Dwarf Fortress: A Beginners Guide & Tutorial [Steam Edition]

hello and welcome to a beginner's guide to Dwarf Fortress with Dwarf Fortress just hitting steam here recently I thought it would be a good idea to get a sort of a tutorial to get you into the game if you're like me and reading through tutorials just doesn't do it for you you need to watch a video on uh on well to help kind of help you get along because there's a lot going on with this game then my hope is by the end of this video you'll have a a stable Fortress that's somewhat sustainable uh you'll have a defense and farming and food and and crafting and before you know you'll be digging too deep um so that's the plan here today uh so we'll start with this thing off with what is Dwarf Fortress I suppose uh think of this as we've got seven dwarves where we are in the mountains and we've decided to leave our Mountain Homes and head off into the Wilderness to build a fortress what do we do with that Fortress well that's where the game gets a little bit uh complicated because there really is no goal for Dwarf Fortress uh the losing is fun is sort of like the theme here with Dwarf Fortress it's a simulation think of it as uh if you want to make Moria you can do that if you want to make a farming Village you can do that if you want to make a uh a temple to a volcano God you can do that it's a very open-ended thing and it's a little bit overwhelming for new folks getting into the game so I'm gonna hopefully get you through that so anyway let's start this thing off by creating a world that's where we begin any game of Dwarf Fortress we build ourselves a new world now for most of this uh if anything's overwhelming I'm gonna try to ease into it but for the most part just leave it as it is I'm gonna go small to make it a little bit faster but we've got just a nice standard World here we can go detailed if you want to but for now we're going to create ourselves a world now in this creation process there's a lot going on here it's creating every dwarf every human elf uh all the monsters and goblins it's creating their families and uh like the quests that these these folks have gone on maybe a dwarf ran off into the mountains and fought a dragon the dragon ate him up uh well we can read that in here that's happening now Wars are happening uh some civilizations may rise and fall and there's a lot of detail here in fact I've actually used a Dwarf Fortress uh World building thing as a d d campaign before because there's just so much information in the game that it plays everything out for you uh and you can see it kind of running by here we're on year 100 already within that you can see a lot of the big notes happening along the way here with like uh the boar Terrors of tenderness the chunky barbarity founded great uh basically there's different places here on the world and you can kind of look around here and see uh different spots that there's a giant volcano there in the middle of the world everything is located up there in the top right it is the points of starving is the name of that volcano now we've got some Sinister places there there is a a Dwarven Tower there which may be along to like a necromancer of some kind we got a human Castle over here another human Castle the doors like to hang out in the mountains of course uh the elves of course hang out in the trees but we're gonna say yeah great world let's continue on there's three different ways of of playing I uh use quotes with the word playing for Dwarf Fortress there is Fortress mode which is what we're gonna be doing today which is the one you're probably familiar with where you get you dig your minds into the into the into the world uh there is a adventure mode which is not here yet in the steam version you take one adventure and roam through that world you just made there's also Legends mode which basically just tells us everything we just saw and uh list set out for us and every artifact in the world every site every poem every war every civilization it's all in there um you know Urus the dwarf got a black eye because he ran into a dingo at one point that's that's listed in there so we're gonna go into Fortress mode and start this thing off now there is a tutorial in the game and uh I I do recommend you use it uh and and get into the game it will it will it will uh hopefully teach you some keys and at least get you to where you know what you're doing but uh uh I will do my best to get you in here as well now uh this is the world we just made and you can see you can see the mountains and you can see the forests and you can see the rivers mostly what you want to look for here especially for your first or second embark is just a void and you can see all the notes over here where my cursor is is what's going on over there there's a brook there there's some sand there's some soil there's an aquifer there's all the different Metals in there we're dwarves we like Metals if you want to do anything we need medals the only thing I say to watch out for is anything that's Sinister obviously I shouldn't have to tell you that if you see something sinister or something haunted you probably should stay away from that uh and also stay away from aquifers aquifers are just kind of a pain especially for like early on in the game so we're gonna find a place where dwarves we're gonna find a place here in the mountains somewhere the West is like Mountain Land looks like so we're gonna find a place in the mountains we can click to zoom in middle Mouse to kind of scoot us around here or wasde and we'll find a spot like um you can kind of see what we're looking at here the soil over there there's some soil there's not a lot of soil here in the mountains of course there's some trees over here also you make sure you want to make sure you've got trees because you need trees to make beds and barrels and uh a few important things bows of course so we're gonna go in here and click Embark and find a spot to call home if you've got a less a less than