A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast

By Kristin McFarland, Drew BuschhornLeisure Games Fiction Hobbies

A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast episodes

May 23, 2023Episode 12: From CopperStreams to CopperCrypts
Episode 12 brings you updates from Kristin’s fort, BellBlade, and the epic ending of Drew’s fort, CopperStreams. Topics (not digressions!) include animal training and how/when to specialize dwarf labor.
**NOTE** Corrected version dropped at 1:41pm EDT. Apologies!
Extra info:
Our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1241402480100214/
Our Discord group: https://discord.gg/34kdwGQUph
Dwarf Fortress Wiki on Animal Training:
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Animal_trainer
Dwarf Fortress Wiki on Skills and Professions: (listener suggested!)
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Skill
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
51 min
May 09, 2023Episode 11: Just Keep Digging!
We’re back to playing our individual forts AND we’re digging deep into the topic of caverns. Who knew we could fit so much content into one episode? Digressions include keeping dwarves happy after there’s been a massacre.
Extra info:
Our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1241402480100214/
Our Discord group: https://discord.gg/34kdwGQUph
Dwarf Fortress wiki on caverns: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Cavern
Forgotten Beast from a listener!
“The mountain titan Oda Thifatipi Thaluthithu has come! An enormous one-eyed serpent. It has a fat, bulging trunk and it has an austere look about it. Beware it’s deadly spittle.”
They say: “I can just see it’s one monocled eye. I can see how genteelly it spits to show how austere it is.”
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
50 min
April 25, 2023Episode 10: Our Spooky Shared Fort
For our tenth episode, we played a succession fort. What does that mean, you ask? Well, we passed shared fort in a HAUNTED biome back and forth for a total of four dwarf years. Fun was had. Digressions include windmills and the titles of consorts baron/ess. Thanks for sticking with us for TEN EPISODES!
Extra info:
Our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1241402480100214/
Our Discord group: https://discord.gg/34kdwGQUph
Gashcozokon’s Procedurally Generated Data Extractor! https://sepsoft.ca/df/extraction/
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
50 min
April 11, 2023Episode 9: Death By Slippery Slope
It’s the safety requirements that’ll kill ya, folks. Drew tells us all about how to build a waterfall at your fort entrance, Kristin wonders if merchants are dumb or bugged, and we both share some weird fiction from our new forts. Plus, we reflect on how storytelling is an integral part of the game.
Extra info:
Our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1241402480100214/
Interview with Zach and Tarn at AIAS Gamemakers Notebook Podcast
https://interactive.libsyn.com/the-history-of-dwarf-fortress-with-zach-and-tarn-adams-part-1
https://interactive.libsyn.com/the-history-of-dwarf-fortress-with-zach-and-tarn-adams-part-2
Adventure Mode Coming: https://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-devs-on-big-adventure-mode-plans-this-is-just-gonna-blow-everyones-mind/
Lord Bookworm’s awesome artifact:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=128565266816725&set=g.1241402480100214
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
56 min
March 28, 2023 Episode 8: Hell Is Just a Hot Aquifer
We talk fort reclamation, aquifers, and HELL! Seriously, though, we cover a lot of ground in this episode. Drew is trying to dig to hell, Kristin reclaimed an old fort, and aquifers ooze uncontrollably. In other words, it’s a normal day in Dwarf Fortress.
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
47 min
March 14, 2023 Episode 7: Age and Ages
Two weeks may feel like an AGE between episodes, but we’re back and we’re ready to talk about AGES of time… okay, there’s nothing there. Regardless, we’ve got weird news from our forts, and we delve into world generation and how history passes in Dwarf Fortress. We also talk a bit more about FPS problems, managing trash in your fort, and digging straight to hell.
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
56 min
February 28, 2023 Episode 6: Embarks, Sparkles, and Aquifers
We’re back! Welcome new listeners! We’re talking embark locations, including surroundings and how to deal with aquifers. We both have new forts and lots to say about them, and we mourn the demise of both Ragdreams and Daubedpages. Kristin also had a knock-down, drag-out fight with the microphone about a quarter of the way through this episode, so the sound quality changes for the better after 12ish minutes.
Riftflaxen the violence of treaties, a damn fine siltstone mug
Bluntblossomed the patterned lamentation,
a white table engraved with bogeymen. Plural.
A standard masterwork llama wool coat
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
55 min
February 14, 2023 Episode 5: Should I Abandon My Fort?
Nothing says romance like zombie entrails and olm people skeletons. We’re both facing some troubles with our forts, and it might be time to move on. Drew’s linked location (Dungsville?!) is having some economic success, and Kristin cannot get rid of the zombies. Should we call it quits and embark anew?
The evolution of a fortress!
A damn good tower cap door
A vicious bat man … man bat … idk
A hydra engraved puzzle box
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
39 min
February 07, 2023 Episode 4 – Rank My Fort
Welcome to our fourth episode! Drew shares the military exploits of Daubedpages, Kristin laments the ongoing misery that is Ragdreams, and we talk briefly about fortress tiers. Are you a hamlet or a village? How about a duchy? Who knows!! As a bonus, Kristin shares a tragic short story about our friend Kol Copperleopard and her boyfriend Vabok. (You’ll be able to find text of the story in a separate post.) Thanks for listening!
Alas, poor Vabok.
The Battle of Doomfeet
MENACES WITH SPIKES
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
40 min
January 31, 2023 Episode 3: Fort Design
No, not a fort called design; we’re talking about designing your fort! We also have some fun news from our forts, and a lamentation about the casualties of well-digging.
A kaolinite crown
An avocado os
Ushat Seedlabored
Transcript
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A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/
41 min