Just discovered this gem a week ago and haven't been able to put it down. I thought I'd enumerate the things seen and done that keep surprising me with the depth of this game.
- Discovering early on how deep the generated content was, namely the dwarf descriptions and moods. How they react to their surroundings and the adjectives they use (After being overwhelmed with migrants (~60 total dwarves), I find that in my new fortress, my dwarves call my dining hall legendary, flattering).
- Playing a little and discovering a few things (through play or watching a new CaptDuck episode) and not minding having to restart your fortress anew.
- Being fascinated by the concept of strange moods after looking it up on the wiki... after having one of my dwarves go insane because I wasn't sure what to make of his secretive doodlings.
- Looking at all that stone stockpiled and a bunch of idle dwarves, and suddenly I decide to try putting in some flooring... and wasting the next hour or two making my halls awesome. Going so far as putting in statues after wondering what to keep my mason occupied with.
- Starting a new fortress to find myself in a field of snow near a hill to dig in, making my fortress and preparing my farms next to a frozen pond next to the frozen river... which my wagon is standing on. I start to get antsy and put down my stockpiles, knowing somehow that my time is short, being my first experience on a snowed-in map. Alas, I get distracted enough to A) not be done with the unloading of the wagon and B) not setting a meeting area. The ice melts and 2-3 idle dwarves and food supplies drown... and maybe another who dived in to save our supplies. I abandon the fortress and decide to try reclaiming for the first time.
- Reclaiming and finding my fortress in disrepair, neat touch, I'm thinking. Then finding out a little later in the winter that the ghost of one of my old dwarves is still haunting the river, awesome! (He later claimed a coffin I put down for a melancholic dwarf who let himself die of thirst. Then put another coffin down for the corpse of the dead.)
- Starting a map to find myself next to a river and a steep hillside. I find the spot neat, until I check the river next the hillside entrance of my fortress... the river is there, and suddenly it disappears a level down, nowhere to be found. I keep going down and seeing the hillside unravel to the south with still no trace of the river... to find it again 9 levels down. A randomly generated waterfall!!! In 2D! And I can still picture how awesome it is while seeing only 1 level at a time.
- EDIT: Finding posts like this: "I'm currently making a nice room for my legendary clerk. I always treat my legendaries with the greatest respect, giving them the best rooms and so on. Although the walls are mostly engraved with pictures of my miner starving to death after he fell down a well, so it's not too cheerful." and knowing it's not just the guy being funny but actually believing that description is in the game.
- And this is still called 0.31?!
I need to donate 10$ as soon as I can. Notch got my money, and Toady definately deserves it too. I have yet to get into the military stuff, megamonsters and exploring caves too.
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