optimal computer you can you can lower this this inbox size but we're going to leave it as it is for right now and pick a spot uh temperate Savannah perfect right there seems nice uh if you want to go without any enemies then you can turn that off I won't judge you uh in fact I probably would would recommend that for your first few forts now for right now we'll leave it as it is I'm gonna touch any buttons here uh at this point in the game we can choose to just jump into the game and do whatever you want uh it gives you a beginning pack of dwarves and gear and dogs and cats and all that and food or you can do it yourself like uh like Oregon Trail really you're gonna you pick your dwarves out you pick what they with the anvils and axes and all that and you can pick it all as you trudge out into the world we're just going to pick play now though to get us into the game into just you know well get in the game so we've arrived after a journey from the Mountain Homes into the forbidding Wilderness beyond your harsh Trek has finally ended your party of seven is to make an outpost for the glory of all of kironitis that is the name of our civilization almost no supplies left but with Stout labor consistence whether by bolt plower hook provide for your dwarves You're Expecting Supply caravan's gonna be a caravan coming in here in the uh in the fall um but for right now we're on our own until winter and tombs us it's spring now enough time to delve secure lodgings air the dingoes get hungry the name of our place is acrylicor tin Cavern strike the Earth what a name for a fortress all right so what are we looking at well let me let me show you here well so right here we've got a wagon uh the wagon is what we've brought all of our stuff on so things like our axes our anvils our food our drinks that's all on that wagon right now all these different folks standing around here are our dwarves we've got uh mebs if here mebs if the minor you can always click on anybody uh right click we'll take it off left click click on them Doran who's our Fisher dwarf he's 55 years old this is what he he values knowledge he's got a good memory this is a big part of the game of Dwarf Fortress is the detail that's put into every single character in the game he's impatient uh uh he he's a proficient Fisher dwarf he loves going out and catching fish he even talks about it [Music] um everyone has relationships and uh you know they'll get married and all that if you ever have any we'll see this later on thoughts is a good way uh an overview actually well it's a good way of kind of getting an idea what uh if your dwarves are happy and and what they're missing if they're missing chairs or if they're missing mugs or or they're getting rained on they'll tell you all this stuff and so you can't kind of help you out now as far as what we're looking at for the game world I'm gonna use the mouse wheel to scroll up and we can go up into the air I'm going to hit hold Ctrl and scroll as well to kind of zoom out a bit so we can get an idea what we're looking at here there's like a top-down view here so I scroll up we zoom up I scroll down we Zoom down now we're doors we're gonna be going into the mountain of course because that's what we do uh but for right now we're just gonna find a spot to uh to dig on in so I'm gonna zoom in here back to our dwarves you can also see our animals we've got our lamb and our cats let's see what the cat is there's Mr stray cat he's four years old he's tough but he's kind of lazy makes sense anything that is uh you can put your cursor on this is all Mouse based now so anything we can look at here is like this is all uh Pete Pete walls here so we're gonna go in the first thing we're gonna do is dig into the mountain uh there's there's three things right we want we want food we want shelter we want drink those are our first priorities so we gotta get underground and we want to get all of our stuff underground as well because there's things out there we don't want to deal with so let's click the beginning thing and then click on back so we're gonna dig ourselves a nice tone here I'm gonna do a two wide tunnel and let them dig away now as we come into here uh we want to get stuff inside right so we get a stockpile so let's start off with a a a nice Square Room here like that and when I hit space and I have a dwarf who is a miner who should go get their pick if she goes and she's gonna start digging and there is you can see that is mebs of here we just saw mebs of mebs if at 71 years old she's digging at the moment she is a proficient Miner she's also good at appraising some things she's satisfied at work so she's gonna go dig around all she wants if for instance we want to add another dwarf to go and help with the mining we pause the game real quick we can come in here and look at our dwarves everything uh all of our information for what is in the map is right here in front of us those are all dwarves we've got mibs if we saw mibsif we got sodel our woodworker we gotta do some amazing we've got uh as emitib there's a melocrafter uh don't worry here is a fish and dwarf we saw him a minute ago he's out that's what he does is fishing we got thikut the planter gets his food we got rigoth our Expedition leader he's the guy in charge of this whole this whole operation any pets we may have are also listed in this this menu here and you can see all of them some of them have to get out into a pastor at some points which we will certainly do we can slaughter them if we need to uh interesting in the world on our map right now there's a Kestrel and an eagle no one's dead yet so but for now for the first thing we're gonna do is just get the place dug out I would like to have my my minor dwarf get a little help only one person digging we've got more than one pickaxe so let's go grab like our metal craft you hear all as isn't doing anything right now and so as I would like you I'm gonna go over here to as chart we're gonna go to labor I'm gonna say as go mine