Dwarf Fortress Short Forts: Skullhorror #1, Fetid Tundra
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- In those lands of fetid frost where corpses roam and none lie dead
Not man nor elf nor goblin found. Only dwarven boots dare tread.
A wicked shriek of ice-crisp wind blows past those wretched ones corpse-born
and on it rides a melody. Skullhorror's voice, it's fabled horn.
Thanks to the BEST colorizer around: Mrs. Kruggsmash!
A HUGE thanks to all of my patrons, without whom I would not be doing these videos right now!
And of course, special thanks to the creators of this beautiful, complex madness: Tarn & Zach Adams: bay12games.com/...
And of course, Thank you for watching, m'bastard. I couldn't do it without you.
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"For their symbol they have chosen a Dwarf. The Dwarf is dead. The Dwarf is also laughing." - The most accurate symbol for Dwarf Fortress ever.
Losing is fun! I guess you're right on that :)
@@kruggsmash ah yes, the one thing the wiki will not shut up about
almost as accurate as "the tundra of suckers"
@@weaponizedpizza8825 ...this comment somehow got better
Brings back the painful memories of my first proper fortress. Damn flying fire breathing Stibmer you son of a...! *Technical Difficulties, we'll be right back.*
Dorf 1: The land to the south west of the realm, do you know what is?
Dorf 2: The 9th circle of Hell manifest?
Dorf 1: it's free real estate
@@KamenArts Dorf Forfress
@@speedlimate Dorf means Village in german so it kinda works i guess
Dwarf from Ohio
@@Skyl3t0n Village Fort. So...a castle town.
"three of our dwarves are unlikable, one is lazy and the other is meek"
This isn't a fortress, it's a sitcom
This comment is simultaneously an excellent comment and factual.
I'd pay for a show or movie of this game. Especially to see what Kruggsmash does with Skullhorror if he was made director.
When you find yourself in fetid tundra, don't eat the yellow snow.
Definitly don't approach pink snow, there could be a monster hiddin' just 'eneath the frost!
Ha! Oh boy That stupid joke hadn't even occurred to me. Good one, y'bastard
frank zappa reference ?
Nanuk Nanuuuk
Does the rain to reanimation or does it happen regardless?
"Nekolkozoth Ishollaldisuthgeshud Rôsh - Skullhorror the Frigid South Nightmare-Fortress of Death"
This is the most metal fortress name I've ever heard. Straight up brutal.
I suspect the reason one of those migrant waves was so large was because of the ridiculous value of that golden artifact!
@Maintenance Renegade
Sucks that adamantine blunt weapons are garbage. He could just fight piles of reanimated limbs tho.
@Maintenance Renegade He has magma.
The obvious solution is to build a system to flood the surface with magma at the pull of a lever.
Dwarf: "Welcome to Skullhorror, the Frigid South Nightmare-Fortress of Death!"
*migrant looks around at the frozen hellscape full of fetid slime and roaming zombie animals*
Migrant: "...Yeah, that sounds about right."
Seems you chose the “Gods toilet” of biomes
-Constant “yellow liquid”
- lots of zombies/bacteria
-Is white
-Lots of water on the second layer
...And two dwarves have already died due to being flushed down the drain, so to speak.
I TOILED IN GOD'S TOILET!!!!!
Urist Mcswole the craftsdwarf
“I’m a force-a-nature!”
“No! *BOOM* Mistake of Nature!”
This channel alone reassures me that it's okay it's only Thursday. It signals the freedom of the week end being on the horizon. Thus I am pleased.
TEX!
Not sure if either of you will read this, but if you could have Tex do a few voice guest lines for some bossy nobles then I'm sure that DF13 community may just have our hearts pop.
C'mon dwarves, move that freight.
SS13 and DF, the best of combos
I saw black-pants and thought of The Door Monster First. . . No, a new creator to follow though!
Checkers! Reporting in! FOR CARGONIA!
What a pleasant surprise
I can just imagine the dwarfs dropping chunks of gold down a hole in the ground that goes hundereds of feet down. What could gi wrong lol
Theortically? Nothing at all!
