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Stone is the material that is left behind after [[Mining]]. Some mineable layers, however, do not leave behind stone. These fall into the [[Soil]] category.
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Stone is divided into three key categories:
# [[Metal ore]]: stone that produces metal bars when [[Smelter|smelting]].
# [[Economic stone]]: [[coal]] and stone that is used as a [[flux]] or has other desirable features.
# Other stone: stone that is used for structures and has no special features other than color.

In the '''metal ore''' category:<br>
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
| [[Hematite]]
| [[Limonite]]
| [[Garnierite]]
| [[Gold nuggets]]
|-
| [[Silver nuggets]]
| [[Copper nuggets]]
| [[Malachite]]
| [[Galena]]
|-
| [[Sphalerite]]
| [[Cassiterite]]
| [[Platinum nuggets]]
| [[Tetrahedrite]]
|-
| [[Horn silver]]
| [[Bismuthinite]]
| [[Magnetite]]
| [[Aluminum]]
|}
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In the '''economic stone''' category:<br>
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
| [[Bituminous coal]]
| [[Lignite]]
| [[Calcite]]
| [[Limestone]]
|-
| [[Dolomite]]
| [[Chalk]]
| [[Marble]]
|}
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In the '''other stone''' category:<br>

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
| [[Cinnabar]]
| [[Cobaltite]]
| [[Gypsum]]
| [[Talc]]
| [[Jet]]
| [[Puddingstone]]
|-
| [[Petrified wood]]
| [[Graphite]]
| [[Brimstone]]
| [[Kimberlite]]
| [[Realgar]]
| [[Orpiment]]
|-
| [[Stibnite]]
| [[Marcasite]]
| [[Sylvite]]
| [[Cryolite]]
| [[Periclase]]
| [[Ilmenite]]
|-
| [[Rutile]]
| [[Chromite]]
| [[Pyrolusite]]
| [[Pitchblende]]
| [[Bauxite]]
| [[Borax]]
|-
| [[Olivine]]
| [[Hornblende]]
| [[Kaolinite]]
| [[Serpentine]]
| [[Orthoclase]]
| [[Microcline]]
|-
| [[Mica]]
| [[Saltpeter]]
| [[Alabaster]]
| [[Selenite]]
| [[Satinspar]]
| [[Anhydrite]]
|-
| [[Alunite]]
| [[Raw adamantine]]
| [[Sandstone]]
| [[Siltstone]]
| [[Mudstone]]
| [[Shale]]
|-
| [[Claystone]]
| [[Rock salt]]
| [[Conglomerate]]
| [[Flint]]
| [[Chert]]
| [[Granite]]
|-
| [[Diorite]]
| [[Gabbro]]
| [[Rhyolite]]
| [[Basalt]]
| [[Andesite]]
| [[Felsite]]
|-
| [[Obsidian]]
| [[Quartzite]]
| [[Slate]]
| [[Phyllite]]
| [[Schist]]
| [[Gneiss]]
|}

40d:Stone

2007-11-03T23:37:10Z

Iluxan:

40d:Your first fortress

2007-11-03T06:00:57Z

Iluxan: /* Beginning the Fortress */

This is a guide to help new players get started on their first fortress, and teach them the basics of keeping their dwarves alive.
Above all else, always remember the Dwarf Fortress motto: ''"Losing is fun!"''

== Setting up ==

Try to pick a [[location]] that has trees and a river, brook or stream running through it. Avoid areas with extreme temperatures, and areas with the [[sinister]]/[[haunted]]/[[terrifying]] descriptions.

A good suggestion for your starting dwarves' skills (all skills are Proficient): 
* [[Miner]]/[[Mason]] 
* [[Miner]]/[[Mason]] 
* [[Woodcutter]]/[[Carpenter]] 
* [[Grower]]/[[Herbalist]] 
* [[Mechanic]]/[[Building designer]] 
* [[Fisherdwarf]]/[[Fish cleaner]] 
You can change these around however you like. Many players would prefer a [[weaponsmith]]/[[armorsmith]] to the fisherdwarf, for example.

