New Guy

[Utildayael]

New to the game... well mostly. After finally getting it playable I started a kingdom! Sadly there were casualties... like ♥♥♥ the Blacksmith. Poor guy. He was almost killed by a Honey Badger and barely escaped with his life to make it to the hospital where he promptly died. RIP.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=289606390

[Arryu]

Honey Badgers. Not even once.

[Ishan451]

That is what they invented Walls/Ramparts for. City Walls/Ramparts, Protecting Mankind since 4000 BC, your Gnomes can haz som wallz too. Do it like they did in Uruk.

[Utildayael]

Haha. I followed one of the guides and built a ditch around the entire kingdom not long after the badget incident. No issues since!

Question on walls/ditches... are they really that simple that nothing can get across/over them? :)

Also.. having issues with muilti-level building... say I start on depth 0 with walls for a room and I want to make a roof on top of that... how do I go about doing so? I've had... odd... results in the various bits I've tried... :( I figured I just had to go up one depth, lay that layer, go up one more, lay that layer, etc... ? Still trying to figure out "floors" as well... :)

[Warlord Zhugrim]

Originally posted by utildayael:

Haha. I followed one of the guides and built a ditch around the entire kingdom not long after the badget incident. No issues since!

Question on walls/ditches... are they really that simple that nothing can get across/over them? :)

Also.. having issues with muilti-level building... say I start on depth 0 with walls for a room and I want to make a roof on top of that... how do I go about doing so? I've had... odd... results in the various bits I've tried... :( I figured I just had to go up one depth, lay that layer, go up one more, lay that layer, etc... ? Still trying to figure out "floors" as well... :)

Careful with ditches. Your gnomes can potentially fall in. And pretty much yeah theyre the ultimate defense.(theres supose to be a goblin tunneler but i cant confirm them).

Use scaffolding to reach next level and the only roofs we have are floors sadly. if you want to build a bigger wall you still need a floor between each level. (cant build wall on wall.)

Say you wanted to make a 2 story high walkable wall? each square actually costs 4 blocks/logs ect.

depth0 wall
depth1 floor and wall then
depth 2 floor.


scaffolding is ur best friend. You can build it super high but it only takes 1 action to deconstruct it.(whole thing falls when u deconstruct bottom level)

[Averest]

The biggest problem you'll have with the walling-in strategy is that eventually the goblins are going to send a raiding party. if they can't find a path to your gnomes they'll construct a tunnel entrance ( which doesn't make a real tunnel, btw) and warp in to your base.

When you're building you have a wall and a much thinner floor level. Since one of the more recent updates, they'll build the floor automatically if they can get to it when they go to build a wall. Ramps and inclines and stairs are built on the wall level. Floor and horizontal axles (parts for engineering and mechanisms) are at the floor level.

[Utildayael]

Ah that makes sense! I'll have to mess with it some more. Good to hear they auto-build floors now as needed but also good to know that it isn't simply wall - wall - wall ... :)

Was getting frustrated and tempted to just build everything underground. ;)

Appreciate the tips!

[Warlord Zhugrim]

Originally posted by utildayael:

Ah that makes sense! I'll have to mess with it some more. Good to hear they auto-build floors now as needed but also good to know that it isn't simply wall - wall - wall ... :)

Was getting frustrated and tempted to just build everything underground. ;)

Appreciate the tips!

i always build underground >.>

[Utildayael]

Dumb question. How the heck do you remove a bed? Deconstruct doesn't work. :( Works on straw beds but not an actual "bed" oddly...

[Arryu]

if there was a green task box that went away it might have been deconstructed and is just sitting there waiting to be moved. try having a stockpile accept beds.

[Utildayael]

Originally posted by Arryu:

if there was a green task box that went away it might have been deconstructed and is just sitting there waiting to be moved. try having a stockpile accept beds.

Weird. Ya it eventually went away. I have an "accept everything" stockpile and it had free slots so... odd. On the up side, I wasnt crazy thinking deconstruct would in fact, deconstruct. :)

Got my first trader visiting! ... and realized I cant afford most anything he has. Boo. Time to start making clay figurines and whatnot I suppose.

[FallenSunGaming]

careful on that, make sure you have military before you do that, as added value = bigger attacks.

The first game I ever played (huge dwarf fortress player) I went all out constructing that and unfortunately grew my wealth way too fast, way too quickly and my military got creamed so badly it made me smile.

[John F. Kennedy]

You think thats bad, wait until you get to winter, Welcome to hell my friend O_O

[FallenSunGaming]

winter isnt bad at all.

[SilverRose]

tunnelers can now tunnel threw walls and build flooring over ditches

if you've completely closed off your kingdom from the edges...i.e. built a wall/ditch that incloses your kingdom with no entrances

[DC-GS]

Originally posted by <Balls>Che guevara:

You think thats bad, wait until you get to winter, Welcome to hell my friend O_O

In DF was hell, yeah.
In this game? Not so much. Lakes arent frozen, so you have unlimited watersupply.
Crops dont disappear, you can harvest them anytime in winter, as long they mature in fall.
Gnomes dont freeze to death running/sleeping outside just wearing summer cloth.