Dwarf Fortress/Community: Difference between revisions

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090217113612/http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php The Bay12 forums].

** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=28477.0 Video tutorials]{{Dead link}}.

** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=31928.0 Play-along tutorials]{{Dead link}}.

* [http://dfdwarffortresswiki.magmawiki.comorg/index.php/Main_Page The Dwarf Fortress Wiki].

** [http://dfdwarffortresswiki.magmawiki.comorg/index.php/List_of_user_graphics_sets Graphical tilesets].

** Also worth mentioning: the forums are running a [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=45908.0 contest to build a tower from soap]{{Dead link}}. Only in Dwarf Fortress...

* [[Complexity Addiction]]: Much of the player base. In a game that allows players to do many things in needlessly elaborate ways (particularly building [[Death Trap|Death Traps]]) experienced players will often prefer a very complex [[Difficult but Awesome]] solution. When asked [[Stating the Simple Solution|why not just use a simpler, easier method]], the typical response will be "[[No True Scotsman|Because it's not dwarven enough!]]"

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: How many other games feature an elf becoming king of the Dwarves, then defeat a dragon with only a little skill with a hammer? In how many others games does a berserk Dwarf ''[[Incendiary Exponent|on fire]]'' proceed to beat all of the military, with [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body|each other]]?

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just Kill Cthulhu And Move Into His House]]: {{spoiler|Since it was proven to be possible, several forts have gone on to colonize hell.}}

* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: DF 2010 added genetics to the game. Cue players trying to selectively breed livestock and your dwarves to possess various physical traits. Why would you do this? Well, for livestock, for higher meat yields. But for Dwarves, it's probably just because players have determined they're going to run a Nazi-fortress and only keep dwarves with blond hair or some other arbitrary physical characteristic. And of course, [[For Science!]]!

** It is also worth noting that rather than disallow this sort of thing somehow, which would be difficult (to say the least), Toady simply plans to implement AI that will allow the dwarves to become paranoid if mysterious accidents keep happening to certain portions of the population.

* [[For Science!]]: Members of the online fan community, when asking about something that's never been tried, are implored to do it FOR !!SCIENCE!!<ref>Like science, but with more magma, screaming, and Fun</ref> Dwarven science has already accomplished a number of interesting feats with the game engine which the developer probably never had in mind.

** And a fully-functional, water-powered [http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8269 digital computer].

{{quote| "I believe it is turing complete, for anyone who cares."}}

{{quote| "Considering the general state of DF, I think Einstein and Newton are already rotating fast enough (in their graves) that you could hook them up to pumps and use them to kill Elves."}}

** [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=61507.0 A 2212 z-level spire of raw adamantine]. Nobody's been able to replicate it or determine the cause of its creation. One theory is that somehow when the OP embarked (other embarks on the same spot in identical worlds haven't worked), the game somehow didn't recognize that there was something supporting everything, and therefore ''the entire world'' collapsed onto the spire. Even then, nobody's quite certain where the adamantine itself came from.

*** Since the original [[Capital Letters Are Magic|Spire]], similar bugs have started appearing more frequently, believed to be due to the game failing to remove existing data from memory when generating a new world. Examples include a cavern layer being generated in midair, [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration|mountains made of magma]] instead of stone (occasionally with adamantine spires of their own at the centre), and large chunks of the ground collapsing for no obvious reason. In all these cases, [[Reality Ensues|physics started applying to them]] immediately upon embark, [[Hilarity Ensues|with]] [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|predictable]] [[Lethal Lava Land|results]].

* [[In -Universe Game Clock]]: One player built a fortress which contains a Dwarf-powered clock, synced to the actual game time.

{{quote| 25th Moonstone, 1063, Early Winter<br />

OH MY GOD. Sankis is on a [[Unstoppable Rage|bloody rampage!]] He mauled a baby and a cow, and now, at this very instant, he's beating the Elite Marksdwarf Kadol Lokumad into paste!<br />

** Speaking of beating things to death, theresthere's the awesome story of [http://aaron.acephalo.us/nist-akath/html/elizar/index.html Nist Akath] from the slightly old now DF version 0.28.181.40d, which, among other things like surviving on a haunted glacier full of skeletal elks, includes the story of Captain Ironblood, a dwarf so mighty he was able to kill a Hydra with nothing but his hands, while covered in nothing but all the vomit and other fluids covering him, and then proceeding to very easily kill the treacherous baron (and his wife) who'd attempted to kill him. A bit lengthy yes, but certainly a good read. Whether or not you should fear the winter (as the fortress is named), or the armed dwarves of Nist Akath is another matter entirely.

{{quote| Bobbin Threadbare, the SA Goon - Headshoots: So Metal That Killing It Just Made It Stronger.}}

** The current (now archived) fort, [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Syrupleaf/index.html Syrupleaf], may be even more insane than all the previous forts put together. For the first few years, they managed to survive ''without any water'' (They're stationed in the bottom left corner of the world map, in the midst of a frozen wasteland that is nigh-impossible to approach in Adventure mode.) They created a single golden boot (Which was magnificently roleplayed, as it was the current leader of the succession game who went into a fey mood to craft it.) Numerous [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] and [[Continuity Nod|Continuity Nods]] to the previous major fortresses: The disastrous Boatmurdered and the {{spoiler|demon-corrupted}} Headshoots. In fact, one of the major adversaries the fortress faces is {{spoiler|The Spawn. Which are in-code, modified dwarves/undead. In-character. They're undead dwarves, powered by a clump of magma, who serve underneath Hollistic Detective - Wielder of the Rat Leather Bag, God Amongst Dwarves, and the surviving Demonic Dwarf of the legendary battle between Hollistic and [[Designated Hero|Nemo]]. Also among the thread are the various journals of the [[Audience Participation|The various dwarfed goons, who go in-character and comment on the current situation as describe in the update.]]}} Insane. Awesome.

