weird thing is, in you first night (and probably some time after) you dont have a clue whats even happening :D but you watch the symbols anyways. for me it was like that
"So the state dictates all careers, sets all production, and siezes all the goods?" "Yep." "Then the goods go to privately owned shops, free of charge, but the aristocracy sets all the prices." "Right." "How do you live with a system like that?" "I made a really snazzy leather earring a few years ago, so I'm exempt from it all."
@@jackspedicy2711 Epic notion there, dear. I'd like to assert the importance on of this subject. At this array we could hypothetically prove the effectiveness of communist society.
It started driving my STARK RAVING MAD after awhile, and switched to loops of Battle for Middle Earth II Dwarven songs in a playlist for awhile and i switch between the two once i get sick of one or the other!
I'm just laughing because I imagine this soothing calm tune still being played as you open up a hole into hell and your dwarves start getting slaughtered by demons.
@@kerokero_furogu Sadly most tabs these days are a sick joke more than a useful reference in any way, although if you look at several different ones and use your ear it can help a lot.
I used to use Sound Sense, but none of the music fits Dwarf Fortress as well as this music. It fits everything that ever happens in the game: when you first strike the earth, deaths, etc.
+ErrorIam It's interesting to hear you say that; I've long had an impression of this theme as encompassing the span of a civilization's history...a promising, hopeful introduction, resolving to uncertainty as the melody begins, thereon evoking a whole range of conditions: triumph and loss, peace and strife, jubilation and despair. Eventually it all comes full circle and the cycle repeats itself forever.
Theres this eerie objective distance like in learning about typical human history, an understanding of patterns and cycles of history, no real agenda or sentiment, just "these things happened". And thats why I love this game, All of the sentimentality is what the player brings into the world. There are just these facts: Who fought with who, what minerals are around, what creatures exist together -- and its up to the player to feel how they will about it all. For instance, there is this great detail into the psychology of each dwarf and their piety, their loved ones etc. and what we ourselves superimpose is this idea that they are stupid/ get in the way/ just these silly dwarves and playthings. But we say that obviously because its a game, but also they get in our way, at the end of the day we are interacting with the system and wanting something out of them. Ultimately in our attempts to control the dwarves we are just re-actualizing history and understanding it better ourselves. We along with them are trying to tame the ecosystem they are thrust upon. And then when something we find noteworthy happens, we impose a character on those involved. Emergent storytelling!
The moment when your chief medical dwarf decides that changing his underwear is more important than diagnosing a patient and a farmer has to do it instead... Dwarven priorities.
i love how your very first task your ruler gives you is always shit like killing a bronze colossus or a huge gang of high-skill bandits so you just ignore them go out into the woods and beat up wild boar and lost kobolds
Never thought of crowded school halls like my crowded halls of dwarves. Basically the same, messy floor with shit spilt everywhere, everyone smells bad with miasma down the halls and everyone is short. Huh.
Makes me think of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, where the main character becomes obsessed with the pattern in the wallpaper, constantly following it but then losing it after a while. Just can't memorize the melody of this song.
+Batman Drinks Pepsi I can run through it all in my head, but whenever I have a go at it on the piano or whatever, I quickly lose my orientation. There are a lot of dissonant chords and off-kilter progressions that make it hard to follow intuitively. That's an interesting story you cited. Social commentary aside, there's definitely a similar hypnotic, alluring quality about this tune.
Sounds like how people treat how Dwarf Fortress is meant to progress. I honestly don't understand how people find the game so hard to understand, once I got used to the general principles and stopped going blind staring at the ascii it seemed blindingly simple to me.
Dante Torn GnomoP People find it hard to understand in the same way that someone without experience flying a spacecraft would find the controls of a spaceship to be hard to understand: they are faced with an overwhelming set of controls and options and have only a vague idea at best of what any of them actually do. Once they are taught extensively how the mechanism works, it's easy for them to work with it. You asking why people get confused about the controls to the game when you're perfectly acclimated to it, as a result, doesn't really mean anything. You looked through the controls, figured out how it worked, and learned how to operate it perfectly. People who don't have that same experience you do will obviously struggle and complain when the help they ask for that experienced people give to them boils down to "I don't understand why you have trouble, it's obvious to *me*" and "you're a faggot."
