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I tried to get into DF a few years ago but found it... overwhelming. Even after buying a book. I certainly welcome efforts to make DF more accessible in this w
by jmyeet 5y ago
I tried to get into DF a few years ago but found it... overwhelming. Even after buying a book.
I certainly welcome efforts to make DF more accessible in this way. One thing I'm unsure of with the Steam roadmap is this: will this still require third party software to realistically play?
I forget the name of it but there was software you'd run that would directly peek and poke into DF memory to set the tasks and preferences of your dwarves and it was the only way to manage a lot of dwarves. Will this still be the case?
- shultays 5y agoThere are a lot of stuff to do on DF but you don't have to do them all. You need food, you need booze and learning how to make those two is necessary but rest is optional really. You can pick a safe starting location or wall yourself in and even ignore military (at least up to a point I think)
- dpeck 5y agoThere were several of those, but DwarfTherapist is probably what you’re thinking of. It’s basically required to run a fortress at scale.
- Octopodes 5y agoYou can do it quite easily without Therapist by typing "enable autolabor" into your dfhack console window. All job assignments basically get turned on for every dwarf.
- totetsu 5y agoDwarf Therapist. I actually quite like that paradigm of requiring mods and other tools to play. Dwarf fortress is not a game it's a kind of sometimes fun job.
- barbs 5y agoThe name is so appropriate.
- smoldesu 5y agoIf you're looking for a less overwhelming yet still complete colony management sim, Rimworld has gained a lot of (frankly well-deserved) traction recently. You won't be doing as much micromanagement as you would in DF, but the gameplay is slimmed down such that you can realistically learn it over the course of a playthrough while still having fun. I still prefer the denser sim titles like SS13 and DF, but I'll almost always reach for Rimworld if I want some no-fuss fun. Just be careful around the modding rabbit hole...
- ravi-delia 5y agoIt is a true tragedy that SS13 will never have the enormous following it deserves. I often struggle to convey how engaging an experience it is, even with an absurdly obtuse interface. Dwarf Fortress is a lot of fun too, but nothing can surpass the emergent, anarchic glory of SS13. If I can sway you in this comment, please. Treat yourself to two full playthroughs with the wiki open in another tab. You may just be hooked.
- etataetaet 5y agoThis video is what got me into SS13! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ__73b7FUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ__73b7FUE
- klondike_ 5y agoSS13 is hampered by the awful BYOND software it was made for. It lags bad on high population servers. Unfortunately numerous from-scratch rewrite attempts have stalled out so we're stuck with it
- jokoon 5y agoI never really tried DF, only read some tutorials about it. I have high expectations for this port, but at the same time, I'm worried that the learning curve will still make this game unpleasant to play because it takes too much time. Factorio is also an excellent game, but I don't play the mods for the same reason I would not play DF. Too much things, and often the game design is a bit hairy for no good reason that would make some sense.