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r/dwarffortress•
Eduren

A new subreddit has been added to the /r/df family

r/dwarffortress101 was an attempt several years ago by a redditor to create a tutorial specifically for the reddit community. It saw great success up until the creator vanished and eventually deleted their account.

Your r/dwarffortress moderator team has acquired the subreddit in hopes that it may add to our community, helping people learn. Specifically, this subreddit will be free for everyone to post in, and we encourage anybody with experience to create tutorial content, even if it is hosted elsewhere. Types of posts that we hope to have include,

  • Beginners walkthroughs

  • Intermediate tutorials eg. "How to Survive a Dangerous Embark"

  • Specific tutorials eg. "Setting up your first honeybee industry" or "How to Efficiently Train and Equip a Military"

Of course these are just examples of what we hope to have; as long as your content is DF learning related feel free to post it.

Posted Jul 1, 2014, 8:10 PM UTC

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Walican132•

As some one who just downloaded DF for the first time today, I appreciate this.

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VaccusMonastica•

As some one who just downloaded DF for the first time today

Always like seeing people giving DF a try! Welcome!

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Walican132•

Thanks! So I've quit trying to play blind and i'm giong to watch captain Ducks videos, any other suggestions for getting started otehr than that and the wiki? I downloaded a starter pack, the one that had the isometric overlay (however it seems buggy so i wont be using the overlay.)

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VaccusMonastica•

Yeah, I've tried the overlay but right now, for me, it's just for taking pretty screenshots.

There's a Youtuber I used when starting out called 51PPYCUP. Excellent tutorials.

Capt D's are awesome.

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Walican132•

I'll check out sippycup thanks!

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IamblichosAnother senseless yak-related death!•

When you get the basics down, there's a guy named WanderingKid who has done something called the Single Pick Challenge on Youtube... his stuff is a GREAT introduction to minecarts and advanced fort design.

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UristMcStephenfire•

As someone who's been playing since DF2010 I also appreciate this!

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BlueChilli•

That's pretty cool. I think I might do a warlock tutorial on fort design. Seems like that's the weak point people run into when playing them. And I've come up with a few handy tricks I don't see anyone else using. Grates, Fortifications, Windows, micro-towers etc.

"Pylons: Maximizing Space for Maximum Skeleton Control"

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metametamind•

Why? What's wrong with the wiki?

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ALoudMouthBaby•

I dont think the wiki has the functionality for people to easily ask questions, and for people to answer. I dont understand why r/dwarffortress wouldnt just be used for this though.

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lethosorAdmired a fine Wiki recently•

Talk pages.
Edit: this was in response to:

I dont think the wiki has the functionality for people to easily ask questions, and for people to answer

I'm not saying wiki talk pages are as convenient as reddit's comment system (in fact, I prefer the latter); however, the wiki does provide a means of asking and answering questions fairly easily (we have a tool that allows people to post feedback on the talk page without editing it directly), which is especially convenient for on-wiki tutorials.

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ALoudMouthBaby•

Wiki talk pages are not nearly as convenient as a system like what Reddit uses. They also rapidly become damned near unreadable. They really are not a decent substitute if you want to appeal to a broad audience.

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Flannelboy2•

It's tough to find what you need when you have no idea what you're looking for.

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Incrediblebulk92•

The wiki doesn't work on mobile for me either which is annoying when I'm trying to look stuff up in work.

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lethosorAdmired a fine Wiki recently•

What do you mean? Does it simply display incorrectly, or does it fail to load at all? We recently fixed some problems with certain proxies - can you check again and see if it's working?

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Incrediblebulk92•

It's working now. Thank you for giving me something dwarf fortress to do in work!

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manwithfaceofbird•

Good timing. I don't think this subreddit is yet large enough to justify another subreddit yet.

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Kingmudsy•

It isn't a splinter so much as it's a resource for beginners. It isn't going to replace this subreddit, since actual content won't be submitted there except for beginner's guides and questions.

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11sparky11•

Yep 30k people not enough...

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