How I conquered the world in 10 years in Dwarf Fortress
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Waging war against tens of thousands when you're just hundreds is near impossible, but after failing miserably last time I tried this challenge, I'm back trying to conquer every non-Dwarven site in just ten years in Dwarf Fortress.
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Founding the Nightmare (Year 1)
12:52 - The secret ingredient is people (Year 2-4.5)
29:32 - The first Empires fall (Year 4.5-7)
40:37 - Circling the drain (Year 7-9)
48:44 - The Age of Legends (Final Year) - Hry
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Medtob feels like a dark souls boss at this point
Medtob, Captain of the Guard
If you don't think about it, Elden Ring kinda stole its whole concept from my videos.
@@JustDontDietrueee, now that you say it I can clearly see it
When good food, good beds, good grog, random nice stuff in a bedroom, and a mist generator in the meeting hall won't keep your dwarfs happy, you're either doing something wrong, or incredibly right/ awesome.
Right? Their friends are gone, they have to see tons of violence, and ghosts terrorize them, but they should have been happier. It's on them not me.
A wild ride indeed. Would be interesting to see an attempt at restoring the settlement to its former glory now that the mission is over and outside threats are largely dealt with
If Dwarf Fortress is primarily an engine for generating emergent stories through gameplay, then it's one hell of a well-oiled machine by now. Gone are the legendary days of Boatmurdered, for good and bad, so much has changed, but there's still the core there. This ended so perfectly, so bleakly, that it could have been written to turn out that way and be a great narrative about, you know. How war is bad, even the 'winners' are left with nothing by the end, an eye for an eye makes everyone blind, a civilization that only exists to support a huge military's endless wars isn't much of any civilization at all, all that stuff. All from a fun challenge run, which you smashed out of the park.
That’s really thoughtful and original, you must be a writer for reddit movie studios
There is so much wrong with your comment.
War is always necessary. If you are not prepared to defend yourself you need to befriend someone who will, 'cause there is always someone out to walk all over you. Vengeance is justice, rules only work when you are prepared to punish wrong-doing. Punishment is only effective if it's feared.
You need to do some serious learning. The world is not and will never be "the marshmallow fairy wonderland of friendship".
@@spankyjeffro5320 yeah but it could be
@@spankyjeffro5320 While I'll admit that it's ultimately practical to treat war/violence as an inevitability, it is not naive to not see it as necessary. The thing about war is it's biggest proponents are often those who directly benefit from it or those who cannot conceive of a world of peace. The former are always those in charge who do not need to send themselves to battles, but stand to gain spoils and power from them. The latter are those broken by war, having to adopt bleak and ruthless mindsets to survive the beast of war so that they won't be swallowed up themselves.
Ultimately, your perspective posits that humans can never follow their better natures. They will always devolve to brutality and violence when given the chance. And while that perspective is not necessarily wrong, valorizing it as anything but bleak, cynical defeatism strikes me as tasteless.
@@spankyjeffro5320war isn’t necessary. Wars are only fought to benefit a corrupt ruling class. Every single war.
An amazing race against the clock, both the one set by yourself and the inevitable tantrum spiral brewing through the entire second half of the run that was one legendary axedwarf rampage away from a bloodsplattered tomb.
The only reason that din't happen was because they were too busy fighting abroad to go to the ghost tavern
Love the storytelling in your videos, it's incredible how you can forge not just a story, but a legacy in one 1 hour long video.
Thanks so much! I feel like it's hard to balance the line between focusing on the challenge and having too much fluff, but I love when it feels like it plays out well here. My first draft of this video was about a half hour longer haha, but I think that was def too much fluff/fortress building.
@@JustDontDieyouve got good odds that Id watch that extra half hour. Will there be a directors cut?
@@adamguthrey6160 Ahaha, sadly not. Most got axed before I lined it up with footage etc, and I wouldn't say much of what I do have the footage ready to go on is particularly interesting. It's mostly jokes I was iffy on = cut and taking a long time explaining things that's not necessarily great content.
For example, I cut about 4 minutes from the first 20 that were setting up some of the notes hit later on. There was a bit more of a focus on the metalworkers, the human adventurers that helped before becoming ghosts, and fluff about the fortress that became the more focused 'summary' moments like digging major milestones.
