KeeperRL (2021) - Dwarf Fortress Defending Roguelike

what's up guys and gals welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games it is a fortuitous day and it is a fortuitous day because keeper rl has finally put the superior fantasy race into their game it's available on the beta branch right now if you right click on it in your steam and you go to properties and then betas you can check out the alpha 33 i think is what it is and they have added dwarves to the game and so now i am instantly 5 000 more interested in keeper rl like listen i'm fine with like green skins they're awesome i love orcs and goblins but dwarves dwarves are my one true fantasy loves so today we're going to dive on and take a look at it see if this beta is something you wanted to check out if after watching this you did indeed want to check it out you can look down below in the description i'll have a link for you down there for wishlisting aside from that you'll also find a link to my discord my twitch and my twitter which you're welcome to join me on aside from that let's get riding so if you never play keeper rl before this is a game where you run a colony basically and every single race kind of has different things that they're trying to accomplish so like on one layer it's dungeon keeper but you don't really get invaded or attacked altogether that often at least in my experience instead you're building a base so that you can equip your guys and eventually ride out into the land to spread your supremacy whether you're playing orcs or goblins or gnomes or dwarves or whoever across the land now we don't need the tutorial we are going to play as dwarves our settlement's name we'll call it i don't know we'll call it bearden heim there we go that's a good that's a solid name for a dwarfish settlement right there it really puts right up front what's important to all of us let's start it on off okay so in the campaign mode it's going to randomly generate a map and on this map there are going to be enemies there are going to be allies they're going to be people that can help us harm us so on and so forth uh the map that it's given us for right now it has given us voldemort who is the main villain we also have a white dragon on the mountain which is one of our main enemies we've got giant spiders so that's not too bad i think we can handle that we've got lizardmen who are actually one of our main enemies as well and then we've got goblins who are also a lesser villain i feel like this seems like it'll be a pretty cool map we've also got teutonic knights that are allied with us and then we have another colony of dwarves who are allied with us and then there's an unremarkable dungeon over and off to this side okay let's go ahead and confirm it it's been a long time since i played keeper rl i'll be honest with you it's been a hot minute all right so we have our dwarves the controls in this game pretty simple you can use right click to pan around you left-click to select things everything runs pretty much just like you're playing rimworld or any other colony manager d is going to allow us to dig you can go over here though all of the commands are lifted are listed on the left-hand side just in case you like to click things and do stuff for right now we need to make an entrance to our dwarf hold and so i'm gonna do that let's go ahead and we'll just kind of dig a tunnel right here the other thing we need to do is we need to collect a wood supply like we're gonna need a lot of wood to get our guys equipped before we can go out on the war campaign so i'm gonna do that you can press the one through four keys in order to speed up or slow down gameplay just in case you wanted to apparently my dwarves are like ardently and fiercely against the idea of foxes because they just beat a fox to death i don't know why they did that it seems kind of unnecessary i i i i don't know why he saw fox he became irrationally angry like ah that reminds me of my uncle and then just like beat it to death i don't know uh we're gonna keep on digging down here with this main hallway it looks like we've got a pretty solid mountain on this side it also looks like we've got a lot of resources over here which is absolutely great i'm gonna make like a great hall right here yeah let's do something like that right there we'll have like a great haul after they enter on into our dwarf hold for right now it's not going to be done for a little bit but i think that we've got our wood taken care of and now we've just got to focus on getting this entire area cleared on out they're still digging down here that's going to give us access to a little bit of stone so that we can start making this place more puritier because you know your dwarves you take pride in your craftsmanship and so like you can't just have a dwarf hold where like the walls are not like fantastically well artisaned and the floors aren't like perfect worked marble you know what i mean like you gotta do that it's part of being a dwarf let's go ahead and get this iron out of the wall right here and that'll make one of our first rooms we'll go ahead and we'll make another room right there i'm not really going to worry too much about i don't know i'm not going to worry too much about doors and things but we'll make like a little vague living area down over here in addition from this side we can start going like so to just sort of expand that off although it looks like maybe there's nothing to dig over here we'll slow it down for a second it's possible we're gonna pop out on the other side of the mountain on that side and yeah that's exactly what's gonna happen there's a river right there so i almost like flooded everything the good news is this still works out in the interim because we can use these for artisanal storage areas there we go it's the same as a normal storage area but if you call it artisanal you get to