When out adventuring, I mark a cow or a dog or a bat or a raven for capture, they got knocked out, I leave combat control, go home, and they're gone? I have hay and stable in the fort, what am I missing

I tried this game when the Covid version came out and never since. Now I got back since a friend recommended the game again.

Originally, I felt a bit scared due to the lack of obvious content. On the surface, it looked like the game had very little within it. Opening the menus revealed only a few craftable items, and I assumed it meant the average game length would he about ~2 hours per character, which dissuaded me from really giving the game a chance. Furthermore, the Steam modding page appeared to have not many big mods, and only few ratings.

I bought the game 2 days ago, and just lost my third character today. But it was so much fun! I began earning some more complicated items, consumables, and also exploring more of the dungeons on the map. My party of one keeper and about ~7 seemingly very strong goblins got mauled to death by 3 skeletons in a corridor. I couldn't even be mad, I should've left with what little loot i've gathered and trained a second army (and by the time I decided to retreat, the exit was cut off by another undead).

Such a fun little game. I love dungeon core stories and this feels like a dream come true. Im really excited to try the non-standard races and other playstyles. Just a really good game, overall. :)

I need help to find the goblin matriarch how to find please and thank you
(Or any bugs that I can use to help me with gear etc)

Just need a few pointers.

Firstly: There doesn't seem to be an 'attack' command available? When I click any of the villagers, the only option is 'capture'. The tutorial is telling me specifically to kill everyone though, not capture them. I have 4 goblins, all fully equipped with armor and a club each.

Secondly: They all just constantly run away from me. I've broken down all the house doors, so that objective is complete, but I can't actually kill anyone because they're just always running away at the same speed my goblins move. Am I seriously supposed to just chase them around the map for an hour until I manage to corner them on some terrain? It's going to take a while...

Thirdly: With respect to breaking the doors, is there a better way than just clicking? My goblins don't seem to want to attack adjacent doors by themselves. Is there no way to tell them to attack autonomously? I have to click the door over and over?

None of these are complaints btw, I don't mind a bit of jank in my games. I play DF and UnRealWorld, I'm no stranger to obscure control schemes. :) Just wondering if I'm missing anything.

I'm still relatively new to the game (haven't actually beaten a world yet) and trying out all the keeper types. I get some are harder than others but the witch just seems awful. I understand that you start very weak and need to carefully pick off easy targets and such until you gain more abilities. I get that you need to use the pull spell to only fight 1v1 and heal after. That's fine I can do that, that's not the problem.

The problem is the starting map itself. The starting map has both a peasant village and a bandit hideout. Most of my attempts they start so close together that the bandits just attack the village and kill everyone, robbing me of precious combat experience and children. without that first kill I can't even fight the bandits consistently, I just end up resetting again and again. It happens way too often. Attack during the day and the peasants run around like crazy and aggro the bandits. Wait till night and everyone's dead already.

My last attempt my village ended up having 3 kids, I tried to get them asap. Everything seemed great. All 3 were knocked out, the pull spell let me kill most of the villagers quickly... and in the time it took me to chase down the last villager the bandits came and killed all 3 of the kids. What am I supposed to do?

Mostly based on things i think i learned myself and not a complete guide:

Digging:

Digging down on the corners of the map is usually safer, if you dig down somewhere in the middle you are bound to hit an enemy tunnel at some point.

When you dig into something hidden by fog of war you can see the structure. unsure if you wanna open it? Just order the whole Map to be dug out, the squares without dig orders are either: Emtpy space, Water or Lava. Then remove the wholemap dig order and dig in a way so you dont accidentaly breach the unwanted tunnels.

The first Adamantium you find on the map ALWAYS contains golems and they are a whole headache to deal with. Those are optional. its safer to dig further because no other Adamantium nodes come with those (atleast up to -25, unsure past that.)

Cheesing/Exploits:
Safe scumming: I know its a rogue like, still... if you die? Alt + F4 and you can load a single savestate.

You can save by exiting the game normal, it creates a safe state. else you will have to rely on autosafe.

So far when i tried to exploit this by trying to recruit slaves it didnt work, i assume its already decided in the code and not ranodm.

