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neddiedrow wrote:I am unable to build farm plots - what might I be doing wrong? I love this game, of course.
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Irrigation
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index. ... le_farming
nile style is the easiest to begin with. the only problem is that the flooding of the cave river is uncontrollable, but it should be ok. once you learn how to use lever systems to create controllable floods you can basically do anything in this game ~~
read http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index. ... d_flooding
especially the making your first farm room, and do a excact copy of it . step by step.
you can download a pregenerated world here.I would love to give this a try, but every time I get to 200 rejected tiles I give up.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/worlds/i_anur.zip
download this and create a save folder on your data folder. then extract the zip there.
make a zip out of you data/save folder, when you lose your fort just extract it in your data/save. You can also send copies of your fortresses to your friends and/or play bloodline games.How do I make some actual 'useful' saves. Becuase the way the game works is just that you save and once you quit DF your fort is lost forever with the exception of reclaim.
Anyway to make permenant back ups?
Heres what I'm trying to do
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r= river
c=channel
F= floodgate
m= moutain
..=outside
x= room to be flooded
The big C is what i'm having the problem with
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r= river
c=channel
F= floodgate
m= moutain
..=outside
x= room to be flooded
The big C is what i'm having the problem with
blue means they will use that food for cooking, red means they wont. dont cook seeds.
the most efficient way to farm is to farm plump helmets, brew them, and then cook the brewed wine.
you wont get any seeds back from plump helmets if you cook them.
but if you eat them raw or brew them, youll get seeds out of them for next year's farming ;}
the most efficient way to farm is to farm plump helmets, brew them, and then cook the brewed wine.
you wont get any seeds back from plump helmets if you cook them.
but if you eat them raw or brew them, youll get seeds out of them for next year's farming ;}
I lost 2 people becuase of moods...1 had fey so it was a possible legendary, I just couldnt give her what she wanted. She wanted stones and rocks and gems and they were EVERYWHERE...Gah.
edit: currently on my third winter...
Goals this year: Complete Magma Forges, Begin Lava flood defence system to replace River Flood Defence System, increase military from 8-20 and arm them with Iron armor and copper weaponry (spears/sheilds/SPARTA), complete Noble rooms, complete a bed for everyone.
edit: currently on my third winter...
Goals this year: Complete Magma Forges, Begin Lava flood defence system to replace River Flood Defence System, increase military from 8-20 and arm them with Iron armor and copper weaponry (spears/sheilds/SPARTA), complete Noble rooms, complete a bed for everyone.
Yeah, I threw in the towel on my last game. Two people went fey, then berzerk and killed all my highly skilled specialists who mattered, i.e. the carpenters, masons and miners. I never dug up any ore, so my metalsmiths were throwing tantrums all over the place, and then the final straw came when when my peasants joined in, smashing the roads and preventing me from getting a needed trade shipment.