A dwarf just crafted a legendary adamantine longsword. Its name?

"Haunting Whispers of Forgotten Dead".

Its images?

Image of dwarves in adamantine. The dwarves are laboring.
Image of a dwarf and a demon in adamantine. The dwarf is striking down the demon
Image of a dwarf and a human in adamantine. The dwarf is striking down the human
Image of a dwarf and a demon in adamantine. The demon is crying. The dwarf is laughing.

Awesome.

This is a fantastic article on how to start your first Dwarf Fortress.

It includes pictures and shows you how the commands work. I suggest playing in windowed mode so you can view things more easily.

We could even play a succession game once you guys have learned how the game works.

Trust me, as off-putting and hard to learn as Dwarf Fortress is, once you learn how to play it is very addicting and there are some epic moments.

The Rant Log is up and running!

In the Rant Log, all of us can log in under different usernames but post in the same blog! Rad!

View it here: http://www.kingdomofyelsew.net/rantlog/

Log in here (same username and pass):
http://www.kingdomofyelsew.net/rantlog/wp-login.php

It's still in testing, and I haven't customized it at all, so try it out and lemme know if you spot problems.

In the next week I'll be converting all of your pages over and redesigning the front page.

Cheers!

Yeah, you read right. We'll finally be rid of that comment error BS. I think you'll like the new look of your individual blogs.

Front page won't change for a while though. I'm lazy like that.

Also I'm considering changing hosts. This free host we have is great, and I'm really appreciative, but our monthly bandwidth is somewhat low and I can't host certain files. Honestly, if we each paid about $1.50 a month, we could get some pretty awesome hosting. So, be thinking about that.

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

What a ridiculous game. Sure, it's all in ASCII graphics, but I haven't played a game this deep or well-programmed in AGES. It's hard to learn how to play, but the payoff is so worth it. Here's an example of something I did in adventure mode. I went into a human town and slaughtered everyone in their sleep. When I went to the next town, I walked inside a building and got attacked by everyone in there. I got into a fight with eight humans unskilled at fighting. I killed a few, but one of them punched me from behind, causing me to drop my sword. I bashed them with my shield, but it wasn't too effective and I finally went unconscious. They bashed me for a ridiculously long time until my abdomen exploded into a lump of gore.

Nice.

And that's not even counting the Fortress mode, which is even deeper.

EDIT: I just found out that all changes to the world are persistent. I went back to the town where I slaughtered everyone with a new character, and they were still dead. I even found the corpse of my old character. Insane.