Colorchirp: A Home in the Canopy
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- An edited, illustrated and narrated playthrough of the game Dwarf Fortress
Today we're going to travel along with a small group of avian settlers who seek to try out an audacious new idea!
I hope you like this one-off dwarf fortress mod experiment and I double hope you enjoy our guest artist Pythania's illustrations! Lets hear it for him, eh?
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Thanks to everyone who helped out with this episode!
-Mrs K for her unending support
-Pythania for all the illustrations seen in this episode:
-Pyth's ko-fi: ko-fi.com/pyth...
-Pyth's Twitch: / pythania
-Angelo Tardanico for creating the highly memorable theme for the aves:
-Check out Angelo on CZcams: / channel
-Angelo's Fiverr: www.fiverr.com...
-Angelo's Soundcloud: / angelo_1998
-Angelo on Spotify: open.spotify.c...
-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. Thank you , my bearded bastard.
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It was such a pleasure working on this video!! I'm glad to see such warm reception kahahaw
It was quite fun to illustrate everything for this episode. Ave atque vale!!
your work feels rooted in culture and place in a way thats super cool to see on kruggs channel- its fantasy furry art but its in some ways more human than dworfs. also, as a trans person of color this is awesome to see
Edit: Just watched through. What a fantastic episode!! Thanks to Kruggsmash for giving me this opportunity and thanks to everyone for the kind comments, it's quite lovely to see and I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
@@luin6788 I really appreciate that. Your words mean more to me than you might think!
@@pythania Yeah, little obscure CZcams fact is that pinned comments cannot be edited.
And marvellous work, absolutely marvellous.
Great work!
Hey Kruggsmash! Thanks for playing my mod! I've been a long time viewer.
Egg-laying is a weirdly 'dark magic' part of the game. But it's not really that complicated. It's just a bit micro managy to get working properly. I tried to explain it in the mod's description. But in short, the best way I've found to get it to work is by unlisting ave eggs from all stockpiles, and them mass dumping all the ave's nest boxes every 3 or 4 months.
Also, my apologies for not responding on Steam. At the time I couldn't believe one of my favorite youtubers was actually trying to contact me.
Great mod man
I think your mod is excellent! I love how thought out each facet of ave culture is (especially the little tidbits involving music). Keep up the brilliant work! I hope I did your vision justice kahahaw
@@pythania Thank you! I think you did a great job envisioning them. I mean I would've done small things differently (like how many fingers they have or how big their wings are or how much scale they have etc etc) but you did some fantastic work so I can't complain!
DFHack has a "nestboxes" plugin that scans and forbids fertile eggs. Should be pretty handy for this mod.
Birb Fortress? Awesome.
Darn toodin'
@@kruggsmashSurely you mean darn tweetin'?
@@bbgun061 Dad plz
Most birds can and do eat their own eggs, particularly if they dont hatch after a while, such as if they are unfertilized. It helps reclaim the nutrition used on them.
MM yummy I love calcium!!!
Eating their OWN eggs feels weird, but eating another Ave's eggs? Doesn't seem _too_ strange to me.
We eat chicken eggs, and would it really feel THAT different if the hen could talk?
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthplenty of mammals will eat the placenta after birth, such as goats for example. I totally get why it feels weird, but ultimately this behavior of eating your own... "Material" is fairly common in the animal world.
@@Inanedata Cannibalism tends not to sit right with humans, even autocannibalism.
the differnt art gave me a culture shock at first but because its so pretty i can live with it ;)
Gotta be a bit strange seeing different art on teh channel, eh? glad you liked it though, it's really slick. Pyth did a great job.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I'm a big fan of it, personally. While I'm not sure this flowing, colourful style would work as well with dwarves, it fits very well with bird-people.
Still, it IS a big shift from Krugg's more gritty and tactile art.
Wow! Pythania's art is absolutely beautiful. I love their colouring. Definitely deserves the attention that Kruggsmash is affording them.
Thank you!! It actually took me about a day straight to figure out the color palette we wanted to go for. The original "blocky" colors are shown at 30:50 (this was the first batch of images). The rendered composite image is what I used as reference for the rest of the art.
Love how Krugg tries water projects in every single fort ever and always ends up mostly with regrets and wet settlers :D.
Always entertaining though!
Dang, only 11 days for a 30 min video of this quality!? you're nuts!
Yeah, you know I guess I forgot how delayed the previous video. was wondering why I ended up struggling with this one so much despite the artistic help. Makes sense now lol.
