@@ight_of_heart trolls can if you mod in a evil race or mod it so dwarfs can use evil animals. Best part? Each Troll is only a single point. You can have a army of troll slaves.
I like the idea that the dwarves just get used to the pigskins reanimating, and after a while it just becomes a sort of routine task that once you've skinned the pig, you wait over it with a club to beat down the skin itself.
Krugg, according to wiki: Best results are obtained when you direct the dwarves to capture vermin by hand. AKA using the tasks at the Kernel or the Butchery
The baited traps didn't work for me, when assigning someone to catch them manually I found they tried catching vermin outside so maybe a burrow could help, you can sell the stuff you catch too, low value but
I've had luck here by assigning dwarves to perform this task only within the burrow. It'll cause them to only target vermin inside. You can start with a burrow that is your common problem area, and them move it out from there.
The surface is looking absolutely horrific. It is almost like the fortress is a skull protecting the inner machinations of the brain from the dangers of the outside world. A brain prone to anxiety and needing of upkeep that will gradually fill a library of memories. I like the crossroad of activity inside the fortress, each branch representing leisure, faith, knowledge, and preparation.
"I don't think anybody's going to want it as a pet, really, but it's still neat! Might just throw it somewhere for the hell of it" - Immediately transitions to the magma sea.
I don't think turning on and off locations is a good idea, really. My expirience tells me, that dwarves are capable of figuring out if they want to pray or drink or research in every particular moment.
About crawlers. Maybe they just eat something else than meat. Or... I do not really remember, but there maybe an option "to catch a small creature" in one of the workshops or something. Maybe that will work.
I'd LIKE to think they'd figure it out if I leave them be, but I have a lot of stuff going on in the fort and they literally are constantly working. Not a single dwarf was "socializing" before I had a burrow.
I've found over my test fortresses the last few weeks, since returning to the game after five years, that it really depends on how many dwarves you have in your fortress, how much other stuff each has to do, etc. Generally, if you can assign enough dwarves to each task group to keep one or two idle they will use the locations as much as they need to be happy. In order to assure that state, I've found that small work orders using conditionals checked daily and task specific workshops (using profiles) are key (they help eliminate micromanagement as well, though notice spam will increase). The real issue for what Kruggsmash has here, outside not enough idle dwarves, is scale. A temple only needs a 7x7 room, a container (to hold small instruments, a bag works just fine), a couple small instruments (that may be tricky in this fortress admittedly), a performer and a single room designating furniture item to function at peak. A larger room will allow more dwarves to just sit there meditating and praying rather than working. Similar issues arise for tavern and library.
I'm still a "DF rookie", so take this with a grain of salt, but from what I've seen so far dwarves tend to prefer certain "free" activities over others: for instance the citizens of my current fortress, a surface village in the tropical jungle, simply love fighting and martial training. If left idling be sure they'll go to the barracks for individual drills. And during the set season, where I put all of them on squad training duty (to keep them dry, of course), they all get huge happiness bonus while sparring, teaching and learning. In 10 years I managed to have 50 legendary fighters over a total population of 80, and far more Happy dwarves than stressed ones.
@@ricodarooster I haven't really started trying to relearn military stuff yet, having only just gotten my head around hospital design and soap production again, but I'm fairly sure "individual drills" as an unscheduled free time activity requires at least dabbling in some appropriate military skill. I have dwarves that are unhappy about not being "able to practice a martial art" who still don't go use the barracks in their free time.
Undead biomes need all rooms lockable, not just the workshops. Imagine a tantrum onto one of those poor pigs, Undead Nose Hair, Undead Head skin, Undead hoofs and fingers. Horrifiying
... A scholarly order dedicated to slaying the undead, armed with silver weapons and identified by the banner of a silver skull sounds like something straight out of anime, M8. >)X^D
12:40 - So Skullhorror is basically turning into an underground monastery, where battle monks write philosophy about the undead horrors above, while staying drunk enough to forget about them at times. I approve.
Engraving the walls, table and chair and adding statues to the prison cells should help the imprisoned dwarfs be happier and more likely to be safely returned into the fort.
