It was such a pleasure working on this video!! I'm glad to see such warm reception kahahaw It was quite fun to illustrate everything for this episode. Ave atque vale!!
your work feels rooted in culture and place in a way thats super cool to see on kruggs channel- its fantasy furry art but its in some ways more human than dworfs. also, as a trans person of color this is awesome to see
Edit: Just watched through. What a fantastic episode!! Thanks to Kruggsmash for giving me this opportunity and thanks to everyone for the kind comments, it's quite lovely to see and I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Hey Kruggsmash! Thanks for playing my mod! I've been a long time viewer. Egg-laying is a weirdly 'dark magic' part of the game. But it's not really that complicated. It's just a bit micro managy to get working properly. I tried to explain it in the mod's description. But in short, the best way I've found to get it to work is by unlisting ave eggs from all stockpiles, and them mass dumping all the ave's nest boxes every 3 or 4 months. Also, my apologies for not responding on Steam. At the time I couldn't believe one of my favorite youtubers was actually trying to contact me.
I think your mod is excellent! I love how thought out each facet of ave culture is (especially the little tidbits involving music). Keep up the brilliant work! I hope I did your vision justice kahahaw
@@pythania Thank you! I think you did a great job envisioning them. I mean I would've done small things differently (like how many fingers they have or how big their wings are or how much scale they have etc etc) but you did some fantastic work so I can't complain!
Thank you!! It actually took me about a day straight to figure out the color palette we wanted to go for. The original "blocky" colors are shown at 30:50 (this was the first batch of images). The rendered composite image is what I used as reference for the rest of the art.
Most birds can and do eat their own eggs, particularly if they dont hatch after a while, such as if they are unfertilized. It helps reclaim the nutrition used on them.
Eating their OWN eggs feels weird, but eating another Ave's eggs? Doesn't seem _too_ strange to me. We eat chicken eggs, and would it really feel THAT different if the hen could talk?
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthplenty of mammals will eat the placenta after birth, such as goats for example. I totally get why it feels weird, but ultimately this behavior of eating your own... "Material" is fairly common in the animal world.
I'm a big fan of it, personally. While I'm not sure this flowing, colourful style would work as well with dwarves, it fits very well with bird-people. Still, it IS a big shift from Krugg's more gritty and tactile art.
Yeah, you know I guess I forgot how delayed the previous video. was wondering why I ended up struggling with this one so much despite the artistic help. Makes sense now lol.
Hey, big fan! I know that most fans and even including you are very into drawings and filler stories as artifacts or made up backstories. But have you ever though about making no picture videos/making them less, but still having some sort of narrator? As we got steam version sprites I feel that drawn pictures are not so impactful as they were back in the day. Thanks for your hardwork!
@@Justinvaidak I disagree that the drawings are less impactful, but I do think it'd be fine if we had fewer drawings per episode if it meant more episodes or higher quality ones. Everything's a tradeoff!
Dwarves: Are you eating your own children!? Aves: Oh no, silly! These eggs aren't fertilized, so there's nothing weird about it at all. Dwarves: Oh... good. Aves: I'm eating my period. Dwarves: .....
i always appreciate playthroughs of non-dwarven settlements in dwarf fortress! waddlesquash was one of my personal favorite fortresses/towns of yours. plus this being from the perspective of people who aren't really used to permanent settlements really adds to things.
My girlfriend and I both love birds, and we keep a few. She's never seen your videos before, but I couldn't help but show her this one, and she's hooked. Just know, Krugg, that you bring smiles to new faces and longtime fans alike.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know, your videos are the highlight of whatever week you upload in for me. I live down in Australia, and your usual upload time for me is late on a Thursday/Friday night, so for the last few months I've made it a tradition of getting cozy under a blanket with a hot chocolate to see some dwarvern shenanigans before bed. Thanks so much for the stories you tell!
