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 Aug 29 2017, 8:45 pm
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Somebody at work asked me if I'd ever played Dwarf Fortress, which made me want to download it again. See you all in about a month...
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Aug 30 2017, 3:07 am
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BackseatModerator
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resist the urge, grandpa.
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Flick wrote:
Somebody at work asked me if I'd ever played Dwarf Fortress, which made me want to download it again. See you all in about a month... Maybe wait till the artifact arc is finished, because after that the game is gonna get really interesting. (Not that it isn't now, of course.) I can't wait to see what it's like when I can send squads on missions off the map. | |
Do you guys use visual mods? I've been wanting to try the game, but I'm not entirely keen on playing with ASCII art.
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Both. Sometimes ASCII, sometimes Phoebus' graphics pack. I don't use any of the iso/3d tools though. Well, if I make something I like, I might load it up and take a look at it, but in general, no.
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Whats dwarf fortress?
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It's FUN!
It's a hyper complex dwarf life simulation with a REALLY steep learning curve and a UI from hell. Create industries, trade with civilizations, build a military, defend your fortress, build a mega-structure, or just flood the world with lava. Or a solo adventure/rpg game where you can travel an enormous world saving or enslaving populations, battle bandits, goblin fortresses, wizards, necromancers, lycanthropes, and mythical beasts. Or a detailed world simulator, creating multiple civilizations with hundreds of years of history, entities, geographic features, climates/biomes, religions, languages, arts, music, etc. Or all of the above. If there is an excessively detailed way to do something, this game probably does it. Except winning. There is no 'win'. | |
Flick wrote:
Both. Sometimes ASCII, sometimes Phoebus' graphics pack. I don't use any of the iso/3d tools though. Well, if I make something I like, I might load it up and take a look at it, but in general, no. Has the Phoebus pack been updated? Last I looked it hadn't. | |
He hasn't updated in years, but I guess it's community supported at this point. I just downloaded the Lazy Newb Pack and it's in there. Working fine with 0.43.05.
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