Dwarf Fortress Beginner's Guide: Mining and Smithing

This is a guide for the steam version / graphical release of Dwarf Fortress
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This video is about mining, smelting, and smithing. A general guide with various tips coming from many years of experience playing this game.
Also making steel. That’s a pretty important part that can confuse new players I think.

Most images are from the Dwarf Fortress wiki, the testing data of different materials was done by zagibu on the bay12forums http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic53571.0

00:00 Building the Forge
01:55 Fuel
03:36 Mining
05:16 Ore
08:20 Steel
10:05 Magma Forges
11:40 Choosing a Metalsmith
13:06 Smithing
15:50 Alloys
18:35 Other Uses

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