User:Njals

About

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

• 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

• 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?