Dwarf Fortress (more time wastage ahead!)

[Dragonboy]

Bit, by bit I am getting there.
My last fortress had a moad, a bridge and an open and closable floodgate.
Only why for dwarfs sake dont I ever get any new imigrants!!! got 2 messages that game that I wouldnt be recieving any... I want to know why.
Did recieve a dwarven trading caravan had to finish my bridge across the moad very fast... lol

[Tcei]

Its not unusual for the message that no migrants have arived on your first summer, and its not too uncommon to see that message again during the first fall/winter, depending on how well your fort is during the first caravan. Normally they'll arive the next spring.

[StalePopcorn]

Good wiki article on when/where/why immigrants don't/do arrive.

In short - build your wealth!

[Dragonboy]

I guess I didnt want to wait for the imigrants to arrive.
Now these last few games I always start with 7 and suddenly I got 26.
Good thing I give 6 out of my 7 dwarfs mining jobs so that I at least had room to dump them all.

The only problem I am having is not that I don’t understand the game, but that I do things way too improvised and that doesn’t work when you have 50 dwarves running all over the place. I place a chamber when I need it and were I want it, without any form of logic or good thinking

Need to learn myself to centralize bedrooms, craftrooms with storage, tombes (had 2 corpses rotting in my fortress without any tombes to put them and really no idea where I was supposed to build tombes in my messy maze fortress). Already use a centralized methode for bedrooms, which might be used in a simular fashion for constructing tombes, but not for anything else… Yet.
Working on my craftrooms with storage now. Not sure how I am going to accomplish this, but it is going to be fun finding out.

Good thing I havent had any goblin attacks with my constant lacking militairy skill (my last fortress at least had a kennel for wardogs)

[SinOfSuns]

I had exams over the past few days so I've been really busy up until now. I still have one more next week, but starting soon I should have enough free time to get back into everything. In any case, seems people are getting the hang of things pretty well!

[jerk-o]

If you want to see a bunch of video tutorials, then check out www.youtube.com/profile?user=captnduck

[StalePopcorn]

Got my first well working, my first drawbridge, and saw off my first two goblin marauder attacks! Working on a "gymnasium" for my dwarves now