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[crazz2323]

I know there are the videos like Captn Ducks and the Wiki which are great, but I see a lot of great tips and info scattered about the forums that you would not really know necessarily by just playing. I'm referring more to game mechanics then strategies. For example: I read you need a Dungeon Master to train exotic animals or you need to assign dwarfs to burrows to do an evac like you could in 40d with the return to base command, or what each of the job types dwarfs can be do, or what makes dwarfs happy or unhappy etc.

Just wondering if there was a useful guide somewhere without digging through thousands of great posts.

Thanks!

[rodya_mirov]

I'm not aware of any guides as such, but the wiki is fabulous, especially for 40d.  Most of the mechanics are the same, and if they aren't it's usually well-documented.

My recommendation is to read the 40d "Getting Started" http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Game_Basics

Then any questions you may have can be more quickly answered there than here (not that we don't want you, but it is faster to just read the answer).  It's really very complete, and 40d and DF2010 are fundamentally the same game.

Best

[crazz2323]

Thanks for the reply and I plan to. Too bad there wasn't a handy top 10 things I wish I knew about DF before starting list or something. Thanks again!

[dakenho]

I can help with that

 1-10: play with the wiki open, when you want to do something new, like dig, or build a forge pause the game, tab to the wiki, and search using "dig" or "forge" and read how it works, read any associated links if you think they have anything to do with what you are doing.