{"id":149922,"date":"2022-12-06T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dwarf-fortress-graphical-upgrade-provides-a-new-way-into-a-wildly-wonky-game\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:08:14","slug":"dwarf-fortress-graphical-upgrade-provides-a-new-way-into-a-wildly-wonky-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dwarf-fortress-graphical-upgrade-provides-a-new-way-into-a-wildly-wonky-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf Fortress&#8217; graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Not pictured: the things that are far more dangerous to fortress-dwelling dwarves, like poor site planning, miasma, and a lack of drink.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 55:single\/related:7306a5d19e22ab41df54b935729d88f1 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>After a long night of playing <em>Dwarf<\/em> <em>Fortress<\/em>, I had a concerned look on my face when I finally went to bed.  My wife asked what was wrong.  &#8220;I think I actually want to keep playing this,&#8221; I said.  I felt a nagging concern for many weeknights to come.<\/p>\n<p>Available tomorrow on Steam and itch.io, the new version of <i>Dwarf Fortress <\/i>updates the legendary (and legendarily arcane) colony-building roguelike with new pixel-art graphics, music, some (default) keyboard shortcuts, and a beginners&#8217; tutorial.  The commercial release aims to do two things: make the game somewhat more accessible and provide Tarn and Zach Adams, the brothers who maintained the game as a free download for 20 years, some financial security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img center large\" style=\"width:100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"It may look simple, but these tips on how to cut down wood and where to stash it will probably save the average player at least an hour and maybe a couple of failed playthroughs.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/woodcutting-e1670250690651-640x552.png?resize=640%2C552&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/woodcutting-e1670249424669-1280x1334.png 2x\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> It may look simple, but these tips on how to cut down wood and where to stash it will probably save the average player at least an hour and maybe a couple of failed playthroughs.<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Purdy \/ Kitfox Games<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know it has succeeded at its first job, and I suspect it will hit the second mark, too.  I approached the game as a head-first review expedition into likely frustrating territory.  Now I find myself distracted from writing about it because I keep thinking about my goblin defense and whether the fisherdwarf might be better assigned to gem crafting.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting hooked<\/h2>\n<p>Nearly 10 years ago, Ars&#8217; Casey Johnston spent 10 hours trying to burrow into <em>Dwarf Fortress<\/em> and came out more confused than before.  The ASCII-based &#8220;graphics&#8221; played a significant role in her confusion, but so did the lack of any real onboarding, or even simple explanations or help menus about how things worked.  Even after begrudgingly turning to a beginners&#8217; wiki, Johnston found nothing but frustration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the command to build a table?  Which workshop is the mason&#8217;s?  How do I figure that out?  Should I just build another mason&#8217;s workshop because that may be faster than trying to find the right menu to identify the mason&#8217;s workshop?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a few hours&#8217; time\u2014and similarly avoiding the wiki guide until I&#8217;d tried going it alone for my first couple of runs\u2014I got further into <em>Dwarf Fortress&#8217; <\/em>systems than Johnston did with her 10-hour ordeal, and I likely enjoyed it a good deal more.  Using the new tutorial modes&#8217; initial placement suggestions and following its section-by-section cues, my first run taught me how to dig down, start a stockpile, assign some simple jobs, build a workshop, and\u2014harkening back to Johnston&#8217;s final frustrations \u2014craft and place beds, bins, and tables, made with &#8220;non-economic stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img center large\" style=\"width:100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"One of the badgers that terrorized an early settlement\u2014and his surprisingly rich inner life.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/giant_badger_boar-640x527.jpg?resize=640%2C527&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/giant_badger_boar.jpg 2x\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> One of the badgers that terrorized an early settlement\u2014and his surprisingly rich inner life.<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Purdy \/ Kitfox Games<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s about where the guidance ends, though.  The new menus are certainly a lot easier to navigate than the traditional all-text, shortcut-heavy interface (though you can keep using multi-key combinations to craft and assign orders if you like).  And the graphics certainly make it a lot easier to notice and address problems.  Now, when an angry Giant Badger Boar kills your dogs and maims the one dwarf you have gathering plants outside, the threat actually <em>looks<\/em> like a badger, not a symbol you&#8217;d accidentally type if you held down the Alt key.  If you build a barrel, you get something that resembles a barrel, which is no small thing when you&#8217;re just getting started in this arcane world.<\/p>\n<p>The newly added music also helps soften the experience for newcomers.  It&#8217;s intermittent, unobtrusive, and quite lovely and evocative.  It seems designed to stave off the eeriness of too much silent strategizing without overstaying its welcome.  I can appreciate a game that graphically evokes the 16-bit era without the audio-cue exhaustion common to the JRPGs and simulations of the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<ul>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df1.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df1-980x551.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df1-1440x810.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1901932\">\n<figure style=\"height:551px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1901932\">\n                <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    A magma-adjacent cavern.                  <\/p>\n<p>\n                    <span class=\"icon icon-camera\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                          Kitfox Games                                      <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df3.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df3-980x551.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df3-1440x810.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1901934\">\n<figure style=\"height:551px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1901934\">\n                <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    The new Embark screen, and the tutorial offer that I highly recommend most people take.                  <\/p>\n<p>\n                    <span class=\"icon icon-camera\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                          Kitfox Games                                      <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df2.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df2-980x551.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df2-1440x810.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1901933\">\n<figure style=\"height:551px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1901933\">\n                <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Labor division seems much more intuitive, with graphical toggles and hints.                  <\/p>\n<p>\n                    <span class=\"icon icon-camera\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                          Kitfox Games                                      <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df4.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df4-980x551.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/df4-1440x810.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1901935\">\n<figure style=\"height:551px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1901935\">\n                <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Snowy overhead view of a fortress.                  <\/p>\n<p>\n                    <span class=\"icon icon-camera\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                          Kitfox Games                                      <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>However gentler the aesthetics and guidance for a newcomer, all the game&#8217;s brutally tough and interlocking systems are intact in this update.  These systems crunch together in weird and wild ways, fed by the landscape, your recent and long-ago actions, and random numbers behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>My first run ended in starvation and rock-bottom morale (&#8220;hissy fits&#8221; in common wiki language) because farming, butchering, and other procurements aren&#8217;t covered in the tutorial.  I shut down my second run early after picking a sandy area with an aquifer as a starting zone, thinking it would make glasswork and irrigation easier and being quickly disappointed with this strategy.  I was proud on my third run to have started brewing and dispensing drinks (essential to dwarves&#8217; contentment), but I dug too close to a nearby river, and I abandoned that soggy fort as yet another lesson learned.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll be back.  For me, the commercial release of <em>Dwarf Fortress<\/em> succeeded at transforming the game from a grim, time-killing in-joke for diehards into a viable, if not graceful, challenge.  I will start again, I will keep the badgers and floods at bay, and next time, I might have the privilege of failing to a magma monster, an outbreak of disease, or even a miscarriage of dwarf justice.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>enlarge \/ Not pictured: the things that are far more dangerous to fortress-dwelling dwarves, like poor site planning, miasma, and a lack of drink. After a long night of playing Dwarf Fortress, I had a concerned look on my face when I finally went to bed. 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