Let's Learn: Dwarf Fortress - Beginner-friendly fort! - Ep 1
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- This UA-cam Let's Play is going to focus on explaining our process in a beginner-friendly way!
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The one big bonus to the new look is me actually being able to understand what's happening in the game. This is the perfect time for me to transition from Rimworld to DF. Thanks Quill.
Knowing what is happening is highly underrated
amen! I love rimworld. But the DF world just captures me more? not the mention the ACTUAL history of DF and how it is in the museum of modern art in NYC. It is a game of legend. How could I not strike the earth?
There are plenty of tilesets out for the classic version that makes life a lot easier.
@@BalimaarTheBassFish Yeah, but tilesets also tend to muck up the rest of the UI. Square tileset + regular text = ugly mess. Plus the artwork they're using in the new premium version is just... nice. This is the first time I"ve played DF without feeling like my eyes are bugging out of my head.
@@colbyboucher6391 I havent found that the tilesets mess with the UI to that degree but if thats your experience fair enough!
Thanks for doing a youtube exclusive series Quill. Appreciate it.
Agreed, not everyone enjoys livestream (have never watched them myself)
@@brytenwaldaco.productions825 so you might enjoy a livestream.... You just have never checked...
@@Joostmhw Some people prefer a video without live audience. Like I do
Same but I'll watch it all
Livestreams are annoying as a vod watcher because most of the time it's interactions with a chat you can't participate in
I discovered Dwarf Fortress yesterday and it really caught my attention, however I'm afraid that jumping into it with no knowledge at all would discourage me with the amount of possibilities the game seems to offer, that's why I was really hoping someone would make a series like this so thank you!
I tried getting into it before the steam release but was thoroughly overwhelmed, but the steam version encouraged me to get it and it's been fun so far!!
Good call. This game is notoriously difficult to learn, but if you just tackle it step-by-step, and aren't afraid of losing (losing is fun!) then you're in for a treat. You'll have some great stories in no time.
Luckily the in-game tutorial/ help menu is pretty good (can always suppliment what doesn't make sense with the wiki) and the new UI is intuitive enough to just jump in.
Seriously, I started playing yesterday and I was surprised at how smooth it went. The only thing I needed to look up was how trade depos actually work.
Bro its been out for decades 😂 where you been . I was playing this at 12 years old , im 27 now 😂
@@ElderGod4 I really don't know how I missed it! I love indie games in general but I really never heard of it in my entire life
I feel like 90% of strategy games I play I've learnt by watching you, I am so glad you're doing a Dwarf Fortress series!
Same here! Learned civ with him years ago and now DF.
8:39 omg, I've been doing stairs one level at a time in alternating directions because I had though directions mattered. This helps so much.
Love it! I do enjoy the streams but this has an oldschool vibe to it that I prefer. Keep them coming!
I agree:) without streaming, it makes the videos fill more like I’m sitting next to my friend as we play games when I was a kid lol
The music is such a masterpiece, stunning.
That had to be the fastest embark I've ever seen Quill do
Hey Quill, I'm intentionally a few days late so that I had a sufficient number of episodes to binge while working remotely in preparation for striking the earth later tonight. As always, you are my go-to source for the "Let's Learn" style videos. Thank you for taking the time to create this series. I'm really looking forward to viewing the streams after completing this series and getting a novice understanding of the game under my belt. Hope your 2022 has been great and that your 2023 is even better.
Thanks for the video, Quill! Always great to see more DF. The music is a bit loud, but at least no bird noises in this one :D
Excited to watch! This release is HUGE, and I hope more people get to discover Quill when they pick up Dwarf Fortress for the first time on steam. Been a while since I played the original so I was anxiously looking forward to some good old DF content :)
I love your DF runs, but this dumbed down version where you really talk us through things slowly is great for me, (and I'm sure many others), who love the idea of DF but are just struggling to get up and running with the steam version.
In other news, I'm afraid the advice to search for what wildlife is about on the surface reached me too late, but on the plus side I now appreciate just how much blood is created by the death of a Giant Lizard, 3 Dwarves and a host of tame animals. #RIP
Sounds like great fun😊
This game has changed so much over the years. I’ll never stop coming back to it
I've been watching the first few episodes of this series on repeat for the last few days. I'm still lost but loving it.