Hey man..I'm from Brasil, and i bought this game as soon as Steam version came out. I work with rehabilitation of extremely vulnerable and marginalized people, and in my daily work routine I go trough so much mental pain and stress, frustration...I mean...what I really want tô say is, your vídeos are a great relief for me brother. They are part of my therapy when I come home. Thank you for your effort man. I love this game, and I love your stories!
Based bird appreciator playthough, very nice. I wish someone'd make some playable insect civilizations, too. I'd sure love to see more of these silly little birds.
Very interesting! Its a cute and colorful and something different! Noticing a lot of fruit on the ground and walkways, assigning a few birds to just picking up floor fruit would be a relatively low effort source of food!
I just got the to Roc part of Scorch fountain AGAIN 😆 and I found myself thinking "A bird Rito type people playthrough would be awesome" and here we are
- quite a few birds eat their eggs. Either because they are unfertilized, or because the food condition is not right for children - I guess a issue is keeping the animal nests and people nests apart 27:50 Cassowary jumping into and playing in the temple pond.
Not only am I totally on board for the change of pace and scenery, Im also jazzed about the new terminology and slang being used. Super excited for this series!
Rak's takeover of the group made me realize, of all the potential systems that could seriously improve late-game Dwarf Fortress, I think constructing a system that procedurally generates internal political struggles would be amazing. When a fort grows large enough, it starts becoming difficult to stay attached to specific characters. A perfect remedy to this would be to have a system that designates certain dwarves as "political figures," who are given personal agendas and will randomly take special actions to further their goals. Think like how nobles currently make trade bans or work orders, only instead it's *"The head of Temple X has publicly declared a distaste for Temple Y, tensions are high between members of both temples."* or *"The new mayor has convinced the populace that military conquest is the path to bounty, many dwarves now have the 'take part in a battle' need."* Imagine all the cool game-of-thrones stuff you could encounter with a system like that... assassination attempts, political weddings, protests, loyalties, etc. I know that we currently have a LITTLE of this with the villains system, but that's entirely external. Give me a softer version of to spice up internal affairs in my forts!
I'm no strong hand with the numbers and modding experience, but I do love doing little graphics and such. I'm sure there are others in my boat out there who would love to team up to work on Steam-release mods! Take heart! We're out there! Thank you for sharing this amazing short-fort! I adored this! Great work to you and your team-- I would loooove seeing your teamup again in the future.
Oh doing a one-off fort with a guest artist is GENIUS. Your art is, of course, immaculate and iconic but it's so fun to see someone else's style paired with your narration. This one was a delight
A loner bird that dislikes normal worms but likes wormmen for their wriggling. Meanwhile he loses his tail. Not tail feathers, his tail! "Reliant on *facts* and *logic* " Karir is a favorite so far.
My guy this episode was absolutely fantastic, getting an Artist on board and music created really brought this story up to another level. Honestly i'm so inspired by all your videos, I've tried to create my own video! I've started playing and recording the content, and just asked myself "but... do i speak what's happening now? Do i write a script? That's alot of work... when do i start drawing? Should i draw all the first 7 dwarves and read their whole bio description?" Questions after questions! Also all the dwarves died to the undead, but there were some epic events along the line! Like the last dwarf alive was a Father with 2 Dwarf children who killed 5 Undead by himself where all other dwarves perished. And then just tried to survive, unable to rebuild or do anything productive as I wtched a couple years go by, hoping the oldest dwarven daughter becomes old enough to be able to work and fix up the base. If you have any tips, I'd love to hear your process and how you go about doing everything. Much love, Zonalar.
I just had the idea of a dwarven civilization that lives in the trees last week, this videos will certainly serve as inspiration for that. Also i love the idea of having different art for a special episode like this. Absolutely stunning work from all of you, it's always a pleasure to see Kruggsmash in my UA-cam feed.
Absolutely love the color scheme for these crazy birds. So vibrant and tropical. It's great to see the treehouse fort finally happening and props to the artist
Beautiful episode. Both in art, narration, and lots of unscripted funny events typical to dwarf fortress. "Don't worry about the blood. It's a macace monkey's blood. The Kiwi is fine. No idea how the blood got there."
