Travel times suck when you get to -50. I have a squad on patrol from floors -25 to -50, but I still lost my best miner when they were too slow
Lost them? They were too slow for what?
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Gnomoria |OT| of playing Dwarf Fortress "Lite" in isometric 2D with mouse input
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Lost them? They were too slow for what?
haha, was tired last night and didn't finish my thought. I was talking about golems cornering my gnome.
Large Professor
Member
I just started playing after buying the game on indiegamestand ("pay what you want"). I somehow magically got a lot of strawberry wine even though I didn't build a distillery yet?
Can you upload the savegame? Would love to see that. Shouldnt have been possible though, yeah.
Hope you like the game though! And having tons of strawberry wine certainly isnt something to complain about
Capt.Haddock
Member
what do i do with these yak milk D:.
I sell them. Along with pretty much everything else I have in excess.
Capt.Haddock
Member
Also why no merchant in my market stand?do i have to place it outside of cave?
They come on the 5th of every season except winter. In summer, multiple ones arive.
Capt.Haddock
Member
Ah,last question ,is furnace broken? i am queuing job to make coal,but dwarfs dont give a crap a about it.
,is furnace broken? i am queuing job to make coal,but dwarfs dont give a crap a about it.Ah,last question
Do you have logs?
Capt.Haddock
Member
yep.
Could you upload a savegame? I'd take a look at it.
If you notice, along with your starting group, you have some animals, and a couple of containers (x3 crates, x2 barrels, x2 bags). Those containers already have stuff in them, so that strawberry wine is probably from the barrels.
I'm still trying to figure out how the containers work in this game, but one thing I noticed is that if you just designate an area that corresponds to one of the items in the containers, the gnomes will gladly (and annoyingly) remove such items from the containers, and chuck them in the stockpile area.
Build > Furniture > Storage > Crate/Barrel
Put them in stockpiles and the gnomes will do the rest.
Capt.Haddock
Member
fixed it,had to select a dwarf then had to assign him as a smelter.
I am putting them in the stockpiles.
Whats happening, if I don't take care to be prepared for it, is that if I decide to plop a container, let's say a crate into my rock storage area, if I don't have any spare crates around, they'll just take a crate from another stockpile area, let's say my wood storage area, and just move the stupid crate STILL FILLED WITH WOOD, to the rock storage area.
If I leave them alone, then they'll just waste time moving the wood from that one crate, back to the wood stockpile area.
I'm more careful now (and when I say "careful now", I mean, as of one hour ago, because that's when I finally figured out I need empty containers at all times before I plop em down in a stockpile area).
Oh I see. Weird bug!
Never have I been confused so much in playing a game as this.
I think it's all going so well then during summer all my gnomes don't do what I want them to. I think I may be giving proffesions wrong as I get like 8 gnomes sitting Idle and refusing to do anything.
Time to watch some lets plays I think.
I think it's all going so well then during summer all my gnomes don't do what I want them to. I think I may be giving proffesions wrong as I get like 8 gnomes sitting Idle and refusing to do anything.
Time to watch some lets plays I think.
I always make sure all my Gnomes haul and construct so they aren't idle.
thekillingjoker
Banned
Just lost the past twelve hours to this gem. Best three dollars I ever spent. I finally quit when two uber goblins were spotted but unable to be seen and then they murdered everyone.
Yepyep, next time you'll probably be prepared. I love how these games tend to teach you by killing you.
My gnomes are stupid :|
Do squads have to be on patrol to actually fight? I set up a squad (though they had no weapons) to respond to goblin threat... yet when one was spotted he just took out stuff without any interference from gnome squad.
Also... I assume hospitals only work if you have bandages? Because right now it should be labeled as a morgue.
Do squads have to be on patrol to actually fight? I set up a squad (though they had no weapons) to respond to goblin threat... yet when one was spotted he just took out stuff without any interference from gnome squad.
