- https://github.com/Dwarf-Therapist/Dwarf-Therapist/releases
- Job assignments has changed a lot in DF. It is mostly done automatically in the background. You have some ways to broadly control what dwarves work with. DT will give you more fine control.
- For DT or DF? Don't know about DT, but DF will probably always be https://dwarffortresswiki.org/
- I would probably describe DF as Dungeon Keeper + an ant farm.
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Should I continue to torture my co-worker by describing it as "sort of like Minecraft, but with a bit of a learning curve?"
Funnilly enough, It's the opposite. Minecraft exists because Mojang took DF as one of the inspirations (alongside Infinifactory) for the game
I describe it as a mix between The sims + Age of Empires + 4X
The games that best compare to DF were almost all inspired by DF in the first place, but that said, I usually sell it as "Rimworld, but with hundreds of people, and even more detail".
I used to use Dwarf Therapist all the time, but after a while there was a manager option in DFHack starting in like, .40 or .44, and now in the Steam era (.50) I haven't bothered at all. A lot of things default to "everybody does this", and you can set categories of work and fairly easily pick and choose if everybody does them, or if certain specific people do. When choosing specific people, it shows you who has relevant skills, usually sorted by best at the top. Hope this helps.
Thanks - it does help. I appreciate all the replies and I'll probably try to get back into the game.
I mainly enjoy torturing my colleague because he is very impressed about his Minecraft skills, but has never played DF. It's good natured, and we're friends. It's still fun.