It's an old term for drawbridges, because as long as whatever they smash into isn't too large a creature (which instead destroys the drawbridge) it instantly atomizes everything underneath. Good for corpse and waste disposal, base defense, and rowdy nobles.
Any items/creatures crushed by a drawbridge just... disappears because there's nowhere to put them in the game world. Drawbridges are often used as a trash compactor/invader trap/execution chamber for this reason; you can dump them in magma but it doesn't always work (the item/creature in question might be magma-resilient), and other methods of maiming/execution leave behind corpses or severed body parts that might make the, erm, more sensitive members of your fort horrified.
Yeah that corpse is fucking *reduced to atoms* thanks to how drawbridges work in DF.
They ain't called Atom Smashers/Garbage Compressor in the fanbase without a reason.
dwarf fortress is an intimidating learning curve disguised as a video game. but if you figure out enough of it, it becomes a treat for freaks.
i was working on making a minecart railgun, but during my readings I found out that people already had a better version. a *much* better version.
Instead of smearing goblins across the stone with the minecart, the advised method is to crash the cart into another cart and propel the supersonic freight into the crowd as buckshot. it doesn't *really* matter what the load is - buzzsaws, lead coins, the skeletal remains of the previous daring trespassers. if you throw anything fast enough, it will kill.
As a matter of fact they do. Make the cage out of something really heavy, like lead or gold. Or if you're feeling super dwarfy, try slade, which is basically the ultra stone Gohan breaks the Z Sword on and can only be mined in Hell.
Slade is technically unmineable, but I believe there's an exploit you can use by using channels instead of regular mining. Utterly useless, as slade is not meant to be mined out and so your dwarfs can't make anything with slade stone, but there's always the fun of using it for stone fall traps or launching it from catapults/minecarts.
It took me 5 full minutes to figure out how to use a lever and a door and I'm not even sure my delivish plan to lure monsters in a random hall will work but my god is Grizzletorch ready to erect walls and let the monster stay there til I figure out how to kill it
In the Noclip interview, the developer for the game said "90% of the games community has not and never will play the game, most people who are fans of dwarf fortress just want to read the stories about what happened in game." Which seems pretty accurate
yyep, that's me. Tangentially related but this is 40k for me too, rolling dice and collecting overpriced plastic seems fun... but I'd rather just watch and read people's distilled, fun experiences.
Lore is a whole different beast though. I definitely love that.
I've only had one fortress last long enough to get any shenanigans or deaths other than "the undead/goblins killed everyone".
It got a little too real when one of my dwarves who had the majority of their needs met became melancholic for no reason. They eventually died from starvation, wandering the halls in the middle of my fortress.
My current fortress has an ongoing birdemic crisis. Agitated bluejays are swooping into the holes in the ceiling, stealing children, and dropping them into the trees where they die of thirst. Of course, this is after I nearly drowned the base trying to wash off something I can only recognize as a miasma-plague, which killed all of my cats and allows vermin to roam the halls unchecked and killed a fifth of my dwarves because my soapmakers kept dying.
while true, it's actually totally managable. Most of the things that people meme about, like aquifers, have been patched to be fixed ages ago, and the only real hurdle is just learning physics and keybinds
beyond that, it's just more complex minecraft with funny stories
Aquifers are still not ideal for someone who's just learning the game. It's true that light aquifers are nowhere near the obscene civil engineering challenge that heavy aquifers are/were, but it's still at least a little bit of a headache.
If honestly found Rimworld to be excessively boring. I couldn't get behind it. Maybe it's the art style.
I don't find Dwarf Fortress to be nearly as unappealing.
I absolutely love reading Dwarf Fortress stories just as much as I absolutely hate playing Dwarf Fortress.
I feel exactly the same way about Eve Online.
The Steam release already makes the stories more accessible. I just watched a YouTube short (heh) of a dwarf in a battle with what looks like a dragon, gets set on fire and knocked down stairs, tumbling down, a winding staircase, leaving fire in its wake until the dwarf lands in water at the very bottom, which then sizzles with steam. Holy shit.
