The Journal of Olon Medtobónul

21st Moonstone
I have been drafted from the mountainhomes by a group known as "The Incest of Bones". I am hardly the best miner, but then again an expedition party with such a name can't be very prestigious. I would imagine the king would be reluctant to give them a great deal of resources. They're no Beards of Rock, but they'll do. I need to get out of these fortresses. I need to head out and make my own fortune.

However, the name of the place we are heading to worries me. Nekolusân. Skullmurdered. I am to understand it is a tribute to another, great fortress. I do not know how sure I am that there could possibly be a great fortress with the word 'murdered' in it, but then again we are leaving under the banner of the Superior Crypt. A name's just a name, I supposed.

30th Moonstone

I have taken a look at the map. We are dangerously close to an ocean known as The Fatal Blue. I am worried about being in such close proximity to something so horrific. I'm just going to have to repeat my mantra that a name's just a name, but I am worried.

Something else bothers me though. Our expedition leader, Dègbim 'He-Man', keeps muttering to himself and the other miner in the expedition. The carpenter keeps going near the two, and she is a very dark looking woman. But what really bothers me is the content of their conversations. They mention something of a "Grand Skull" and reincarnating some strangely named figure in a tongue I don't recognize. For an expedition leader he's very strange in private. He's very eccentric but he seems to be a fair man. A man who can organize this can be allowed some oddities. Besides, he trusts me enough to reveal them to me.

Still, there is definitely something to be worried about in drawing so close to a place named The Fatal Blue.

1st Granite

We have arrived. This place does not have a good feel to it. It looks nice, and were it anywhere else I know I would feel a sense of relief at arriving in such a beautiful place. It is heavily wooded, we can look down into a valley and see the river running to the lake, and the mountain side is covered in absolutely beautiful rocks. But it all feels wrong. Alien. I have seen these rocks before, I have touched trees like these before, but here it all feels different. As if there is a strange undercurrent to it all.

But I have little time to ponder. Our expedition leader has ordered myself and the other miner to go to work immediately. We have dug out room for the Trade Depot and I have found time to rest and write this entry. The expedition leader is talking with the carpenter. Well, he is muttering and I assume she is listening. She's very quiet and perhaps not even all here but I get the impression she's listening in some manner. I suppose it doesn't matter now. My mining partner is getting antsy to keep go further into the mountain Orders or not, this mountain still worries me and I'd like to get away with as much slacking as possible.

i didnt see a skull till you said it. it looks more like a charmander going "wtf why is my tail on fire"

1st Slate

We have spent most of the month alternating between digger deeper into the mountain and building walls and a moat around the wall. 'He-Man' is insistent that we may be facing invaders soon. I think I heard another muttering of the 'Great Skull' and something about terrified demons arraying against it. I think this may be more than just a little oddity in belief or personality. No, I think he's attempting to raise some sort of fell entity. But I am stuck here. The mason, the carpenter, the other miner, and 'He-Man'. They all seem to be in on this plan. The two farmers seem as clueless as me. They stick mostly to the wagon to hide from the torrential rain.

An entire month and the rain hasn't stopped. I'm beginning to wonder if it ever will stop... or if I really care if it will. It seems so trivial now compared to the rest of the oddities of this mountain. The light reflects off of the kaolinite, making the once beautiful red rock ugly. I'm certain the rocks from this mountain are the same as rocks from the mountainhomes and I believe they are the same color but the wrong crevices are being shadowed. I can't place my finger on it but I can tell it's just wrong.

All I can do is stick with the farmers and make this place a home to live in. Hopefully we can get migrants from the mountainhomes. Migrants like us, not like them.

...I'm oddly creeped out by this thread.

>>1917593
I love how creepy it is. It is very befitting the fortress of Skullmurdered.

Biome statistics? Terrifying? haunted?

>>1917561
Tell us more about her God.

I'm getting a very /x/ feeling about this.

>The Fatal Blue

That's an awesome name for an ocean.

>>1917646
Especially given its color.

>>1917646
Admittadly it's actually The Fatal Blueness, but that just sounds stupid so I'm going to call it The Fatal Blue.

>>1917641
IA IA! SHIN FTHAGN! IA IA! SHIN FTHAGN!

>>1917552
That picture just made me shit brick. Goddamn.

>>1917678
That's not too exciting, what are the gods to the rest of the dwarfs?

And here's just something I noticed on the list of gods when looking for Shin's info. I think the pantheon has a trap.

