#void fort

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workknight void fort doodle

of a dead goblin snatcher unable to join the skeleton workforce.

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playing the dwarvemon mod on top of a goblin domesticating demons mod led to this doodle set. there something fun watching a bunch of goblins wrestle and capture pokes... in cages then training them to hunt to make the capture process a bit more easier... but still just as deadly. does lead to the gameplay loop of capturing pokes to train and collect in hopes of trading them in for demons.

the battles often aren't that onesided... when the goblins goes in to capture, does become a bit one sided when a demon rolls up and punts a poke I was trying to capture... does lead to the other venue of still using the remains which feeds into training the pokes. oh and retiring and unretiring the fort has the fun effect of evolving these pokes as in the picture these two pokes were like a bounsweet and cubone... when I got them.

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Thinking about Dwarf fortress during 2023

so kinda been playing Oregon trail Dwarf fortress edition for most of the DF50 experience. the mix of either void fort and just nomad had squeeze some fun out of an adventure mode-less series of updates. do wish the animal entity token stuff didn't make non sapient beings or animal entity folks you embark with not start with a historical figure and or a noble position... really limits what you could do with that stuff. though did learn some stuff about mapping layouts and world grid a bit. still found the way I got a mountainhome via just taking the throne to the queen than having the queen arrive to the site was fun.

getting necromancy to work as a ritual using dfhack scripts hooked into DF's cursed tomb mechanics open up some interesting playstyles with the undead and the woes of seeing a mangled unusable corpse.

the wagon storage scripts I made for nomad really did just streamline the stockpile stuff down to a 'I don't mess with stockpiles outside of using food stockpiles to store food in barrels then stuff the stuff back on to the wagon' which adds some fun to if the food goes bad on the trip do to improper storage. ramble aside it was interesting to see how the game change over time and how much stay the same when you explore the outskirts of just the single game mode.

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ok so my current fort I'm messing around with is one with the set goal to resurrect a bunch of dead folks using this custom dfhack script that dips into curse tomb mechanics to tap into the revive and reanimate interactions. a bit more in depth in the read more

before we get to that part there been a lot of stuff that happen since the site swap showcase post... site-swap and the later army view script I work on didn't really work out given the whole flaw with site-swap wasn't fixed so I took a break from that and went into figuring out how tombs work which led to some deep poking and writing a series of scripts that poke into assigning corpses, interactions, and zone placements for activating the interactions for tombs. then realizing the vanilla interactions don't work well on mangled bodies that often... flash forward to this session

the session is a bit more dfhacked as it starts with the mobile nano void fort with heavy use of nomad and finally figuring out a way to get around the hidden location even if you reveal it in dfhack ordeal.

this new reveal site uses embark notes to map where the hidden sites are while revealing them so the player... gets assaulted with a blinking light for locations they may or may not want to visit. so I learn this is a one time use script as it permanently sets the sites and embark notes on the save. the navigation of the world map while I do void fort stuff got a bit easier because of this and I been traveling the world for locations with old dead bodies and possible interesting people. the journey ended up with seeing a kobold encampment which I scoop up with a petition script and the kobolds in the fort were a major part of the workforce. later ended up finding some lairs that had a name dingo called egun lurchedglory and a named giant cougar called spitefulvalleys.

which led to the spot that spark me making this tumblr post a desert titan lair which had 2 skeletons and said desert titan SquidRivers the snarling rain. after moving in the desert titan into the fort and scooping the bodies I went into prepping the curse tomb set up for resurrecting them. the end result was uhh

getting utag resurrected and finding out what happens when you use an revenant/intel undead resurrection on a mostly skeletonal body. right after petitioning them to join the fort I notice utag wasn't really moving which led to a quick examine that the game treats them as wounded and needed treatment so I went and set up a quick hospital bed and assign a kobold to be head medical chief for the task. tried to assign the desert titan but they proceeded to not do the task

the kobold doctors operated on the skeleton by cutting off the remaining rotten flesh which led to utag having a series of straight scars all over the bony body.

then done the same on the other skeleton who name is quogub so there's like two skeleton bowwomen that just got cool scars. and suddenly after loading in the save to check on quogub's description uhh they are both gone. so now there's two historical figure resurrected skeleton hunters with surgery scars on their bones out in the wild of this savefile.

figures they were too cool to be in my fort any longer, I think one of them was a mom also.

here's the historical records of utag and quogub

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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

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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.

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sketches of this rat brute that gone through some interesting ordeals. behind the read more talks about more of said ordeals

one of which is uhh finding a dark fortress 'great tower' that expands past hell layer.

ok so to clarify this was a void nomad run that ended up traveling towards a human dark fortress. the current master of this fort is a goblin but the place has barons so a human settlement took over. the tower goes all the way down to hell but there is no entrance or exit to hell its' all walled up. after finding a way to in game reveal the bottom section the game still had more generated room and stairs to go down.

I later wonder what's the extra 20 layers down were so I dfhacked obsidian walls to carve through the slade blocks. any way due to how void forts work the game will save this entire embark into the player site and I could move the site around the world.

oh yeah in the screen caps one might see 2 children... well those were weirdly enough two kids that were within the refugee camp south of the dark fortress and they just huddled towards the wagon. they ended up tagging along for most of the expedition beyond hell but left after I retired and move the site somewhere else.