![]() What? Why is this here? Is this not covered by the many, many other options? And why does it say ‘Allow’ in front of the options, which isn’t the case for any of the other choices in this very menu? Are wooden finished goods plants? ![]() What’s that white ‘Additional Options’ tag over on the left? Let’s map out what they mean in each context. There are 3 word colors in 3 different columns. I now have a stockpile that will only accept Wooden Finished Goods.īut there’s something else that drives me crazy about this stupid menu. Why, Dwarf Fortress? Why can’t I just toggle everything using Enter? WHY DO YOU NEED FOUR DIFFERENT BUTTONS FOR FOUR DIFFERENT CONTEXTS IN WHICH TO TOGGLE?Īnd there you have it, my friends I’ve done it. That’s right! We’re back to ‘Enter: Toggle,’ which has been right there for this whole time, waiting for us to get to the third list, which is the only list that you can toggle. This is where I decided to write this stupid article. This is where I was literally stuck for three minutes. Now how do I pick Wood? I don’t Enable it. It worked! Now I notice my two new hotkeys: ‘p’ for Permit, and ‘f’ for Forbid. I’ve already learned that this is when I can press ‘b’ for ‘Block All’. Time to turn off everything that isn’t an ‘Other Material’. I check the ‘Type’ submenu and that isn’t right, so I’m dealing with ‘Other Materials’. I don’t see ‘Wood’ in that second list, so I guess it’s under ‘Other Materials’? Or ‘Type’? What the hell is the difference between ‘Core Quality’ and ‘Total Quality’? But I won’t worry about that right now. I’ve now turned off everything except for ‘Finished Goods’, so I need merely refine this to ‘Wooden Finished Goods’. What order are these keys listed in again? My numpad says ‘PgUp’ and ‘PgDn’ on those, so I guess that makes sense. The 9 and 3 keys go to the top or bottom of the list. Here’s a picture of a numpad for reference: Of course, the time-tested scrolling numbers, 829346! Do you have a keyboard without a numpad? Have fun with that. Pressing ‘Enter’ does nothing.Īll right, it looks like what I really want to do is disable them with the ‘d’ key. It says ‘Toggle’ right there at the bottom of the screen, right? That’s how lots of the other menus work. There’s no way to turn off all the categories. ‘Block All’ refers to blocking the things IN the highlighted category, not blocking the categories themselves. Nope! That didn’t block the stuff on the left. That sounds to me like ‘b’ for block all. Let’s turn everything off and then turn Finished Goods back on. My cursor is right there at the top on ‘Animals’. Now I want to turn off everything except for finished goods, which I see in the middle of that left column. First I select the stockpile and press ‘s’ to change settings. This will be convenient because I’ll be making beds and doors and what have you at the Carpentry Workshop across the hall. I would like to change its settings so that it only accepts wooden finished goods. Here I am with this stockpile right here. Let’s walk through the keyboard commands for this fun process! Changing the settings of a stockpile is something that you will do all the time in Dwarf Fortress. Once you’ve made a stockpile, you’ll want to specify what you’d like for that stockpile to contain. Stockpiles are where your dwarves sort things so that they’re not scattered throughout the fortress. Let’s take an extremely detailed look at how to change the settings of a stockpile. ![]() How bad could the UI really be, you ask? Well grab a chair, because you’ve come to the right place, my friend. In Dwarf Fortress, your dwarf can declare that her bed is named Gorrotheodos, which means “The Disemboweled Amazement.”ĭwarf Fortress also has the worst user interface of all time. In Dwarf Fortress, your dwarf can carve an image of herself strangling a sloth bear man with its own intestines into a bed. In Dwarf Fortress, your dwarf can strangle a sloth bear man with its own intestines. In Dwarf Fortress, there are sloth bear men. In Dwarf Fortress, there are sloth bears. Dwarf Fortress is probably the best game of all time.
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