Braving Terrifying Undead-Infested Lands in Dwarf Fortress
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Welcome to Brassroars, a fine Dwarven outpost that dreams of being more. The land is terrifying, but it's critically important for stopping the goblin threat to the north. Can they survive or will they fall before the threats? Undead roam the world, and any creature that dies can come back to life and attack. That, and the brutal savagery that fills the skies with terrifying beasts, is a horrifying and deadly combination.
0:00 - Terrifying Lands
0:35 - Establishing the basics
7:00 - What we lack
16:35 - The city of Brassroars
24:15 - The goblin threat - Ігри
The undead storks trying to take the kids away, is one of the thousand stories that make me like this game.
It was an amazingly timed occurrence, and same
WeeeEee… waaANT Theeeem baaaaack
For the tavern is better to place like this: Table / Seat / S / T
Dwarfs only socialize when next to each other in tiles, so placing the furniture like you did will not decrease their need of family/friends.
That'd explain why they all wanted more socializing/seeing their friends and family... Thanks!
@@JustDontDie Took me a while to discover that as well!
You may have just saved my fort from a tantrum spiral. Thank you.
Also, only one chair per table, otherwise dwarfs will fight for the space on the table
TY for this!
A video from someone who is both 1. competent and 2. actually edits instead of just doing long form is so refreshing in the wave of clueless players feeling through the game (me being one of them! no shame, i just dont like watching it)
Thanks so much! These kinds of videos take a lot more effort, but they're my favorite to watch, so they're what I make. Glad you liked it!
@@JustDontDie I totally sympathize with the effort, youtube makes it really hard for edited playthroughs like this to get off the ground because of the irregular nature of uploads. Best of luck to you though, for what it's worth I've watched much bigger channels with much lower production value
Exactly this! I hate unedited stream content, it's so boring to watch. Especially dwarf fortress content where you can have hours of very little happening. Even a small amount of editing goes a long way but this video shows a level of dedication that is not the norm in current dwarf fortress currently. If the quality stays consistent, this channel is going in the sub box right next to kruggsmash.
Youre subbed to kruggsmash right? Hes so good.
yes, I appreciate the edited flow of narration. Long streams are hard to absorb as a newbie.
Great story telling. I'm new to Dwarf Fortress and I've struggled with feeling the "story" aspect. I believe the storytelling here is a great example that I'll be following in my own games. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Glad you liked it! I find that picking a goal helps me get into the right mindset. I started wanting to beat back the goblins to the north, which naturally led into focusing on the bare minimum economy to get weapons and armor, which itself led really well into delving deeper, those threats, chopping down too many trees, and so on.
Just wait until the vampire hiding in your midst starts smashing people with a solid gold statue of the god who cursed him and proceeds to naruto run around your base kilking everyone
It requires some imagination (which I lack). The stories do not't exactly spell everything out for you.
the combat log helps but thats not in the steam version
@@minoxiothethird There is a combat log in the steam version. It's always great to see 10 military dwarfs die, only for a peasant biting the throat of the enemy, severing the head in the process. RNG can be a curse or a blessing, but either way it's a great story!
I got attacked by ant-people (cavern dwellers). My squad took care of them, but two ants climbed an underground mushroom. Two of my squad followed them and killed them, but they didn't dare climbing down. I had the mushroom chopped down, something I should not have done. One survived, the other fell 10 z-levels down. Another lesson learned :-)
Love any DF content that's actually edited and well narrated.
Big time saving tips: Use auto-mining for veins and select the multi button when making zones. Like make a huge cluster of bedrooms, sealed off by doors with a bed in them and drag over them all, makes them all into bedrooms automatically. It works for any kind of zones you want a lot of. Not sure if you know or not but carpal tunnel is not fun. Used to hate how this new UI seemed to suck for large scale forts until figuring those out.
Ooh, thanks! I didn't know about the auto-mining and I misunderstood multi-zoning until you convinced me to take another look at it. Cheers, manually doing 80+ bedrooms was brutal haha.
Whenever you ask why. Like "the kid died next to the booze and the well, why?" You could always just make up a story too. The explanations you come up with from information tied to your embark (goblin menace, spies) are fun, and good storytelling. This game has endless depth for that storytelling.
