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Dwarf Fortress is fantastic but really requires patience with learning its difficult and inconsistent UI. Get started with this guide: http://dwarffortresswiki

by qrush 13y ago

Dwarf Fortress is fantastic but really requires patience with learning its difficult and inconsistent UI. Get started with this guide: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Quickstart_guide http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Quickstart_guid... If you're on OSX, Dwarf Builder is the best way to get a copy of the game running well: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106974.0 http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=106974.0 If neither of these are for you, perhaps you'd enjoy reading some insane stories about DF games. Here's a few of the best: Boatmurdered: http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered Oilfurnace: http://oilfurnace.timdenee.com/ http://oilfurnace.timdenee.com/ Bronzemurder: http://bronzemurder.timdenee.com/ http://bronzemurder.timdenee.com/

pavel_lishin 13y ago
> really requires patience with learning its difficult and inconsistent UI. Definitely an understatement. I tried, and I failed. I desperately wanted to play the game, and I don't care if it's all extended ASCII characters, but when building similar-purpose buildings have entirely different key bindings, and when the steps required to place items varies widely on their purpose... DF isn't a single-player game. It's a two-player game, and the game itself is an antagonist.
- qznc 13y ago
  Appropriate comic: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110522180205/vsrecommendedgames/images/a/a5/Dwarf_Fortress_fun.png http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110522180205/vsrecom... Not XKCD though.
  - norswap 13y ago
    To be accurate, the comic should represent the game overs you'd get from starving dwarves, etc... Losing to a bad-ass monster is an accomplishment in this game (:
  - pavel_lishin 13y ago
    That comic assumes that you know how to enter the restaurant, understand how to open a menu, and can read the dishes offered. In Dwarf Fortress, you have to walk down an alley, turn around thrice widdershins, wait for a figure to appear as if from nowhere, and translate their strange and inconsistent language. Then you can get around to being disemboweled horribly.
- eruditely 13y ago
  Try Lazy Newb Pack, and also less drama and theatrics. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 It helps modify the graphics and makes for better keybindings.

by qrush 13y ago

pavel_lishin 13y ago

> really requires patience with learning its difficult and inconsistent UI. Definitely an understatement. I tried, and I failed. I desperately wanted to play the game, and I don't care if it's all extended ASCII characters, but when building similar-purpose buildings have entirely different key bindings, and when the steps required to place items varies widely on their purpose... DF isn't a single-player game. It's a two-player game, and the game itself is an antagonist.

qznc 13y ago
Appropriate comic: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110522180205/vsrecommendedgames/images/a/a5/Dwarf_Fortress_fun.png http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110522180205/vsrecom... Not XKCD though.
- norswap 13y ago
  To be accurate, the comic should represent the game overs you'd get from starving dwarves, etc... Losing to a bad-ass monster is an accomplishment in this game (:
- pavel_lishin 13y ago
  That comic assumes that you know how to enter the restaurant, understand how to open a menu, and can read the dishes offered. In Dwarf Fortress, you have to walk down an alley, turn around thrice widdershins, wait for a figure to appear as if from nowhere, and translate their strange and inconsistent language. Then you can get around to being disemboweled horribly.
eruditely 13y ago
Try Lazy Newb Pack, and also less drama and theatrics. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0 It helps modify the graphics and makes for better keybindings.