Cougar skulking around my base one z level above my entrance. Axe dwarf engages the cougar. I watch SOMETHING fly out of the combat scene and land 10 spaces away. (was a leg)
(Top right bit of gore. Battle took place at the center of the bloodspurts.)
As I'm scrolling back to my base, I'm one z level up from the ground and notice a bit of gore ON TOP of the wall.
I was just sieged. Pulled my dwarves behind the walls and pulled the drawbridge lever. The dwarf going to the lever gets shot in the neck with a crossbow bolt.
I line up another [P]ull lever command. The peasant Reg Istbarrodom runs towards the lever. Goblins are streaming over the bridge. Suddenly, when it looks like I'll have to Abandon The Fortress, my Axelord comes in from the side and takes on six goblins at once. The peasant, now unburdened, pulls the lever. My Axelord finishes all six goblins before succumbing to a torn artery.
This is the first time I've actually made an expensive tomb for someone who isn't a stupid noble.
Can one of the more experienced players tell me what I can do with small animal traps? Because I have like 4 rats in cages. I don't know what their function is.
Food for when you run out of more tasty food.
You can also milk purring maggots, which can occasionally appear in your traps.
For future reference:
All sites have water if you dig deep enough, and all sites also have magma if you dig deep enough.
All problems can be solved with magma. If you don't think it can be solved with magma, you clearly aren't using enough.
To scare off those who may not be interested later in the game:
Stupidly put markswarves on the wall when some elves came in.
Lost one dwarf so far. 4 of mine injured. Killed 2 invaders. Captured 2. Sadistic side coming through. Sentenced to death by wooden bolts. (I.E. lots and lots and lots and lots of shots before they die.)
Edit: Not so pissed now. Charged 10 Axe Lords/Axedwarves straight at their firing line. No wounds that time, miraculously.
Oh, and the death by wooden bolts thing is still going on.
Edit: Have to make a suicide booth for the crippled dwarf.
And maybe future migrants.
And nobles.
Wooden Bolt thing finished. Leaving prisoners to bleed to death.
Am I evil?
Edit: To add insult to injury, some goblins show up...
If you want to kill a dwarf forever in a bed, channel the squares around the bed, except on one side. Dig out the floorspace beneath his bed, connect it to a support. Link it to a lever, channel away the last platform. Rinse and repeat for many z-levels, and pull the switch.
I've tried it multiple times. Never gotten anywhere. But it's fun. I mainly play adventure now, well, until I went into a village, killed a man who was alone in his house, wnet back but to a different building and "I AM GASMUL FEAR ME" "Gasmul is a badger demon forced into the shape of a human. Beware his acidic spittle!" All I had a copper spear.
Dwarf Fortress is truly epic. First time I played, I was doing pretty well. I used the wiki alot (=P), but you kind of need to. Anyways, I found some damp water and I thought, "Hey, I could dig through this and find an underground pond to make a well!" Turns out that was a murky pool. My whole fortress flooded (It was a big murky pool!).
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Please learn how to use google. My grandfather knows how to, I think you can too.
I've heard some of the more hardcore players liking Aquifers, but so far I always search for an area without one.. since I'm still new.
Aquifers covering half the map make great farm irrigation. No cisterns to hold water, just get it straight out of the aquifer. Just don't dig too high...
My old character would bite off bogeyman's heads as an auto-attack it was so effective. BTW, even though they don't need to breathe, they still need eyes to see.
Also making an elaborate falling drawbridge deathtrap at the entrance of my fortress.
Just know that goblins on mounts, titans, FB's, semi-megabeasts, and megabeasts prevent bridges, grates, and bars from being activated.
Also, arena pit filled with 9 wild macaques versus 1 war elephant.
Place your bets?
So you have a drawbridge land on top of them?
And then they do not exist.
No remians whatsoever.
Also, war elephant.
Cougar skulking around my base one z level above my entrance. Axe dwarf engages the cougar. I watch SOMETHING fly out of the combat scene and land 10 spaces away. (was a leg)
(Top right bit of gore. Battle took place at the center of the bloodspurts.)
As I'm scrolling back to my base, I'm one z level up from the ground and notice a bit of gore ON TOP of the wall.
Kobold head.
:ohmy.gif:
I was just sieged. Pulled my dwarves behind the walls and pulled the drawbridge lever. The dwarf going to the lever gets shot in the neck with a crossbow bolt.
I line up another [P]ull lever command. The peasant Reg Istbarrodom runs towards the lever. Goblins are streaming over the bridge. Suddenly, when it looks like I'll have to Abandon The Fortress, my Axelord comes in from the side and takes on six goblins at once. The peasant, now unburdened, pulls the lever. My Axelord finishes all six goblins before succumbing to a torn artery.
This is the first time I've actually made an expensive tomb for someone who isn't a stupid noble.
Mistem Bardumas, you are a true pro.
Food for when you run out of more tasty food.
You can also milk purring maggots, which can occasionally appear in your traps.
For future reference:
All sites have water if you dig deep enough, and all sites also have magma if you dig deep enough.
All problems can be solved with magma. If you don't think it can be solved with magma, you clearly aren't using enough.
To scare off those who may not be interested later in the game:
This is not a spammy link, but rather a handy guide
DISCLAIMER: any diagrams I post should be taken with a grain of salt.
Lost one dwarf so far. 4 of mine injured. Killed 2 invaders. Captured 2. Sadistic side coming through. Sentenced to death by wooden bolts. (I.E. lots and lots and lots and lots of shots before they die.)
Edit: Not so pissed now. Charged 10 Axe Lords/Axedwarves straight at their firing line. No wounds that time, miraculously.
Oh, and the death by wooden bolts thing is still going on.
Edit: Have to make a suicide booth for the crippled dwarf.
And maybe future migrants.
And nobles.
Wooden Bolt thing finished. Leaving prisoners to bleed to death.
Am I evil?
Edit: To add insult to injury, some goblins show up...
GG. I just got Bronze Colossus'd.
Absolutely! When you're finally tired of their shenanigans, just pu-I mean accidentally trip over the lever.
Edit: found this awesome picture, and don't want to make an entirely new post about it.
There are many ways to fail at farms.
I've been playing DF for a while, and while fortress mode is fun, I find adventure mode MUCH more fun, and hilarious.
I've made heroes that have used vomit and sand as their weapons and I made them collect the victim's body parts :biggrin.gif:
He punched....
through my head...
Aquifers covering half the map make great farm irrigation. No cisterns to hold water, just get it straight out of the aquifer. Just don't dig too high...
My old character would bite off bogeyman's heads as an auto-attack it was so effective. BTW, even though they don't need to breathe, they still need eyes to see.