Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 13 - Trading, Migrants and Defense

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Part 13: In this episode ill explain more about fortress defense, trading and i get more migrants!

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• dwarf fortress
• tutorial
• walkthrough
• help
• FAQ
• dwarves
• dwarf
• fortress
• duck

[riley6555]

Is there anyway to save a dwarf who is dying from thirst and won't drink booze while all my water sources are frozen? plz help i don't want to lose my three dwarves :(

[captnduck]

@riley6555 Dig down to the water in the caves (if you are playing DF2010)

[MicahTheZombie]

Wait wait. You can build floors to go on top of a wall? That's what they're for?

[captnduck]

Nah walls come complete with floors on the upper level. You can build floors above fortifications though for example.

[Sekasorto82]

Your accent gives me catatonic seizures, but this video series was amazing. Thanks a ton

[captnduck]

Seizures? Come on.

[smellyc]

1:40 The god damn elves are here

[Gabezen101]

Urist McDefender has begun a mysterious construction....

He has built a adamantine FORTRESS WITH SPIKES OF GOLD

[TheKatamariguy]

Nickname a miner Dig Dug!

[troympayne]

Hey captnduck I built a straight wall blocking off the entrance of my Fortress, do I need to build ramps or stairs for my dwarfs to be able to climb them so they can shoot down on those Damn Elves or do they just climb up themselves. One more thing if I build a floor tile next to a wall that essentially does nothing I mean its not necessary to have floor tiles for dwarfs to stand on so they can shoot out of fortifications?

[Melenkurio]

I like how tha game makes you hate elves. It makes sense since dwarfs always hate elves and as a dwarven leader you should hate them too :)

[1337lolguyman]

lol elves are cool when they are not the Dwarf Fortress versions. For DF, I just capture them when I can and use them to fight in my arena against whatever else I capture. The only difference between mine and duck's is that I don't take weapons and stuff if I plan to use something in my arena.

[bud389]

I figured out how to trade and assign brokers. I began trading with the elves, i marked all the food, ammo, weapons, and armor they were selling, and then seized them.. Fuck elves.

[bud389]

So far i've gone an entire year in DF and still have no fucking idea on how to create a broker...

[ECiriachi]

@iscrewy

It does - but I like to build what I need and just what I need; but for sake and simplicity, by all means go ahead and only build up/down stairs - it's not like it costs more.

[iscrewy]

Doesn't it just make sense to only build up/down stairs?

[redgamemaster]

some thing i found out is that elves will sometimes eat the person he just killed. its true take a look in your legends area sometime