This REALLY makes me want to see some sort of treehouse-assisting mod for the game! Say... rope ladders that act like retractable stairs, pulleys that act like a vertical-moving minecart for quick transfer of goods, and rope bridges to allow quick and easy access across gaps.
This video was so far from my expectations my head was spinning with amazement. Your passion is inspiring. You're a great advocate for the DF community!
Whenever Krugg sounds baffled about the Aves' behavior (like cooking the eggs) I imagine he's still a dwarf, just wearing a fake beak and feathers, trying his best to blend in even though he has no idea what's going on with them.
This was such a fun short-fort! Pythania's art and Angelo's music gave it such a unique vibe - thank-you to both for the wonderful collaboration! I wouldn't be averse to more Aves content if it's something you want to stick with, and I'm always up for watching weird experiments of course!
Ah, the ritualised canibalism has alreaady started. At some point you'll have to give the Dragonfolk mod a try, imagining you trying to make a "functional" bank out of it that produces coins and other trade tokens as their primary trade goods.
Loved the art in this one. Especially how most of the mammals have small dim eyes compared to the birds, where even the cassowaries and kiwis had very expressive eyes compared to the monkeys and good ol’ Fatty (gonna moss that guy.)
This is an incredible video and concept. I loved the art and the music, cograts to Pythania and Angelo T. Too bad is just a one-episode thing, I would love to see a bit more of this mode. Thank you, Krugg, as always, your videos are the best Dwarf Fortress content I have ever seen. Thank you.
It was a really fun episode! Props to Pythania for the amazing art, always fun to see guest artists, and to Angelo for the music. And of course, to APPW for the fun mod that brought us this change of pace!
Great one shot. I'm always amazed at the potential Dwarf Fortress has. The implementation of other races in the game would be incredible for the types of narratives that would emerge.
This was very cute ^^ Pythania's artwork is really adorable, and I love the stories you tell with these little critters. That poor snek XD At least it was memorialized in the temple. It certainly deserved it after putting up with being beaten up so much XD
I love this. Bird people are so cool. Definitely going to pass this on to some of my friends. Maybe that will open their eyes to what Dwarf Fortress can do.
I love the way you play df more than any other UA-cam and seeing smaller mod showcases with your specific style of story telling and playing df makes mods more attractive. Keep it up krugg, this channel has craftsdwarfship of the highest quality. ❤
I really like these 'special' forts with modded civs. But then again, you come up with interesting, novel concepts on a regular basis, regular dwarves or something different. Also, props to the illustrator and mod-maker! Hooray for Bird Fortress!
wow! what a beautiful video. I have to say I was surprised, that someone else drew the visualisations.But the artsryle the music, your voice; everything just fits for this video. it had a really nice idylic touch! very bacialamano!
What a fun concept! I'm still learning the intricacies of DF but a tree-house fort would be awesome to try! And I like the artwork used for this one! I can see it now; a mighty jet-block fortress high in the canopies of the oldest growth. An impressive sight to goblin and man, and a giant middle finger to the elves XD
I liked the tree fort idea and thought the bird mod was cool. This episode had a bunch of great stuff happen in it, but it felt sort of squished. Like two or three episodes of cool stuff crammed into one. I would have liked to see more of the things being built, the ponds, the treehouses. The finished product was really cool, but I did miss the excitement and anticipation of also getting to see the process.
shout out to Karir's magnificent thighs and calf, that is a land bird right there. btw DF sprites are not specially hard to make, they just take A LOT of work because they have so much variation, so if you are not in a rush, just put the word out there that you are needing an artist for your mod, and someone will eventually show up, there are a lot of pixel artists out there willing to work on things for fun.
never skips leg day. not once. yeah it's easy enough to make a pixel sprite, but in comparison it *is* a lot more than there used to be. If I was a modder I know for sure it'd be a major factor in whether I made mods anymore or not.
