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Here is my wishlist for the future of this game:
With this new start I hope they invest in some help to figure out a better method to dispose of clothes and fix a couple of bin sorting issues. Also, I notice that the efficiency of individual dwarves on a large scale fortress is a sharp decline from their effectiveness when it’s just a few of them mining rooms in close proximity. Not to mention, fielding a military can quickly just become uneconomical when you have to make multiple barracks to patrol different Burrows and defend entrances above and below and hospitals along with their own supply chain meaning for 40 dwarves producing 1/7th the supplies you need all of the other dwarves to pick up the slack. Meanwhile you plan every room, constantly being badgered about guilds, worrying about floods and accidentally hitting lava or opening up a cavern with a titan, and manage every single livestock necessary to feed, clothe, and keep your dwarves clean (tallow for soap). With the natural growth rate if you trade gourmet food for enough drinks and clothes to satisfy your dwarves then you end up attracting so many dwarves that you literally cannot produce tombs fast enough. Why is specialization and trade a sin?
It almost feels like you’re forced into a very specific playstyle to have any long term progress: traps and closed doors, artificially slow growth by limiting trade to bare necessity, trash atomizers to remove things you just don’t have time to work with (bones and shells, etc).
I just want them to fix the cavern dweller hidden spawn performance tanking. Killed a save of mine and I’ve barely tried it since.
No Dwarf Hack didn’t fix it, or maybe I’m not sure how to.
I picked it up and haven’t touched it yet. I want to, but I’m busy spreading managed democracy. Mostly I just wanted to support the devs.
I picked up DF to support the devs because as I mentioned in another post here, I played the free game off and on for years. Now it’s practically the only game I play because the steam version just added so many quality of life things.
I’d love to spread some democracy as well, but I’ve gotta invest in some PC upgrades to make that game run. :(
I wanna get the game, but its still quite expensive in my country. Currently sitting 107.6 RMB, thats half a days wage for me.
The free version of the game still exists! The paid version literally only gets you the new tileset and music but is otherwise the exact same game and still updated! And if the ASCII tileset is a big turn off, people had made free tilesets years ago you could use instead (it was the only way I could play the game myself back in pre-steam days).
The text based version is still free
and its got tons of free mods including visual overhauls
Gotta save that money for Factorio Expansion
You can download the game for free in its original form here: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
IIRC there used to be custom tilesets/graphics packs, not sure if they’re still maintained after the game launched on Steam.