40d:Fortress name
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Naming your Fortress[edit]
Has no effect on gameplay, but there are a lot of options in this menu (accessible by pressing F on the Prepare Carefully screen). You can also set the name of the expedition, which uses the same interface.
Fortress names have this format:
[Front][Rear] the [Adj 1] [Adj 2] [hyphen compound]-["the" Noun] of ["of" noun]
Front Compound[edit]
Forms the first half of your fortress's name. Choose from an extremely long list of words.
Press c to clear a word selection--your fortress does not need ANY of these words to be chosen (i.e. a blank name) to be legal.
Press e to search for a word (in English), works just like the provisions search. Hitting enter will move from the type back to the search results.
Rear Compound[edit]
Forms the second half of your fortress's name, which are combined with no spaces (Foobar instead of Foo Bar).
Adjectives (First and Second)[edit]
At first glance, it appears these do nothing, but they give up to two words after your compound word (above) separated by spaces that are the adjectives to The X or Of X word choice (see below).
Hyphen Compound[edit]
Adds a third word joined by a hyphen to your The X or Of X word (below).
The X and Of X[edit]
Examples:
- Foobar the Great
- Foobar of Death
With Adjectives and Hyphen compound:
- Foobar the Great Moral Thraal-Generals
- Foobar the Goblin-Chunks of Exploding
With no front & rear compounds:
- The Great Deadly Foobar
- The Foobar of Foobars
- Of Foobars