@@kruggsmashyou spoil us far too much.
@@giaxo1739 This is true
Hey, big fan! I know that most fans and even including you are very into drawings and filler stories as artifacts or made up backstories. But have you ever though about making no picture videos/making them less, but still having some sort of narrator? As we got steam version sprites I feel that drawn pictures are not so impactful as they were back in the day.
Thanks for your hardwork!
@@Justinvaidak I disagree that the drawings are less impactful, but I do think it'd be fine if we had fewer drawings per episode if it meant more episodes or higher quality ones. Everything's a tradeoff!
Fun fact. The João-de-barro is a bird that build pottery like structures on tree branches in RL. Amazing right?
Loving the guest artwork here, super cool idea to colab with other artists. Although krugg birds would be cool to see too.
It's fun working with others from time to time. You are right though- it would have been pretty fun to draw these guys. I gotta draw more beakdogs
@@kruggsmashsubmit fanart of your own series to the "Behind the Scenes... Things"?
i always appreciate playthroughs of non-dwarven settlements in dwarf fortress! waddlesquash was one of my personal favorite fortresses/towns of yours. plus this being from the perspective of people who aren't really used to permanent settlements really adds to things.
The bear walking in suddenly like that knocked me out. Great video, salutes to the guest artist.
Honestly surprised it didn't attack anyone given how foul tempered Sloth Bears are in real life.
My girlfriend and I both love birds, and we keep a few. She's never seen your videos before, but I couldn't help but show her this one, and she's hooked. Just know, Krugg, that you bring smiles to new faces and longtime fans alike.
The Bludgeoned Python is a good name for a tavern
Sounds just bawdy enough
Hey man..I'm from Brasil, and i bought this game as soon as Steam version came out.
I work with rehabilitation of extremely vulnerable and marginalized people, and in my daily work routine I go trough so much mental pain and stress, frustration...I mean...what I really want tô say is, your vídeos are a great relief for me brother. They are part of my therapy when I come home.
Thank you for your effort man.
I love this game, and I love your stories!
Obrigado por assistir
@@pythaniaEu que agradeço pelo conteúdo, e pelas lindas ilustrações =).
Hey, I just wanted to let you know, your videos are the highlight of whatever week you upload in for me.
I live down in Australia, and your usual upload time for me is late on a Thursday/Friday night, so for the last few months I've made it a tradition of getting cozy under a blanket with a hot chocolate to see some dwarvern shenanigans before bed.
Thanks so much for the stories you tell!
Hell yeah buddy. very very glad to hear that. One of the biggest perks of doing this schtick I tells ya. Glad to help you uinwind, my friend.
Ha me too. Watching this now past my bedtime. I'll be ruined for work tomorrow but it's a highlight of my week. When there is an upload :D
The art is beautiful, congrats to Pythania.
Thank you
I just got the to Roc part of Scorch fountain AGAIN 😆 and I found myself thinking "A bird Rito type people playthrough would be awesome" and here we are
Very interesting! Its a cute and colorful and something different! Noticing a lot of fruit on the ground and walkways, assigning a few birds to just picking up floor fruit would be a relatively low effort source of food!
Was a pleasure to work with you, amazing video ;)
You did amazing work!
@@pythania you too! These arts rocks!! 🙌
Not only am I totally on board for the change of pace and scenery, Im also jazzed about the new terminology and slang being used. Super excited for this series!
I love parrots, and I love dwarf fortress. This video is a perfect mix of both
I'm a simple guy. Love me parrots. Love me DF.
Awww poor Snek.. made me feel bad for the scaly beauty that she was hit so many times.
Also, very nice way to make a 'fort' so to say
Had a rough day, so this new vid excites me to no end. Thanks Krugg ❤
Hang in there, man. Weekends a-comin'!
I just had the idea of a dwarven civilization that lives in the trees last week, this videos will certainly serve as inspiration for that. Also i love the idea of having different art for a special episode like this.
Absolutely stunning work from all of you, it's always a pleasure to see Kruggsmash in my CZcams feed.
Absolutely love the color scheme for these crazy birds. So vibrant and tropical. It's great to see the treehouse fort finally happening and props to the artist
My guy this episode was absolutely fantastic, getting an Artist on board and music created really brought this story up to another level.
