I mean... Priorities my man We need those berries to brew booze, and more booze. Life and Death is a secondary in the grand scheme of things by comparison
I kept thinking of the extremely low intelligence option in fallout new Vegas to cure a patient in the hospital if you have a knife in hand you get the option to, "CHOP CHOP CHOP" and save them workout amputation.
Woah that woodcutter being raised as an intelligent zombie rather than a normal zombie opens up a whole lot of possibilities, because normal zombies are opposed to all life. Makes a necromancer fort way more interesting.
Isn't that friggin wacky? Never could have expected that bringing dwarves back from the dead (in a useful manner) would be a thing in fort mode. A game changed for sure!
There's a story in this video (ua-cam.com/video/FIzZ0C0V0hk/v-deo.html) about a zombie fisherman that I really enjoyed. It seems intelligent zombies can be really interesting.
Oh man I would love to have a mod that made me able to have a necromancer fort in a world similar to Kugsmash’s. Or even get the region folder of the world and play in his world. That would be so awesome!!
So long as the fortress isn't: - being attacked by bloodthirsty elephants - covered in cats - covered in vomit - full of miasma - full of demons - full of lava Then it's better than Boatmurdered.
weirdest thing here, dude. I only realized while drawing the pics and made no mention of it in the video- this guy has no beard. He is a male dwarf with no beard that I can see. What the hell is this?
@@kruggsmash what came first the necromancer or the no beard? Was he cast out leading to learning necromancer or did the necromancer lead him to be cast out then stopped wearing a beared
I'm both excited and worried about the intelligent undead. I haven't done Fortress Mode enough to encounter one yet, but in Adventure Mode... They are kind of... Oof. They don't seem well implented (which I'm hoping is just Adventure Mode being wonky) and their loyalties and what/who they are hostile to is just a huge mess, I would guess because they have a bunch of conflicting details/data for being still a member of their civ with all their history and personality and family/relationships, while also being a (presumably life-hating?) undead creature, and DON'T FORGET-- They ALL have one random supernatural ability. Thank god Moldath's brand of intelligent undead aren't the kind that just immediately turn invisible (uuuuuuuugh). The ones I've seen start attacking eachother, sometimes necromancer NPCs even, and otherwise were standing around shouting at zombies to Identify Themselves!! so, really they do not seem like they work at the moment. But dang it if they aren't cool and I hope they are more of a storytelling boon than a burden.
You know, there's a joke going about in some fantasy circles. Necromancers are just Healers that don't give up. Will be really interesting to see how things advance from this point on.
Hey glad you thought so! Really trying t push myself on the dwarven clothing a bit. Usually it's pretty plain! Mmm, the troll there? Figured i'd give the guy a bit more of a feral feel....thinking just now that, it'll be very weird if I run into some troll fisherman/architects etc.
@@kruggsmash What do you use to ink them? I know Mrs Kruggsmash does the coloring (and she does a fantastic job), with what I assume are colored pencils, but what pens etc do you use?
@@kruggsmash eh, people can go feral too. look at bath salts tweakers eating peoples faces. You can have perfectly normal troll folk and have wild ones bee all cranked out haha
Coming back here after finishing the two sequels. Seeing Moldath's innocuous entry, and the start of so many characters who would go on to becoming legends, is very nostalgic, in spite of only starting it a month ago. Krugg and crew weave a truly epic tale. Glory to Moldath, Ted, Orid Ashii, and Kruggsmash!
I'm shocked no one jumped on him being a Dyer right away. Thank goodness he felt the need to preach about the art of Dyeing for the sake of our chuckles.
Krugg. I am so unbelievably hyped rn. Your forts are some of the best fantasy content on yt right now. Im so ready. Volcano dwarves? What could go wrong???
@@kruggsmash Looking at this episode I'm optimistic. Though the fort should be dug out quickly, before any of the waring factions take note of your little mountain refuge. Also, making carapace armor one of the symbols of the fort would be cool.
Kruggsmash, I would like to say that the start of this video brought me back to my childhood. It Reminded me of my love of The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, but with a uniqueness that is all your own. Thanks for this man, it helps.
@@kruggsmash i just discovered you. So i am ignorant of your merch. If you do not already have a story book or audiobook, you need to get on that. Your drawing are amazing, your writing is amazing, your tone of voice is soothing.
Moldath, the guy that overtook both intro and outro of the current story arc and one of its pillars, came with the very first migrants wave. This is beyond perfect.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! A new Kruggsmash episode! Oh boy, it's a new fortress! OH BOY, it's the first episode of a longer series!!! You made my day, Kruggsmash!
I imagine The Smith standing and facing the east, with the 'C' shape being formed by his outstretched arms. The right arm is in the southeast and the left in the northeast. The right hand holds a hammer and stretches toward The Anvil, while the left is closer to The Forge, and holds tongs. Would be quite a sight to see a Mount Rushmore carving above the entrance, but we would need some more dwarves. Haha. Keep up the great work Kruggsmash!
I have never seen dwarf fortress before. I came over from a video made about the creators. This video is incredible. I find it hard to understand everything thats happening but you do a great job at keeping me in the loop. Im gonna binge this series like a netflix show and pop a comment after each one! Loving this
Hello Fellow DF noob :D I am about to run my first ... erm ... real fortress into the ground... (after the several attempts that really lasted shorter than a year for several unfortunate reasons..)
