dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised

#Dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised full

On the left, we have what the traders are offering. Now hit “t” and we’ll be taken to the trade screen, which looks like this:

Oh, look! Trader dood finally bothered to turn up to trade! See, it says “Trade at Depot” for his current job, and the “Trade” option is white and therefore, usable. You can never, ever have too much of any of that stuff! While you’re waiting, why not go and set a bunch of barrels and bins and booze to be made. oh no, I lie, now he’s asleep! Hurry up dood, I’ve got crap to offload to the visitors! Below the menu field it tells me my trader is “On break”. If “t: Trade” is grey, then the trader hasn’t got there yet. Of course, it would be much quicker if I had more bins, that way a dwarf isn’t wasted carrying a single earring, and we’ll have lots of wasted time with this hauling! More bins are on my “to do” list.Īfter a minute, hit “q” again and move over the trade depot, you’ll see the status of the depot. The hauling of trade goods seems to be set at quite a high priority, so it shouldn’t take long for them all to be offloaded. With the game resumed goods are tagged to be moved and pretty soon dwarfs will start hauling goods to your trade depot. The trader should now consider heading up to talk to the traders. It now says “Trader requested at depot”, which is what we’re aiming for. From here the trade depot is still selected so lets take the chance to hit “r” which cycles the trader status. Right! One we “space” back out we need to hit “F9” to get back to the game, confirming our move orders. You don’t need to select those individual items to move, selecting the bin in the menu above will move the bin and everything it contains.

#Dwarf fortress bridge defence retracting vs raised full

This is good! Moving a single bin full of stuff is much better than moving dozens of items one by one! How do I know there’s heaps of stuff in those bins? Because I am your god of course! Or perhaps I hit “v” with a bin highlighted… Scroll down and set most of the items to “Pending”.Īt the bottom of the list you’ll see some “Finished Goods” bins. On the right you’ll see “Pending” next to the item we’ve selected. I mean really, how many “Limestone earrings” do we really need? So, hit the “right arrow” to move to the item list (rather than the category list) and then hit enter. Now we want to move these goods to the trade depot so we can trade them away. Later on you may want to manage the quality of goods your dwarfs use, especially weapons, so knowing that the pile of bars = much good item, is worth remembering. Don’t worry about what they mean as the only one worth remembering is the “masterwork” quality symbol, which looks like a pile of metal bars. What do you see? All of the crafts we’ve been making listed on the right! You’ll also notice weird symbols to the left and right of each named item, these are the quality symbols.

Once you’re there, this is what you’ll see: Looking at the distance measure you now know why some people prefer to put the depot all the way inside – remembering the 3-wide corridor or ramp all the way to the depot, of course.ĭon’t worry about all of this detail for now, just scroll down to “Crafts” using the down arrow key. In the middle, we’ve got the items themselves, and on the right, the distance from the trade depot. This is a list of everything in our fortress. What we’re looking for is hitting “g” for “Move goods to/from the depot”. Go “q” over the trade depot, and with traders in there, the options will be quite different to what you see when it’s empty. So lets get through these stages! First up, move goods. Wave goodbye to the traders and enjoy your loot!.Deal with the trade liaison and his questions.Set goods to be moved to the trade depot for us to trade with.Yes, I like things tidy in my fortress, it helps my fortress run like a well-oiled machine! So how do we gouge the visitors trade with our friends?Įssentially, trading is a five step process: Look at them, filling our trade depot with their mess! Lets get trading so they’ll bugger off and we can make the place all tidy again. This is how it will look when traders have arrived and unloaded: They’ll unload all their goods and stand around waiting for something to happen. So stay tuned for more dwarfy goodness! Trading for fun and profitĪt some point you’re going to get some traders turn up and with your depot up, they’ll soon make themselves at home in your depot.

Welcome to Part 5! This will be a bit of a short tutorial as I’m away for the weekend, but we’re going to cover some important information, none-the-less. I’ve written a book – Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress, available at O’Reilly and Amazon! It covers the current version and takes you from knowing nothing to being a confident Dwarf Fortress player!