Also... I assume hospitals only work if you have bandages? Because right now it should be labeled as a morgue.
From what I've been noticing, soldiers will always respond to threats as long as they can see the goblins. However, if they're not training or patrolling, they won't have weapons, they'll have whatever they class dictates them (miners will have picks, woodcutters will have fell axes).
I don't know if they'll run to the storage to change weapons if they see an enemy or if they'll just engage with whatever they have at hand. I think their fighting stat has something to do with that as well, as I've seen some non-soldier gnomes fighting, while others just panic and run away.
I have enough gnomes that I just leave the soldiers training most of the time. When a Goblin shows up, I create a patrolling spot near it and they'll go straight to the goblins. The good thing is that they'll also pick up weapons when they go patrolling (and when they're training).
Hospitals work for people to fix themselves up after a fight. They rest and other gnomes bring them water and food, and they get better from injuries.
I believe bandages are to stop bleeding - I had a lot of gnomes go to the hospital and get better from injuries, but the ones bleeding would always die - turns out I didn't have bandages for them.
Son of a bitch.
Also are their fences or anything? I haven't seen any... I'd like to enclose my farms and stuff... I guess walls might have to do if not.
Yeah, walls are what I use. You could also remove the floor around it too.
Yeah, you have to make sure there is a way out.
thekillingjoker
Banned
I had that happen in my first playthrough. Luckily I learned quickly back in Half Life that the F4 button is beautiful.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Thanks to your other thread, I picked this up for $5. I've been playing a lot of DF lately and I keep on trying to use the DF keys to go down levels and build things
This is pretty cool! I'm having troubles with aligning the squares properly when I'm digging. Is there a trick to lining things up?
This is pretty cool! I'm having troubles with aligning the squares properly when I'm digging. Is there a trick to lining things up?
Quick save works?
How do you destroy ramps? On the natural terrain I can't build on ramps, and doesn't seem like I can 'mine wall' them??? Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Ugh, I've been waiting for them to make my loom for a long time now. Not sure about this ai. Is there a way to set a priority for them to build it? I have a ton of planks and blocks.
I was having that issue as well... it seems you really have to micromanage your gnome's professions.
I'm deciding to restart again, and have gnomes devoted to almost single tasks (the built in professions are too broad once you get more gnomes). Having a gnome be a hauler really cuts down on what they do.
Think I'll have a devoted carpenter and stone gnome for sure to start out with. Then one that's a construction gnome only. Then some haulers+construction+other random stuff. Then whatever else is needed (woodcutting etc).
Deconstruct, I think.
OPf you could just have 40 gnomes and have 8 of each profession. That's what I do, and I have enough woodcutters that I can spare them between a militar squad and wood carving and actually cutting down trees.
There's more than 8 professions though. The default professions are just profession configurations.
I'm thinking my gnomes will be more on the ball if I have ones dedicated to only building new structures, and ones devoted to making ONLY base materials. Not to mention they'll gain skill levels in their specialized fields faster.
Yes, but you'll have lots of idling gnomes at all times.
Sure, that much micromanagement is better, but oh boy...
Yes, but you'll have lots of idling gnomes at all times.
Sure, that much micromanagement is better, but oh boy...
Doubt I'll have them idle much. Just set stuff to repeat, and have them work all day. It's easy to tell if someone's idling.
http://www.gnomoriawiki.com/wiki/Priority
Gnomes only haul if all their other jobs are completed. No reason to not keep them all at it.
Gnomes only haul if all their other jobs are completed. No reason to not keep them all at it.
He's trying to greenlight it right now, also I believe he said if you buy it and it gets released on steam he'll give you a steam key (he did for spacechem).
Huh? "He" did for SpaceChem? What does the dev of Gnomoria have to do with SpaceChem?
*goes off to google "Gnomoria SpaceChem" and sees his Geneforge and Gnomoria threads popping up at 2nd result. He grins.*
Edit: Thanks CzarTim for keeping an eye on this thread btw.