I've been playing Dwarf Fortres 31.03 for a while now. I made a rather successful fortress, with very little fun to be had for my dwarves, and excessive fun for the goblin raiders, but figured I'd take a step up and get into the more recent version, that being 31.14. It's a definite improvement, but I'm a little confused. I've checked around on the Wiki, and none of my questions can be answered accurately, so I'll start with the most important.
1) No nobles. How is this the most important, you ask? Well I've got myself 130 dwarves now, but never got a count, and haven't been asked for or seen a migrating Baron/Baroness/Count/Countess or anything yet. I'm waiting for the things that the monarchs bring with them (Dungeon Master, Dwarven economy, etc. Sick of assigning rooms to dwarves
) I've exported 35,000 worth of goods, imported 100,000, and made 860,000, so I'm absolutely clueless so far. I read something about the caravan being important for this, which leads into my next question.
2) Humans and Dwarves aren't bringing wagons in the caravans. I find this concerning, especially considering that I have a very clear 3 tile path all the way to my depot (even used the wall trick on all the boulders in the way.) They're still bringing trade goods, but I was wondering if that's important.
3) Where the hell's the goblin-related fun at? I'm not sure what biome I picked at the start (obviously calm though. Quite positively not on an island as well) but so far, in year 6, I haven't been attacked once. Not even a babysnatcher. This is concerning, considering all the walls, defenses, weapon traps, cage traps, and swordsdwarves I've been developing from day 1 in the hopes of defending myself from impending fun. So far, the only "Big scary thing!" message was one dragon, which I caught. I call him Fluffy. Now you see why I'm angry at the lack of nobles. But in case I do get attacked...
4) How do I stop my dwarves from running into combat? They haven't, yet, but in case the goblins decide to show up with ogres and trolls and blahdyblah on the first encounter, what do I do? I can't figure out how to do much with the burrows, and the new military screen gives me the heebyjeebies.
5) Caverns. I never found one on .03, nor am I sure if they were actually a feature; same with megabeasts. I basically want to know if they're something you find on every map, because I've got my miners down there 24/7 digging like crazy and haven't hit a thing. I'm so fun-starved, my dwarves are going to hit champion level before they even punch a goat. Actually. A couple have been doing that for a while.
6) Insanity. So much insanity. Despite those 0 attacks and only 1 wound in the entire 6 years, I've got over 8 fatalities, and nobody was killed by the berserkers either. Is this an increased event in .14, and if not, what the hell causes it? Are they any more specific with their demands in this version? Because I'm finding it very very hard to stop my stumpies from jumping off cliffs or forgetting where their mouths are.
7) The Batman. The civilisation list has 'unnamed' The Batman and Antmen civilisations listed. So what exactly does this mean? Does this mean I share a region with them, or that they're somehwere in the world? If it's the latter, then I'm concerned, as there are no goblins listed.
On world gen, I picked a huge map, and medium everything else, I'm pretty sure. Maybe high civilisation and site count. I'm very eager to have my Fortress's share of fun, and have the entire thing catsplode up in my face, so if these are problems that I just have to wait out, I'll be rather relieved.
That's basically all the questions I have so far.
Author
Topic: Difficulties with the new version. (Read 1174 times)