Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Awesome

This is awesome. Project Awesome.

What is Project Awesome?

Occasionally Briess receives an obscene amount of free advertising through Google that never gets used. (They expire in a month, etc.) Instead of throwing this credit away, why not use it to find newbies and introduce them to Dwarf Fortress? However, to do that, we need awesome tutorials, awesome evangelism pages, and an awesome front page so newbies don't get confused.

• Project coordinators: briess & Phantasm

There is a possibility of prizes for Awesome contributions to project Awesome. We shall see.

Master List of Awesome

• THEME
  • Project Awesome needs an awesome theme (graphical, etc) to go with it.
• THE WIKI
  • Magmawiki project is not dead. Just slow. It's not really relevant to Project Awesome.
    • Unrelated but maybe related, Briess needs to do some server updates and downtime :(
  • We need a revamp of the main page. Heck, the entire site would be nice.
  • Evangelism page. We need one. (http://df.zweistein.cz/ is cool!)
• TUTORIALS
  • There are some good tutorials out there, and many outdated ones.
• NEWBIE KIT (?)
  • Maybe a pregenerated world packaged with DF? Who knows if this would even be useful or not.
  • (Maybe 2x2 embark, 7 dwarves, pocket sized world, with simple farm setup, simple workshop layout, simple row housing so someone can see how certain things work?) Possibly also have a small area with screwpumps built to pump water back and forth between two small ponds or floodgate + lever to empty lake into river, and lever + 2-3 high pumpstack+water wheel to refill lake?
• PRIZES (?)
  • If this happens, it'll probably be t-shirts, pending Toady's permission. We would need t-shirt designs that are Awesome.

Newbie unfriendly bugs

List of various bugs that are of importance to be fixed to make ideal playing experience for newbies. Fixing of these of course requires support from Toady One. These haven't been much of a priority as seasoned players do not get bothered about most of these bugs, but for newbies fixing of these is a must.

• Farming on soil not working
• Parties never ending
• Stone considered as metal
• Indefinite blood
• Economy not working
• Dwarves ignore bedrooms and use any bed
• More?

Tutorials

Good set of tutorials including some Youtube-videos, wiki tutorials and nice list of important wiki pages.

Newbie DF bundle

Good DF bundle for newbie friendliness with preconfigures settings, tutorial map & save included etc. PDF/Wiki page shortcut list, guide etc?

IRC helpers

List of people who are regularly on IRC and are willing to help newbies. This is just to see there are enough people doing this and the list won't be given to newbies pointing out who to PM or anything. So, this is a wakeup call to IRC people so that they know to activate themselves as helpers when the project finishes and advertising starts.

• #DwarfFortress @ irc.quakenet.org
  • Briess
  • nick2

• #Bay12games @ irc.newnet.net
  • nick
  • nick2