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I started several days ago. I checked [Veronica search for: dwarf fortress] and [Geminispace.info search for: dwarf fortress]. One point for Geminispace in the number of Dwarf Fortress players. One point for Gophersphere for [Dwarf Fortress at Gopherpedia], a Wikipedia mirror. So it's a draw.
Several years ago I was playing Dwarf Fortress very often. Encouraged by above results I downloaded and played it today. I'd like to recall that great immersion. It was long time, but after first second of play it was obvious that playing Dwarf Fortress is the same as riding on the bicycle. Who learns once, does not forget.
1. Generating a new world with short history (it's better for your computer), and frequent mineral occurrences.
2. Choosing a place for embark with:
3. In the first seconds after game started:
4. Miners must dig first rooms underground, I prefer schema like below:
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5. Finished digging for 5-10 levels would provide much resources and information what metals are near us.
6. Fishers are next to the river - so they can provide enough food.
7. On the ground, directly above 1st level of nine rooms wood workers clear all trees.
9. Farmer planting four fields of plump helmets - one field for one season. I won't fertilize them.
10. I organising first workshops:
11. Setting a manager's room and assigning a manager role is crucial.
12. With manager I'm setting automatic orders:
13. We shouldn't use wood too much because after a while we would have wood shortage. Try to use alternate materials.
14. We should looking for coal or lignite. Without own metalsmith's forge it would be hard in the later game.
15. In the moderate temperature regions we should dig a well. River would freeze in the winter, and our dwarfs die without wine/beer and freezed water.
In that point our fort will automatically organise and:
16. The next step is to improve trading - by for example run jewelry workshop and cut gems, and encrust crafted goods.
17. The next step is also improve our military power, we need metal armors and metal weapons. We could buy them, or forge.
18. To forge them we need coal or lignite. Charcoal furnace wouldn't last for long. If there aren't coal or lignite it's possible to look for magma but it's not novice level choice in my opinion.
19. Digging deep would lead to found of underground caves. Without 2 squads (include one archers) it's safer to wall up the entry to the cave in case of accidental discovery.
20. At the beginning we shouldn't be too quick, because with several dwarfs and many orders everything would last ages. We shouldn't for example put all citizens to military squads because we would run out of food and drinks. We should plan sustainable development.
In first games I tried to build separated rooms for dwarfs but it's very time consuming - after a while our fort would have 100-200 citizens/rooms. It's better to build special rooms for notable dwarfs.
Regular dwarfs could sleep in dormitory, and eat in 10-20 tables meeting hall.
The more important than building fancy rooms is to organise piles. We should organise place for storage:
It's good idea to assign a role of bookkeeper, but we should have skilled dwarf for it. Manager will train itself in the most cases, but bookkeeper won't.
[Veronica search for: dwarf fortress]
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[Dwarf Fortress at Gopherpedia]
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