This is something I wanna start implementing. I had good results with that strategy in Rimworld: A luxurious prison with nice stuff and even entertainment. Rehabilitate the prisoners being nice with them and putting some good thoughts in them.
Oh god, imagine if the resurrection worked on processed goods? Meat animating in your gut, leather clothing and armor animating and constricting you...
@@kruggsmash also some good names for Squads: 1' Skull Crushers. 2' The Death Watch (Fortress guard) 3' The Legion of the Damned. 4' The Walking Dead. 5' The Grim Reapers. 6' The Under Takers. 7' The Tomb Raiders.
Oh kuggsmash, this is gold, get a few necromancy tombes in there, their secrets make you invisible to the foul undead, every corpse is gonna become a zombie anyway so there is no point in wasting that library and not dedicating it to the grim art of death
It's that time of the week where the fey moods can be put aside and to just enjoy some quality content. Krug, Mrs Krug and all involved, you really do support a brilliant production.
@@kruggsmash Did you bring any cats with you? I always see rat corpses and such pop up in my refuse pile when they're let loose on the fort. Maybe they could snack on some creepy crawlies 🙃
I had the same problem with creepy crawlers in a game I played last year. They were SWARMING my kitchen and food stockpile area. Placing animal traps didn't work but using the "capture live animal" option in the butcher workshop did. It helped but not too much with the problem though. There must have been thousands of them because they were still everywhere even after capturing and butchering about 300 of them. At which time my fortress fell to a forgotten beast.
AH, go figure. Well, I didn't show it in the video, but I did try doing the "catch live animal" thing a bit and the dwarves would just immediately cancel the task "Could not find path". Hrmph, not too damn sure!
Kruggsmash, I'm really diggin this series. I takes me back to Monsterkiller vibes which was just amazing. You could totally let this one play out longer than a simple short fort. I like this more standard approach that's not too over the top with story and characters (wasn't a huge fan of Honeystoker). Also this fort is beautiful, and the artwork is always looking better and better. Keep up the awesome work man.
Hey, I guess we'll have to see what happens! Didn't really plan for this ti be a big ol' thing...but I hadn't planned on any of my other series becoming longer forts either!
Its been 3 months since I found this gem of a channel and made it a Thursday tradition to watch your new videos. You have encouraged me to start playing DF and my first fortress just got obliterated by demons from digging too deep. It was like I created a mini-Khazad-dûm.
I'm just imagining a hoof weakly reaching out of the tanning vat, only for a dwarf to gently push it back in. "Shhhhhh... Soon, the dark forces that plague this land will no longer afflict you. Just a little longer..."
I found your channel via an interview with the creator of dwarf-fortres, and I'm all up to date with your newest series, so now I'm watching your whole catalogue of videos. I love them!
Don’t know if this was intended (probably was) but the main level of the fort looks like a skull on its side! The bedrooms making the dome, the stockpiles the eyes, and the red mud farming fields for teeth! Cool shit, my dude; keep up the great work
I just realized, without trade, all that gold will most likely end up as crafts and bricks - if not ceramonal weapons and armour rather than coins - and these dwarves have a lot of time on their hands alone in this fortess-bunker. (Oh we love the Queen, long live the Queen! Dress her up in golden battleplate and an artifact mace! Leash her to the front gate so that all may see how well their blood stains her corpse's gauntlets!) Thanks again for another wonderful episode! That rhino lizard's depiction has restored 3d6 sanity, enough to sustain me through the breach once more.
Would it be safer to divide the hospital into separate rooms for every dwarf? That way if one dies of his wounds and reanimates, you could lock the door! If there's one thing I know about Dwarf Fortress, it's that you can't trust your dwarves to do "urgent" tasks in a timely fashion.
These videos are so addictive. I thought rimworld was tough. Your solutions and creativity in the face of challenge has easily become my favored choice of entertainment. Can't wait for your next vid!
Been wanting to play DF, but waiting for the steam release. Youre the only youtuber I've found that I actually enjoy watching play this game. Just subscribed! You're awesome.
Hey good! Just a couple little changes I made before the series started to suit the srea. Didn't put MUCH thought into it, but I guess it all ended up working well!
