A Strange Mood: The Couple's Dwarf Fortress Podcast Kristin McFarland, Drew Buschhorn

Kristin starts settling a volcano start location, and realizes it’s a bit more fun than she thought it’d be. Drew continues with the adventure mode beta, making best friends with a hermit-crab-man and his platonic life partner, a master swordsman squirrel-man. Together with their cuddly pet giant war turtle and giant war bear they attempt […]

We’re back, this time with more goblin murder! We talk in the first 20ish minutes about adventure mode, some of the reactions we’ve seen to it, and how we’re feeling about the current state of the beta. Then, in the last 40ish minutes, you can hear us create an adventurer and almost immediately become murder […]

We’ve got so much going on! Drew has a metropolis, Kristin has a city, and we have all the encounters that go along with a larger population! Forgotten beasts, creepy underworld creatures, and artifacts galore. Plus, we talk a little about the Stardew Valley update and probably way too much about what manga and anime […]

Drew and Kristin talk about how things are going too well at their forts. Also sorry for the talk of dissection of animals in a school context at the end. Idk, it’s Dwarf Fortress! Extra info: Transcript (see README for more details)

And where does the apostrophe go when fortress is possessive? We have fort updates, goblin animal trainers, and a deep dive into story progression and endgame in simulation games. Plus, poetry corner and disappointing artifacts! Extra info: images Transcript (see README for more details)

This week, we’ve got tons of dwarfy news, musings on how Dwarf Fortress allows for so much creativity, and updates from our forts. Kristin has a wereracoon problem, and Drew’s mayor has a vendetta against mandrake juice. Plus, we’re both very tired and silly for this Monday recording, so enjoy some digressions into dwarven poetry […]