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[Sphalerite]

The Magmawiki contains everything known about Dwarf Fortress and is completely accurate in everything it says.

[Evergod41]

The Magmawiki contains everything known about Dwarf Fortress and is completely accurate in everything it says.^{[citation needed]}

[Donagh]

It’s very important that you bring proficient organisers, jewellers, negotiators and a comedian when you embark

[Number4]

Dimple cups should be the mainstay of your farming efforts.

[Gamerlord]

There is nothing more important than paving over the entire map. It gets rid of elves, goblins and badgers. Let nothing stop you. Also, all blocks must be of the same colour.

(this is a good challenge for an experienced player, but it would frustrate a newb to no end!)

[MrShovelFace]

here's a really subtle way to mislead.

"Dwarves hate being around loose stone, so make sure to stockpile it all."

how bout -

dig around until you strike iron and pig iron, then you can make steel at the smelter
dont forget to find a special rock named native flux. you can usually find it on the walls of the second layer of caverns sometimes near magma. something i forgot what it was called ada.. something also can be used instead of native flux

[Starver]

[...] Also, all blocks must be of the same colour.

/returns to thread having just deconstructed about 150 units of temporary dacite block walls and filled these gaps back in with recently produced sandstone blocks to match the rest of the ground-level walls[1]...

You mean they don't have to be?

Next thing you'll tell me is that you don't need to stick to just one colour of Lego bricks when making a house/gun/airplane/spaceship/closest-approximation-of-a-[cube/sphere/torus]-one-can-get!  For that matter, I'm willing to hazard a guess that you're not even going to commit to just one type of brick, mixing standard 2x4s and 2x8 flats and the like!!  By the scornful way you suggesting uniformity, I can tell that you're pure-blood anarchist and we're not safe in our (standardised) beds!!!

I'm going to have to watch out, or I could end up with my workplace fortress (currently walling up with cyan-coloured ice, whenever I have a moment or three to spend on it) could end being patched in with microcline!!!!  And that'll lead to further patching in spoilermetal!!!!!



[1] I might make the first-floor level all marble blocks, but will probably continue with the sandstone blocks.  Let's see, I need (80*4)*4 blocks for the perimeters alone (whether walls or fortifications), plus I'll have to lay down some floors ((79*2*6*2)-(36*4))*4), stairwells (6*6)*4*(1up/down + 1down), ramps and abutting walls to leading up from the ground floor (?6*6*2)*4)...  So, let's call it a nice round 9,000 blocks needed...   I may not have enough non-aquifer-ridden sandstone deposits.  Maybe I should see how far the marble layers spread and swap the current entirely-sandstone ground floor perimeters for ones entirely of marble, and then build up...

[MrShovelFace]

i use obsidian because i know if i ever run out of it when making my fort there can always be more made

btw the best way to make an obsidian castle is to apply magma directly to the surface and wait til it cools. Make sure you hide your dwarfs in a house. Preferrably a house made out of graphite

[Flare]

Now that you more or less built you fort under the banks of the river, you will see some of your walls flashing. Dig them out.

[Ultimuh]

Always embark on terrifying and savage biomes. It's more fun that way.

[MrShovelFace]

the best material to build magma forges out of is lignite

[Gamerlord]

the best material to build magma forges out of is lignite

i'm doing that, just to find out what happens

[Number4]

the best material to build magma forges out of is lignite

i'm doing that, just to find out what happens

Don't you need a "fire safe" material for that, which lignite kinda isn't?

[NobodyPro]

If your lignite artifact begins to burn, don't worry. Just dump it in the river/lake/ocean, it's trivial to get it out again, just dig your way to it.

On a completely unrelated note, someone just dropped Fieryvirgins the Orb of Singing, a lignite warhammer (!!lignite warhammer!!) in my moat. Those dwarves are so smrt.

Edit: !!(x)!! means masterwork.

[MrShovelFace]

hmmm it would be cool if your dorfs could use an immolated warhammer (if they had fire safe gloves of course)