omg you make me really want to get into this fortress game
Thanks for saying that and you should definitely try it! Dwarf Fortress is a very dense and very interesting game, not just from a player perspective but also in terms of its development and community. That said, it requires a lot of perseverance because itâs a dwarf management simulator that works kind of like a really in-depth flight simulator; heavy interfaces with the opacity of a mud window and a lot of required knowledge from the get go in order to get off the ground high enough to not have your whole squad of founders get eaten by tigers or bears in the first year.
If you want to get into it here are some sick imba resources that I personally would recommend:
Boatmurdered is a âlegacyâ game that was played on the SomethingAwful forums about ten million years ago in the bygone age of 2006-2007. Itâs pretty much the main reason I originally started playing Dwarf Fortress because itâs fucking fantastic. If you want more insight into the game communityâs outlook and some of the whacky shit that can and used to happen to motivate you Iâd recommend taking a look. That said, itâs from a version of the game so old the world was literally flat in it so a lot has changed, and some stuff that is !!exciting!! to find yourself without spoilers hasnât changed. If you feel hyped enough from just me whining about my shitty fortress or the dwarf fortress tag in general you should skip Boatmurdered for now and get back to it when youâve delved into the game enough to reach the really weird shit.
This link goes to the actual download for the game. If you use Windows youâll be mostly fine. If you use anything else thereâs links on the page but fuck if I know how well they run.
Next, this is the wiki. Itâs super helpful and its tips on your first fortress and on other general stuff in the game like jobs and buildings and fauna are kind of invaluable, just be careful you donât wander into the areas of it that are about the really weird shit if you want to find that stuff on your own (luckily the wiki does warn you of spoilers). Furthermore, there are links to things like tilesets which are nice if youâre in the majority of people who think the game is ugly as sin.
I believe that the forums also have a wealth of information and resources like tilesets and talk of weird projects as well but I donât use them at all really so what do I know.
Oh! And before I forget, I donât personally use this myself but I believe that just about everyone else in the world does: Dwarf Therapist is apparently the most useful thing to happen to anyone anywhere since the invention of legs. While I donât really know what itâs about other than that it apparently alleviates a lot of headaches regarding telling dwarves what things they can and cannot do, itâd be remiss of me not to mention it since it is so widely utilised. Youâd have to ask someone who uses it about its specifics though.
I hope you get into it and if you want some help with anything that the wiki isnât immediately giving to you, feel free to ask. Just remember that losing horribly is Fun!