right click to get it off as you'll notice we'll go to the carts get a pickaxe and get to help mine in these little black bits in here is some black Zircon clusters good stuff dwarves we're dwarves we love that kind of stuff now right now we're in a Pete Cavern floor ideally we go into some Stone floors but this is fine for for just getting into the game we got a stockpile here now stockpile space here now so let's go do that before we do anything else let's get all our stuff inside we're gonna click on down here at the bottom the place stockpiles for item storage I'm gonna click on the stockpile place we're going to click and click and we accept that's where our stockpile is going to be what kind of stockpile is that the game is asking me well we're gonna say all for right now uh actually we're gonna say we're going to say custom right now and I'm going to go ahead and put everything in there except for corpses no corpses and no refuse and I want no stones in there and no wood in there oh everything else is fine it can go in there but oh that stuff's gonna stay out again right click it goes away right click again it goes away and the dwarves you can see they're going through the carts grabbing that stuff throwing it inside if anything comes up any any tool tips they're all listed over here right click to make that go away there's uh there's no my Fisherman's complaining there's no fish to catch he'll be all right all right so we've got we've got our stuff underground but we still have don't have shelter we don't have uh drink we don't have food so let's deal with that so we're gonna start out with some more mining let's go ahead and dig out a um let's get like a farm spot first so let's dig out a nice Square here for our fields and then our fields are going to make mushrooms we're dwarves we could we could plant outside if we wanted to but that's that sounds kind of Elven and we don't do that around here and so as long as we're on dirt dirt or sand we can place our farmland and so we're going to do that what do we have over here it's like one of our animals has grown up we have stocked alanites and there's nothing to catch in the Southeastern swamps yeah yeah my fisherman dwarf is just having all kinds of troubles okay so there's gonna be our Farmland over here let's go ahead and get that set up now we've got the mining menu which was the digging menu I should say was down here we want to dig stairs we want to dig um the uh the caverns if you want if you want to get rid of these this ramp right here we can click on the no ramps tool and click on that and it'll clear that out so we can have a nice opening into our Fortress here uh let's go ahead and get into our building menu so we're gonna spend a lot of time here anytime we make anything we're gonna go into this build menu and we're gonna go into workshops now uh workshops with things like carpenter shop and Mason and and well everything you can see here uh we want to get our farming started up first so let's go to the farm and we're gonna go into the farm plot and again we're going to just click and click uh I think standard is like this you select the material after placement and it doesn't have that on it so we're going to click and that's good enough probably right right about there and so one of my dwarves my plantar dwarf which we know we have a planter dwarf uh well I'm just doing it so our miners doing it so they're gonna come over here and they're gonna build that they're gonna they're gonna plow those fields there underground because we make mushrooms dwarves uh have one there's one staple food that is plump helmets we can eat them we can drink them we don't need water we just need booze and we make that out of those plump helmets so if we if we have a water supply nearby that's there's nothing wrong with that I don't think I have anything on this map I didn't see anything anyway um I don't think yeah I don't have any water on this map this is just a mountain like a couple little puddles out there which is what he's whining about they're too small to have any fishing or anything but it's not a problem because there are Caverns underneath the place and so we can eventually dig down and get water and uh and all kinds of surprises for us so the the farm is ready to go we're gonna click on it and tell them to make plump helmets now this is in the spring like plump how much in the spring we want plump how much all here so we're gonna put pump helmets all year that is our food source and that is our drink Source most important drink Source we can always click on a dwarf and see what's going on euphoric due to inebriation they brought some beer with them so they she is happy that she gets to drink she's annoyed having to drink without using a cup so she's going over the barrel and she's just holding her hands out and looking it up like a cat that's is how things are when you're uh in door flame I guess so across the way here we're gonna make our still and let's get that start up first remember food drink and uh um and shelter so back to workshops we're gonna go back into farming we're gonna go to the still this is going to brew alcohol from Plants fruit or honey we're gonna put it uh I put it in the same room here I'm just sticking across the hall just because that's what I made here so I click on that guy and every time you make something it's gonna ask you what do you want to make it out of do you want to make it out of out of alanites with these purple rocks here we've got Brimstone also which is right right in here uh we'll take the alanine it doesn't really matter takes one of these things click on it there you go somebody's gonna go over there and craft it up looks like um mesbeth again nesbeth is very busy very busy the only dwarf really does anything around here so she's gonna make us still and that'll give us some some uh drinks now to deal with workshops we're gonna click on it and this is gonna come up this way so we've got to steal nothing's happening with this