Would be interesting to see this made into a happy, prosperous fortress.
Why do you ask the impossible of me? :^)
@@JustDontDie 10 years lets go
Its always fun playing randomly generated colony games. You set out with a goal in mind only to figure out your map just was not meant for it. It was probably meant for your last playthrough idea. My current fort would be good for this because basically all of the ore is iron with a faint trace of silver and copper, but ive only found exactly 1 block of native gold.
Honestly, the map ended up being pretty decent. Early gold = lots of people, and while the lack of iron slightly slowed down steel production, I had enough by the time I started setting out in earnest. I might have sped up the initial attacks slightly with more steel, but I think my ultimate army would have been slightly smaller. I think the only decent settlable part of the world nearish the center being on the south side, when a big lake separated me from the huge # of targets in the north, was more unlucky than the iron ended up being
"Why does Medtob keep kidnapping children?"
What do you think's gonna happen when a single mother of 3 is leading your warmongering?
I'd be interested in wandering this world as an adventurer.
Gotta look out for those diagonals on staircases!
I was trying to rush. I should not have rushed =(
You put so much effort into these videos, please don't get discouraged.
He reminds me of trmplays rimworld vids but without all the savescumming and giving up half way through the series😂
Gonna autism everywhere real quick, but the material of shields don't matter for protective purposes. A wooden shield will stop spewing fire and silver mauls with the same ease as steel shields. However metal shields and steel shields are "better" in the specific scenario of when your troops bash enemies with the shields.
Also blunt weapons like maces and hammers can be used as suitable alternatives to bladed weapons as the peak materials for bludgeons are steel AND silver equally, meaning ore like Tetrahedrite can be used to produce silver maces and hammers, which will perform admirably in combat.
I feel like silver maces and hammers is much more fitting than steel, at least in my head canon.
This is the best DF content I've ever seen.
The mantra "happiness is a resource" fits you perfectly 😂
"10 years to fix this fort's happiness" next? sounds harder than one would think, and you may need a well deserved break 😂
Stop asking the impossible of me!
@@JustDontDie Hey if anyone can do it, its you.
That would take 10 actual irl years💀
The improvement in editing from the conquest video is insane, keep up the hard work! It is being appreciated!
I have one, extremely simply request. Please make the most prosperous and we'll defended fortress ever. I mean designed to be impervious to forgotten beasts and external threats alike. A fortress built with the goal of weathering every possible storm while keeping the inhabitants in as good spirits as possible.
Basically the safest game. Not some blitz across only a decade, but years of slow build up resulting in a steady, immovable foundation on which expansion may progress. Keeping enough soldiers at home and a high enough amount of workers that the troubles you face here aren't even a concern.
TL;DR:
I wanna see an absolute victory, regardless of how boring it may seem. I wanna see legends forged of a fortress stronghold so grand that even sleeping quarters are lined with marble and gold, while masterwork artifacts like grand hallways, their walls covered in glorious engravings.
My god what storytelling, sweet music to my ears !
would be cool to see adventure mode of this bloodied world
"And the fifth artifact in 4 years is a boot." **video buffers**
This is a copper high boot. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with giant cave spider silk and giant olm leather. This object menaces with spikes of copper. On the item is an image of a radiant cut gem in alunite. On the item is an image of a diamond in alunite.
Wonder how much it would take to restore the fort into a nice place to live, or if migrants are just not gonna come again and it would be a slow grind of births to bring the fort back to glory now that the world is defeated.
I could be wrong, but I believe it'd be possible but very difficult. The fortress' wealth is much lower now that all the steel gear is abroad, but the meals and gold at home should keep migrant waves coming. I think the big problem is going to be attacks. There won't be any sieges now that everyone's dead, but megabeasts and titans and the like will be scaled to a huge fortress that has no military and only 17 tantrum-prone dwarves. Births alone won't be enough, as the human ghosts I can't do anything about were killing about a person a year, outpacing births.
That would be fun to watch tbh
Sir... The mission, the nightmares... they're finally... over.
