Learning all the shortcuts isn't really the challenging part of learning DF, the underlying mechanics are often just as baffling. For example the distinction b

Learning all the shortcuts isn't really the challenging part of learning DF, the underlying mechanics are often just as baffling. For example the distinction between "Rooms", "Zones", "Stockpiles" and "Locations" which are all just variations on "area marked for some purpose" but that all exist as their own independent concepts and are specified in different ways.