As for the biomes

Biome #1
The Crested Spines
Mountain
Temperature: Warm
Trees: None
Other Vegetation: None
Surroundings: Untamed Wilds
Brook: The Blockaded Omen

Chalk
Gneiss
Gabbro

Biome #2
The Infinite Mire
Tropical Freshwater Marsh
Temperature: Warm
Trees: Woodland
Other Vegetation: Moderate
Surroundings: Untamed Wilds
Brook: The Blockaded Omen

Silt Loam
Chalk
Gneiss
Gabbro

I was told this game had tiles. Was I told wrong?

>>1917701
It does, but they look ugly so many don't use them.

>>1917697
The Superior Crypt, Dwarves
Worship List
Avuz the Cavernous Umbra, deity: earth, caverns
Shin, deity: jewels, wealth, trade
Toral the Bulwark of Wards, deity: fortresses
Urdim Parchedbrand, deity: mountains, volcanos, fire, day
Ilid the Canyon of Gold, deity: victory
Rasuk the Prowler of Freezing, deity: misery

The Scalded Channel, Dwarves
Worship List
Kad“l the Diamond Gravel, deity: metals
En“r, deity: minerals, jewels
Osram, deity: wealth
Žkil the Cave of Rocks, deity: mountains
Dostob, deity: fortresses, the seasons
Atol Fluteblue, deity: poetry, inspiration, painting
Lir the Prestige of Calling, deity: courage
Ngotol Blazemirrored, deity: dreams, nightmares
Cen„th Tombpride, deity: lightning, suicide
Thomal Mirthfulcleared the Urn of Day, deity: consolation, death
Ivom, deity: longevity, youth, children, labor

The Natural Roof, Dwarves
Worship List
Moldath the Bronze Gem of Irons, deity: metals
Shin Pricepaint, deity: minerals, jewels, wealth, trade
Ilon the Helmed Defender, deity: fortresses
Sarvesh Earthenspine the Coal of Fires, deity: mountains, volcanos
Shagog Evenedmatch, deity: balance

>>1917699
>>Loli
>>depicted as a male human
Reverse Traps fuck yeah!

>>1917723
You rang?

Go Skullmurdered. This place is awesome.

Am I wrong to assume that the cult is digging for the HIDDEN FUN STUFF?

>>1917552
requesting a seed number for the skull

>>1917768
Nooo. Of course not.

>>1917803
[WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:STANDARD]
[CUSTOM_NAME:Skull Land]
[SEED:1612759907]
[DIM:257:257]

Please, keep this diary going.
When I come back from work in ten hours, I want to see a complete thread.

>>1917910
fuck that

i want to see it NOW

Counts as Giant Swallow Man

Mooooore.

1st Felsite

I finally succumbed to slumber in this place. The rain continues but while we have expanded the wall and dug deeper into the mountain, we have not dug ourselves appropriate homes. The engraver and his group sleep inside. I will not stand to be near them, so I will suffer with the farmers under the torrential rain.

My sleep was uneasy, however. In my dreams I saw visions of tortures, a glowing blue light illuminating stretched skin and broken bodies. The smell of blood fresh and old mingled with sweat to assault my nose. I could sense a presence behind me but I was afraid to turn. I knew if I were to turn it would consume me.

But I saw something stranger after. The world shifted and I was down in the valley, looking upon the waters so foul. The rain was gone but the light did not reflect upon the water. I saw fish lazily sliding within the waves. Not swimming, but being collectively propelled down stream towards some other place. I assume that horrific lake, but I cannot be sure.

Something worse was there however. Fish swam upon the land, moving likes snakes through the rocks and gasping for air. Loud, audible gasping as they hunted through the rocks for something. They were frantic in their search for something beneath the rocks. I awoke not long after, drenched in sweat and rain. The farmers were still asleep but visibly troubled.

I glanced across the edge and through the rain I saw something then, twelve days ago, that haunts me still. Perhaps I was hallucinating, for the river is far down, but I swore I saw the glimmer of fish scales squirming through the dull rocks. No, I am certain that is what I saw. I saw that more clearly than I have ever seen anything.

>>1918196
CAAAAAARP

>>1918351
Oh, crap! Carp!

1st Hematite

The carpenter and the farmers are out in the rain again, harvesting from the land what we can to prepare for when we can finally begin setting up the workshops. 'He-Man' is smoothing out the walls and babbling something about perfection and being ready. He's very excited to be working on those projects.

What worries me most about this group is that though I have seen our engraver speaking to the farmers to indicate where they need to harvest and he has given my partner and I maps indicating where we need to mine he has never said a word to the carpenter about cutting trees. She simply goes to work, hunting out very specific trees in the area outside the wall and felling them. She has not yet said a word since I have seen her and I am beginning to believe she is mute. The engraver rarely speaks to her now but she continues to go about doing her work, stopping only to drink and eat.

