Things you wish you had known before!

[Mivo]

I'll start:

I wish I had known before that ladders/etc. "drop down" when you dig below them, disconnecting dwarves from the upper floors. I lost a bunch of dwarves in my first two games before I actually figured this out! (I had thought that the ladders just extend automatically.)

What do you wish you had learned earlier about building and designing your fort?

 

[JakobWerle]

I wish I had known that creepy crawlies could teleport between levels if you opened their hole. So much pain and death were caused by a level 30 Orc War Chief

I also wish I had known about this competition for a Magika copy, I would've built a better fort before going to Chambery.

 

[ShadowDragon868]

I wish I had known from game 1 that the surface is fertile and can be farmed.

 

[Sile]

Clicking the padlock on doors locks and unlocks them. I thought the game was bugged when the padlock icon disappeared but the doors wouldn't open.

 

[unmerged(497946)]

I wish I had known from game 1 that the surface is fertile and can be farmed.

Not in all environments.


Another item would be: You don't need access to the surface to build a farm there... when you can teleport.

 

[ShadowDragon868]

Clicking the padlock on doors locks and unlocks them. I thought the game was bugged when the padlock icon disappeared but the doors wouldn't open.

Nah. Clicking the doors/fertility stones/call to arms flags doesn't interact with the object, it gets rid of its UI overlay.

 

[LittleMikey]

For me it is the ability to see what blocks are above you or behind walls in monster rooms by selecting the dig tool and mousing over them. So often have I had valuable resources in my roof that I just couldn't spot XD

 

[Falc]

For me it is the ability to see what blocks are above you or behind walls in monster rooms by selecting the dig tool and mousing over them. So often have I had valuable resources in my roof that I just couldn't spot XD

For monster rooms, you can just sell the wall and floor decorations. You can also sell all the placed objects, which is neat because some of them give you a tech point.

 

[LittleMikey]

For monster rooms, you can just sell the wall and floor decorations. You can also sell all the placed objects, which is neat because some of them give you a tech point.

Yeah I know to sell the research tables, and most of the decorations, but I like to leave the wall panels up because they look nice

 

[unmerged(497946)]

Marking large areas for excavation works very badly because the "dragging" slows the game to a crawl.

Instead you should:

• left click (hold) the starting point of your excavation
• drag the mouse over a UI part like the orders menu at the bottom of the screen
• release
• navigate to the other end point of your excavation area and left click

This marks the entire area between starting and end point for excavation - but only on the level where you clicked first. The Z-coordinate of the 2nd click is ignored.

Most likely this is a bug... but it's a useful one. Definitely works in 1.02.

 

[Mivo]

Moderator note: I have moved the posts about the contest to the appropriate thread. Please continue the discussion about the contest there.

This thread here is about nifty tricks and other cool discoveries that are immensely helpful or handy to know. I already learned that the surface is fertile! I had never actually tried this before, and it''s pretty cool!

 

[unmerged(603648)]

That you can teleport up to five dwarfs at once. So many have died in vain =(.