In terms of real time or game time? Real time probably the YEAR or so I spent in the Steelclutches world Oldest fort? Hrmm..maybe Monsterkiller? Think it was 30-40 years or so
@@kruggsmash Monsterkiller was my first introduction to you, I was instantly hooked! I binge watched the whole series in a couple days... You do a great job condensing DF into an interesting and engaging storyline! And once again you have me hooked with Skullhorror! Keep up the good work ya bastard!
Also, I feel like a cage trap is a necessary component in every bedroom. Just like, make it so they have to cross it to get to the door. That's how you stop tantrum spirals. One guy goes crazy, and instead of hurting people and making them go crazy, or dying and making people go crazy, he's in the cage forever and everyone (but him) is happy.
Kruggsmash, I hadn't noticed until it was all done. I've watched every single one of your videos. You have a way of captivating your viewers and it's deeply inpiring how you're able to use the chaos of dwarf fortress to make a coherent story. Your crash course video helped me start dwarf fortress, and it's been such a trek. Thanks for being you, keep being an inspiration to us all. thanks my bearded teacher.
Krugg, I'm trying to sleep. I just woke up to pee, I didn't plan on getting excited. These 5 am uploads are keeping both of us from a healthy sleep schedule. (Seriously thanks for this. I look forward to your videos every week)
Wow. You're so damn good at telling the story of your fortress, amazing work The art, music editing and the whole lot is of the highest craftsdwarfship
I really liked the idea of the 4 chambers at 12:30 and probably thought about it to hard and came up with this. The core of a dwarf is of four points, as if a compass. To the North and South lay the dwarven spirit and body. Too far north and you are a ghost but too far South you are a beast. To the East and West lay the dwarven heart and mind. Too far East you become stone but too far West you become lost. The core of a dwarf is centered among these things, as if between four great halls. At the center of these points is what it is to be a dwarf. The ghost becomes their soul, the beast their body, the stone their hearth, and the lost dwarf finds pursuit. The great scholars say "Dwarves have many needs, and some of them don’t even know what the hell they want half the time". They must pursue knowledge, pursue strength, family and even enlightenment, but know that they are not any one of these things but a dwarf is all of these things and must never forget their core.
@@kruggsmash Well, at least the end result was neat! I have seen my dwarves perish twice already due to ALL our water freezing in the winter! I'll try to get a resevoir done quickly next time.
Two safety doors in the gold shaft, maybe? When the dorfs are chucking gold down, the "retreival chamber" below is locked. No one walks in there. When dorfs are retreiving the ore to the furnace, the door to the "deposit chamber" up top is closed.
I really like the designs for the grounds of the tavern/temple/library and barracks! Like your DF videos quite alot, Its a bit too hard for me to get into but your videos scratch just the right itch!
I love that you have art to accompany the story. It really flashes out the tiles the stronghold. It's all really well pit together. Color me subscribed
i was sure this zombie biome fort would go south real fast (pun not intended) 😅 im really impressed how you keep the undead in checks while keeping your dwarfs happy! good job Krugg!
God, what are those finger-spider things? Edit: oh, it was explained on the end of the video, but it was really disturbing to see them on all artworks.
yeah , the "5 starting" dwarfs!! We dont talk about Hank and Ernest who live in the Aquifer
Those poor, poor icecubes...
I completely forgot!
Dig em out let em zombiefi put em in a cage
Can zombies be put to work somehow? That'd be cool
@@ight_of_heart trolls can if you mod in a evil race or mod it so dwarfs can use evil animals.
Best part?
Each Troll is only a single point.
You can have a army of troll slaves.
"This is a gneiss table."
"I'm sure it is, but what's it made from?"
"With bands of gneiss!"
"...Nice what?!"
@@kruggsmash "Very Gneiss"
you've hit rock bottom
begin sirious, what is gneiss?
01010000011000010110110001100001 the table is gneiss
Everyone: _discussing foraging behaviour_
Led: _pondering reproductive behaviour_
Now that's my kind of dwarf right there xD
What a dirty dog :()
a true dorf of culture :)
haven't you seen Hentai with spores yet?
