

The real time-consuming part is constantly regenerating the world so you finally get a location with magma, different biomes including one with sand and one with a sedimentary layer, with woodlands, but without an aquifer, and still small enough that your framerate doesn't get raped. Generating the world now seems to be a matter of three minutes (I was really surprised, because the first version I tried took a lot more than that). Do you see chances or do I have to write the guy off? I would not like to lose my only freshly acquired weaver, but how can I make cloth in a few months' time? I think I have cloth plants ready, but planting them and making the cloth out of them (provided I can figure out how) is time-consuming, especially since the only skill needed for that procedure I have is the grower, and if I need a thresher or even weaver I have to use dabblers. Now I'm currently stuck because I have a secretive mood weaver hungering for leather and cloth, and I can't find the cloth I've bought from the elves - apparently one of the kobold fuckers stole it. What I find hard is sticking with the game after the first immigrant wave, generally because my first fortresses were apparently quite popular amongst soap makers. I have now reached the point in the learning curve where the godly amounts of fun and sadly lost (NOT wasted) time is starting. It was not until I read through the story of Boatmurdered that I finally managed to stick with it. When I first discovered Dwarf Fortress (available at ) months ago I knew that there was an awesome game somewhere, but didn't have the patience to learn it. I know I'm kind of late in jumping on the bandwagon, but holy crap is it an awesome bandwagon!
