Northbridge: The Road to Riches
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- An edited, illustrated and narrated playthrough of the game Dwarf Fortress
With a new fortress built far to the north, the time is right for dwarves eager to carve their own homes along the cyclops trail.
But what if the trail could be circumvented altogether? What if a dwarf forged a new path?
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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 crayons.)
-Ivan Duch for making the theme and a lot of other songs for Northbridge: ivanduch.com/
-Rudo for making the title cards: ko-fi.com/rudo
-Pawpaw Greg as Vabok: www.fiverr.com...
-LaKira Porter as Farmer Iton: www.fiverr.com...
-Caleb "Yeti" Wilson as Miner Sarvesh: www.fiverr.com...
-Tori as Unnamed intro dwarf: 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. Thank you for watching, my bearded bastard.
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Always amazing (and moderately concerning) how Krugg manages to increase production value of every video even when he says he'll cut back and take it easy next time.
Like most DF players (and most dwarves), the man has an obsessive personality. He should probably set hard limits for himself just to be safe.
We wouldn't have it any other way. Wonderfully done once again!
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth To be honest, you need to be obsessed with DF to some degree in order to do anything interesting with it.
I mean you do also gain skill over time and could do the same quality with less effort than originally, too. Much like a legendary bone carver.
It is terrifying. It is inevitable.
I want to name that troglodyte that ran away Plato. He got out of the cave. A trully illuminated man!
I just built a massive stoneware bridge spanning two continents, so this is exciting to see since you got me into the game and that was my first project fort. I'm very proud of my bridge, it's made of stoneware from fireclay, is about as long as the 6x6 embark size, is wide enough for two wagons to pass each other, has fortifications on the side for aesthetics, and has a tavern suspended above it on one of the ends. The mayor died just before completion, so I made the last tile of the bridge out of gold and engraved an image of him laughing and laboring with the dwarves. I'm hoping to cross the bridge in adventure mode
Stoneware is cool.
Great touch to the final stretch. Love the sentiment
Awesome little story, thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing it with us buddy! Loved the idea and the Mayor's story!
Lets hope you wont have to create a New World when Adventure Mode finally comes
That Troglodyte breaking free and running off the map was hilarious. Imagine seeing the sun and outdoors for the first time after living for decades underground and then just running off into the sunset.
That cyclops crawling gif is terrifying and I love it.
Agreed
A super extra fort that builds increasingly grand things would be hilarious, and amazing. Giant golden statues, a dwarven versoin of mount rushmore. An enormous castle. Really flex on everyone and see what the steam release can do.
Also, a cold welcome by Joseph was my favorite bit of art.
I mean, once you build the bridge, you gotta put something on the OTHER side, right? And hey, it could be a bridge and tunnel project, too.
It's high time for Archcrystal to be built in Steam release.
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal" ~Nietzche
A recent discovery is that the top source of lag in DF is NOT caused by pathing, but by the Dwarves checking their relationships to everybody around them to decide how to act. The dwarves are constantly in a state of thinking about the other people around them and deciding how they ought to act in that particular social interaction.
So yeah, the stories that happen during each game of DF might not matter much to the player, but they are the most important thing in each individual dwarves' lives.
Hopefully those trolls won't be too much of a problem. I hear they have a strange fascination for living beneath bridges.
Love that you are doing a bridge megaproject this is going to be something special!
That's oddly poetic that they think so much about each other that it lags our games
I think thats what makes DF special though. A lot of games would neuter the AI's interactions like this to keep performance up for the player. But DF sticks to its guns and honestly what would Dwarf Fortress be without the bizarre, emotionally intelligent dwarfs?
And of course this has the amusing/dark result that the player base is now thinking of the best way to minimise how often dwarfs see each other.
Thinking so much about what others think that it lags reality. Sounds familiar.
One thing you could do is to use winter to dig into the ice, and turn the bridge into a wall in the ocean. From there you could do some neat things if you get flood gates, water pumps and cage traps properly set up. If you make glass aquariums you could set up a proper dwarf "sea world".
exporting Crabs in aquariums
Dwarven Sea world
Somebody hasn't watched Water Island yet.
Real life sea world has a parking lot bigger than the park itself.
Dwarven sea world sounds like there would be a cemetery bigger than the park.
I love the animated intro sequence! I'm sure that was quite a bit of work, but the results were great.