@Jacqueline A you're thinking warhammer orcs
@@neinherman9989 got teef, looking for big shootas an red gore paint, da kart needs more speed an dakka, grimdark, gonna stomp sum gits
"I must pray"!
"The church's closed. Go have a beer."
Lol
"Ooh! I must beer!"
@@kruggsmash seems pretty dwarfy to me.
The Tavern counter is the only Altar those bearded bastards need
"That was the father of the Fortress baby."
You mean the fortress orphan
Poor That baby
Dont forget poor pig
@Locke Dunnegan *golf clap
*the fruit of reproductive behaviour pondering
@@kruggsmash batdwarf - the prequel
I like the idea that the dwarves just get used to the pigskins reanimating, and after a while it just becomes a sort of routine task that once you've skinned the pig, you wait over it with a club to beat down the skin itself.
"And we start off this year with some fairly bad news." Well that's just Dwarf Fortress for you.
Honest to christ now :)
And 2020 real life now
Krugg, according to wiki:
Best results are obtained when you direct the dwarves to capture vermin by hand. AKA using the tasks at the Kernel or the Butchery
Bah, I tried! Kept saying they "couldn't find path".
@@kruggsmash i guess that because the target could be in the caverns thats locked down, or behind a locked door
The baited traps didn't work for me, when assigning someone to catch them manually I found they tried catching vermin outside so maybe a burrow could help, you can sell the stuff you catch too, low value but
I've had luck here by assigning dwarves to perform this task only within the burrow. It'll cause them to only target vermin inside. You can start with a burrow that is your common problem area, and them move it out from there.
You need to get some dogs and cats in the fortress as they hunt vermin automatically
30:20 Are we just gonna let the fact slip that if you tilt your head to the left, the fortress is kind of shaped like a skull? Wonderful
Huh, well. Wish I could say that was intentional. Super, super weird!
The surface is looking absolutely horrific. It is almost like the fortress is a skull protecting the inner machinations of the brain from the dangers of the outside world. A brain prone to anxiety and needing of upkeep that will gradually fill a library of memories. I like the crossroad of activity inside the fortress, each branch representing leisure, faith, knowledge, and preparation.
So, skullhorror is an exceptionally pleasant place to live, but once you enter you're essentially trapped.
How fitting this cage be lined with gold.
"Discussing Reproductive Behaviour" is how dwarves call telling dirty jokes
It was inevitable.
"I don't think anybody's going to want it as a pet, really, but it's still neat! Might just throw it somewhere for the hell of it" - Immediately transitions to the magma sea.
who posts ☼Masterwork☼ quality videos at 3 am?
kruggsmash: OH BOY 3 AM!
XD
It's maybe 3 AM in your place. But in other place it's not.
I'm here it's 17:30 pm. I'm in GMT+7 time zone.
@@DBT1007 well here in Canada it's 3 am, and the joke doesn't relate to you.
Pff
Every video it's an Artifact
@@Nestmind easily.
I don't think turning on and off locations is a good idea, really. My expirience tells me, that dwarves are capable of figuring out if they want to pray or drink or research in every particular moment.
About crawlers. Maybe they just eat something else than meat. Or... I do not really remember, but there maybe an option "to catch a small creature" in one of the workshops or something. Maybe that will work.
I'd LIKE to think they'd figure it out if I leave them be, but I have a lot of stuff going on in the fort and they literally are constantly working. Not a single dwarf was "socializing" before I had a burrow.
I've found over my test fortresses the last few weeks, since returning to the game after five years, that it really depends on how many dwarves you have in your fortress, how much other stuff each has to do, etc.
Generally, if you can assign enough dwarves to each task group to keep one or two idle they will use the locations as much as they need to be happy. In order to assure that state, I've found that small work orders using conditionals checked daily and task specific workshops (using profiles) are key (they help eliminate micromanagement as well, though notice spam will increase).
The real issue for what Kruggsmash has here, outside not enough idle dwarves, is scale. A temple only needs a 7x7 room, a container (to hold small instruments, a bag works just fine), a couple small instruments (that may be tricky in this fortress admittedly), a performer and a single room designating furniture item to function at peak. A larger room will allow more dwarves to just sit there meditating and praying rather than working. Similar issues arise for tavern and library.