It turns out that this place is rich in gems and coal. The engraver says that these gems are ours and indicates very strongly bad things will happen if one of us even considers taking the gem from the fortress. It seems strange to specify, since he also is the broker and there's no where for us to go but he felt the need to impress upon us that we will be punished if we do. Not that I want to. Outside of them, I'm the only one that has touched these gems and they are foul. Upon touching the aventurine I felt the world swim around me. I had to run to the edge to vomit out into the canyon. 'He-Man' paid no mind and went back to engraving as I spilled out the contents of my stomach into the canyon below. The farmers seemed like they wanted to comfort me but that something was holding them back.

I hate this place, but I think I can make it better. Perhaps if I get rid of them I can make it better.

>>1918364
>>1918351
No. Thankfully, it looks like there's only lungfish down there. But I haven't looked close and there may be carp waiting to kill my poor dwarves.

I'll update more tomorrow. Either in this thread or by making a new one.

If you keep the images and text together, OP, I can put a page for you on http://striketheearth.thisisnotatrueending.com/

>>1918407
Nooooo! You must play until your eyes BLEED!

>>1918426 You won't need eyes where we're going.

>>1918425
If you want. At the moment I'm saving them all to a folder with the pictures and three text files.

>>1917552
fuck yes, you actually named the leader he-man like i asked in the diary too, this makes me smile knowing i named the crazy leader

The most winningest thread these eyes have ever seen.

1st Malachite

The engraver has begun to speak to me more directly now. He actually seems to be a relatively sane one amongst them. My mining partner has a tendency to babble and that carpenter has that horrific look in her eyes. The mason has been adopted by the two cats of the fortress which is indicative enough that something is wrong with him. But the engraver... I don't know. Maybe he really is a snake but he seems to be a nice guy. When we are working side by side he starts a conversation with me about the mountainhomes and the area. He told me that he's been to multiple new fortresses before and that the feeling of everything being wrong isn't unusual for some one new to adventures like these. He says its just homesickness.

Perhaps. Still, he seems to be nice enough in spite of being apart of that... group. Maybe he's just a recent inductee or maybe it's not so bad as I thought. I don't know. I'm still a bit wary but I do welcome his company. The storm clouds have mostly blocked out the sun and I cannot tell when night ends or day begins. It is a wonder there are plants growing at all. Nature is a resilient creature.

We have finished the farming area, but the workshops and bedrooms are still under construction. I decided to try and sleep just outside the fortress, under the partly constructed roof. That may not have been the best idea, however. My dreams are getting worse. Much more frantic. I saw that room again, and the bodies were squirming as their flesh was being drawn from their bones. I saw a lake's surface pulsating and throbbing almost as if it was trying to pull itself up. Tendrils of water came across the surface, too chaotic be the surf. I do not know if I am going insane or if perhaps just homesick. Or maybe the engraver is lying and there is something deep within the bowels of this place giving me these horrific dreams.

Or perhaps he himself does not know what he has gotten himself into.

SEED ON THE SKULL

>>1920125
Meet

>>1917839

1st Galena

The longer I work here the less alive I feel. I've been going to sleep more often now... I feel tired already. It's not the work. I've done back breaking work before and it didn't wear me out this much. Perhaps it is the lack of alcohol, as the farms are only now beginning to yield plump helmets and we do not have enough excess to properly start alcohol production, but I believe it's more. Something inside this place is sapping me of my energy. All of our energy is being drained to some unseen place below the surface. I am sure of this.

The public living area is coming along nicely. The dining hall shall be done soon and then we can begin production proper on the residential and industrial districts of the fort. I do not know what we shall do about nobles when they inevitably come, they are far too whiny and will demand rooms away from our workshops.

I have allowed myself to eat with the engraver. He is a surprisingly decent person. He has not tried to recruit me for this cult I know he is in nor has he criticized my general laziness. He has simply talked to me of the world and of the others around us. He seems to express disdain of the mason and the carpenter, which confuses me thoroughly. I am certain that they work for the same gods and towards the same goal yet they seem to do so with much malice. He will not explain why the two hold him in contempt but I feel it may have something to do with their shared faith.

My dreams continue to leave me disturbed. I have seen a mass of dwarves moving in tandem, naked yet shadowed by a storming sky. I can see only the outlines of their shape moving forward, bodies shaking in some form of rapture. Their hands are thrown to the air and I can see water streaming down from their hands but I cannot make out their skin or face. They are more like shadows than dwarves but I feel a strange kinship with them. They make no sounds as they move, but a general and indescribable noise permeates the area.

