Personally I honor my Dwarve's wishes because they do the hard work, while I'm just a disembodied ancester spirit that provides subconscious inspiration (at least that's my headcannon)
They nerfed the price of mermaid bones because people were trapping them in coves with a lock system and pumps so they could air drown then butcher them for bones.
The best thing about dwarf fortress is the people who don't want to play it still get the stories.
I do not have the patience or time necessary to really get into the game but god damn the stories are amazing
Tarn used to post about bugs pretty regularly. It was always a treat to read his acerbic take on some weird-ass minutia of a bug cause by like a wrong comparison in c or whatever lol.
:torment: you play fortress mode because you hate yourself and want to do office work
i play legends mode because i want to read bedtime stories :sleepless:
and I play adventure mode because I love building a little RPG party of adventurers and imagining they're my friends :3
"Now son, your grandfather gave me this coffin, as his father gave it to him, and as he was bequeathed it by his own father who resides in its interior. I am now passing it on down to you; don't drop it or your great, great grandfather will be very upset (he was turned into a vampire and nailed into the thing lmao, that's the screaming you're hearing)"
I always see/hear about all the war crimes that people get up to and my playthroughs are usually relatively wholesome. Like I do butcher the corpses of my enemies for human leather in Rimworld, but it's very funny buying the loyalty of other factions with the skins of their friends and family.
One things that's really weird to me is how this type of player (RW or DF) will brag about playing a super difficult starting location / settings etc, but then proceed to min-max and cheese the fuck out of every mechanic to squeeze out an advantage. This is also where so many of the atrocities come in.
Like, just treat everyone with care and respect. There's your hard mode.
Gamer Challenge: Be a Decent Person [Difficulty: Fucking Impossible]
In any game with multiple playthroughts and the chance to min max people will try to min max. Doesn't mean they don't have normal playthroughs
I like giving all of my colonists a personal bathroom and nice furniture in their rooms :comfy:
What if the dwarf was a kulak? David is just applying a 100% inheritance tax
I heard resolutions besides 1080p are more likely to crash in this game. If you are above that maybe try lowering the resolution (only thing I can think of)
more leftist interpretations of video game concepts (preferably games where those interpretations are actually canon)
Dwarf Fortress used to have a currency-based economy system where the price of goods was detached from use-value and determined arbitrarily by "noble" dwarves that didn't have to do any of the work, it also included worker dwarves needing to pay rent. For obvious reasons, it made the game unplayable and was removed in a subsequent update, even though the implementation was fundamentally correct. Now the currency is just a stand-in value to facilitate bartering, as that is the only materially reasonable way to do a trade-based economy in the setting of Dwarf Fortress.
just tried it a few days ago and it's fun as hell, eating my brain. gotta do shorter sessions blaeagh
I want to like the steam version, really I do, but I'm too used to the old crappy interface and don't know how to turn all those fancy graphics off.