I'm still a "DF rookie", so take this with a grain of salt, but from what I've seen so far dwarves tend to prefer certain "free" activities over others: for instance the citizens of my current fortress, a surface village in the tropical jungle, simply love fighting and martial training. If left idling be sure they'll go to the barracks for individual drills. And during the set season, where I put all of them on squad training duty (to keep them dry, of course), they all get huge happiness bonus while sparring, teaching and learning. In 10 years I managed to have 50 legendary fighters over a total population of 80, and far more Happy dwarves than stressed ones.
@@ricodarooster I haven't really started trying to relearn military stuff yet, having only just gotten my head around hospital design and soap production again, but I'm fairly sure "individual drills" as an unscheduled free time activity requires at least dabbling in some appropriate military skill. I have dwarves that are unhappy about not being "able to practice a martial art" who still don't go use the barracks in their free time.
Undead biomes need all rooms lockable, not just the workshops. Imagine a tantrum onto one of those poor pigs, Undead Nose Hair, Undead Head skin, Undead hoofs and fingers. Horrifiying
Guess we'll seeeEEEeee!
Is anyone else thinking of templar dwarves? 😂 worrior priests and scholars defending the realm against the undead chaos
Yeah, I mean..fits the bill!
I wasnt but that is awesome
... A scholarly order dedicated to slaying the undead, armed with silver weapons and identified by the banner of a silver skull sounds like something straight out of anime, M8. >)X^D
Libash:
I like that little interplay there. Gives the fort more character!
This is my favorite anime
I really like the "Year #" cards that you're using in this. They make it seem like a book divided up into chapters. Great work as always :)
Yeah, seems like a lot of folks like it! It certainly does give a nice sense of the passage of time, eh? I'm a big fan myself.
"This other farmer here just grabbed the nasty old zombified skin, and is now tanning it... That is nice." Laughed out loud.
Last episode:
"Gee, if you squint the bedrooms kinda look a bit like the top of a skull."
This episode:
"Damn it Kruggs!" -_-
WOAH I would have never guessed!
You know, it was actually completely unintentional. Isn't that wild?
12:40 - So Skullhorror is basically turning into an underground monastery, where battle monks write philosophy about the undead horrors above, while staying drunk enough to forget about them at times.
I approve.
Engraving the walls, table and chair and adding statues to the prison cells should help the imprisoned dwarfs be happier and more likely to be safely returned into the fort.
This is something I wanna start implementing. I had good results with that strategy in Rimworld: A luxurious prison with nice stuff and even entertainment.
Rehabilitate the prisoners being nice with them and putting some good thoughts in them.
14:00 Ah yes, on the left, the dwarven god of bananas and gators. Patron of the realm of Florida.
Krugg, you’ve made my Thursday mornings for a while now, and I’m so happy that you constantly push the envelope of dwarf fortress story telling.
You put a smile on my face, buddy. Thanks for that :)
I'll always try my best!
Oh god, imagine if the resurrection worked on processed goods? Meat animating in your gut, leather clothing and armor animating and constricting you...
Dwarven Warrior-Scholars that specialize in fighting the Undead!
Hell yeah :)
@@kruggsmash also some good names for Squads:
1' Skull Crushers.
2' The Death Watch (Fortress guard)
3' The Legion of the Damned.
4' The Walking Dead.
5' The Grim Reapers.
6' The Under Takers.
7' The Tomb Raiders.
@@angrycrusader3926 someone's a 40k fan lol
@@goreobsessed2308 The Emperor Protects
@@goreobsessed2308 *FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
When you referred to success by turning moody dwarves into innkeepers, do you mean Beans in Honeystoker?
Yyyyyyes. The ONLY time it worked :p
@Jimmy De'Souza Making her an overworked crafter or gem cutter should realistically do the trick I'd think.
@Jimmy De'Souza book keeper in a separate office I would think or just a craft station off by it's self
@@chiblast100x true
Thanks for the crash course on this game, I made my first fortress the other day. That or I just planted a turnip. Time will tell I guess.
Hey, one or the other. S'all good!
Worst case scenario, you get a free turnip.