I really like these episodes that focus on non-dwarf species (or even just unusual dwarf societies). It's always cool to see how the game changes when dwarves aren't the focus!
Cute little settlement! I like the avians. It makes me curious about how their eggs work and what needs these fellas have. They feel a little like elves, who also tame all sorts of weirdo animals. Long-term I'd be worried about the water situation. I see no river on the map, a lot of ponds and a vague hint of aquifers.
It was such a pleasure working on this video!! I'm glad to see such warm reception kahahaw
It was quite fun to illustrate everything for this episode. Ave atque vale!!
your work feels rooted in culture and place in a way thats super cool to see on kruggs channel- its fantasy furry art but its in some ways more human than dworfs. also, as a trans person of color this is awesome to see
Edit: Just watched through. What a fantastic episode!! Thanks to Kruggsmash for giving me this opportunity and thanks to everyone for the kind comments, it's quite lovely to see and I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
@@luin6788 I really appreciate that. Your words mean more to me than you might think!
@@pythania Yeah, little obscure UA-cam fact is that pinned comments cannot be edited.
And marvellous work, absolutely marvellous.
Great work!
Hey Kruggsmash! Thanks for playing my mod! I've been a long time viewer.
Egg-laying is a weirdly 'dark magic' part of the game. But it's not really that complicated. It's just a bit micro managy to get working properly. I tried to explain it in the mod's description. But in short, the best way I've found to get it to work is by unlisting ave eggs from all stockpiles, and them mass dumping all the ave's nest boxes every 3 or 4 months.
Also, my apologies for not responding on Steam. At the time I couldn't believe one of my favorite youtubers was actually trying to contact me.
Great mod man
I think your mod is excellent! I love how thought out each facet of ave culture is (especially the little tidbits involving music). Keep up the brilliant work! I hope I did your vision justice kahahaw
@@pythania Thank you! I think you did a great job envisioning them. I mean I would've done small things differently (like how many fingers they have or how big their wings are or how much scale they have etc etc) but you did some fantastic work so I can't complain!
DFHack has a "nestboxes" plugin that scans and forbids fertile eggs. Should be pretty handy for this mod.
Birb Fortress? Awesome.
Darn toodin'
@@kruggsmashSurely you mean darn tweetin'?
@@bbgun061 Dad plz
Wow! Pythania's art is absolutely beautiful. I love their colouring. Definitely deserves the attention that Kruggsmash is affording them.
Thank you!! It actually took me about a day straight to figure out the color palette we wanted to go for. The original "blocky" colors are shown at 30:50 (this was the first batch of images). The rendered composite image is what I used as reference for the rest of the art.
Most birds can and do eat their own eggs, particularly if they dont hatch after a while, such as if they are unfertilized. It helps reclaim the nutrition used on them.
MM yummy I love calcium!!!
Eating their OWN eggs feels weird, but eating another Ave's eggs? Doesn't seem _too_ strange to me.
We eat chicken eggs, and would it really feel THAT different if the hen could talk?
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthplenty of mammals will eat the placenta after birth, such as goats for example. I totally get why it feels weird, but ultimately this behavior of eating your own... "Material" is fairly common in the animal world.
@@Inanedata Cannibalism tends not to sit right with humans, even autocannibalism.
Chicken farmers often cook eggs and feed them back to the chickens to return some protein
the differnt art gave me a culture shock at first but because its so pretty i can live with it ;)
Gotta be a bit strange seeing different art on teh channel, eh? glad you liked it though, it's really slick. Pyth did a great job.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I'm a big fan of it, personally. While I'm not sure this flowing, colourful style would work as well with dwarves, it fits very well with bird-people.
Still, it IS a big shift from Krugg's more gritty and tactile art.
Love how Krugg tries water projects in every single fort ever and always ends up mostly with regrets and wet settlers :D.
Always entertaining though!
Dang, only 11 days for a 30 min video of this quality!? you're nuts!