** The beautifully illustrated story of [http://dfdwarffortresswiki.magmawiki.comorg/index.php/Bronzemurder Bronzemurder] (not to be confused with the aforementioned Boatmurdered) has been making its rounds across the internet, a brief little tale of [[For Want of a Nail|a small mistake]] resulting in much fun.

** [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57052.0 Battlefailed] became the self-appointed "Boatmurdered of DF2010", and, to its credit, did a terrific job of living up to that lofty title. Started as the (entirely co-incidental) combination of a genocidal plot by [[Jerkass]] human queen of dwarves, Led Shakeoars and the gambit of an incredibly ancient [[Body Surf|body-surfing sorceror]]. Seven dwarves ended up on the [[Mordor|hellish coastline]] separating the Plains of Ooze from the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Blueness of Malodors]]. Only halfway through the first turn, most of the original dwarves and a good chunk of the immigrants were either dead or dying. Ten turns in and the fortress was an Escher-like nightmare of tunnels, shafts and stairwells leading nowhere, under constant assault from [[NamesName's the Same|fifty identically-named goblins]], [[Eldritch Abomination|forgotten beasts]] and hordes of [[Demonic Spiders|undead grazing animals]]. Eventually, parts of the fort started leaking water or magma for no apparent reason, occasionally in places that it should not have been possible for water or magma to be. Extinction-level events that would kill up to half of the population became not only frequent but ''regular''.

{{quote| '''Seth Creiyd''': My god... this was a [[Understatement|terrible idea]].}}

* [[Memetic Badass]]: Captain Ironblood, Morul, Âsax the Monster-slaying Cave-swallow-man, and the Elf King of the Dwarves, Cacame Awemedinade (who's most notable for being considered the only elf that's loved by most of the fanbase).

* [[Military Mashup Machine]]: [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=36955.0 Nazushdur Anrizgeshud Nom]{{Dead link}}, one of the finest examples of Dwarvern <s>hubris</s> awesomeness.

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: A loose example of this can be found in the reclaim of Battlefailed. The various poisons and dusts which permeated the Fortress of Old Battlefailed became the new fortress's best defense; while the poisons killed all of the dwarves livestock and any dwarves dumb enough to take off their shoes, it stopped countless [[Too Dumb to Live|barefooted]] Kobold invaders and about a dozen forgotten beasts.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46033.0 The Ages of Emptiness and Death Experiment]{{Dead link}}, in which ''every sentient being in the game world'' was killed... [[For Science!]].

* [[One -Man Army|One Dwarf Army]]: In the on-going LP Headshoots, a dwarf became so ridiculously powerful that when a band of kobolds arrived, said berserking dwarf waded through a pool of magma to reach them. And was completely unharmed. Sadly the kobolds fled before the dwarf in question could reach them, leaving her to console herself with single-handedly butchering a dragon. Also without being harmed.

** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=19279.0 Captain Ironblood]{{Dead link}}. He killed a hdyra. While naked an unarmed. He's also taken on 80+ orcs and won. But then again, almost any of the champions of Nist Akath qualify.

** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=34933.0 Morul, the most interesting dwarf in the world]{{Dead link}}. An attempt to create [[The Ace]] had the side-effect of raising his stats to the point where he could defeat 4-5 orc hordes singlehandedly,and once hit an orc [[media:[[Orc Strike Annot]]OrcStrikeAnnot.png|hard enough to splatter it against a wall]] ''[[Punched Across the Room|155 tiles away]]''. Predictably, players then [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|pitted Ironblood and Morul against each other]].

* [[Only Sane Man]] / [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: The usual character POV in a [[Let's Play]].

* [[Pointless Doomsday Device]]: Boatmurdered's infamous [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Project: Fuck The World,]] which exploited a "[[Good Bad Bugs|feature]]" of fluid handling to flood the aboveground with infinitely replenishing quantities of magma.

{{quote| ''I added two levers. One opens the magma. The other sets free all the cats.''}}

** The [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=39603.0 SparkGear]{{Dead link}} series of succession forts: now in its 6th incarnation. also seem fond of this.

* [[Schizo -Tech]]: The Dwarf Fortress community can put fortresses [http://dfdwarffortresswiki.magmawiki.comorg/index.php/Computing far beyond] [[Medieval Stasis]].

** What would you do with 75,368 mechanisms and 40,000 power? [http://dfdwarffortresswiki.magmawiki.comorg/index.php/User:BaronW You could build a calculator]...

** Dwarves have also built [http://dfdwarffortresswiki.magmawiki.comorg/index.php/User:Jong/Dwarven_Computer a Turing complete computer].

{{quote| '''Toady One:''' It's really hard to say what an ETA is on this thing, but we're basically just going now until it's fun enough to release. It's certainly not now, I mean, if you go down into a dungeon they're very barren.<br />

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "[http://dfdwarffortresswiki.magmawiki.comorg/index.php/Fun Fun]" and "[http://df.magmawikidwarffortresswiki.comorg/index.php/Unfortunate_accident Unfortunate accident]."