Oh kuggsmash, this is gold, get a few necromancy tombes in there, their secrets make you invisible to the foul undead, every corpse is gonna become a zombie anyway so there is no point in wasting that library and not dedicating it to the grim art of death
Your wish has been granted.
It's that time of the week where the fey moods can be put aside and to just enjoy some quality content.
Krug, Mrs Krug and all involved, you really do support a brilliant production.
Glad to give you a little relaxation, m'dude :)
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
It snows here in Wisconsin this very day, as I watch this in the basement of my college's library; there is irony here
Listening to you pronounce the names of the places alone is a treat.
I was wondering what those hand like things in the images were. thanks for telling us!
Figured i'd tease the little creeps before telling you what they were :)
@@kruggsmash Did you bring any cats with you? I always see rat corpses and such pop up in my refuse pile when they're let loose on the fort. Maybe they could snack on some creepy crawlies 🙃
Alternatively, peregrine falcons also work.
I had the same problem with creepy crawlers in a game I played last year. They were SWARMING my kitchen and food stockpile area. Placing animal traps didn't work but using the "capture live animal" option in the butcher workshop did.
It helped but not too much with the problem though. There must have been thousands of them because they were still everywhere even after capturing and butchering about 300 of them. At which time my fortress fell to a forgotten beast.
AH, go figure. Well, I didn't show it in the video, but I did try doing the "catch live animal" thing a bit and the dwarves would just immediately cancel the task "Could not find path". Hrmph, not too damn sure!
Kruggsmash, I'm really diggin this series. I takes me back to Monsterkiller vibes which was just amazing. You could totally let this one play out longer than a simple short fort. I like this more standard approach that's not too over the top with story and characters (wasn't a huge fan of Honeystoker). Also this fort is beautiful, and the artwork is always looking better and better. Keep up the awesome work man.
Hey, I guess we'll have to see what happens! Didn't really plan for this ti be a big ol' thing...but I hadn't planned on any of my other series becoming longer forts either!
This is always glorious. I'm tempted to pay krugg to tutor dorf ortress
From spaceman to underground man
Ha! Wish I had the time for it! Truly I do {:)
Thanks buddy
Its been 3 months since I found this gem of a channel and made it a Thursday tradition to watch your new videos. You have encouraged me to start playing DF and my first fortress just got obliterated by demons from digging too deep. It was like I created a mini-Khazad-dûm.
Darnit, I'm still at work. At least I've got something to look forward to when I get home.
Ohh, glad you have something to look forward to!
Hope its worth the wait. Good luck with the rest of your work day!
I'm just imagining a hoof weakly reaching out of the tanning vat, only for a dwarf to gently push it back in. "Shhhhhh... Soon, the dark forces that plague this land will no longer afflict you. Just a little longer..."
I found your channel via an interview with the creator of dwarf-fortres, and I'm all up to date with your newest series, so now I'm watching your whole catalogue of videos. I love them!
god these illustrations are really nice, good job :)
i love that intro tbh
For a fortress with such a spoopy name, there's been a pretty notable lack of horrors, nightmares, and death.
Thank Vir!
Don’t know if this was intended (probably was) but the main level of the fort looks like a skull on its side! The bedrooms making the dome, the stockpiles the eyes, and the red mud farming fields for teeth! Cool shit, my dude; keep up the great work
Depression has its deadly claws in me, but at least there is a new Kruggsmash to ease my troubled mind.
I'll try my best! I got your back, buddy :)
I just realized, without trade, all that gold will most likely end up as crafts and bricks - if not ceramonal weapons and armour rather than coins - and these dwarves have a lot of time on their hands alone in this fortess-bunker.
(Oh we love the Queen, long live the Queen! Dress her up in golden battleplate and an artifact mace! Leash her to the front gate so that all may see how well their blood stains her corpse's gauntlets!)
Thanks again for another wonderful episode! That rhino lizard's depiction has restored 3d6 sanity, enough to sustain me through the breach once more.
Why don't you like stop being sad and like go do stuff
Discarded Placenta really need to get animated in haunted biomes.
"Hello all, and welcome back to askulshushothgetekezhtaschfff"
Me: "um, ok then."
