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Furymetal
A Dwarf Fortress succession fort
Welcome to Furymetal, O-F's first DF succession fort! For the unaware, Dwarf Fortress is an amazing procedurally generated indie game where you construct and manage a fortress of dwarves. A succession or bloodline fort is one where a group of players take turns, usually an in-game year long, managing the fortress before passing it on to the next player. By far, the most famous succession fort is Boatmurdered. It's hilarious, violent and chaotic, and it is directly responsible for my (and many other peoples') dedication to DF. It's really worth a read by anybody.
Anyway, this is O-F's personal succession fort. The DF-playing section of O-F appears to be rather small, and we'd like to try to enlarge it. Anybody interested in learning to play should go directly to this tutorial. It taught me how to play, and it is by far the best I've ever encountered. If you can get through this tutorial, you're ready to run a fort. In fact, some of the fun of a succession fort is the varying experience levels of the players, so anybody who has a basic knowledge of the game can sign up. My only personal requirements are that you post a summary of the events, preferably in the form of an in-game character's journal, along with screenshots and the current map (which can be uploaded specially here).
Here's the most current player list (we're always looking for more players!):
And the maps by year:
Ready? Here's the backstory:
And here's Furymetal's first year:
(I forgot to add in that I finished the wood shop next to the stone shop, but it's not that big a deal because it looks nearly identical. It just has a different workshops and a wood stockpile in the middle.)
EDIT: I also forgot to take a pic of my dwarf's special bedroom. Eagle, if you could include that in your screenshots I'd be grateful
DD
A Dwarf Fortress succession fort
Welcome to Furymetal, O-F's first DF succession fort! For the unaware, Dwarf Fortress is an amazing procedurally generated indie game where you construct and manage a fortress of dwarves. A succession or bloodline fort is one where a group of players take turns, usually an in-game year long, managing the fortress before passing it on to the next player. By far, the most famous succession fort is Boatmurdered. It's hilarious, violent and chaotic, and it is directly responsible for my (and many other peoples') dedication to DF. It's really worth a read by anybody.
Anyway, this is O-F's personal succession fort. The DF-playing section of O-F appears to be rather small, and we'd like to try to enlarge it. Anybody interested in learning to play should go directly to this tutorial. It taught me how to play, and it is by far the best I've ever encountered. If you can get through this tutorial, you're ready to run a fort. In fact, some of the fun of a succession fort is the varying experience levels of the players, so anybody who has a basic knowledge of the game can sign up. My only personal requirements are that you post a summary of the events, preferably in the form of an in-game character's journal, along with screenshots and the current map (which can be uploaded specially here).
Here's the most current player list (we're always looking for more players!):
And the maps by year:
Ready? Here's the backstory:
And here's Furymetal's first year:
2nd Granite 201
I’ve decided that, to start, our wagon is on rather unhospitable land:
Therefore, I’ve decided to trek back down into the valley where we have ample wood for constructions and soil for farming, at least for the time being. Digging will begin there after all of our supplies are moved down. Here is a sketch of the site where we will begin to dig:
21st Granite 201
We are making huge progress on moving down to the forest. All the remains up the mountain is our food, which will be moved down as soon as the front hall is finished being carved. Some quick surface exploring has revealed a vein of hematite not far from the our camp:
This is a great find, as I’m sure we’ll need iron in the future.
27th Granite 201
Our entrance hall is finally carved out. You can see here in this sketch where the barracks will be on the top right and the food stockpile on the left:
27th Slate 201
As of today, Furymetal has officially moved down to the forest level. Our barracks and internal food stockpiles are set up, and the miners have begun looking for soil to began a plump helmet farm:
24th Felsite 201
As of today, we have a farm plot with plump helmets being planted;
Perhaps a bit large, but it’s better to be on the safe side!
9th Malachite 201
While digging out a dining room, we struck emerald:
This mountain seems to be rich with gems. I wonder what else it’s hiding?
6th Galena 201
Work began today on what will be our workshop level:
Currently the miners are excavating the stone shop, which will contain workshops for our masons and stonecrafters. Across the hall from it will be the wood shop, with workshops for our carpenters and wood burners and a permanent wood stockpile.
12th Galena 201
Looks like no immigrants are coming this season. I’m glad, there’s no way we’d be able to support them yet.
14th Galena 201
BIG NEWS! Now that plump helmets are beginning to flow in from the farm, we have begun booze production! Good timing too, we were beginning to run out of our original reserves
Oh, and today I drew up the plans for the sleeping quarters:
There are 16 of them right now. We’ll allocate them on a need-by-need basis once they’re done.
12th Limestone 201
Finished the stone shop floor today. It’s got four workshops for craftsdwarves, three for masons, and one for mechanics, plus ample stockpile space in the middle:
Also the bedrooms were recently finished. And the Outpost Liason arrived, though I don’t expect we’ll request anything as we’re doing fairly well on our own right now.
13th Sandstone 201
Today, we began construction on our office level. The first (and so far only) office is a meager little thing for me, so I’ll finally be able to start some serious bookkeeping to get an idea of where our fort is regarding supplies.
21st Sandstone 201
After several stupid delays in getting the beds made, we have finally opened our first eight apartments!
Right now, only six are occupied; I’m going to indulge a bit and give myself a bigger room in the private district. Hell, I deserve it after all the planning and effort I’ve put into this fort.
7th Timber 201
It’s official, no migrants this season. I think we could support a few if they came, though I’m fine with just us seven.
Later that same day
What the hell?
This can’t be good.
Nevermind, looks like all is well. The merchant killed the muskox pretty fast and came out with some minor arm injuries. He’s not really paying attention, so he won’t mind if we take his plump helmets, bundles of cloth and opals! Looks like this worked out for us!
17th Moonstone 201
While engraving the walls of my personal quarters, Ezum engraved a decent image of the sun. When I asked him what it was called, he told me it was called "The Naughtiness of Ankles." Ezum must come from a very orthodox family.
22nd Opal 201
A thief stole some steel bolts that I didn’t know we had. Oh well, I guess?
3rd Granite 202
Ahh, spring has arrived again. A year of running this place has left me tired out, so I’ll leave the rest to one of the other dwarves. I’m content to just bookkeep and engineer. It’s been a pretty good year overall, and I’m excited to see where this fort will go!
(I forgot to add in that I finished the wood shop next to the stone shop, but it's not that big a deal because it looks nearly identical. It just has a different workshops and a wood stockpile in the middle.)
EDIT: I also forgot to take a pic of my dwarf's special bedroom. Eagle, if you could include that in your screenshots I'd be grateful
DD
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