charge three times as much for it dwarves picked up on that real real early compared to like craft brewing and like etsy people like we figured that out real quick is like huh a human will pay you three times as much if you just put artisanal in front of whatever it is that you have created what an interesting observation uh let's put in some doors all right so we'll get those all rocked in doors ready to go i don't think we can put doors in right here and there's no big double doors i do wish that there was double doors that would make me super happy if there was double doors but there ain't we need a storage area so i'm going to say that this area is for resources and then i'm going to say that this area is for equipment and then what we'll do is we'll put crafting benches along the walls on each side the other installation that we're gonna need is we're gonna need to start getting some light around here so creatures of good they like to have light inside of their bases and so we'll just kind of put in some torches there we go looks good to me on each of these we'll put one in too perfecto couldn't have asked for anything better looks fantastic i think it looks great they are going to get to work and they're gonna start bringing back all the resources so that we can actually do stuff and as you can see the doors are getting put in right now uh there are other races in this game uh so they all play a little bit differently like all of them have the goal of conquering the map but they all have different mechanics and so like if you're playing as the evil sorcerer you kind of use like this esoteric magical essence as your currency for everything and use it to summon new minions and demons and stuff like that humans they breed dwarves you know they do the same thing if you're playing as orcs or whatever they have their own particular mechanic that acts as sort of like the hallmark or like the engine for how everything works uh you'll definitely find some content here this is one of those games you can definitely sink some hours into once you get done with one race you just like start with the next one and learn how they work i would like to do a little mine shaft off this way so that i can have all of this loot on this side we are going to need all that stone and we are going to need all that iron as time goes along to equip ourselves so i feel like it's a good idea uh they're just hauling for right now so i'm gonna let them get done with the hauling and then we'll resume okay hauling's all done so because we are the dwarves we start out with a little bit of a bonus we start out with the ability to do iron working which all the other factions actually have to like learn how to do they don't know how to do it and so we know how to do that from the beginning aside from that we also have the ability to do some light woodworking and so i'm gonna go to the crafting menu over here and we're just gonna put like some workshops over here i don't know how many workshops i want to put in but we do need some workshops just to get ourselves equipped so we'll put in a couple of those and then over here we will put in a couple of forges just to get things ready to rock perfect and so there you go now we can do both leather goods and we can do iron goods did they bring back all that iron already is everybody just like sitting around right now huh it appears as though they're all just sitting around they have no orders fair enough fair enough that that's on me as a leader i failed to give them those orders and so you know what am i going to do be mad at them uh we'll go ahead and grab all that stone from over there too we'll start working our way over to this side you may notice question marks question marks are quite literally a surprise you never know what's going to be in there you could pop that open and it could be an absolute alpha chad legion of orcs uh you could open it up and it could be a dragon that instantly kills your entire colony you could open it up and it could be a treasure trove you you never really have any idea what's going to be inside of these little question marks i tend to give them like a wide berth until i feel as though um we are safe you know feel free to do as you please what we need to do now is we need to make weapons so we have 12 dwarves i'm going to make 12 swords for 12 dwarves and the dwarves laid to work creating the twelve swords of destiny that the great dwarvish kings would wield against the lesser races all right and so as you can see they're all going to work over here they're hammering they're making stuff uh they will assist each other with that um and it will go faster the more of them you have working on it i don't know why right here instead of ending like when it gets to the 220 for the progress it goes all the way past and like clips through the plus minus it's one of those little quality things that like hopefully will get cleaned up i don't know if it's always done that to be honest i've never really looked at it uh we are gonna need some armor i think it's a really good idea that we protect our ghiblis so we'll go ahead and make 12 leather armors we will make 12 leather helmets we will make 12 leather boots and we will make 12 wooden shields it seems like a good idea let's do that and then once they're done with all that crafting they'll just kind of auto-equip it all while we wait for them to get all the crafting done i think i'm also going to start plotting out some of the little things that we want to do we do want to have like sleeping quarters and so i'm going to add some beds just so these little corridors over here there we go um i don't know if we're actually gonna have enough resources to do all this crafting we're not okay well i will send them out then at the first convenience to go chop some more trees yeah go just murder trees dude indiscriminately just get in