Suggested items you should take along:
* Two copper [[pickaxe]]s. The material doesn't affect mining speed. 
* A [[battle axe]], for woodcutting. Drafting the woodcutter in an emergency also gives your woodcutter the ability to defend your fortress against wild animals. 
* Two [[dog]]s. Gender alternates, so you will get one male and one female if you bring two. Dogs are excellent early defense systems and can be trained into more powerful war dogs. 
* [[Cat]]s kill [[vermin]], preventing unhappy [[thought]]s, and will take owners which will make the owners happy, but also leave dead rats and other vermin corpses around your fortress which can produce clouds of [[miasma]]; bringing cats is a matter of preference, but not recommended for novices.
* 100 pieces of any variety of [[meat]] worth 2 points apiece. 
* 100 drinks of [[alcohol]], which will be stored in 20 barrels free of charge. 
* 25 [[plump helmet spawn]]. 
* 10 [[pig tail]] seeds. 
* 10 [[rock nut]]s, which are the most difficult crop to use but the one that gives the most food, bar cheating. 
* Whatever else you feel like using any leftover points. The anvil is not recommended, as it costs 1000 points (=500 meat, 63 dogs, 333 logs, or etc) and the dwarven caravan will bring an anvil in the first autumn (if you request an anvil in the request screen, they'll bring more in other autumns).

==Beginning the Fortress==
When you reach the site of your new fortress, the first things you want to do are:
*Dig secure lodgings.
*Set up basic [[workshop]]s.
*Set up a [[dining room]] and a [[bedroom]].
*Set up a [[farm]].
*Set up [[stockpile]]s.

