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This comment, while interesting and helpful, would be enough to keep me away from DF forever. Game-breaking bugs? Ain't nobody got time for that. I already know about DF so I know I'm not interested in games like that, but man, I'm glad I never tried to pick it up.
this is to games as jazz is to music. you have more fun developing DF than playing.
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Check out Dwarf Therapist. It is what makes the game accessible IMHO.
I've heard this suggestion before, and I may have even attempted to install it at one point, but this is exactly my point. To really have a good gameplay experience one must turn to community-made tools. But the game is not open source, and really, it's kind of a fundamental user experience problem with the game. Seems like it might be worth putting into the actual game. I'm hoping that in 10-20 years, the devs have…
Minecraft came after notch got irritated with DF. The entire dwarf-lite genre is inspired from wanting to do DF better.
Now DF has been improving it's adventure more gaming, something which had been vestigial for 90% of the dwarf fortress Dev cycle.
Take a look at the kisat dur thread (Dwarven martial arts) on the bay12games forum.
Go for it, you can always put it down and come back later.