I laughed.... more than I should have while working. Lizardborn... everything.. it was an castastrophe...food...stealing from shitty elves.. the bucket bath tower... Please.. more... it was amazing. Thank You Kruggsmash
Every time I see someone using Dwarven Physics like this, I think back to the old "Grimtooth's Traps" books and all the practically-cartoonlike overkill they used. Next time you use the Water Tower, try forcing them down a narrow channel, to the pit that is beneath the retracting drawbridge they used to climb up. The nicest thing about that is that the pit becomes a drowning pool that can become a decorative moat (or that you can drain if you want to get at all the precious goblinite).
Ooh, I bet something like that'll work beautifully. It was really neat to see the goblins move back down the slope. Ialready have a bunch more ideas on how to improve the whole thing. (whether or not I can accomplish them is another matter!) Thanks for watchin', Mike Mark!
My own favorite siege trap to date involved a large tower surrounded by a beautiful outdoor statue garden, in turn surrounded by a ring of drawbridges. The goblins and, particularly, their trolls, would path toward it, only for me to raise the drawbridges around them. I could then move my troops at leisure to the tower for target practice. Even then, timing catapulted the occasional goblin skyward, and resetting to catch more invading goblins after the first twenty were killed often killed another handful for a few more moments of atom smasher glee.
Love the new intro and really got a kick out of this fort. Great stuff man! Some ideas: * Grand Zoo: Capture as many animals (including human, elves, and goblins) as possible and make exhibits for your dwarves to enjoy. * Dwarven Space Program: Carve a rocket that can house 7 dwarves and have it be lava powered for trust. * Fortress Anatomy: Make a fortress that internally is shaped as a living body (stomach, heart, brain, etc). Up to you if you want to carve out a body for it. * Fairy-tale Castle: Make an aboveground castle in a hunted/evil biome. *True Believers: Pick a god and build a temple for them.
Fantastic. I think that a series of raising bridges and pressure plates set for goblin weight would be a delightful entrance. Flinging the little terrors back over, and over again while your military gets into position, or you activate the magma powered magma cannon (that fires magma).
Ohh shit, son. You're gettin' me all amped up for doing another one of these and I don't even know what that'll happen! There are So many possibilities, huh? Thanks for watchin', Ow-Harv!
LMAO After internally freaking out and doing a deep etymological look into the word "belarded" I've concluded that nope, it's not a word. I have a conspiracy theory that Toady meant to put "beleaguered" here and must have had a Freudian slip.
"be-" is a common prefix for something affected by something, like "bespelled" or "beset" or "begat". Nothing wrong with adding the prefix to a different word grammatically.
Amazing. This is perfect for me because, though I do love watching DF LPs, I'm often strapped for time. This little thing was just right, time wise. Besides, the expression on that Olm Man's face: priceless.
Ha! Great to hear! Yeah, I figured EVERYONE who plays DF either does some long series or they do a tutorial. Let's shake things up a little, huh? Thanks for watchin', Middy!
Master/apprentice relationships were added with the library mechanics, I think. I guess your dwarf formed one of those in worldgen, and he migrated to Trapgate, but his master didn't. You could do something with locations - a fort that's the worlds greatest tavern and/or library? Tavern has the advantage that you can defend yourself with mercenaries. Thanks for the episode! Looking forward to seeing what the next theme fortress is.
Allllrighty, I guess i'll have to look more into the master thing. Very interesting indeed. I'd LOVE to do a tavern fort or something in the future! So many possibilities! Thanks for watchin', Mr. Wild!
Here is an idea for a fort, grab one with deep soil and dig down a pyramidish shape. Make your very own Hanging gardens of Babylon, DF style. Other than my machinations, im glad to see you starting new forts soo soon! Love what you're doing with the channel, keep it up!
Oooh, I like that idea. Yeah I really wish I could MORE videos but they take SO long to make and with my job and shit, it just isn't possible! Maybe one day! Thanks for watchin my channel, Joking Phantom!
Hey Krugg, i just stopped the video at 8 min cause because i was so hurry to write you a quick note: This is totaly GREAT idea my friend ! - The new intro is so bad ass ! - The project is just amazing ! - i guarantee a huge sucess on this channel !! (Really hope so) - your patreon will maybe explode ! (lol) Best youtube channel for me at the moment ! Aaah better, now i can play back the video ;) Peace !
Ha! Well, i'm certainly glad you like it, Born-knot-tobb! Reeeeally hopin' the channel picks up a bit more. It HAS been growing but now i'm chasing the dragon. I CAN'T GET ENOUGH, MAN!
I love just watching people muse over traps in this game. Theres something so satisfying about it. I want to try a pit trap where I drop invaders into, with walls made of raising bridges. And on the other side of those bridges would be a wall of vertical metal bars, dividing the area enemies fall into from an encircling room full of MAGMA CRABS. Then I could just pull a lever and watch as the crabs cook the enemies in the middle. I do worry about the enemies shooting back, but I'm hoping the fire and smoke would deal with that mostly. The bars would have to be fire proof too so they wouldn't melt... Hmm...
Great work on the video. Intro was cool as well, thanks for getting Joey to work! Selfishly I would like a more long lasting fort where you build your history. On the other hand, if this is fun for you, keep it up. Do not try to fix something that is not broken. It would be interesting to see if all the short forts survive, if they are in the same world. ThunderFort would be cool, where all the visitors enter but fight each other for "freedom" or until the next wave. Just have a bunch of inns so it is the Vegas of the dwarf world. Thanks for another cool one Krugg!
Don't worry, JP- The main series is going to continue next week. I may end up doing these in between series' just to shake things up a bit (both for viewers and for myself!) lol, I actually really like the idea of a battle fortress where dwarves have to pass a test in order to live there. Like they have to run some sort of gauntlet or something. Thanks for watchin', dude!