That bell drop was very satisfying, I hope it becomes a fortress tradition to build and then drop a very large bell to commemorate important events or dates.
My man be "alright guys im going to take it easy next video" and drops some of the most well planned and amazing shit i ever seen EVERYTIME
Really love the idea of the ENTIRE fortress (minus mines and logging infrastructure) being on the bridge. Reminds me of the Bridge of Volantis from Game of Thrones, or the various real world bridges that inspire it. maybe you expand the bridge to add the buildings, but realistically, the growth of the buildings would constrict the road to it's limit (3 spaces for a wagon), which would be thematically appropriate! Build everything in a shell around, over, and even under the bridge. The platinum door should be the door to the Mayor/baron/kings domicile, right in the center of the bridge, where, of course, the platinum bell will be displayed above the bridge.
Ooh, I really like this!
Ah man, that intro's background. Most likely over a hundred dwarves, and even more busy actually working elsewhere in the fortress. It'd be interesting seeing you create a fortress designed to house as many dwarves as possible.
There is a hard limit to amount of dwarves you can get,to prevent your pc from catching fire from over simulations.
@@SioxGreyWolf From what I've read there is a hard limit where the migrants stop, but the population could still grow naturally. Even so hitting that cap could itself be a worthwhile goal.
@@vadandrumist1670 Just know it can be dangerous for a pc.
Starter pack sets 200 as soft limit (no migrants, but babies and visitor petitions), and 220 as hard limit (no more babies born after this, don't know about petitions).
I wonder if these are the vanilla, default limits.
This world is shaping itself so well. The into may have been a little cheesy but it's starting to feel like a world. It makes me wonder when you are gonna start tackling the many conquerors of the world, discover the strongest metal, and discover many horrible secrets.
I love the ballista pointing towards the trade depot... like a good way to intimidate the Liaison haha
I like making my expedition leader a proficient liar. Explains why people left a comfortable fort to go to savage lands
Oh, man, every video makes me feel like I am transported to a new fantasy world
Yes!
Not two minutes in and I already love the setup!
4:44 Really missed these 3/4 perspective [?] drawings, glad to see more of them.
That ballista looks extremely well placed to take out a wagon...
Just when I thought I had burn out of Dwarf Fortress content... The master craftsdwarf himself posts this masterpiece!
there is no "out of Dwarf Fortess." Nobody gets out.
mint adamantine coins with Idrath's image upon them, that seems like the most pious thing to do. Also that door looks perfect for a new temple.
Did not expect the crawling cyclops, lol. Gave me a bit of a scare when it just started coming at me
31:20 I absolutely love the fortress retirement option
Seeing my old fort exist and do stuff in the same world as the current one is just so incredibly immersive
mans is fluent in DORF SPEECH
everything sounds like something they'd speak in adventuter mode or think in their thoughts!
Well he has had years of experience.
Really excited for this one! Please make sure you put all sorts of decorations on that bridge. It should have massive arches, and maybe even some oversized statues.
A buff dwarven warrior statue over the bridge, his legs forming an arch. Diamond tipped gold block spear and a golden shield in its hand.
@@ilari90 like the Colossus of Rhodes but a dwarf. That would honestly be really cool.
@@ShaCaro That sounds epic!
I love love love the new little creature cards with the descriptors and why a dwarf might like em, a neat lil visual! An amazing vid as always, thanks for making my days more dorfly!
Your sense of design never fails to satisfy, that artifact door could have looked incredibly boring had it been drawn by anybody else.
When you said you were going to make a bridge I was really hoping you would build your fortress upon it.
I really like the idea of a Dwarven Settlement built upon a massive bridge along a trade route. Seems like a great way to bring resources and peoples together from all over.
Makes for a very strategic location with great value throughout its whole history.
"The Rise and Fall of Northbridge." Makes for a great treatise and historical read.
You should do a horror story fortress where it’s a full and thriving fortress and the dwarves begin to disappear till nothing is left
So Scorchfountain?
@@kindofhuman8147 If you have chromophobia, the Beardless Baron, and his obsession with dyeing, is indeed the ultimate horror.
Krug builds a ballista pointed at the trade depot.
"We're looking for a good deal. This *is* a threat."
