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.
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Will an egg-laying animal lay eggs in a forbidden nest?
I have set up a small pen in my fortress, equipped with a nest box with a few captured Cave crocodiles inside. The Cave crocodiles are all trained, and they are not restrained in any way.
To prevent ...
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Optimizing embark generation for maximum number of crops
I'm interested to see if it is possible to tune a world to generate an embark site which supports all or as many as possible above-ground crops. This means it should at least have biomes that are (in ...
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Most efficient means of getting water from an aquifer
On my present embark I have a VERY small bit of light aquifer. I want to try and set up an obsidian farm, but as small as the aquifer is I'm unsure if it'll provide enough water for my purposes. I'm ...
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Where and in what configuration are the user created statue images stored in Dwarf Fortress?
I have created several images using the in game tool.
Where are they stored (what folder/ file) ?
How would I delete some to clear those that I don't like anymore?
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Dwarf Fortress Monarchy
In my fort in Dwarf Fortress a fire breathing Forgotten Beast attacked and killed my king. I am still listed as a Mountainhome yet there is no monarch in the nobles screen. Even weirder, the queen ...
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Too many hauling routes
Playing a succession game with my brother. After 10 Dorfyears or so, the amount of hauling routes has become a bit unmanageable.
Does anyone know of a convenient way to locate the routes / stops, so I ...
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Can a building destroyer destroy a screw pump from the z level above its impassable tile?
If I build a screw pump in such a way that its only exposure to outside is the top surface of its impassable tile, can it be destroyed by a building destroyer?
The exact setup is:
z-level +1:
F F F
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Guildhall reassigned: what are the implications?
My people made too many Petitions one after another, and I didn't write them down on paper. There were some Guildhall requests, and, not knowing they can't be shared by more than one guild, I fumbled ...
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Are there any alternatives to PRINT_MODE:2D that is compatible with Stonesense on macOS?
DFhack comes with Stonesense pre-installed. But when I run the stonesense command from the Dfhack console, I get this error message (when I use PRINT_MODE:STANDARD):
The current print mode is not ...
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Display sidebar at bottom of window
Is there some way of having the sidebar (menu, keyboard shortcuts, map) on the bottom of the window? I'd also be happy to use secondary sources such as mods etc.
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Possessed dwarf won't collect bones
In dwarf fortress (latest version 27/03/2019) all the possessed dwarfs that I have had have failed to collect the bones that they require and instead go insane. I'm new to dwarf fortress.
I have ...
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Why aren't my dwarfs doing archery training?
So I have been trying to follow this guide (also on the wiki) to get my marksdorfs to do some archery training, but haven't had much luck. I uploaded my save here so you can see the issue.
My ...
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What is the best way to set up MasterWork Dwarf Fortress on Linux?
What is the best way to set up MasterWork Dwarf Fortress on Linux?
Some pages suggest to run Masterwork Dwarf Fortress.exe via Wine.
Others to run on other Win computer and then copy some files to ...
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Dwarves not drinking booze in barrels right next to them
My current fortress is on year 3 or 4 since my embark. My dwarves recently all started showing thirsty symbols (blue down arrow), and I don't know why they won't drink. The thirsty dwarves include ...
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How to export a height map of my world map?
In older versions of the game it wasn't particularly hard to export a height map of your world. However I can't seem to find any way to do so for the Steam version. I have designs of making an in game ...
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