there wipe it all out bring back wood actually i think it subtracts the wood when you do the crafting order so i think we might be all right we don't have any infernite or anything so unfortunately won't be walking around in glowing death armor which would be rad don't get me wrong i would love to walk around in glowing death armor but like no glowing death armor for right now inside of our storage we can also do some weapon racks i think that's a pretty good idea we put one right there and one right there we've also got bow racks and like potion shelves and stuff like that but we'll save that for other locations i do think a treasure chest is not an awful idea just in case we bring in any coinage uh so we'll do that they're secure behind a door with dwarves you don't have to worry about criminality uh so you know a fox is killed but you killed another one what is it that we as dwarves have against foxes man they're cute they're adorable they're like little mini dogs that live in the woods and they just want to be our friends and then i think what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna get a little decorative out here how are we doing on the sword construction eight of the swords have been crafted and then we're actually not that far when it comes to our stuff so we're just waiting on hauling right now okay i did some light beautification work to make this seem more like a dwarf hold and then we've also got all of our crafting done so our dwarves will just grab that by themselves we do need to do some basic like commander type stuff so we can convert their class on over and this just basically inherently makes them better at doing whatever it is that they do melee fighting obviously makes them fight better archery makes them prefer bows and fight from a distance spell casting will give you access to all the spells that you've researched and then artisans they craft things faster and they prioritize crafting jobs for right now i'm going to give two promotions three promotions to him and then we'll have bumble's gonna be basically our our leader uh so we'll set him up as kind of like the head of the pack basically and with all that extra combat skill right there i think he'll do a good job that extra nine attack is not bad uh what we can do is we can create a new team right here you should see bumble in there somewhere you have bumbles right there i don't know if they're going to equip all the stuff sometimes they equip it sometimes they don't they seem to prioritize weapons and chest armor and then after that it's kind of like if they see it they pick it up but like you can't really i mean i think you can force them to pick it up somehow by taking control of them because you can take control of any one of these guys that you want manually and by taking control them you can walk them around and make them pick stuff up and equip it and whatnot but it's just so microwave and if you guys know anything about me i kind of loathe anything microwave i don't tend to do microwave stuff uh we'll dig out those walls right there we're gonna smooth up this area to make our dwarf keep look a little bit more presentable i'll probably do a big gatehouse over here that has like a guard post in it so if the enemy tries to get in all of our best warriors will be actively available if you're wondering why i made beds the beds are for healing so if the dwarves get wounded they will sleep and they will get their health back they also just like to sleep every now and again i don't know if they have needs or whatever but like we don't have to feed them so that's like one thing that you pretty much never have to do but anyways as you can see they're all going to take a nap for right now that guy equipped a shield yeah they're grabbing stuff they're they're getting out there and they're taking care of it so once you have a team uh you need to go out on the warband because the only way you advance your society in this is by killing enemies so your individual characters um they can train and they can get stronger in their attributes but any xp that they get from killing enemies goes to your colony and so your colony basically gains prestige and that prestige is called something different for every faction so for the sorcerer you're harvesting people's souls with these guys it's called malevolence which basically plays off that kind of warhammer fantasy idea of grudges that they have against other people there may be enemies around here we do need to like scout our territory and look for just sort of like cursory encampments that are around here that might be a threat and so i'll probably do that let's go and take control of these guys and taking control of them is very very easy you just take control and then you just click around and everybody that's on the team will follow you wherever you want to go uh we probably shouldn't be doing this at night because it makes scouting a lot more difficult but if we just follow the edges of this mountain right here i virtually guarantee you we're gonna run into something like there's almost always little like hives of bugs or some kind oh actually that's the edge of the map right there if we walk onto the edge of the map we can actually initiate and invade other people's territory but i don't think we're quite ready for that yet they usually put a couple settlements of bandits wolves that kind of stuff on your basic map that'll give you your first four or five level ups for your colony and so anyways i would recommend taking care of those first before you go do anything wild and crazy uh it looks like there's something up here yeah i see a building ah and a bridge are they friendly what's over here i have no idea what we're walking into right now we could be oh it's bandits okay yeah let's get him oh okay our character is kind of a badass he had a key and a healing potion on him i'm gonna