#df 50.08

[fanelectricboogieloo]

Nomad Style Dwarf Fortress aka the Armok-regon Trail

ok so kinda feel like I hit a point with Dwarf fortress where my DF50 forts aren’t stationary in two different ways. one a mobile land mass which picks up and lifts the site across the world, and the other is the entire fort citizens just open to walking away and explore the world... the nomadic fort set up is a bit tricky and possibly requires more trusting DF to load in the next part of the fort(as it’s expanding the fort size by messing with it’s global x and y coords) than freely writing a script that automatically does it but it allows one to at least navigate around a 17x17 fort site... slowly with potential chance of losing someone in the travels. which in my poking around DF with Dfhack I felt this is probably closer to adv mode than the void fort antics I was previously getting into... where I felt like the void fort stuff was more boat/ship like with having a mobile chunk of space you could mess with and store stuff on.

(I don’t know why I keep engraving a wall when waiting for the map to update probably success bias.) that said combining both the mobile land mass with extending the site outside of it’s original embark size has led to an interesting experience of finally getting void forts to interact with larger pre-gen sites with out heavy memory use.. and learning you can store drinks offsite and unretire and just move over to the spot you last place them.

looking back this stuff was present in the older versions but I was too focus on adv mode to possibly realize what was happening. currently researching what one could do with this and what stories could be told through it

[fanelectricboogieloo]

My current DF50 experience so far.

being able to scroll across the world in fort mode had led to events such as

- being able to scoop the dark fortress master demon and bring them to the player fort as a citizen, and some goblin nobles and escaped prisoners - doing so caused a whole bunch of goblins to show up when unretiring the nano fort - thought up a plan to ‘migrate’/move my citizens to a different spot to get away from the fps draining goblin horde and did so in a human town’s field - learn about how the game handles retiring in a different location if one kept the size of the fort the same as the original embark size (nomad movement is tied to stretching and shrinking the site’s global embark size via messing with the min and max x,y, coords) - decide to map out the human town building placements to pin point the castle by diving into the town’s realization data and drawing it. - park the void fort that took over a human town’s field to move into the human town’s castle and just prep for making the location a permanent stay. - realize with all the navigating around the world might have left the anvils behind -seek out a dwarf fortress entrance site to break down their metalsmith forges and steal their anvils - after setting up the metalsmithing industry realize the tower project probably can go even higher now that the ceiling has been raised from how low the void fort is compared to the dwarven fortress entrance

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- remembering that the sky isn’t the limit overall I feel like my current experience is probably closer to how I felt playing adv mode and doing research in adv mode. a sandbox feeling of I’m not restricted to one spot at all times and able to encounter interesting folks along the way.