Questions tagged [dwarf-fortress]
Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress is a tile based, real time strategy, city building, and adventure game for one player by Bay 12 Games Developers Zach and Tarn Adams.
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How to autosave when quitting?
One extremely frustrating aspect of the game for me is what happens when I leave the game accidentally:
Most of the times, I have been changing windows for a while. From the game to the wiki, then to ...
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Manage useless seeds
The answer to my previous question about how to not exhaust my seeds worked
great!
The problem is: on the "Labor"->"Kitchen"->"Seeds" menu, most seed types don't ...
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Is it possible to evaluate the strength of combatants and predict outcomes in fights to some degree?
I've seen plenty of fights over my years of playing DF but one thing that I still can't intuit is how well a given squad fights. Sometimes 3 dwarves return from a mission right into a siege and take ...
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Damp wall ignored, why?
I took as granted that Miners always detected damp walls and stopped mining in these cases.
But a miner did not detect, or just decided to ignore, an obvious damp wall, and created a leak that led to ...
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Waterproofing a Fortress: how to do it?
Revolver_Ocelot on How do I revert the flood?
If that fails... Well, losing is fun, and you will learn to better water-proof your fortress in the future.
How to waterproof a Fortress to prevent ...
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How do I revert the flood?
I accidentally flooded levels 42, 41, and 40 of my Fortress, and I don't know how to stop this mess. No dwarf is going to build a wall, a floodgate, a channel, or a floor where there is water, even if ...
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Why are the Elves at war with me and how can I make peace with them?
My fortress is at war with an Elven civilization.
I don't know why it started, so I don't want this war.
I have never attacked any other civilization, only killed/trapped invaders.
I think that only ...
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Guildhall reassigned: what are the implications?
My people made too many Petitions one after another, and I didn't write them down on paper. There were some Guildhall requests, and, not knowing they can't be shared by more than one guild, I fumbled ...
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Petitions: check met and unmet ones
My people made too many Petitions one after another, and I didn't write them down on paper. Now I don't remember all of them and don't know what they are. There were some Guildhalls, and at least one ...
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Tree-cutting quota: where to check?
My barony has been scolded by a Elf Diplomat:
You have disrespected the trees in this area, but this is what we have come to expect from your stunted kind. Further abuse cannot be tolerated. Let this ...
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Rats and Hamsters are gnawing their ways out of confinement
I'm being heavily spammed by these notifications:
live rat has gnawed its way out of confinement
live hamster has gnawed its way out of confinement
Well, I'm not interested in having these as pets, ...
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Kitchens: how to properly use in order to still have seeds?
I'm afraid of using the Kitchen because it does not gives me seeds as a result. But having high quality meals is necessary for dwarf happiness.
How can I solve this dilemma?
Is it possible to use ...
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Really angry dwarves: how to make them happier enough?
Most of my dwarves are not happy, and I don't know how to make them happier in general.
So, how can I properly make at least the angrier of them less unhappy/more happy?
I really want to prevent them ...
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Agitated Giant Thrips: how to properly deal with them?
The number one cause of death on my Fortress is: attack by flying insects.
As they don't activate the Cage Traps, because they don't touch the ground, which are the possible ways to deal with this ...
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How to export a height map of my world map?
In older versions of the game it wasn't particularly hard to export a height map of your world. However I can't seem to find any way to do so for the Steam version. I have designs of making an in game ...
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Temples to cults or gods?
A question: temples can be dedicated to a single god or a cult, which can worship one or several gods - what is the difference, for example if I dedicate temple to, let's say, God of Fire or to the ...
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Most efficient means of getting water from an aquifer
On my present embark I have a VERY small bit of light aquifer. I want to try and set up an obsidian farm, but as small as the aquifer is I'm unsure if it'll provide enough water for my purposes. I'm ...
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Dwarves keep dumping seeds in a corner?
For some reason, the dwarves keep putting a lot of seeds in once specific corner. Is this supposed to happen?
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How to connect storage items with stills?
I'm pretty new to dwarf fortress, so sorry if this question doesn't make sense. I've been trying to use a still, but most of the options are unavailable because it needs an empty storage item. How do ...
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How can I get stone if there is only sand everywhere?
I'm trying to setup a forge to get some iron, but I'm faced with having no stone; there's only sand, everywhere. I tried digging much deeper in a slew of different places, but I still just hit sand or ...
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Is there a way to access the designation menu in the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress?
In older versions you could press d to access the menu, however in the Steam version d just scrolls to the right.
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How can I give (or sell?) my dwarves mugs
I've crafted two bins full of mugs, yet I still have dwarves having unhappy thoughts about drinking without mugs.
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How can I create work orders that accept multiple materials?
I want to create a work order for, let's say, swords, and I don't care if they are made of iron or steel, I just want 20 of them.
How can I do that?
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In Dwarf Fortress, why can't I plant any seeds on the farm plot even though I have 50? seeds?
I'm trying to grow something on a farm plot as a beginner in Dwarf Fortress.
I have built a farm plot at the ground level, i.e. outside, not underground or in a cave -- just in some "dense meadow-...
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Dwarf Fortress won't run on Macbook Air [duplicate]
I downloaded the newest version of Dwarf Fortress on my Macbook Air, and I followed all the directions.
But when I try to open the thing called 'DF', it says
"dwarfort.exe" cannot be opened ...
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How can I drain water from a damp ground?
I embarked to a place with deep soil, nearby a river. When I dig 2-3 layers down, the ground starts to be damp, even at the farthest point from the river and even in winter.