Sounds simple, right? It doesn't? Learning the basics of the game can take some time, but soon enough you'll be customizing stockpiles like a pro!
*First off, pause the game by pressing {{k|space}}. You can do this at any time to figure out what's going on at your leisure.
*To move the view around, use the arrow keys. To move the view around at a faster pace, hold down the {{k|SHIFT}} key. To view different elevations, or "Z-levels," use the {{k|<}} and {{k|>}} keys ({{k|SHIFT}} + {{k|,}} or {{k|.}}.)
*To examine the contents of a square, press {{k|k}} and move the cursor over the square you want to examine. If you get lost and can't find your way back to your dwarves, press {{k|F1}} to center the camera back on the starting position. (Check out more information on [[hotkeys]] such as this.)
*You need to know how to change what jobs your dwarves will do. Press {{k|v}} and then move the cursor over a dwarf. It will display information about him/her. Go to the dwarf's {{k|p}}references, then the {{k|l}}abor submenu, and scroll the list with {{k|+}} and {{k|-}}. The highlighted jobs are the ones this dwarf is allowed to do. Your starting dwarves should have the jobs that you gave them skills in enabled, but any dwarf can do any job, even if they have no skill in it yet. This is important to know so you can make the dwarves do the jobs you need done instead of just whatever their default jobs are.
*To start [[digging]] out your fortress, press {{k|d}} to open the designation menu. Here you can select the tiles for your miners to dig, or tell them to create [[stair]]s and [[ramp]]s, and various other things. Press {{k|d}} again to make sure you're creating digging designations, then press enter to start marking where to dig.
*Start digging out a room as the start of your fortress. Try to keep a 1 tile wide chokepoint or hallway leading into it which you can block with a door. If you are in an area covered with sand, loam, or clay, you should dig downward using [[stair]]s or [[ramp]]s until you find rock, and mine the room out of that. You'll need the rock for construction.
*To dig down with stairs, designate a "downwards stairway" on the surface, then move the view down one level ({{k|>}}) and designate either an "upwards stairway" or an "up/down stairway" on the tile directly beneath the downwards stairs. Stairs can go as deep as you want in a stack if you keep making up/down stairs on top of each other. You can continue stairs from both the top and the bottom of up/down stairs, but only from the bottom of downwards stairs, and only from the top of upwards stairs.
*Outdoors by the wagon, create a [[refuse stockpile]], a [[wood stockpile]], a [[furniture stockpile]], and a [[food stockpile]] to get your supplies out of the wagon and keep the food from rotting. To make a stockpile, press {{k|p}}, press the letter corresponding to the type of stockpile you want, then press enter and drag the selection box over the area you want, and press enter again to create it.
*Disassemble the wagon for [[wood]] by pressing {{k|q}}, moving the cursor over the wagon and pressing {{k|x}}. Your carpenter should then disassemble it into 3 logs.
*Create a [[Mason's Workshop]], a [[Carpenter's Workshop]], and a [[Mechanic's Workshop]] with the stones your miners should be producing as they dig tunnels through the rock. To build things, press {{k|b}}, then for workshops, press {{k|w}}. Scroll to the type you want with {{k|+}} and {{k|-}} and press enter. You should next see a screen with the list of all the available materials you can use to build the workshop. Select any type of stone and the dwarves will get started. '''NOTE:''' If the stone available to you has some [[economic stone|economic value]], such as [[limestone]] or [[marble]], you must press {{k|z}} to open the general status screen, go to the Stones submenu, then find the stone type in the list and press {{k|enter}} to allow your dwarves to use it for mundane tasks like constructing buildings and furniture.
*Your [[fisherdwarf]] has likely run off to a body of water to start fishing. Raw fish is inedible, and rots if left alone too long, so you need to build a [[fishery]] to process it. You build the fishery in the same way you built the other workshops. After it's built, select it with {{k|q}}, press {{k|a}}, select "Process Raw Fish" and press enter. Then press {{k|r}} to make that order repeat until it runs out of fish to process.
*At the [[Mason's Workshop]], order a [[door]] by selecting the workshop with {{k|q}}, pressing {{k|a}}, then scrolling to "door" on the list with the + and - keys and pressing enter. Stone is more common than wood, so you want to make everything you possibly can out of stone rather than wood. The only important items you can't make out of stone that you can make out of wood are [[bed]]s, [[bucket]]s, [[bin]]s, [[barrel]]s, and [[charcoal]] for fueling your [[forge]]s.
*Once the door is finished, place the door in the entrance of your fort by pressing {{k|b}}uild, then {{k|d}}oor, then selecting the space you want it to go in and pressing {{k|enter}}. If trouble shows up, you can lock the door by pressing {{k|q}}, highlighting it and pressing {{k|l}} once. Pressing it again unlocks it.
*At the [[Carpenter's Workshop]], first order a [[bed]] and a [[bucket]] to be made out of some of your wagon wood.
*Once the bed is complete, {{k|b}}uild it in the same manner you built the door, and place it in your entrance hall. Once it's placed, you should make it into a communal sleeping hall by selecting the bed with {{k|q}}, pressing {{k|r}} and using the {{k|+}} and {{k|-}} keys to cover the area of the hall, pressing enter, then pressing {{k|b}} to make it a [[barracks]]. Making it a barracks means that it is a public sleeping area, and dwarves without their own rooms will sleep there, even if there aren't enough beds.
*You should designate some trees to be cut down for more logs. Press {{k|d}}, then {{k|t}}. Find an area with trees, then press enter and highlight some trees by dragging the selection area over them and pressing enter again.
*To build some [[trap]]s to defend your front door, order some [[mechanism]]s to be built at the [[Mechanic's Workshop]]. After they are made, go to the {{k|b}}uild menu, and select the "Traps/Levers" category using {{k|+}} and {{k|-}}. Select the [[Trap#Stone-fall trap|stone-fall trap]], select the materials to use, then place it in a choke point leading into your fortress, like in front of or behind the front door.
*Mine a new room that will be used as a dining hall, and build four or five stone [[table]]s and stone [[throne]]s for it. Build some more doors to section off new rooms properly, as dwarves dislike rooms that aren't enclosed on all sides by walls or doors. Place the tables and thrones like you did the doors, and put one throne adjacent to each table. Once a table is placed in the room, select it with {{k|q}} and use it to define the area as a dining room, like you did with the bed for the sleeping hall. You only need to use one table to define the room, and the rest of the tables in it are automatically considered part of the dining room.
*Mine a few more rooms to be used as storage areas, remove the furniture and food stockpiles outside, and make new ones in these new storage rooms.
*You can also move your workshops indoors. They should not be built in the vicinity of the sleeping hall, as the noise will bother people. You can remove the workshops aboveground the same way you dismantled the wagon, press {{k|q}}, highlight the workshop, then press {{k|x}}.
*Next you'll set up [[farming]]. You first need to dig a farm room underground. Dwarven crops won't grow on the surface. If there are enough layers of [[soil]] covering the rock, you can carve out a farm room inside the soil and start farming without having to [[irrigate]] the ground. However, if you want to make a farm room with a rock floor, you will need to get the floor wet first. When water covers a rock cavern floor, it becomes muddy, which allows you to build farm plots on it. For more information about how to do that, read up on [[irrigation]].
*Once you have suitable ground for planting, go to the {{k|b}}uild menu, find "Farm Plot" or press {{k|p}}, then use the {{k|u}} {{k|m}} {{k|h}} {{k|k}} keys to resize it, and press enter to place it. A 5x5 field should be plenty to last you through winter. After it's placed, your growers will come clear the site and prepare it for planting.
*Now that the field is ready, select it with {{k|q}}, and set the crop you want to be grown on it. You have to set this manually for each season. Press {{k|a}} for spring, {{k|b}} for summer, {{k|c}} for fall, and {{k|d}} for winter. Not every crop can be grown in every season, although [[plump helmet]]s can be grown all year. You probably want to grow plump helmets exclusively at first, as they are the easiest crop to grow and use. Dwarves can eat them raw, cooked, or brew them into alcohol.

