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40d:Fortress

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You may be looking for Dwarf fortress mode.

Dwarves live in fortresses - usually underground complexes with all the required buildings for dwarven living. They're named in a specific manner.

To tell what your "rank" your fortress has, look on the nobles screen, if you have the manager it should say X manager where X is your fortress "rank". The other option is to stroke z and look at the top left corner where your fortresses rank and name are.

Denomination

Fortresses are named according to their population.

  • Outpost: Less than 20 dwarves.
  • Hamlet: 20-49 dwarves.
  • Village: 50-80 dwarves.
  • Town: 81-109 dwarves
  • City: 110-139? dwarves [Verify]
  • Metropolis: 140-?? dwarves [Verify]

In addition, the fort may be the home of monarchs of the surrounding land:

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