This is freaken awesome dude! Love the intro, and all the ideas dude. Keep up the great work. I love the enthusiasm. A another fort Idea which I am not sure you have done, but maybe make some kind of a temple fort with weird rituals, sacrifices maybe.
Great idea with the short forts ! Also I think the water trap would be better with some pillars in the channel for the goblins to get bounced and knocked off of. Can't wait for the next episode keep up the amazing work !!
man you really know how to bring these worlds alive gives me the same feeling I got paging through old ad&d books and reading even older sword and sorcery books as a kid
Ha! Maybe that's where I get my inspiration from? I used to love looking through D&D books and wondering how everything could fit together. Creativity is a goddamn treasure, i'll tell ya.
Oh, and the resevoir would probably work better if the trap turned into a drowning chamber using bridges to hold the goblins in after the water collects. Bottom level would have bridges and walls holding the water and goblins in so you could watch as they drowned in hilarious fashions!~
yeah a new series i love your video style as soon as i was introduced to your channel i was hooked and cant wait for more. oh and its a shame with the whole water slide messing up after it took so long to fill up. please keep up the great work man. ;p
Heck, yeah! Well thanks for givin' me a watch dude- I really appreciate it and i'm glad you like em'! I dont know WHEN i'll be putting these vids out exactly. Maybe in-between my other series'? Thanks for watchin', Sir Pantspiss!
Even sillier?! Shit, son.. I could swing that, yeah! Stay tuned and when we DO have another shortfort episode then maybe the silliness-levels will be cranked up! Let's hope! Thanks for watchin SB!
cool new intro and yeah, nice idea for a series. traps never seem to work the way you intend and sometimes, other things you intend turn out to be neat traps.
Thanks! Hey, just b/c i'm a little guy on here doesn't mean I have to act like it, right? You guys WANT quality and I aim to please! We have a special community here and this game deserves a lil' lovin', right?
Thanks, dude! It was a big pain in the ass! I don't usually do much animation but I guess it came out alright enough. Thankfully my bro helped me do a few of the scenes.
That was some good dwarfy science. And by that I mean nothing went right. But that water trap could be scaled up and used to push them into a deep pit. If you like big sieges or lots of them, they are tied more to the value of your trades right now than they are on the value of your fort. By a lot. My last fort was hugely valuable but it didn't get a big siege until its last year. I was being too cheap with the traders. I recommend buying the silliest, most over priced instruments or wood barrels, or just way over pay for the stuff you buy any way. In my current fort I traded absurd amounts of value in a few adamantine weapon trap components and every monster in the world had been making a bee line to my fort. Which makes me happy.
The best dwarven science around! Ooh, hrmm. I guess i'll have to try that out! Seems easy enough, anyways. Throw garbage at the traders = goblins attack. Gotcha. Thanks for watchin', Eek!
My favourite trap is a giant water* tank. Its a two layer trap. Most of my forts are towers with two entrances. The first layer of the trap is a easy fall pit from the upper entrance. You don't need it, but it makes your water tank into a blood water mess and it is funny when foes drown. Aditionally all gross things can be dumbed in the tank and prisioners can be sacrificed for the drowning mermaid. But the real deal is the second part: Just a small little opening, triggered with a floodgate. Sometimes located at a cliff, sometimes in a small tunnel. No borders are known for this. When something approachs, pull the trigger. I'm to this day not sure if this is intentional but the water will release with such a high velocity that it will instant kill or dismantle near enemies. Targets that are more far away will be pushed away and drown. Also they will be covered in feces, blood, limbs, everything. Or they are very wet. Depends. The bigger the tank the more fun you will have! In one fort I added another opening to the tank for cavarn layers. But the bloody mess never vanished. So it was kind of an stupid idea. (Ok maybe it can work and I was just stupid. dont know for sure) *can hold lava if you are brave enough
Thanks dude! My bro, Joe did a few of those scenes in there. I thought it was all good to go yesterday but imagine my surprise when I realized I had to do TWO more scenes! Eegh Thanks for watchin', Norman!
@@kruggsmash aksolotl is amphibian and has 0 scales :P Actually it's kinda soft and slippery and can't survive without water. IIRC in aztec language axolotl means water dog :)
Those watertraps work fine if you got a more steady, higher pressured supply of water and a pit, into which the attackers will be pushed. Something like that long channel combined with a drawbridge in the middle above a 20Z deep pit that is triggered with the same lever the water vent opens. Only need a way to drain the pit dry again after a proper flushing :)
Loved this short fortress, the new into is excellent. Concerning future fortresses, I agree with ‘The Immortal Ryukan’. A tower in the ocean is a great idea, wanted to do this a while ago but didn’t quite find a way to actually do it. Also - I know this has been brought up many times before but since you are not doing one continuous fort, it might we worth considering - how about trying out some other tile sets?I don’t want to insult your beloved tiles, but one of the fancier ones could enhance the viewing experience somewhat. Like actual icons for dwarfs of different professions or a goblin icon instead of a ‘g’. Anyway,keep up the good work.
Yeah, I really want to do an oil riggish fort at some point and I think I know just how to do it. Hrmm, I wish I had thought of changing up the tileset before I did this episode- hrmph. Well i'll certainly have to consider it in the future I suppose. Thanks for watchin and for your support, SteigEnt! You are a killer!
Kruggsmash I've gotten used to the tileset you use, but it is pretty harsh in terms of color contrast. I like CLA as sort of a midpoint between vanilla and more graphical sets.