==What Next?==
At this point your little fort should be mostly self-sufficient, barring animal attacks, mining accidents, psychotic outbreaks, or invasion. You can now invest some time in luxuries, such as making private rooms for each dwarf, crafting valuable trade goods, crazy engineering projects, and brewing more beer.

Here's some ideas for what to do next:
*Make an underground water supply that won't freeze over in winter, by draining a surface pool or diverting a river.
*Build a [[craftdwarf's workshop]] and start making some trade goods.
*Build a [[trade depot]] so that merchants can come and trade with you.
*Set up a [[still]] to brew more drinks for your thirsty dwarves. They'll drink water if they have to, but they are much happier and work faster if they are full of beer.
*Make individual rooms for each dwarf, with a bed and maybe a rock coffer and rock cabinet in each one.
*Use [[zone]]s to set up a meeting hall, and designate which water sources you want your dwarves to use for fishing and drinking.
*Expand your farm, dining room, and living quarters in anticipation of the massive wave of 10-30 immigrants that will likely show up sometime in the next year.
*Start making [[bin]]s and [[barrel]]s to consolidate items and food taking up space in your stockpiles so things are more organized, and so you have more barrels to brew drinks with.
*Set up an indoor [[refuse stockpile]] so your dwarves don't have to carry their trash as far, and so you can start building up a useful supply of bones and shells.

[[Category:Guides]]

40d:Quickstart guide

2007-11-03T05:35:41Z

Iluxan:

== Dwarf Fortress Starter Guide ==

=== Overview ===

This quick and cheerful guide aims to help those of you brave enough to tackle this game over the first few hurdles that it presents.

Before we start, I must stress that this game can get very complicated very fast, and you may get overwhelmed at multiple points. Don't give up, you'll get the hang of it eventually. Focus on getting food and shelter first, and you'll have plenty of time to take the rest of the game slowly.

=== Aim of the game ===

The basic premise of the game is to build, with the help of your starting seven dwarves and any children or immigrants, a successful, prosperous fortress. By keeping up with the needs of your dwarves, they will gladly do anything you ask and soon your fortress will be magnificent (if it all goes well).

=== Fundamentals ===

Your dwarves need food, drink and a bed generally, so these will be your first objectives. However, when you start, your dwarves are just sitting on the surface of your newly generated world, so we have to get them under the earth, where they belong. The new version of Dwarf Fortress implements a whole new way of digging, the Z-Axis. Using this, you can not only dig sideways, but downwards and upwards as well. Press [d] to open the [[designation panel]], and you'll be greeted by a lot of possible designations. Firstly, choose "Downwards Stairway". Using your mouse, click somewhere on the screen to place it. Then, press Shift+. [>] Your view will then change, showing blackness, with periodic grey %,. signs. You just went down a z-level. Think of it as going one level down. You should see that underneath the downwards stairway you placed just a second ago, there will be a grey block. Go back into the [d] menu, and select "Upwards Stairway". Click in the grey block to place it, and the two stairways will link up. Press [<] (To go up a z-level) and then [Space] and your miner dwarf will run over and dig the stairways. Once the stairs are built, you can continue to build. Using [d] again, designate an area no larger than 7x7 squares away next to the stairs on your first -z level for mining. Make sure that the mining designation is connected to an open room or space, or else the dwarves will not be able to mine. The area you designated for mining should turn yellow, and when you hit [Space] again, your mining dwarf/s will hurry to mine out the selected area. This is the basic skill in Dwarf Fortress, being able to dig.

