The image below explains the three map windows you can see: I’ve scribbled on the picture below so as to give you a better idea of what you’re looking at. It is the “settle” screen where you chose where you’re going to found your fortress. You’ll then get a screen somewhat like this. Head back in to “Start playing” and select your region and then “Dwarf Fortress”. When you’re bored, space back out to the main menu. The first history I read is about “Angot Torridbrand The Firey Wealths of Heat, a skeletal dragon”. Scroll around, hit enter to drill down and space to go back up a menu layer. After some loading you’ll get a screen showing a list of histories to read. Select Legends with the arrow key and hit enter. Dwarf Fortress, which you know well by now, Adventurer, which you may have dipped into and Legends. With your new region selected, hit “Enter” and you can see the three game modes available. You can now chose “start playing” and a new world will be there, probably the attractively named “Region 2”. The world is now being stored and you will be taken back to the main menu. Mine, the “Enchanted Plane of Portents” looks mountainous and pretty frozen! Neato! Use the arrow keys to look around and get a rough idea for the kind of world created.
Once the world is created you’ll end up with a menu as well as a little information, such as the name of your world. Did you know you can actually go and read all of this history in “Legends” mode? Yes, it’s all there! Tons of history and mythology to soak in. Here’s a shot of the world history being generated, which happens after the geography is formed. Mountains will form and be eroded, forests will spread, rivers will spawn, civilisations will rise and fall. You’ll get a lot of stuff happening on the screen as the world is generated. At the next screen hit “F9” as instructed and the world will start to generate. Making Worlds the Easy Wayįire up Dwarf Fortress and from the start menu scroll down and chose “Create World Now”. Or perhaps you just want to start a new game in a new land.
Me, I got confused reading those so when I wanted something tricky done chose to whine on the Bay12 forums until someone helped me! Thanks forum geeks!Įr, where was I, perhaps I should answer the question in my title there! Why do we want to generate our own worlds? Well, generally it is because we want to create a specific type of environment (haunted glaciers with skeletal whales FTW!) or we want to make sure we have an interesting and exciting place to build (build a volcano inside a fortress inside a volcano!). We’re going to be covering just the first way as the others make my brain hurt and I’m not a damn masochist! If you are interested in doing things the hard way you can head over to the wiki and check out the guides to advanced world generation and pre-generated worlds. You can do it the easy way (default world generation), the slightly complex way (custom parameter setting) or the really hard way (world gen file manipulation). World building is a subtle and arcane art in Dwarf Fortress. Well, you’re in luck, because that’s what we’re talking about today!Ī tutorial on custom party settings (organising what your dwarfs embark with) will come some time after this one, scout’s honour. If you’ve played along with our tutorial so far you may be itching to try out making your own world and finding a new place to build your next dwarfy citadel (perfectly laid out – as detailed on the notepaper you doodled on at work all day). Welcome to the tutorial that was never meant to be! The 13th Tutorial, by popular request, on world building. I’ve written a book – Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress, available at O’Reilly and Amazon! It covers the current version and takes you from knowing nothing to being a confident Dwarf Fortress player!
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