still we're gonna add a new task I would like you to make some drinks so we'll do that in a minute so when we get some we're gonna go Blue Brew drink from Plants that's gonna be our thing we're gonna do here as soon as we can you can see it says requires empty food storage item means that we don't have any barrels to put it into so let's let's deal with that I'm gonna dig out a little bit more here something like that we're just gonna have like an end an end room here and it's gonna be kind of like our our main our main hall for our dwarves we'll have our tables and our chairs this is our shelter tables chairs uh a place to store our drinks all that kind of stuff uh because my still is right here I'm gonna go ahead and put in a uh another stockpile this stockpile is going to be just my drinks and food uh we'll put it in right there that's good we can come in here and say I want just food in there in fact if you want to move more specifically come in here and say I want I want none of that I just want drinks in here if we want if we wanted to be that specific which is fine so all our drinks will be in that room next to this still so the person that goes and makes the makes the drinks I get toss it and then they're done you know nice and easy so they're gonna continue digging out here and uh we have a an important thing that I haven't made yet and that is a carpenter's workshop and a Mason shop a stone cutter shop looks like we've hit some some Stone here finally so let's go and let's make this like a a main Meeting Hall um yeah we'll leave like that I'm gonna go and carve a little bit more out here and do uh like our carpenter shop and our Mason back here this is gonna be the most most secure whoops most secure fortresses but it'll be something uh something to get us into there uh we'll get some doors to get this place sealed up we'll get uh we'll get food and drink and all that taken care of this room is done over here and so uh and also all as is this one so let's go ahead and get to building another Workshop we want to go ahead and get a carpenter shop this is going to take all the wood outside and make it into beds or barrels or whatever so we'll make it out of Brimstone sure you may want to where's all the wood we don't have any wood that's right we haven't chopped any so we're gonna do with a tree chopping thing a button and chop some trees there's two trees here we just sort of highlight whatever we got over there there's one there we can highlight that and our wood cutter which we can see over here we go to tasks actually click tasks right here and all the things we've got fail tree looks like sodal is on the way to doing it and we can see Soto right there we can even follow this a little if it wants and watch sodal chop that tree down and there was all the logs well we can do these logs they're just laying around outside oh we can or because I didn't put wood in that stockpile we can set up just like a Woodstock pile outside just you know for keep things organized around here uh an organized dwarf is a happy dwarf no I don't know about that but that's uh sure let's go get a wood stockpile there it's a thin if they have any free time they'll go do that we'll go over all the tasks and all the work orders in a minute and we'll we'll see where that comes in but those will get hauled over there in a minute what they're dealing with these uh these Farm plots at the moment now the Carpenters Workshop we wanted to make barrels and beds and things the same thing add a new task what do we want we want beds uh we want like let's make like four beds there's an easier way of doing this but I'm going to show you the basic way right now we want beds we want barrels that's what we're going to be putting our our drinks into and food um we can take a couple bins because that'll help us with our stockpile land also keep things a little more organized so we can have a little bit rather than having a toy per square we're gonna have a toy in every uh mini toys in one square it's a bin so there's the carpenter shop and sodal again it's hard at work getting that done if there's ever a Time when somebody's not doing a job that you want them to do you can go over here to uh don't show me that again uh over here into tasks uh um sorry labor now labor is all the jobs that our dwarves are going to do and what they're good at as well so for instance miners we've got mebsif and as are our two miners they're the only ones that selected to do the mining job so if you ever have something done like you put out your planting and nobody plants no one's no one's doing the job for instance then you'll have a planter now so right right now as everyone was able to do it which is why everyone was hanging out there I just want secret to go and do the planting it was over here now it's just the it's going to be going and doing it uh same with Fisher dwarfs only the fishermen will do it there's anything missing then this this is how you fix that the Stone Cutters and gravers and Haulers is all on everybody you can change that if you ever need to uh to add a new one maybe you want to have a doctor for instance uh you can do that and uh um you can select who you want your doctor to be uh we'll say regoth you can go be a doctor you know that kind of stuff and change the name if you want this is this is my my doctor uh one there we go okay again right click goes away so we got the same things made we have a carpenter shop making some beds apparently he's made some they are not no space in my storage bin so there's a hangout over there uh I forgot I have food in here so I'm gonna go ahead and tell this stockpile click on it click view stockpile I'm going to tell it to not carry drinks oops wrong button button knots carry drinks because the drinks are in the other one so all the drinks should get moved from here into here so our still will get to work uh as it needs to get to work uh one more thing we want to do with our animals we got a bunch of animals hanging around