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== About ==
 
== About ==
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I used to play 40d 4 years ago without much success. Maybe that version was a bit too hardcore for me. There were no DwarfTherapist at the time, and Mayday's graphic set was considered a blessing. My forts population had never exceeded 12 dwarfs so at some point I gave up. Adventure mode wasn't very playable at that time, too.
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I used to play 40d back in 2008 without much success. Maybe that version was a bit too hardcore for me. There were no DwarfTherapist at the time, and Mayday's graphic set was considered a blessing. My forts population had never exceeded 12 dwarfs so at some point I gave up. Adventure mode wasn't very playable at that time, too.
  
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Now I tried DF2012 and found it much more playable. I started with [[DF2012:Quickstart_guide|Quickstart guide]] and suddenly found my fort grown to 59 dwarfs in 1.5 years, so I started taking notes.
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Then in 2013 I tried DF2012 and found it much more playable. I began with [[DF2012:Quickstart_guide|Quickstart guide]] and suddenly found my fort grown to 59 dwarfs in 1.5 years, so I started [[User:Njals/FirstBigFortress|taking notes]].
  
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== Ilirlogem, "Joyouspaint" ==
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== ToDo Fortress Mode ==
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I generated a world with default parameters (medium everything, sparse minerals). I found a good embark location as [[DF2012:Quickstart_guide|Quickstart guide]] suggested. I used the following starting build:
 
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{{collapsible-pre|title=Starting build|[PROFILE]
 
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[TITLE:BUILD-2.5]
 
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[SKILL:1:FORGE_WEAPON:5]
 
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[SKILL:1:FORGE_ARMOR:5]
 
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[SKILL:2:PLANT:5]
 
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[SKILL:2:DESIGNBUILDING:5]
 
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[SKILL:3:MINING:3]
 
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[SKILL:3:PERSUASION:2]
 
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[SKILL:3:NEGOTIATION:2]
 
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[SKILL:3:JUDGING_INTENT:1]
 
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[SKILL:3:APPRAISAL:1]
 
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[SKILL:3:ORGANIZATION:1]
 
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[SKILL:4:MINING:3]
 
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[SKILL:4:DRESS_WOUNDS:1]
 
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[SKILL:4:DIAGNOSE:1]
 
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[SKILL:4:SURGERY:2]
 
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[SKILL:4:SET_BONE:2]
 
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[SKILL:4:SUTURE:1]
 
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[SKILL:5:MASONRY:5]
 
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[SKILL:5:CUTGEM:5]
 
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[SKILL:6:CARPENTRY:5]
 
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[SKILL:6:MECHANICS:5]
 
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[SKILL:7:BREWING:5]
 
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[SKILL:7:COOK:5]
 
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<a list of items omitted for clarity...>}}
 
  
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The party embarked on the 1st of Granite, 252 (I've abandoned some test fortresses before). The fortress had 4 waves of immigration so far, of 5, 4, 26 and 15 dwarves correspondingly. 2 babies were born internally so far. The current population is 59 (=51 adults, 6 children and 2 babies). The fortress have traded with dwarven, elven and human caravans, once with each. The current status looks like this:
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* Test at least one "DF streamlined" mod:
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[[Image:Ilirlogem_253_status.png|center|1024px]]
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** Modest Mod
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** Essential DF
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** Accelerated DF
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** Accelerated Modest Mod?
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* Test Broken Arrow mod.
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* Test Nanofortress?
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* Test Seasonal Crops.
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* <s>Store all mods in a Git repository.</s>
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** Get used to merging mods/graphics with it.
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*** Automate merging even more.
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** Upload it to GitHub.
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* Make an own DF streamlined + balance mod!
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** Use it for a succession game.
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* Play at least one long game without graphics:
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** CLA
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** Taffer
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* Come up with a robust way to minimize micromanagement.
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* Look into magma infrastructure.
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* Look into mechanisms.
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* Look into minecarts.
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* Look into computation.
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** Make Turing complete machine.
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*** Make von Neumann Turing complete machine.
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**** Make it fast enough to compute k-th sign of \pi in a year.
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***** Make it fast enough to compute k-th sign of \pi in a month.
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**** Make a digital display and some animations. Maybe digital calendar.
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***** Add an input and a bunch of games!
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*<s>Grow a fortress from Outpost to Hamlet.</s>
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** <s>... to Village.</s>
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*** ... to Town.
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**** ... to City.
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***** ... to Metropolis.
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****** ... to Mountainhome.
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* Make a fortress to become a Barony capital.
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** ... County capital.
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*** ... Duchy capital.
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**** ... Mountainhome.
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* <s>Play a fun succession game.</s>
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** ... again.
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* Create an own succession game.
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* Create a successful succession game! (10+ overseers and some fun too)
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* Succeed in a challenge game:
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** Surface castle
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** No pause!
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* Architectural challenge:
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** Only circular rooms
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** Some fractal design
  
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=== General notes so far ===
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== ToDo Adventurer Mode ==
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0. [[Armor|Greaves]] do not provide [[Clothing|nudity]] coverage!!! This caused all of my melee squad (6 hammerdwarves) to became very unhappy, and squad leader knocked somebody's teeth out in tantrum. I've changed uniforms to include trousers/leggings immediately. Also, the aforesaid teeth cluttered butchery stockpile and stops butcher from working. =) I probably need a [[DAS]] to handle this. 
 