DF has a pretty much vertical learning curve, i agree. My friends gave up after only teaching them designations lol. Still, this amount of controls is NEEDED. The amount of stuff you can do in this game is astonishing, and even if a skilled player can quickly use the correct command to check what he wants to check, a newbie won't. Yet, once you master the commands, the game is all about careful planning and prevention. Also, the embark is pretty much the core decision of "difficulty". I often find myself starting in a very difficult place (Terrifying, Glacier...) or with a horrible embark team and resources (Minimalist start, only one dwarf working...) to get a greater challenge. Still, it took me several years to be able to do so. For new players, even making the fortress survive (booze, food) is kinda difficult. Avoiding tantrums is another problems, cause most new players either do not expect that, or underestimate the threat of a tantrum spiral. They say practice makes perfect, and it is true. After a lot of years of play i can safely say i can tackle almost everything in this game. Still, the game WILL find a way to f*ck you up, trust me. No fortress will last forever (Steel webspinning FB with poisonous breath i'm looking at you), and will eventually fall. The game gets easier the more you play it, as normal. Just look at games like Dark Souls, for example. The first time you play you die over and over, and the 50th run you quickly demolish most bosses without even taking a hit. The challenge in this game, after you have mastered the controls, comes from the player himself. Having to manage so many things quickly becomes habit, and if no problems appear, easy. That is why expert players usually try to have more "Fun". So, the main difficulty is the extremely step learning curve and insanely high complexity. Once you learn those two, it's up to the player to decide what challenge he wants. Even as an expert player, i've found myself starting in a pacific area with plenty of resources only because i wanted a calm fortress. So it is up to us to decide the difficulty, and there are no scripted ones like "hard" or "easy". That's what i really love about Dwarf Fortress.
it's not a big orchestral ode to dwarves or a choir of bombastic adventure, just a lone guitar playing a nice song. this song is what dwarf fortress is -- humble, well made, and really sticks with you.
There's just something about the music in dwarf fortress that's so...indescribable. It almost seems strangely morose in a sense. The clearly home recorded sound quality with the ever so gentle white noise is a crucial part of it, i feel. It sounds like the restless dreams of a poet from a hundred years ago.
I love how so many of the comments are people referencing their own playthroughs or the playthroughs of smaller DF channels. It just goes to show how memorable this game becomes.
+Happy Mask Salesman What are you talking about? Majora's mask isn't that funny? Specially when the damn moon fall on the Earth. That surely is a LOT of fun.
this song is crazy impressive. i wonder whether tarn adams took classical guitar lessons or simply taught himself to play like this. he strikes me as kind of a renaissance man
Sounds like Tristram's theme by Matt Ueleman. Tarn is amazing... not only does he create the largest most complex and rich game in the entire world, he is a musician also!
@@deweyspaulding7364 Actually, the chord progressions are not similar at all (if I'm wrong, provide timestamp for this vid and also for tristram). However, the patterns and textures, and a bit of the melody sometimes, definitely seem a bit tristram-inspired.
i don't know all my classical guitar history, but the 19th century russian etudes in this video really feel like the ancestors to this type of music: ua-cam.com/video/dTdPizz7Dic/v-deo.html
@@MaxLohMusic Tristram inspired? Bah, Bach was doing music like this ages ago! Nothing in art history is ever truly an original, check out BWV999, it's incredibly similar.
I had this song stuck in my head for weeks, it was occupying my every waking thought and I couldn't focus on anything. When I finally listened to it I couldn't hear any of the bits that were playing through my head yet I recognised all of the parts of the song. The next day, I couldn't remember any part of the song that was correct and I had a new wave of implanted falsehoods that refused to leave. This cycle has been continuing for months. I'm scared. Get Help, Please.
Strange. Its as if i can remember every single note of this song and link it to a specific memory i had while playing yet i can never repeat it in my head once its over. Honestly though just hearing this makes me imagine the ascii ace of spades, smiley faces and equals signs. Ah good memories they are, nostalgic even.
There has not been song that fits its game as well as this one does. The author really deserves a lot of respect, and this song deserves a lot more attention.
There are lots of vg music that encapsulates their intended feelings perfectly though. Laura shigiharas pvz ost, earthbound, minecraft, kirby 64, P L E N T Y
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The song that plays when a goblin siege came but you couldn't figure out how to make weapons so all the dorfs are beating up the goblins with their bare hands.
Grant Dosland cancels Learn Dwarf Fortress: Went Insane. Grant Dosland has gone Berserk! Grant Dosland punches 123nick in the head, smashing the skull and tearing the brain! 123nick has been struck down!
crazy how this song somehow fits.... everything that happens in dwarf fortress. from the relaxing first days foraging to the all out civil war breaking out inside your tavern. it just..... works.
The perfect studying music. Not loud enough or really catchy enough of a beat to get distracted, but just enough to keep you entertained while doing homework.
