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User:Lichenousd/Tutorial

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(Yeah, I'm planning a tutorial. I find Dwarf Fortress' current tutorials either hard to follow or just plain old. What really needs to be done is a flash tutorial, but I will call on movies as well as screenshots and charts as visual aids. If you find something amiss, plant it on the Talk page.)


Preface

Here are some short but very important things to know about DF before you start. If you have fooled around with it and played a couple forts already, skip this section.

Before We Start

File Structure

where you can find your save files

Regions

downloading premade ones, etc

Changing Init Options

some very basic work in init.txt

Resolution

how to figure out resolution

Controlling the Game!

Space exits


Let's Go!

Welcome! Go ahead and start dwarfort.exe in your folder...

The Main Menu

Create New World Now! does x Design New World with Parameters does x, but is not covered in this tutorial.

Start Game

Dwarf Fortress does x Adventurer does x, but is not covered in this tutorial. Legends does x, but is not covered in this tutorial.

Create Your Universe

Create New World Now!

this section will briefly explain regions.

Design New World with Parameters

this section is OPTIONAL and deals with how to maximize things like magma etc.

Start Game

Notes about this tutorial in progress

The tutorial will divide everything into clean parts.

Section names will be short phrases, ending in ! if it is important!