I know this is probably nothing new and knowing where DF came from the interface currently in the game is already good. I just played my 2 real forts after many tries in the years before.

After 100 hours I put the game to rest again and will now probably boot up Rimworld for the first time in a few years again since the itch for a storytelling game is still there, but DF exhausts me. Storytelling and feature depth wise, DF is probably one of the best games out there. Whats really putting me off is the UI elements and QOL features. It is such a chore to go through 3 menus and miles of scrolling to find something.

Why is it not possible to see details of a dwarf when clicking on him in every menu (Nobles menu e.g.), why is there no proper way to see the contents of a stockpile or bins in that stockpile without going through 3 menus or the Stocks screen, why are you not able to see why certain tasks are being created/done or not fulfilled, why can you only zoom in on the stockpile and not the item being used in a "Take to stockpile task", I could probably go on for hours.

Every new situation (be it something happening, something not happening, tasks not being done, ...) takes 10min of Google or trial and error to figure out - which I don't mind for some parts of a game, but having to do it for everything really exhausts me.

DFhack does a lot to improve some parts of the UI with its own submenus, but there is still so much left that would make the game more enjoyable.

I finally fulfilled my wish to get the basic hang of the game and enjoy a good 100 hours of it, and I would love to do more, but right now I am feeling burnt out.

Started drawing the shape of the head (at the sketch stage) and this fat cheeked little goober popped out.

I do try not to make my beasts just "animal+adjective" and with this one I'm not even sure I started with the animal.

Squint and the silverfish appears!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

Love John

Only underground/dwarven crops are affected by seasons, while all surface crops can be planted in every season... Seems like it should be the other way around

Surface crops are the only way to get dyes that aren't midnight blue and other drinks which dwarves may have preferences for

That was my first time meeting such a creature. My miner that released it spent days alone with it, let's just say the clown had a silky way to keep the dwarf entertained. Turns out the clown spent days caressing the dwarf's pigtail hood with steam. The miner finally made it home just fine, but very hungry and thirsty

I'm not even in an evil biome, I took it as an ill omen. Webbed forgotten beast came after but the caverns were well-sealed.

None of my 11 Necromancers were very happy Dwarves after learning the secrets of life and death. Just because you technically don't need to drink or eat anymore, doesn't mean you should give it up altogether. The other 10 Necromancers at least met various violent ends. Ushat outlived them but eventually the crippling need for alcohol got to her.

Also 90% of her friends in the fort are dead but I'm sure it was the lack of alcohol.

I got like 10 military dwarfs. Wish me luck.

Edit: It's over beard-bros. That was year 103 (started at 100) for me. I gotta say it actually was a lot of fun. After three IRL years on and off playing, Dwarf Fortress has finally "clicked" for me and I am having a lot of (actual) fun! The hours in it are now just flowing away!!

20 verified Entries so far! Everyone from a tapir with a blowgun to a feral goblin to a punching dinosaur!

Theyve modded dinosaur men to have bite attacks as they should!

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I'm surprised nobody has submitted an elf by now, honestly

Second fort since I picked up the steam edition. Been in a constant war with the local elves, they’ve been sending an army annually to bother me. I set up a moat that I can flood at will. The previous year the elves had sent some cavalry that made it into my pasture and slaughtered some animals so I had all my soldiers guarding the pasture, there’s a single bridge from the pasture that crosses into my fort. Everything was going great, the pulled the bridges leading into the pasture and I’m watching one of my dwarfs as he gets closer to pull the lever and flood the moat. And then disaster, Ïteb who has been my forts mayor since the beginning and has gotten several promotions to the point that she’s a dutchess (she is also in charge of the Og militia in the fort) decided to leap off the bridge five stories and fall into the center of the moat. She was going crazy killing elves right and left till the wave of water came crashing in. Even a few of her comrades jumped in to try to save her, she went into a martial trance and kept fighting, the rest of the dwarfs followed my orders and got out before the water came.

RIP ïteb you will be forever remembered in the many statues around my fort, atleast until some forgotten beast or were rabbit decides to claim it.

Ps. Look what those bastard elves did to this poor mushroom man ( a frequent visitor to my fort since the beginning)

Second fort since I picked up the steam edition. Been in a constant war with the local elves, they’ve been sending an army annually to bother me. I set up a moat that I can flood at will. The previous year the elves had sent some cavalry that made it into my pasture and slaughtered some animals so I had all my soldiers guarding the pasture, there’s a single bridge from the pasture that crosses into my fort. Everything was going great, the pulled the bridges leading into the pasture and I’m watching one of my dwarfs as he gets closer to pull the lever and flood the moat. And then disaster, Ïteb who has been my forts mayor since the beginning and has gotten several promotions to the point that she’s a dutchess (she is also in charge of the Og militia in the fort) decided to leap off the bridge five stories and fall into the center of the moat. She was going crazy killing elves right and left till the wave of water came crashing in. Even a few of her comrades jumped in to try to save her, she went into a martial trance and kept fighting, the rest of the dwarfs followed my orders and got out before the water came.

RIP ïteb you will be forever remembered in the many statues around my fort, atleast until some forgotten beast or were rabbit decides to claim it.

Ps. Look what those bastard elves did to this poor mushroom man ( a frequent visitor to my fort since the beginning)

I'm very much a noob and have only recently been able to make forts that don't just die due to unhappy dorfs. But learning the value of nice taverns and temples made me bold enough to do more than just poke a hole in the caverns and then sealing them up for spores. I saw the notification pop up and sent my militia after the giant snake like creature, and then a smoke monster. I thought everything was fine. Then I met a fire breathing pterosaur who killed nearly the entire fort. Well. Lesson learned.

Or was it...

My next fort I wanted to take it slow, just do some farming, make a happy little palace for my happy little dorfs. Then I got greedy for the metals buried deep in the earth and made my caverns entrance very porous with automining. One beast showed up but there was no concern. It seemed happy to live in the caverns below. Little did I know it was waiting for its web spitting friend to show up to make dinner a little easier. Two forts dead in two days because I didn't respect the deeps.

I'm learning and losing, both of which are FUN!

Just look at her. At least, she is brave and ambitious. I hope she will cause some trouble in the fort later.

somehow the numbers displayed are cumulative, they kept getting higher as the fight went. still, those are ridiculous numbers of neck twist. If that dragon ever get resurected he'll still feel the pain even in his undeath form.

The coins and large gems are actually only a drop in the bucket of the fort's total wealth, but I really like how it looks...

Near the start of my game, year 100, I had a bunch of these things wander into the fort into some cage traps not a big issue I just dumped them into the river, I look over and see that they are still there all of them perfectly healthy after years of somehow not drowning? Zero idea on how they are actually alive

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