Desert Map is... yeah...

[Souldrake]

So... I decided to play a desert map since the crash is interfering with my ice map... 2 tornadoes in the first 10 minutes and my dwarves are ignoring all my orders to run across the map and pick stuff up...

Words cannot express my frustration... ><;

[wayerwulf]

Tornados don't matter a lot after the very early part of the game. The lack of trees in the early game is way worse for me . Untill I get a nice cactus/tree farm going mid game. My general strategy is to first dig a tunnel straight down near the home base right angle it left or right and climb out allowing vines to grow

then gather nearby stone to make a small stone roof and backwall over the base

Then get enough wood / stone for stone axes a few beds and hatches which line the left right tunnel.

Then build a small base at the end of that tunnel

then pick the side of the map opposite the pyramids and scour it into a straight line down to like one layer above sea level

then use that dirt stone to make a line of dirt 3 above that so that cactus/bushes will grow the third row will be a line of log bridges so that I can break root blocks and my dwarfs can still walk across that without falling

then a line of dirt back stone front 5 or 6 above that with a few vertical stone columns every 20 or so blocks to push any tornados that form in side up faster

I leave about 30 blocks between the end of that and my home base to leave room for enemies to spawn

[Souldrake]

Yeah. I had some trees a bit off and portaled out there to gather some wood before digging down and getting stone, but right as I got my second dwarf a tornado hit and that mucked things up... they did finish chopping wood but they started gathering the other stuff too and by the time I finally got them back to base to dig some stone, a second hit and they started to ignore everything I queued up T-T;

[Nibiru]

My current world is the snow world but I'm just now about to fight the last boss in the portal room. This one world has lasted over 100 hours so far.. Have had such a fun time building my base and coming up with ways to keep my dwarves alive. My base is now 100% comfort but I have no idea what that does for me. Anyone know?

Before this world I had already beat the forest world by getting all 5 portal pieces and going through the portal to here... and from here I'll go through the portal onto the desert world and won't miss the snow and ice, but curious what biome based desert challenges I'll have. My 2 most needed resources (besides coal) are wood and water.. and wondering how much of each the desert will have?

[Samael]

Water isn't hard to come by, but wood is.
You best get used to terraforming the map a little to allow for more tree growth.

[Harverus]

Originally posted by Nibiru1221:

My base is now 100% comfort but I have no idea what that does for me. Anyone know?

http://crafttheworld.gamepedia.com/Shelter