I’m so excited about dwarf fortress and seeing Ole’ Quillarooni play it ices the cake
I have been playing DF for a couple of hours now. With a lot of help of the awesome DF community I have been managing. I am doing my first fortress as a sort of tutorial. actually i lie. This is my second fort. The first got attacked almost instantly by a 3 eyed demon who made my miner not be able to stand and broke the hands of my carpenter. You know... the 2 dwarfs you need in the beginning. It will go down in my world as the Speedrun fort. Speedrun to ruin. Anyway I learned 2 really good things from this vid: 1: you can set a camera position with a keybind and 2: how to prioritize a mining task. I am struggling in a lot of other areas. So i am looking forward to your next vid. I am hoping to learn about farming and distilling. Since they are vital parts of a fort but are not so obvious. Especially because the game chose a embark with rocky soil. So i cannot farm on the surface. Now i am trying to desperately find a cave to farm. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Lmao it seems like I got lucky with the tutorial actually putting me somewhere safe. Lots of stories of crazy nonsense happening right at the start floating around.
I used to play df many many years ago and loved it so glad to see how much attention and success they are getting! I bought it but have forgotten pretty much everything. Love to see YT & beginner series like these that help me get back into it!
9:59 "Disdains stoicism" (the endurance of hardship without the display of feelings)
Also: "Unswayed by emotions"
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"I'm not like those other stoics."
I remember first looking up Dwarf Fortress on your channel years ago. Time really does fly. God bless.
As a person who always had a fascination with Dwarf Fortress over the years, I took the plunge and just got the game on Steam! Even though the tutorial itself was helpful, this video guide has been perfect for a newbie like me! Very clear and concise (which is a god send when trying to understand the mechanics!) Great Stuff! :)
Oh thank you so very much. I despise the whole twitch thing with all those shoutouts, the distractions, the chaotic chat, etc. It is very refreshing seeing somebody actually producing content for UA-cam rather than just posting the twitch stuff to UA-cam.
I never got into twitch because there's so much down time in the streams. I don't want to watch as someone slowly grinds doing the same thing over and over. I want an edited cut to the end result. Or sitting there waiting as the streamer goes to the restroom or eats. I'm perfectly fine with minimal editing, I just want cuts to get rid of all the boring stuff that takes up over half the stream.
Besides the massive graphics work they did, I appreciate the other changes they made to make the Steam release more accessible.
And thank you, Quill for this tutorial series!
Wow, crazy to see you still making videos! I remember younger me sitting down and watching all of your EU4 videos to learn how to play way back in 2013/14. Now here I am excited to learn a classic game, reminiscing on the golden days of let's plays on YT.. glad I stumbled across you again. Thanks so much for all the content, man.
First time playing the game using the in-game tutorial mode, I was hopelessly lost. Started over with this walkthrough and I feel like a new dwarf. A welcome introduction! Subscribed.
I've just purchased Dwarf Fortress and your tutorials are the best I e seen on UA-cam. I'm going to watch them all. Great work.
That labor menu explanation was gold. So much more confident now manipulating stuff in there. Thanks!
Things I learned from this video despite doing the in-game tutorial, watching another video tutorial as well as playing a couple hours:
Find embark location, I completely skipped over this button and was trying to manually hover over every single spot.
Dwarves get slowed down from bumping into each other.
How to make a specialized dwarf.
How to set recenter hotkeys.
How to set mining order priority.
A brook can be walked over, a river needs a bridge.
Just got started playing the game, and was looking for a tutorial. Thanks! It's already helping, I didn't know the Dwarves needed more stairwell space than I was giving them! I look forward to learning a lot!
As an intermediate player, work orders is something I haven't messed with. I mainly didn't understand its importance until now, thanks a lot!
Completely new to Dwarf Fortress and I was having a really hard time learning to play and knowing what to do next. Found you on UA-cam and watched your stream recently and I'm excited for this series!
just got the for christmas from the wife, no idea what im doing. thank you for the tutorials i'm sure they will be very helpful
This! This is what I needed. Thank you! I can finally dwell into this brilliant game.