Yeah, you know I guess I forgot how delayed the previous video. was wondering why I ended up struggling with this one so much despite the artistic help. Makes sense now lol.
@@kruggsmashyou spoil us far too much.
@@giaxo1739 This is true
Hey, big fan! I know that most fans and even including you are very into drawings and filler stories as artifacts or made up backstories. But have you ever though about making no picture videos/making them less, but still having some sort of narrator? As we got steam version sprites I feel that drawn pictures are not so impactful as they were back in the day.
Thanks for your hardwork!
@@Justinvaidak I disagree that the drawings are less impactful, but I do think it'd be fine if we had fewer drawings per episode if it meant more episodes or higher quality ones. Everything's a tradeoff!
Dwarves: Are you eating your own children!?
Aves: Oh no, silly! These eggs aren't fertilized, so there's nothing weird about it at all.
Dwarves: Oh... good.
Aves: I'm eating my period.
Dwarves: .....
During production, we literally made the same joke kahahaw
i always appreciate playthroughs of non-dwarven settlements in dwarf fortress! waddlesquash was one of my personal favorite fortresses/towns of yours. plus this being from the perspective of people who aren't really used to permanent settlements really adds to things.
Loving the guest artwork here, super cool idea to colab with other artists. Although krugg birds would be cool to see too.
It's fun working with others from time to time. You are right though- it would have been pretty fun to draw these guys. I gotta draw more beakdogs
@@kruggsmashsubmit fanart of your own series to the "Behind the Scenes... Things"?
My girlfriend and I both love birds, and we keep a few. She's never seen your videos before, but I couldn't help but show her this one, and she's hooked. Just know, Krugg, that you bring smiles to new faces and longtime fans alike.
The bear walking in suddenly like that knocked me out. Great video, salutes to the guest artist.
Honestly surprised it didn't attack anyone given how foul tempered Sloth Bears are in real life.
Fun fact. The João-de-barro is a bird that build pottery like structures on tree branches in RL. Amazing right?
Hey, I just wanted to let you know, your videos are the highlight of whatever week you upload in for me.
I live down in Australia, and your usual upload time for me is late on a Thursday/Friday night, so for the last few months I've made it a tradition of getting cozy under a blanket with a hot chocolate to see some dwarvern shenanigans before bed.
Thanks so much for the stories you tell!
Hell yeah buddy. very very glad to hear that. One of the biggest perks of doing this schtick I tells ya. Glad to help you uinwind, my friend.
Ha me too. Watching this now past my bedtime. I'll be ruined for work tomorrow but it's a highlight of my week. When there is an upload :D
Hey man..I'm from Brasil, and i bought this game as soon as Steam version came out.
I work with rehabilitation of extremely vulnerable and marginalized people, and in my daily work routine I go trough so much mental pain and stress, frustration...I mean...what I really want tô say is, your vídeos are a great relief for me brother. They are part of my therapy when I come home.
Thank you for your effort man.
I love this game, and I love your stories!
Obrigado por assistir
@@pythaniaEu que agradeço pelo conteúdo, e pelas lindas ilustrações =).
Kruggsmash continuing the tradition of catastrophic mist generator planning.
Was a pleasure to work with you, amazing video ;)
You did amazing work!
@@pythania you too! These arts rocks!! 🙌
The art is beautiful, congrats to Pythania.
Thank you
Based bird appreciator playthough, very nice.
I wish someone'd make some playable insect civilizations, too.
I'd sure love to see more of these silly little birds.
Very interesting! Its a cute and colorful and something different! Noticing a lot of fruit on the ground and walkways, assigning a few birds to just picking up floor fruit would be a relatively low effort source of food!
I just got the to Roc part of Scorch fountain AGAIN 😆 and I found myself thinking "A bird Rito type people playthrough would be awesome" and here we are
- quite a few birds eat their eggs. Either because they are unfertilized, or because the food condition is not right for children
- I guess a issue is keeping the animal nests and people nests apart
27:50 Cassowary jumping into and playing in the temple pond.