{{Notice Box|In Progress|While this page has some good general information, a much more detailed introduction can be found at the [[Your first fortress]] page.}}

=== Storage ===

All of your dwarves' possessions are on the wagons on the surface, including food, seeds, equipment and anything else you brought. Storing food inside is a good idea, so hit [p] to open the stockpile menu, then hit [f] for food. Move the keyboard over to the start corner of a big room, hit enter, then move to the other corner, hitting enter again will place the pile, and your dwarves should begin hauling food to it immediately.

You should also make a [p][w] wood and refuse pile outside.

Stone is dug out of the earth itself, while wood is collected from trees (usually outside). To designate trees to be cut, open the [d] menu, and select [t] for trees, then drag a box around the trees you want felled.

=== Construction ===

Next up: Constructing buildings and objects. You can place many buildings (almost all 3x3) that carry out various tasks from making food to carving stone, smelting ore to generating power.

Hit [b]uild menu, and then [w]orkshop. You'll be seeing the build menu often as you build and expand your fortress. Build a mason's and a carpenter's workshop, so that you can craft stone and wood that you collect. Your dwarves should begin construction reasonably quickly.

You may need to reassign dwarves to other jobs in order to get them to do something (build, work at certain workshop, move something etc). Hit [v] to view dwarves, and scroll until you find one. The [g]eneral panel will show name, skills and current actions. Change to [p]references and [l]abour. This is where you change what tasks the dwarf will carry out. Use the [+] and [-] keys to scroll down to masonry and enable it with the enter button, to allow this dwarf to use the masons workshop.

Building items: hit [q] to search buildings and move your cursor to the masons workshop. [a] will add a new task, and hit [d] for door. Space to un-pause, and the mason should grab a rock and set about building you a door. When he is done, you can place this via the [b]uild menu ([d]oor). Note that there are some buildings that [q] doesn't work with. Use [t] for these instead.

Beds are constructed in the same way ([b] on the build menu), but can only be made from wood in the carpenters workshop.

=== Food and drink ===

Food is sometimes difficult to get right. There are many ways to provide food for your dwarves, be it butchering animals from hunting or slaughtering your own, farming, fishing, trading etc, but the most reliable way is to farm. The new version of the game added the ability to farm certain plants/crops outside your fortress, aswell as inside. There are many guides on farming, so I won't go into it here, but sufficed to say, you build farm plots with [b]uild [p]lot on either soil (clay, loam, sand, etc) or rock that has been muddied by water, and once it is built by your farmers, select [q] and choose the seed type. Plump helmet is the best choice just now. As seeding is seasonal, you might want to choose ahead of time. [a], [b], [c] and [d] choose spring, summer, autumn and winter. Just choose the seed type for each season.

Drink is created from the still with crops grown in the fields. Drink is good, as it increases dwarf efficiency. Water is attained in a number of different ways. If your map has a river or brook on it, dwarves will automatically go to it to drink. If this is not the case, hope that there is a lake or pond on the surface of your map, or else it will be a while before you get access to water. I hope you brought lots of drink with you.

Well, that is the basics of Dwarf Fortress. What you want to do now is set up a steady supply of food, keep digging downwards and along, and make sure you are prepared for winter. Expect a trade [[caravan]] to come to your fortress just before winter, so make sure you build a trade depot. Oh, and you could get a group of 5-12 dwarves arriving before winter as well, so make sure you have enough food to feed everyone.

Good luck.

Other points of interest

* [z] will give you an overview of your fortress, and will allow you to select animals for slaughter (just hit enter when the word "Animals" at the top is highlighted).

* [u] gives you information on individual dwarves and their current tasks.

* You can use the mouse to designate areas (mine, trees, etc), and right-clicking gives a new scroll option.

* To exit the game, you must save first, and it will automatically move you to the start screen again.

* If you want to look at something, use [q], [t], [k], or [v]. [q] and [t] looks at buildings and other constructions, and depending on the structure, will let you change the build queue, look at the contents of the building, destroy the building, or let you toggle settings on doors and such.

* [k] will show individual items in a tile, and [v] shows individual dwarves and other creatures. In any combat you will find it easier to keep track on what's going on by pressing [v] to select creatures and [w] to look at their wounds.