Practically? Someone's going to get crushed or their pet (INSERT_RACE_HERE) will.
FOOL of a Took!
I'm sure SOMEONE will get smashed along the way :p
Without a Doubt, I mean two were frozen just getting in the earth!
Edit: Didn't want to @ you.
Standing there is gonna be hazardous for sure. Imagine, minding your business as the local goldsmith, catching your breath in a corner after some hard work and-- *KLUNK*. You're red paste.
This is the highlight of my Thursday!
gotta say I wasn't expecting you here but I see you are a man of culture.
What?? Koifish in dwarf fortress video??
Koifish's Dwarf Fortress gameplay video confirmed
I will drink from your skull!
@@kruggsmash EH?! BEGONE VILE BEGGAR!
IT'S ALMOST HARVESTING SEASON, M'LORD! BANNERLORD APPROACHES!!!
12:30 that's probably the prettiest dwarf yet. No warts, no cross-eyed, clear hair. That's a freak among dwarves
We'll see how long she lasts :p
She'll probably get crushed in the gold shaft or something
@@kruggsmash I'd recommend putting a grate over the top of the chute on a lever pull. Gold can be dropped *down* the chute whenever, but only reaches the bottom when you pull the lever.
I've found not doing this usually results in rather unfortunate deaths.
@@kruggsmash Tough dwarves aren't the pretty ones haha. Unless your talking about the GQ model dwarves from 2nd lord of the rings trilogy.
meanwhile i'm just sitting over here unbelievably disappointed that krugg chooses to portray female dwarves as beardless >:(
@Antivaxxers for Nurgle 2020 oh. :(
well then i'm just sitting over here unbelievably disappointed that tarn and zach adams choose to portray female dwarves as beardless :( :( :(
Ah, evil tundras and glaciers. The classic hellscapes. I love how you basically made a dwarven bunker. Ive always wanted to settle in an evil mountain and basically make a fallout-esque vault, myaelf
Isn't it terrible? Pretty happy that slime didn't melt their skin off or anything :p
I hope they can keep things together down there..
It's basically Icecrown, isn't it
Or Santa's workshop, but then again, what's the difference
@@agihammerthief8953 it is pisscrown.
Kruggsmash: mentions zombie wool.
Me: Has flashbacks to Zombie Donkey Head Hair
You made me shiver.
Noooooo!
End boss of Delersholid.
Just a tip when invading a necromancer tower as a non undead: don't butcher the zombie bodies. Every bit of that zombie will continuously grab you until you're either killed by other zombies or strangled to death. I found that out the hard way.
Snap into a Shin Jim! I’m specifically referring to Kruggsmash’s original Dwarf Fortress Series. A donkey head hair ended up being a major problem for him back then
I love how we go from the lovely and cutesy mushroom kingdom to pure hell on this frozen land.
The Halloween just kicked in
When you're one year in and you finally figure out where you are....
Medeival Navigation at it's finest
My headcanon for these starting dwarves is that they're all exiles, basically sent on a suicide mission out into the middle of nowhere.
I do like that! We can roll with it
After 5 minutes watching the tundra, I can see the tundra also with my eyes closed.
The whole reanimated body parts in the tundra aspect reminds me of The Thing. I love it!
Hey that's totally true right there! Wow, I hadn't put two and two together I guess. good thinking!
That's brilliant! Next fortress I make is going to be in an evil frozen biome with the population limit set to under 40...give all the dwarfs names like "Blair", "Norris", "Clark", and "MacReady"... yeah...
Absolutely lol
Skullhorror, huh... Sounds like a brilliant place to take a vacation!
H3RTZ H3 Almost as well as boatmurdered
Hell yeah it does!
@@emiledlund9559 nah, Boatmurdered is where you settle down and begin a nice family, maybe loose a few kids to the ravenous elephants while you're there.
Knowing how the last time an evil biome went on this channel, I just KNOW this is going to be good.
Ha! Hoping to keep things under control a LITTLE bit here! Guess we shall see though!
@@kruggsmash This is what, your fourth time just on camera? You got this down by now.
"The Blizzard of Suckers." Very timely.
