(although you won't want to do this after your first try because it gives you VERY messed up starting skills), and just do some stuff! Haha, love that picture, and it might be accurate, but one of the most amusing aspects of the game is what it's fan base calls ' - that is to say 'losing is fun'. ![]() Just sort of, fire it up, go ahead and 'Play Now!' By the time you get to your 3rd or 4th fortress it's important to know the exact behavior of each digging designation, but probably not until then. Basically the most important things for a starting fortress to secure are 1) booze, 2) shelter, 3) food. As long as you can find fun in watching your dwarves get slaughtered by goblins, or emo your entire fortress to death because they're out of booze, or get flattened because you accidentally dug out an entire layer of a hill and dropped the top half 5 ft onto the bottom half, you really don't need to know much of anything to play.The wiki has a number of to give you a leg up on getting started. If you think it's funny to watch your dwarves die because they walked around in magma and their feet burned off, while their lungs are rotting away because they breathed a breath weapon that causes instant severe necrosis on inhalation, then Dwarf Fortress is the game you were always looking for!But you shouldn't feel frightened that you need to spend a month figuring out how to play before you can start having fun. You will MOST LIKELY lose your sixth fortress, to one of a number of causes such as shortage of booze (yeah you forgot to make sure your booze industry was still working), excessive justice, excessive water, excessive lava, uninvited guests, elite goblin siege,!!monarch butterflies!!, &c.If you don't like the sound of the preceding paragraph, Dwarf Fortress might not be for you. Heh heh heh.If you're just starting out, download the latest version of DF (0.31.25 as of this writing). It seriously is exactly like the picture: there's this enormous terrifying cliff at the beginning, but once you've understood the initial 'cluster' of concepts (how to do an embark that doesn't completely suck, how to dig, how to get reliable food and booze, how to defend against goblins) it's a pretty open game and there are only a couple of things after that point that will summarily slaughter your fortress, many of which are your own stupid fault anyway. The bulldozer at the top pushing dead dwarves off the side is a perennial favorite, as are the spikes and things at the bottom where the other dwarf has apparently just thrown himself off.That said - Once you get past the initial hurdle, Dwarf Fortress is a barrel of laughs. There are a lot of helpful tutorials out there - my favorite is 's series on the, which covers all of the basics he also has a Let's Play on his own channel where some other stuff is covered.I recommend getting the, which contains a frontend to configure the game, the game itself, a bunch of tools (including Dwarf Therapist), and a few texture packs (including Ironhand). ![]() When you fail, you learn something new about how to manage this task.Of course, the curve is exaggerated, but the reason it stays so high is because there are so many things which can go wrong if you don't keep a close eye on things. You have to keep all of your dwarves both happy and safe, and if you don't, you can get into some serious trouble. I know that it's free, and I like dwarfs and mining, but I never tried it - mostly because I've heard that it's learning curve is so high that you need to invest a lot of time before starting to have fun.A couple of days ago, in a thread discussing game difficulty and learning curves, I saw this image:So I decided to ask something about it here: Is Dwarf Fortress' learning curve really that bad? What are the difficulties of this game? I'm a brand new player of this game, so I admit my knowledge of the later things are limited - keep that in mind when reading this answer.Dwarf Fortress is a hard game, in that there are so many things you need to take care of, and if you don't, things can go horribly, horribly wrong. I've seen a lot of questions, on this site and in many gaming forums, about Dwarf Fortress.
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