this this cart here and they need a place to pasture not all of them have to pasture like the cats and the dogs and like bunnies and chickens they can be wherever but some animals like the horses um the horses animals eat grass basically we're gonna go and give them a zone so we got a new button here green dwarf down here is a zone so we're gonna set up a spot we'll just put it in like rides yeah yeah like right um in here and we're going to make this pin slash pasture I'm going to click there and just put him like that's fine so there's our pasture of our animals we accept that and we say what animals are going to be in there with this button right here and we can say the dogs and cats can go anywhere the cats are good to keep around the food keeps the rats out dogs keep other things out it's bird and things away from your food and stuff so let's go and put uh the donkey uh the Sheep the Llama the horse they will all go over there you can right click and someone will grab them and move them into the pasture so they'll hang out here and not die so if you ever have an animal that's dying because they're hungry they're not pastured looks like sodal has made a masterpiece cherry wood bed great speaking of beds our dwarves don't sleep anywhere shelter was one of the first ones I mentioned and we're not doing it so let's build a doorway here we're gonna build a little hallway we're gonna make a dormitory for right now you can do individual bedrooms of course uh typically when I do individual bedrooms I do like um just little two by two rooms you can do two by three rooms if you want more space for your dwarves and give them each individual beds uh um right now a dormitory is fine this early in the game so we'll get that dug out for that um I want to also make I'll do that one out there so our um are you uh we need more barrels getting made uh let's get some more barrels made more barrels two more barrels why don't we there you go she's gonna be able to work over there okay so here's our dormitory now in the carpenter shop we made those beds they're hanging out in there you can see them in the pile we got we got a cherry bed we got a pecan bed so it looks like we got another Cherry one over there as well so let's go put those out again build for B uh uh we're gonna go into Furniture this time and we're gonna say bits so now this would be kind of annoying if you have it on the default setting which you select material every time and uses it and it's gonna I'll show you click on it it's gonna ask people to make it out of that bed right there done or we can come in here click Furniture click bin click use closest material to make a bet it'll make it out of whatever beds closest and then keep building after I'm done with it I'm making a bunch of beds so let's keep on doing it there and we'll go until we don't have any more there we go we got four beds I'm gonna go over there and get them done as soon as I can so there is our dormitory but it's not a dormitory yet it's just beds in a room we gotta set up as a dormitory we do that with our zones so click on Zone we're gonna click the corner no sorry we're gonna click on dormitory I'm Gonna Fill this room that is a dormitory now and all those beds are known as dormitories and the dwarves will know where to go sleep uh uh let's go ahead and get that that uh Stone worker shop I was talking about before so we go to workshops again we're gonna go in here into into a uh um uh stoneware stoneworker shop and throw it in right here there we go because I have that still set up it's just going to make it out of whatever if I want to go back to selected material I click that one again to have it do that uh something I like to do is I like to have like a wood stock pile and a stone stockpile next to my Carpenter and my Mason because then they don't go so far to grab stuff so we'll go ahead and do that real quick we'll set up a small stockpile right here something like that and that would be our Woodstock pile we should probably got wood outside but there'll be some more wood in there and we can make another one over here of stone there we go until the hall whatever they can out this way uh you may notice my dwarves are still hanging out outside and if we look at them they are probably a little cranky about sitting in the rain I think it was raining earlier uh well it was raining early now it's cleared uh annoyed caught in the rain you wonder why are they hanging out outside we got a whole Fortress here well we need to set up a meeting area so same thing with zones we're gonna come in we're gonna select the meeting area let me put this in right here this is gonna be my my tables and chairs and just place to hang out and dance poets will come in here and you know all that kind of stuff effects I'm also going to make this dining hall let's go ahead and click that same Zone here and accept so there's my dining hall and meeting area if I wanted to give someone their own specific dining hall I can click that here and give it to a specific dwarf but no this is for anybody then come in here and do that speaking of let's make some tables and chairs and we can do it out of wood we can do it out of stone whichever one so we'll make um uh actually you know I'll have my Mason make a couple of doors let's make like four doors and I will show you how to make things a little easier rather than just coming in here and having to say um brutal from plants and do it all the time repeat this task indefinitely just if you got an empty barrel and you got plump helmets you squeeze those plump helmets and you fill up your barrels as much as you can which they are doing right now as we speak we can also go in and depending what I want to show this right now or uh let me pause let me pause uh they're missing some plants that's what that was all about my my leader can't Brew drinks because there's no plants because they're they're just not coming in so again we can go in to our Mason shop and we can build them like I've shown but