Spearcavern 9: The Woes of Webs
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- An edited, illustrated and narrated playthrough of the game Dwarf Fortress
The Dwarves of Spearcavern have been running around like lunatics trying to traverse their labyrinthine lair. The time has come to make this place a tad more efficient!
..Though the dwarves should be wary of being too eager for their goals..
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Thanks to everyone who helped out with this episode!
-Mrs K for her unending support and expert waxwork (she colors all the drawings. With colored pencils. formerly crayons.)
-Ivan Duch for making the theme and a lot of other songs for Spearcavern: ivanduch.com/
-Kruggsmash theme created by Topherlicious: topheranselmo.com
-Kruggsmash theme synthwave remix by Andrii Brynzak: www.fiverr.com...
-All of my patient, patient patreon patrons who I couldn't do any of this without: / kruggsmash
-Anyone who bought any of my overpriced Teespring junk: kruggsmashs-ba...
-Bay12games and Kitfox for making this amazing game: bay12games.com/
-And of course, you, for watching, my bearded bastard.
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Forgotten Beasts being the forgotten castoffs and scraps the gods accidentally left under the surface of the world when they were done making it and embued the world with life is such an interesting idea.
Nothing like eating dinner while listening to dwarf stories like I'm a nobleman at a banquet being entertained by a bard
My sincere condolences, Krugg. Lots of love. Thanks for all the positivity and fun you inject into this flinty world.
Ahh, it happens. Thank you John. Glad you like the videos
@@kruggsmash Lost my Grandma (mum side) a lil while back, and my grandpa (dad side) a little over a year ago. My sympathy homie. Love the content, never a complaint!
Same, my condolences
Emmy showing up next to her father in the intro is such a sweet little touch.
Very cute addition to animated intro krugg, now there's 8 dwarfs instead of 7 :)
Part of why this episode took a little longer than usual lol. HAD to do it
@@kruggsmash Love the updated intro.
@@kruggsmashTotally worth the wait
Will you remove dwarfs when they die? I remember the extinct Panda people of Chamberpoint...
Whenever Krugg goes quiet for a couple seconds, you know some shit's about to go down
rofl cuz any other time it's "Ithinkifwebuildawallandtheforgottenbeatsandthisdwarfoverhereisabouttogooffthedeependandwereallygottastartworkingonthe-"
He truly is our modern Bob Ross
I usually rename animals with bad traits and animals that I want to bucher ”kill” to easily find them in the pets/animals list.
You know, thats not a bad idea.still kind of a pain in the ass though , eh? ah well
I thought so too, but how many animals does that mean? I guess even picking out the worst of the bunch for butchering now and then will eventually make a difference.
Doesn't dwarf therapist allow to browse and rename animals?
I call mine meat. When I need bones or fat I just butcher a stray meat.
@@kruggsmashWhen I do breeding projects, I like to separate mothers out in separate rooms and/or chained up (if non grazer) since child animals like to stay around them. Makes it easier to keep track of them.
On a more gnarly side, I have long been mulling over creating a automated meat industry by chaining up mothers and then have running water push any children born over a ledge into a drop that will kill them. Never gotten around to it since the benefits are only minor, I just like trying to come up with ways to automate things, but it might be marginaly usefull for creating a meat industry with wild animals.
If you create a soft landing with featherwood floors you could possible use it as a way to automatically separate child from mothers and deposit them in whatever holding pen or grazing area you want.
Mrs K breathes so much life into the art with those crayons
I love how the forgotten beasts design get more creative and unique with each series
You know, one wonders if the reason constructed forgotten beasts exist is because they were created to combat the other beasts, but ran wild.
Condolences, Krugg.. we lost our dog we called Peanut a few weeks ago. She was our little sky dog. Thanks for another captivating episode, ya bastard. I can't wait to see what stories you'll pull once Adventure Mode drops.
Wonderful episode Krugg. Loved the dramatic ending with the dwarves leaving the fortress to go hunting a dangerous beast in an underground fungal jungle. Wonderful.
Watch the thing get murdered by a crundle 2 seconds into the next episode lol.
Thanks for watching and glad you liked teh video!
