Dwarf Fortress: Fortress Mode Challenge and Goal

All answers are anonymous

Only answer this survey if you've played Dwarf Fortress for at least 50 hours.

• What is your favorite challenge?
  • Use only the starting 7 Dwarves
  • Don't wall off your fortress. There must always be an accessible path
  • No farming
  • Live above ground. Use constructions to build, instead of digging
  • No ranged weapons
  • Enable no new labors. Dwarves can only ever work the jobs they came with
  • No traps
  • Use a mod with harder enemies
  • No sparring or automated "safe" training
  • Embark near as many necromancer towers as possible
  • Other
• What is your favorite goal?
  • Build a castle or tall tower, make it as large as possible
  • Capture a forgotten beast
  • Build a fort with a task based on the translation of it's randomized name
  • Capture as many enemies as possible. Build an arena
  • Flood the surface with magma
  • Royal bedrooms for everyone
  • Have at least two legendary craftsdwarves for every useful skill
  • Create a full set of masterwork adamantine armor + weapon
  • Reach and defeat the "circus"
  • Survive 10 years
  • Implement full fortress plumbing
  • Other
• What is your preferred "Savagery"?
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
• What is your preferred "Evil"?
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
• What is your preferred "Temperature"?
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
• I am always prepared.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I like order.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I am easily angered or annoyed.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I am often stressed out.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I am easily made unhappy.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I like being challenged.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I like taking risks.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I like being in control.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• I am very patient.
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  Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
• When playing a game, how focused do you prefer to be?
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  Fully Relaxed Fully Focused
• How much do you like !!FUN!!?
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  Laid back and casual EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!
• Have you been to the circus (in Dwarf Fortress)? If you don't know what this is, the answer is "No".
  • Yes
  • No
• How often do you play Adventure Mode vs. Fortress Mode?
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  Always Adventure Always Fortress
• About how many hours of Dwarf Fortress have you played? (If > 1000, answer 1000)
  Enter a value from 0.0 to 1000.0, including decimals
• About how many years have you been playing Dwarf Fortress? (If > 12, answer 12)
  Enter a value from 0.0 to 12.0, including decimals
• How big do you make your Dwarf bedrooms (or plan to)?
  • Bedrooms? Just cram them all into one room
  • Just a door and a bed, nothing more
  • A door and a bed, with a cabinet or chest, maybe some smooth walls
  • Large rooms for every dwarf, with as many furnishings as I can manage
• How do you cloth your Dwarves (or plan to)?
  • Who needs cloths
  • At least the basics (pants, shirts, shoes)
  • New, full sets for every Dwarf
  • New, high quality, full sets for every Dwarf
• How would you prefer to defend your fortress?
  • Military force
  • Mundane traps (cages, weapon traps, etc.)
  • Complex machines
• How willing are you to self impose restrictions?
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  No self restrictions Any self restriction
• Do you prefer to focus on fun (at the expense of function) or entirely on function?
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  Fun Function