The boogy-dwarf ending screen returns! I very much like what you've done, I find the costumes of this fort's dwarves to be quite pleasantlooking, and the Hornbeetles look great! You know me, I like my boars, but this is a fine beast indeed. Certainly looking forward to next episode, and as a blacksmith, I love the idea of the three landmarks being named the Smith, the Forge, and the Anvil. Thank you for another vid!
I think the boogeydwarf is going to be a fixture for the future, for now anyways. I might try making more of those animations at some point though. Songs too. I could really do a bunch with it. Oh those darn Honeystoker boars. I really wish those bastards pulled their weight a little better! These beetles though, *slaps a beetle* , these beetles are gunna be good I think.
I think that is partly because DF's boars are relatively small and timid. Giant variety, though... Anyway, it's such a shame :( I love those bristly buggers! In my testing in the arena, common boars are much weaker than beakdogs (but stronger than dogs), but giant boars were much stronger. Hoo boy those are a beasties after my heart. I was thinking of modding one somewhere inbetween, as a "racial beastly companion" roughly equivalent to the beakdog, with some niche to them. Much like your hornbeetles! That said, I saw a very interesting take in Masterwork Mod, where there was a reaction to make armour and sharpened tusk-caps for the mod's dwarven pigs, essentially combining a creature and a set of barding into a different creature equivalent to the former pig, but with a thin layer of [metal of choice] material on it's skin and tusks, making for it being much tougher, but also able to penetrate armour themselves! Lastly, I had a silly idea of giving pigs the ability to till soil on dabbling level. Oli, my pet pig, gave me the idea, when she rooted around and overturned the earth last year, and I used that to plant some potatoes in the yard. :D Anyways, have a nice day, lad. :) Sorry for being rambly
This probably won't reach our good master Krugg but he should be aware of this. Grazing egglayers will stay on their eggs until the eggs hatch, and will starve themselves if the eggs don't hatch soon enough. The only other Egg laying Grazer, the Elk Bird, will do the same thing. The key to getting them to survive is to get them to get off their eggs to graze momentarily. One of the solutions is to put them on a pasture that does not include the nest boxes. If eggs are laid, they will return to the next box eventually before the eggs ruin if there is access to them.
It is not the mass media, nor the government officials, nor even the WHO or CDC (disappointingly) that is keeping morale and hope up during these troubled times. No, it's rather the independent content creators, such as yourself, that is helping us all get through this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
1min into the video, I just wanted to say damn fine work on that intro man. I've watched most if not all of your narrative fortresses, and the quality of presentation is better and better every time.
@@kruggsmash It would be really cool to make a sort of restaurant tavern that serves lava-cooked food, if that's possible. Kind of like a dwarven 5-star restaurant.
This is by far one of the best video series I've ever seen, I love the little drawns that go with it they really help with visualizing what's going on and what things look like. Also the edits so you always have something interesting or important to see.
Those horn beetles are super cute and honestly add such depth to the dwarven culture that I look forward to seeing their varied uses throughout this fort. Also hooray for disco krugg making a return
Love ya, Kruggsmash! You always make my day better with your labors of love! I've been playing around with the world gen parameters recently. It's... interesting! For the curious, I troubleshooted how to make large forests so the elves wouldn't go extinct (increase rainfall and temperature, and if you use the mesh sizes then choose 4x4 or larger); How to make a Japan-like island chain (still unsuccessful, something to do with elevation X/Y gradations maybe); and how to have a bunch of tiny mountain ranges spread out across a landmass (3 mountain peaks, elevation mesh size 4x4: exclude the second lowest elevation and the second highest, turn up erosion cycle to 1000). And my favorite: reducing pre- and post- river placement by at least half. The pre-river placement determins the number of major rivers, the post-placement determines how many minor rivers / bends in the river there are.
My 5 yo son loves listening to these with me. I've also never played dwarf fortress and that's a testament to your ability to deliver an amazing story! Thank you!
I love how I can listen to this like a podcast while I paint my miniatures. I don't even need to watch the video as the details alone help give me an image and make painting even more enjoyable. Thank you Kruggsmash!
That new necromancy sure is an interesting useful aspect. The half-a-brain damned one for some reason was the most interesting part of the story here to me along with the horn beetles. I can see why he has a sack over his head, though I'd still recommend getting a helmet for him, less disturbing that way for the other dwarves and it'll protect what's left of his other brain half.
I watched your Dwarf Fortress how-to video... then watched this one. I don't wanna play anymore... I just want to watch these. Man, the quality here is super impressive!! The drawing, the writing of your storytelling.... love it all!
Im really looking forward to this series, will be the first one i catch "live" :D For the glory of Scorchfountain! About Necromancers in a fortress: Expectation: Scheming bastard that try to take control over your fortress, revels in violence and mayhem and want to take over the world Reality: Nicest woman in the fortress, super social, hates authority, control and violence, but gets depressed because she misses her family. Solution: I wanted to make her a scholar so she writes necromancer books, but she got depression because of loneliness (she hates pondering over stuff) :( So i made her my Tavernkeeper, now she has a lot of friends (even in the elven bard group that lives in my tavern) and is happier than everyone else... The perfect barkeeper, patient, talkative, never sleeps, 24/7 service :D
It's interesting to think of necromancers as just normal ol' people in a society. In every fantasy setting they are the creepy fella or the outright villain. Hoping to see this guy here come around at some point and be a real integral part of the fort.
Mr. Kruggsmash - hats off to you sir, with a beardly bow. Good to see you coming back to a full series story. I love these. I am so excited. Great Scandinavian/ Celtic looking iron age series plate! That is bad ass.