This is so weird. I looked up "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. guitar music playlist" to listen to while playing Dwarf Fortress. 20 minutes in, this song comes on. Confused the hell out of me for a while there.
As a classical and electric guitarist of 11 years, I must say that this piece is beyond brilliant. If this were published on Itunes it would get alot of reputation with the classical musicians. If only this song were put out there more it could be something many professional guitarists play.
Hover your cursor on the progress bar and you'll see that this video is so frequently played on loop that it breaks youtube's code for displaying viewer attention - the video gets watched more towards the end.
This music is memory. Dwarf shapes flitting across the screen. ASCII trees, mountains, and plump helmets. Disaster and triumph all the same under this tune. Hypnotic and comforting.
When I started to play Dwarf Fortress I fell in love with the music in the game but began to grow tired of it after having it loop for 6-8 hours a day. I began to look for similar music, first starting out with stuff like "medieval guitar" and "celtic guitar" until I finally found classical guitar. I began listening to the greats while I played, Segovia, Paco de Lucia, etc. I fell in love with the instrument. Now 2 years later I have begun lessons. Thanks Toady for inspiring me to create beauty.
@@Henryfordisright I just picked it back up! I never got super good (video on my channel if you're curious) but I've found a way to really enjoy lately which is great
This is the soundtrack of my hard work, my risky experimentation, my great victories, my crushing defeats, and my magma-based regicide. So many hours, it's burned into my mind. I want to see a video of someone playing it. It sounds very hard.
theme song of the dwarves it goes on and on forever like the wheels of civilization falling and rising, stagnating and periceing the hearts and minds of those who care to listen and observe like how philosophers see life
@nubcakken01 the slopiness makes it sound cool.. like its being played around a dark smoky campfire by a travel weary bard, battered and broken by his long journey on the road less traveled he longs only to express the deep sonorities hidden in his tattered spirit
At first I hated this song, because I felt like it was trolling me when everything was going to shit. But when I finally learned how to play the game, I really started to enjoy this piece of art.
This song always reminds me of the very moment you embark on a new land, both nervous and excited. As your 7 starting dwarves dig out the meager start to a hopefully grand fortress. By the time you're 7 hours in the music is completely blocked out of your mind. So this track is only on my mind in the beginning.
i love this song just for the atmosphere generated from the use of one instrument... really gives you a feel of being there.. most big budget games can't even get music as good as this...
This was my phone alarm for 2 years, but the audio quality was so hissy I couldn't take it anymore, not to mention it would enter my dreams and not wakeme up. This needs a clean, crisp cover by toady1 with less mistakes and better quality, and I would donate to bay12 games AGAIN!
This song was my first exposure to the genre of "American primitivism." When I first played DF as a high school sophmore, I remember being struck by the hypnotic finger-picking in this song. It (in)directly pushed me towards discovering John Fahey and Robbie Basho, as I was interested in hearing more folk music like this.
+Inoka01 It helps that you can never quite remember how the song goes when you are done playing Dorf Fortress. No, really, try and remember how the song goes whenever you get done playing for the day.
@StarmanSuper00 It is indeed a brilliant piece, and it is a shame that Toady doesn't seem to realize that this theme is as awesome as it is. Professionally done, this would blow anything I can think of out of the water.
maybe it's the combat system? procedural generation? interactions with water and magma? interactions in conjunction with mechanisms and power? syndromes? interactions with civs? differences between biomes? all the different workshops? military? defense and trap design? animal training? skills?
I listen to this song whenever I study or do some other stressful stuff. It makes me feel like if my dwarves can fight off a horde of goblins, then I can do my menial tasks.
this is currently my alarm tone on my phone, which is so soft and gentle that it enters your dreams before you wake up. i'd kill for a better version without so much compression and noise.
This song has some sort of special magical property. I started playing DF about 8 months ago and when listening to this song, even after a week or so of playing, it gives me a feeling of Deja Vu. Like I think of a workshop or something and it seems like a long gone memory.
The Forgotten Beast Dinosaur Dreams has come! A gigantic theropod composed of dolomite. It has external ribs and it appears to be emaciated. Beware its deadly bite!
Man, it's so refreshing and a major relief to see a freeware game have actual good, well-crafted music. Way better than some paid indie games these days which have music so bad that it triggers me to no end. My only criticism is the huge noise floor. Whatever, at least it makes it sound "vintage" LOL
@@sizzle7578 Heroes of Newerth, ELEX, and to a lesser extent Outward (for the last one, only some of the expansion music was bad, so I wrote a fanmade alternative soundtrack and put it on Nexus Mods)
This music is seriously trippy XD I had it on ingame the first time I played Dwarf Fortress and felt hypnotised - two hours passed like ten minutes. It reminds me of games from the era where DwarfForess' graphics would be top of the range. Also tugs at childhood memories of my own, although I can't place why.