See, all it takes is some getting used to. At this point i'm pretty set in my ways though, I think. If everyone was asking for one particular tileset then I might consider it more seriously but every time someone suggests one it's almost always some new one I've never even heard of. It's not really even about the tileset in my opinion. I mean, it's not like the game would turn into a graphical masterpiece if I started using a more detailed one. It's all about what the images represent!
Kruggsmash It's not really the abstractness, it's the bright colors and whites with the sea of black that I describe as "harsh." I haven't tried it myself, but I believe the color scheme can be tweaked while keeping the same tileset.
How about asking the viewers what they like. I believe that the more detailed sets are easier to interpret for viewers that have not used these exact tiles, in contrast to the plain ones, that you actually have to use in a game yourself to really understand what each symbol represents. While not saying it's the best tile set out there, I prefer playing with Phoebus.
Honest opinion here. Wasn't a bad video. But I'm totally into the roleplay and storytelling aspects of your work. Not mega enthusiastic about the new series but it wasn't a waste of 28 minutes. Of course you should be doing what you enjoy rather than bending to the will of your viewers- recipe for disaster 'cause you can't satisfy everyone. I'll be awaiting patiently another epic of the scale of Derlersholid :) and of course tuning into every upload. cheers.
No worries, bro! This was just a little diversion- the main series continues next week. Also, I really do appreciate the honest opinion. I'll probably just be doing these in-between other projects. They're fun! Thanks for watchin', Tox!
How about having an very deep moat initally covered by a retractable bridge and the reservoir trap, and on the bottom a floodgate to move the water elsewhere, after the invaders have been given an watery grave? Guess it'd be similar to the water trap you had in steelclutches, in general though..
Oh, we'll be seeing some crazy shit in the future i'm sure! What's wrong the the Delersholid water trap?! You saying I couldn't do it again?! I'll goddamn fight you! Jk, dude. Thanks for watchin', Waltuh!
Oh! Also! I don't know if you're aware but MarcusAureliusLP totally gave you a shoutout in the first episode of Lost Knowledge (Tales of Enthador) I think that's great. Perhaps collaboration is not yet on the table but HOLY SHIT I think a succession game with you and other likeminded DF you tubers would be insaaaaaaane. Just an idea.
Lizardkiin, Lizardkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal! Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan Lizardkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal! XD
For refining the water trap. Instead of just washing away the goblins, trap them in an enclosed space, with channels leading into deep caverns. Using gates, lock them into the room and then open the gate blocking the water flow. now watch as your goblin problems wash away into the deep caverns.
Yeah! I'm thinking that if I make a hole at the bottom of the slope and have them enter from the sides then when they get washed down, the they won't be able to avoid the pit. Maybe we'll see a working version in the future? Thanks for watching, Volo!
Yeah! I dunno HOW regularly i'll be doing these but hopefully i'll do another soon. Maybe i'll stick em' in between series - chapters? Anywho, thanks for watchin', Ki!
"Short" forts? ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF DWARVEN HEIGHT?!?! Uhm... anyway. Moving on. The relationship screen includes people who aren't in the fort. If there's no title after the name and it's coloured white, it means that they aren't in the fort and can't be selected. Master-apprentice relations are related to music/dance/poetry etc., maybe the scholar skills too? So if someone has a master, that's their teacher. I once saw a travelling band where one guy was the master to like half of its musicians, so it isn't completely arbitrary. Speaking of which, I hope you will make taverns and libraries in at least some of the short forts! Setting up a tavern isn't really much different from setting up a dining hall. Just add a chest or a coffer for storing mugs. Baby from a werebeast... well that's something I haven't seen before. Good job saving the child! That was fun... Whatever fort comes next, I'll give it a 50/50 that we learn something.
Ohh so THAT'S what a master is? I guess I should've figured it'd be something rather mundane. I'm picturing some sort of necromancer/minion type of relationship or something. Oh well! Thanks for watchin' and for the info, Izzy! Oh, also I dunno if i'd go as high as 50/50..maybe more like 4/96.
Nah- I had thought about it, but damn. I don't play the game the way most people enjoy playing it I don't think. My style is more suited to editing and entertainment but it's not fun for the normal player. Thanks for watchin', Walter!
ever considered a Fountain Base, like a pyramid but in the center would be an well that can be overflown to cause massive floods outside the base, maeby even drown armies? and then the water could be drained back into the well
Make a pit with drains and use water to push goblins and monsters into it. See if you can get them to fight to the death. See how many bodies you can accumulate in the pit.
Some may be in the same world but I imagine for the most part they will be in different worlds. I LOVE the bridge Idea. Spanning an enormous river? Sounds awesome! Thanks for watchin', Reedy!
I record using Fraps, Refine the audio using Audacity and edit it up using Movie Studio Platinum on Steam. Yep! I do alll the drawings. Thanks for watchin, Donny!
Oh, don't be fooled! My forts run ridiculously slow sometimes! Delersholid was sluggish as hell. The editing makes them watchable for you fellas. Thanks for watchin', Wat!
Hopefully it will be! I dunno when i'll be doing another but i'm getting some great feedback from this one here. Maybe i'll do an episode in between other series'? Guess we'll see! Thanks fo rwatchin', Laffy-B! I love the profile pic btw.
well with a bit of fresh start of alot of cool tricks, It might be worth waiting until new update comes, you said something big project series for dwarf fortress you even said "give me two weeks" so I bet next week we get big series?
Sure is a good thing that the world of Dwarf Fortress doesn't have to comply with the Geneva conventions. The pit filled with wooden spikes is a no go in the real world.
a were fort? i know that if you put a dead vampire in a reservoir, the whole fort can become vampires, i wonder if you can do that same with were creatures?
I fully support more single-fort episodes. Maybe it would be worth your time to get quickfort working? I'm hesitant because I like the idea of seeing a different fort every time.
you should make a lake/ocean town. they cant get you if they cant reach you. also all the fish and water should prevent food problems. something like Mont Saint-Michel or maybe more simply an iron age Swiss lake village.
