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[LilGunmanX]

I've always taken a hard stance that Minecraft isn't even worth considering when comparing it to DF, but I had never really given the game a fair shot and couldn't say for sure until very recently. Bought the game, downloaded it, and now I'm having a lot of fun with it. After a long streak of Minecrafting (Community Pack mods and Hard difficulty to better emulate DF!) I've come back to DF only to discover that the way I play the game is now completely different. Before I had been a very conservative DF player... I would always dig into a mountain and shield my dwarves from the outside world, but now I feel much more encouraged to build elaborate megaprojects and big towers outside. So what if a dwarf dies in the process? I've died plenty in MC hard mode at night, especially to ogres, and lost much, much more and recovered... so losing a single dwarf isn't really all that bad by comparison. My ideas on fortress design have also changed by a factor of ten, and now I'm building them more like citadels than the Kaladim-esque mountain caves that I had been building before. After playing Minecraft, I also feel an increased desire to go colonize the cavern layers...

TL;DR by playing a game which is often seen as DF's friendly rival, I have come to understand and enjoy DF a lot more. The way I play the game has been totally revolutionized, and I'm finally learning that losing really can be fun It has also given me a lot of new ideas to put to use in DF.

How has Minecraft changed the way you look at/ play DF?

[SurfinShroom]

I've died plenty in MC hard mode at night, especially to ogres,

Havn't played minecraft in a while, but ogres?!
Didn't think I'd missed that much :S

[Qinetix]

Well practically it guided me to start (again) on playing DF

Anyways MC got inspired from DF >.>

[rephikul]

People every now and then make threads about minecraft in the DF forum and rant/compare the 2. Pretty annoying considering I'm looking for threads about DF only.

[Umi]

Ogres aren't part of the vanilla, they are a popular community mod.

I haven't noticed it changing my play  style in DF, but DF has most definitely changed my playing style in Minecraft.  I almost always try to build a DF-style-fort with DF-Style-Room divisions.

[FrisianDude]

It hasn't. At all.

[leftycook]

MC influencing DF? not in the slightest.
dwarf fortress influencing minecraft, however, is another story. go screencap every level of your fort and then recreate it in minecraft, to scale. actually, i've never done this and the idea only just occured to me. brb 15 hours

[Nyxalinth]

I couldn't get into minecraft. Might try it again though.

[Loyal]

It hasn't. At all.

Pretty much this.

I mean, they're two games where most of the stuff you get done comes from digging. That's about where the similarities end.

go screencap every level of your fort and then recreate it in minecraft, to scale. actually, i've never done this and the idea only just occured to me. brb 15 hours

I believe there's a utility of some sort that imports DF maps to MC. I don't remember how they handle fluids, but there you go.

[Savolainen5]

I enjoyed it, and when I played it, I imagined myself as one tee-totaling dwarf who was Proficient in all skills or something.  Made some cool stuff, but I gotta say, it pales in comparison to DF.  Sure, it's 3D, but who needs that when you have dozens of alcoholic dwarves covered in the blood of dozens of different creatures vomiting left and right and running away scared from groundhogs?

[BigD145]

I got bored to tears and went back to DF.

[Urist McTaverish]

What is Minecraft?

[Illanair]

I started out as a Minecraft player along with my girlfriend. We played together for a while until we both lost interest in the game - I stumbled upon a DF comparison thread on the Minecraft forums, and caught interest - and here I am.

[expwnent]

Who needs [3D] when you have dozens of alcoholic dwarves covered in the blood of dozens of different creatures vomiting left and right and running away scared from groundhogs?

This.

[Berserkenstein]

If it weren't for Minecraft, I would have never have found DF. 
But that being said, I haven't played Minecraft since!