Gnomoria - Like Dwarf Fortress

Hathe_sl said:

I set planks to be built on repeat, didn't think the builder would never stop making them and die from starvation then have another gnome continue the work on top of his corpse

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Ha. Yeah, you have to super micro-manage in games like this. If you give an order to your gnomes (or townies, in the case of Towns), they will merrily starve to death while carrying out your commands. One of the biggest complaints that I have with this current generation of city-survival games is the lack of self preservation that all of the minions have.

In older iterations of the game I had certain things on repeat build and never had a problem with starvation. Although realistically on stuff like planks you should be building to X instead of repeat building anyway.

Shit man, even the dwarves in DF take care of themselves (if there is a means to do so).

yeah. I've been mentioning this in the indie game thread.

Really like it. It's still getting updated regularly. I would still call it alpha though. so anyone expecting a nearly whole game, not yet. There are still giant holes in the gameplay.


Never had that specific problem with starving. Generally only have starving if, trapped in an inaccessible area, the old stairway stuck bug, or wounded. It a new bug?

I had a decent setup where starting somewhere around year 3 I had built up a guard tower above my front gate to house most of my soldiers. Had a hospital, and the remaining floors alternated between training grounds and squad dormitories. Most of the tower was built in midair, so I had to build a support scaffolding around the side, and then once the tower was finished I did a similar thing to build a mostly floating great gnomorian temple built almost entirely out of Lapis. No screenshots though, sadly.

yeah. If you haven't played in a while. Crafting had a major overhaul recently. Its way more complicated then it was previously.

Swords need a blade and a haft for example to combine into a sword. instead of simply building a sword.


Hathe, probably a priority issue. A woodcutter has alot of things to do.
Carpentry, eating/sleeping, cutting down trees, taking cuttings, planting trees. You probably want 4 woodcutters asap. And even go as far as making a custom job. make 2 actual foresters, only doing the tree jobs. and 2 then doing the carpentry. cutting planks is nearly a full time job.
Set your carpentry workshops to priority 1.

Check your order of importance too. and scheduling.
If you have your carpenter set up to, build up to 10 torch, build up to 4 chairs, build up to 2 sticks. you may never get past the torches if you keep placing them.
(I think this would stop, because it get stuck on the torches/chairs, needing sticks.)

If you have it set to build up to 8 sticks first, then there you go. they are building your 8 sticks, before moving onto the next task.

Ran out of a material. you might have had it set to applewood only or something.

The False Trouble Kingdom has fallen.
haha. Early game is so much harder now,without exploiting.

Crafting is so much more involved. population is really tight. If you have soldiers training, you will be low on foresters, etc. And under geared for metalworking. Goblins will scale faster then you.

huh. yeah. If you have the things ready to go, and builders. Placing thing is very high on the priority list. it should get done quickly.

Pathing would be the next question. sure there is no broken stair, or removed floor or something?

Hathe_sl said:

Still having a difficult time either crafting things or making buildings. I checked to make sure I am not asking specific things such as "applewood chair". I am definitely using "any". Posted example below, Jas and Windle are my 2 builders. Anything I am missing?

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Make sure you have 3 of the same type of table. You cant build things with mix and match material types. Your "any table(3)" is probably 2 stone and 1 wood or something.

Hathe_sl said:

Yep, that fixed it.

What about planks? Can I have 2 pine planks and 2 birch planks and still make a table?

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I am pretty sure the rule applies to all things built, aside from Walls and Floors. So no, It won't build a table in that scenario.

It's getting harder and harder not to play this. I've been trying to wait until a full build comes out because I don't usually replay games once I shelf them. I read the patch notes on the crafting overhaul and it's quite appealing.

How annoyingly bugged is the current build? What are the top/worst bugs atm?