New Dwarf Fortress

[pg]

If anyone cares - http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/df_27_169_32a.zip

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

So far I'm not that impressed over the old version but I've only played a very limited amount.

[EPW]

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171462

[pg]

I honestly didn't see that thread, and I checked, but I guess no one replied to yours either... :|

[downtoearth]

It is, can't see that thread

[Proteus_MST]

I just tried it out and I´m impressed.

For what it lacks in graphics it makes up in gameplay.

Reminds me a little bit of settlers, just without the cute graphics but instead with much more gameplay elements.

Are there plans to enhance the graphics some day?

[Skanky Burns]

There are several graphic replacements floating around.

Fun game.
I'm onto my fourth attempt now. I now have an actual feel for how to play the game. I think I am ready to attempt magma-forging. It should be fun at least, but I might need to train up a military for that as well.

[Proteus_MST]

Looks like you also don´t need the underground farming techniques that are shown in the DF Wiki if you have regions with normal soil on the map.
Just dig a chamber below such a region. The chamber floor will be underground and will have fertile soil and will stay so without having to flood it once per year

[pg]

It is quite a challenge to find chasm, magma, demon pits and adamantine now. I finally found some but nothing too exciting.

[Proteus_MST]

It seems to be also quite a challenge to find an underground river.

On on emap i found one and wow, it was impressive,
a river that had several waterfalls and therefore was located on 3 or 4 levels.

Impressive as wel were it inhabitants, olm-men and toad-men.
Would have been a challenge to ge trid of them.

Well, I finally quit the map because it was the digging for my stairwell that hit the map and for some reasons it wrecked pathfinding for my dwarfs.
After finding the river my miners (and also the other dwarfs) didn´t seem to be able to accomplish anything anymore.
Obviously they tried to dig, saw the monsters of the river, therefore quit their work and afterwards went back and tried it again.

Maybe declaring the stairwell as a forbidden zone and therefore forcing the dwarfs to use the alternative stairwell I had dug out might have brought the solution, but at the time when I played the map I didn´t get this idea and therefore my dwarfs still used the old stairwell with abovementioned results and I quit prematurely.

[Tuberski]

So far, I haven't been able to customize more than 1 dwarf.

ACK!

[EPW]

Farming is too easy now I liked using floodgates and levers, and now its unnecessary.

[Skanky Burns]

It is still necessary if you don't have soil underground.

[Proteus_MST]

After a very hard winter in which 8 of my 30 dwarves died of thirst (2nd year, the river froze to the ground, my well wasnt completed yet and the beverage supplies only lasted halfway through the winter) all were unhappy and and several went Tantrum shortly afterwards (i.e. in spring after they had water again) because of their losses,
one of my peasants went into a strange mood.
It went somehow differently from all I have experienced so far
That´s what it says:
Lolor Esmulérith. Leatherworker cancels Sleep: Taken by mood
Lolor Esmulérith. Leatherworker looses a roaring laughter, fell anmd terrible
Lolor Esmulérith has claimed a Butcher´s shop
Ral DastotsebÃr, Miner has been murdered by Lolor Esmulérith!
Lolor Esmulérith has begun a mysterious construction


The result was:
Ebbusasdos, "Tritebad", a dwarf leather helm

And my Dwarf (who was already leatherworker before) is now a legendary leatherworker

[EPW]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
It is still necessary if you don't have soil underground.

It seems that you can build farms anywhere that isn't underground.

[Jon Miller]

I don't care about the graphics, it is the horrid UI which makes it unplayable for me (at least a previous versio), I Coudln't figure out how to any thing.

JM