Plus, since your script would have more talking per in-game event, you wouldn't have to edit down as many hours of gameplay 😉
That's a good point! I wasn't sure if I was messing things up or if it was actually an RP event. And more content per bit of editing is always good.
A little tip for when mining valuable ores and gems. In the advanced option in mining that you have opened, click on automatic and the gem icon, then just click and drag an area with ore. Your dwarfs will continue to mine that area until all the ore is gone.
Ooh, thanks. That's super nice.
Love dwarf fortress and your story telling
Thanks! Dwarf Fortress is such a great game for it.
You're really the best content creator when it comes to introducing a game to someone who's interested in getting it ^^
"Then a child punches a reanimated skull's head in" yea, this game sounds great! xD
Thanks! I definitely skip over a lot of the daunting bit of learning you have to do here, but the core of DF is so great. I'm glad I got to share that!
UA-cam once again recommending me a hidden gem of a channel. Great video! Can't wait for more of your content. Top notch story-telling and quality editing!
Since I’m very new to dwarf fortress sometimes I can get lost while watching videos, your storytelling and editing made it very easy for me to follow, great vid
Well-edited dwarf fortress content. Always good to see
This was such a great video, really enjoyed your narration and editing!
You just KNOW Ingish’s Silver Chalice is going to become a magic item in whatever D&D campaign takes place in this world 100 years from now
I just love your style of video making. Keep producing, man. You're good!
Awesome little adventure. Can't wait to see more of your Dwarf Fortress adventures. ♥
Best Steam DF video I have seen on UA-cam. I cannot even watch other channels after this because the quality here is just soooo damn high. I cannot imagine how much work went into making this.
Thanks! There's some super high quality DF content out there, especially from @Kruggsmash and @Hazzor
Great video. It's always fun watching people trying to tackle the terrifying embarks.
My mans editing skills are on point!! Great video bud 👍 sub earned
Great video as normal. Love the passion and quality! You keep it up mate
Great video, good editing and narrative also. Thank you
You deserve more views! Can't wait to see more DF from you
Thanks! YT is giving this video some good traction, and I'm already working on the next video!
Love this. Thank you!
Thanks!
I like this, good work dawi!
Great edit, pleasure to watch!
spectacular job sir. this was fun to watch. well deserved like and sub.
Please continue this series, this video is how I found your channel and I'll definitely sub for more.
Thanks! I'm planning to do a bunch of similar videos with bigger challenges, including some that go to the endgame, but not to specifically continue Brassroars right now.
Very great video with excellent story telling. Well done!
Quality content my guy, keep it up
Wow, great storytelling! Easy subscribe and looking forward to more 😉
You have a nice channel, I´ve been checking out some of your content and It´s really good, hope you make it big!
Great video! Love the more narrative style, hopefully we'll get more DF content from you :)
Thanks! I'm already halfway done recording and writing a new one!
@@JustDontDie exciting!
Just a tip, dwarves like engraved walls and floors; you can't do that on sand/soil or constructed walls, so try and put as much stuff in the stone layers as possible ! :)
Thanks! Yeah, I ended up having to carve out a lot of extra sand to put in walls that I could engrave for the tavern and guild hall for just that reason. Definitely a lesson learned.
What a fantastic video. You got a new sub.
Very cool, hope you keep this going
This is quality content. I love it!
Amazing dwarf fortress content I love watching this well edited video as much as I love playing
Thanks!
This was pretty awesome! Great video
Glad you liked it, thanks!
Your story telling is so good dude. Kudos
htis was a great story, looking forward to more dwarf adventures!
Great video man, I'm normally skeptical about low view videos but this run caught my eye and the thumbnail! I hope the algorithm treats u well
Thanks! I totally understand that. As a small creator, I try to check out other low view videos, but it's more often than not not so rewarding. The algorithim seems to be picking this one up though, thanks for the support!
@@JustDontDie You've 100% changed my PoV on low view videos, def hidden gems. You have me interested in going medieval now, lol! Can't wait to see more from you.
@@cecilsheppard9495 Thanks! It's super fun! It's still pretty clearly in EA, but the devs are doing a great job on updates, the game has so much potential, and the base building is so much more fun there than in any other colony sim/city builder!