Outstanding video. Good to see you again :)
Bravo bravo! I was on the edge of my seat at the end of the
Wonderedcastles is the type of fortress that would probably get generated as a "Dark Dwarven Fortress"... tagged as Friendly
it would be cool to see a second challenge in the same world ~50 years later, maybe building a utopia with an iron rule and siphoning resources from the last few colonies on the planet
Little tip for blunt weapons, steel is too light a metal to make for effective bonking. You want as heavy as possible. Platinum is best but can only happen through strange moods, so silver or copper, in that order, are a your best bets. This is the same for crossbows, since dorfs will use them as a blunt weapon if they run out of bolts. Can't make silver crossbows, so copper is the way to go for those.
I just randomly clicked for some white noise but damn what an Epic Journey. A fitting end for Medtob the cook and the scholar. They won but they have nothing to be proud of.
Congrats on winning the challenge! What a run.
Just what i needed rn, some good quality df content.
Medtob gets Khorne's approval and become a Daemon Prince, they now battle endlessly against the Imperium of Man.
Excellent story telling, wonderful video! Well done!
Amazing video! There's somehow still not enough dwarf fortress videos to show how fun the game truly is
So you conquered the world, now you just gotta take on the underworld.
What an excellent story. Thank you for sharing.
God, just, my god. Awesome job and story telling.
Excellent stuff as always! Thank you!
Really snuck that ad in there perfectly Didn't take me out of the story or video at all good job!
Great vid, great story, great finish!
AMAZING video mate!
Best channel for dwarf fortress content
This is up there with Archcrystal and Boatmurdered. What an end. Great story.
So glad you’re back
I could say that I had a premonition that caused me to check your channel for your newest upload. the truth is that I habitually check your channel because I love your content
My goat uploaded when i needed it most
Absolutely nutty finish holy crap
AHHH that is an absolutely ENORMOUS farm plot for how this game works
"How I became a genocidal tyrant in Dwarf Fortress"
Darn, I was looking for a guide on how not to become one.
Oh well, this will do
I want to see an adventure mode in this dead world
I asked for something to watch and the world obliged - haha yes!
Dwarf Fortress now has its Choas Dwarfs
Love me a good Dwarf fortress story!!!!
This was an awesome run
"We did it everyone! We destroyed the world!"
Still waiting for that play where you spend 5 years building up a fortress with a massive army to go on a one time crusade per kingdom because they cannot survive the hundreds of dwarves attacking every site they have simultaneously.
What a legend of an episode haha, always is 🎉
This is Awesome!
No way we got part 2
Single ambulance in the us? I know you found gold but let’s not dream that big now alright?
The great book of grudges will be settled.
You should totally make a video where you explore the destroyed world in adventure mode
Wow, that's cool! But have you heard of Jo Bai Dan?
now do a timelapse of the dwarfs cleaning up the fortress
"There's a point where you can't do evil to somebody else without doing it to yourself."- Tom Snyder after interviewing Charles Manson
What an adventure!!
RIP, Dang the war cave dragon.
Getting your iron from combat? Back in the day we used to call this "mining goblinite."
I tried this multiple times, sadly my dwarfs kinda refused to destroy sites and sometime squats never returned or returned years later which lead to my fort being open for raids... still i wont give up on conquering the world!
Also just destroying Goblins with squats of Master Macedwarfs, seeing Teetg flying everywhere is just awesome. Especially when outnumbered 10/1
It takes a while to destroy sites. You need good commanders with lots of troops to have a decent chance, and even then some sites just refuse to go down and have to be occupied. It's pretty annoying, unfortunately.
Try putting statues under the water portion of mist generators it will help prevent the mud
GOAT df creator
Great Video
Would Karl be proud of this? I believe so I mean its dwarves after all
Be cool to play this save and recuperate the new order.
Long Live the Empire!
Those were a long "3-ish weeks", but well worth the wait.
A mixture of being busy and motivation being ehhhh, but it came together well. I realized I do a worse job if I'm forcing it, so I only work on vids when I'm in the mood, which means way slower progress but higher quality when they arrive.
@@JustDontDie Life gets busy sometimes, and I can understand being dissatisfied with the results if you force it.
I'm just glad to get a new Dwarf Fortress video from you because it's how I originally found your channel. And yes, it is a lengthy and good one.
Keep up the good work!