there's an easier way there's a work order way and this way you can set up like uh you're gonna hire someone to be your manager and that manager is going to go and and give out orders and tell you what and tell your other drawers what to do we do that all in here in the administrator's menu so administrator's menu this one is all of the folks that are in charge of the Fortress we can see regoth here who's our Expedition leader uh if anyone needs a bed uh or or their own uh their own desk or their own their own dining room then all will be listed here you may get a mayor you may get a king if you're if you have a very large Fortress uh and they want their own stuff which I've shown how to do that how to assign it to certain people and some of these guys will want offices so we're going to get ourselves a manager you'll click the plus sign there on manager uh if anyone is good at managing it'll say it over here right now reguff is the only adequate organizer which is fine rigoff he's an expedition leader he's a manager what a great guy he wants a study so he wants to be able to go in go to his desk take notes or whatever he does in there so that's what our next task is going to be and if we need a dwarf a a medical dwarf we can do that here a broker we're gonna use that for whenever uh the Traders come in to go and do some trading you want someone who knows how to appraise and how to get good value a bookkeeper will keep these numbers all the stocks we have in our Fortress food and drink and seeds it'll keep those numbers more exact right now it's about 70. there's about 40 drinks but if we get a good bookkeeper he can keep those numbers uh better and more accurate for us um the militia Commander we'll go over that in a minute and I'll let you figure out the rest of them when you get to it so we've got a manager now even though he doesn't have a room he can still do his job so let's go over to the work orders again all these buttons down here you can click any of them and get to what you want to work orders there it is so if you want to make a new order let's go make a new order so I want some chairs basically I want to chairs rather than having to click add build chair build chair build chair multiple times we can say I want some wooden chairs and I would like I don't need 10 of them but I like you know let's get six of them in this place if you wanted to mess with like less than if like checking if there's uh if there's less than two then come in to make more you can do that here we're not gonna worry about that we're just gonna make six chairs done I also want to make some tables let's make oops let's make some Stone tables we want Rock tables and we want to make six of those as well so now my my manager will go over there and tell some folks to get to work and these will start getting made you can see they are showing up here if something is is being done you can see it's it's being done as we speak and she's in there right now do some is in there make it working my Mason is in the carpenter shop for some reason sodal is in the Mason shop whatever uh and when they get done we can go and move them into our dining room so we'll have a place to sleep and a shelter um I think I've made some doors let's go back to the building menu and let's build some doors doors and again we can select what we want to make sure I'm going to put a door here in the entrance and we've got two allenite doors we'll put one there and we'll put one right there at least you know close this place up we can put more doors for our dormitory we can put them in here as well let's get those tables and chairs done as well so we'll get we got six tables which may or may not be done and if they're not it's fine uh nope expect none of them are done so let's go make maybe my chairs are done let's see there's four okay four of them are done so they go get those chairs and pull them over there uh I do want to show a couple other things uh this is the beginnings of a four right we're secure our animals are alive uh we've got food we've got drink we've got uh um carpenter shop beds and things being made we got barrels being made uh my wooden chairs have been made it tells me up there right click to get it go away um we've got a somewhat secure place animals are fine the cart is no longer useful we can click on it and get rid of that carts pull all that stuff inside eventually of course our animals can go inside once we get maybe some Caverns down below or something I do want to show stairs because it's not a bad idea to just go straight down we're living in dirt at the moment which is borderline elf we don't want that so I'm gonna go back into the digging orders and we're gonna set up some stairs so let's build a stairwell like here let's just go like three wide we clipped there I'm gonna go down go down four levels that's how and you can see they're already working on it and as they go down they're going to find we got some silt down here we've got uh what is that some Cobalt tights some alanites some gold we found gold in our walls right there not a bad idea to mine that stuff out to make some things to sell so there we go um that is oh let me get let me get my tables set up here I'll get two more chairs chair chair and we'll get tables I got tables done let's get them all placed in there looks like I missed one somehow put a table back right there nice pink tables I like it so this is now our dining room so people have a place to hang out uh they can come get drinks over here the food is over here the stockpile could certainly be be bigger um but right now it's fine the anvils over there we'll use for Metal Works uh we've got the wheelbarrow they will use if they need um I don't have a oh a kitchen yet which I probably should do so let's go and do that I'm going to set it in I'll just set it back here you'll mind that out we'll get a kitchen going so uh while they're building that let me show off military so we've got food we've well we've got drink we've got shelter