# Dwarf Fortress opinions.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwarf-fortress-opinions/658848>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 20, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwarf-fortress-opinions/658848 "2013-05-20T18:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dwarf-fortress-opinions/658848/41 "2013-07-21T22:41:38Z")

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I’ve been playing with it for a fortnight now. I’m enjoying it immensely and I’ve mastered the basics, but I’ve never been able to keep things under control to keep the fortress stable. I either get so many migrants that there’s never enough jobs to do or resources get consumed to fast, or I get frustrated from bloody Kobolds stealing my gear. I usually manage to catch and kill them before they escape the fortress, but there’s blood and guts everywhere that the dwarves simply won’t clean up.

My latest game, I seem to have lined up my dwarves to die of thirst - the last water supply just froze over in winter and all the booze is gone. A caravan has arrived but my fortress has mined nothing but shale and malachite, so they won’t sell me anything!

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