kick down the door real fast oh there's so many in there and they're well they're sleeping though so that's good we may lose a dwarf right here we're pretty well defended though it looks like they're having a hard time getting through our armor i'm just passing turns unfortunately one of my characters stepped into the fatal funnel right there to fight and so can't get past him can't get past oh cool we killed the tribe of bandits nice so they're all dead uh there's gonna be loot laying around like all over the place i normally only pick up healing potions and stuff so that i can distribute them to other people and we'll take that we got short bows we've got hand torches i don't really want the clubs i don't care about those i can make those myself and honestly they're worse than what we have right now but there's our first bandit tribe that we've wiped out apparently there's like 15 guys living in a hut right there just nuts to butts hanging out dude just having the time of their lives in the woods good for you good for you find a thing that makes you happy and if it's just a house full of like men sleeping dude you know get permission first like don't just like barge in because that might not end well but you know um if that's what you're into that's what you're into you know what i mean spend the rest of your life drinking deep from the well my friend do it it looks like there's something over here if there's an entrance to the mountain there it is okay so like stuff that lives in mountains tends to be a little gnarlier so i might be being a little overly aggressive here but we're gonna kind of plumb the depths and see what happens uh there's a whole bunch of resources over here which is pretty cool and there's dark elves okay dark elves are a bit more of a threat yeah let's go ahead and i'm gonna swap out real quick and let my other dwarves fight there we go pull them back into the funnel i am critically wounded i don't want to be critically wounded oh well apparently my big tough guy died so we had to pick a new leader feels ripperones that was a lot of level ups i used on that guy feels bad i couldn't get away though we've got short bows healing potions i'll take them i'll take the swords too that's why they were hitting so hard they had swords uh swords give you quite a bit of umph there's an invisibility potion right there usually there's more of them around i was gonna say the wizards don't count so they've got dark elf sorcerers in here uh they don't count when it comes to their pop cap and so like we gotta track them down oh another sword i'll take that there goes another one right there we'll get we'll get vengeance upon the elves dude we will get vengeance on the elves for what they did to our people uh we can probably just ban this now and take a look at our xp and see what researches and stuff we have available so that's what i'm going to do we'll exit control mode and they will all make their way back to base as far as i know oh that was actually right next to our base so it's a good thing we wiped them out otherwise they would have been like a real threat if they had been allowed to like dig and grow so that's good everybody that's wounded will go lay down and take a little nappy poo and their hp will slowly regenerate looks like we've got four upgrades ready to rock and we've got one research ready to go i'm gonna go god i don't know let's go with i don't know if alchemy is worth it moonshine might be kind of fun sorcery is also kind of major because that'll allow us to give our healers healing spells so they can basically spam healing aoes on us and stuff while we're fighting so i think that's probably what i'll do and then we've also got some stuff ready to rock so gore is the new leader we'll make him a two-star melee fighter freund will make you a let's call you an archer let's call you a spell caster and let's call you a spell caster sounds good uh they should put weapons on racks if they're available yeah it looks like they put some keys and stuff on there too i don't know what the keys are actively for that's a new item that i've never seen before so like i don't exactly know what the keys go to but i suppose we'll figure it out at some point we've got a bunch of golden stuff over here that we can mine out and i highly recommend that we do so uh so let's go ahead and rip their base apart for resources maybe we can upgrade everybody to the iron tier and i'm just going to let that run until they're done this should give us some nice finances to start the game out with so that we can start making luxury stuff like carpets and whatnot okay so they've got the base cleared out they've got all the loot and i connected us with like a little secret back door over here so that's pretty rad we now control like most of the mountain there's a couple surprises left we'll probably have to deal with those surprises before too long but for now there is relative peace in the kingdom uh one thing a dwarf is engaged with a giant rat where oh no he's fine oh no there or that's a giant ant okay yeah take control of him answer usually oh he used an invisibility potion cheese lord he picked up an invisibility potion from that fight with the dark elves and uh he popped it on his own while he was fighting [Laughter] little cheese lord that's fine dude be underhanded with things that are less than dwarven uh we will call this a library over here i think yeah let's do that we'll call this our our supreme library so we can start researching some magic i'll dig this out i am going to replace all these walls with fancier walls that are a lot nicer but for the moment we just need to get like some basic bookcase stuff up and so we'll kind of call that a library right there there we go library's all ready to rock so what'll happen is anybody that's assigned a spell casting they should come in here and they should research