Book description
Dwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve.
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Table of contents
- Foreword by Tarn Adams
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Playing God
- 3. First Steps
- 4. Filling Dwarf Bellies
- 5. Merchants and Trading
- 6. Dwarf Resource Management
- 7. Digging Deeper
- 8. Industry
- 9. Justice, Health Care, and Vampires
- 10. The Military
- 11. Engineering
- Afterword: Farther
- A. Appendix
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449314941
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