Dang, this is all so well made. Even just the subtle way you scan about the screen/zoom in to highlight details makes SO much difference in how easy it is to follow the things you're talking about, not to mention the drawings and how you link together the reams of information within your narrative. Oh, and there's the music and sound effects, too. Bloody hell.
This is a great episode! I can't wait to see what the future holds for Scorchfountain. I don't have any questions but a small suggestion for the tileset - some people make a square/pillar wall tile on the 255th space (which is unused by the game) and set it as pillar tile in d_init file.
Coming back to the first video for time in about a year, and at it's interesting to see the Beardless Barron looking more like a necromantic hobo than a hip and trendy looking king of the undead hordes. I nearly forgot where he started from, but now I remember. This was a great fortress.
I know you probably won’t see this, but it’s thanks to you that I can play this game and I’ve been enjoying it. I also really enjoy watching you play constantly learning tips here and there
just started this video and all I can say is the name "scorchfountain" reminds me of another fortress you did. will it be fun with magma or one dwarf's power trip? maybe both?
So how many dwarves and children will be thrown to the volcano god this time? Will the Elves be bathed in lava? Oh god, that is actually a good idea. A Lava waterfall trap. Ahahahaha!
Actually, one of the things I kinda wish Krugg would do less of is the power trip. Every fort has it that I've seen - except when the king up and gets murdered after being set up for it. Admittedly, I haven't watched them all and frankly, my opinion is a drop in a sea compared to his own. I just hope this fort continues for a while and ends up being retired instead of wiped out.
Super excited for this new series! Naming the different parts of the area was a fantastic idea. Helps a ton understanding the spatial relations of everything happening. The intro was super cool, although I also like your older pixel and chiptune intros as well.
Seeing that this is the beginning of an epic and as of yet, ongoing, adventure, just want to thank you for putting the time in to make this series. Its a ton of work and really rewarding to watch and follow along. All cheers to you!
Heh, I'm still halfway through Honeystoker after having recently found your ☼Channel☼, so I won't be watching this for a while. I still want to extend a greeting, and, as always: *"Your videomanship is of the highest quality!"*
A new video AND a whole new interesting series?! Sign me up! This may be the best fortress video I've seen from you so far! The storytelling was on-point, characterization was amazing and the nicknames were appropriately given out. Can't wait to see more!
one of my favourite traps when I have a volcano on my map is to have the entrance go over the crater. Then have a shooting gallery near there so you can have marksdwarfs shoot them full of arrows so they dodge off the ramp and fall to the heated depths. ;)
Awesome work on this video! I absolutely love the animated bits and the new text boxes. It looks very nice and fits well with the aesthetic ^^ Keep up the good work! Looking forward to more of this series. It'll be interesting to see how you utilize the volcano! :3
i remember watching headshoots and a few notables on SA youve changed the game dude like not only did you prove that roguelikes and colony games are lp fodder du-jour but that there are elements we have lost from our days trying to make walls of text, surrounding screenshots of walls of text feel like a story. a world back then we would add art, fanart, thread interactivity, and any trick at all to get stay bumped from death on our 30 hour +files for a given game back before the light got switched on in the room and we had a shape of the beast, let's plays were always pushing new boundaries, and when videos were scarce we pulled out all of the stops this reminds me of that work ethic, but with great jams, expertly paced narration and laborious amounts of one off artwork, simulating a thread's worth of future "memers" while also being frontloaded to allow us to take it in all at once passively i'd say it is the natural progression of the genre, but that would imply that your work effort or ability is common so i'll simply say it's the level best here's to another mishap fort, you are seriously onto some next level stuff with your multimedia, skill hours, work hours
In terms of production and aesthetic, this is some of your best work. The attention to detail in the audio and art design made this a really pleasant experience and I was quite fond of the sketches at the end along with the new, more immersive format. Fantastic work!
I'm Really happy to see the begining of another series ^^ The new macanics about necromancer seems interesting... much more benevolant than before, for sure ^^ I hope this volcano will serve interestingly, and I'm eager to see what king of fortress this will be this time. Thanks for the video :)
This video felt something new. Like a complete rework for a game that makes it amazing. This all just felt like a complete upgrade to everything you've done before. The music, art, and just the consistency of the presentation with the art is just amazing. Your own commentary feels new. To me, this all feels so new, fresh, and improved. Definitely very excited for more.
Awesome episode. I’m looking forward to the steam release. I know in your Q&A you said you were on the fence, but from a channel growth perspective there will be huge volume of people looking for content on the stream release. You’d be crazy not to tap that! As someone who uses graphics tilesets, I’ve always found it hard to understand what’s going on. Luckily your narration is so strong I get by!
Just started plowing my way through this series, I have to be in the right mood for dwarf fortress. I love the necromancer already it was always one of my favourite things in Adventure Mode to become a necromancer and just wander the wilds to amass a small collection woodland creature corpses and then seige a town. It was also always fun when some stinky Kobolds ambushed the sleeping traveller and 40 zombies leapt up and slaughtered them
It’s so great to see new characters brought into life with your art! Seeing that Necromancer art really impressed me, and I especially like the way the dwarves are looking now, great episode! Great foreshadowing with the undead stuff
Looking forward to another amazing story! Kruggs always amazes me again and again. Every time I think he can’t improve anymore he always one-ups himself... love it love it love it!