[[Category:Guides]]

40d:Your first fortress

2007-11-03T05:25:31Z

Iluxan: /* Beginning the Fortress */

This is a guide to help new players get started on their first fortress, and teach them the basics of keeping their dwarves alive.
Above all else, always remember the Dwarf Fortress motto: ''"Losing is fun!"''

== Setting up ==

Try to pick a [[location]] that has trees and a river, brook or stream running through it. Avoid areas with extreme temperatures, and areas with the [[sinister]]/[[haunted]]/[[terrifying]] descriptions.

A good suggestion for your starting dwarves' skills (all skills are Proficient): 
* [[Miner]]/[[Mason]] 
* [[Miner]]/[[Mason]] 
* [[Woodcutter]]/[[Carpenter]] 
* [[Grower]]/[[Herbalist]] 
* [[Mechanic]]/[[Building designer]] 
* [[Fisherdwarf]]/[[Fish cleaner]] 
You can change these around however you like. Many players would prefer a [[weaponsmith]]/[[armorsmith]] to the fisherdwarf, for example.

Suggested items you should take along:
* Two copper [[pickaxe]]s. The material doesn't affect mining speed. 
* A [[battleaxe]], for woodcutting. 
* Two [[dog]]s. Gender alternates, so you will get one male and one female if you bring two. 
* It is not recommended that you bring any cats, as they are rather useless and can cause a lot of lag.
* 100 2-point [[meat]]. 
* 100 [[alcohol]]. 
* 25 [[plump helmet]] spawn. 
* 10 [[pig tail]] seeds. 
* 10 [[rock nuts]], which are the most difficult crop to use but the one that gives the most food, bar cheating. 
* Whatever else you feel like using any leftover points. The anvil is not recommended, as it costs 1000 points (=500 meat, 63 dogs, 333 logs, or etc) and the dwarven caravan will bring an anvil in the first autumn (if you request an anvil in the request screen, they'll bring more in other autumns).

==Beginning the Fortress==
When you reach the site of your new fortress, the first things you want to do are:
*Dig secure lodgings.
*Set up basic [[workshop]]s.
*Set up a [[dining room]] and a [[bedroom]].
*Set up a [[farm]].
*Set up [[stockpile]]s.