I've played DF years ago and thought I could jump right back into it. Turns out I've forgotten a lot so these videos help.
Thank you Quill, I always wanted to get into DF, and now with this series and the Steam Release, I can see it happening!
I appreciate this. Your CK2 videos back in the day helped me learn how to play grand strategy and your DF videos have been a huge help.
If you could maybe mention how to equip certain items to dwarves next episode that’d be awesome! Definitely gonna keep watching these so I can learn what to do 😂😂
Thank you for this! I haven't played Dwarf Fortress for maybe 15 years and this has been a perfect re-introduction! :3
Id always heard about this game but didnt know much about it. It blows my mind there are multiple levels to it!
Lungfish dig into the riverbed and line it with a pouch, so when the river dries up they hibernate till it flows again. They haven't changed much in a very long time, being a key prey item of many dinosaurs.
Beware cave adaptation, I personally build a "fort" above ground over the entrance to my main base, and ensure that a lot of common acts occur up inside it, like dining, craft workshops, and the trade area. Also gives you walls for archers to shoot from, which works pretty well for defense.
I think mudfish are the semi-amphibious fish you were thinking of.
Just this episode alone is super helpful, i really want to enjoy this game, but theres so much to learn and im not keen on reading tutorials. I loved watching this video and seeing you do it as you explained the mechanics, thanks.
I learned more from this in 5 mins then I did after 2 hours of playing the game. Thanks Quill!
I dont even play this but i let it play in the background since u sound so positive!
Ok it's out on stream. Time to try and figure this game out again wondering how much has changed since 2016
I’ve played dwarf fortress for years on and off and with the steam release and new UI this feels like the perfect opportunity to give fortress mode a chance
Quill, I have been watching you since you did your victoria 2 Japan lets play, gotta say great content and I am a huge fan of these games like dwarf fortress. Your videos have helped me learn a lot of game mechanics I have been struggling with!
Thanks for this video. You showed me quite a few things I had no idea about or thought to do. Like starting out and building stairs going down 10 or so levels. Then seeing what the soil is made of.
Never even paid attention to that before. Also locking a dwarf to one task only I did not know.
Setting F keybinds to move around faster makes the game easier. In my tutorial run I kept getting lost as to where I was. It was disorienting. It didn't help that I embarked on a complicated landscape with a lot of elevation... just got confusing.
So I opted to go with something more flat. Then later get into more difficult terrain.
everytime i play a new strategy game and want to watch someone play it, i always see if you did content on it and ive yet to be disappointed lol
Ay one of the dudes who taught me Dwarf fortress in like 2010-2012 is doing new DF neat
Just bought it, and I am overwhelmed by the detail, so thanks for this.👍
I know what my Saturday will be spend with, and it wont be watching this! (thats for friday). Finally this game have an interface i can work with so i can play and enjoy the game.
Thanks for this. It's been a few years since I've played DF and this is a great refresher for the steam version.
I learned more in less time than any video I've found. Excellent and thank you. Subscribed
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"Sir, are you aware our whole existence as a species in a galaxy hinges on the non-completion of this seed? Once it is done and the program does the checks notices how unviable it is, it will simply delete it."
-A smart dwaft of a world we will never know
Thank you so much for doing exclusive ones for youtube. I love the streams too but this is so refined.
So ready for more Dwarf Fort from you Quill! Always was a fan of it on the channel
Thank you for doing this. I'm excited to learn to play on the Steam version.
Going to be the best DF tutorial series on YT, calling it now!
I'm sooo excited for the mouse support I tried to play a while ago and I just couldn't get past the control difficulty.
Haven't been interested in a let's play in a while, so glad to see you playing this, very excited to watch it :)
I was kinda on the fence about the game but man it has such depth! All pun’s intended.
Yay - there it is finally. Thank you Quill.
Ready to make history from glorious fortress Graspedpage!
Wow! Great, I loved the idea of DF, I really like complicated games and even those which are more similar to a spreadsheet but I could never really get into classical ASCI-style games like DF. I tried many, many times but the graphics were always sooo abstract to me that I couldn't feel the immersion. Now I see that there is a huge chance I will be able to comfortable sink into DF and "waste" god knows how many hours :D
Did you ever try any tilesets?