  
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1. Fortification [[Pressure|depressurizes]] water, which means it propagates quite slow. Designing 1-tile wide water pipe "entrance" may lead to enormous cistern filling time, especially if the water pipe is long. Mine was filling more than half a year. One may want to make the entrance wider to increase flow.
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* Not die for 1 ingame year as hero.
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** ... for 5 ingame years as hero.
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2. Animal scales provide good defense against wooden bolts. This makes shooting e.g. [[Pangolin|pangolins]] with wooden bolts an easy way to train Marksdwarf skill.
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*** ... for 10 ingame years as hero.
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**** ... for 20 ingame years as hero.
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3. Vanilla marksdwarves <s>pwn</s> are overpowered a little. Nerfing this with mods ([http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=115448.0 Broken Arrow]) may be a good idea.
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***** ... for 40 ingame years as hero.
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**** ... for 10 ingame years as peasant.
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=== Layout ===
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* Kill a forgotten beast.
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I was too lazy to setup QuickFort, so I came up with a layout which is easy to designate in vanilla game. It is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation tesselation] with 11x11 room squares, 3x3 stairway squares and 1-tile wide corridors between them. It can be easily designated with {{K|Shift}} + {{k|↑}} {{k|↓}} {{k|←}} {{k|→}}. 11x11 room space can be used entirely for a stockpile, or as 9x9 walled room, two 9x4 walled rooms, four 4x4 walled rooms, twelve 3x1 bedrooms or any possible combinations of these.
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* Kill a semi-megabeast.
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* Kill a megabeast.
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=== 255, Mid-spring ===
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* Kill something else noteworthy.
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Population has been grown enormously (175 dwarves = 131 adults + 17 children + 27 babies). I do not know how to occupy them all (78 idlers just now). I withstood a goblin siege and a number of ambushes (marksdwarves did most of the work). Lost one melee recruit and, unfortunately, her baby. Set up offhand hospital. Have built a wall with fortifications on top around main entrance.
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* Visit an own fort in adventurer mode.
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** Not get killed by defenses.
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*** And steal some artifact weapon/armor.
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* Play at least one long game without graphics:
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** CLA
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** Taffer
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* Test vanilla adventurer mode.
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* Test Broken Arrow mod.
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* Test Modest Mod or such (new reactions etc).
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* Make an own streamlined/balance mod for adventurer mode.
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* Play an epic adventurer succession game.
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* Succeed in a challenge game:
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** ??? any ideas guys?

Latest revision as of 07:44, 11 February 2014

About[edit]

I used to play 40d back in 2008 without much success. Maybe that version was a bit too hardcore for me. There were no DwarfTherapist at the time, and Mayday's graphic set was considered a blessing. My forts population had never exceeded 12 dwarfs so at some point I gave up. Adventure mode wasn't very playable at that time, too.

Then in 2013 I tried DF2012 and found it much more playable. I began with Quickstart guide and suddenly found my fort grown to 59 dwarfs in 1.5 years, so I started taking notes.

ToDo Fortress Mode[edit]

  • Test at least one "DF streamlined" mod:
    • Modest Mod
    • Essential DF
    • Accelerated DF
    • Accelerated Modest Mod?
  • Test Broken Arrow mod.
  • Test Nanofortress?
  • Test Seasonal Crops.
  • Store all mods in a Git repository.
    • Get used to merging mods/graphics with it.
      • Automate merging even more.
    • Upload it to GitHub.
  • Make an own DF streamlined + balance mod!
    • Use it for a succession game.
  • Play at least one long game without graphics:
    • CLA
    • Taffer
  • Come up with a robust way to minimize micromanagement.
  • Look into magma infrastructure.
  • Look into mechanisms.
  • Look into minecarts.
  • Look into computation.
    • Make Turing complete machine.
      • Make von Neumann Turing complete machine.
        • Make it fast enough to compute k-th sign of \pi in a year.
          • Make it fast enough to compute k-th sign of \pi in a month.
        • Make a digital display and some animations. Maybe digital calendar.
          • Add an input and a bunch of games!
  • Grow a fortress from Outpost to Hamlet.
    • ... to Village.
      • ... to Town.
        • ... to City.
          • ... to Metropolis.
            • ... to Mountainhome.
  • Make a fortress to become a Barony capital.
    • ... County capital.
      • ... Duchy capital.
        • ... Mountainhome.
  • Play a fun succession game.
    • ... again.
  • Create an own succession game.
  • Create a successful succession game! (10+ overseers and some fun too)
  • Succeed in a challenge game:
    • Surface castle
    • No pause!
  • Architectural challenge:
    • Only circular rooms
    • Some fractal design

ToDo Adventurer Mode[edit]

  • Not die for 1 ingame year as hero.
    • ... for 5 ingame years as hero.
      • ... for 10 ingame years as hero.
        • ... for 20 ingame years as hero.
          • ... for 40 ingame years as hero.
        • ... for 10 ingame years as peasant.
  • Kill a forgotten beast.
  • Kill a semi-megabeast.
  • Kill a megabeast.
  • Kill something else noteworthy.
  • Visit an own fort in adventurer mode.
    • Not get killed by defenses.
      • And steal some artifact weapon/armor.
  • Play at least one long game without graphics:
    • CLA
    • Taffer
  • Test vanilla adventurer mode.
  • Test Broken Arrow mod.
  • Test Modest Mod or such (new reactions etc).
  • Make an own streamlined/balance mod for adventurer mode.
  • Play an epic adventurer succession game.
  • Succeed in a challenge game:
    • ??? any ideas guys?
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