In this page you can find a lot of useful tips for a better game-play.
- Only the goblin steals items from your stockpile, so if there are too many enemies for your tribe, you can move all your dwarfs in a safe place and return in the morning without having items stolen.
- Doors, Hatches, Walls, Bridge parts and Roof parts can change the orientation by left clicking on them while you have the same item type selected (it will also works if you have 0 in stock, you just need to have the item in a quick slot).
- You can instantly build anything by manual controlling a dwarf because you have access to all items.
- You must place 1 bed per dwarf. The dwarfs without a bed will be unable to sleep.
- Use the Swordsman/Archer skill books as soon as you have it available so your dwarfs will deal better damage.
- You can create pits around your shelter to trap monsters.
- Placing a foreground block on a creature (except your dwarfs), will kill the creature instantly, but you also lose any loot it might provide.
- Placing a foreground block on a tile with items on the ground, will destroy those items.
- VIP Trick to survive hordes: When a monster is attacking a block, you can highlight the block and un-highlight it to reset its damage.
- While a monster is attacking a door/hatch, you can attack it from inside safely without getting damaged.
- Keep the underground well lit if you want to avoid the spawn of Dark Creature (though let some dark to get to kill one sometime & get needles for later)
- Dwarfs will run if hit too often from both front and back, avoid this by taking control (& use magic fire ball & other offensive spells to aid the dwarfs if swarmed).
- Archers do more damage than Swordsmen but cannot fire unless the enemy is 2 blocks away. Also they miss some shots.
- Get rid of all the Graveyards as soon as possible in order to reduce the number of Skeletons that you may encounter during night time. Do it during day time so the spammed Skeleton dies immediately. Or do it during night to get some extra "free" exp. (leave one or two Graveyard as you may need to kill the spawned Skeleton to get Skeleton's bones for crafting)
- While crafting you can use the Quick Pick system to do it faster.
- Sand Walls make an excellent defense even against the largest triggered swarms of enemies (vertical sand blocks between two vertical stone or higher material wall) ... sand will fall on monsters to kill'em or badly injure & delay them long time.
- The Magic Portal spell is a very useful offensive and defensive tool. Use it to raid Graveyards during the day or get the jump on waves of enemies while they're spread out. Seal your base off from the surface under three layers of dirt and use the portal to grab surface resources.
- Save files directory is found in ... C:\Users\your username\AppData\Roaming\dekovir ... AppData will be mostly hidden as a system folder so view it 1st ... in C folder in upper Toolbar ... Tools > Folder options > View > mark beside "show hidden files, folder & drivers".
- Use Beware sign to limit & prevent Dwarfs from moving into danger locations like deep waters or heights or into enemies.
- Mine second background layer of material by replacing with dirt (sometimes doesn't work like with background of Gold).
- Replace home walls with wood then higher comfort material when you have it; to raise overall comfort (affect the color of the Totem as green means highest comfort).
- Destroy the goblin camp for loot & give your self time to advance before they re-spawn another camp.
- Skeletons & Goblins sometimes drop better weapons & good loot so fight them often especially useful early on game.
- Use Wood/Iron Cages to hold monsters & delay them as much as possible.
- Can use Wooden/Iron traps to kill/Injure monsters & to kill animals near your base instead of running after them (though traps will be consumed in the process & re-crafting others will fast deplete your Wood/Iron resources so not preferred to use them so often).
- Spikes are so good at delaying hordes but consume resources so not preferred to use them so often too (creating many 2*2 stone block pits from both base sides are more effective & stone can be retrieved after destroyed).
- Some items can be deconstructed to retrieve its material like Mummy's Saber > deconstructed > retrieve Iron Ore.
- Equip half your dwarfs with Bows as it deal more damage than melee weapons & it's useful for hunting animals.
- Keep an eye on Dwarfs activities all the time as they may face unexpected monsters & may discover books, rooms & other stuff while mining (sometime one or more may drawn in water without you notice ... a special image & sound will alarm you when Dwarfs is in danger).
- Use "P" to pause the game so you can check all scene & take the right decision/strategy (zooming out will show you all monsters as big images).