Fungal jungle
Always a good day when you upload! I've been rewatching Monsterkiller recently, thanks for all the excellent content over all these years
Hey hell yeah. Thanks for watching for such a long time!
....gonna be 6 years since monsterkiller started.....
6 years?! oh my god Krugg why would you tell me that@@kruggsmash
"Dogs aren't supposed to lay like this, right?"
"Draw me like one of your French girls" 😄
The art that is created for these always adds so much to the experience. The characters become instantly more relatable and memorable.
Some gorgeous environmental illustrations of the caverns in this episode!
(Also my condolences for your Grammy. I hope everyone is well.)
I adore the illustration at 4:50
We had a kaiju battle?! Oh, he atac alright. Villainous valor from the giant tiny bird.
I broke my leg and couldn't access my computer for playing, so in order to prevent myself from getting frustrated, I saved your couple last DF videos for a time when I could scratch that itch again - which is now. This is lovely! You truly are a great story teller and I enjoy very much listening to you!
Well I was going to draw another one of the Spearcavern dwarfs but now I think I'll have to do Galka Galka next.
Krugg, thank you so much for this series. I stumbled across it today, and binging it has been an absolute delight -- a haven of calmly crazy goodness in a dumpster fire world. I'm very sad to hear about your grandmother -- my sincere condolences.
dwarves do carry fungal floors to sand loam and dirt floors, don't know how old this feature is but I just found out about it in my recent fort
Mm, mm. I know the floor coverings start appearing on dirt surfaces, but I think it just happens automatically/randomly after you gain access to the new caves. i don't believe there's a mechanic deeper than that, unfortunately.
Another excellent upload.
The epic battle between the forgotten beasts brought back memories of the old "Godzilla vs" movies. Of course with something only Dwarf Fortress and Kruggsmash could bring to the party.
yeah, an absolute highlight. such an intense fight, too.
Banger intro music as always, good to see Emmy has made a cameo in the intro too :)
oh yeah, couldn't NOT do it! Glad you liked it, Ironfist
Seeing a new video from you always puts a big, dopey smile on my face.
haha hey thats good to hear :)
I swear one of these days, Kruggsmash needs to write a screenplay based on his playthroughs. Spearcavern, The Scorchfountain + Chamberpoint Sagas, Honeystoker, Monsterkiller; we need a dark fantasy movie or series or something with Krugg at the point.
I consider his video series just that
Hearing Krugg strategize about all the forgotten beasts' unique traits makes me think about where the dwarves learned of all that stuff. I wonder if they have like, a monster compendium, and if they do if anyone in the fortress is working on adding to it based on the beasts they fight. Since this is a monster-hunting fortress it would be such a cool thing to pass down through generations far into the future.
Great video as usual! I love the design of the constructed beasts! Super cool!
I love the additional lore - dunno if that's been a thing and I'm only just noticing it or if you just started doing it but it's really cool, fun world building. :3
You deserve so much more popularity for these vids. They're the best DF content on CZcams for me. There's just a cozy feeling I get with them that nobody else can really replicate. I think a lot of it has to do with your artwork. They've helped me a lot through some pretty depressing times. Thanks, Krugg.
I always love seeing how you draw various creatures
Silken clothes, all well and good, Silken beast, you'll be its food.
You make my favorite videos on youtube that I’ve seen in years, I love your style of storytelling and art so much.
Sorry to hear about your loss, I know that stuff always kills me. I don't know how you manage to still bring us a video, but know it's appreciated.
I really enjoyed the Dwarven sayings. I might just start using, "If you spend your time fighting Forgotten Beasts, you'll find yourself devoured by Crundles." in regular conversations. 😁
I always like to save your videos for when I'm eating dinner so I can give them my undivided attention, they're always such a treat.
My trick with the animals is if there is a particular animal I don`t want I usually rename it as "NO GOOD" or "KILL" etc. and then it`s easier to spot it from the list than horse, horse, horse...etc.
I hope it helped. Have a fantastic day and keep up the good work Krugg.
Galka is just so perpetually Done With Your Shit
Krugg these cave background pictures are breathtaking! Good work ya goon.
Seeing the new kiddo in the intro was such a nice little surprise! You did so great with her art!!!
New title sequence oh my gosh! So cute!!