Sounds simple, right? It doesn't? Learning the basics of the game can take some time, but soon enough you'll be customizing stockpiles like a pro!
*First off, pause the game by pressing {{k|space}}. You can do this at any time to figure out what's going on at your leisure.
*To move the view around, use the arrow keys. To move the view around at a faster pace, hold down the {{k|SHIFT}} key. To view different elevations, or "Z-levels," use the {{k|<}} and {{k|>}} keys ({{k|SHIFT}} + {{k|,}} or {{k|.}}.)
*To examine the contents of a square, press {{k|k}} and move the cursor over the square you want to examine. If you get lost and can't find your way back to your dwarves, press {{k|F1}} to center the camera back on the starting position. (Check out more information on [[hotkeys]] such as this.)
*You need to know how to change what jobs your dwarves will do. Press {{k|v}} and then move the cursor over a dwarf. It will display information about him/her. Go to the dwarf's {{k|p}}references, then the {{k|l}}abor submenu, and scroll the list with {{k|+}} and {{k|-}}. The highlighted jobs are the ones this dwarf is allowed to do. Your starting dwarves should have the jobs that you gave them skills in enabled, but any dwarf can do any job, even if they have no skill in it yet. This is important to know so you can make the dwarves do the jobs you need done instead of just whatever their default jobs are.
*To start [[digging]] out your fortress, press {{k|d}} to open the designation menu. Here you can select the tiles for your miners to dig, or tell them to create [[stair]]s and [[ramp]]s, and various other things. Press {{k|d}} again to make sure you're creating digging designations, then press enter to start marking where to dig.
*Start digging out a room as the start of your fortress. Try to keep a 1 tile wide chokepoint or hallway leading into it which you can block with a door. If you are in an area covered with sand, loam, or clay, you should dig downward using [[stair]]s or [[ramp]]s until you find rock, and mine the room out of that. You'll need the rock for construction.
*To dig down with stairs, designate a "downwards stairway" on the surface, then move the view down one level ({{k|>}}) and designate either an "upwards stairway" or an "up/down stairway" on the tile directly beneath the downwards stairs. Stairs can go as deep as you want in a stack if you keep making up/down stairs on top of each other. You can continue stairs from both the top and the bottom of up/down stairs, but only from the bottom of downwards stairs, and only from the top of upwards stairs.
*Outdoors by the wagon, create a [[refuse stockpile]], a [[wood stockpile]], a [[furniture stockpile]], and a [[food stockpile]] to get your supplies out of the wagon and keep the food from rotting. To make a stockpile, press {{k|p}}, press the letter corresponding to the type of stockpile you want, then press enter and drag the selection box over the area you want, and press enter again to create it.
*Disassemble the wagon for [[wood]] by pressing {{k|q}}, moving the cursor over the wagon and pressing {{k|x}}. Your carpenter should then disassemble it into 3 logs.
*Create a [[Mason's Workshop]], a [[Carpenter's Workshop]], and a [[Mechanic's Workshop]] with the stones your miners should be producing as they dig tunnels through the rock. To build things, press {{k|b}}, then for workshops, press {{k|w}}. Scroll to the type you want with {{k|+}} and {{k|-}} and press enter. You should next see a screen with the list of all the available materials you can use to build the workshop. Select any type of stone and the dwarves will get started. '''NOTE:''' If the stone available to you has some [[economic stone|economic value]], such as [[limestone]] or [[marble]], you must press {{k|z}} to open the general status screen, go to the Stones submenu, then find the stone type in the list and press {{k|enter}} to allow your dwarves to use it for mundane tasks like constructing buildings and furniture.
*Your [[fisherdwarf]] has likely run off to a body of water to start fishing. Raw fish is inedible, and rots if left alone too long, so you need to build a [[fishery]] to process it. You build the fishery in the same way you built the other workshops. After it's built, select it with {{k|q}}, press {{k|a}}, select "Process Raw Fish" and press enter. Then press {{k|r}} to make that order repeat until it runs out of fish to process.
*At the [[Mason's Workshop]], order a [[door]] by selecting the workshop with {{k|q}}, pressing {{k|a}}, then scrolling to "door" on the list with the + and - keys and pressing enter. Stone is more common than wood, so you want to make everything you possibly can out of stone rather than wood. The only important items you can't make out of stone that you can make out of wood are [[bed]]s, [[bucket]]s, [[bin]]s, [[barrel]]s, and [[charcoal]] for fueling your [[forge]]s.
*Once the door is finished, place the door in the entrance of your fort by pressing {{k|b}}uild, then {{k|d}}oor, then selecting the space you want it to go in and pressing {{k|enter}}. If trouble shows up, you can lock the door by pressing {{k|q}}, highlighting it and pressing {{k|l}} once. Pressing it again unlocks it.
*At the [[Carpenter's Workshop]], first order a [[bed]] and a [[bucket]] to be made out of some of your wagon wood.
*Once the bed is complete, {{k|b}}uild it in the same manner you built the door, and place it in your entrance hall. Once it's placed, you should make it into a communal sleeping hall by selecting the bed with {{k|q}}, pressing {{k|r}} and using the {{k|+}} and {{k|-}} keys to cover the area of the hall, pressing enter, then pressing {{k|b}} to make it a [[barracks]]. Making it a barracks means that it is a public sleeping area, and dwarves without their own rooms will sleep there, even if there aren't enough beds.
*You should designate some trees to be cut down for more logs. Press {{k|d}}, then {{k|t}}. Find an area with trees, then press enter and highlight some trees by dragging the selection area over them and pressing enter again.
*To build some [[trap]]s to defend your front door, order some [[mechanism]]s to be built at the [[Mechanic's Workshop]]. After they are made, go to the {{k|b}}uild menu, and select the "Traps/Levers" category using {{k|+}} and {{k|-}}. Select the [[Trap#Stone-fall trap|stone-fall trap]], select the materials to use, then place it in a choke point leading into your fortress, like in front of or behind the front door.
*Mine a new room that will be used as a dining hall, and build four or five stone [[table]]s and stone [[throne]]s for it. Build some more doors to section off new rooms properly, as dwarves dislike rooms that aren't enclosed on all sides by walls or doors. Place the tables and thrones like you did the doors, and put one throne adjacent to each table. Once a table is placed in the room, select it with {{k|q}} and use it to define the area as a dining room, like you did with the bed for the sleeping hall. You only need to use one table to define the room, and the rest of the tables in it are automatically considered part of the dining room.
*Mine a few more rooms to be used as storage areas, remove the furniture and food stockpiles outside, and make new ones in these new storage rooms.
*You can also move your workshops indoors. They should not be built in the vicinity of the sleeping hall, as the noise will bother people. You can remove the workshops aboveground the same way you dismantled the wagon, press {{k|q}}, highlight the workshop, then press {{k|x}}.
*Next you'll set up farming. You first need to dig a farm room underground. Dwarven crops won't grow on the surface. If there are enough layers of [[soil]] covering the rock, you can carve out a farm room inside the soil and start farming without having to [[irrigate]] the ground. However, if you want to make a farm room with a rock floor, you will need to get the floor wet first. When water covers a rock cavern floor, it becomes muddy, which allows you to build farm plots on it. For more information about how to do that, read up on [[irrigation]].
*Once you have suitable ground for planting, go to the {{k|b}}uild menu, find "Farm Plot" or press {{k|p}}, then use the {{k|u}} {{k|m}} {{k|h}} {{k|k}} keys to resize it, and press enter to place it. A 5x5 field should be plenty to last you through winter. After it's placed, your growers will come clear the site and prepare it for planting.
*Now that the field is ready, select it with {{k|q}}, and set the crop you want to be grown on it. You have to set this manually for each season. Press {{k|a}} for spring, {{k|b}} for summer, {{k|c}} for fall, and {{k|d}} for winter. Not every crop can be grown in every season, although [[plump helmet]]s can be grown all year. You probably want to grow plump helmets exclusively at first, as they are the easiest crop to grow and use. Dwarves can eat them raw, cooked, or brew them into alcohol.

