Collection of tips I’ve learned over the years for Dwarf Fortress.
Tips and Tricks
- If you’re new to the game, I’d suggest starting in a warm biome so you wont have to get a cistern built before winter.
- Mined stone impedes movement, dump it and reclaim it once cleared out.
- When setting garbage zones, they can be 1 square and infinite in stack. This is useful for clearing out stone from mined areas into a single stack.
- The same technique can be used to create a destruction zone, by building a flood gate on the same square, open it, put items into zone, then close the flood gate. All items occupying that spot will be vaporized.
Dwarves still need access to water to clean wounds and to feed the wounded, though you’re still going to want a cistern given that, the water should be cleaner.