we need security so this flag over here is the squad sidebar and this is going to show me uh that I need a motion Commander to make a squad and how do we do that we saw that before we go back to the Nobles in the noble screen we can make a militia Commander if anyone is skilled in being a militia Commander it'll tell me no one is right now our early guys I'm gonna take as I think because my metal crafter isn't really important right now they're not doing anything of importance as we speak my mailing list commanders not need anything uh and so we've just got them assigned and once we get them you can see this loads up new Squad so we can click over here uh there's two different ones I recommend starting with if you start with the basic one you probably have enough stuff for a metal armor you'll have weapons anyway and they have melee weapons you start with I think um you start with a with a Warhammer um so that is fine for a very basic start you can also do Archer which I'll show you how to do in a minute but we're gonna go with metal armor and we've got the Matched Chambers they have no orders right now they're off duty let's go ahead and put some dwarves in there we can change what they look like like they have a plus sign the the yeah yeah there we go perfect um that's good uh let's go click on the dwarf here and we've got as is our only dwarf in this squad we want more we click bats and we can say well maybe this is very busy let's put secret and Soto and Dora and they can be in there right now they're all they're off duty so it doesn't really matter um that's their if they're in the squad the only being there whenever I need them and if I need them I come over here I click the squad button yeah I gotcha I keep on forgetting quick cut off uh we click on the box and it will tell us we got different orders we can tell them to go kill something we can tell them to move somewhere move over here and they will eventually come gather and stand in that spot you can see that they go then with the weapons and they're gonna stand here in that spot we want to cancel an order we hit the cancel if you want to give them a route we can do that as well and have them pace around the dining room and they'll pace around the dining room or you can set this up as an order like along your wall outside once you get a fortress cancel that well we can we can assign them to a borrowed defense like stand them in a tower with a bow uh we can assign them to to train somewhere and and but for basic stuff there's your basic stuff so um if you want to get an Archer Squad you're going to come in here and you're going to make a bow ear a bow here's gonna make the crossbows and you make a craft shop which is going to make your bolts and that's a very easy and simple way to get a starting military Squad um if anything for shooting Wildlife or any bears or anything else that comes wandering along um I'm going to show you the kitchen so we're gonna make a kitchen in here again workshops and we go into the farming and the kitchen right there you can just shop it's gonna write right there and this is we're gonna make sure we get food going this is one of those ones that probably would be use a useful place to use the manager uh to tell like if you have less than 10 meals then put it back up to 50. otherwise we come in here and we'd say you know make easy meals and put it I can put it on repeat but they're going to keep on making it over and over and over again so you may end up with a lot of meals if you don't watch that but there we go we've got food we've got drink we've got uh the ability to craft we've got supplies we have a a secure somewhat base we got doors uh you know it's something if we need to lock a door we can do that here click on the door for minutes if someone if something terrible comes out and wants to kill us um I wanna make sure we get into the door over here I I'm I don't like that there's no door here in my bedroom so I'm gonna put a door in my bedroom there we go and then I I got one more thing I want to show and that is we can dig out this gold just sort of dig that out and get that gold taken care of because when the Traders arrive it'd be nice to have something to sell them because if we can sell them something then we can buy stuff from them we can get new armor from them we can get books we can get poems we can get all kinds of stuff from them so let's go ahead and make a craft shop right here I'm just stick it in here not the ideal place but we'll just put it right over there it's fine I typically like to have a stockpile kind of in the middle and have my shops sort of around it nearby so they can grab it uh oh look some migrants have arrived we got 15 dwarves now we had seven before eight folks have shown up Excellence uh we've got oh yeah the the fighting thing um nothing to catching the swamps yeah yeah and then the rock tables are done okay you can see this this place is getting exciting there's so many dwarves around craft store shop is done add a task I would like to make now uh you can kind of pick whatever you want these are just gonna be things that you're gonna make for uh for selling and so like anything with gold right now we don't I don't have metal crafter but if I want to make like um Let's see we can make something out of Rock Let's make rock dice uh figurines are pretty nice because there's like there's like a story with every figurine so I can tell them to uh put it on repeat if I want they'll be very busy just making these Rock figurines and uh this they sell well and we can get new stuff from our from our friends from the from the homes the Mountain Homes uh one last thing I want to show so you don't starve in case you don't get enough plump helmets in here is we're gonna go ahead and get a workshop and we're gonna make back in the farming and we're gonna we're gonna get a butcher we're gonna set this guy outside because he's kind of smelly and we just took him in there and when you get someone's gonna be a hunter