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Way back in 2002, two brothers (Tarn and Zach Adams) began development on a game called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II, or, as we know it, Dwarf Fortress. It was 2006 before the brothers released the first alpha version, and, to this day, they are still releasing updates. Even after ten years of development, they’ve still not hit version 1.0.
While the game is less known in the mainstream, it was the inspiration for a little game called Minecraft. But Dwarf Fortress has a massive following, is continually updated, but is notoriously difficult to master. It has features aplenty, but it’s graphics are entirely ASCII.
Yes. You read that right. But there are numerous addons that will give (slightly!) better graphics and additional features. This quick article will show you how to get Dwarf Fortress loaded.
Install
The first thing you need to do is download what’s called the Linux Lazy Newb Pack (or LinuxLNP for short): http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13244
You then unarchive that to a folder on your system.
Now we need to install some dependencies:
sudo apt-get install default-jre libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libglu1-mesa libgtk2.0-0 libopenal1 libjpeg62 wget coreutils tar xterm sed python bzip2 qtchooser libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt5script5 libqt5scripttools5 libqxt-core0 libqxt-gui0
Since that’s a sudo command, it will ask you for your password. Once that’s done, open the LinuxLNP folder and you’ll see two folders (df_linux, and LNP) and several files. Double left-click on the file called startlnp, or, if you’re in a terminal, type: ./startlnp On the first run, you may be asked which Terminal you want to use. Your default terminal should be the one already selected. So clicking OK should do you fine. You’ll soon see the Lazy Newb Pack window: Obviously, the big ‘Play Dwarf Fortress!’ button will do what it says on the tin, but first it’s better to add a few tweaks. DFHack is a bunch of preinstalled addons for Dwarf Fortress, but you have to enable them first. Click the DFHacks tab at the top of the window (below the Lazy Newb Pack logo). I usually enable: • Automatic Job Assignments • Autoprune Dead/Missing List • Don’t Cook Tallow • Performance Tweaks Feel free to enable others as you see fit. If you want a more exotic isometric view of Dwarf Fortress, then to enable Stonesense. In the Advanced tab, I just make sure sound is set to NO and Autosave is set to SEASONAL. The rest I leave as default. Utilities tab is a bunch of tools that you can use when you’re in the game. Dwarf Therapist is excellent for tweaking the things your dwarves can/can’t do. Soundsense will give you appropriate background music, and while Armok Vision will give you a lovely Unity3D view of your fortress, it will probably slow your machine to a crawl. The Graphics tab is where you can choose a ‘theme’ of sorts. Options is where you can set some other options (which I left at default). All you need to do now is click ‘Play Dwarf Fortress!’ and you’re in! Start Small Although Dwarf Fortress may seem simple with its ASCII graphics (or theme), it’s actually quite CPU intensive. It’s best to start with a small map. This game simulates every nuance of its world right down to simulating individual body parts being damaged! No, seriously. It’s like a nano-world Minecraft. When you generate a world, it will make a random world, and then apply up to two hundred years of history to it. It will change the terrain accordingly and keep a log of every event that’s happened in that history (eg: battles) which you can then read through. It’s insane just how complex this game is under the hood. References
Two good starter guides are: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Quickstart_guide and: https://df-walkthrough.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Good luck. I’m still trying to get the hang of it!
Dwarf Fortress on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress
Dwarf Fortress’ own wiki: http://dwarffortresswiki.org
LinuxLNP: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13244**