The porn music for the outro is an interesting choice. Glad to see the starts of a new long series in the making, I look forward to it becoming as epic as the others or moreso!
LOVE the hornbeetles. I feel like just adding one fictional domesticated work animal that's different than your typical cattle, horse, donkey, etc. can really spice up any fantasy setting. Bonus points if it's a non-mammal and EXTRA EXTRA bonus points if it's an invertebrate like these beetles here.
I just came back to this series SPECIFICALLY for the awesome beetles. Such an awesome creation, I didn't realize you shared the raws with us! I'll be using them in my worlds from now on I think :0
"What can you offer Scorchfountain?"
"I have mastery of the forces of life and death!"
"Great, go gather some berries."
True
I mean... Priorities my man
We need those berries to brew booze, and more booze. Life and Death is a secondary in the grand scheme of things by comparison
The underappreciated talented rookie story, you've certainly seen it before
keep him busy
Entry level jobs, man! :D
Krugg: "I'm sure that won't be a problem."
Narrator: "It was a problem."
I love this stupid maymay
@@kruggsmash All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.
@@Santa-614 encircled in bands of joy!
**opens bag with "necromancer inside" note on it** I don't know what I expected.
Gotta say that fisherdwarf was a real mvp of the first year. Seems like he managed to save every patient with no medical experience whatsoever
It really was very impressive wasn't it? She's getting her skills up now too, so i'm hoping for good things outta her!
@@kruggsmash is it nickname time? Something like RedThumb as a medical version of greenthumb.
I kept thinking of the extremely low intelligence option in fallout new Vegas to cure a patient in the hospital if you have a knife in hand you get the option to, "CHOP CHOP CHOP" and save them workout amputation.
@@petemagnuson7357 ooh, or Redbeard/bloodbeard. Seems properly dwarfy.
Not bad for someone with less medical training than Dr. Nick from The Simpsons.
Kruggsmash: I'm worried about necromancers
Necromancers: Nah fam we cool
@Leather Jacket What?
Woah that woodcutter being raised as an intelligent zombie rather than a normal zombie opens up a whole lot of possibilities, because normal zombies are opposed to all life. Makes a necromancer fort way more interesting.
Isn't that friggin wacky? Never could have expected that bringing dwarves back from the dead (in a useful manner) would be a thing in fort mode. A game changed for sure!
@@kruggsmash
I'm pretty sure Intelligent Undead get magic powers, when raised. I wonder if our woodcutter got any neat powers?
I'm waited for someone to die because he goes into a fell mood.
There's a story in this video (ua-cam.com/video/FIzZ0C0V0hk/v-deo.html) about a zombie fisherman that I really enjoyed. It seems intelligent zombies can be really interesting.
Oh man I would love to have a mod that made me able to have a necromancer fort in a world similar to Kugsmash’s. Or even get the region folder of the world and play in his world. That would be so awesome!!
“These dwarfs are here for the express purpose of building a fortress” and thus the downward spiral begins.
It's not going to go well, lol
Sounds like Elf talk. A Dawrf's glory is theirs to judge and none others. May their most glorious days outshine their greatest failures.
So long as the fortress isn't:
- being attacked by bloodthirsty elephants
- covered in cats
- covered in vomit
- full of miasma
- full of demons
- full of lava
Then it's better than Boatmurdered.
@@camramaster
Boatmurdered was a Great Fortress, a terrible place to live, yes, yes, But It was A great fortress.
Oh god, now I have to shape every new fortress into a downward spiral :(
This necromancer is going to be.. an interesting element of this fortress.
weirdest thing here, dude. I only realized while drawing the pics and made no mention of it in the video- this guy has no beard. He is a male dwarf with no beard that I can see. What the hell is this?
@@kruggsmash He's gone bald due to age and necromancy, maybe?
@@kruggsmash what came first the necromancer or the no beard? Was he cast out leading to learning necromancer or did the necromancer lead him to be cast out then stopped wearing a beared
I'm both excited and worried about the intelligent undead. I haven't done Fortress Mode enough to encounter one yet, but in Adventure Mode... They are kind of... Oof. They don't seem well implented (which I'm hoping is just Adventure Mode being wonky) and their loyalties and what/who they are hostile to is just a huge mess, I would guess because they have a bunch of conflicting details/data for being still a member of their civ with all their history and personality and family/relationships, while also being a (presumably life-hating?) undead creature, and DON'T FORGET-- They ALL have one random supernatural ability. Thank god Moldath's brand of intelligent undead aren't the kind that just immediately turn invisible (uuuuuuuugh).
The ones I've seen start attacking eachother, sometimes necromancer NPCs even, and otherwise were standing around shouting at zombies to Identify Themselves!! so, really they do not seem like they work at the moment. But dang it if they aren't cool and I hope they are more of a storytelling boon than a burden.
@@kruggsmash So he's just.... a bastard?
You know, there's a joke going about in some fantasy circles. Necromancers are just Healers that don't give up. Will be really interesting to see how things advance from this point on.
I want to use this as a meme.
Nah. Really late clerics.
YES! Make him a healer! Let's see what happens! XD
Nurse: "Doc, he's dead. There's nothing we can do now."
Necromancer: *cracks knuckles* "I didn't get my medical license revoked for nothing"
@@corbintheintern6229 you beat me to it
These drawings are so immersive. And I also love how you redesign creatures for each series.
Horn beetles rock btw
Hey glad you thought so! Really trying t push myself on the dwarven clothing a bit. Usually it's pretty plain!
