There’s a lot going on below the surface in Dwarf Fortress – that’s true of the game on a conceptual level, as it’s always been about seeing a lot of complex systems interact under an ASCII-based graphic design. However, this also applies to the way the Dwarven Fortress is built. You can burrow into many, many layers below the surface in a sandbox game, as shown in this new Dwarf Fortress gameplay video.
Zach Adams, one of the two brothers who designed Dwarf Fortress, uploaded a video showing the garbage disposal system he built in the latest version of Dwarf Fortress. The fortress dwarves carry their trash to a designated room where they put it on a cart, then push it along rails to a dump, where they dump it into a pit of hot liquid magma.
It seems quite simple, but as you can see from the video, there is a long distance between the garbage room and the place where the garbage is burned. The track traverses dozens of layers, each inhabited by its own ecosystem of potentially dangerous plants, animals, and monsters who would love nothing more than to enter a complex filled with tasty gnomes.
For those unfamiliar with Dwarf Fortress, every time the scene in the video changes, the dwarf pushing the chariot will descend to the floor below. Each segment of the path shown begins with an ascending tunnel and ends with a descending tunnel.
The video is also a good showcase for new art assets in Dwarf Fortress. On the various levels that Adams’ garbage cart traverses, the hallways and chambers are filled with giant mushrooms and neon grass. Streams flow through the caves and endemic life wanders through them, illuminating the caves with bioluminescence.
Bay 12 Games and Kitfox, who publish the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress, say more video updates are coming soon, “now that the art is almost complete.” This is good news for anyone looking to dive into the new edition of Dwarf Fortress.
Source : PC Gamesn