I love the drawings of the zombie hands, theyre so animated! It's been great seeing your drawing skills increase throughout all of the series!
Would it be safer to divide the hospital into separate rooms for every dwarf? That way if one dies of his wounds and reanimates, you could lock the door! If there's one thing I know about Dwarf Fortress, it's that you can't trust your dwarves to do "urgent" tasks in a timely fashion.
Always eager for your new uploads!
Thanks a million Kruggsmash, for helping keep me upbeat in such a grim world.
We can do it buddy! This damn world can beat us!
I laughed so hard at "Boar skin just.. Shlopping through the halls" xD
These videos are so addictive. I thought rimworld was tough. Your solutions and creativity in the face of challenge has easily become my favored choice of entertainment. Can't wait for your next vid!
Thanks for the video I love them and it's a great way to start a birthday.
Oho! Happy birthday, you bearded bastard! I hope you have a good un'!
Gneiss and gold really do look great together; this fortress is surprisingly stylish despite being in the middle of a forsaken tundra!
Heck yeah! Do what you can with what you got I always say :))
This fast paced almost montage style storytelling is good for short forts.
Been wanting to play DF, but waiting for the steam release. Youre the only youtuber I've found that I actually enjoy watching play this game. Just subscribed! You're awesome.
I just discovered your content, this is awesome!
Loving those smooth floor tiles! Really liking all the recent edits you've made to the tileset :D
Hey good! Just a couple little changes I made before the series started to suit the srea. Didn't put MUCH thought into it, but I guess it all ended up working well!
@@kruggsmash is there anywhere to download this version?
hey krugg, what was the longest fortress you've played?
In terms of real time or game time?
Real time probably the YEAR or so I spent in the Steelclutches world
Oldest fort? Hrmm..maybe Monsterkiller? Think it was 30-40 years or so
@@kruggsmash Monsterkiller was my first introduction to you, I was instantly hooked! I binge watched the whole series in a couple days... You do a great job condensing DF into an interesting and engaging storyline! And once again you have me hooked with Skullhorror!
Keep up the good work ya bastard!
This is amazingly calm for a reanimator biome. I was expecting undead skulls and limbs all over the place by now.
Also, I feel like a cage trap is a necessary component in every bedroom. Just like, make it so they have to cross it to get to the door. That's how you stop tantrum spirals. One guy goes crazy, and instead of hurting people and making them go crazy, or dying and making people go crazy, he's in the cage forever and everyone (but him) is happy.
Thursday, glorious Thursday. If this isnt a herald of the coming weekend and a half hour of good times, I dont know what it is.
The horn of Skullhorror sounds!
Kruggsmash, I hadn't noticed until it was all done. I've watched every single one of your videos. You have a way of captivating your viewers and it's deeply inpiring how you're able to use the chaos of dwarf fortress to make a coherent story. Your crash course video helped me start dwarf fortress, and it's been such a trek. Thanks for being you, keep being an inspiration to us all. thanks my bearded teacher.
Krugg, I'm trying to sleep. I just woke up to pee, I didn't plan on getting excited. These 5 am uploads are keeping both of us from a healthy sleep schedule.
(Seriously thanks for this. I look forward to your videos every week)
Haha, oops! Go back to bed, y'bastard!
Glad you like my vids, Ant. Means a lot that you keep coming back :)
Krugg you inspired me to stop building tons of wood structures above ground with this short fort. Thank You for this series.
What are you, an elf?
Hell, do whatever is fun!
Glad you're liking it so far!
12:28 i love these little symbols
For a moment I forgot that Thursday was the best day of the week. Then I saw this video in my subs feed and thought, 'oh yeah, of course!'
Haha. Here 'tis!
One of the things I enjoy the most with your videos are the drawings for situations and items created. They are so on point and epic.
I'm always so excited when new episode comes out. Love your work, Krugg
That is so good to hear, m'buddy :)
Thanks for the kind words
So glad the fort now has some *Skullars* - time for some epic books :)
Wow. You're so damn good at telling the story of your fortress, amazing work
The art, music editing and the whole lot is of the highest craftsdwarfship
I realy like how the fortress looks like a siluet of a skull
Someone else just mentioned that too! Go figure, huh?
