Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to Play the Most Complex Video Game Ever MadeDwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve. The book’s focus is the game’s simulation mode, in which you’re tasked with building a dwarf city. Once you learn how to establish and maintain your very first fortress, you can consult the more advanced chapters on resource management and training a dwarf military. You’ll soon have stories to share from your interactions with the Dwarf Fortress universe.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 2 Playing God | 11 |
Chapter 3 First Steps | 25 |
Chapter 4 Filling Dwarf Bellies | 45 |
Chapter 5 Merchants and Trading | 59 |
Chapter 6 Dwarf Resource Management | 63 |
Chapter 7 Digging Deeper | 85 |
Chapter 8 Industry | 115 |
Chapter 9 Justice Health Care and Vampires | 137 |
Chapter 10 The Military | 155 |
Chapter 11 Engineering | 183 |
Farther | 205 |
Appendix A Appendix | 207 |
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Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to play the most complex video ... Peter Tyson Limited preview - 2012 |
Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress: Learn to Play the Most Complex Video ... Peter Tyson Limited preview - 2012 |