Lately I find myself looking over the edge of the cliff on my breaks. I can no longer see the rocks and fish with the same clarity as before but the undulations upon the surface reveal themselves to me with surprising detail. I can make out every contour and squirming shape upon the water as if it were right in front of me. Perhaps I should be worried, but it provides me some distraction.

Can you rapidshit this world? I tried the seed but it didn't work for me.

>>1920345
THIS IS NOT HOW DWARVES BEHAVE.
DWARVES ARE NOT THIS WAY.

More.

It can't possibly end as horrifically as Boatmurdered, burning, with a lone insane child the only survivor.

>>1923058

Nevar forget.

moar!

I DEMAND MORE.

Is this going to be passed along? I had a dream that I was being prepared as a cultist to go to some place called Skull Land, followed by a vision of 895 well-fed dwarves sparring with steel gear. At the very least, name one of the immigrants Hermoccultist.

>>1927006
I think it should be passed along once all of the first player's dwarves die; "Return to Skullmurdered" has a nice ring to it.

So far, it just appears to be a normal start-up.
However, all of the delicious dramatic twists are delicious.

>>1927006
One of the migrants will indeed be named Hermocultist. Any preferences you got?

>>1927031
Sounds like a good idea.

>>1928334

Soap maker.

>>1928334
Wood Burner.

>>1928665
>>1928657
<3

1st Limestone
We have mostly finished residential districts. It's almost depressing how slowly we're moving. Perhaps if the engraver hadn't been so grandiose in his initial plans we'd actually have workshops up. By the time the caravan from the mountainhomes comes we'll be lucky if we have half of a workshop built, much less have anything to trade other than rocks and logs.

Perhaps I'm being too critical. His plans will help us, it's just that he could have waited a little before trying to design a massive wall and moat between us and the rest of the world. Waited until after we had gotten the bedrooms and workshops up at least. I may not be a fortress designer, but I at least think he could show some common sense in this. Still, he's a nice guy. Maybe this is his first time running a fortress. It doesn't really matter, I just need to follow orders.

The stills have been finished and hopefully we'll see alcohol soon. I am tired of this foul tasting water. It's oily... almost alive and pulsating in my mouth. They love it, but the farmers and I need something hard to keep working. Though I fear whatever they brew here may be tainted by this place.

I've begun to more actively sleep inside the fortress. Still on the floor, but it's better than the wet grass and I'm glad to have a roof over my head as opposed to clouds. The only friend here I have is the engraver, and however good of a friend he may be he's still very strange. Nice, good at conversation, but something about him always sends a shiver down my spine. More than his belief, something else about him just is not right.

I'm beginning to wish I had waited for another group. Yet something makes me feel that even if I did not want to come somehow this damned place would find a way to draw me here. Something in these rocks is calling to me.

1st Sandstone

My mining partner has begun to outpace. I don't know how. She spends so much time babbling and mumbling under her breath to be that focussed on mining but she has definently begun to outshine me. Perhaps there is something to her mutterings. Or perhaps I am not as good as I thought I was. I need a drink. She works harder than me, sleeps less than I do, eats less, drinks less, socializes less. I have only seen her talk to the mason every now and again, to everyone else she is a closed book.

The caravan arrived last month and is still here. I don't know why, we have nothing we could trade with them. I am sure they know this. The gesture is nice, but their large wagons get in the way of the workers. It makes it harder to go get that foul water and stave off a death by thirst. Perhaps that is a good thing though, for I worry that this water shall give me some sort of wasting disease. No matter how much of it I drink I feel my thirst only slightly quenched.

On my daily trips to the edge of the cliff to I have begun to spot the farmers. They are always together, so very close together, and staring out over the edge at the rivers. Have they see what I have seen in my dreams? It is difficult to talk with them. We are on the same side in this foul place but they say few words to me. Do they worry that I am akin to the others?

I have begun to consider leaving this place. Perhaps sneaking onto the caravan and leaving with it back to the mountainhomes. I do not wish to leave the farmers here. Even though I feel some stirrings of friendship for the engraver, I fear what he and the others are capable of. If I leave, I worry that they will suffer for it.

Perhaps I shall let them in on my plan. I imagine the caravans would not mind three dwarves hiding amongst many.

>>1929311
run away good man! run away!

>>1930066
>good man
It's a dorf, not a man. A female dorf, at that.

What game or program is this?

>>1930728
assuming yuo have never lurked or are just a shitty troll

its Dwarf fortress, IA is running his game on a fellow anons map that had a skull generated in it, if i recall, he set up shop in the eye

>>1930728
Toad Combat Arena

>>1930728 Why am I so summer /tg/?

facepalm.jpg

>>1930776
>everyone should be on /tg/ to see every thread.

