Sadly, “fun” quickly got involved and Mishrak ran out of time. The runner-up fort, built by forum user Mishrak, started out as an attempt to roleplay a tie-in to Ars’ attempt to play the game. The end population is 87, with 67 dead and 4 years of in-game time elapsed. Even though all players were longtime veterans, one was forced to resign from the contest due to a “level 10 aquifer.”Įnlarge / Where Thatdude buried all of the spoils of his dwarves' tantrum spiral, i.e., the results of "fun."īy the time Thatdude hits 10 hours, he has a room for every living dwarf, and a grave and marker for all except the last one to die. In a contest to develop the most interesting scenarios, the players voted amongst themselves and came up with both a winner and runner-up fort for their usage of time and diaries they kept during their 10 hours of play (both paused and unpaused time counted towards the total). Following the Ars article, a number of DF forumgoers took it upon themselves to flip our 10-hour challenge on its head: what could a handful of experienced players accomplish in 10 hours? Just how far could they get? These survivors exhibit such agency with the game that they not only live, but thrive next to threats like volcanoes and necromancy towers. I got exactly nowhere without the most explicit and procedural instructions, and even then progress was slow, painstaking, and shadowed by failure (or as DF fans refer to it, “fun”) at every step.īut there are more than a few endlessly patient souls who have pushed through those early trials (some for hundreds of hours). I spent a good long time helplessly watching the best minds of my dwarf clan destroyed by madness, thirst, and mysterious tantrums.
It was nigh-impenetrable in terms of its mechanics and interface. Not long ago, I tried to play an insanely difficult-to-understand game called Dwarf Fortress. The surface level of Thatdude's metropolis with a few dozen buildings constructed as residences for dwarves.
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