The new one is pretty good but they don't have the fast parts. My favorite part is 0:50 when it's going really fast. That's just not in the new one at all.
![Warhammer 40,000 Mechanicus OST - Children of the Omnissiah[Extended]](/img/n.gif)
This song has craftsdwarfship of the highest quality
i laff everytime i read this
+GBoone "laff"
It menaces with spikes of guitar sound
@@VaalerianG dammit I was gonna do that.
This is the kind of game you sit down to at like nine o'clock, and the next time you blink, the sun will be rising.
i was like: yeah. heard that a lot about games. fuck, thats true this time.
Pieter Vogt
I've had the game autosave for me many times before.
And I really don't want to know what the autosave delay is.
My first night of DF ended in pretty much the same way xD
weird thing is, in you first night (and probably some time after) you dont have a clue whats even happening :D but you watch the symbols anyways. for me it was like that
this is why I dont play it often. sadly, there is too little time and too much DF
This will always be the best Dwarf Fortress song.
The new soundtrack is still pretty fire though
This song man. I can get stuck in your head while you can't even remember how it goes, almost like an Eldritch Abomination in music form.
David Olvera Like the music of Eric Zahn?
It is terrifying.
@@jasonfenton8250 i am content after listening to a live performance
@@jasonfenton8250 It was inevitable.
@@Robert-vk7je It's for the best.
"You must be a mighty warrior indeed..."
"I'M FOUR!"
Four warriors?
+AntsanParcher Mighty indeed D8
Great pfp I love that painting :D
The creator of this song forgot the notes. The true composer is Armok. May Fun come slowly to his enemies
It wouldn't very hard for someone with musical knowledge to decipher it and put it into tablature.
@DUD31 why should he
@@jollygrapefruit786 you dont get it, this comment is written in the procedural style the game uses for item descriptons
@@peachy7776 could you give me another example of that? I don't get it
a strange curse. but I approve.
"So the state dictates all careers, sets all production, and siezes all the goods?"
"Yep."
"Then the goods go to privately owned shops, free of charge, but the aristocracy sets all the prices."
"Right."
"How do you live with a system like that?"
"I made a really snazzy leather earring a few years ago, so I'm exempt from it all."
Some don't. They go insane and have to be put down.
The economy system was a long time ago, though!
Im glad the economy isnt part of recent versions. Now its just a rather communist commune system :p
dwarf fortress is proof that comunism = good ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@jackspedicy2711 Epic notion there, dear. I'd like to assert the importance on of this subject. At this array we could hypothetically prove the effectiveness of communist society.
This music is fantastic for the first few hours.
*****
i done that too
*****
=)
It started driving my STARK RAVING MAD after awhile, and switched to loops of Battle for Middle Earth II Dwarven songs in a playlist for awhile and i switch between the two once i get sick of one or the other!
Anonymous I listen to "The Village" ost and the "Alien 3" ost when I'm playing.
I'm just laughing because I imagine this soothing calm tune still being played as you open up a hole into hell and your dwarves start getting slaughtered by demons.
Urist McDwarf cancels Pull Lever (do it now): Getting something to drink.
Urist McDwarf cancels Drink: No arms.
note for classical guitarists: this song is capo'd on the second fret.
Wow, huge thanks! I've been trying to play it barehanded and failed miserably
I listened to this and thought “Ah that’s not too complicated I should learn it”. Jesus Christ.
What a fucking comment. Tyty
upvote to save a guitarist's life
@@kerokero_furogu Sadly most tabs these days are a sick joke more than a useful reference in any way, although if you look at several different ones and use your ear it can help a lot.
This music got me through my master's, and is still my 'quiet work time music' one year into the PhD.
nice man, wonder how you're doing now
@@cosbos7934 he died.
@@MrHomelessHobos rip o7
Guessing he doesn't use this account anymore huh
@@wryyman5552 RIP me
I used to use Sound Sense, but none of the music fits Dwarf Fortress as well as this music.
It fits everything that ever happens in the game: when you first strike the earth, deaths, etc.
+ErrorIam It's interesting to hear you say that; I've long had an impression of this theme as encompassing the span of a civilization's history...a promising, hopeful introduction, resolving to uncertainty as the melody begins, thereon evoking a whole range of conditions: triumph and loss, peace and strife, jubilation and despair. Eventually it all comes full circle and the cycle repeats itself forever.
+StarmanSuper00 I agree.
