Anyone here play Dwarf Fortress?

I played it a little, and once I actually got past the beginning parts, it gets a little interesting.

I wouldn't play it without this tileset though:



Basically you start out with a bunch of Dwarves, and you can make them have different jobs. At the beginning its good to have a lot of miners and some farmers at first.

This game is not for the faint of heart though, it is INSANELY in depth. For example to make metal items you need miners to mine ore, furnace operators to operate your furnace, woodchoppers to get fuel for your furnace, metalsmiths to melt the ore in the furnace, and armorers and weaponsmiths to turn the molten ore into metal items.

And this is just a PART of it. You can also get your miners to mine rocks, and have other specialized dwarves cut gems out of the rocks, and have gemsetters encrust your items with gems.

I could go on and on...and I'm barely even scratching the surface. Once your dwarves can start making quality items for trading with neighbors, you can buy their stuff and use it for materials, food, whatever.

You can also get sieged by enemies...once your castle goes under siege you can get some dwarves on trash duty to gather up the dead bodies of enemies and make bone arrows out of their dead bodies, and have your butchers skin the bodies, and send the skins to the cook...in case you want to make Goblin stew. Or send the skins to a clothier, who can make goblin skin thongs.:lol:

I haven't got to this point yet, but it sounds like a lot of fun. One of the most complex things you can do is make complex mechanisms with engineer dwarves who make floodgates. I forgot what type of item can be made into a floodgate capable of containing magma, but one of the most useful inventions I've seen other players make is a device that channels magma into a constant source of water, which instantly freezes the magma into Obsidian, and then they collect the Obsidian and make items and parts of their fortress out of it.

So, uh, does anyone else play this game, or have you only heard about it from other sites? At first the graphics scared me away, but the tileset I have for it makes it look pretty good.

 

never heard of it but it loks an interesting game. it's on pc?

 

Yeah, its PC only.

AND its freeware. This is the version I use.

http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/~mayday/upload/DFG18.zip

 

Where did you get that tileset? How do you apply it? (I haven't used the game in a long time).

 

Just download the link above...its the full version WITH that tileset.

Be warned, though, changing Z-levels (elevation levels) with that version is Crtl + 5 for going down, and shift + 5 for going up...I think. That version also lets you use your mouse, so making mining paths isn't as hard.