Honestly i'm so inspired by all your videos, I've tried to create my own video! I've started playing and recording the content, and just asked myself "but... do i speak what's happening now? Do i write a script? That's alot of work... when do i start drawing? Should i draw all the first 7 dwarves and read their whole bio description?" Questions after questions!
Also all the dwarves died to the undead, but there were some epic events along the line! Like the last dwarf alive was a Father with 2 Dwarf children who killed 5 Undead by himself where all other dwarves perished. And then just tried to survive, unable to rebuild or do anything productive as I wtched a couple years go by, hoping the oldest dwarven daughter becomes old enough to be able to work and fix up the base.
If you have any tips, I'd love to hear your process and how you go about doing everything. Much love, Zonalar.
Beats the crap out of an animal and it ends up in the colony's possession... ah yes the Rimworld method of taming.
Beautiful episode. Both in art, narration, and lots of unscripted funny events typical to dwarf fortress.
"Don't worry about the blood. It's a macace monkey's blood. The Kiwi is fine. No idea how the blood got there."
Oh doing a one-off fort with a guest artist is GENIUS. Your art is, of course, immaculate and iconic but it's so fun to see someone else's style paired with your narration. This one was a delight
The art is gorgeous omg, and I'm loving the change in perspective with a new species! Also the kiwis are so cute aaaa
Pythania's art is incredible!
Thank you! YOU are incredible!!
"but thats a bridge too far" - i love the bird themed aayings you've come up with 😂
This was such a fun short-fort! Pythania's art and Angelo's music gave it such a unique vibe - thank-you to both for the wonderful collaboration! I wouldn't be averse to more Aves content if it's something you want to stick with, and I'm always up for watching weird experiments of course!
I liked the tree fort idea and thought the bird mod was cool. This episode had a bunch of great stuff happen in it, but it felt sort of squished. Like two or three episodes of cool stuff crammed into one. I would have liked to see more of the things being built, the ponds, the treehouses. The finished product was really cool, but I did miss the excitement and anticipation of also getting to see the process.
Krugg's utter bewilderment at a nestbox being claimed by a SOMEONE is very delightful. Like yea, I suppose birds would need nestboxes.
You are by far the best Dorf youtuber. It would be cool to have moments when you look at everything in asci to see what it looks like for the OGs
This is an incredible video and concept. I loved the art and the music, cograts to Pythania and Angelo T. Too bad is just a one-episode thing, I would love to see a bit more of this mode.
Thank you, Krugg, as always, your videos are the best Dwarf Fortress content I have ever seen. Thank you.
Just finished Northbridge and now there is another one of you videos. Beautiful.
Thank you for your work.
This video was so far from my expectations my head was spinning with amazement. Your passion is inspiring. You're a great advocate for the DF community!
Amazing work Krugg as always. These birds are pretty fun fellows.
We have arrived at the furry arc. :D
Something entirely different, pretty fresh and interesting wow!
Ummm...you mean feathery arc? gosh.
lets do this lol
you know what I’m fine with this
Yes... ha ha ha... YES!
It was inevitable.
@@kruggsmash Whatever floats your boat.. or tree! ;)
I'm not judging!
Dwarves: Are you eating your own children!?
Aves: Oh no, silly! These eggs aren't fertilized, so there's nothing weird about it at all.
Dwarves: Oh... good.
Aves: I'm eating my period.
Dwarves: .....
During production, we literally made the same joke kahahaw
It was a really fun episode! Props to Pythania for the amazing art, always fun to see guest artists, and to Angelo for the music. And of course, to APPW for the fun mod that brought us this change of pace!
shout out to Karir's magnificent thighs and calf, that is a land bird right there.
btw DF sprites are not specially hard to make, they just take A LOT of work because they have so much variation, so if you are not in a rush, just put the word out there that you are needing an artist for your mod, and someone will eventually show up, there are a lot of pixel artists out there willing to work on things for fun.
never skips leg day. not once.
yeah it's easy enough to make a pixel sprite, but in comparison it *is* a lot more than there used to be. If I was a modder I know for sure it'd be a major factor in whether I made mods anymore or not.
Absolutely gorgeous illustrations from your guest artist! And fun story as always, Krugg never disappoints.
The birds in the artwork were very colorful and very adorable. Great artist.
Omg this art is incredible. Rac taking a nest box and laying eggs was incredible. I'm so hyped for this series.
Having the bird personalities displayed briefly on overlay is an excellent idea.
Surf on my dude.
Great one shot. I'm always amazed at the potential Dwarf Fortress has. The implementation of other races in the game would be incredible for the types of narratives that would emerge.