Theres this eerie objective distance like in learning about typical human history, an understanding of patterns and cycles of history, no real agenda or sentiment, just "these things happened". And thats why I love this game, All of the sentimentality is what the player brings into the world. There are just these facts: Who fought with who, what minerals are around, what creatures exist together -- and its up to the player to feel how they will about it all.
For instance, there is this great detail into the psychology of each dwarf and their piety, their loved ones etc. and what we ourselves superimpose is this idea that they are stupid/ get in the way/ just these silly dwarves and playthings. But we say that obviously because its a game, but also they get in our way, at the end of the day we are interacting with the system and wanting something out of them. Ultimately in our attempts to control the dwarves we are just re-actualizing history and understanding it better ourselves. We along with them are trying to tame the ecosystem they are thrust upon.
And then when something we find noteworthy happens, we impose a character on those involved. Emergent storytelling!
This may be the greatest thing I've ever read in a comments section.
>everything that ever happens in the game: when you first strike the earth, deaths
yeah, that sounds about right for most of my playthroughs tbh
Its hard to imagine Tarn sitting down and just creating this alone one day.
Clearly he had a strange mood.
The moment when your chief medical dwarf decides that changing his underwear is more important than diagnosing a patient and a farmer has to do it instead... Dwarven priorities.
Well, let's see...
we've got armies on the march, skulking vermin, and bone-chilling horror.
+Paul Chan
Average day in Dwarf Fortress.
don't forget the burning dung elephant that vomits blood in the basement
Well skulking vermin is pretty easy to deal with :P
i love how your very first task your ruler gives you is always shit like killing a bronze colossus or a huge gang of high-skill bandits so you just ignore them go out into the woods and beat up wild boar and lost kobolds
Tell me about the armies on the march
I play this at school. Makes me feel like a dwarf as I travel through the halls.
Also, it fits an average life well.
Never thought of crowded school halls like my crowded halls of dwarves. Basically the same, messy floor with shit spilt everywhere, everyone smells bad with miasma down the halls and everyone is short. Huh.
@@umadbroimatroll7918 yeah but you cant get fucking maimed by hordes of monsters in school
@@mairidberz1450 well.... depends really xD
@@mairidberz1450 yes you can
@@umadbroimatroll7918 the orcs...
Makes me think of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, where the main character becomes obsessed with the pattern in the wallpaper, constantly following it but then losing it after a while. Just can't memorize the melody of this song.
+Batman Drinks Pepsi I can run through it all in my head, but whenever I have a go at it on the piano or whatever, I quickly lose my orientation. There are a lot of dissonant chords and off-kilter progressions that make it hard to follow intuitively. That's an interesting story you cited. Social commentary aside, there's definitely a similar hypnotic, alluring quality about this tune.
Sounds like how people treat how Dwarf Fortress is meant to progress.
I honestly don't understand how people find the game so hard to understand, once I got used to the general principles and stopped going blind staring at the ascii it seemed blindingly simple to me.
Dante Torn GnomoP People find it hard to understand in the same way that someone without experience flying a spacecraft would find the controls of a spaceship to be hard to understand: they are faced with an overwhelming set of controls and options and have only a vague idea at best of what any of them actually do. Once they are taught extensively how the mechanism works, it's easy for them to work with it.
You asking why people get confused about the controls to the game when you're perfectly acclimated to it, as a result, doesn't really mean anything. You looked through the controls, figured out how it worked, and learned how to operate it perfectly. People who don't have that same experience you do will obviously struggle and complain when the help they ask for that experienced people give to them boils down to "I don't understand why you have trouble, it's obvious to *me*" and "you're a faggot."
+GnomoP That's a very harsh opinion you got there.
DF has a pretty much vertical learning curve, i agree. My friends gave up after only teaching them designations lol. Still, this amount of controls is NEEDED. The amount of stuff you can do in this game is astonishing, and even if a skilled player can quickly use the correct command to check what he wants to check, a newbie won't. Yet, once you master the commands, the game is all about careful planning and prevention.
Also, the embark is pretty much the core decision of "difficulty". I often find myself starting in a very difficult place (Terrifying, Glacier...) or with a horrible embark team and resources (Minimalist start, only one dwarf working...) to get a greater challenge. Still, it took me several years to be able to do so. For new players, even making the fortress survive (booze, food) is kinda difficult. Avoiding tantrums is another problems, cause most new players either do not expect that, or underestimate the threat of a tantrum spiral.
