This can only be done at the Craftsdwarf’s workshop, so you need to have on built, too.ĭid I tell you that dwarves have preferences? If you only grow wheat, you’ll get the finest dwarven beer, but all your wine gourmet dwarves will be unhappy (on a side note: Don’t let them fool you, they drink way too much wine to be called a “gourmet” anymore). You also need to have one dwarf to gather wood or stone and one to produce a pot out of it. So, to only have alcohol for your colony, you need one dwarf to prepare the field, one to plant the seeds, one to harvest, one to carry the harvest into the brewery, one to actually brew – and then you discover that you have no pots, so nothing gets stored. Water, for example, freezes in the winter. Yes, the weather is simulated in great detail, too. Most dwarves really don’t like being outside and will get very unhappy if they are caught in the rain or cold. To obtain the plants, you can suggest to your dwarves to raise them on farm plots (remember, you cannot give commands) or go out into the wilderness and gather them. In order to produce alcohol, you need to have fermentable plants, a brewery and an empty pot or barrel. And this is where the complex production system hits us. And crazy dwarves result in immediate FUN.īut it is our task to govern the dwarves to actually produce these products in sufficient amounts. All dwarves are addicted to alcohol so much, they will go crazy without it. One thing they all can agree to is that they need alcohol. Most need some kind of art or decoration. How can such a game give insights about motivation? Well, let me present you one more aspect of the game: the production system. If the victim survives, you’ll have drama (aka FUN) in your fortress for years. It is very possible that one dwarf detests another dwarf so much that he pushes the victim over a cliff if nobody else is around. Dwarf Fortress has a detailed simulation of nature and a detailed simulation of dwarves, down to their individual toes and teeths. Each dwarf has its own skills and abilities and interacts with other dwarves in a social manner. Why the Sims? Because each dwarf isn’t just an action figure, but a complex individual with its own beliefs, value system, preferences and aversions. You can try to imagine Dwarf Fortress being a weird crossover of Minecraft, the Sims and Rogue. I’ve written fun in capital letters to differentiate the FUN of dwarf fortress from the fun of other games. Water flows downwards and will result in FUN if unsupervised. You can pour water over dirt and get mud. The world is dynamic and simulated with strange, but comprehensible physics. You see your dwarves (represented by ASCII characters 0x01 and 0x02 in codepage 850) from above, in a three-dimensional environment consisting of blocks of material like stone or wood. In Dwarf Fortress, you try to build up a colony of dwarves without giving direct commands to them. It looks like the last 30 years of advancement in computer graphics just didn’t happen, using raw ASCII graphics and an user interface that would have been horrible even in the 1980s. It is free to play, developed by two guys that very much depend on donations.
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