

Find precious pre-war tech crates using scrapyard reactions and open them in "inventor's bench" workshop. Aboveground scrap piles (grow like trees) are a good source of different goodies, including pre-war crates and scrap metal. Start by building scrapyards and scavenging Scrap piles (which replace most trees) and crushing rocks. Put a pasture at your gate with some robots. Robots are tough and some have mounted plasma guns. Assign proper ammo through the "m"ilitary screen, "f" key. NEVER mix different ranged weapon types in one squad, the people will be confused and pick wrong ammo. Generate a world through "design new world with advanced parameters" for proper experience (the thing, cybermancers, infected etc). Pressing While "q" over a siege engine activates advanced targeting menu and allows to load custom objects into catapults. Press to see Fortress Info about activity of your inhabitants. You can see current amount of dwarves in the bottom left corner. Press on unit screen to sort by name/migration wave/profession/squad. lets you to filter items in trade menu. lets you to filter names/professions in unit menu

lets you search for specific stuff in stocks menu. You can see all planned constructions with a green X overlay while paused (SPACEBAR). You can see all unsuspended constructions which were suspended again with a red X overlay while paused (SPACEBAR). You can see all suspended constructions with a yellow X overlay while paused (SPACEBAR). Press to resume all suspended constructions. It will wait for the required items if you miss them. To pre-place a construction, press before building it. When clicking on a ground next to a view edge, the camera moves. You can click on units/workshops/items etc with your mouse to bring up appropriate menus. in adventure mode opens companion order menu, you can order them to drop equipped items, equip items from the ground, move, wait, follow, leave etc. Battle restless beasts, mutants and raiders to establish a new community in the post-apocalyptic world.