They say practice makes perfect, and it is true. After a lot of years of play i can safely say i can tackle almost everything in this game. Still, the game WILL find a way to f*ck you up, trust me. No fortress will last forever (Steel webspinning FB with poisonous breath i'm looking at you), and will eventually fall.
The game gets easier the more you play it, as normal. Just look at games like Dark Souls, for example. The first time you play you die over and over, and the 50th run you quickly demolish most bosses without even taking a hit. The challenge in this game, after you have mastered the controls, comes from the player himself. Having to manage so many things quickly becomes habit, and if no problems appear, easy. That is why expert players usually try to have more "Fun".
So, the main difficulty is the extremely step learning curve and insanely high complexity. Once you learn those two, it's up to the player to decide what challenge he wants. Even as an expert player, i've found myself starting in a pacific area with plenty of resources only because i wanted a calm fortress.
So it is up to us to decide the difficulty, and there are no scripted ones like "hard" or "easy". That's what i really love about Dwarf Fortress.
it's not a big orchestral ode to dwarves or a choir of bombastic adventure, just a lone guitar playing a nice song. this song is what dwarf fortress is -- humble, well made, and really sticks with you.
Hey that's a pretty nice comment, cheers
There's just something about the music in dwarf fortress that's so...indescribable.
It almost seems strangely morose in a sense.
The clearly home recorded sound quality with the ever so gentle white noise is a crucial part of it, i feel.
It sounds like the restless dreams of a poet from a hundred years ago.
No matter how many remasters there are, this is the one I will always return to.
The static maaaan, such a vibe 😭
I love how so many of the comments are people referencing their own playthroughs or the playthroughs of smaller DF channels. It just goes to show how memorable this game becomes.
The music makes you go insane. Not in a good way, but a "fun" way.
Though dwarf fortress does that to you in general...
Dwarf Fortress is "Fun".
Elliott Pascoe Berserk is the most fun kind of insanity. Especially a miner with a candy pick.
Nah, I just girder my loins and start mining. Strike the Earth.
"fun"
I have never played a game where I had this much "Fun."
+Happy Mask Salesman What are you talking about? Majora's mask isn't that funny? Specially when the damn moon fall on the Earth. That surely is a LOT of fun.
woosh
loosing is fun
Had a Scorpion composed of vomit. Fun was had
RoachdoggJR plays DF???
this song is crazy impressive. i wonder whether tarn adams took classical guitar lessons or simply taught himself to play like this. he strikes me as kind of a renaissance man
Sounds like Tristram's theme by Matt Ueleman.
Tarn is amazing... not only does he create the largest most complex and rich game in the entire world, he is a musician also!
The chord progressions in both compositions are incredibly similar. I agree with you.
@@deweyspaulding7364 Actually, the chord progressions are not similar at all (if I'm wrong, provide timestamp for this vid and also for tristram). However, the patterns and textures, and a bit of the melody sometimes, definitely seem a bit tristram-inspired.
i don't know all my classical guitar history, but the 19th century russian etudes in this video really feel like the ancestors to this type of music:
ua-cam.com/video/dTdPizz7Dic/v-deo.html
@@MaxLohMusic Tristram inspired? Bah, Bach was doing music like this ages ago! Nothing in art history is ever truly an original, check out BWV999, it's incredibly similar.
This music expresses the insanity that each dwarf feels growing inside... day by day... In the end, it is either death or sorrow
Huh, I’m not even a dwarf & yet I feel personally called out
I had this song stuck in my head for weeks, it was occupying my every waking thought and I couldn't focus on anything. When I finally listened to it I couldn't hear any of the bits that were playing through my head yet I recognised all of the parts of the song. The next day, I couldn't remember any part of the song that was correct and I had a new wave of implanted falsehoods that refused to leave. This cycle has been continuing for months. I'm scared. Get Help, Please.
Armok has given you some !FUN!
You're just moody. Make sure you have all your mats accessible.
You might be on the brink of a tantrum. Let's hope you won't need bones..
Try going near a waterfall
That mist is heavenly
Any improvements 6 years later?
It definitely adds a gritty sort of charm to a gritty sort of game, eh? I feel nostalgia even though I've only known about the game for a few years!
Strange. Its as if i can remember every single note of this song and link it to a specific memory i had while playing yet i can never repeat it in my head once its over. Honestly though just hearing this makes me imagine the ascii ace of spades, smiley faces and equals signs. Ah good memories they are, nostalgic even.
There has not been song that fits its game as well as this one does.
The author really deserves a lot of respect, and this song deserves a lot more attention.
There are lots of vg music that encapsulates their intended feelings perfectly though. Laura shigiharas pvz ost, earthbound, minecraft, kirby 64, P L E N T Y
The first sentence is not true imo.