Mmm, the troll there? Figured i'd give the guy a bit more of a feral feel....thinking just now that, it'll be very weird if I run into some troll fisherman/architects etc.
@@kruggsmash What do you use to ink them? I know Mrs Kruggsmash does the coloring (and she does a fantastic job), with what I assume are colored pencils, but what pens etc do you use?
@@kruggsmash eh, people can go feral too. look at bath salts tweakers eating peoples faces. You can have perfectly normal troll folk and have wild ones bee all cranked out haha
Coming back here after finishing the two sequels. Seeing Moldath's innocuous entry, and the start of so many characters who would go on to becoming legends, is very nostalgic, in spite of only starting it a month ago. Krugg and crew weave a truly epic tale. Glory to Moldath, Ted, Orid Ashii, and Kruggsmash!
Honestly one of my favorite series glad to see someone else likes it
Definitely hits different, knowing how it all ends up.
I'm shocked no one jumped on him being a Dyer right away. Thank goodness he felt the need to preach about the art of Dyeing for the sake of our chuckles.
The beards on the beetles have already made this my favourite setting so far. And you've barely begun. How exciting.
Setae! Yeah, a lot of beetles have a sort of fur on them. Cranked it up a bit for the hell of it.
Dwarf mounts deserve majestic beards too
They look perfect. And the way you've depicted them at 14:52, all plumped up and nested on their eggs like broody hens, is just wonderful.
Kruggsmash: I don't consider myself a storyteller.
Everyone: *John Cena GIF* Are you sure about that?
He is most definitley a storyteller.
And a good one at that.
@@thelastone4381 Damn right
Pshh
There's no denying it
The GAME is the storyteller.
The Horn beetles instantly made my mind switch from seeing the dwarfs as dwarfs and instead as bug folk like the ones in Hollow knight.
HOLLOW KNIGHT DF MOD WHEN
Hollow Knight you say? I hope this won't end with an abyss filled with corpses. XD
Lol
Krugg. I am so unbelievably hyped rn. Your forts are some of the best fantasy content on yt right now. Im so ready. Volcano dwarves? What could go wrong???
What could go wrong: yes.
Hopefully, for a while, only a few things.
And in the end? Everything.
@@RoKKr023i It will be a lot of !FUN!, I guess.
I remember a "short fort" in a volcano, where a bunch of elves got melted. :D
I'm pretty hyped too. I don't think any of this is going to go well!
@@kruggsmash Looking at this episode I'm optimistic. Though the fort should be dug out quickly, before any of the waring factions take note of your little mountain refuge. Also, making carapace armor one of the symbols of the fort would be cool.
And so the Legend begins....
And hopefully it doesn't end with a fart sound next episode, lol
25:09 "Got to keep an open mind" Tell that to the re-living-dwarf-ish that had his head smashed open with a beetlehorn
Doesn't get much more open minded than that!
I think this is the firs big Kruggsmash df series I'm actually watching as it releases. I eagerly anticipate the next episode!
welcome to the end of the glorious backlog friend.
Monsterkiller was great
Haven't started a new one since the end of 2018! it's been a while.
Hondystoker was a vampire fort. I guess this will be a necromancer haven.
Seems like that's the way it's gonna go
I really hope not, honestly. I really was looking forward to a more "normal" affair. I guess we'll see how things go. eh?
@@kruggsmash Necromancers = hard to manage.
Perhaps this one should've been called Hondyshelley.
@@kruggsmash The best laid plans of dwarves and sand titans...
Kruggsmash, I would like to say that the start of this video brought me back to my childhood. It Reminded me of my love of The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit, but with a uniqueness that is all your own. Thanks for this man, it helps.
It came out pretty good, eh? Really glad you liked it, pal. This is going to be a bonkers adventure I think.
Keep on truckin'
@@kruggsmash i just discovered you. So i am ignorant of your merch. If you do not already have a story book or audiobook, you need to get on that. Your drawing are amazing, your writing is amazing, your tone of voice is soothing.
I love that the representative model for the necromancer is some guy with his hands in the air SCREAMING.
Every now and then I come back to rewatch this incredible narrative let's play. Truly the best let's play I've ever watched to this day
Moldath, the guy that overtook both intro and outro of the current story arc and one of its pillars, came with the very first migrants wave. This is beyond perfect.
The beetles are very adorable can't wait for more fantastic!
Glad they're working out so far! I do like that we encountered some wild ones. Makes things pretty interesting!
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! A new Kruggsmash episode!
Oh boy, it's a new fortress!
OH BOY, it's the first episode of a longer series!!!
You made my day, Kruggsmash!
And you, mine. Thanks for watching!
I imagine The Smith standing and facing the east, with the 'C' shape being formed by his outstretched arms. The right arm is in the southeast and the left in the northeast. The right hand holds a hammer and stretches toward The Anvil, while the left is closer to The Forge, and holds tongs. Would be quite a sight to see a Mount Rushmore carving above the entrance, but we would need some more dwarves. Haha. Keep up the great work Kruggsmash!
Isn't it great?? I got pretty excited when I saw that whole layout there. Really hoping we don't screw it all up too badly, now!
@@kruggsmash Where there's a will for dwarven insanity, there's a way! Haha.
This is a certified hood classic, brings a tear to my eye, I need to rewatch the series sometime
The best way to spend my quarantine!
Corona chan get you?