Nothing like a wooden siege weapon for making the elves feel generous
[34:07] I rly liked the discussion here! I'm in the same vein, I focus more on the history of the world and the fort in general, but the stories are equally important. Afterall, what's a documentary without a story to base it off of, it's what gives the world a personality. Your story telling method is really enjoyable, I've been going back and watching your older videos and they're just a treat. The inclusion of art really make me get more attached to the world as a whole
Man, your artwork never ceases to amaze me! And Mrs. K does an excellent job of coloring as usual. I'm loving seeing this bridge and the progress on it. Seems like an ambitious idea, but man is it paying off :D
New fortress! I'm so ready :) Your production quality just keeps getting better and better! I'm only a minute in and this is fantastic!
The production values you're putting into these latest stories are astounding! Also loving the tie-in with Nökortorad. This is boiling out to be a really cool world.
This whole video I was waiting for you to say "What if we made the whole fortress on the bridge?". I was not disappointed. Can't wait to see how this one goes!
It may not mean much, but I personally love all these little dwarf stories. You put so much effort into producing these awesome drawings, depictions and stories for us, with a game that I fully understand takes a ridiculous amount of finnicky effort to make behave the way you want.
Keep it up, man, whether the fort is short or long it's still a Kruggsmash fort.
Love the idea of a dwarf wondering why the trogs cling to the wall, then getting attacked by the bat and figuring it out in a real hurry :P.
Man these videos keep dropping at the best of times! Insane!
I can actually feel how watching this video has changed the way I'll be interacting with the game in the future. This is such a chilled out pace. I have to remember that it's a story telling game, the win-condition is something interesting happening; it's having a neat story. I keep forgetting when I'm in the thick of forgotten beasts and goblin sieges, getting frustrated at my populations being decimated but that's the story. It's be boring without any conflict. It'd be like reading a history book instead of a fantasy novel.
Thank you, for reminding me why I love the game.
a bell that big would need to be shot by a ballista or something to be rung which is such a amazing thought, bell on one side of the bridge, ballista on the other, ring it every day to single trade between the two worlds.
I love the way you think
@@kruggsmash the only alternative route would be a enslaved giant or something with some brass knuckles which is equally cool
Every time Krugg starts making a new fortress his wife gets a notification saying: Kruggsmash has fallen inta a strange mood…”
i have a fantasy setting of my own in the works in which the two major continents are connected by an ancient bridge. This is some great food for thought, and its just fun to see the same idea being explored
"Ah, my friends, is bringing glory to Idrath a waste?" Gigachad
I can tell this will be a Krugg classic
just started this because i randomly got your video recommended and oh my god how enjoyable is this! your delivery is both engaging and relaxing, excited to see the other episodes!
How are these stories so good?!! Just incredible!
I recommend putting metal bars on the bridge sides, it's pretty and prevent dwarves from falling into the sea
Love the premise behind this fort, great intro! Having a fort built on a bridge is a really interesting idea, looking forward to future episodes!
Krugg has graduated to an animator. Something I never noticed.
really like this story. hope it goes on for several episodes
I love the idea for this fort! Building the fortress as a giant bridge fort is a stroke of genius. I hope to be as ambitious as you in DF some day lol
Yet another great piece by kruggsmash, my evening is now. complete. Many thanks 😊
I like that my starting dwarves pop into existence, I get to see their unique history being made, earning a place in legend
Man I love your long multiple-episode stuff! 10/10
I never get tired of the artwork, and how smooth you can say all of these bizzare names.
I like how that Dwarf used the tactics he saw those Troglodytes use. After all they would know how to survive down there.
thanks for your vids krugg, they are always the highlight of my day. you production just keeps getting better btw, hope you are not overworking yourself
finding your channel is like an entire cavern full of gold and steel
I'm having *the* worst time because of my exams. As always, your video managed to calm me down, laugh and feel better
please never stop playing this world.
I want to see this world become a dwarftopia
Until they inevitably Dig Too Deep of course!
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth Who doesn't love clowns?
@@j.murphy4884 Clowns sure bring fun
@TheR00k Maybe you can colonise the circus.
Loved the depiction of the grand hall at the beginning. Fixed in my mind as dwarven architecture now.
Awesome intro sequence! I love Vabok! (Even if he probably wouldn't love me haha)
All hail, King of the Dwarves Krug has returned!
I like the idea of charging a ''tax'' to cross the bridge if it were possible
Today was a hard day. I was on the brink of an anxiety crisis here. And just on time you released this video and I sighed like a relieved bearded bastard. Your videos and style of playing DF always calm me down man, just thank you very very very much
Yup! All stress just *poof*, gone.