This music is perfect for everything.
Poggle566 Dwarf Fortress theme goes with everything?
Aidan McLaren Indeed.
Can confirm. Effectively the perfect rhythm to fap to.
10 year later, I agree!
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The song that plays when a goblin siege came but you couldn't figure out how to make weapons so all the dorfs are beating up the goblins with their bare hands.
I wish that it would play in the steam version. It’s so calming.
That background music never gets old.
I'm finally gonna sit down and learn to play this god damn game, may take a few months, but I'm determined
+Grant Dosland good on you, its amazing . well worth the learning curve. and remember ,losing is fun
+Grant Dosland It was inevitable.
+Grant Dosland d,b,d d,b,f & d,b,F. You will thank me later.
And, how did it go?
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crazy how this song somehow fits.... everything that happens in dwarf fortress. from the relaxing first days foraging to the all out civil war breaking out inside your tavern. it just..... works.
Its the imperfections which make this perfect.
I love this music. It's hard to play, but when you manage to do it it is so awesome. Which kinda fits with the game.
So right!
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I love how well the microphone static just fits the feel of the song
This song is the epitome of a "blessing and curse" simultaneously... Truly sublime...
The perfect studying music. Not loud enough or really catchy enough of a beat to get distracted, but just enough to keep you entertained while doing homework.
This man studies ^
This is honestly my favorite piece of video game soundtrack ever. This song encapsulates the entire essence of dwarf fortress.
This is so weird. I looked up "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. guitar music playlist" to listen to while playing Dwarf Fortress. 20 minutes in, this song comes on. Confused the hell out of me for a while there.
TheDragonReborn93 heathen... playing without the soundtrack.
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I’ve heard in the steam edition if you name a frog “toady” it plays this as an Easter egg but I haven’t tried it yet
As a classical and electric guitarist of 11 years, I must say that this piece is beyond brilliant. If this were published on Itunes it would get alot of reputation with the classical musicians. If only this song were put out there more it could be something many professional guitarists play.
I find this song popping into my head randomly sometimes. I haven't played Dwarf Fortress in years but this song is with me forever.
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This music is memory. Dwarf shapes flitting across the screen. ASCII trees, mountains, and plump helmets. Disaster and triumph all the same under this tune. Hypnotic and comforting.
Its winter again, finally I can start rotting away through the four seasons.
this gives me a nostalgiagasm
+Charles Crumb *Menacing with Spikes*
When I started to play Dwarf Fortress I fell in love with the music in the game but began to grow tired of it after having it loop for 6-8 hours a day. I began to look for similar music, first starting out with stuff like "medieval guitar" and "celtic guitar" until I finally found classical guitar. I began listening to the greats while I played, Segovia, Paco de Lucia, etc. I fell in love with the instrument. Now 2 years later I have begun lessons. Thanks Toady for inspiring me to create beauty.
That's nice! ^^
How good are you now?
:) i too love classical guitar due to this track
@@Henryfordisright I just picked it back up! I never got super good (video on my channel if you're curious) but I've found a way to really enjoy lately which is great
This is the soundtrack of my hard work, my risky experimentation, my great victories, my crushing defeats, and my magma-based regicide. So many hours, it's burned into my mind. I want to see a video of someone playing it. It sounds very hard.
wow this is some pretty good classical guitar music. First game I've ever heard of that had classical guitar for a soundtrack.
theme song of the dwarves
it goes on and on forever like the wheels of civilization
falling and rising, stagnating and periceing the hearts and minds of those who care to listen and observe
like how philosophers see life
@nubcakken01 the slopiness makes it sound cool.. like its being played around a dark smoky campfire by a travel weary bard, battered and broken by his long journey on the road less traveled he longs only to express the deep sonorities hidden in his tattered spirit
Couldn’t agree more sir.
At first I hated this song, because I felt like it was trolling me when everything was going to shit. But when I finally learned how to play the game, I really started to enjoy this piece of art.
Do you ever come back to a video you watched a long time ago forgeting you ever even left a comment only to find your past self just chilling there?
@@travosk8668 yup
This song always reminds me of the very moment you embark on a new land, both nervous and excited. As your 7 starting dwarves dig out the meager start to a hopefully grand fortress. By the time you're 7 hours in the music is completely blocked out of your mind. So this track is only on my mind in the beginning.
There is nothing to catch in the eastern swamps.
Only after listening to the song on its own do i realise how perfect it is for playing hours and hours of this game
I've never played dwarf fortress. A video i watched mentioned the game, aswell as a snippet of this song. Got stuck in my head ever since.
i love this song just for the atmosphere generated from the use of one instrument... really gives you a feel of being there.. most big budget games can't even get music as good as this...
we need this theme in the new steam version of the game!!! I miss it so much!