==What Next?==
At this point your little fort should be mostly self-sufficient, barring animal attacks, mining accidents, psychotic outbreaks, or invasion. You can now invest some time in luxuries, such as making private rooms for each dwarf, crafting valuable trade goods, crazy engineering projects, and brewing more beer.

Here's some ideas for what to do next:
*Make an underground water supply that won't freeze over in winter, by draining a surface pool or diverting a river.
*Build a [[craftdwarf's workshop]] and start making some trade goods.
*Build a [[trade depot]] so that merchants can come and trade with you.
*Figure out a way to store some water underground by your fortress so that you'll have drinking water even if the surface pools freeze in the winter.
*Set up a [[still]] to brew more drinks for your thirsty dwarves. They'll drink water if they have to, but they are much happier and work faster if they are full of beer.
*Make individual rooms for each dwarf, with a bed and maybe a rock coffer and rock cabinet in each one.
*Use [[zone]]s to set up a meeting hall, and designate which water sources you want your dwarves to use for fishing and drinking.
*Expand your farm, dining room, and living quarters in anticipation of the massive wave of 10-30 immigrants that will likely show up sometime in the next year.
*Start making [[bin]]s and [[barrel]]s to consolidate items and food taking up space in your stockpiles so things are more organized, and so you have more barrels to brew drinks with.
*Set up an indoor [[refuse stockpile]] so your dwarves don't have to carry their trash as far, and you can start building up a useful supply of bones.

[[Category:Guides]]

40d:Hotkeys

2007-11-03T04:17:40Z

Iluxan:

Hotkeys are useful: they can help you keep track of where you are in the new z-axis world.

To use a hotkey, simply press the corresponding {{k|F1}}-{{k|F9}} or {{k|Shift}}+{{k|F1}}...{{k|F9}}

To set a hotkey, enter the {{k|h}}otkey menu at the main menu to bring up the screen. You will then see a menu with all your current hotkeys. Move your screen to the 'view' you want to hotkey to, and then press the hotkey sequence you'd like to use for the location. This will get you to the right place on the menu. Then, press {{k|z}} and the hotkey will be all set up!

Likewise, to change the name of a hotkey while in the hotkey menu, highlight the hotkey in question, then press {{k|n}}, then input a name and press {{k|enter}}.

By default, the {{k|F1}} hotkey starts out set to the position of your wagon, with the name "Gate". All other hotkeys are unselected, and have a generic name ("Hotkey2").

[[Category:Interface]]