Haha! Made me laugh more than a few times while still being informative about game mechanics and telling a story, good stuff :)
Pls keep making vids like these, love dwarf fortress, I love the way you make your forts and vids
Thanks! I'm actually posting the next one later today!
@@JustDontDie wooooooooo
Subbed this was awesome
This is incredible work. Some of the best df-content I've seen.
If you wonder what happened to a creature that died, engraving a slab in their honor will often tell you the cause of death.
Ooh, that's a good tip, thanks!
You got me hyped for the game again, thx. :'D
That makes me so happy to hear! Videos that make you hyped to get into a game are the best, and something similar got me into Dwarf Fortress 10 years ago!
Reall awesome video
nice show off of the steam set up. gonna have to grab this soon.
This content is great keep it up you hooked me within the first three seconds
Thanks! I've worked a lot on my intros, so I'm glad to hear it's not for nothing!
Fantastic video. For me, the viewer, the huge effort and time invest pay off. Thanks a lot.
Thanks! I'm glad to hear cutting it all down and all the editing works to make a better experience!
@@JustDontDie It is like watching a great story and learning sth about the game at the same time and without spending 20 hrs :) Really cool!
Really enjoyed this. Hope you do more.
Easy like and Sub.
subbed just for these stories, love real armies in DF
Commenting for the algorithm, keep up the great vids
Thanks so much!
Love this video! Fyi you should include all the walls when zoning since they increase the zone value.
Ooh, thanks!
@@JustDontDie To add onto this, the 'multi' designation button for bedrooms, tombs, or whatever, usually includes the walls when designating many things at once. As long as you have a bed (or coffin for tombs) and a door designated (not even needing to be placed yet), the tool will detect it when you drag the box over multiple rooms, and even knows when previously made rooms are already designated.
This is great
Very well done, I love the play style of using the military to defend against all the threats instead of relying on traps to deal with everything, but I suppose you kind of have to when you have flying undead beasts.
I've always disliked using traps against AI that just fall for 'em. Makes everything more fun and more 'fun'.
I'm one that is starting to fall in love with storyteller games. I play the 'child' to this game, Rimworld and I love telling the heartbreaking and heartwarming story of Engie and Hanyou. Engie was a raider that was part of a band that attacked my colony and she was the only one to survive. My colony took her as a prisoner and eventually recruited her. She was a hideously ugly Waster, but a very excellent fighter that was immune to toxic fallout. Hanyou was a refugee running from raiders that we took in. He was a very handsome highmate who couldn't fight, but was excellent in medicine and social skills. This is where these two had met. After a while of living in my colony they fell in love. It happened while Hanyou was tending to Engie's wounds she received fighting off another raid attacking the colony and he won her over. Fairly quickly after they became lovers, Engie was pregnant with his child. After a long engagement, they planned to get married. Unfortunately though Engie gave birth and the child was stillborn. The baby was buried in a sarcophagus in the colony's temple. Despite the loss, they decided to go through with the ceremony. Three days later they chose to take their nuptials in front of their lost little one's coffin as their way of still including the baby in their lives. Hanyou resolved to be a better doctor as he was the one to help deliver the baby and Engie a better fighter wife to protect her family. Such is the life of a colony buried deep in a mountainside on a post apocalyptic, hostile, polluted wasteland known as the Rim.
Im looking forward to more Dwarf Fortress videos from you
Thanks! Finalizing the script on the next DF vid now =)
Brilliant 👍
this is great
This is great, subbed for more
Thanks so much! I'm already working on the next and it's gonna be gooooood.
One more thing, click on your farm: natural soil (the above ground type, the upper z levels) are very poor for farming underground. Either dig into the caverns to farm or flood some stone and farm on that. Your yield will drastically increase, so you never have to worry about food. If you still want more food, you can also make fertilizer.
I absolutely love your story telling method its just so ingaging
Thanks so much! I'm still experimenting with some stuff but I loved how this turned out!
I love this story!
for the algorithm! great video
Good video (:
You might know this already, but you can save on hauling work by turning some rock boulders into rock blocks that are easier and faster to carry in order to build your workshops and walls out of the latter. Bonus point is that for 1 rock you get 4 blocks.
