DFVIDTUTS2015.plan

***This is my .plan for DFVIDTUTS2015. I'm starting off with some basic videos that can get a new player playing and maybe even survive the first winter.

[What is Dwarfort?]

Short video about the different modes in dwarf fortress. Focus on world generation, adventure mode and dwarfort mode. Load up an existing save and show an up an running fort, and how you can interact with that same world in adventurer mode as well. Also where to get dwarf fortress (DF starter pack)

[What am i looking at?]

Go in fort mode and explain basic camera movement controls, and how to look at things, and how the 3d nature of dwarf fortress works.

[Dwarfort basics]

Longer video that has all the basics to get you playing. Including basic mining, chopping trees, making workshops, manage labors, making a bed and dining room, stockpiles, plump helmet farming, basic cooking & brewing, basic defense like building walls, floors, a bridge and cage traps. Maybe even the manager.

***After these starter videos, make smaller, topic related videos. "Wiki-ize" the videos (I'm mainly thinking of minecraft wiki's where theres a video on every page).

***Every video should explain related stuffs like the relevant stockpiles and labors.

>>>>> Starting out

[Advanced Mining]

Explain more about mining, channeling, using the auto-vein digging, using the priority levels. Finding the caves and blocking them off. Also how to remove designations

[Advanced building]

Go more in depth on building walls, floors, stairs, fortifications. Show box-select (DF-Hack thing). Show how to remove constructions

[Basic facilities]

Dining rooms, bedroom, meeting area, water source

[Basic Defenses & Burrows]

Close of your fortress from the outside. Set up fortifications, dig a moat. Build bridges, hook them up to a lever. How to keep your dwarves inside by setting a burrow.

[Labors and Dwarf Therapist]

Explain how labors work, how you can change them in dwarfort and how to do the same in the dwarf therapist.

[Manager]

Set up an early manager since i'll be using the manager for the later videos like leatherworking.

>>>>> Food videos

[Advanced Farming]

Where to build farms, how to set up the seasons, and what to do with the crops, using the farmers workshop.

[Animal Husbandry]

How to set up pastures, nest boxes, set up chicksplosions, using the farmers workshop to make yarn and milk

[Hunting]

How to get your dwarves to hunt. They need a crossbow, quiver and bolts. How to make these items: bowyery for crossbow, quiver (trading? or leatherworks, not sure yet), craftsdwarf for bolts. Show the dwarf going around hunting. Maybe show the ammunition menu in military screen to up the number of arrows.

[Gathering]

How to gather plants from outside, and how to set up fruit collection zones.

[Butchering]

How to use your butcher, Z-animals menu, how to set up some animals as pets so you won't accidentily slaughter them. How auto-slaughter works and how to stop it. Also show the DF-hack Auto-butchering system.

[Fishing]

How to use the fishery, set up fishing zones

[Milling]

How to use the millstone and quern to mill your plants. Maybe show a simple windmill setup hooked up to a millstone.

[Advanced Cooking]

How to use the kitchen, the difference between the meals, rendering fat, how to set up special stockpiles to force the dwarves to use certain foods first.

[Advanced Brewing]

How to use the still. Making barrels or rock pots to put the alcohol in. Dont bother explaining gnomeblight.

>>>>> Crafting videos

[Masonry]

Set up a mason and explain all the options you can make. Explain to be careful with the stone stockpile

[Carpenter]

Set up a carpenter and explain all the options you can make. Explain woodcutting, and dont forget the priorities

[Craftdwarf]

Set up a craftdwarf and explain all the options you can make. Special care for bolts, nest boxes, rock crafts forever, engraving slabs

[Jeweler]

Set up a Jeweler and explain all the options you can make. CRA and EGRA. Show auto-vein digging for gems.

[Mechanic]

Set up a mechanic and explain all the options you can make. How to make magma-proof mechanisms, how to build a traction bed

[Normal Forging]

Set up the metalsmith, wood furnace and smelter. How to make charcoal, refine coal, melt bars and forge them into equipment

[Magma Forging]

Set up forges that use magma so you don't need coal anymore. Don't forget a fortifications otherwise the magma crabs can get in.

[Leatherworks]

Set up leatherworks, tanner and start using it to create bags, quivers, backpacks, waterskins, armor

[Clothier]

Set up clothier, loom, and start using it to create bags, ropes, clothing. Perhaps show dyeing to.

>>>>> Military & Advanced Defense videos

[Setting up a Melee Squad]

How to get dwarves in the squad and how to get them training. Editing the metal armor uniform so they also carry training weapons

[Setting up a Ranged Squad]

How to get dwarves in a ranged squad and how to get them training. Building archery targets. Build crossbows, bolts and quivers(how?)

[Preparing for a siege]

Make sure your fort can run without outside access. Move your wood inside. Build a inside refuse stockpile that can vent the miasma. Build an indoor well. Show how D-B menu to keep dwarves from running out to get stuff, show D-O menu to restrict traffic.

***Maybe split this into multiple videos?

[Traps]

How to make all the different kinds of traps, what items they need: mechanisms, cages, weapons.

[Siege Engines]

How to make a siege workshop, ballista, catapult, ballista ammo.

[Animal Training]

Set up a puppy stockpile, animal trainer, create some wardogs and assign them to your military. Talk about training dragons :)

[What will come to get you]

Talk about all the dangers that can come to get you in dwarf mode. Kobold thiefs, goblins, Were creatures, vampires, Forgotten beasts, megabeasts, Necromancers & co.

[Dealing with prisoners of war]

How to disarm POW's, throw them into a pit, set up an arena.

>>>>> Dwarf Happiness

[Bedrooms and Macros]

Dig out personal bedrooms for the dwarves and use macros to set them up.

[Noble Pleasing]

Set up rooms for all the nobles. Use the manager to build all the furniture, use macros to set them all up, talk about room worth and how to increase it. Maybe show how to murder specific nobles as well?

[Smoothing and Engraving]

Show how the smoothing and engraving commands work, the priorities, and how to carve fortifications.

[Hospital]

How to set up a hospital zone, set up doctors, make crutches, splints, buckets, gypsum powder, soap making, thread, cloth, traction bench. Show the Z-health menu

[Justice]

Set up a captain of the guard and police squad, a jail room with metal chains, show the Z-justice menu.

>>>>> Misc

[Dealing with water & magma]

How to move water and magma around. Basic channeling and screw pumps. Magma proof when dealing with magma.

[Dealing with Aquifers]

What they are, how to get around them, how to use them for an indoor well.

[Machinery]

How to set up all the thigs in the machinery menu: Screw pump, water wheel, windmill, gear assembly, hor/ver axle

[Minecarts]

How to set up minecarts. Mainly to move rocks around, maybe try a minecart shotgun?

[Burrows]

Do an entire video just on burrows and how to use them. Setting up a Deep Forging burrow should be a good way to explain that.

[Spoilers]