Aw, yeah baby! That sounds like a heck of a plan! Something about a dwarf fort comin' out of some body of water is really fascinating. Maybe the next one, eh? Thanks fo watchin', Ser Redwald!
try out 'dwarfen shootgun', if you ever have time. if you really want to learn about minecarts you might want to start with normal use, followed by minecart logic. minecarts are something of the most sophisticated elements of DF, took me 2 hours to learn, and in gernerall very long to master, but its worth it for sure
Rofl, yeah. It was so refreshing. Don't worry, dude. The Ageless Realms will be returning next week! Thanks for watchin' One they refer to in the ancient manuals as....Sloth!
"I mean, we all know Dwarf Fortress"
*nervous chuckle*
"Little fortresses that dont span any longer than a single episode" - well, that derailed quickly :)
I vote you try an offshore fort, like in the intro, make it have one bridge connecting it to the mainland. And try to catch a Sperm Whale
aw, MAN stop amping me UP! MAN do I wanna do that, now! Gah!
Thanks for watchin, buddy
wait, sperm whale?!
Yes do this.
This comment aged well
well there you go
I laughed.... more than I should have while working.
Lizardborn... everything.. it was an castastrophe...food...stealing from shitty elves.. the bucket bath tower...
Please.. more... it was amazing.
Thank You Kruggsmash
Good! Fantastic! Yeah it was a fairly entertaining shitshow.
Thanks for watchin' and for your support :)
Also, I love the profile pic, dude
Darn! I forgot to mention the MOST important thing.
We want more Art from Joey !
Rofl, dude
That is effing amazing. I really wish we could explore this.
"And they call him - DRAGONBORN!"
Every time I see someone using Dwarven Physics like this, I think back to the old "Grimtooth's Traps" books and all the practically-cartoonlike overkill they used. Next time you use the Water Tower, try forcing them down a narrow channel, to the pit that is beneath the retracting drawbridge they used to climb up. The nicest thing about that is that the pit becomes a drowning pool that can become a decorative moat (or that you can drain if you want to get at all the precious goblinite).
Ooh, I bet something like that'll work beautifully. It was really neat to see the goblins move back down the slope. Ialready have a bunch more ideas on how to improve the whole thing. (whether or not I can accomplish them is another matter!)
Thanks for watchin', Mike Mark!
My own favorite siege trap to date involved a large tower surrounded by a beautiful outdoor statue garden, in turn surrounded by a ring of drawbridges. The goblins and, particularly, their trolls, would path toward it, only for me to raise the drawbridges around them. I could then move my troops at leisure to the tower for target practice. Even then, timing catapulted the occasional goblin skyward, and resetting to catch more invading goblins after the first twenty were killed often killed another handful for a few more moments of atom smasher glee.
I hope to see those ideas in videos!
Wow man nice episode
1- hilarious
2- good edited
3- educative
4-Lizarborn
LOL, ohh lizardborn. I lol'd when I clicked read more.
Thanks for watchin, Sarah-ebola!
Thanks for making Krugs
Love the new intro and really got a kick out of this fort. Great stuff man!
Some ideas:
* Grand Zoo: Capture as many animals (including human, elves, and goblins) as possible and make exhibits for your dwarves to enjoy.
* Dwarven Space Program: Carve a rocket that can house 7 dwarves and have it be lava powered for trust.
* Fortress Anatomy: Make a fortress that internally is shaped as a living body (stomach, heart, brain, etc). Up to you if you want to carve out a body for it.
* Fairy-tale Castle: Make an aboveground castle in a hunted/evil biome.
*True Believers: Pick a god and build a temple for them.
Rofl, I really like the anatomy idea. God, how silly would that be? Those poor, poor lower intestine dwarves.
Thanks for watchin', Bud!
Fantastic. I think that a series of raising bridges and pressure plates set for goblin weight would be a delightful entrance. Flinging the little terrors back over, and over again while your military gets into position, or you activate the magma powered magma cannon (that fires magma).
Ohh shit, son. You're gettin' me all amped up for doing another one of these and I don't even know what that'll happen! There are So many possibilities, huh?
Thanks for watchin', Ow-Harv!
I feel like the practice you got with these is why Scorchfountain and Chamberpoint are so great.
LMAO After internally freaking out and doing a deep etymological look into the word "belarded" I've concluded that nope, it's not a word. I have a conspiracy theory that Toady meant to put "beleaguered" here and must have had a Freudian slip.
Belarded is one of the most beauiful words i've ever heard. If it's NOT a word then we have to MAKE it a word!
Thanks for watchin', Bo-War!
"be-" is a common prefix for something affected by something, like "bespelled" or "beset" or "begat". Nothing wrong with adding the prefix to a different word grammatically.
god, this universe is going to be filled with screwed up inventions...
Probably, lol. Yeah s'gonna be nuts.
Thanks for watchin'. Kyon!
Amazing. This is perfect for me because, though I do love watching DF LPs, I'm often strapped for time. This little thing was just right, time wise. Besides, the expression on that Olm Man's face: priceless.
Ha! Great to hear!
Yeah, I figured EVERYONE who plays DF either does some long series or they do a tutorial. Let's shake things up a little, huh?
Thanks for watchin', Middy!
This is pure Adamantine !
Too kind :)
Master/apprentice relationships were added with the library mechanics, I think. I guess your dwarf formed one of those in worldgen, and he migrated to Trapgate, but his master didn't.
You could do something with locations - a fort that's the worlds greatest tavern and/or library? Tavern has the advantage that you can defend yourself with mercenaries.
Thanks for the episode! Looking forward to seeing what the next theme fortress is.