Lovely video, love a good haunted trip.
Thanks! I did know that, but I appreciate the effort. Most of my later building was done with blocks.
Good video. Personally I would like clearer annunciation, but i liked it anyway. Good job 👌
That's fair. I'm working on upping my vocal game, since I feel like it's the weakest part of my vids right now. Thanks!
Instruments aren't actually fluff. They are used by dwarfs during certain performances, and they even have a skill for it. Instruments make for better performances which give dwarves better mood buffs. The thing is you have to look at your dwarves and check what Instruments your civ uses during songs/dances. Sometimes your Civ will only use a select few in their songs which makes the hundreds of others pretty useless because your civ will almost never use them due to them not being part of any music they know.
Would love it if you give us a tutorial in this fashion, with a mix of story telling as well on how to actually survive on this game.
Thanks. I'll think about it, but I don't see it as too likely just because I think stopping the story to explain something - and there'd have to be a lot of it - would be really jarring and there's already a ton of great tutorial content out there I'd likely be rehashing.
"No one has any experience or skill as a doctor but Olin has at least some skill as a liar." Brilliant. Play to their strengths lol
"No, no. You're fine. Trust me." "I can see my bones sticking out." "I SAID TRUST ME."
If I had to guess agitated undead probably actively seek out combat and path to your dwarves rather than lazily shambling about.
Looking forward to part two : guts berserkaloo
you could auto mine ores and gems. press mine - arrow button - auto and select the vein you want to mine. also dwarfs are solitary eaters, so each table in your dining hall should only have 1 chair. and dont forget to smooth your rooms before you install any furniture, its a really simple way to increase the room's value and make your dwarfs happier. oh and I really liked your video and storytelling, hope you'll be making more df content in the future.
Thanks! I'm already about halfway through recording my next video!
You know you've got a good fortress on your hands when you are shocked/horrified that a trade caravan has made it to you door in spite of the traps and dangers.
The idea that suture is made of haunted animal hair and it suddenly starts spasming while covering someone's wound 😱
"This guy isn't a doctor, but he's a good liar, which is the next best thing..."
This game.
Hey, I wanted to let you know that for trade, you need a at least 3 wide opening to a trade post or a 3 wide ramp down if it's underground. If you don't, then traders can't bring wagons and thus can't buy or sell as much.
Do my stairs down not count? Is that why traders seemed to have so little?
@Just Don't Die yep wagons need ramps they can't use stairs.
@@destroy141 See, that makes perfect sense when you say it, but the fact that wheelbarrows are totally cool to go up and down stairs made me think it didn't matter... That helps a ton though, thanks!
@Just Don't Die it was definitely hard learned for me. Glad I could help
How much experience do you have with DF? You seemed to fare pretty well. Great storytelling, rarely I manage to watch a 30 minute video. Thank you for sharing this
Thanks! I played a couple hundred hours back 10ish years ago and remember a good chunk of it because the game left a huge impression on me. I came to the steam version, played the tutorial, then played a quick regular outpost to jog the memory before recording this.
Nice video and narrative! Is there a goal in this game?
Does it get boring if you just play a successful colony for years and years and never die?
There's no external end game goal. You can make your own goals, like clearing out a goblin area, a certain mega building project, or having an army that's Y big. I don't wanna spoil it so I'll be vague, but there are much bigger challenges that await. You can play really conservatively to minimize the risk, but most people don't just because that's less fun to them. If you want to see some of that, try googling 'dwarf fortress losing' and looking at the wiki for a list of some of the other challenges that await an end game colony.
You should include the bedroom walls in the room designation. Otherwise they don't count if you smooth and engrave them.