>>1930796
No, but at this point it'd be like asking what "4e" means. DF threads are really, really common.

>>1930796
df has had a thread if not more than 1 every day for the last month within the first 4 pages. with /tg/s brisk post speed im pretty sure if you spend a week lurking, you can figure all you need to know

but that reminds me of dark tower

>>1930796
People should at least lurk for a few months before shitting the place up with failgasm after failgasm like you useless shits.

>>1930823
months? a week and you are up to date with everything but old mem*

*CLANG*

what the fuck was that?

well, here, since he is new and looking like he might want the game
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Main_Page Wiki
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Your_first_fortress Helps alot with first forts
http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.htm prefered tileset for those that use one

>>1930766
I'm sure some one modded it as such.

>>1930931
It's always good to get more people to this game. Well, or at least try given its sometimes needlessly complex nature. The tileset will make it a lot easier to understand for the beginner, but it does mess up the text of things such as the engravings. But it is a lot more straight forward and understandable than the pictures being shown at the moment.

http://anonib.com/_dwarffortress/index.php?b=1

Small image board for all your dorfan fortessan needs. We also have a succession game going on right now.

Game is good but be prepared for a serious time investment just to learn how to do everything. And then a serious time investment just to get anything done. And then a serious time investment to.... well let's just say I hope you don't have a job.

>>1930964
Use cheats to make your Dorfs legendary at everything from the get-go. It sucks the fun out of the game, but makes it easy to learn.

I'm back to unedited games now that I understand it, and fuck me if it's not a hundred times more enjoyable than playing EXALTED: DORF FORTRESS.

>>1930840
Hell, I've been hanging here for like two days and I already know that one you just cleverly referenced there.

>>1930979
It always strikes me that the attraction of Dorf Fortress doesn't seem to be the achievement of constructing a fully functioning fortress a la Dungeon Keeper and various other sim games; it is about your Dorfs getting grievously injured, crafting ridiculous items, and dying hilariously thanks to their own stupidity and random chance, then writing entertaining fiction based on the events. Like a game of WFRP.

>>1930964
What?
No.

>>1931030
Pretty much

>>1931030
Dark Heresy too. And yes, Fort Mary Sue did get boring when one wrestler could hold off an entire raiding force with nothing but a scraped knee.

>>1931057
Yeah.
At that stage, you just get crazy, potentially fortress destroying ideas or you give up and make a new fort with another starting tactic.

>>1931098
I'm waiting for an ample supply of glass blocks to build up so that I can build a tube through my frozen river one winter, just for shits and giggles.

quick DF question: is it possible to dam a river etc?

e.g. if I dig down and find I'm sitting on water (i.e. the next level down is 100% damp rock/clay etc), is it possible to build into the water-logged layer without hoping it turns to ice (i.e. handle actively flowing water, not ice-rock)?

>>1931134
alot of pumps with windmills

>>1931134
Theoretically, you can drop constructions down into water to dam a river, but it sounds like you're on an aquifier. Thet, I have no idea how to overcome save a fortress reboot.

>>1931149
How do you build windmills?

>>1931134
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Aquifer has a few lists of ways around it since it does sound like you are aquifertastic

>>1931174
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Windmill
connect it to a screw pump and the pump will get rid of some of the water on the level below. has to go somwhere though, so make sure its directed off map or to a holding area. also, restarting on a nonaquifer works if you dont want to/think you can easily deal with one atm

Some guy posted a link to a nice tileset earlier but I forgot to get it and I can't remember the link. Does anyone know what it was? I think if I can ditch the ASCII and have a better graphical representation I might actually be able to get my head around the DF interface.

>>1931207
c
>>1930931
third link i posted there

>>1931207
Meet
>>1930931

http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.htm

>>1931218
>>1931220
I'm a blind idiot, thanks.

>>1931264
you do have great spelling for a blind idiot though.
the only downside to that as stated earlier in the thread is that some letters in text are replaced with images of objects, like turtles, the periods replaced with grass and O being a bridge. you figure it out quick enough, but it messes up the learning speed a little but makes identification of crap alot better

>>1931296
I find it amusing that this is still a problem, since DF isn't actually displayed in ASCII, but in tiles that are simply images of ASCII characters.

>>1931311
It's the restriction of the engine. It's only allowed to have 256 or so characters, and the letters happen to take up characters.

>>1931296
My keyboard is braille.

>>1931324
... What?
Seriously?
Man, someone needs to assassinate Toady One and take his place.