Not only am I totally on board for the change of pace and scenery, Im also jazzed about the new terminology and slang being used. Super excited for this series!
Had a rough day, so this new vid excites me to no end. Thanks Krugg ❤
Hang in there, man. Weekends a-comin'!
Rak's takeover of the group made me realize, of all the potential systems that could seriously improve late-game Dwarf Fortress, I think constructing a system that procedurally generates internal political struggles would be amazing.
When a fort grows large enough, it starts becoming difficult to stay attached to specific characters. A perfect remedy to this would be to have a system that designates certain dwarves as "political figures," who are given personal agendas and will randomly take special actions to further their goals. Think like how nobles currently make trade bans or work orders, only instead it's *"The head of Temple X has publicly declared a distaste for Temple Y, tensions are high between members of both temples."* or *"The new mayor has convinced the populace that military conquest is the path to bounty, many dwarves now have the 'take part in a battle' need."*
Imagine all the cool game-of-thrones stuff you could encounter with a system like that... assassination attempts, political weddings, protests, loyalties, etc. I know that we currently have a LITTLE of this with the villains system, but that's entirely external. Give me a softer version of to spice up internal affairs in my forts!
I'm no strong hand with the numbers and modding experience, but I do love doing little graphics and such. I'm sure there are others in my boat out there who would love to team up to work on Steam-release mods! Take heart! We're out there!
Thank you for sharing this amazing short-fort! I adored this! Great work to you and your team-- I would loooove seeing your teamup again in the future.
Oh doing a one-off fort with a guest artist is GENIUS. Your art is, of course, immaculate and iconic but it's so fun to see someone else's style paired with your narration. This one was a delight
A loner bird that dislikes normal worms but likes wormmen for their wriggling. Meanwhile he loses his tail. Not tail feathers, his tail!
"Reliant on *facts* and *logic* "
Karir is a favorite so far.
I love parrots, and I love dwarf fortress. This video is a perfect mix of both
I'm a simple guy. Love me parrots. Love me DF.
My guy this episode was absolutely fantastic, getting an Artist on board and music created really brought this story up to another level.
Honestly i'm so inspired by all your videos, I've tried to create my own video! I've started playing and recording the content, and just asked myself "but... do i speak what's happening now? Do i write a script? That's alot of work... when do i start drawing? Should i draw all the first 7 dwarves and read their whole bio description?" Questions after questions!
Also all the dwarves died to the undead, but there were some epic events along the line! Like the last dwarf alive was a Father with 2 Dwarf children who killed 5 Undead by himself where all other dwarves perished. And then just tried to survive, unable to rebuild or do anything productive as I wtched a couple years go by, hoping the oldest dwarven daughter becomes old enough to be able to work and fix up the base.
If you have any tips, I'd love to hear your process and how you go about doing everything. Much love, Zonalar.
I just had the idea of a dwarven civilization that lives in the trees last week, this videos will certainly serve as inspiration for that. Also i love the idea of having different art for a special episode like this.
Absolutely stunning work from all of you, it's always a pleasure to see Kruggsmash in my UA-cam feed.
Guest artist? Fun weird gimmick? Engineering challenge? All very fun choices!
This was a wildly cool and colorful video, really had a fun time! :D
Absolutely love the color scheme for these crazy birds. So vibrant and tropical. It's great to see the treehouse fort finally happening and props to the artist
Beautiful episode. Both in art, narration, and lots of unscripted funny events typical to dwarf fortress.
"Don't worry about the blood. It's a macace monkey's blood. The Kiwi is fine. No idea how the blood got there."
This was one of your cutest episodes ever. Very enjoyable and inspiring
The Bludgeoned Python is a good name for a tavern
Sounds just bawdy enough
Awww poor Snek.. made me feel bad for the scaly beauty that she was hit so many times.
Also, very nice way to make a 'fort' so to say
Awesome short fort.