Lady Idrath smiles upon Sarvesh! She granted him the luck he needed in his defense against the giant bat, for his cunning in uncovering and procuring those precious gems.
I like that it started as building a rich fortress, then building a bridge, then building the fortress on the bridge.
Man, you are just doing such great work. The stories you are telling are absolutely masterful. Thank you so much for your content!
AMAZING production, I'm so hooked on your work.
I absolutely love your artwork and your storytelling. Thank you.
I was just thinking about when a new Kruggsmash story would be coming along early today and lo and behold. Can’t wait to get into it!
Love it. An exciting premise.
I have always wanted to build a clear glass bridge across a warm (non-freezing) strait, parting the sea by draining water underneath the seabed to build the supports. I always imagined how cool it would be for dwarves to ascend from the fortress compound beneath the ocean through the aquarium-like bridge supports to the heights of the bridge towers, where distant sailors may mistake them for some kind of a celestial beings ... that never came to be though.
Absolutely love a basic ass fortress with a goal to work towards, it's my favorite thing to watch. Keep em coming Krugg!
I occasionally hear the song of what sounds like a white-crowned sparrow in the background! (Two long, high notes followed by a trill) I'm not entirely sure it's the white-crowned sparrow since their song varies by region and this one sounds a bit different from the ones I'm used to, but it makes me happy! The white crowned sparrow is my favorite bird, and its song makes me think of summer :)
Bless your beard, Krugg. I look forward to your videos more than anything on TV right now.
Your storytelling is the stuff of legends. I love your work. Have a great day.
5:33 ...something about that Fox and its stubby little legs is just hilarious
A giant toad farm will sure provide meat , leather and bones 4x valuable than compared to ordinary livestock
Truly a blessing from the goddess of wealth
I never played Dwarf Fortess (a little intimidating) but I being following this channel for... years now, and I never miss a series. Your type of story telling its very appealing, and Im looking forward to more interesting fortress!
Pure comedy gold. I did not laugh that hard since the cyklops screaming in the wooden fortress.
I hope you continue this world for a long time, I love seeing a world's history span over multiple series!
Seems like a really cool base idea for a fortress. "Just build a bridge" :D
Improvising backstories against the emergent narrative generator is absolutely phenomenal. It's all very good.
That bridge would be really cool to build on/around. Rooms/workshops off to the sides, more above and below via stairwells or floor hatches
When Krugg spoke of building a entire fortress over the bridge my heart beats in joy. But when he spoke of underwater facilities... It exploded in happiness!
Go Build en krugg!
Always love seeing a Kruggsmash video pop up. The blend of narrative, production value, and art really makes your videos come together as something special.
Amazing video as always. Big thanks!
Building the fortress into the bridge is an amazing idea
I just discovered this channel through a recommendation of one of the "History of DF" videos on CZcams, and I'm amazed by the production quality of this video! I found your style easier to follow as a layman when it comes to the game, and it really demonstrates the story generator potential of the game. It reminds me of Pete Complete's narration of RimWorld.
Bloody legendary haha! Been an absolute trip watching through all your videos but god was it amazing. Looking forward to what's ahead.
Thank you so much!
I love these videos. Finished the series in one go, I watch Kruggsmash telling myself It'll just be a couple vids but I end up watching everything. Keep it up!
Artwork was even better than normal, and normally it is amazing!!! Great episode!!!
Kruggsmash: "This will be an easy fortress."
The game: "Here, an expansive underground cave full of dangers. Have fun."
Idea if we need to make a prison at some point we should put a lot of the decorative artifacts in it cause then the dwarf gets to sit there and admire them and they can't break them
the quality of this, oh my Krugg, you've outdone yourself!
Your videos bring me so much enjoyment Krugg, even though I understand next to nothing about DF they are an immediate highlight of my day when a new one comes out
Dude, I've followed you for ages and it's so cool to see that you are still putting out such high-quality content. Your art and DF depictions is also something I absolutely love seeing. Have you ever considered writing a children's book or something? I feel like your ability to tell stories and the art you do would be perfect for it.
Troglodytes seem to enjoy climbing. In one of my most recent fortresses there was a family of 7 Troglodytes who spent two decades clinging to a stalactite.
My man, that intro alone was incredible. The production quality was miles ahead of the cable cartoons I grew up with. That’s so impressive, well done!