Guys - a small problem.
Zombie. Giant. Eagles.
HELP.

>>1931636
small problem? wall yourself the fuck in, make sure you have a roof too so the fuckers dont fly in. that or purge the earth with magma, they gotta land somtime

>>1931636

Go straight underground, and don't come back out. Seriously, theres not many things you NEED to do above ground when there's zombie giant eagles about.

>>1931714
Yeah. I've already learned a few lessons about rules (e.g. use them to prevent pig-fucking goblins from shooting down your wrestler hordes when they're one-up on the z-axis, right over your fortress entrance)

>>1931324
>>1931531

I've been calling for murder and conquest of Toady and his code for ages now. He needs to release it to the public, but he's being a Jew about it. Holding on for dear life until some company will pay him for the property so they can make a commercial game out of it.

>>1931758
Should I pull the damn lever?

Dwarf Fortress is programmed on a computer that can barely run it.

Good news, everyone!
Zombie giant eagle has flown away.

>>1931894
Not for long.

>>1931955
yeah, he is pretty much fucked

>>1931885
Barely run? Bullshit, I ran DF just fine on a 1.7ghz Athlon with 512 megs of RAM.

That was before the 3D update though. Did that really change that much?

>>1932061
running 100 dorfs, full river, waterfall, 25 uncaged/wild animals and magma will fuck your shit up

>>1932061
Not too much, as long as you limit yourself to 2x2 flat and barren deserts with no chasms, magma or water.

1st Timber

I told the farmers of my plan, but it was all for naught. We are still here. I had planned to sneak in while they were packing up. Hide in a box or something while they were trying to round up their animals and many wares. I had planned on leaving an hour before so as to get there in time and find some way to blend in.

Yet when I tried to leave I found myself getting lost. This place is not very large yet and it is not difficult at all to navigate but I found myself constantly going in circles around places. Worse yet, I found myself passing by things seperated by floors yet I never walked up any stairs. I believe this mountain is attempting to thwart my attempts to escape. Either the very rock is shifting around me to keep me here or some sinister magic is at work here. Perhaps those farmers... no. No, I can't let paranoia sieze me. I know they do not serve them. At least, I think I know that they don't.

I am stranded here. We are stranded here. I have no choice but to do what I can to make this place better. At least the alcohol has begun to run freely and it has not been fouled by this place. The plump helmets have an odd taste to them but the wine made from them is as strong and delicious as it is back in the mountainhomes. At least I can take comfort in that, because I can't take comfort in anything else yet.

We have gotten the carpenter's workshop up. I hate that woman with all my being, but at least she should be able to produce some beds for us to rest on soon. The dreams will still come to me, but at least my body will be able to relax for once.

>>1932278
oh lol, i love how the pathing woes are in his diary

>>1932278
Huh. You're taking a while getting everything up.

>>1932309
Yeah, this fort is moving unusually slow for me. Though I'm sure the fact that I haven't really broken down the tasks and made some large store houses haven't helped. That and the alcohol ran out quickly which hurt their digging speed.

On the plus side, lots of coal for when I get the metal industries up and lots of gems to increase fortress wealth.

Migrant wave just came with a miner and the other two miners just hit legendary, so hopefully things'll speed up.

1st Moonstone

Migrants have come to the fortress. A child and eleven capable dwarves. With workshops beginning to spring up everything should begin to come together in a decent amount of time. But the migrants are... strange people. Even the child has a cold look in his eyes. I do not know what a child could have seen to cause such a death of joy but that child is more automaton than dwarf. Two migrants in particular are interesting. One is a man calling himself 'Hermoccultist'. That name alone is enough to put me off, but he compounds that with the way he does everything. He does no other job that walking about the fortress and inspecting everything. I have asked the engraver about his activities but 'He-man' has assured me he is doing his job. Whatever his job is.

The other is the new mason, Ducim Avédinod. The man is very strange. He is mostly going about the fortress making walls to keep everything contained and organized as we mine out coal in preparation for beginning our metal industry. But he did something very... unusual. He walled himself into the space where the mechanic's workshop will eventually be. We did not notice until a few hours had past and the other walls were not being worked on. The engraver had his suspicious and ordered me to mine out the mechanic's workshop before the rest of my duties.

And he was right. The new mason was sitting in the center of the place, hands at his knees and eyes closed. He was speaking in some strange tongue and paid me no mind after I had collapsed the rock between him and the rest of the fortress. Perhaps I am lucky he did not notice me. I had interrupted what I can only assume to be some sort of holy ritual for this strange religion I find myself surrounded by.