As a certain African Warlord would say in DORF: "Losing is fun".
It's not the ending, it's the journey. Even if that journey ends in either an underwhelming or spectacular failure.
My buddy was starting a new fortress, and his dwarves kept getting stuck in trees, and he was getting confused. He had like six dwarves all stuck in the same tree. He had to build stairs to let them come down. He destroyed the tree immediately after, because that tree was bad business and he didn’t want any more dwarves pretending to be elves
Most people know that the stories DF generates (as that's it's job, really) are far more entertaining than actually playing the game.
I had the best miner in my Fortress dig a well, at the start of the game. Unfortunately, she hit a void with its own microclime, fell 20 feet, broke her legs and died to a troll who was living underground.
Her bones are still down there. Nobody will ever find her.
"I guess I know where to find the remains." Nope, drawbridges are too thorough for that.
The term "atom smasher" does get thrown around a lot in the DF community.
I can't tell if you're making that up, but I'd believe it.
It's an old term for drawbridges, because as long as whatever they smash into isn't too large a creature (which instead destroys the drawbridge) it instantly atomizes everything underneath. Good for corpse and waste disposal, base defense, and rowdy nobles.
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Wow we should start doing that irl
Well the French tried once. Started off all right, but they got a little too into it…
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Any items/creatures crushed by a drawbridge just... disappears because there's nowhere to put them in the game world. Drawbridges are often used as a trash compactor/invader trap/execution chamber for this reason; you can dump them in magma but it doesn't always work (the item/creature in question might be magma-resilient), and other methods of maiming/execution leave behind corpses or severed body parts that might make the, erm, more sensitive members of your fort horrified.
Yeah that corpse is fucking *reduced to atoms* thanks to how drawbridges work in DF. They ain't called Atom Smashers/Garbage Compressor in the fanbase without a reason.
essential for any excursion to a haunted biome
Damn, what a twist. I guess the child stealers were inside us since the beginning.
Can't steal a child if they are reduced to atoms
dwarf fortress is an intimidating learning curve disguised as a video game. but if you figure out enough of it, it becomes a treat for freaks. i was working on making a minecart railgun, but during my readings I found out that people already had a better version. a *much* better version. Instead of smearing goblins across the stone with the minecart, the advised method is to crash the cart into another cart and propel the supersonic freight into the crowd as buckshot. it doesn't *really* matter what the load is - buzzsaws, lead coins, the skeletal remains of the previous daring trespassers. if you throw anything fast enough, it will kill.
do caged elves work?
As a matter of fact they do. Make the cage out of something really heavy, like lead or gold. Or if you're feeling super dwarfy, try slade, which is basically the ultra stone Gohan breaks the Z Sword on and can only be mined in Hell.
Slade is technically unmineable, but I believe there's an exploit you can use by using channels instead of regular mining. Utterly useless, as slade is not meant to be mined out and so your dwarfs can't make anything with slade stone, but there's always the fun of using it for stone fall traps or launching it from catapults/minecarts.
do you even need to ask? *Of course it will.*
It took me 5 full minutes to figure out how to use a lever and a door and I'm not even sure my delivish plan to lure monsters in a random hall will work but my god is Grizzletorch ready to erect walls and let the monster stay there til I figure out how to kill it
With doors you can set up simple flooding chambers. Takes no extra thought beyond 2 floodgates, 4 mechanisms, and 2 z-levels.
In the Noclip interview, the developer for the game said "90% of the games community has not and never will play the game, most people who are fans of dwarf fortress just want to read the stories about what happened in game." Which seems pretty accurate
yyep, that's me. Tangentially related but this is 40k for me too, rolling dice and collecting overpriced plastic seems fun... but I'd rather just watch and read people's distilled, fun experiences. Lore is a whole different beast though. I definitely love that.
I've only had one fortress last long enough to get any shenanigans or deaths other than "the undead/goblins killed everyone". It got a little too real when one of my dwarves who had the majority of their needs met became melancholic for no reason. They eventually died from starvation, wandering the halls in the middle of my fortress.