John Doe bruh his name is “Leonardo Ferrari” what do you think
@@dudebro8811 No, just orders from the government, Corona chan will have to work harder
@@jonnykill78 Pasta probably
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I love how you make dwarf fortress incredibly interesting even to a person who doesn't understand all of the mechanics or knowledge. Love the art too!
22:10 "Come on, you have to take it easy. Now lay down next to this monster in a tiny room. Rest is important for healing!"
I have never seen dwarf fortress before. I came over from a video made about the creators. This video is incredible. I find it hard to understand everything thats happening but you do a great job at keeping me in the loop. Im gonna binge this series like a netflix show and pop a comment after each one! Loving this
Just recently got into DF and you have been making the journey QUITE enjoyable, thanks!
Hello Fellow DF noob :D I am about to run my first ... erm ... real fortress into the ground... (after the several attempts that really lasted shorter than a year for several unfortunate reasons..)
Hey welcome aboard, dude! Thanks for watching
The boogy-dwarf ending screen returns! I very much like what you've done, I find the costumes of this fort's dwarves to be quite pleasantlooking, and the Hornbeetles look great! You know me, I like my boars, but this is a fine beast indeed. Certainly looking forward to next episode, and as a blacksmith, I love the idea of the three landmarks being named the Smith, the Forge, and the Anvil. Thank you for another vid!
I think the boogeydwarf is going to be a fixture for the future, for now anyways. I might try making more of those animations at some point though. Songs too. I could really do a bunch with it. Oh those darn Honeystoker boars. I really wish those bastards pulled their weight a little better! These beetles though, *slaps a beetle* , these beetles are gunna be good I think.
I think that is partly because DF's boars are relatively small and timid. Giant variety, though... Anyway, it's such a shame :( I love those bristly buggers! In my testing in the arena, common boars are much weaker than beakdogs (but stronger than dogs), but giant boars were much stronger. Hoo boy those are a beasties after my heart. I was thinking of modding one somewhere inbetween, as a "racial beastly companion" roughly equivalent to the beakdog, with some niche to them. Much like your hornbeetles! That said, I saw a very interesting take in Masterwork Mod, where there was a reaction to make armour and sharpened tusk-caps for the mod's dwarven pigs, essentially combining a creature and a set of barding into a different creature equivalent to the former pig, but with a thin layer of [metal of choice] material on it's skin and tusks, making for it being much tougher, but also able to penetrate armour themselves! Lastly, I had a silly idea of giving pigs the ability to till soil on dabbling level. Oli, my pet pig, gave me the idea, when she rooted around and overturned the earth last year, and I used that to plant some potatoes in the yard. :D Anyways, have a nice day, lad. :) Sorry for being rambly
@@kruggsmash who is your composer
This probably won't reach our good master Krugg but he should be aware of this.
Grazing egglayers will stay on their eggs until the eggs hatch, and will starve themselves if the eggs don't hatch soon enough. The only other Egg laying Grazer, the Elk Bird, will do the same thing.
The key to getting them to survive is to get them to get off their eggs to graze momentarily. One of the solutions is to put them on a pasture that does not include the nest boxes. If eggs are laid, they will return to the next box eventually before the eggs ruin if there is access to them.
One of my D&D campaigns visited a dwarf city called "The Scorched Fountain" as a bit of a Easter egg.
Love this series!
At 2:40 with captions on: "Our symbol being a curved arse a thud."
Agh, my sides! XD
jesus christ
@@kruggsmash "Patron deity of war and victory"... over constipation
Sometimes, I think that UA-cam must be really confusing for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Dwarves are repeatedly referred to as “New Orbs”.
It is not the mass media, nor the government officials, nor even the WHO or CDC (disappointingly) that is keeping morale and hope up during these troubled times. No, it's rather the independent content creators, such as yourself, that is helping us all get through this.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
What a gorgeous starting location!
It is fairly pretty, huh?
It really is
ah, my favorite kruggsmash playlist to keep me company late night programming :)
I only started watching and i can already tell you put a massive amount of effort into this video! Keep up the good work.
It's crazy, dude. Glad it's showing!
Thanks for watching.
1min into the video, I just wanted to say damn fine work on that intro man. I've watched most if not all of your narrative fortresses, and the quality of presentation is better and better every time.
It really is a work of madness I think. Glad you liked it, buddy :)
Oh boy, a Volcano?
I'm getting the feeling these dwarves enjoy a good BBQ.
oh most likely, yeah. Though it's far more likely they will be barbecuees
@@kruggsmash WELCOME TO FUCKING BOATMURDERED
@@kruggsmash It would be really cool to make a sort of restaurant tavern that serves lava-cooked food, if that's possible. Kind of like a dwarven 5-star restaurant.
@@utzius8003 The Magmabrew tavern which has a five star view on the smelters and the vulcano crater
@@utzius8003 just got to the part with the stone for windows that woulf frikkin darn cool
Wow. I’m just blown away and glad I stumbled across this gold DF content
This is by far one of the best video series I've ever seen, I love the little drawns that go with it they really help with visualizing what's going on and what things look like. Also the edits so you always have something interesting or important to see.