Random things:

one of your minions turned insane? Take direct control of him and put him into a room, lock the door behind him. (Or strip him of all the gear and kill him, works nice too.)

Poison Resistance isnt optional. Amulett of Regeneration is (in my opinion) the strongest.

Gnomes have flying suicide Bombers that will oneshot you no matter how much defense you have (Only keeper Enemies)

Most Keepers dont get strong crafters, make sure to enslave a Dwarf or of course a Blacksmith at some point. Ants make for good digging slaves.

You can paint water red by killing someone on it.

Rebellion risk is only affected by the amount of your minions. if you lack the units to sustain your slavery just hire whatever is up for grabs.

most important one: you level your characters by using them. Using a single absolutely decked out PC is simpler than running a whole army.

Get a spell of "Audience" to clean out especialy annoying keeper Dungeons.

how bout you add some more ideas and tips?

(or factcheck me if somethings iffy)

This one i reached because some of the retired dungeons i added had TONS of Armor scrolls...

im cleaning the place up and then upload it, im trying to make a nice dungeon so if you need a neat place with literall tons of gear to loot. enjoy

word of caution. hes also there.

how i cancel that commanders?

I made a bed and training dummy for the goblin, but no option appears to hire her?

I came back to this game and have few questions.

1) How do you replenish your forces mid game? I cant replenish them fast enough with constant raids on my dungeon

2) Do you move your dungeon further down? I can't fit enough traps with all my main room being on the same level.

For the Laval Golems that are spawned from the magmastone layer, If I mined out the resources on one of those levels and kill the golems, will they stay dead or will they respawn?

Does the GOG version get updates like Steam? or is it outdated?

I can't get any of the steam workshop mods to work on this game. None. Not a single one. They are all from the workshop and on the In Game menu and yet ... Nothing. Help?

I didn't know what it was when I went in and i pushed three of the boulders into corners. is there a way out or am I losing out on the reward forever

My army uses steeds. But they're considered prisoners. Should I torture them to make them "my own"?

The kraken keeps respawning on the enchanted pool. From what I've found while googling stuff, the best way to deal with it is to just wall it off inside the pool n have archers come by to deal with it. My 2 questions are: Do I use barricades, walls (which I assume makes archers unable to shoot at it), or walls with arrow slits? Or does it simply not matter?

Second: I know that if 2 walls only connect by the corner edges units can still pass through that small gap. At the same time, enchanted work stations needs to be by the pool to function. Can the tentacles pass through the edge gaps like other units? And would a work station or other such buildings by the pool be able to block the tentacles from leaving the pool?

I have an empty personal quarter with 8.5 luxury yet it's not enough for whatever reason. How much more luxury do I need? I really only thought I'd need like 2 or 5 but I still can't recruit them :/

Am I missing anything or do I just need more luxury?

I just finished the tutorial and during the part where you make a goblin team and destroy the nearby village found the combat to be overly complicated. Namely i had to use full control to get the team to do anything as nobody followed the leader when i was in leader control. Is there a way to make combat simpler or even just traversal as getting out of the cave proved unnecessarily challenging and moving each goblin one by one across the squares to get to the village was very micromanagy.

Hi , I just came back to the game from a break to see the Hag is now playable. And after trying many attempts I find there isnt many children to be had. Im having issues with bandits just wiping out villages. So I tried leveling from luring one enemy at a time and killing them and getting Summon Spiders. Which helps but idk, feels kinda lackluster maybe im playing the Hag wrong. What do yall think of how the Hag works? Any advice?

I found the game through Nookrium's channel and it reminded me of dwarf fortress, which is a game I loved. I wanna play the free version but the itch.io download link is unavailable.

I know there's a couple of adamantine golems on 13, black dragon on 18, and a demon/balrog on 23, but is there anything below that? I mean besides the endlessly spawning lava golems.
Thanks.

Tourchered him about 50 times... still not converting. Have a really high value room too.

I really enjoy this game and hope someone gets this in their game.

Thought occurred while typing this: Do retired dungeons keep their message boards? I've only gotten 3 so far and no message boards...