Loved the mod and story you wove.
I never even thought of building in the trees. Will have to try!
Thanks for Colorchirp!
Beats the crap out of an animal and it ends up in the colony's possession... ah yes the Rimworld method of taming.
The art is gorgeous omg, and I'm loving the change in perspective with a new species! Also the kiwis are so cute aaaa
Awesome to see another guest artist!
Shame this was just a one-off - I'd love a long series with this lovely mod! And those illustrations are gorgeous.
Quite a cool concept! I do hope you already have a contingency plan in place for when a dragon decided to sight see your very flammable fortress
I'm loving the digital artwork. I'm looking forward to see where you go with it.
This REALLY makes me want to see some sort of treehouse-assisting mod for the game! Say... rope ladders that act like retractable stairs, pulleys that act like a vertical-moving minecart for quick transfer of goods, and rope bridges to allow quick and easy access across gaps.
This video was so far from my expectations my head was spinning with amazement. Your passion is inspiring. You're a great advocate for the DF community!
This was a great episode! I fully support having other artists involved in your playthroughs.
Love the colors on this episode, for the birds and the backgrounds
Whenever Krugg sounds baffled about the Aves' behavior (like cooking the eggs) I imagine he's still a dwarf, just wearing a fake beak and feathers, trying his best to blend in even though he has no idea what's going on with them.
😂
This was such a fun short-fort! Pythania's art and Angelo's music gave it such a unique vibe - thank-you to both for the wonderful collaboration! I wouldn't be averse to more Aves content if it's something you want to stick with, and I'm always up for watching weird experiments of course!
i really hope u never burn urself out on these videos. they just keep getting better and better!!
Ah, the ritualised canibalism has alreaady started.
At some point you'll have to give the Dragonfolk mod a try, imagining you trying to make a "functional" bank out of it that produces coins and other trade tokens as their primary trade goods.
Awesome video! I'm a huge fan of birds and the artist did a fantastic job! Your storytelling is fantastic as usual, Krugg!
Loved the art in this one. Especially how most of the mammals have small dim eyes compared to the birds, where even the cassowaries and kiwis had very expressive eyes compared to the monkeys and good ol’ Fatty (gonna moss that guy.)
Amazing work Krugg as always. These birds are pretty fun fellows.
Krugg's utter bewilderment at a nestbox being claimed by a SOMEONE is very delightful. Like yea, I suppose birds would need nestboxes.
Nice roleplaying and voicework by Krugg. Really conveys the birdbrain :)
"but thats a bridge too far" - i love the bird themed aayings you've come up with 😂
This is an incredible video and concept. I loved the art and the music, cograts to Pythania and Angelo T. Too bad is just a one-episode thing, I would love to see a bit more of this mode.
Thank you, Krugg, as always, your videos are the best Dwarf Fortress content I have ever seen. Thank you.
You are by far the best Dorf youtuber. It would be cool to have moments when you look at everything in asci to see what it looks like for the OGs
It was a really fun episode! Props to Pythania for the amazing art, always fun to see guest artists, and to Angelo for the music. And of course, to APPW for the fun mod that brought us this change of pace!
Great one shot. I'm always amazed at the potential Dwarf Fortress has. The implementation of other races in the game would be incredible for the types of narratives that would emerge.
Pythania's art is incredible!
Thank you! YOU are incredible!!
Having the bird personalities displayed briefly on overlay is an excellent idea.
Surf on my dude.
Omg this art is incredible. Rac taking a nest box and laying eggs was incredible. I'm so hyped for this series.
This was very cute ^^ Pythania's artwork is really adorable, and I love the stories you tell with these little critters. That poor snek XD At least it was memorialized in the temple. It certainly deserved it after putting up with being beaten up so much XD
The first illustration of a tree house reminds me of the pikmin onions
Absolutely gorgeous illustrations from your guest artist! And fun story as always, Krugg never disappoints.