A human sees a living mass of wool, screams and shouts, "Oh god please no!"
A dorf sees a living mass of wool, runs up behind and kicks it shouting, "Oi, git back down ya damn shavin trash!"
I've always wondered how the two worshippers of the God of rainbows and the worshipper of the God of night felt, in those weeks and days where they debated how to proceed. How did they feel knowing that their only option for survival was to forever seal themselves off by the divinity within the sky they had found such great comfort in?
I can tell, that horn will have an awesome story in the future.
Like the horn of Helhammerhen in Helms Deep.
Oh I really hope so. Gotta do something with it other than letting it sit in the junk pile :p
That thing is going to attract adventurers and thieves... and goblins.
@@kruggsmash Maybe you should give your military a dedicated "Horn Blower" who just has the horn and armour, no weapons.
@@kruggsmash YOU LET THAT THING LIE ON THE JUNK PILE ?!
I thought it was Helm Hammerhand
Oh boy, I forgot it is the best day of the week!
We here! Welcome to Skullhorror!
I just want to say that this video is the only reason I have started playing dwarf fortress
This series is what brought me into Dwarf Fortress proper. Before this, I only knew of it as that one "really old school looking game that is incredibly complex and an eyesore", but due to your impeccable storytelling and awesome narrating, I genuinely gave it a shot. After that, I basically got hooked on it and play it semi-regularly. It has fast become one of my all-time favorite pass-time games for whenever I get craving for a relaxing and joyful time!
Thanks a lot, man! Always a pleasure watching you!
This fortress is one of the most esthetically pleasing so far! I'm getting some real dungeon keeper vibes with all those skeletons up top and that central "dungeon heart". Keep up the good work!
Gotta love Krugg's design choices. He isn't afraid to change up fortress layouts every time he builds a new one.
God, I love these videos so much. The stories, the drawings, the sound design. Just thank you.
Well, thank you so much dude! Really means a lot more than you know :)
This is one of my favorite fortresses youve done
Oh good good! Hoping to keep that up in the next episode. Can't wait to start playing again
Every long fort krugg does ends up being my favourite yet
Another tainted fortress raises...
Freezing horrors rule the land
Beware the power of undead
The earth is rich with other horrors
Don't dig too deep, don't dig to shallow
No promises there }:)
I often rewatch your past series and to be honest even though this is a shorter one it is by far my favourite.
Best content creator on UA-cam.
Nice creepy background music too, btw
Too damn kind. I certainly try my best!
Glad you liked it! Tried to go a little more "ambient" at the start of the episode for a change
Kruggsmash slow zoom at the beginning and later on is disorienting
It's so surreal to me that this game has been in development longer than some people who can vote or legally buy alcohol are alive. Hell by that metric I'm only a year older than this game...
Absolutely love the combination of gameplay and illustration for the visuals! Very engaging and I'm in awe of how much I got invested. Definitely one of the best things I've watched on UA-cam in a long while. Lovely stuff! ♥️
I love how the dwarves personalities shine with these slides!
I mean it's always has been but there's something about this set I love.
Well, this is very exciting prospect for a fortress! I still don't know how you can pronounce those dwarven fortress/artifact names most of the time. Looking forward to the next one!
Haha, it usually does take more than a couple tries!
I must say, i really like the year notations. Gives a good sense of where we are in the playtrough.
Your art is easily the most amazing for describing the horror and wonder of Dwarf Fortress. You're a one in a million youtuber, Krugg! Thank you so much for making these videos.
'The Laughing Corpse' Would be great name for an inn
The way you draw zombie eyes is so wonderfully spooky.
This fort is going to be interesting I can feel it in my bones!
Uh oh. make sure they aren't reanimating!
so your bones are zombies?
My first Kruggsmash video :D:D This was SO COOL!
I've been playing Dwarf Fortress for maybe a week now, lmost non stop, and the reason I waited so long with watching these videos was that I didn't want a huge amount of spoilers or "quick tips" on how to play and instead figure stuff out and discover things. Now I have. And holy shit I am gonna enjoy this channel :D Also I liked that you let that first migrant wave in. Perhaps not pragmatic, but welcoming those kindred, adventurer spirits!