King uploaded 🙏
this is the only time where the “you didn’t like the video” schtick got me to like the video out of respect for the sheer boyish charm on this lad
36:30 compulsive absent single mother
She really chose being general over her kids in even coming...
how did you the data to show sites and units of each :O
If you mouse over sites on the world map, it displays the # of people. I manually counted the # of sites and total people for each civ and the overall world at the start then, at the end, went back and checked how many places I'd destroyed every year or two to get a rough estimate of it. Then I calculated the % and made the bars in my editing program Davinci Resolve.
@@JustDontDie thanks I wish there was an easier way
If you dont want soldiers to run all the way from the surface to the caves to kill cavern creatures, you can put a small barracks down there and have a squad of a couple guys train there.
I did do that eventually, which helped a lot, but then got greedy sending them out to raid because it looked like I wasn't going to make it anyways haha.
41:10 the word you're looking for is antepenultimate :)
See, prepenultimate sounds so much better. It should be the right word.
Next challenge: 12 years to conquer the world, but at least half of your dwarves need to be neutral or happier.
I want it to at least be possible! I'm apparently really bad at keeping dwarves happy...
Good God, this makes the Holocaust Museum look like a Disney property.
How long do you put into these colonies in real time? I just got back into df recently and a 10 hour base for me is like 500 dwarves with a completely smoothed over safe haven, full of food and usually bronze (sometimes steel) gear. I assume you probably build for function to get towards your predetermined goal faster?
About 25ish hours for the gameplay, mostly due to just having to wait. My raw footage for this run especially has lots of that in the latter years when there weren't enough hands around the fortress to do much but I had to wait for years to pass while raiding. Then about 70-90 hours for editing, scripting, recording, making animations, thumbs, etc.
Progress is definitely slowed down by all the wars though. While the fort's population topped out at around 160 thanks to constant attacks killing migrants as fast as they came even before i started sending them off, almost half of that was in the military, so my 'real' population for growing is much much slower.
@JustDontDie I see. I don't normally pick fights until I have around 4 squads heavily trained, so I probably have less pressure on my forts compared to yours, but you need that sweet, sweet content. Lol Been loving the videos, bud. 🫶
Cut that extremely close!
Me in all chat: "ez"
Still waiting for more going medieval stories
Just a question, would you mind sharing your modlist?
The only mod I use is dfhack. Everything else, including world Gen settings, were vanilla.
@JustDontDie really? What command did you use to look at your dwarf's history like that?
@@awsomesaucekirby That's legend's mode. If you retire your fortress and save it to a new timeline, then start a new game in that existing world, you click legends mode instead of fortress mode and it opens up an atlas where you can search for names of people, sites, artifacts, etc and see their history.
@@JustDontDie thanks! I usually use DFHack to perform 'blood magic'.
Sacrificing creatures as a cost for the powers the console offers. Ascending in value the more sentient or civilized a sacrificed creature is, and increasing further depending on the complexity of the sacrifice.
How do you access legends mode to show some of your new migrants stories? Do you make another save and restart in Legends mode?
I make a save at the very end to restart in legends mode. I just got a bit lucky that the first two commanders had interesting backstories.
After seeing how empty the fort progressively got, I think it'd be nice if the next series was creating the largest population possible.
P.S. I was a little sad that it dwindled like that but I'm guessing that it's just impossible to keep getting large amounts of migrants while also throwing so many people into war.
I have question: do you name your settlements yourself or are they random names the game suggested?
I let the game name them.
Neat, and thanks for your answer.
I have a decent pc, but when i reach 200+ dwarves it slows considerably. What can i do? I think its the animals in my pen, i have so much cats and dogs... il try to make them backpacks and quivers
Not much you can do the game is super cpu heavy so you could upgrade that. The biggest issue is it's a single core program and all the decently priced cpus are multi core these days
Guys, please tell me how you can send an army on a raid?
If you go to the world map using the button on the bottom right, you can click settlements to send mission's for a variety of things, including raiding
SHORT????!!!!??!?? THATS A GRUDGING
very good video
is like a movie
I like this video
Armok is pleased
Hey algorithm endorse this one please
When you play Stellaris in Dwarf Fortress.
a blessed day
Watching this twice because i can
You madlad...
Grudges = Settled
For Hashut!