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Remember, it hadn't been under much user-testing so there's a quite few bugs (Some rather amusing ones)... but it's mostly playable from what I seen. The classical way of playing is now gone, and is replaced with the idea of a Z axis. Now you can dig downwards, which can make intresting gameplay on a flat map. I just built a small house (probably will try turning it into a tower, hehe) on a such map, and then digged downwards in it. Works very well.

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I just found out, you no longer need to irrigate (just create a farm plot). You can also create farms outdoors now, with wild berries and stuff.

Also the Z level system is awesome. I even created a small house made out of wood, and digged downwards in it (creating a huge "basement" ).

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True, but at least farming is less annoying (besides I did seemingly choose a rather damp place... had to dig down a few levels to even find rock).

I even made my own water silo , which got salmons.Just want to point out that's just a test construction... as I might wind up building a bigger silo later one (imaging build a huge tower of silo, and then flood the world with it ). Canals and such works a little bit differently too, but I already figured it out after some random testing.

And heh, you're right. I had a farm on sand, but i'm putting most of the infrastructure down where there is rock, which is three levels down. I have some infrastructure overground, but it's rather tedious (but rewarding) to build a house. Apparently, tiles that have a floor tile over it is counted as indoors, it doesn't even to be in a closed space.

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He just released a new version, supposed to fix some of the worst slowdowns issues. Almost makes me regret my own decision of abondening my fortress yesterday, but eh... I got rather bored and annoyed at the choice of terrain, so I went for a glacier. x Maybe I wind up carving a huge fortress in the ice or something haha. Now if I could get the ice to melt.

You can even create walls with ice (called water in the game xD).

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You can also generate world from a spefic seed instead of downloading it. It takes a little bit to generate, but usually the seeds provided at various forums or at the wiki.

The water boulders is a bug? I thought it was supposed to be a feature. I even started building walls with them, who can melt. I just had a fortress on a glacier, and I noticed that if you did bring them down below the bedrock... there would be enough warmth to make them melt down there.

I dunno, the games have gotten easier in some aspects. You only need to irrigate if you want to farm on stone. For newbies, I would recommend to focus on building a kitchen, still, fishery and a small farming. And probably a carpentry for producing a few beds, since dwarfs don't like sleeping on the floor. And a few doors built by the carpentry (or mason) to block rooms from wildlife doesn't hurt too.

I'm thinking about if we could do a small succession game here or something too. Dunno what kind of setup we should go for though.

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Hehe, Aquaifers. As soon I actually heard about them, I couldn't resist and actually went for a map with Aquaifers on purpose. Now I'm dependant on wood, until the stupid caraven brings me the blocks I need. xD

I made a simlple loop out of that water silo.

It seems like the game goes really slow when a dwarf tantrums, or dies. I gave up my first good fortress after this, as I figured out the fortress was doomed anyway.

I should probably give adventure mode a proper try now, seeing how it's somewhat improved and more intresting with the Z-levels.

I made a few test games too, such as one where I started in a human town. Really fun to make human houses cave-in. Lots of free wood. xD Bit cheap though, considering the humans aren't upset at the dwarfs...

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