Those horn beetles are super cute and honestly add such depth to the dwarven culture that I look forward to seeing their varied uses throughout this fort. Also hooray for disco krugg making a return
i love this series
Love ya, Kruggsmash! You always make my day better with your labors of love! I've been playing around with the world gen parameters recently. It's... interesting! For the curious, I troubleshooted how to make large forests so the elves wouldn't go extinct (increase rainfall and temperature, and if you use the mesh sizes then choose 4x4 or larger); How to make a Japan-like island chain (still unsuccessful, something to do with elevation X/Y gradations maybe); and how to have a bunch of tiny mountain ranges spread out across a landmass (3 mountain peaks, elevation mesh size 4x4: exclude the second lowest elevation and the second highest, turn up erosion cycle to 1000). And my favorite: reducing pre- and post- river placement by at least half. The pre-river placement determins the number of major rivers, the post-placement determines how many minor rivers / bends in the river there are.
Such a strangely cute Necromancer. Glad you're starting another legendary series.
Cute?? Not a descritor I would have used, but glad you thought so, lol.
Thanks for watching!
@@kruggsmash Not as cute as the horseshow crab man necromancer
My 5 yo son loves listening to these with me. I've also never played dwarf fortress and that's a testament to your ability to deliver an amazing story! Thank you!
Haven’t watched the full video yet but that intro deserves a like on its own
Thanks, buddy! Glad you liked it :)
I love how I can listen to this like a podcast while I paint my miniatures. I don't even need to watch the video as the details alone help give me an image and make painting even more enjoyable. Thank you Kruggsmash!
That new necromancy sure is an interesting useful aspect. The half-a-brain damned one for some reason was the most interesting part of the story here to me along with the horn beetles. I can see why he has a sack over his head, though I'd still recommend getting a helmet for him, less disturbing that way for the other dwarves and it'll protect what's left of his other brain half.
I watched your Dwarf Fortress how-to video... then watched this one. I don't wanna play anymore... I just want to watch these. Man, the quality here is super impressive!! The drawing, the writing of your storytelling.... love it all!
Great start to a new series brother. Look forward to evenings spent in your new world. Also the new outro music is funky as!
The smith, the furnace and the anvil. Sounds like a star constellation and this series is def going to the moon!
Im really looking forward to this series, will be the first one i catch "live" :D For the glory of Scorchfountain!
About Necromancers in a fortress:
Expectation: Scheming bastard that try to take control over your fortress, revels in violence and mayhem and want to take over the world
Reality: Nicest woman in the fortress, super social, hates authority, control and violence, but gets depressed because she misses her family.
Solution: I wanted to make her a scholar so she writes necromancer books, but she got depression because of loneliness (she hates pondering over stuff) :( So i made her my Tavernkeeper, now she has a lot of friends (even in the elven bard group that lives in my tavern) and is happier than everyone else...
The perfect barkeeper, patient, talkative, never sleeps, 24/7 service :D
It's interesting to think of necromancers as just normal ol' people in a society. In every fantasy setting they are the creepy fella or the outright villain. Hoping to see this guy here come around at some point and be a real integral part of the fort.
Mr. Kruggsmash - hats off to you sir, with a beardly bow.
Good to see you coming back to a full series story. I love these. I am so excited.
Great Scandinavian/ Celtic looking iron age series plate! That is bad ass.
This is so cool! I’m really curious to see how being a damned one affects dwarves psychologically.
Who's to say! I figured having his head caved in would have screwed up his psyche a bit but I guess not!
Dang, this is all so well made. Even just the subtle way you scan about the screen/zoom in to highlight details makes SO much difference in how easy it is to follow the things you're talking about, not to mention the drawings and how you link together the reams of information within your narrative. Oh, and there's the music and sound effects, too. Bloody hell.
This is a great episode! I can't wait to see what the future holds for Scorchfountain. I don't have any questions but a small suggestion for the tileset - some people make a square/pillar wall tile on the 255th space (which is unused by the game) and set it as pillar tile in d_init file.
I love seeing your art get more and more dynamic. How much you love doing this and the amount of effort and time you're spending on this really shows.
Thank you for more wonderful content!
Thank *you* for watching, y'bastard!
Coming back to the first video for time in about a year, and at it's interesting to see the Beardless Barron looking more like a necromantic hobo than a hip and trendy looking king of the undead hordes.
I nearly forgot where he started from, but now I remember. This was a great fortress.
I love the big horn beetle they are my friends.
I know you probably won’t see this, but it’s thanks to you that I can play this game and I’ve been enjoying it. I also really enjoy watching you play constantly learning tips here and there
just started this video and all I can say is the name "scorchfountain" reminds me of another fortress you did. will it be fun with magma or one dwarf's power trip? maybe both?
*nods slowly, intensely.*
So how many dwarves and children will be thrown to the volcano god this time? Will the Elves be bathed in lava?
Oh god, that is actually a good idea. A Lava waterfall trap. Ahahahaha!
Actually, one of the things I kinda wish Krugg would do less of is the power trip. Every fort has it that I've seen - except when the king up and gets murdered after being set up for it. Admittedly, I haven't watched them all and frankly, my opinion is a drop in a sea compared to his own. I just hope this fort continues for a while and ends up being retired instead of wiped out.
Super excited for this new series!
Naming the different parts of the area was a fantastic idea. Helps a ton understanding the spatial relations of everything happening.
The intro was super cool, although I also like your older pixel and chiptune intros as well.
Krugg: "I don't think I'm a good storyteller, honestly"
Also Krugg:
Seeing that this is the beginning of an epic and as of yet, ongoing, adventure, just want to thank you for putting the time in to make this series. Its a ton of work and really rewarding to watch and follow along. All cheers to you!
Heh, I'm still halfway through Honeystoker after having recently found your ☼Channel☼, so I won't be watching this for a while. I still want to extend a greeting, and, as always: *"Your videomanship is of the highest quality!"*
A new video AND a whole new interesting series?! Sign me up!
