Questions tagged [dwarf-fortress]
Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress is a tile based, real time strategy, city building, and adventure game for one player by Bay 12 Games Developers Zach and Tarn Adams.
64
questions
66
votes
6
answers
7k
views
How should I learn to play Dwarf Fortress?
I am interested in learning how to play Dwarf Fortress. Where should I start, as an absolute beginner?
- 769
37
votes
1
answer
7k
views
How can I tell which layers there are in an in-progress fortress in Dwarf Fortress?
At the embark screen it lists which layers are in the map. After starting a fortress and playing for a while, is there a way to tell which layers there are (short of digging through them all?).
More ...
- 11.7k
30
votes
1
answer
21k
views
14
votes
2
answers
5k
views
How can I run Dwarf Fortress in text mode on my Linux VPS?
I installed Dwarf Fortress on my Linux VPS to use with dfterm. It's running Ubuntu 10.04. I'm fairly certain I have all the dependencies:
I've installed:
ncurses
ncursesw
libsdl
libsdl-image
libgtk
...
- 11.7k
13
votes
1
answer
3k
views
5
votes
2
answers
4k
views
How can I rename a Dwarf?
I can add, change and remove the nick names of my Dwarves (or any other playable and currently played race) easily; that's one of the functions of the unit screen. This visually replaces the first ...
- 4,259
30
votes
2
answers
13k
views
How do you move caged beasts in Dwarf Fortress?
I've got a fortress that's grown up past its adolescent phase and is starting to mature. Naturally, I've had a number of encounters with goblins and werewolves. Since my primary defense is a hallway ...
- 7,611
22
votes
2
answers
15k
views
How do I make a farm using buckets?
On the Dwarf Fortress wiki is a description of muddying tiles using buckets and a channeled irrigation gallery. I haven't been able to make this work. I've dug the two z-levels, and channeled the ...
- 6,275
19
votes
3
answers
6k
views
Dwarf Fortress Character and Graphics Sets [closed]
What are clear, intuitive tile sets that help beginning players understand what all is on the map?
Tiles are spread across two different sets: character sets are the ASCII and graphics sets are the ...
- 5,577
16
votes
2
answers
13k
views
How to tend to a wounded dwarf?
I was building a vertical tunnel down multiple levels when I realized that one of my other dwarves had already dug the lower half. When the poor dwarf dug through the upper half, he fell multiple ...
- 473
14
votes
3
answers
5k
views
How do I revert the flood?
I accidentally flooded levels 42, 41, and 40 of my Fortress, and I don't know how to stop this mess. No dwarf is going to build a wall, a floodgate, a channel, or a floor where there is water, even if ...
13
votes
4
answers
30k
views
How to know if there is any iron ore on the map?
From reading the wiki, it seems that iron ores can be found in layers consisting of chalk. I've now mined out almost two complete layers of chalk, and found nothing but gems. Is it possible that my ...
- 2,924
13
votes
3
answers
2k
views
What happens if I ignore the Tree-Hugging Elves?
The elven ambassador keeps insisting I limit my wood harvesting to just over 100 trees per year. This is highly disruptive to my alcohol industry, as I require wood to make barrels for my brew. What ...
- 5,577
12
votes
5
answers
14k
views
Why don't my dwarves bury their dead?
I've got a corpse in my fort spreading miasma. I build a casket, placed it, designated it as open to citizens, and almost all dwarfs have the burial skill enabled. It has a description of "This is the ...
- 5,577
11
votes
8
answers
15k
views
Why are my dwarves not gathering wood?
I had told dwarves to cut down trees in an area a good distance away from my base, across a river. After doing so they left the wood lying about where the trees had been, despite the fact that my wood ...
- 11.7k
Hot Network Questions
- Would it be possible to start a new town in America with its own political system?
- What kind of pressures would make a culture force its members to always wear power armour
- Is there a reason why the Maclaurin coefficients of the Riemann zeta function are asymptotically close to -1?
- Is it worth it to apply to jobs that have over 100 applicants or have been posted for few days?
- setting position of PlotLegends affect position of PlotLabel
- Why are some elves royalty?
- Is it fair to say truth is used more in logic than in math? If so, what are the reasons for doing so?
- Non-ASCII characters are not imported correctly in MetaInformation (Solution for FLAC attached)
- How to request for a package to be added to the Fedora repositories?
- Alternative to isinglass for tarts or other desserts
- What is the function of this resistor and capacitor at the input of optoisolator?
- I found a counterexample to an assumption in a proof but not to its result – can I publish this as a paper?
- Why redirect_uri is needed when client_id is supplied in OAuth2?
- Why is the MOSFET in this fan control circuit overheating?
- How well do universal rack rails work with vertical spacing?
- 2018 movie where everyone has chips in their brains and the cop used the chip to see what the suspect could see
- Teaching students how to check the validity of their proofs
- Is the "you" in "you may be perfect and complete" (James 1:4) meant as a group or as an individual?
- Is "farfel" an idiolectical quirk/part of a familect?
- How many blocks per second can be sustainably be created using a time warp attack?
- When can widening conversions cause problems?
- When Trump ex-rivals, who previously gave Trump terrible comments, now turn to praising him, what benefits could they gain?
- What's to prevent us from concluding that Revelation 13:3 has been fulfilled through Trump?
- What is the meaning of the "Super 8 - Interactive Teaser" under "EXTRAS" in Portal 2?