I'm no strong hand with the numbers and modding experience, but I do love doing little graphics and such. I'm sure there are others in my boat out there who would love to team up to work on Steam-release mods! Take heart! We're out there!
Thank you for sharing this amazing short-fort! I adored this! Great work to you and your team-- I would loooove seeing your teamup again in the future.
I love this. Bird people are so cool. Definitely going to pass this on to some of my friends. Maybe that will open their eyes to what Dwarf Fortress can do.
Awesome short fort.
Loved the mod and story you wove.
I never even thought of building in the trees. Will have to try!
Thanks for Colorchirp!
Loved this episode, what a great way to showcase a fun little mod and a very talented artist and musician! Keep up the Great Work! Cheers, Ivan :D
God I love stuff like this, just seeing little communities of unique races and their day to day life is so interesting
wow! what a beautiful video. I have to say I was surprised, that someone else drew the visualisations.But the artsryle the music, your voice; everything just fits for this video. it had a really nice idylic touch! very bacialamano!
What a fun concept! I'm still learning the intricacies of DF but a tree-house fort would be awesome to try! And I like the artwork used for this one! I can see it now; a mighty jet-block fortress high in the canopies of the oldest growth. An impressive sight to goblin and man, and a giant middle finger to the elves XD
I love the way you play df more than any other CZcams and seeing smaller mod showcases with your specific style of story telling and playing df makes mods more attractive. Keep it up krugg, this channel has craftsdwarfship of the highest quality. ❤
Really hitting it out of the park with the art on this one, it is absolutely fantastic.
Awesome video! I'm a huge fan of birds and the artist did a fantastic job! Your storytelling is fantastic as usual, Krugg!
Bird houses? What madness is this? In my day we had a pile of twigs and branches
Kids these days, walking on the ground and living in land dwellings I tell ya!
@@pythania next they'll start cooking their worms and grubs
This was a great episode! I fully support having other artists involved in your playthroughs.
Nice roleplaying and voicework by Krugg. Really conveys the birdbrain :)
Whenever Krugg sounds baffled about the Aves' behavior (like cooking the eggs) I imagine he's still a dwarf, just wearing a fake beak and feathers, trying his best to blend in even though he has no idea what's going on with them.
😂
Kruggsmash continuing the tradition of catastrophic mist generator planning.
Guest artist? Fun weird gimmick? Engineering challenge? All very fun choices!
I really like these 'special' forts with modded civs. But then again, you come up with interesting, novel concepts on a regular basis, regular dwarves or something different.
Also, props to the illustrator and mod-maker!
Hooray for Bird Fortress!
I love how the game of Dwarf Fortress works with many different settings and species of sentient folks. Avian folks? Check. Super Mario Toads? Check. Whatever you want to do, there should be some means to do it with DF.
Quite a cool concept! I do hope you already have a contingency plan in place for when a dragon decided to sight see your very flammable fortress
Oh hey, I thought I recognised the artwork! As soon as I saw the birds I thought "Is that Pythania?" Now I need to go and bug him during his next stream!
Hello, Lola! Finally getting back to streaming soon now that we've wrapped this project up kahahaw
A new Krugg upload! and just in time for breakfast. This is gonna be a good day.
I feel the same way. Love pouring a nice flavored beverage to toast a new Krugg video
This was very cute ^^ Pythania's artwork is really adorable, and I love the stories you tell with these little critters. That poor snek XD At least it was memorialized in the temple. It certainly deserved it after putting up with being beaten up so much XD
This is awesome stuff! Love the illustrations and narration. Great job.
I like the one off episodes...
they are little stories that gives me that good feeling for the day...
The art is beyond amazing, I just have no words, holy shit this is unbelievably good content
Thank you so much!
I really like these episodes that focus on non-dwarf species (or even just unusual dwarf societies). It's always cool to see how the game changes when dwarves aren't the focus!
I would imagine that Ave egg meals would be seen as peasant food. Afterall, it's what the poorest would most likely have to get by on. And there's probably a bit of a stigma attached to it, while other eggs are fine. Like humans and how we refuse to drink milk from humans. People are silly like that.
But whatever way this culture develops, I am VERY interested! Really nice to see you do something different like this. Living in trees, shooting bows, taming animals, this could have become a dreadful elf fortress! But Aves are great! Because they're not elves.
Wait did you say one-off? Dangit.