Allllrighty, I guess i'll have to look more into the master thing. Very interesting indeed.
I'd LOVE to do a tavern fort or something in the future! So many possibilities!
Thanks for watchin', Mr. Wild!
Sweeeet, new intro and everything! I'm very excited for the return of your series!
Thanks, dude! Next week we shall return to the Ageless Realms!
Thanks for watchin', Ivsmir!
So this is the predecessor to Kingtrap.
Master Krugg sure has leveled up his trapmaking skills!
Here is an idea for a fort, grab one with deep soil and dig down a pyramidish shape. Make your very own Hanging gardens of Babylon, DF style.
Other than my machinations, im glad to see you starting new forts soo soon! Love what you're doing with the channel, keep it up!
Oooh, I like that idea. Yeah I really wish I could MORE videos but they take SO long to make and with my job and shit, it just isn't possible! Maybe one day!
Thanks for watchin my channel, Joking Phantom!
Hey Krugg, i just stopped the video at 8 min cause because i was so hurry to write you a quick note: This is totaly GREAT idea my friend !
- The new intro is so bad ass !
- The project is just amazing !
- i guarantee a huge sucess on this channel !! (Really hope so)
- your patreon will maybe explode ! (lol)
Best youtube channel for me at the moment !
Aaah better, now i can play back the video ;)
Peace !
Ha! Well, i'm certainly glad you like it, Born-knot-tobb!
Reeeeally hopin' the channel picks up a bit more. It HAS been growing but now i'm chasing the dragon. I CAN'T GET ENOUGH, MAN!
"Apparently refreshing" cracked me up something fierce.
As good of a storyteller he's become, this old, laid-back, enthusiastic krugg is good too!
love the intro, keep up the good work
Me too, its great pixel art!
Thanks, Immo! My bro, Joey actually did the last 4 scenes and I think THEY came out the best.
Thanks for watchin'!
Thanks, Aust! I actually had to bang out 2 of those scenes in there REAL quick yesterday when I realized I didn't make it long enough :I
I love just watching people muse over traps in this game. Theres something so satisfying about it. I want to try a pit trap where I drop invaders into, with walls made of raising bridges. And on the other side of those bridges would be a wall of vertical metal bars, dividing the area enemies fall into from an encircling room full of MAGMA CRABS. Then I could just pull a lever and watch as the crabs cook the enemies in the middle. I do worry about the enemies shooting back, but I'm hoping the fire and smoke would deal with that mostly. The bars would have to be fire proof too so they wouldn't melt... Hmm...
Magma crabs! Man, that'd be an awesome trap, huh?! Can you trap the things? Tame them? I'll have to look into it!
There is something magnificent about watching a fort that you don't really care about fall to ruin.
Yeah, dude. Really shakes things up, eh?
Thanks for watchin' AND supportin', Bitty!
Great work on the video. Intro was cool as well, thanks for getting Joey to work!
Selfishly I would like a more long lasting fort where you build your history. On the other hand, if this is fun for you, keep it up. Do not try to fix something that is not broken. It would be interesting to see if all the short forts survive, if they are in the same world.
ThunderFort would be cool, where all the visitors enter but fight each other for "freedom" or until the next wave. Just have a bunch of inns so it is the Vegas of the dwarf world.
Thanks for another cool one Krugg!
Don't worry, JP- The main series is going to continue next week. I may end up doing these in between series' just to shake things up a bit (both for viewers and for myself!)
lol, I actually really like the idea of a battle fortress where dwarves have to pass a test in order to live there. Like they have to run some sort of gauntlet or something.
Thanks for watchin', dude!
This is freaken awesome dude! Love the intro, and all the ideas dude. Keep up the great work. I love the enthusiasm. A another fort Idea which I am not sure you have done, but maybe make some kind of a temple fort with weird rituals, sacrifices maybe.
Yeah!! I really wanna do a fort where the dwarves have to run a gauntlet before they can gain entry.
Eventually!
Great idea with the short forts ! Also I think the water trap would be better with some pillars in the channel for the goblins to get bounced and knocked off of. Can't wait for the next episode keep up the amazing work !!
Thanks, dude! Hopefulyy I get to do another at some point comin' up!
Goblin pachinko. I love it!
Thanks for watchin', Trev!
man you really know how to bring these worlds alive
gives me the same feeling I got paging through old ad&d books and reading even older sword and sorcery books as a kid
Ha! Maybe that's where I get my inspiration from? I used to love looking through D&D books and wondering how everything could fit together. Creativity is a goddamn treasure, i'll tell ya.
Oh my God, this was fantastic, I love it.
I think the short forts idea us a good one. Keeps things nice and refreshing, and much hilarity to be had.
Thanks, Japa! Really glad you liked it! Not too sure when i'll be doing another, unfortunately but I guess we'll see!
The quality of your videos have improved so much!!
Oh, man, this was a great little funny episode after the super emotional Hero of Balance finale! I'm loving it! :D
Oh, and the resevoir would probably work better if the trap turned into a drowning chamber using bridges to hold the goblins in after the water collects. Bottom level would have bridges and walls holding the water and goblins in so you could watch as they drowned in hilarious fashions!~
Yeah I figured it'd be a nice little diversion for a week. I dunno when I'll be doing another but I hope its soon!
Thanks for watchin', Mr. Banes!
yeah a new series i love your video style as soon as i was introduced to your channel i was hooked and cant wait for more.
oh and its a shame with the whole water slide messing up after it took so long to fill up. please keep up the great work man.
;p
Heck, yeah! Well thanks for givin' me a watch dude- I really appreciate it and i'm glad you like em'! I dont know WHEN i'll be putting these vids out exactly. Maybe in-between my other series'?