HAD to do it
Thanks for always bringing a smile to my face. I always look forward to your videos and the eay you tell stories. Youve almost convinced me to start to try and tell my own story with my forts.
I've found that having an individual temple dedicated to each of the dwarven gods - containing very high quality furniture + high quality door + expert engraving - gives the dorks a lot of happy thoughts at a relatively low cost.
Building guild halls with high quality fixtures and engravings, also helps the mood a lot.
Raiding 'dead' areas for treasure ( most likely books ) can yield good results without too much external threat - except for the BS 'total value' metric which determines enemy raids.
I LOVE when this game makes you draw birds! I might have to pick up some beakdog merch.
What an episode! I honestly thought that might be the end when it came to webs!
If you ever get two Forgotten Beasts fighting again and you want to make sense of the combat logs, you can give both Beasts a nickname from their profile. The Combat Logs will remember the nickname, making it easier to tell who's doing what
I didn't understand the appeal of Dwarf Fortress until watching your series here. Your narrative skills are impressive! Not to mention the artwork, just wow. I love that you and your partner collaborate on them too. It breathes so much life into this game.
I would love to see your take on a narrative about a RimWorld colony. RimWorld isn't as deep as DF in some ways but it is a much better player experience and the storytelling that comes from its random events is always surprising and dramatic. Hope you give it a shot after the Spearcavern story comes to an end.
Amazing episode, Krugg! Love that derpy bird Forgotten Beast! My condolences, my dude, take care of yourself!
I had a neat discovery in my current fort with Draltha. I captured a bunch with my cage traps around my first cavern layer entrance, and my dorfs naturally took them up in the animal storage area. Eventually, a few of them had children. So, I decided to see about training them. The adults took to the training a little (eventually getting better trained), but I somehow managed to immediately tame the children and they are fully domesticated. After a few generations, I've got herds of fully tame Draltha in my fungal fields. My civilization has learned a lot about Draltha taming from my fort's efforts. Worth giving them a shot in the future.
What I found helps your dwarves deal with web-slinging FBs is a "quarantine chamber", where a hatch leads to a 5x5 barracks. Another hatch in the center of the room leads down to a narrow hall connected to the cavern. When the beast spawns in the cavern, the hatch can be unlocked, and when the beast climbs up the stairs it comes face to face with your training dwarves. Since the dwarves are surrounding the hatch, they won't all be webbed and can hack at it freely.
That intro is always like a good dwarven plump helmet wine
Love to see a good ol' forgotten beast brawl, a lucky one this time too!
Incredible work on the illustration at 4:50 one of my favorite pieces of yours yet
I've noticed with the barracks is that they often go and pick up their gear, then put it away, then pick it up again and they move it from barracks to stockpile to barracks constantly.
We love you Krugg. your beautiful narration and incredible artwork are very relaxing in this crazy day and age. You're in my thoughts and prayers ❤ (sorry for the cliche) I'm so sorry for your loss.
Galka coming in with a beastly edition of Splatterface
3:58 4:53 loving these cavern illustrations
Good episode! The bird-type forgotten beasts' illustrations were particularly cool!
I'm very sorry to hear about your grandmother, Krugg. Hopefully her passing was at least peaceful.
Oh gosh, those dralthas are so cute... almost as cute as the new Emmy in the intro!
Here's hoping Galka Galka doesn't go the way of Monsterkiller's weevil...
Loved the episode. Glad the Web problem solved itself and the fanart was outstanding
As a general PSA, I stumbled on a reliable way of fighting webbing creatures with minimal casualties. What you want is a long, vertical stairwell. Mine was 3x3 and stretched from fort to caverns. Engage the webbers while they're still climbing the stairs, as it seems they're not able to spray webs up or down, only horizontally. While your soldiers can stab at it from above and below.
Woow, I came here because of Hazzor's video's of Rimworld and found out about Dwarf Fortress on with he made a few episodes. Great serie you made, really loving it, cant wait to check out the rest of youre videos and the game itself.
Love the addition of the youngin to the opening animation.
Absolutely smashing episode.
And an extra shoutout to that fanart of Pop by Rowan. Dang it's good!
