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* [http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/15/colossal-turing-mach.html Turing machine created in Dwarf Fortress] | * [http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/15/colossal-turing-mach.html Turing machine created in Dwarf Fortress] | ||
* [http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=10488856 Epic lore for one person's world] | * [http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=10488856 Epic lore for one person's world] | ||
* [http://www.hastac.org/blogs/elijahmeeks/procedural-humanities-interview-tarn-adams-creator-dwarf-fortress Interview with the creator, Tarn Adams] | |||
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Revision as of 22:46, 6 October 2010
Welcome to the Noisebridge Dwarf Fortress Page!
Dwarf Fortress is an amazingly complex yet low-fi real-time strategy game, with dwarves!
This page is for those people interested in learning how to play and/or those who are already experienced who wish to share tips and what not. Feel free to make use of the discussion tab above as well.
Events
- We met on 2010-10-05, but didn't get started until after 7:30pm, thus missing Vonguard by a few minutes.
- We recently held an informal "Beginning Dwarf Fortress" class on 2010-09-28. Let us know if you think we should do this again!
Enthusiasts
Links
- An amusing song by Finntroll called Trollhammaren
- A lulzy illustrated tale
Portals
- The official Dwarf Fortress site
- The Dwarf Fortress wiki
- Good collection of resources
- Reddit Dwarf Fortress stub
Tutorials
Many tutorials are already listed under the Dwarf Fortress wiki. Some of these are included below.
Highly recommended is the "bentgirder" tutorial
Web
- Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial (14 parts!)
- Reddit's Dwarf Fortress intro class
- Boatmurdered, a humorous walk-through of one person's fortress experience that explains a lot of things
- Nice flowchart generalizing things to work on
Video
- captnduck's series of execellent beginner tutorial videos
- 51ppycup's awesome "Lets Play Dwarf Fortress" series on Youtube
- Updated video tutorials from captnduck for 2010
3rd Party Plugins/Tools
- The Dwarf Fortress Lazy Newb Pack
- Note that v5.0 has many disabled utilities, if you want the full utility experience highly consider getting v4.6!
- Stonesense live 3D map viewer
- Note: this is just a VIEWER and doesnt actually make the game 3D. It has a lag as well, so it's long term usefulness is limited in terms of playing the game. But it's very impressive to show your friends.
- Massive list of DF utilities
Reviews/Mentions
- playthisthing.com
- A post on reddit
- A post on Digg
- Another post on reddit
- Turing machine created in Dwarf Fortress
- Epic lore for one person's world
- Interview with the creator, Tarn Adams
Tips
- Construction advice: the construction system can be a little confusing at first.
- A common mistake is to build an upwards staircase then later wanting it to be up/down. You cant do that!
- Mega construction
- Bins and barrels are a good way to manage items:
- Be careful about custom stockpiles, you may end up making it unusable!
- How to update Dwarf Fortress without losing your saves
- Important advice
- Tips on using alternate graphic tilesets