Okay the tutorial doesn't count. That was actually my first (and probably 5th) Krugg video but whatever.
I will always love this series
"Mother, I'm going to join a caravan establishing a new fortress on the frontier"
"Im proud of you son, a Pioneer like your father! What is the name of this fortress?"
"Skullhorror. Its in that place where the dead return to life again!"
"Oh........."
Amazing work, I can't wait to see the tomes of deep knowledge your dwaves create isolated as they are from the rest of the world!
This is the series that got me into Dwarf Fortress, and later had me build a Dungeons and Dragons game for my friends based on my inexperienced exploits in DF. Thank you Krugg, your presentation and story telling is truly magnetic, and I can't thank you enough for being the catalyst for me to try out this amazing game and share it's stories with the people I know.
Finding out the place is "The Blizzard of Suckers" after noticing the embark wasn't in the intended area is... well, it's comedic, to say the least
A good thing is to make 4 tunnels with locked hatches at the corners of the map for the migrants
Lol, is that a Steelclutches reference?!
@@kruggsmash Yes
Skull horror is my favorite series Krugg has ever done. I love coming back to it everyso often :D
The illustrations in this one are awesome. I love how spooky everything is!
I embarked on a Horrifying biome once. I have no idea what was raining, but it caused broken bones AND blisters. It was a pretty sweet fortress that worked out for a while, with many great features carved into the ice. Unfortunately a werebeast outbreak killed most of them off and I ended up abandoning it.
Will dwarves ever learn to swim? It is so easy. Just flap your arms around in the right way.
Ah, kruggsmash, return of the evil biome. I still remember the great times you had in steelclutches.
Ohh yes. Good tiiimes. goooood tiiimes :)
@@kruggsmash Make sure you don't end up with a situation again where 4 dwarfs exhaust themselves from attacking some zombie head again. That ram wool possibly could've caused just that but that ended up just fine.
Condoslime As far as i'm concerned, i think Toady fixed that bug since the artifact update.
The Thing: Dwarven Edition
You're seriously the most entertaining dwarf fortress UA-camr
Aye
Loved the introduction voice. Simply a *masterwork* voice
Hey thanks! A couple filters can work wonders sometimes!
Skullhorror is my most favorite among Kruggsmash's masterworks. Such an amazing fortress in such a horrible premise. I come back to this one from time to time just to remind myself that every bad can be overcome and good things will come to those who manage to persevere the hardships of life.
Thank you Krugg. Keep making more awesome stuff.
This was the first Dwarf Fortress Series I ever watched, happy to come back and watch it again!
Random factoids: Tiercel peregrine refers to the male, the peregrine falcon refers to the female.
Random fact: "factoid" doesn't mean what most people mistakenly think it means! (Which means that soon, it *will*, indeed, effectively/conventionally mean "small, tangential fact" rather than "a lie willed into acceptance by media repetition").
@@gloverelaxis Neat!
I have no idea how this game works, but your content and worldbuilding, accompanied with the artwork, makes for really entertaining content.
Such a legendary fortress
This is one of favorite forts he's done. It's given me the most chills.
Well. I think I've found one of my new favorite channels.
Was directed here from the interview on Noclip
and found it does live up to what they said about this channel.
skullhorror is one of my all time favorites, i find myself coming back regularly to watch it rise from the fetid frozen slime wastelands and what better time to do that than around halloween! thank you for all the stellar series, krugg! :>
Recently I started a fortress in a haunted glacier. It's not a reanimating evil biome, but it does frequently rain blue goo that causes creatures to bleed and eventually lose consciousness. The local fauna include polar bears, yeti, and ice wolves, and some poor critters that wander in from a freezing savanna in the bottom right corner of the map.
This is one of the best forts in the entire series. The artwork is so good too, gives the entire exploration of this biome a whole other level of immersion. Very entertaining.
I'm a simple man. I see a short fort and I click.
