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.
845
questions
3
votes
0
answers
88
views
Goblins kidnapped a child, got caught in a cage. How can I strip him? [duplicate]
In Dwarf Fortress (Steam), the goblins are inside my fort, underground. I have three: its cage built in a prison, its cage in a dump pile, its cage built outside of a zone. I have used the zone dump ...
- 131
9
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Can I enclose a tomb with constructed walls in Dwarf Fortress?
I am trying to build tombs
In between the second and third doors, the wall was removed to recover gems. I then constructed a wall via the build menu to replace it. This created 2 columns (the two O ...
- 323
2
votes
3
answers
170
views
What do the face icon colours mean in Dwarf Fortress?
I'm trying to identify why my citizens are unhappy.
I thought the various face colours (A, top of the above image) represented happiness.
On the citizen's menu I sort by face colour (B) and one (Nish)...
- 323
2
votes
1
answer
72
views
How do I identify the specific object to which no path can be found in Dwarf Fortress?
I have a number of <dwarf> cancels <job>: Could not find path announcements. For example, the job might be "load stone trap".
When I recentre on the dwarf which produced this ...
- 323
1
vote
1
answer
133
views
How to prevent water to leak through walls?
I have a stairwell surrounded by aquifer, and it's leaking in the level bellow:
I need to prevent this from happening.
- 171
2
votes
1
answer
115
views
How to duplicate/automate orders at a workshop?
I need to make 7 beds for my dwarfs, but I had to setup manually every order in the Carpenter's Workshop.
It should be possible to duplicate order or setup a certain number of desired items after ...
- 171
2
votes
1
answer
236
views
How to get rid of the fungus infestation that comes from the caverns in Dwarf Fortress
I unwittingly dug into the caverns and I immediately sealed it off:
but I noticed that the fungus from the caverns started to spread at an alarming rate. Currently, everything is covered in floor ...
- 4,749
1
vote
1
answer
119
views
Is it a problem if the wall portion of a bedroom overlaps with another one in Dwarf Fortress?
I've just recently learned that a bedroom should contain the walls too, but I only have a 1 tile wide wall between my bedrooms here:
Is it a problem if these room designations overlap (like in my ...
- 4,749
0
votes
1
answer
88
views
Outpost liasion simply won't go away. It has been years already!
Context:
I've been visited once by my Outpost Liason.
Nevermore any civilization traded with me.
I just found the Merchant stuck on a place of my Fortress.
I already broadened the way for it to go ...
9
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Hill Titan Pterosaur that breaths fire! How to kill this monster?
My Fortress has been randomly chosen to be the destiny of the attack of a flying Hill Titan that can throw fire:
An enourmous hairy pterosaur.
It has four long curving horns and it moves deliberately....
1
vote
1
answer
102
views
How to autosave when quitting?
One extremely frustrating aspect of the game for me is what happens when I leave the game accidentally:
Most of the times, I have been changing windows for a while. From the game to the wiki, then to ...
6
votes
1
answer
364
views
Manage useless seeds
The answer to my previous question about how to not exhaust my seeds worked
great!
The problem is: on the "Labor"->"Kitchen"->"Seeds" menu, most seed types don't ...
3
votes
1
answer
151
views
Is it possible to evaluate the strength of combatants and predict outcomes in fights to some degree?
I've seen plenty of fights over my years of playing DF but one thing that I still can't intuit is how well a given squad fights. Sometimes 3 dwarves return from a mission right into a siege and take ...
user37332
19
votes
1
answer
5k
views
Damp wall ignored, why?
I took as granted that Miners always detected damp walls and stopped mining in these cases.
But a miner did not detect, or just decided to ignore, an obvious damp wall, and created a leak that led to ...
14
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Waterproofing a Fortress: how to do it?
Revolver_Ocelot on How do I revert the flood?
If that fails... Well, losing is fun, and you will learn to better water-proof your fortress in the future.
How to waterproof a Fortress to prevent ...
Hot Network Questions
- Include clickable 'Fig.'/'Table' in \ref without duplication in captions
- Do we always use "worsen" with something which is already bad?
- Which Old World ROM machines could officially run OS X?
- Poincaré duality and Mayer–Vietoris sequence
- Unchained rogue damage output
- Why can THHN/THWN go in Schedule 40 PVC but NM cable (Romex) requires Schedule 80?
- What is the maximum number of people who speak only 1 language?
- Reducing required length of a mass driver using loop?
- setting position of PlotLegends affect position of PlotLabel
- Why did std::set not have a contains function until C++20?
- Chemical Coin Flipping as Divination
- Homebrew DND 5e Spell, review in power, and well... utility
- How would I make this splotchy texture in blender and export it as a 2D image
- Can loops/cycles (in a temporal sense) exist without beginnings?
- "Four or six times", where is five?
- Non-ASCII characters are not imported correctly in MetaInformation (Solution for FLAC attached)
- What is the function of this resistor and capacitor at the input of optoisolator?
- A story about a personal mode of teleportation, called "jaunting," possibly in Analog or Amazing Stories
- What's that little animation between Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 2 and Book 3?
- Old client wants files from materials created for them 6 years ago
- Declension in book dedication
- Open or closed windows in a tornado?
- What concretely does it mean to "do mathematics in a topos X"?
- Can you shed some light on this dust-shielding ferrule?