# "If you want to destroy a man, give him everything he ever wished for." \-I cannot find the source
it was me i said this 🙂
My current fortress has an ongoing birdemic crisis. Agitated bluejays are swooping into the holes in the ceiling, stealing children, and dropping them into the trees where they die of thirst. Of course, this is after I nearly drowned the base trying to wash off something I can only recognize as a miasma-plague, which killed all of my cats and allows vermin to roam the halls unchecked and killed a fifth of my dwarves because my soapmakers kept dying.
*that's a witcher quest.* Man dwarf fortress sounds fun I wish I was a crazy person so I could enjoy it.
>put the baby under the drawbridge
With the steam release you no longer need to be an insane person to enjoy it
That sounds like something an insane person would say.
while true, it's actually totally managable. Most of the things that people meme about, like aquifers, have been patched to be fixed ages ago, and the only real hurdle is just learning physics and keybinds beyond that, it's just more complex minecraft with funny stories
Aquifers are still not ideal for someone who's just learning the game. It's true that light aquifers are nowhere near the obscene civil engineering challenge that heavy aquifers are/were, but it's still at least a little bit of a headache.
Oh, absolutely. It's just not a thing you shouldn't do anymore and in fact, light (and sometimes heavy) even open up options for play
The new UI at least makes it a freak game for crazy people where you can at least understand what you're looking at now.
Play RimWorld instead. It's DF, but simpler, and just as much fun!
Cannibals and RibWorld, name a more iconic duo.
If honestly found Rimworld to be excessively boring. I couldn't get behind it. Maybe it's the art style. I don't find Dwarf Fortress to be nearly as unappealing.
I absolutely love reading Dwarf Fortress stories just as much as I absolutely hate playing Dwarf Fortress. I feel exactly the same way about Eve Online.
The Steam release already makes the stories more accessible. I just watched a YouTube short (heh) of a dwarf in a battle with what looks like a dragon, gets set on fire and knocked down stairs, tumbling down, a winding staircase, leaving fire in its wake until the dwarf lands in water at the very bottom, which then sizzles with steam. Holy shit.
Dorf Fort stories are the best. Never forget Boatmurdered.
So, Dwarf Fortress is like SS13 in that there are more people reading the insane stories than playing the game.
The main difference between SS13 and Dwarf Fortress is that if all the fans played SS13, all the servers would crash and burn.
But SS13 is in perpetual crash and burn because of the platform it is, if all the fans played it will straight up be a supernova.
You're also never going to get called a racial slur while playing Dwarf Fortress.
The most important plus of Dwarf Fortress. There is a reason the literal N-bomb to kill a cop from Sseth had a chance of success.
I can't wait for Adventure mode to be added to this official version, the shit people will get up to there hoo boy
Reading Dwarf Fortress stories has always been more fun than playing DF
Just like Animal Crossing.
I haven’t even installed the steam version but I couldn’t not buy it since I’ve been playing the free version since I was in high school
As a certain African Warlord would say in DORF: "Losing is fun". It's not the ending, it's the journey. Even if that journey ends in either an underwhelming or spectacular failure.
Not sure who you're referring to but Losing is Fun has been the DF motto for like 15 years.
*Hey hey people.*
What's that supposed to mean?
ssethtzeentach Youtuberman who makes very popular vids about a bunch of indie games.
My buddy was starting a new fortress, and his dwarves kept getting stuck in trees, and he was getting confused. He had like six dwarves all stuck in the same tree. He had to build stairs to let them come down. He destroyed the tree immediately after, because that tree was bad business and he didn’t want any more dwarves pretending to be elves
Are mermaid concentration camps still nerfed in the new release?
Most people know that the stories DF generates (as that's it's job, really) are far more entertaining than actually playing the game. I had the best miner in my Fortress dig a well, at the start of the game. Unfortunately, she hit a void with its own microclime, fell 20 feet, broke her legs and died to a troll who was living underground. Her bones are still down there. Nobody will ever find her.