I tried the "yeah, ...
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Finding the region a world map coordinate belongs to in Dwarf Fortress
I am trying to find the region a given world map coordinate belongs to in Dwarf Fortress.
A Dwarf Fortress world defines a large number of geographical regions, each associated with a biome and a ...
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Dwarves take a long time to decide to do tasks, when they usually take a short time to decide to do them
So, Whenever I designated random things in the past, My dwarves would do it almost immediately.
Now Whenever I play the game, The dwarves remain idle for around 3 minutes before they actually start ...
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Are there any alternatives to PRINT_MODE:2D that is compatible with Stonesense on macOS?
DFhack comes with Stonesense pre-installed. But when I run the stonesense command from the Dfhack console, I get this error message (when I use PRINT_MODE:STANDARD):
The current print mode is not ...
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Encountering Aquifers in an embark that claims to have no Aquifers
I have been having this problem, where 90% of the time, My fort gets water/mud everywhere, even though the Embark claims to have no Aquifer! No matter how many worlds I create, or what biome I embark ...
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How good would a Divine Metal Industry be?
This question contains massive spoilers. If you do not wish to have your game experience spoiled, do not scroll down!
According to the Dwarf Fortress Wiki:
You can embark at Vaults if you have DFhack ...
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Why are these Forest Retreats Dwarven, and not Elven?
I am new to Dwarf Fortress, so I do not know that much about World Generation.
Why does my map have DWARVEN Forest Retreats? I have looked on the map. Their is one Dwarven Necromancer on the same ...
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Can you Carve Fortifications into raised bridges?
I am guarding my fort's entrance with a ballista, and I am using a drawbridge to prevent goblins from getting into the fort. But I don't know how to keep the bridge raised, and allow the ballista to ...
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Dwarves not dumping Refuse from former Refuse stockpile
I am digging a moat around my fort, so i designated a new refuse stockpile so i can dig the moat, and removed the old one, but now, the refuse is staying where it is, i tried dumping it to a dump zone,...
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How to clean/drain up flooded stairs in Dwarf Fortress?
I have accidently tunneled stairs into a small amount of underground water, and now my main hall has 1/7 water on the floor, and the stairs below are completely flooded, how can I remove it?
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Is it possible to smooth dirt/clay walls?
I know that you can smooth stone walls:
But my fortress is in a clay/dirt layer, and i would like to smooth the walls
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How can I modify the flow of time (not fps) in Dwarf Fortress?
What I am interested in doing is altering the actual in-game time that passes on the calendar when the game is running, per frame. If you look at the Dwarf Fortress Wiki, there is some very useful ...
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My two miners in Dwarf Fortress dropped their pickaxes
My two miners dropped their pickaxes on the floor below right on the stairs. And now they can't mine the area I wanted them to. It's the start of the game and I don't want to have to make a new world.
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Will an egg-laying animal lay eggs in a forbidden nest?
I have set up a small pen in my fortress, equipped with a nest box with a few captured Cave crocodiles inside. The Cave crocodiles are all trained, and they are not restrained in any way.
To prevent ...
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What are these red tiles in the Phoebus tileset? My entire outside area is slowly turning red i think
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? is this bad?
i cant find any info on this
this is using the Phoebus tileset.
new to DF and really need help
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How do I make a mill plants work order tied to the amount of dye?
How do I make a mill plants work order tied to the amount of dye?
E.g., a mill plants work order on a quern that activates only when the amount of dimple dye drops below 10.
I'm using the DFHack ...
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Where and in what configuration are the user created statue images stored in Dwarf Fortress?
I have created several images using the in game tool.
Where are they stored (what folder/ file) ?
How would I delete some to clear those that I don't like anymore?
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How to make a dwarf start playing an instrument if he does not have any musical skill?
I have a fortress with 200 plus dwarves but none of them plays an instrument.
Is there any way to get a dwarf to start playing?
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Preventing items from showing in trade depot menu
I want to filter all the Artifacts I've made so I won't trade them by accident. Also, not being able to do so prevents me from marking entire Item types when I have 1 Artifact of that type somewhere ...
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Can dwarves who worship one deity pray at another deity's temple?
In the current version of Dwarf Fortress (0.47.4), you can build temples to deities in your fortress in Fortress Mode, and dwarves will go there to pray to their various gods and deities and receive ...
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Do barrels and other containers degrade with use in Dwarf Fortress?
In the current version of Dwarf Fortress (0.47.04), there are barrels that your dwarves can use to store food, water, seeds, etc. Usually in my fortresses, I use them to store large quantities of ...
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When designing a world with advanced parameters, how to increase the number of animal people?
In the generated worlds of Dwarf Fortress (0.47.04), there are various types and species of animal people ("intelligent wilderness creatures") who can create and join civilizations, like ...
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Is there any in-game effect of an adventurer learning literary topics in Dwarf Fortress?
As of the current version of Dwarf Fortress (0.47.03), in Adventure Mode, an adventurer can pick up books and read them, to gain experience in the Reader skill and learn about the topic the book ...
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What does it mean when migrants in Dwarf Fortress arrive "despite the danger"?
Recently in Dwarf Fortress (0.47.03), Fortress Mode, I had one of my usual migrant waves. However, instead of the usual "migrant wave" message:
Some migrants have arrived.
The message this ...
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How to manually install Dwarf Fortress tileset
I'm gonna attempt to save us all some frustration and emphasize the fact that I'm not asking about LNP or ANY other similar pre-packaged tool.
I cannot find a single reference anywhere that walks ...
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