Dwarf fortress tileset isometric upgrade#
Dwarf fortress tileset isometric series#

Posted by valkyryn at 2:32 AM on JĪRGH Why can't he stop the obsessive simulation building for one month to build a proper interface or at least allow others to do so.įree hugs gets it: because stopping the simulation building for an interface upgrade would essentially mean stopping the simulation building, period. I think I've gotten out of it what I wanted to. But I kind of lost interest, as the thought of figuring out a way of dealing with the physics of the thing so that that never happened again was just too daunting.Īwesome game, but. It's a miracle no one was killed, and the noble who had been hanging out in his room, which happened to be the ultimate resting place of all this crap, was admirably unfazed. So instead of a gentle freezing mist falling to the ground, massive ice boulders plummeted down six stories, through the entryway, and about ten levels into the fortress below. But when water freezes, it magically turns into a tile completely filled with ice. The game interprets spray as being a tile filled partially with water. I had kind of expected this, but figured that spray freezing wouldn't hurt anything. Not hurting anything, and I had a wall around the moat, so no big deal. As soon as winter hit, the entire moat froze solid. the game handles freezing kind of strangely. The water from the moat fed into a waterfall over the entrance to my fortress, which 1) I thought was pretty damn cool, and 2) served to keep the dwarves from tracking blood all over the damn place.

Dwarf fortress tileset isometric series#

The cavern had a diverted channel from the nearby creek that powered a series of waterwheels, which in turn pumped magma up from the depths to power my smelters, kilns, and forges. I had this awesome marble tower rising out of a three-level deep artificial moat, which was filled by water pumped up from the large underground cavern I'd created. Perhaps it's better for both of us.īecause: cities? Man that would have blown my shit directly up. I love it only conceptually now, not experientially. It made me sad to watch it wheel off into the distance, without me. I didn't want to invest the time in it again, to relearn. It totally disagreed with the way I was mentally orienting my world, and I couldn't make it work. I couldn't translate it into 3d, into seeing the mountain as stacked levels. It's incredibly complex but it's also stochastic in really helpful ways once you give up on controlling everything, you can start getting an intuitive sense of what your inputs actually do, which is really the hurdle any game has to leap.Īnd I took a break for a month or so and all of a sudden: the third dimension. I had been playing for a while, dying, enjoying the deaths, starting to finally feel like I understood the idiom. The thing that flipped the switch for me was the transition into 3d several generations ago.