This is my favorite depiction of the draltha
I was pretty pleased with it too! Had no idea what it'd look like till I was done drawing lol.
41 seconds ago, hot damn, not even seen the episode yet prolly'll be great as always, thanks Krug!
Quick on the draw there
you draws are getting very good. keep you good work. thanks for the content
I usually set up a capture zone for beasts with webs. And harvest the silk
My method for webbed beasts is large numbers and big open rooms. Specifically if you make a staircase that goes up into the center of a big room filled with dwarves and war dogs and put a hatch so they dont run down the stairs, the beast is only able to shoot in one direction at a time so some of the dwarves should be able to stun lock it before it can web them all.
hell yeah, kruggmash vid on my birthday.
Hey happy b-day, Hak
Your new theme song is good but your old theme music was just perfect.
I loved the metal version too
Yay! The baby in the intro! Super cool.
I love those forgotten beast fights!
This series gives me back my HP Im loosing in my adult world :D
My last fortress had two green glass beats fighting in the second cave layer, their battle took weeks in game time, one had webs, the other had either webs or another attack. Both died in their struggle.
Love the flow of this episode.
the draltha design is inspired, always thankful for how you sometimes go against the ingame graphics. out of interest how much like... spec evo thought goes into these? between this and your earlier giant evil pelican-whale roc it makes it feel like you put effort into thinking about how these animals would live and i really appreciate it
I'd like to schedule like a workload for a dwarf. Some dwarves at 50 some 75 some in 90... Some 10% or even zero labor UNLESS they want to. Stuff they want to do is not part of that... A little dwarf life balance. Then I can truly retire a dwarf to leisure craft.
For culling the way you want to cull the dogs, it is easiest via dwarf therapist. Or by renaming the dogs you find that you want to cull.
Backgrounds were so good this episode
Avi was an inorganic creature. Inorganics tended to be incredibly dangerous once upon a time, however, now their parts work a bit like undead and have HP. Titmouse just did enough damage to cause an auto defeat.
The change in general makes inorganics alot less threatening. Particularly stuff like blobs, who if they where too dense where basically immortal
three forgotten beasts in a row
your series inspires me to play more dwarf fortress
GJ
The foreshadowing is killing me 😂
You could automate the forgotten beast trap with raising bridges and pressure plates. And maybe a bridge/door to block access whenever you aren't using it to trap beasts so its a not a free way into the fortress. Then you can trap all the big beasties you want to throw in an arena or something. Or set up for silk farming or fire throwing defense. Lots of fun possibilities.
Sorry for your loss Kruggsmash, my condolences 💐
This intro... you magnificent beast.
Much thanks
Loving the series!
Good to hear! thank you for watching :)
It would be so cool if you could control which colours of the moss spread... I love your videos so much!
Excellent episode, yet again
Time to put on the detective hat to figure out that battle log between two forgotten beasts. 🤣
YEAH UPLOAD WITH 8TH DRAWF
Breeding specific animals is a hella pain, not just the gelder/butcher/renaming thing but also the general issue of sexuality of an animal
Reason why Skydog also never had pups, tho i had hoped we would've gotten another like her from the parents and keep it going with that
Bless Dwarf Therapist
Amazing as always!
I had the barracks problem too, ended up solving it by assigning each weapon and armor piece individually. It was a pain to do for 4 squads, because in the menu you can't easily tell which ones were assigned already, but for seven dwarves this should not be a big issue. This is a pretty brute force solution tho so hope you can find a better one.
Spearcavern: where forgotten beasts die.
The cuter you make the dwarfs the more terrified I am for their fates… O_o
Yeah, when you study how the combat works (usually via manual targeting stuff in adventure mode) is you can see the chance to hit and the "solidness" of the hit. The automatic choices go for prioritizing hit chance which is often why a fight between fresh opponents starts off with a lot of misses or hits that graze. Now if you target someone sleeping, unconscious, or webbed the hit chance on any part is going to be 100% so the choice there is to go for the most lethal option.
A mocking bird forgotten beast! One would have to wonder what strange noises it have picked up and is copying since time immemorial, maybe it whispers the forgotten words of the gods at the time of creation?
Love your work brother
Loving the series
Welp, that web Forgotten Beast problem solved itself.