Dwarf Fortress - Getting Started (Beginners Guide / Tutorial)

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Dwarf Fortress - Getting Started (Beginners Guide / Tutorial)

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00:00 intro
00:58 where to buy dwarf fort
01:09 creating a world
01:56 saving the world
02:28 embarking in the overworld and selecting a location
06:07 (Strike the Earth) navigating the playfield and
08:32 Looking at things, Stockpiles and surface harvesting
10:42 Jobs and kitchen screens
13:00 Digging
15:35 Chopping wood and farming
18:54 Stone Working and Furniture
19:42 Bedrooms
21:04 Pasturing livestock
21:54 Taverns and Brewing
25:53 Fishing

[heinyhxc]

i started doing all the stuff like setting up stockpiles and things while paused and immediately had a dwarf get annihilated by a gator in the creek next to the wagon lol

[MoxkyBashwell]

@26:25 "they will prep un coocked fish, " insert explaination how how to set a water source, a fishign area, and storage for uncooked fish, a reminder of how to use pots and barrens, how to place them into uncooked storage lots. also how to fish!

[rumplstiltztinkerstein]

Guys. Just to point out that there is absolutely NO NEED to choose a bigger starting area, as pointed out by @Blind. While horizontally it might not look that larger, you can dig deep, deep. You can create a tower of 200 floors and still there would be a lot of room to expand above and below.

[KaikuPen]

Thanks so much for this! The in game tutorial takes the training wheels off way to early, and moves so fast through the steps that I ended up with an inefficient horribly built fortress, I dint lose, But I knew that the first conflict or Disaster would mean death.

[justgoosing]

This game is so damn addicting man. Learn new stuff all the time, and great topics here.

[santapoca]

waited for the steam version to get into this game, these videos have been a great help

[dmney]

Im not a beginner but I still enjoyed the video

[soybean]

There are plenty of "overly" complicated games I try to get into, but only a few do I put the effort to actually get into. Hope this is one of em because I love the concept.

[DumpleShop]

As a new player, I appreciated you pointing out the slopes, because I felt so dumb when I saw one of my dwarves walk up one and realized they were passable 🥺

[kingmonday]

Holy shit I watched this to get a refresher as I hadn't played in months and my goodness there was so many things I never new and better ways of doing stuff... Well done. I'm more dwarf than I've ever been right now.

[xinlou]

This series helped get into it, what amazed me is that the world you created is constantly living like you can embark to make 2nd fortress and the previous one is there same as you can go adventure mode create demigods and put them all in one fortress and wrestle demons for fun :D

[ElvencloudYT]

Just want to say you were a pleasure when I randomly clicked your twitch channel a couple years ago - and a pleasure to listen to here while at work. This game is quite overwhelming and you made it much easier to parse. Well done!

[endrankluvsdaloko]

Thank you! I just bought this and was almost immediately overwhelmed lol. This seems like such an awesome game; there's so much to do! But yeah after trying a few worlds on my own and not being able to figure out the basics even after following the in game tutorials, I turned to youtube for help.

[ChaoticPsyche]

I'm not a beginner, but I feel obligated to watch these videos because every time I feel like I know what I'm doing in dwarf fortress, I get to experience some Fun

[MoxkyBashwell]

@24:48 could use a video on storage items, and in what stock zones they should be placed. i have noticed you lost trade off cut gems hidden in crates. or to optimize storage zones.

[MoxkyBashwell]

@17:22 "how to stop a mining selected tile/secon/area after its been selected for mining!" i could use a video on baisc mining,

[laka]

Thank you for making this! Really helpful for a beginner to DF like myself

[captainmaim]

I've been playing since December, and watching Blind videos about it since launch on steam.

[MoxkyBashwell]

@14:13 if you could twitch stream a new embark, for the milestones, required for a survival, (ui, and ingame) so that then one may actually start a game and adventuring, picking up on your more advanced tutorials.

[gnollman]

Not a beginner (any more), but this is a great, concise, and very relevant Getting Started tutorial. Nothing overly complicated, just your basic 'stay alive' video. The tutorial series is great work, keep it up!