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I was still learning how to make an army, so I simply loaded up on traps and worked on training soldiers and creating weapons as I went. Written by Aquillion Posted in Fortress Mode | Tagged Player POV, Theory of DF | 2 Replies Losing is Fun Ask how they manage to stay sane the rest of the time. Wouldn’t you go mad, too?ĭon’t ask why your dwarves go insane or throw tantrums. Eventually, the vision begins to fade and you realize you can no longer remember what the artifact you’d waited your entire life for even looks like. And when food runs out, you’re reduced to grubbing for rats, beetles, and worms in order to survive.Īnd then, when inspiration finally strikes–when you finally a chance to do what you’ve been dreaming to do for your entire life, the one reason you really went through the hell of this horrible fortress, the one true Dwarven dream–when you finally feel inspiration strike you and can see the form of your artifact in your head, you end up wasting three months doing nothing as your incompetent leaders fail to provide you with the necessary materials. Filthy new immigrants are constantly being shoved into your fortress’ cramped quarters, forcing you to work yourself down to the bone to get new quarters ready and leaving you with barely enough food to get through the winter. Horrible creatures regularly crawl out of your drinking water and try to murder you in your beds. If you make a mistake or fail to meet a production order, the sheriff cuts you to pieces with an axe. Wild raccoons and other horrible monsters are just waiting for the chance to rip out your throat. Friends and relatives die regularly and are sometimes just left to rot on the ground.

Portions of the fortress are covered in noxious, wretched miasmas of decay so thick that they actually obscure your view. We’re talking rats and vermin crawling over you while you sleep and eating the food out of your hands.Īnd don’t forget the other things. We’re talking about having the fortress that you slaved to create crawling with rats. It’s not so strange for extremely tough, previously self-reliant types of people to completely flip out when faced with that sort of thing.Īnd we’re not talking about ‘seeing a rat’. When a dwarf gets a serious wound, though, they are likely to be maimed for life. It’s easy to say that they’re snapping easily when you’re just looking at things from outside the monitor and reading events in lines on the screen. You have to look at it from their perspective.