Along with storytelling, you are also a masterful editor. What a treat your videos are
I REALLY like how colorful it is! Well done indeed
I'm loving the digital artwork. I'm looking forward to see where you go with it.
Really great presentation. Love the idea of Birb fort
This REALLY makes me want to see some sort of treehouse-assisting mod for the game! Say... rope ladders that act like retractable stairs, pulleys that act like a vertical-moving minecart for quick transfer of goods, and rope bridges to allow quick and easy access across gaps.
This was one of your cutest episodes ever. Very enjoyable and inspiring
the culture shock of ave society and how they treat their eggs was hilarious
Love the colors on this episode, for the birds and the backgrounds
Tree House fort is such a great idea. The artwork was awesome too.
Loved the art in this one. Especially how most of the mammals have small dim eyes compared to the birds, where even the cassowaries and kiwis had very expressive eyes compared to the monkeys and good ol’ Fatty (gonna moss that guy.)
Unrelated but I remember my favorite fortress to date. I found this massive cliff like 50+ levels high completely flat and built my military around crossbow wielders standing behind fortifications in the cliff. Farming was in the caverns. But everything for the most part was taking place at or above the departure z level. It fell in its 12th year to a dragon breathing fire through the fortifications at the marksdwarves and catching all the cave moss ablaze killing most but the few that survived starved because fire got to the caverns burning the farms.
Losing is fun.
production value just went through the roof
much as i love the standard kruggsmash art style the guest episodes are always fun
Beautiful little tree-fort and beautiful art.
About graphics for mods, there is an aschii mode in the game that you can use now. Even if we somehow need a graphics pack, modders can just choose to use letters anyway. In fact, they can always make the letters how they want. They could use other kinds of fonts to distinguish different tiles apart among other tricks that dont require being an artist. Plus, dedicated artists can also make graphics packs for the mods they love if they want to. I don't think any modders should be discouraged just because they still use letters. They will need letters anyway to be able to make mods work in classic.
It's worth pointing out that Aves is pronounced ay-veez. It's the scientific name for Birds, or it was before birds were reclassified into Dinosauria.
You know, if it's Latin, then it is likely "ay-weez" since they used the v for a w sound. Considering this is partially modeled after Roman stuff in the lore, it would make a lot of sense.
I kind of like it as an Anglicization, it matches Elves and Dwarves too. They're not actually birds (as shown by them having hands AND wings) so using the latin doesn't really make sense.
More like "ah - vehs". Not "ay", and the "e" is more like the Canadian "eh?"....
And despite being in saurischia it is still aves. What has changed is that non-avian dinosaurs are no longer a clade but a grade....
(meh, who cares, at least commenting feeds the algorithm).
I've always said it the way Kruggsmash seems to have done. Ay-vs. But who's to say I'm right? I read the word on Wikipedia long before hearing it be pronounced correctly.
But if you happen to be curious there's a deeper dive into it that reaches outside of DF lore. Bear with me here this gets a bit wacky though. So there's a civilization of aliens that I've been worldbuilding, and accredited for the creation of the Aven mythos. Like their cultural version of Dwarves. They would pronounce it Ah-vehs.
@@appw_ I would have said it was a shortening of 'avians' so Ayvs as you say. Pronunciation is not an exact thing anyway. As long as people understand :)
This was a wildly cool and colorful video, really had a fun time! :D
I don't comment much, but i'd like to thank you for making these videos! The amount of detail and passion in this work is astounding. You really manage to create compelling stories and narratives from Dwarf Fortress!
Based bird appreciator playthough, very nice.
I wish someone'd make some playable insect civilizations, too.
I'd sure love to see more of these silly little birds.
Always a pleasure to see you upload new vids.
Your videos have been some of my favorites for a very long time, you're mostly the reason I got dwarf fortress in the first place. I suck at it so far, thankfully some skills from rimworld translate over to DF in an okay manner.
But watching this episode start off with some tree felling just immediately made me remember my first EVER dwarf fortress run I chopped down my first ever tree and it fell on my colony's starting cow and killed it immediately.
I gotta get better at this game, it's definitely for me.
Playable bird people in dwarf fortress? I did not expected that, especially from you! This is so wonderful!
Reminds me of one of my first fortresses, a fortress called AncientOil. Devastated the goblins, ravaged the forests, wiped to elves to extinction - fell to a bronze colossus that seemed to be carrying a slab and sword as weapons. All hail Etur the God of Death, mountains, and wealth.