Death, Booze, and Insanity.
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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2010, 10:17:37 pm »
There would have to be tons of easy to kill animals.

OK this is great... I just embarked on a glacier for kicks with no items or skills and the name of my group is "The Brave Relics"

Brave relics indeed...
« Last Edit: January 31, 2010, 10:19:41 pm by Canadark »
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Quote from: Dakk on October 24, 2009, 10:52:09 pm
You all do know that we everytime we gen a world in DF, a new universe is created somewhere, and everytime we delete a save we kill a whole world?
Aye, we are Armok, god of blood, evil, villager gutting, fortress building, legend making and elf thongs.

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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2010, 10:36:19 pm »
Terrifying glacier, no items, no skills, no trading (except for a pick and anvil), no dwarf deaths.

For 50 years.

Have Fun.
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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2010, 10:39:10 pm »
Quote from: Canadark on January 31, 2010, 10:17:37 pm
There would have to be tons of easy to kill animals.

OK this is great... I just embarked on a glacier for kicks with no items or skills and the name of my group is "The Brave Relics"

Brave relics indeed...
Yes, but no water.
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Quote from: Beanchubbs on January 17, 2010, 05:12:01 pm
Quote from: Fastler on January 17, 2010, 05:08:32 pm
Just out of curiosity, what DOES Dwarf Fortress smell like?
Death, Booze, and Insanity.
Quote from: Ubiq on January 17, 2010, 11:26:13 pm
Ladders are absolutely essential for one reason and one reason only:
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Welcome, friends to Slaves to Armok III: Snakes and Ladders.

Canadark

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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2010, 10:48:32 pm »
Well... that didn't last long. We made it a few months, killed four Sasquatches, and even had a meat/leather/crossbow/totem industry going.

But they all died of thirst because they were too dumb to lick the glacier.
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Quote from: Dakk on October 24, 2009, 10:52:09 pm
You all do know that we everytime we gen a world in DF, a new universe is created somewhere, and everytime we delete a save we kill a whole world?
Aye, we are Armok, god of blood, evil, villager gutting, fortress building, legend making and elf thongs.

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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2010, 12:21:24 am »
The true challenge is killing every living thing in a large world with a single adventurer.  Have fun tracking down the various wanderers, surviving megabeasts, wild animals, and panicking villagers who flee your onslaught.  Remember, you've only got about 60 to 80 years before your avatar dies, so you'd better get crackin'!
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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2010, 12:39:15 am »
The only true way to win Dwarf fortress:

NO ITEMS, FOX ONLY, FINAL DESTINATION.
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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2010, 02:36:32 am »
Quote from: Shurikane on February 01, 2010, 12:39:15 am
The only true way to win Dwarf fortress:

NO ITEMS, FOX ONLY, FINAL DESTINATION.
F- YES YOU ARE THE BEST.
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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2010, 12:41:56 pm »
All fisherdwarves, who are only allowed to eat fish.
On a map with Carp.
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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2010, 02:28:58 pm »
Sooner or later fishes will deplete forever, and your fort will crumble.
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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2010, 02:32:37 pm »
If you have only glacier tiles and no items, how are you supposed to get any water to drink?
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You need to make said elf leather into the most amazing work of art.  Embed it with every kind of gem you have, stud it with metals, and sew images into it.  Erect a shrine outside your fort with that in the center.  Let the elves know that you view their very skin as naught more but a medium for your dwarves to work on.

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Re: Impossible Challenges... Er, Ways to Win!
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2010, 02:35:02 pm »
That's kind of the point. It's quite literally impossible.
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Quote from: Beanchubbs on January 17, 2010, 05:12:01 pm
Quote from: Fastler on January 17, 2010, 05:08:32 pm
Just out of curiosity, what DOES Dwarf Fortress smell like?
Death, Booze, and Insanity.
Quote from: Ubiq on January 17, 2010, 11:26:13 pm
Ladders are absolutely essential for one reason and one reason only:
…
Welcome, friends to Slaves to Armok III: Snakes and Ladders.