But beyond them, I have found myself changed here. The rocks that once rebelled have begun to yield to me. A single strike and the rock show significant damage. The nausea I feel when we mine up those foul gems has lessened, and that makes me worry. I worry that if I adapt to this place something horrible will happen to my very soul.

the eternal planet eh?
... i wonder how long this will take

>>1932809
40,000 years

>>1932831

And then the carrion-god will die, and be reborn as the star-child.

>>1930764

Thank you. I found & dled, not bad imo.... More depth than the crap on the shelves nowadays.

>>1932883
no prob, i figured crap, what if he wasn't a troll and i just scared away a df player, thats why the wiki links and tiles are under it
>>1932868
the god is workin on being reborn because i just passed 9.8k rejects

>>1932943
You might have an improperly installed or non-working mod. For some reason when they're not installed right or they just plain don't work the world generator goes crazy and rejects every region.

>>1917571
Oh shi- I see the Charmander. Looks a bit more like a Charmeleon, though.

>>1932956
i have made worlds with it before, so im just running it till it stops or i forget why. dont think i have changed anything reciently

>>1932989
Hrm. Unusual. Maybe you're just really unlucky.

I managed to, for the first time, create a world with under 10 rejected regions. 3 in fact. And it's not a particularly bad looking world either.

>>1933045
i think your right here, somthin messed up with my df :\ making a pocket world atm and its grinding through the rejects...

>>1933209
or not.... my create with parameters just seems to do that.... sigh... well no new pockets till i figure this out

cool

Keep it up, Angricus.
I want to see how Skullmurdered turns out - although it's good to see that you've found a nice supply of coal, just as I have.
LET THE METAL INDUSTRY BEGIN

So as not to create ANOTHER Dorf Fortress thread, I'm posting this here.

I've only just realised that the modding I did to make goblins playable has bugged up the game so that the only exsisting weapons and armour in the world is the stuff I started with, and there are no town mayors or merchants.

But I'm having so much fun right now, I'm not sure if I want to fix it.

>>1935917

Actually it seems to be a very good starting area, perhaps we will have a happy end after all. Surprising but ill be happy with that.

Guys.
What do animal trainers do when taken by fey foods?
I'm worried.

>>1936192 fey foods
I'm going to overlook your amusing spelling error and be honest with you: they'll make animal traps and shit like that.

Hm. Fuck you all, I have to learn hwo to play this game now.

>>1936197
... Oh dear god.
I lol'd.
I never even saw that. What the fuck?
Anyway, thanks. It turns out that he made a "chalk bed" named "Fashenshal Manthulrinal".

How you make a stone bed is beyond me, but hey.

>>1936221
1. Take large slab of stone.
2. Flatten it.
3. Get smaller stone, flatten it.
4. Place smaller stone on one end of large slab of flattened stone.
5. Stone bed.

>>1936231
Well, Chalk is pretty soft, but you'd wake up every morning covered in white powder...

>>1936239
At least the powder on your back prevents perspiration.

>>1936244
True, true.

>>1917552

Is it only me who sees the thumbnail of that map as a skull side on?

>>1936263
"Skullmurdered"

slowpoke.jpg

Welcome to Skullmurdered. Stay awail...

..stay... FOREVER!

>>1936236
So how would you masterfully craft one of those?

>>1936239
Meh, I'm used to waking up covered in white stuff.

>>1936277
... You were waiting to post something like that here, weren't you?

>>1936282
Yes. Yes I was.

>>1936333

Oh Schrödinger, you ever lovable animoo Nazi catboy.

>>1936231
A bed that menaces with spikes.

Nice.

>>1936395

It's reserved for the less appreciated members of the fortress.

>>1936404
So the Baron's bedroom, then?

>>1936423


>.>

I have installed Dwarf Fortress.

Behold:

Mon Ebno. The Plane of Tempests.

Fuck.

>>1936448
Purple areas denote good building locations.

My current fortress only just got the second (third?) wave of migrants, I'm at 36 Dorfs and with a semi-decent silver industry.
Want to get into glass (since I've got a layer or two of sand) but every time I buy a bag it gets filled with seeds, and I still haven't worked out how to make them myself.

>>1936468
Leatherworking or weaving.

>>1936468
You make bags in a leather worker or clothier shop.

Cloth making is a big of a cunt.

You grow pig tails, then you process them at the Farmer's Workshop, then you weave them with a Loom then you take the bolts of cloth and make bags.

>>1936481
sounds like far too much effort, especially when those pig-tails take up a farm for a season.
I hate relying on dead animals for anything, since my Hunter-Dorfs have a habit of taking every kill straight to the meeting room and then leaving it to rot.