The most important part of reanimator biomes is:
Atom smash all corpses and parts. Have a dump zone over a cliff into a walled-off enclosed pit, have dwarves trigger a pressure plate walking to it, and have the bottom contain a raising bridge linked to it to utterly destroy anything thrown in there. You have to have a dozen or so dwarves on nothing but corpse and refuse hauling to make sure someone's available immediately whenever a corpse is made, such as your failed mood clothier, to dump the body down the chute.
This is my all time favorite fortress of his. Third rewatch!
I love the editing, the weather sounds, the art!
Coming back to SkullHorror after watching your old videos...
The ghosts of Khastmas and Evilkings smile upon you, Krugg. It has been a long way.
Had a throwback to Honeystoker last night when i started a new fortress "The Hidden Fortress" and spawned right beside a beehive! enjoy your cursed/unique starting land starts.
This video is like a scary narrative, I listen to this while I draw, incredible man
Just found this channel today and have been binge-watching. Lizard Moon was a great series, you've got a real knack for storytelling and I'm stoked to see how this disaster unfolds xD
what lovely narration
"This isn't the Larval Blizzards?" "Who are you, Columbus?"
Niiiiice :D
I love the fort symbol! Haunted biomes are always a great source of... Fun!
Cannot say how many times I have watched this series. Easily my favorite short fort, and in my top 3 series overall behind The Long Night and Scorchfountain, but it does dethrone Honeystoker
Also its a "good ending" fort. Let's be honest, Krugg won this biome over!
You've been in my recommendations for years, yet I'm just now watching... Why didn't I do it sooner??? You're so awesome!
Ahh, you gotta love that smell of fetid slime in the early morning! A new chapter of dwarven history begins here at this place. I sure did strike the like button!
That's just too much fun for 1 fort
I like the constant yellow snot rain falling on the surface world above. Makes the underground vault the dorfs have locked themselves into feel cozy, like the patter of vile globs against the windows in the rain.
The Fetid lands sounds like a Lich having a little too much fun. Just, everything about the fetid lands is something that would work for making a lich's domain.
Can't thank you enough for these!
coming back to this in 2024. this series was honestly one of the highlights of 2020 and what got me into the channel in the first place. TO SKULLHORROR!!!
I have a feeling this fortress will go on longer than anticipated.
Likely to be the case.
I really really hope so.
I keep coming back to this series in particular. The rugged tenacity of the Dwarves is really inspiring as they survive in this literal hellscape. The idea for this fort is really cool and I feel would make a great book.
Great work as always, Krug.
This world is going to have the next big series. I bet this fort will be involved in the big series plot like water keeper was to honeystoker
Good way to start off a Thursday morning with some Dwarf Fortress!
Fallout 5: Skullhorror
_Now featuring dwarves, and guaranteed to be 100% apocalypse-free!_
I just love how you picture all of your DF adventures: Its a really unforgiving and cruel game but you always stay positive and bring some kind of order into it. Youre like the Bob Ross of Dwarf Fortress (and i mean that as a compliment, Bob was a really chill dude with incredible skill)!
I adore your illustrations. They really are the cherry on top of this series.
Well thank you so much, buddy! They certainly do take a bunch of time. Glad folks appreciate them!
The art in the first part of the episode, before you locked the dwarves underground, was absolutely gorgeous. little detail of the dwarves, just distant figures staring out over a completely flat, lifeless landscape which provides perfect view of all the shambling things wanting to kill you. Really set the mood perfectly. I feel like it'd be really cool if you made one very tall, thin tower that stretched high above the dead landscape. When the fortress inevitably falls the could really cool as a landmark of a dead city.
The drawings are one of the main reason I always come back to these stories
Your water fortress was one of my favorites, so cool to see it in the vid. This series already looks awesome as well
Your bio dwarf drawings are getting SOLID! So much more interesting builds, your designs have really filled out and slimmed down to a nice stylized average.
First time here. I love the artworks! Really help bring to life the minimalist style of the game.
15:00 - Wow, that roster sounds like a particularly eventful season of a big brother
18:00 - Oh, you're going to add all the dwarves which were cast out of previous forts? So, like Bachelor in Paradise I guess.
This is gonna be FUN!