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User:Lichenousd/Tutorial
(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
Controlling the Game!
Space exits
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.
Design New World with Parameters
this section is OPTIONAL and deals with how to maximize things like magma etc.
Start Game
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!