I really like the presentation and theme of this video. The art is done well if different
Just finished Northbridge and now there is another one of you videos. Beautiful.
Thank you for your work.
I love this. Bird people are so cool. Definitely going to pass this on to some of my friends. Maybe that will open their eyes to what Dwarf Fortress can do.
Loved this episode, what a great way to showcase a fun little mod and a very talented artist and musician! Keep up the Great Work! Cheers, Ivan :D
Really hitting it out of the park with the art on this one, it is absolutely fantastic.
I love the way you play df more than any other UA-cam and seeing smaller mod showcases with your specific style of story telling and playing df makes mods more attractive. Keep it up krugg, this channel has craftsdwarfship of the highest quality. ❤
The birds in the artwork were very colorful and very adorable. Great artist.
OH BOY CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT THE DWA-............wait birds? I see were doing something a bit diffrent for this one.
I really like these 'special' forts with modded civs. But then again, you come up with interesting, novel concepts on a regular basis, regular dwarves or something different.
Also, props to the illustrator and mod-maker!
Hooray for Bird Fortress!
God I love stuff like this, just seeing little communities of unique races and their day to day life is so interesting
This was such a cool fort, nice refreshing art and music too 👍
wow! what a beautiful video. I have to say I was surprised, that someone else drew the visualisations.But the artsryle the music, your voice; everything just fits for this video. it had a really nice idylic touch! very bacialamano!
What a fun concept! I'm still learning the intricacies of DF but a tree-house fort would be awesome to try! And I like the artwork used for this one! I can see it now; a mighty jet-block fortress high in the canopies of the oldest growth. An impressive sight to goblin and man, and a giant middle finger to the elves XD
my right ear enjoyed this episode
totally not going to have any problems with the elves, totally!
I liked the tree fort idea and thought the bird mod was cool. This episode had a bunch of great stuff happen in it, but it felt sort of squished. Like two or three episodes of cool stuff crammed into one. I would have liked to see more of the things being built, the ponds, the treehouses. The finished product was really cool, but I did miss the excitement and anticipation of also getting to see the process.
shout out to Karir's magnificent thighs and calf, that is a land bird right there.
btw DF sprites are not specially hard to make, they just take A LOT of work because they have so much variation, so if you are not in a rush, just put the word out there that you are needing an artist for your mod, and someone will eventually show up, there are a lot of pixel artists out there willing to work on things for fun.
never skips leg day. not once.
yeah it's easy enough to make a pixel sprite, but in comparison it *is* a lot more than there used to be. If I was a modder I know for sure it'd be a major factor in whether I made mods anymore or not.
Sloth Bears are a fantastic example of the Bearadox (Bear Paradox):
"If bear apex predator, then why so friend-shaped?"
This is awesome stuff! Love the illustrations and narration. Great job.
We have arrived at the furry arc. :D
Something entirely different, pretty fresh and interesting wow!
Ummm...you mean feathery arc? gosh.
lets do this lol
you know what I’m fine with this
Yes... ha ha ha... YES!
It was inevitable.
@@kruggsmash Whatever floats your boat.. or tree! ;)
I'm not judging!
The art is beyond amazing, I just have no words, holy shit this is unbelievably good content
Thank you so much!
production value just went through the roof
the music is amazing btw
I like the one off episodes...
they are little stories that gives me that good feeling for the day...
much as i love the standard kruggsmash art style the guest episodes are always fun
I really like these episodes that focus on non-dwarf species (or even just unusual dwarf societies). It's always cool to see how the game changes when dwarves aren't the focus!
Strike the .. leaves? *confused dwarf noises*
I REALLY like how colorful it is! Well done indeed
Along with storytelling, you are also a masterful editor. What a treat your videos are
Cute little settlement!
I like the avians. It makes me curious about how their eggs work and what needs these fellas have. They feel a little like elves, who also tame all sorts of weirdo animals.
Long-term I'd be worried about the water situation. I see no river on the map, a lot of ponds and a vague hint of aquifers.