This was my phone alarm for 2 years, but the audio quality was so hissy I couldn't take it anymore, not to mention it would enter my dreams and not wakeme up. This needs a clean, crisp cover by toady1 with less mistakes and better quality, and I would donate to bay12 games AGAIN!
Wow, I have not played this game in over a year.
It's kind of amazing how much nostalgia this song can bring back....
I play this theme while I play other roguelikes, such as Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. And sometimes I just play it while I write. It's oddly soothing.
YES! All must listen to this!
10 years
Bless this game. Cumulative 45 minutes played past 10 years. But this track is nice :)
The music is so fitting.
This song was my first exposure to the genre of "American primitivism." When I first played DF as a high school sophmore, I remember being struck by the hypnotic finger-picking in this song. It (in)directly pushed me towards discovering John Fahey and Robbie Basho, as I was interested in hearing more folk music like this.
John Fahey is fucking incredible
This song is so relaxing when playing dwarf mode. It really lets you focus on mapping your plans.
dwarf mode
is that the opposite of goblin mode?
@@jr.jackrabbit10 Whoops, I meant Fortress mode.
This song is calming and anxiety inducing
I can't play with Soundsense. I NEED this music to focus. It's part of the Dwarf Fortress experience. I have no idea why.
+Inoka01 It helps that you can never quite remember how the song goes when you are done playing Dorf Fortress. No, really, try and remember how the song goes whenever you get done playing for the day.
So I just turn off seasonal soundsense music every 3 months and listen this music
@@krullachief669 I can only remember the part that slows down as it's when I notice the music. The rest is a jumble to me
i played this song to my cat and now he keeps putting dead lizards in my food stockpile
Can't stop listening to this as I play, just foaming at the mouth, staring at the development page... waiting...
Imagine just minding your own business and this starts to play out of nowhere
I like it! its imperfections make it even better
The relaxing part of this song really is unique and quite nice to listen to.
@StarmanSuper00 It is indeed a brilliant piece, and it is a shame that Toady doesn't seem to realize that this theme is as awesome as it is. Professionally done, this would blow anything I can think of out of the water.
i've been having tons of nice times with this game lately, it is awesome.
Remember who you were
this is giving me serious diablo vibes
maybe it's the combat system? procedural generation? interactions with water and magma? interactions in conjunction with mechanisms and power? syndromes? interactions with civs? differences between biomes? all the different workshops? military? defense and trap design? animal training? skills?
I listen to this song whenever I study or do some other stressful stuff. It makes me feel like if my dwarves can fight off a horde of goblins, then I can do my menial tasks.
this is currently my alarm tone on my phone, which is so soft and gentle that it enters your dreams before you wake up. i'd kill for a better version without so much compression and noise.
This song has some sort of special magical property. I started playing DF about 8 months ago and when listening to this song, even after a week or so of playing, it gives me a feeling of Deja Vu. Like I think of a workshop or something and it seems like a long gone memory.
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I had a lot of fun with this music in the background..
Man, it's so refreshing and a major relief to see a freeware game have actual good, well-crafted music. Way better than some paid indie games these days which have music so bad that it triggers me to no end.
My only criticism is the huge noise floor. Whatever, at least it makes it sound "vintage" LOL
For example? lol curious
@@sizzle7578 Heroes of Newerth, ELEX, and to a lesser extent Outward (for the last one, only some of the expansion music was bad, so I wrote a fanmade alternative soundtrack and put it on Nexus Mods)
I've started to hear this song after I stop playing
i hope they keep this around in some way or another for the steam release
wish they did tbh it was so good
@@bastiboyza they did! The new main theme is this, just with a couple more movements
@@missmoonmage8609 the new main theme is the old main theme with a couple more movements. this is the fortress mode theme which was not retained
wtf? how can someone not like this song?
i love the game and the music after all these years
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This music is seriously trippy XD
I had it on ingame the first time I played Dwarf Fortress and felt hypnotised - two hours passed like ten minutes. It reminds me of games from the era where DwarfForess' graphics would be top of the range. Also tugs at childhood memories of my own, although I can't place why.
This song will always get me pumped. Every time.
This song is very fun on guitar. It sounds even better in person
This song should be named: *Fey* *Mood*
The new one is pretty good but they don't have the fast parts. My favorite part is 0:50 when it's going really fast. That's just not in the new one at all.
This part is in the new one at 4:17, but you're right it's not played as fast