spells as far as i know they should come in and they'll like learn new stuff so they'll learn how to make my army invisible they'll learn how to like shoot fireballs they'll learn how to heal my guys actively in combat just sort of depends oh look at that these guys are getting titles and stuff too yeah the bandit slayer does anybody else have any cool titles no just these guys but yeah they get titles for killing so if you kill an enemy leader whatever race the enemy leader is you become the whatever slayer so like if you kill like the ogre leader you get the killing blow on him you become like the ogre slayer basically kind of a cool way to i think sort of characterize your your troops i guess i do want to open these up and see what's in there but i got a bad feeling about it i got a real bad feeling about it i'm going to put a bow rack in in the middle right there so they can start putting the bows around the dwarf has learned the spell of damage bonus very nice normally what i like to do is i like to control the caster that way i can because like spells are kind of like a big force multiplier in this game and so like controlling so the ai does an okay job but that being said yeah let's crack this open over here let's see what it is i would like for most of my doors to be around when this wall opens but earth elementals okay all right let's go ahead and we're gonna gather up the team real fast oh and my enemies have decided to invade right as i cracked this open oh are they not hostile oh they're not hostile okay i can live with that uh where is this guy coming from oh there they are right there yeah goblins shouldn't be that much of a threat we should be okay here yep we've been invaded by goblins but we seem to be all right are there more of them doesn't look like there's more of them and these elementals are not hostile so i guess i'll just leave them alone i thought for sure that the goblins would be hostile but like i guess i was wrong uh we got to go conquer some more people we didn't really get any xp for that unfortunately wish that we did but we didn't uh let's go ahead and cut a tunnel down here we'll keep an eye on it and figure out what it might be i'm going to be a little bit more careful this time around we got real lucky with the earth elementals uh it looks like a water area actually oh the earth elementals are actually going around killing underground ants and stuff to protect it it looked like there what was that what was that hold up i don't know what that was um i need structures can you guys do like a wooden bridge right there real fast well good these guys are acting like my own little personal bodyguards right now oh [Music] hold up apparently a giant ant soldier just wiped everybody uh you guys i'm gonna put you guys in control mode yeah you guys come back because i don't know what we're walking into right now but it killed an elemental no problem oh god oh there he is right there how did a giant ant kill an earth elemental oh i see what's happening here there's an ant hive down here uh these are non-combatants so they shouldn't even fight back these little ants over here because we've killed all the soldiers okay well there you go there's another troop of enemies wiped out the mountain gets safer and safer okay so we're gonna exit control mode real fast and then i have no idea what that statue to the evil god a doxy does uh we probably want to destroy it because we are not evil and it is that's actually new i've never seen that before so who knows what that does but apparently we've decided to settle inside of a mountain that has an evil altar inside of it it's a little bit of a i'm not a huge fan but from wiping out the the ants we got some more level ups so we can learn a new research i would suggest let's learn archery since we have archers um i need to we can actually make this a little training area over here that's what we can do so we'll take a torch we'll put it right there and we'll put it right there and then for training we'll put like [Music] a couple of archery targets over here yeah that's good be careful about training installations in this game one thing that i've noticed is like if there's training installations down they tend to prioritize like training over everything else like they they tend to prefer like training over every other activity so it has happened several times where i've had to just sort of like destroy my entire training area that way they'll like get the hell back to work and you know it's just one of those minor pet peeves uh but anyways this keeper rl i hope you guys liked it we haven't invaded the overworld map yet but we've done a pretty good job of pacifying our map there's a few more question marks left that still need to be dealt with before we can say that we're safe but we're getting there we're getting there and we've gotten a couple level ups a couple of researches a couple of new things that we can throw together and so i think that things are looking bright and shiny for the new budding colony of bearden heim my name is plattercat i sift through the pile to find what's worth while in the world of indie games every single day so you don't have to today up on the chopping block it was keeper rl's new beta with the dwarves included tomorrow it'll be something else thanks for hanging out everybody i'll see y'all next time

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Length: 28min 56sec (1736 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 18 2021

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Splatty!

[u/Barangat]

Motivated me to give it another spin, I really like his channel and the introduction to new nichegames. But there are moments when I screech at my monitor when he overlooks something obvious and he keeps looking for it

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This video brought me here too!