OT: Dwarf Fortress

[JaydedOne]

Either way, the mere fact of its existence pre-release smacks of awesome.

[Kristoffer O]

> What nation is it? Early Machaka, or perhaps Late Pythium?

Entirely new one.

[Nerfix]

Kristoffer O said:
> What nation is it? Early Machaka, or perhaps Late Pythium?

Entirely new one.

Oooh, is it perhaps Kalevala themed one, or maybe one based on biblical Israel? I've heard hints that you guys have had plans for both, and that you yourself wished to see a Kalevala nation....

...but ah, I wait with excitement. In under a month I'll be 18 and I'll have much easier time to arrange transactions. The demo will propably, depending if there are likeable nations there, keep me entertained untill that.

[DominionsFan]

Kristoffer O said:
I've spent free time the last week on DF. Splendid game. Tried a couple of times. Now I have a nice city going, but the little buggars are about to die this winter I think. The last human caravan didn't bring much food and my farmers have acted stupid (or rather, I didn't fertilize my farm plots efficiently). I'm getting over-stoned and over-nobled. Annoying chaps. Make this and make that!

I absolutely love the freakish moods and insane craftsmen.

I still havn't figured out how to milk cows. Might be that all my cows are male .

I think that we cannot milk cows yet, it is not implented at the moment. I think that the game will hit v1.0 in like 3 years minimum, because the developer's list is just HUGE.

[DominionsFan]

Kristoffer O said:
> Oh no, we got KO addicted.
> Don't expect any patches for Dom3.

Don't worry. I was addicted to some pre-release patch making the other week. Expect at least one new nation in the first patch, and it wont be dwarves .

But, I must confess to having played DF for at least 30 hours this weekend (I had the friday off) .

Yeah, the game is decent, and keep in mind that its a very early beta. Like I said many times, this is definitely the game of the year for me because of the deep gameplay...and of course Dominions 3.
PS.
The adventure mode is also exciting. I just recently lost my uber sword [and I died like 10 seconds after it], because it was stucked in a monster's head. I tried to pull it off, but a kobold archer popped up in the corridor, and I guess his name was Robin Hood probably, because he killed me with a single shot. The arrow just removed the brain of my char.

[Morkilus]

This is the most violent ASCII game I've played since the debut of my Fantasy Pit Champion game back in high school. Ah, memories...

Don't let Jack Thompson know about this one.

[PrinzMegaherz]

has anyone here created a working farm?

I've got a floodgate system to flood a 5x5 room, I build a farm plot and order some plants to be grown (sweet something). However, I haven't seen something growing there yet, and now it's winter and the ground is dry again, so I have to reflood it... any idea on what i could be doing wrong here?

Thanks!

[thejeff]

You may have just started too late.

I got my farm set up and started planting in autumn my first year in one game. Winter came and the fields dried up before any crops grew.

If so, just flood it early in spring and plant again.
Make sure some dwarves actually carry out the planting orders, too.

If not, I don't know what to say.

[DominionsFan]

PrinzMegaherz said:
has anyone here created a working farm?

I've got a floodgate system to flood a 5x5 room, I build a farm plot and order some plants to be grown (sweet something). However, I haven't seen something growing there yet, and now it's winter and the ground is dry again, so I have to reflood it... any idea on what i could be doing wrong here?

Thanks!

You must irrigate the farmlands from the outer or inner river.

[Morkilus]

He couldn't have built the plot without first flooding; I seriously doubt that's the problem. I'm guessing he started to plant too late, or did't have any of the right seeds. It can take a while to grow stuff, but never more than a season.