- Make trap systems of great complexity - set up cage traps around your well to catch the critters that often decide to crawl up. Place a support beam in a large enough room, possibly your treasury, link it to a pressure plate in the entrance, and enemies will be buried in tons of rock upon entering. Made a weapon, of any sort? Use it in a weapon trap. Build floodgates, channels, and aqueducts to divert water or lava to flood a room or block critters that are logically impeded by them (be careful to place doors between the room and the rest of the fortress, or else the whole place will be flooded). Make levers to control bridges, floodgates, and supports. You can link up any number of them, alongside pressure plates and such, in any way you choose. There was more, but I forgot , Use the floodgates and channels to make farms for your dwarves - an essential source of food, especially after your fisherdwarves stop pulling in enough to feed everyone. Fertilize fields with potash made with lye in the Ashery, and define what to grow every season for each plot.
- Make wood, stone, metal, and bone crafts to trade with caravans from human, elf, and dwarf alike. Decorate these with jewels, bone, shell, and metal - your craftsdwarves will often inlay them with images of the creatures, trees, and plants they like with whichever material you choose. As dwarves become more skilled, they will create better quality items, which fetch higher prices. Masterpieces and artifacts are possible, though the latter depends on mysterious trances which might drive the dwarf insane if you can't get the materials you need for their work.
- Nobility! As your fortress grows, they start to move in, like so many leeches. They are not without their uses, however - your metalworkers can create coins, which are distributed amongst your dwarves, and items are then ownable. In essence, an economy develops , but most nobles will request rooms , offices , and many stuff , and will just sit back , and do nothing(other then hauling some light stuff) ,
- changing Drawfs. drawfs can change , say , you have a drawf who always work inside the fortress , and rarely comes out , after a few Game years , they will prefer the dark of your fortress so much that when he comes out , he will slow down due to the sun which he is not used to , and vice vista , plus , if a drawf always spents his time in the millitary , he might lose all his social skills and will hate it when he is disbanded , same as for the working drawfs , too much and they will hate being recruited , this brings a new balance challage
- critical parts , internal organs , and weapon types. the challenging thing about fighting enermies , is that , there are critical parts (brains , heart , etc , etc) that can cause instand kill , and also chopping off the hands/legs can cripple them from doing several things , there are also different weapon types , as follow :
swords : the jack of all trades weapon , they are good and cuting off limbs , piercing critical organs , bashing them a few tile away , etc , but they are best at none
Axes : excelent at taking out limbs , but bad at the others
spears : called the strongest weapon in the game , its not because of damage , but piercing , it can instant kill any organic creature with ease , it also have a rank of being stuck into enermys alot
there are more , but i cant be bordered to write , and now , to the most fun and Epic feature of the game :
KILL INVADERS WITH STYLE!
Yes , it is! , Make magma Flow there and toast them! Freeze Them With Ice And Winter! Make a Big Drawbridge , Then When A Group of Bombastic Invaders Come , Draw the Bridge Up and Watch as They Fly into a gang of armed drawfs and get Owned! or Build A Alley Of Death , and Spat! Groups Of Goblins Squashed Flat!
the game indeed is Fun , but More Fun When You Download It And Find out The Huge Amounts Of Fun Features!
Download : http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/~mayday/upload/DFG21.zip
just open it with winZip or WinRar , run Dwarf Fort.Exe , and you are done!
Please Read : for The Sake Of God , when You Are Going To Close The Game , Please use Task manager to do it , Or you may find yourself needing to restart your computer
and yes , the game really is hard , there is a guide that will help you make your own fort , i link it here : http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=31928.0
and see part 1 to 14 , not just partly.