Secret is to bring turkeys and pigs. You can milk the pigs. Basically as long as you keep your animal herds good you wont starve. If you want to grow mushroom trees youll need to carve a massive space under ground for them to bloom in. Save all the feather wood trees for shields. Put doors in hallways like -+-+- these act like air locks and can save a dwarfs life. Before i embark i usually assign the nicest dwarf doctor skills. If you read their bio itll say something like “helping others is the highest ideal”
Great narrative style and nice drake gag
Loved the video, I hope the saga continues, I feel like a lot of playthroughs end at this point and move to another settlement, which is a shame since I feel like there is a lot more potential before there's nothing worthy left to do. Is it like the fps drop is too much after 200 dwarfes or something? Would it be possible to raise a legendary army of 100+ steel or better plated dwarfs and raze the goblin pits one after another? Is it practical to make the entry large and spacious and line it up with fortifications above it stacked with marksdwarfes and ballistas? Im new to DF so Im just getting a feel by watching videos so I dont know what makes sense, and I didnt even get to various mechanisms and elaborate traps, maybe the mist generator would be good, isnt the payoff from good mood really good on that one?
I feel that, but it's a combination of a few things. One, the base largely begins to run itself. My work orders meant that there's less and less for me to do. Big building projects take a while, so there becomes a ton of down time. This is exacerbated by low fps making things progress more slowly. I tested the fps a few times though I turned the setting off for recording, and my speed was about 60% what I started with towards the end, which means time is moving half as fast. It's less fun to personally play, and editing it down becomes long stretches of just cutting out silent footage. If I went that route, this would would have taken another week just to play out and it's already coming almost a month after the game released on steam.
It should be possible. Huge armies are definitely doable, though it didn't seem like there was much iron on this map, which means that a big army of steel-clad dwarves would take a TON of digging, further slowing things down. You can also raise war animals for use in sieges like that. Ballistas are definitely possible, traps are too though I find them unfun to use in most games, and a mist generator would be cool but it also kills FPS from what I've heard.
I'm too comfy in my boring woodland biome to deal with reviving horse hair trying to smother my dorfs
That's totally fair! I wanted to have a lot of extra fun
I like!!!
Relic floodgate and relic doors are both terribly underrated, even building destroyers can't break an artifact door
Oooh, that is useful. I haven't really run into issues with building destroyers yet, but I'm sure it's one of those things where I'll really want one as soon as I do.
Can confirm, dancing on black sand is perfect
I can feel my calves burning from a few minutes of just thinking about it...
I like this fort a lot. The constant fighting makes a lot of unhappy dwarves but your military got so strong from it. I think evil embark has advantages
It helped, though I think I also got pretty lucky with lots of migrants that had combat experience. Before adding random peasants without any experience when the Goblins expanded, every soldier came with at least competency in their weapon.
Ime the dwarves are pretty hard to break, eventually they start getting desensitised from all the violence which is pretty convenient as well.
You can build nest boxes to get eggs from the birds. They are made by craftsdwarfs.
5:40 hilariously ironic!
RIP ingish, taken before his time could come
I'd love a part 2 at the very least
I've got something else in mind for 'finishing' the game in an (IMO) more interesting playthrough.
One thing about your tavern: dwarves won't share a table. So even if you have 4 chairs surrounding a table, only one dwarf will be using it.
i love the way dwarf warriors will use their infant children as shields
Back in the danger room days i had a legendary dwarf bring her baby into the danger room and it obviously died. She later went berserk and killed more than enough dwarfs to create a tantrum spiral before she was finally killed. It ended the fort and I have been cautious of adding married women into the military ever since.
I did a embark with terrifying surrounding once. Didn’t last much longer after the severed body parts reanimated and attacked my dwarves. Still a little traumatized at Urist McUrist’s undead pinky killing half my fort.
The ol' one finger death touch
I would love to play this game but it was so overwhelming for me
It's definitely a lot to get into, but it's not nearly as much as it seems when you're new. I remember I made my fort directly alongside someone else's for a tutorial for like 5 hours just to know what to put down, how to assign basic things, etc. I'd recommend playing alongside ambiguousamphibianvods on his vod youtube channel or looking up tutorials and doing what they did if you are interested.
23:05 gold scepters can kill your dwarves because they're so heavy they encumber the dwarf to death, dying of thirst before they can reach something to drink.
Really? That's actually hilarious. In a morbid, DF-y way.
When you hit a vein, you can select auto mining to get it all out. Much easier than doing it by hand.
That's super useful, thanks!
you can click on the arrow when mining and use auto mining to mine a whole vein without supervision
Ooh, thanks. Just tried that out and that's super useful. Cheers!