Thanks for watchin', Sir Pantspiss!
I love that intro! I'd like to see an even sillier episode, why not explore more minecart physics in an dwarven amusement park with a rollercoaster!
Even sillier?! Shit, son.. I could swing that, yeah! Stay tuned and when we DO have another shortfort episode then maybe the silliness-levels will be cranked up! Let's hope!
Thanks for watchin SB!
"Fun with Minecarts" rollercoaster has now officially launched.....
...a baby. LMAO
This is a great series. I am still learning the game and you have helped me get interested in the game.
When you showed the olm man I laughed so hard I woke my dog
Lol! Who would've ever expected the pasty white olm man?!
Thanks for watchin', mr. Melon!
cool new intro and yeah, nice idea for a series. traps never seem to work the way you intend and sometimes, other things you intend turn out to be neat traps.
Thanks, Andy! Yeah-ohh those traps..they're a bitch!
This is one of the best intros I've ever seen in my life. Well done sir.
I like this.
By UA-cam standards, you have very few subs - but your videos are very high quality.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Hey, just b/c i'm a little guy on here doesn't mean I have to act like it, right? You guys WANT quality and I aim to please! We have a special community here and this game deserves a lil' lovin', right?
At least the smelly goblins got a nice, refreshing, bath before they charged into the fortress, so they wouldn't stink up the place.
More pixel art!
Ah! You liked it? It was a huge pain in the ass and my bro had to help me w/ it.
Thanks for watchin', Dude!
I weep at the huge gulf of disparity between our talent levels. :'(
Nonsense. I just have nothing better to do with my time
Liked the fact that you swore earlier on more than the PG13 content you do now.
Glad you stopped saying youtube so much though.
I. Love. This! The intro and everything is awesome continue with it my mane dude
Thanks, Helvy! Really glad ya liked it!
love the new intro :)
Thanks, dude! It was a big pain in the ass! I don't usually do much animation but I guess it came out alright enough. Thankfully my bro helped me do a few of the scenes.
That was some good dwarfy science. And by that I mean nothing went right. But that water trap could be scaled up and used to push them into a deep pit.
If you like big sieges or lots of them, they are tied more to the value of your trades right now than they are on the value of your fort. By a lot. My last fort was hugely valuable but it didn't get a big siege until its last year. I was being too cheap with the traders. I recommend buying the silliest, most over priced instruments or wood barrels, or just way over pay for the stuff you buy any way. In my current fort I traded absurd amounts of value in a few adamantine weapon trap components and every monster in the world had been making a bee line to my fort. Which makes me happy.
The best dwarven science around!
Ooh, hrmm. I guess i'll have to try that out! Seems easy enough, anyways. Throw garbage at the traders = goblins attack. Gotcha.
Thanks for watchin', Eek!
My favourite trap is a giant water* tank. Its a two layer trap. Most of my forts are towers with two entrances.
The first layer of the trap is a easy fall pit from the upper entrance. You don't need it, but it makes your water tank into a blood water mess and it is funny when foes drown.
Aditionally all gross things can be dumbed in the tank and prisioners can be sacrificed for the drowning mermaid.
But the real deal is the second part: Just a small little opening, triggered with a floodgate. Sometimes located at a cliff, sometimes in a small tunnel. No borders are known for this.
When something approachs, pull the trigger. I'm to this day not sure if this is intentional but the water will release with such a high velocity that it will instant kill or dismantle near enemies. Targets that are more far away will be pushed away and drown.
Also they will be covered in feces, blood, limbs, everything. Or they are very wet. Depends.
The bigger the tank the more fun you will have!
In one fort I added another opening to the tank for cavarn layers. But the bloody mess never vanished. So it was kind of an stupid idea. (Ok maybe it can work and I was just stupid. dont know for sure)
*can hold lava if you are brave enough
I am loving the new intro, Krugg!
Thanks dude! My bro, Joe did a few of those scenes in there. I thought it was all good to go yesterday but imagine my surprise when I realized I had to do TWO more scenes! Eegh
Thanks for watchin', Norman!
Super fantastic A number 1!
Rofl, thanks Joe joe!
I liked it so much in fact that I took the effort to press all five or six buttons required to subscribe.
Niiiiiiice
I like the new intro m8, throwing someone in a volcano for a sacrifice would be cool.
Thanks! Heck yeah, it'd be cool! My bro Joe actually did that scene. Came out damn good, eh?
Thanks for watchin', Stone Cold Steve Austin!
Werebeast fort might be amusing - would be a fun little callback to Lizard moon :D
Talks abous nasty scaly lizard. Shows axolotl. Okay.
lol, the OLM man was a wereliizard
That is, under the full moon, the olm man changes into a bloodthirsty werelizard
@@kruggsmash aksolotl is amphibian and has 0 scales :P Actually it's kinda soft and slippery and can't survive without water. IIRC in aztec language axolotl means water dog :)
Those watertraps work fine if you got a more steady, higher pressured supply of water and a pit, into which the attackers will be pushed. Something like that long channel combined with a drawbridge in the middle above a 20Z deep pit that is triggered with the same lever the water vent opens.
Only need a way to drain the pit dry again after a proper flushing :)
I think the flush trap could work if at the bottom of the ramp there'd be a bridge covering an opening into a deep pit that opens with the same lever.
Loved this short fortress, the new into is excellent.
Concerning future fortresses, I agree with ‘The Immortal Ryukan’. A tower in the ocean is a great idea, wanted to do this a while ago but didn’t quite find a way to actually do it.
Also - I know this has been brought up many times before but since you are not doing one continuous fort, it might we worth considering - how about trying out some other tile sets?I don’t want to insult your beloved tiles, but one of the fancier ones could enhance the viewing experience somewhat. Like actual icons for dwarfs of different professions or a goblin icon instead of a ‘g’.