Dammit, I have to wait till next week until I have a computer capable of playing the newest DF.

Until then, I'm going to content myself killing all the inabitants in the known world by throwing stones at them and making them explode.

>>1936488
Haha, miasma.

Butchering and tanning isn't too difficult as long as you're quick and have excess pets. I find it easier to just import wagonloads of leather.

My import lists are always cages, leather, meat and booze plus anything I specifically need and can't acquire myself.

BAHAHAHA! I love this game already 'The Bay of Smashing' 'The Moral Oceans'.

My fortress is called "Rockbald the Fortifications of Rage" . Is this awesome? y/n

>>1936551
Where is it located?

>>1936558

I pussed out and built it at the base of a mountain range that is covered with fellow Dwarf settlements.

>>1936488
Just do what I did and trade a barrel of shit leather to make bags with.

>>1936569
Should have built in the purple areas.

Hm. Note to self. embark to a mountainous area

>>1936594

Because Undead Carp are a wonderful thing.

>>1936597
Carp? CARP?

Nigger, I had a skeletal blue shark scale cliffs to invade my fort and eat my Dorfs.

>>1936599

How the fuck?

>>1936604
They're just that fucking GAR.

Undead sharks can build stairways of pure ANGER.

>>1936619
suck my dick?

>>1936631
Ask / when she turns up.

>>1936488
>especially when those pig-tails take up a farm for a season.
Lol, you have no excess 8x8 sized farms lying around and being useless?
2 legendary planter dorfs + max size farm = metric fucktons of plump helmets all over your fortress.
Add third legendary planter (they are easy to make) and get rope reeds (they need to be farmed on tiles with light). This will overflow your fort with rope reeds.
Get 5 peasants to process all of this (or 2 legendary treshers) and you have farmer workshops cluttered with threads and seeds.
Legendary weaver can then make some cloths. He will clutter them really quickly (cluttered workshops work 10 times slower) so you may want to make new loom every 5 minutes.
Now get 10 peasants or 1 legendary clothier to make bags.
You will have about 200 free bags first year if you do it right (legendary dorfs, not peasants).

I started a gigantic community engraving project in my fortress.

Unfortunately, my dwarves aren't very creative.

(Also, guess what's under the stones. I'll give you a hint: dwarves striking dwarves, dwarves labouring, dwarves travelling, dwarves surrounded by dwarves, etc etc)

How do you view engravings again? I don't remember

>>1936730
Press k scroll to the engraving, make sure it's highlighted if there's other shit on the floor and then press enter.

>>1936717
You haven't got "This is an exeptional engraving of a Masterwork engraving of a Dwarf and Dwarves. The Dwarves are surrounding the Dwarf."

In my fortress I have an engraving at both sides of my entrance. One is of a cloud and the other is of spinning serrated disks. I'm not sure what to make of this.

>>1936848
Likely the cloud means your Engraver witnessed some bad weather outside.

And I think he has a strong desire for serrated blade traps.

>>1936829
Oh ho ho. Want to bet?

>>1936872

I don't think I should let him near my walls ever again. That kind of shit will scare away visitors.

>>1936849
Eating cow cheese?
Silly dwarf, what other type of cheese would he eat?

>>1936899

Goat cheese... delicious goat cheese.

>>1936899

Elephant Cheese.

None of your fortresses can match Toothrot, the fortress in the Slim Teeth.

>>1936899
Maggot cheese.

>>1936899
Dwarf cheese.

You can actually make cheese from dwarf milk.

>>1936937
[spoiler]Dwarf cheese is actually made by milking purring maggots.[/spoiler]

>>1936945
Fuck, I screwed up.

>>1936935
>>1936937

>>1936950

>>1936695
Fuck pigtails. Cave spiders. Nothing makes for a powerful cloth industry like random cave spiders. Especially since their bites don't yet do anything.

>>1937225
HOW DO I GET CAVE SPIDERS?

>>1937254
START WITH THEM.

>>1937254
Everytime I start with a chasm on the map they show up. Just break into the chasm and bam, spiders running around spewing out webs. And if the cats kill them, it's okay. There's a fucking legion of spiders.

You just have to be careful about chasms because while usually just full of shit like Batmen and Gremlins, they've sometimes got some really nasty shit. Such as trolls or, worst of all, the Giant Cave Spider.

>>1937276
>Giant Cave Spider
1.Cage traps all over the chasm
2.Haulers
3.Dungeon Master
4.Captured enemy behind fortifications
BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED I AM STACK OF 500 GIANT CAVE SPIDER SILK CLOTH!