This may be the best fortress video I've seen from you so far! The storytelling was on-point, characterization was amazing and the nicknames were appropriately given out.
Can't wait to see more!
one of my favourite traps when I have a volcano on my map is to have the entrance go over the crater. Then have a shooting gallery near there so you can have marksdwarfs shoot them full of arrows so they dodge off the ramp and fall to the heated depths. ;)
Coming back to this after the steam release to get inspired once more. A fantastic series worth revisiting
Awesome work on this video! I absolutely love the animated bits and the new text boxes. It looks very nice and fits well with the aesthetic ^^ Keep up the good work! Looking forward to more of this series. It'll be interesting to see how you utilize the volcano! :3
i remember watching headshoots and a few notables on SA
youve changed the game dude
like not only did you prove that roguelikes and colony games are lp fodder du-jour
but that there are elements we have lost from our days trying to make walls of text, surrounding screenshots of walls of text feel like a story. a world
back then we would add art, fanart, thread interactivity, and any trick at all to get stay bumped from death on our 30 hour +files for a given game
back before the light got switched on in the room and we had a shape of the beast, let's plays were always pushing new boundaries, and when videos were scarce we pulled out all of the stops
this reminds me of that work ethic, but with great jams, expertly paced narration and laborious amounts of one off artwork, simulating a thread's worth of future "memers"
while also being frontloaded to allow us to take it in all at once passively
i'd say it is the natural progression of the genre, but that would imply that your work effort or ability is common
so i'll simply say it's the level best
here's to another mishap fort, you are seriously onto some next level stuff with your multimedia, skill hours, work hours
When your so early the video is still titled Scorchfountain Ep.1
Nah, tha's it
@@kruggsmash Oh damn, guess your right.
In terms of production and aesthetic, this is some of your best work. The attention to detail in the audio and art design
made this a really pleasant experience and I was quite fond of the sketches at the end along with the new, more immersive format. Fantastic work!
I'm Really happy to see the begining of another series ^^
The new macanics about necromancer seems interesting... much more benevolant than before, for sure ^^
I hope this volcano will serve interestingly, and I'm eager to see what king of fortress this will be this time.
Thanks for the video :)
This video felt something new. Like a complete rework for a game that makes it amazing. This all just felt like a complete upgrade to everything you've done before. The music, art, and just the consistency of the presentation with the art is just amazing. Your own commentary feels new. To me, this all feels so new, fresh, and improved. Definitely very excited for more.
Awesome episode. I’m looking forward to the steam release. I know in your Q&A you said you were on the fence, but from a channel growth perspective there will be huge volume of people looking for content on the stream release. You’d be crazy not to tap that!
As someone who uses graphics tilesets, I’ve always found it hard to understand what’s going on. Luckily your narration is so strong I get by!
I probably will, but it won't be so I can grow the channel. If I really cared about that, I wouldn't be making DF videos. Also, yes I am crazy.
Gosh darn it Krugg, your reasonable number of ads on your videos is why I watch and rewatch your content without an ad blocker. 💕
Huh, having your own court necromancer, that's going to be interesting!
It sure was...
This series is hands down one of my favorites pieces of media of all time
Finally! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
Took ages, huh?
Thanks for watching, buddy :)
Just started plowing my way through this series, I have to be in the right mood for dwarf fortress. I love the necromancer already it was always one of my favourite things in Adventure Mode to become a necromancer and just wander the wilds to amass a small collection woodland creature corpses and then seige a town. It was also always fun when some stinky Kobolds ambushed the sleeping traveller and 40 zombies leapt up and slaughtered them
Anyone rewatching these before the year is out?
I've never played a single second of this game but I still love watching these videos.
Finally get to watch one of these fresh from the forge, really looking forward to it.
Should be a fun ride, eh? Haven't started a new one since late 2018!
Yaaay, the wait for another big story is over!
I love the sound that the Horn Beetles make.
Don't mind me, I'm just reliving Krugg's best fort
It’s so great to see new characters brought into life with your art! Seeing that Necromancer art really impressed me, and I especially like the way the dwarves are looking now, great episode! Great foreshadowing with the undead stuff
I'd love a the worldgen for this, the embark looks great!
Coming back to re-watch this series and I had forgotten how funkadelic the outro music is. Time to dance with every episode ending
"They worship the god of mischievousness and wisdom"
So they basically worship Yoda?
seems like a jade sculpture is in order :D
Looking forward to another amazing story!
Kruggs always amazes me again and again. Every time I think he can’t improve anymore he always one-ups himself...
love it love it love it!
The porn music for the outro is an interesting choice.
Glad to see the starts of a new long series in the making, I look forward to it becoming as epic as the others or moreso!
porn music? Psh
The what now?
LOVE the hornbeetles. I feel like just adding one fictional domesticated work animal that's different than your typical cattle, horse, donkey, etc. can really spice up any fantasy setting. Bonus points if it's a non-mammal and EXTRA EXTRA bonus points if it's an invertebrate like these beetles here.
New series? I'm hyped.
Heck yes
I'm absolutely in love with your content sir
Oh yeah, another legendary tale from Krugg, great work you bearded bastard!
Thank ya kindly, Scott! I try my best
I just came back to this series SPECIFICALLY for the awesome beetles. Such an awesome creation, I didn't realize you shared the raws with us! I'll be using them in my worlds from now on I think :0