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[MaDeR Levap]

I do not even remember what I thought when playing DF first time. I guess I was blinded by pure genius.

[V-Norrec]

I originally tried learning with Captain Duck's DF 2010 tutorials, I was like "HOW DID HE GET THAT BED?  WHAT IS GOING ON?"  I then discovered the wiki and have made stellar progress.

[LizardKing]

I think my very very first thought was, "How do I turn this music off?"

It's generally the first thing I think about most games, especially those annoying flash games with the really loud music that you can't turn off and aarhgahghdjkngj

[Keita]

"hmm, so this button lets me see my dwarfs and this one what my buildings are and this opens a menu that leads to another menu and... Hold on let me write this crap down."

I do believe I still have those 5 A4 sheets that had what I'd cracked of the 40d GUI somewhere in the tip I call my room.

[Shrugging Khan]

WTF is this shit?

No idea how I learned to live with the interface, especially since I started playing just about when .31 came around and it was still bugs galore.

[Geocat]

pretty much "Holy crap this sounds awesome ! the only thing that could make this better was if it had somekind of tileset because ascii makes my eyes hurt"

10 minutes later I find out theres tilesets

"WEEEEEEEEEE!  "

[Tyler6498]

"Did I break the game?" <--- Never played an Ascii game in my life

Some from friends

"I have clay...Can I kill with clay?"
"Where the fuck am I?!"
"Did we mess up the graphics through installation?" <--- Helped him get the game.

[manboricua]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

At first I was like:

But then I was like:

[Vercingetorix]

At first I was like "WTF"...and then I was like "dem dorfs man, dem dorfs".

[dmgpurity]

"What is this I don't even..."
Then I proceeded to flooding my fort and getting the survivors raped by elephants.
It was about that time that I decided that DF was my favorite game

[Confused111]

What the fuck holy shit what's going on a child just killed me

[Moonshine Fox]

Fortress mode: "ARGH my eyes WTF!?"

Proceeded to download Mayday, starve my entire fort, try again, get wiped out by goblins. Drop the game for a couple of weeks out of frustration. Download Goldplated, read the wiki, actually make progress.

[Jualin]

Me: "Alright, let's tunnel into this hillside... WOW! I just found magma! It's red and has the squiggly lines and everything! Isn't moving though, that's odd... I've got to wall it off so I can use to burn my foes! Like Boatmurdered!"

Me: "No stupids. Stop trying to walk straight through the magma! It'll kill you! Just dig down below the magma and [...]"


I'm not quite sure what I spent the rest of the time doing before all my dwarves starved to death. I might've tried to make a farm. I might've also been above an aquifer that flooded all my attempts to dig below the "magma". I don't remember much beyond my initial stupidity.

The second embark was much more successful. Though for the longest time I had a fixation with building large above-ground constructions that looked like forts, but were so large and open as to render my attempts to defend meaningless against everything except thieves (which still managed to sneak in occasionally).

[jmancube]

One of my friends best thought/quote when he started playing was when he discovered that he can read the dwarves' feelings and the reason that they were angry. He managed to run out of alcohol, and despite there being a source of fresh water, the dwarves were drinking their own vomit instead. He then proceeded to exclaim, "My dwarves are so alcohol dependant, that they would rather drink vomit that might have traces of alcohol in it, rather than drink nice clean water. What is wrong with this game?" He then proceeded to play the game near obsessively for about a month...

[shoehorn5]

something between "dig" and "DIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIGDIG I LIKE TO DIG"