To make this a bit more beginner-friendly, would it be possible to show the keystrokes on the screen? It'd help when you're flying through menus using the keyboard commands.
Beautiful initial layout. You've enjoyed this game before I can tell
I’m so glad someone made that mod that removes the bird screeching
I'm looking forward to seeing how you manage your steel industry; I have been fiddling with work orders but so far I have had trouble keeping production of iron, coke, pig iron, and steel all going at the same time. It's possible I just don't have enough skilled furnace operators. Also, looking forward to military management, which currently baffles me.
Hauling tends to be a big bottleneck for the smelting industry. Try having stockpiles of ore right next to the furnace and see if that helps. You can also set stockpiles to link to workshops or other stockpiles. Dwarves are pretty dumb and, if you don't tell them specifically to hand things directly over to the next furnace, they might haul it all the way to a barrel stockpile then haul the barrel back with the ingot in it
Ive watched quite a few of your tutorials even tho i sidnt need em i just now noticed i wasnt subbed
The ones i actually really needed are cdda and dwarf fortress thank you for providing good content and guides
Thank you. Now it starting to make sense. Will tackle DF during the weekend
10/10 beginner's intro 👏👍
was always curious about this game since you always mention it, glad to see a tutorial
Thanks for this Quill! Loaded up the game and really had no idea were to start
Thanks for the youtube exclusive!!
Exactly the kind of teaching video i needed for this game!
Thanks for the series.
Fantastic to play along to this -- well done @quill18
Just a friendly tip: I'd disable the music when doing tutorials, or turn it all the way to a minimum. It is very distracting.
Thank you for the very informative content, though. so happy DF-veterans take their time to do this!
I just bought the game but only had time to fool around with it a bit but was definitely a bit intimidated. Thank you for this videos its very helpful and I look forward for more
I was hoping you'd do this. I've been playing off an on for years, but I haven't in maybe 4 or 5 years, so this is a great refresher.
yay quill and dwarves! what a combo
its like we're going back in time jus to have good games. The graphicssssssssssssssssssssssss
Thank you so much for this series! You are doing a fantastic job at explaining smoothly :)
The music is really good. Good idea to play it on the side.
I subbed because you had a good introductory video for dwarf fortress. Now I'm gonna buy it.
So you can grow food underground? I think I might need to play this :)
Mmm shrooms
Dwarf Fortress is a lot easier than most people think, it just has a reputation based on its impenetrable ASCII graphics and many keybinds. In practice it isn't much harder than Rimworld is, just a lot more detailed.
Appreciate a series without constant twitch notifications.
Thank you so much for doing this. I've been interested in DF for a long time, but it always feels so intimidating, then I give up.
Keep going back eventually it’ll click
I did the same thing with rim world and even refunded it because I thought it to complicated to have fun in it and years later and some let’s play watched I bought it again and now I can’t stop playing it
You are correct about Lungfish being able to breathe both air and water. Judging by your accent, if you've ever seen one, it was likely a Bowfin instead. Bowfin can also breathe air and characteristically get stuck in the mud until it floods again. Lungfish are only found in South America, Australia, and Africa.
The main menu ost is fire
Oh god, I spent years Dwarf Fortressing before I got sick of every fortress dying to the fps death even without catacombs. Just when I thought I was out THEY PULLED ME BACK IN.
Thanks for doing these videos.
I remember playing this game years ago amazed its seen a steam release
With the amphibious fish, you were probably thinking of mud skippers. But the game might mean that...
Verrry helpful! I'm taking notes, hah, thank you!
I love the music too bit it is a bit too loud by default :) I just got the game after hearing about it for 10+ years. This was a great help for my first game. Can't wait to see how I die!
I think the farm tab is fine being called that. Farming isn't exclusively just plants in real life.
Hope you come back for part 2 and explain farmers workshop automation, still, kitchen and butcher and maybe domestication. Also, plants go into barrels.
Awesome - played through the tutorial & this was super helpful still