Until now I’ve avoided almost everything to do with combat so I guess this is my introduction.

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      I’ve made it to year 4, I think, and 120 dwarves. I think I have a vampire somewhere in my fortress because we keep finding dwarves dead, drained of blood. 😅 And I may have reloaded a save from year 2, to build a wall, because I sorta kinda mined through a frozen river which then flooded my base in late spring that year.

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        Vampires are wild. I caught the one I had, and he admitted it, and also admitted he was here under a false name. He got exiled from another dwarf civilization for embezzlement. My dwarves apparently didn’t care. After he was punished, they elected him mayor. :D

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      Yeah, they definitely didn’t have my real reaction as an option. I thought this game was supposed to be deep and realistic, smh.

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    My favorite fortress fail was from a were-iguana. A visitor turned into a giant iguana in the middle of the dining hall and caused a minor ruckus before my militia dispatched it. 2/10 invasion, really not that special.

    Then next full moon there were 7 of them, including my militia commander. Oops. Pay attention to combat logs when you fight a were-creature! Quarantine the bitten!

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    Lol welcome aboard the DF party ship!

    I still remember my most recent fortress mode cyclops, even though its been almost half a year. I had 2 squads who I had been training using training spears, but forgot to change equipment before sending them to kill it, by some miracle, they dodged all of its attacks for about 20 attacks despite having no dodge skills at all, then one of them either punched or bashed the cyclops in the face and got lucky, knocking it out. What followed was around 20 in game days of a circle of 14 dwarves mercilessly beating a puddle of bruises that was once a cyclops, as training weapons do next to no damage, occasionally it would wake up, then immediately give in to the pain again, with the only non bruise damage coming from whenever a dwarf would decide to punch, kick, or bite instead of using their main weapon. It FINALLY ended when one of dwarves punched it in the head, tearing the brain through the skull, putting the poor thing out of its misery.

    My dwarves went in competent speardwarves and came out around grand master level, all very dehydrated.

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    Download DFhack and go into the control panel (top left corner) and enable a bunch of the automation stuff while you’re learning.

    I had to watch videos on this game for weeks. I recommend Blind and Nookrium I’d you’re looking for guides.

    Edit: link to Blind’s mega tutorial

    Just lookup what you’re stuck on you don’t have to watch the whole 7 hours like me.

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      I’ve definitely been watching a few of those playalongs just to get ideas. And, you know, because hyperfocus.

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        Another thing to help you out is to learn to use macros.

        Escape

        Settings

        Game

        Keyboard cursor enabled Yes

        Now you can select mining (be mindful of your priority and warm/wet stone settings) and you will see a box that is your keyboard cursor.

        Press ctrl + r and design a room using the arrow keys and enter. Try to start the room at the door so you can better know where to place the cursor to print.

        When you are done press ctrl + r again.

        Now you can press ctrl + p to print that same room multiple times

        Ctrl + s saves the blueprint currently active, ctrl + L brings up a list of your blueprints.

        Using macros will help you build from scratch faster. The game is about losing, and macros let you get back up and running way faster after your inevitable downfall. and they are a big help keeping my base looking good to!

        I personally have a “grand hall” blueprint i use for temples and bars, housing blueprints, and commerce blueprints.

        Then you just connect the blueprints with hallways and BAM insta fortress! Again be mindful of your priorities when setting up blueprints.

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    TBH those giant humanoids are pretty tame compared to the beasts who start showing up in the Caverns.