he's gonna work on his own he'll go out if there's any animals that pop into the end of the world he'll go out and grab him uh right now there's a bunch of birds out there he may not get those but there's a few things he may he may grab um oh yeah we had migrants come in so our stockpile over here uh or sorry our our our this our uh pasture needs more animals probably uh yeah we got a pea hen a peacock we can put in there it looks like we've got uh what are you I'm not sure what that is is that a bunny is that a guinea pig Maybe a guinea pig he might be fine if you ever get anything saying like your animals are starving or whatever that means they want to pin so and the dogs are in here we can put the dogs into the stockpile to like or the cats actually are a good good idea to keep him in there uh this stockpile I want to build this grow the stockpile so I click on it click view stockpile and I'm going to click the repaint the stockpile click click and there we go so there is stockpile is bigger now so we can actually get things moved into there so there you go there is a um a very big beginning basic Fort I try to get this done in 30 minutes I'm not gonna make it uh but a good idea that I've I've sort of learned over the years of tour Fortress I got a lot of this from last time I did a tutorial video was um a good idea to kind of get you into the game is to this is a very open game right there's no way there's no right or wrong way to play Dwarf Fortress you're gonna die and uh learning to just play to have fun and sort of enjoy the simulation that's happening that is that is the game and a good way of getting in here is coming in and building you build your first forts make it live for a year you survive a year if you've passed test number one then come in and make a make like a farming Fortress all built around farming grow the different things grow the pump helmets in the cave wheat and the pigtails grow some outside stuff grow strawberries and potatoes and have a whole farming operation that you can sell to the traders that come in which by the way I almost forgot you need a trade Depot which is going to go outside it needs to be somewhere that the the Traders can get to and they cannot get in they need to be they can't get through doors so put it outside somewhere so the Traders come in they can stop there and you can trade them um you can build a like a ranching Place get all these different animals in here and raise them up buy animals from the trailers you can have a military Forts and just focus all about making weapons and armor and building a military forts get into Metals uh start digging deeply in greedily and um and that is Dwarf Fortress the very Basics very very basics of Dwarf Fortress there's a lot going on here I didn't want to overwhelm you with the world but welcome to the world um we are right here we are the uh tin Cavern right that's the name of our place uh our civilization is called the holy city which is these blue folks over here say we wanted to go on a raid there's a tower over here the Dwarven Tower over here we uh the Matched whatever is our our Ray our our soldiers we can send them on a raid go over there and raid try not to not get detected we can burn the place down we can demand tributes we can take it over and actually and actually take control of that Tower if we want um I mean there is just a there is an obscene amount of depth to this game it is one of my favorite games ever because of that and I hope I've got I've got everything covered for you um if anything's not getting done probably check the labor screen and make sure that things are are marked for instance I don't have a hunter at the moment um I have a ranger but he's not actually doing it only select to do this no one's actually doing it so I want you to go be a hunter Hello Lord so they'll go out they'll work the butcher shop and they will go do butcher things I don't really need to Market any of this stuff he should do it on his own the butcher kind of goes with a Tanner attains the hides and it goes to a leather worker to make armor or bags or Quivers or whatever which you'll need if you do a bow ear if you do an archery Squad all right there we go there's Dwarf Fortress if I I hope to hear hear your stories in the comments because I one thing the only thing better than playing door Fortress is listening to everyone else's stories of Dwarf Fortress there's some crazy things out there and um I I hope you enjoy the game half as much as I do and uh getting just getting into the thing is is half the battle once you get it all figured out not too bad anyway thank you for watching and I will see you next time

Channel: Nookrium

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Keywords: Dwarf Fortress nookrium, Dwarf Fortress steam, Dwarf Fortress tutorial, Dwarf Fortress beginner, Dwarf Fortress, kitfox, bay12, nookrium, colony sim, df, dwarf fortress nook, simulation, rimworld, armok

Id: zEt87BikHzA

Length: 42min 53sec (2573 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 06 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Nookrium]

Thanks for sharing this. I've realized since posting several things that I wish I'd added in here so I'll have to make a part 2. If anyone has anything they feel confused about and needs added please let me know!

[u/cuacuacuac]

I've found this YouTube video covering the basics of the game. As a total newbie, I hope it helps somebody else. I think it details some of the game mechanics a bit better than the small tutorial we get. At least it helps you a bit better to get your first Fortress up & running.

[u/Hokohoko]

Love Nook, my favourite DF streamer. He’s said that he forgot to mention turn off cooking of Plump Helmets in the tutorial by the way. Don’t eat your booze supply!

[u/The-Grey-Knight]

I don’t know. I watched this and got even more confused. I think I need to play around some more In game and read the wiki. He talks pretty fast sometimes and was hard for me to keep up.