Anyway,keep up the good work.
Yeah, I really want to do an oil riggish fort at some point and I think I know just how to do it.
Hrmm, I wish I had thought of changing up the tileset before I did this episode- hrmph. Well i'll certainly have to consider it in the future I suppose.
Thanks for watchin and for your support, SteigEnt! You are a killer!
Kruggsmash I've gotten used to the tileset you use, but it is pretty harsh in terms of color contrast. I like CLA as sort of a midpoint between vanilla and more graphical sets.
See, all it takes is some getting used to. At this point i'm pretty set in my ways though, I think. If everyone was asking for one particular tileset then I might consider it more seriously but every time someone suggests one it's almost always some new one I've never even heard of. It's not really even about the tileset in my opinion. I mean, it's not like the game would turn into a graphical masterpiece if I started using a more detailed one. It's all about what the images represent!
Kruggsmash It's not really the abstractness, it's the bright colors and whites with the sea of black that I describe as "harsh." I haven't tried it myself, but I believe the color scheme can be tweaked while keeping the same tileset.
How about asking the viewers what they like.
I believe that the more detailed sets are easier to interpret for viewers that have not used these exact tiles, in contrast to the plain ones, that you actually have to use in a game yourself to really understand what each symbol represents.
While not saying it's the best tile set out there, I prefer playing with Phoebus.
Honest opinion here. Wasn't a bad video. But I'm totally into the roleplay and storytelling aspects of your work. Not mega enthusiastic about the new series but it wasn't a waste of 28 minutes. Of course you should be doing what you enjoy rather than bending to the will of your viewers- recipe for disaster 'cause you can't satisfy everyone. I'll be awaiting patiently another epic of the scale of Derlersholid :) and of course tuning into every upload. cheers.
No worries, bro! This was just a little diversion- the main series continues next week. Also, I really do appreciate the honest opinion. I'll probably just be doing these in-between other projects. They're fun!
Thanks for watchin', Tox!
Oh shoot, I totally forgot you did mention "give me 2 weeks" well then I'm right back on the hype train!
I think EVERYONE forgot, lol.
awesome video as always dude
Well thank ye, Scar! I try!
I come back just for that sweet fuckin' intro. 2 legit.
Great episode.
Thanks, broham!
Love the new intro.
Thanks, SE Hooly! It was a pain in the ass!
WAIT! Disease... deformity... GH! NURGLE SENPAI!!!
Ha! Pretty much, yeah
Did you have the were lizards dig themselves out first before closing the fortress?
This is it... Where it all began
is it better to have one zone for dumping water or many little ones?
Many little ones, DEFINITELY.
only one dwarf at a time will dump water into a pond zone so if it's just one then it'll be impossible
How about having an very deep moat initally covered by a retractable bridge and the reservoir trap, and on the bottom a floodgate to move the water elsewhere, after the invaders have been given an watery grave?
Guess it'd be similar to the water trap you had in steelclutches, in general though..
Oh, we'll be seeing some crazy shit in the future i'm sure! What's wrong the the Delersholid water trap?! You saying I couldn't do it again?! I'll goddamn fight you!
Jk, dude. Thanks for watchin', Waltuh!
Oh! Also! I don't know if you're aware but MarcusAureliusLP totally gave you a shoutout in the first episode of Lost Knowledge (Tales of Enthador) I think that's great. Perhaps collaboration is not yet on the table but HOLY SHIT I think a succession game with you and other likeminded DF you tubers would be insaaaaaaane. Just an idea.
New intro! nice!
Thanks Steefy! It was a pain in the ass!
Wow, amazing intro. That sure was funny ;p
Thanks, dude..my bro helped me do a few parts of it. It was a pain in the ass!
+Kruggsmash work your brother more ;p
Joey you did a great job.
Lizardkiin, Lizardkiin, naal ok zin los vahriin
Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal!
Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan
Lizardkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal! XD
Not too sure what it means..but I like it!
For refining the water trap.
Instead of just washing away the goblins, trap them in an enclosed space, with channels leading into deep caverns. Using gates, lock them into the room and then open the gate blocking the water flow. now watch as your goblin problems wash away into the deep caverns.
Yeah! I'm thinking that if I make a hole at the bottom of the slope and have them enter from the sides then when they get washed down, the they won't be able to avoid the pit. Maybe we'll see a working version in the future?
Thanks for watching, Volo!
+Kruggsmash Thanks for posting!
Minifort series ho!!!!!!! Wuew. I'm looking forward to this.
Yeah! I dunno HOW regularly i'll be doing these but hopefully i'll do another soon. Maybe i'll stick em' in between series - chapters?
Anywho, thanks for watchin', Ki!
New intro hype!
Yeah! Woo! Hype it up! Woo!
Thanks for watchin', The Nose!
I didn't see the date of the video, and was intrigued when you didn't say "hello you bearded bastards".
Still, great vid
"Short" forts? ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF DWARVEN HEIGHT?!?!
Uhm... anyway. Moving on.
The relationship screen includes people who aren't in the fort. If there's no title after the name and it's coloured white, it means that they aren't in the fort and can't be selected.
Master-apprentice relations are related to music/dance/poetry etc., maybe the scholar skills too? So if someone has a master, that's their teacher. I once saw a travelling band where one guy was the master to like half of its musicians, so it isn't completely arbitrary.
Speaking of which, I hope you will make taverns and libraries in at least some of the short forts! Setting up a tavern isn't really much different from setting up a dining hall. Just add a chest or a coffer for storing mugs.
Baby from a werebeast... well that's something I haven't seen before. Good job saving the child!
That was fun... Whatever fort comes next, I'll give it a 50/50 that we learn something.
