Greetings! Welcome to my blog. This page is devoted to a Let's Play of Dwarf Fortress. For those of you who don't know, Dwarf Fortress is a complex sandbox game that uses ASCII art instead of modern graphics to display objects and landscape. This may seem odd at first, but the interface allows for all kinds of detail and complexity that otherwise wouldn't be practical or even possible.
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| My dwarfs' world |
Well, let's get started. First thing's first: generating a world. All worlds in DF are procedurally generated, with various biomes, named land features, and a full-fledged history. I'm actually pretty bad at Dwarf Fortress, so I'll be utilizing the quickstart guide on DF's wiki. The guide suggests a medium world with a short history, very low savagery, and somewhat abundant minerals, so I'll do that.
The world generated for me is shown to the right (you can click on it for a full-sized image). You can see some deserts to the north, a frozen wasteland on the southern edge, and all kinds of forests, mountains, rivers, and other features in between.
The next step is finding a place to call home. The game has a neat search function that allows you to pinpoint what you want, so I used that to find a location that looks fairly easy to deal with. The dwarfs will be starting out in the northeast corner of the map, the Domain of Dawning on the Bulbous Continents. The Domain is a hot, calm area of the map with lots of trees, a stream, and plenty of metals and other resources for my dwarf party. And of course, there's a mountain to burrow into. I choose the Cheerful Axe as my civilization, and set off to conquer the land with my Seven Dwarfs.
See you next time!
(Since I'm fairly new to DF, and to blogging, I would appreciate whatever comments you may have about my game and my posts. However, please refrain from posting any sort of spoilers to the game that might ruin my Fun.)