Kruggsmash ither way it looks awesome
I love the fort so far! It's so decadent and efficient, but the surface really gives me the creeps. Are you sure you aren't trapped down there?
O-of course we aren't..trapped. We l-love it down heeeere.
*longingly stares at the ceiling*
Next time, a Mirthful area fortress of wood loving poets.
I love the way you lay out your Fortresses, I really appreciate the efficient design choices
I wonder if the dwarves are worried about the fact that they basically can't leave.
Psh, naaaaah
I really liked the idea of the 4 chambers at 12:30 and probably thought about it to hard and came up with this.
The core of a dwarf is of four points, as if a compass. To the North and South lay the dwarven spirit and body. Too far north and you are a ghost but too far South you are a beast. To the East and West lay the dwarven heart and mind. Too far East you become stone but too far West you become lost. The core of a dwarf is centered among these things, as if between four great halls. At the center of these points is what it is to be a dwarf. The ghost becomes their soul, the beast their body, the stone their hearth, and the lost dwarf finds pursuit.
The great scholars say "Dwarves have many needs, and some of them don’t even know what the hell they want half the time". They must pursue knowledge, pursue strength, family and even enlightenment, but know that they are not any one of these things but a dwarf is all of these things and must never forget their core.
This is going to be the highlight of my birthday, I can feel it!
Oh happy birthday! I hope you have a good one, Wak!
I just found your channel and love your way of storytelling and artwork! instant sub this is so cool!
Surely doctors in the future will prescribe Kruggsmash' videos to watch once a day. Much better than my vicodin.
Ha! Good to help you relax a bit!
Someone told me last week my videos are like ASMR. Still not too sure how to feel about that one.
I keep imagining all those poor migrants banging on the door as the zombies close in
I love the idea of dwarves building a zombie research outpost in the tundra just to study the undead.
Nice, I caught one of these videos as it uploaded!
Hey sick! I like the enthusiasm!
Kruggsmash: Hopefully the whole thing doesn't take too long, I don't think it will...
Also Kruggsmash: *YEAR 6*
Figured you'd get a kick outta that. Yikes, huh?
@@kruggsmash Well, at least the end result was neat! I have seen my dwarves perish twice already due to ALL our water freezing in the winter! I'll try to get a resevoir done quickly next time.
Two safety doors in the gold shaft, maybe? When the dorfs are chucking gold down, the "retreival chamber" below is locked. No one walks in there. When dorfs are retreiving the ore to the furnace, the door to the "deposit chamber" up top is closed.
Doing well there!
Looking forward to seeing where this fort goes in the future!
Oh me too. Wasn't planning on doing a very long fort here...buuuut..it's been a fun trip so far!
@@kruggsmash oh, by all means!
This fort seems to be going swimmingly so far :knocks on wood:
I like seeing normal and functioning fortress finally :D Only last thing missing is Steel clad military
Isn't it nice? Been too long!
Right..I certainly wish we had something better than copper :p
I'm still in the city but I'll watch it at highschool
I cannot wait
Fresh horrors and crawlers
Many, many crawlers!
Hope it's worth the wait :)
I really like the designs for the grounds of the tavern/temple/library and barracks! Like your DF videos quite alot, Its a bit too hard for me to get into but your videos scratch just the right itch!
Have you considered dumping the caged zombies in the lava? Should be a safe disposal method...
This series is underrated
I love that you have art to accompany the story. It really flashes out the tiles the stronghold. It's all really well pit together. Color me subscribed
Dicey decision? That's a nice way of saying you're trapped and can't leave the fortress
i was sure this zombie biome fort would go south real fast (pun not intended) 😅 im really impressed how you keep the undead in checks while keeping your dwarfs happy! good job Krugg!
really loving this short fort.
This episode starts way to happy and chill, i wonder what will happen..
Krugg your fort design never ceases to amaze me
God, what are those finger-spider things?
Edit: oh, it was explained on the end of the video, but it was really disturbing to see them on all artworks.
Just wanted to say that this great content! Recently started watching and nothing else has kept me watching this long like you have.