I just grabbed some old version, and I'm happy.

Im proud of my fort. Its in a unattackable location with fresh water, underground farm for food, large veins of Bituminious coal, and lots of ore. I mean insane ammounts, Theres so much magnetite im gonna use it to make a god damn pyramid on the surface where I will entomb my greatest war heroes.

Or lacking war heroes Il put nobles into to give them a great send off into the next life.

Since I'm a graphic-y bastard, can you use old image packs on the new version of DF?

I think so, Its a simple matter of just moving the sprite pack over and turning it on. I cant play DF without sprites. Theres a guide on how to do it on the DF Wiki, it comes with most sprite packs. May I recommend Mike Mayday's sprite pack? Looks very nice.

Where's the Fun?

Anyone wanna trade starting builds? Mine tend to be more short-term focused, and I never get what I need from migrants. Skill sets would be especially useful.

Fun? What Fun?

There is none, only progress.

I just use the play now defaults, they're not bad/random any more. I've got a WIP one for scary areas, doesn't have bolts or crossbow though, you'll need to add them.

http://pastebin.com/tPYPRVsU

Most of the time I just let my dudes train up from nothing if we don't have a skill. Bringing a dedicated metalworker is about as far as I plan ahead, I draft most of my migrants and run a 20-strong fort.

2 miners/masons, 2 woodworkers, a farmer dwarf, a bureaucrat and a ♥♥♥♥ of plump helmets.

You don't really need anything else for the beginning, since you'll have plenty of food and drink available and 4 though bastards to fend anything off.


I'm kind of disappointed with my site, I've finally reached magma at -70 or 80, don't really recall, and no caves at all.

haunted/terrifying beaches are the way to go for good fun imo.

Why is it so important to have skilled workers? I just take whoever I want and make them do whatever I need and after a couple seasons they'll be hella skilled at their job.

^this every time I get migrants.

agreed, sir. Agreed.

Yepp. Much more awesome in the later years that way. Had 14 Legendary +5 engravers engraving my bedrooms in my yet-longest save.

I usually draft most of my migrants. I suppose I run smaller forts than all you guys though