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Revision as of 00:29, 31 October 2008
(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
Showing Features in Finder
picking magma areas easily
Controlling the Game!
Space exits Up, Down, PgUp, PgDn moves the main (leftmost) cursor -, +, /, * moves the secondary (rightmost) cursor
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 and what is happening as your world is created.
Design New World with Parameters
See tutorial on world parameters?
Hit the road!
Choosing your Site!
Controls
The cursor in the world view is not directly controlled. That's a "zoomed-out" view.
- The Number Pad moves region cursor
- u m h k moves embark area
- U M H K resizes embark area
- tab shows more info
- Fn keys shows more biome info
How to Choose
Things to look for when choosing an area
- No aquifers (style="padding: 0; line-height: 1;"|
≈style="padding: 0; line-height: 1;"|≈style="padding: 0; line-height: 1;"|≈style="padding: 0; line-height: 1;"|≈style="padding: 0; line-height: 1;"|≈) for now. - ' for now.
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!