Interesting to see a community for DF here so fast! I remember when I 1st saw DF on r/gaming sidebar and got hooked after seeing all the weird stories and crazy mega projects.
So for the sake of old time inspiration (and to try posting something) I want to ask what mega project people here dream about?
A war to eradicate the Goblin threat on the entire continent half I am on, nearing the last few pits and one is a fortress that houses a “Gold Devil” that has killed everything it has touched so far. My mega-project is raising my population up and training up enough warriors to wear down the devil himself into wanting to go back to the hellish spawn he came from… oh and I raise elephants. :)
To start off. I have been trying to do a fairly weird project, not even recently, but for years! I want to make a bridge across huge water space from an evil biome to a good biome.
Generating a world with both evil and good biome close together is a bit tricky, but the thing that held me back for so many attempts is that I am just too greedy with the world gen. I keep trying to get Tower nearby (along with all 4 major races), and evil mist for rp reason. I think the new update let you send envoy to neighbors though, so I can be more flexible with the spot.
The Northbridge series by Kruggsmash does inspire me to give this mega project a try again. The last attempt didn’t go so well with extremely early Tower invasion. Currently I am waiting for multi-thread update before giving this another shot.
If there is one minor thing to complain about, it’s the mini map. I want to make a long map (like 1x16 map) but the mini map looks awful as a result. If there is a way to just disable the mini map (like old school DF version), that would be great.
Wait, you can send envoys to neighbors? How?
There is a button at the bottom to click on to open the world map. From there you can click on various other site and send some dwarf there making demand.
Currently using my first 100+ z-level magma pumpstack. Didn’t find any magma pockets except in the basement and had precious little coal and lignite so made the decision to dedicate everything to building that. So far so good but it was a grind.
Now I’m trying my first adamantine column plunge.
My current mega-project will be the actual above ground fortress part of Blacksand, that I’ve been posting pictures of. The goal is for a large tower over the intersection of my rivers, that both provides well and a never-ending waterfall pumped off the top of it.