Ohh so THAT'S what a master is? I guess I should've figured it'd be something rather mundane. I'm picturing some sort of necromancer/minion type of relationship or something. Oh well!
Thanks for watchin' and for the info, Izzy!
Oh, also I dunno if i'd go as high as 50/50..maybe more like 4/96.
I want to see your 2021 optimal strategy. I want to see an automatic trigger, self cleaning, automatic reset trap!
Name one of the fortresses Thundersmith, in honor to the most succesful fortress i've ever had
That IS a pretty awesome fort name. But unfortunately t obuild a fortress in another fort's shadow is a dwarven crime!
Thanks for watchin', DarMar!
do make more. was laughing my ass off.. so good..
About the Master thing: If he is some kind of scolar related skills then it's fine, if not then it's fun :)
Hrmmm, intriguiiiing.
Thanks for watchin', Omorko!
You can't view profiles of dwarfs that aren't in your fort (everyone with white names)
Awesome video. Do you have DF tutorial? Your style is great.
Nah- I had thought about it, but damn. I don't play the game the way most people enjoy playing it I don't think. My style is more suited to editing and entertainment but it's not fun for the normal player.
Thanks for watchin', Walter!
ever considered a Fountain Base, like a pyramid but in the center would be an well that can be overflown to cause massive floods outside the base, maeby even drown armies? and then the water could be drained back into the well
RIP alligator... you monster
Splatterback? Is that an innuendo?
Probably. That dude seemed like a jerk. He's probably dead now.
Thanks for watchin', Baldr!
How do you tell dwarfes to bring water like that?
Gotta set up a pod zone (preferably a bunch of them) and you have to set them to be filled. Dwarves will grab a bucket, find water then dump it in!
Make a pit with drains and use water to push goblins and monsters into it. See if you can get them to fight to the death. See how many bodies you can accumulate in the pit.
what if you added spikes that the goblins get washed into?
Your intros are awesome
Thanks, Hiro! Just wait till you see the one I got planned for the next DF update ;{}
What a fun ending
Will all the fortresses be in the same universe? You should make a fortress in a giant bridge.
Some may be in the same world but I imagine for the most part they will be in different worlds.
I LOVE the bridge Idea. Spanning an enormous river? Sounds awesome!
Thanks for watchin', Reedy!
Goddammit, I hate when my original ideas aren't that original :) Guess I'll have to figure out a new plan for fort #4.
Nooo! Do it!
What tools do you use to record and edit your videos? Also, do you do those drawings?
I record using Fraps, Refine the audio using Audacity and edit it up using Movie Studio Platinum on Steam.
Yep! I do alll the drawings.
Thanks for watchin, Donny!
Thank you so much! I'm interested in doing some videos myself. Kickass drawings! Keep up the good work!
What are your pc specs? Noticed that your forts run relatively smoothly even with 100 dwarves. Love your videos btw!
Oh, don't be fooled! My forts run ridiculously slow sometimes! Delersholid was sluggish as hell. The editing makes them watchable for you fellas.
Thanks for watchin', Wat!
This will be an interesting series. This probably would have worked better had you blocked off every other avenue of advance.
Hopefully it will be! I dunno when i'll be doing another but i'm getting some great feedback from this one here. Maybe i'll do an episode in between other series'? Guess we'll see!
Thanks fo rwatchin', Laffy-B! I love the profile pic btw.
Maybe next time with the water tower have it lead to a pit and then the pit will fill with water and goblins (hopefully) :)
What music did you use for this episode? It's so tranquil, so beautiful, so peaceful, yet so alive.
well with a bit of fresh start of alot of cool tricks, It might be worth waiting until new update comes, you said something big project series for dwarf fortress you even said "give me two weeks" so I bet next week we get big series?
Yessir! Next week we return to The Ageless Realms. Get ready!
Sure is a good thing that the world of Dwarf Fortress doesn't have to comply with the Geneva conventions.
The pit filled with wooden spikes is a no go in the real world.
this was FUN
Heck yea hit was, brother.
When we takin' you out for your birthday, btw?
a were fort? i know that if you put a dead vampire in a reservoir, the whole fort can become vampires, i wonder if you can do that same with were creatures?
Yeah, dude. I Toooootally need to test that out. We'll get to it one day i'm sure!
Thanks for watchin', C-Bax!
I fully support more single-fort episodes. Maybe it would be worth your time to get quickfort working? I'm hesitant because I like the idea of seeing a different fort every time.
you should make a lake/ocean town. they cant get you if they cant reach you. also all the fish and water should prevent food problems. something like Mont Saint-Michel or maybe more simply an iron age Swiss lake village.
Aw, yeah baby! That sounds like a heck of a plan! Something about a dwarf fort comin' out of some body of water is really fascinating. Maybe the next one, eh?
Thanks fo watchin', Ser Redwald!
try out 'dwarfen shootgun', if you ever have time.
if you really want to learn about minecarts you might want to start with normal use, followed by minecart logic. minecarts are something of the most sophisticated elements of DF, took me 2 hours to learn, and in gernerall very long to master, but its worth it for sure
Yeesh, all that logic junk seems like a pain in the ass. We'll have to see what happens!
Thanks for watchin', Canny!
Great episode, loved the refreshing water trap.
Kinda sad that this world is entirely Bimless though ;_;
Rofl, yeah. It was so refreshing.
Don't worry, dude. The Ageless Realms will be returning next week!
Thanks for watchin' One they refer to in the ancient manuals as....Sloth!
Hmm, the audio on that intro reminded me of Deus Ex, somehow. I wonder how one would go about post-dwarfity projects...
Deus ex? Never played it. Post-dwarfity? Heck we'll find out at some point, i'm sure!
Thanks for watchin', Putty!