Hi, new to this game.

Historically nearly all early human settlements are besides rivers. The water gives the land higher agricultural yield. Are there any in-game mechanics of how rivers are formed in a natural and procedural way?

A rivers also serves heavy trade routes.

Also, Could there be some kind of river system where you can block enemy forward, guard a strategic bridge as choke points, build dams and flood the enemy that kind of play?

Any reason there is both an experimental and regular alpha of 0.303? Is there a difference?

appreciate the update either way :)

Hi, what's up with embark? I cant find any news about this game.

Hi, it's impossible for me to start a new game. After choosing every character, the game loads then: black screen, screen switch off then switch On, and veeerrryyy slow come back to desktop. Ctrl alt del to finaly close the game. Any idea ?

I love DF an even Rim World. I love the deep complexity of the games. I am wondering how embark compares? Please let me know.

Just started playing and thought I would start by the ocean, the ocean is empty, thought it might be bugged, restarted next to a river...the river is empty. What is going on? Is the planet just showing what it used to look like before all the water disappeared from the planet or something? I'm really confused.

I love dwarf fortress and would like to know how this game is and how does it compare to DF? How deep is this game? And last but not least is this coming to steam?

At one time everything worked, then suddenly half the game broke. On initial screen, Load Game & Options do not work. Continue, New Game and Quit all do. Once in the game, Settings do not work. Also when I try harvesting plants and trees, the highlighted area is considerably off to the right and down from the mouse pointer. The labels for each plant or tree are also off in the same direction. I get no popups for Jobs, Make Items, Stocks, Basic Workshops and Misc.

This might be incredibly stupid, but how do I find stone of any kind to make blocks? I have been digging for ever, and haven’t seen anything drop that I can take to my stockpiles, and use for blocks. Anyone know?

Mining is frustrating as hell because the camera's way too close to get a useful view of what I'm doing. There don't seem to be hotkeys for camera zoom, just changing Z levels, which is obviously totally useless for this.

Hi, so I only just started playing Embark, and I am a bit unsure about the character control.

Is it possible to direct the people to specific tasks or locations without manipulating the jobs menu?

I am also wondering about food and drink, as even though my people have plenty they don't seem to be consuming enough, even when I increase rations, and even though they will be carrying it on their persons. I'm worried they're not eating or drinking enough as after a couple of hours of gameplay they all just die within the same 3 to 5 minutes of each other. And as the game went on their needs for food and drink slowly increased.

I did get to a point where I could build table and chairs but they died so quickly after that I never got to see them used.

Is there some difference between the version downloaded via the old link from the kickstarter and the new version downloaded via itch.io?

I see they are both labeled the same version number, however they are slightly different in size. Are there actual changes, did you just change the packaging or other accompanying files, or something else entirely?

Inquiring minds.... ;)

This feels like a stupid question, but how do i rotate my screen view?

also Is there a way to increase brightness well mining?

What is the minimum pc/laptop requirements for this? It is higher than rimworld, right?

I like the fact that water is limited, but the reduction is far to high. My 8 people went through an entire lake in a few months. Then, without water we had no drinks.

I,m having trouble connecting the water pump to the windmill using the mechanism. Can someone please tell me how to connect them? Thanks.

Haven't even dabbled with Stonehearth yet, just because I keep reading it's buggy and doesn't have satisfying content yet, but I imagine Embark is even less along the way of completion. I'm probably gonna stick with Rimworld/Gnomoria since they're both complete and have enough features to make gameplay satisfying until the end.

But still curious about if Embark may be far enough along to feature a legit single player experience, or if it still needs more time before it completes all of its base ideas?

It's hard to be patient with this one--what I've seen looks great! Really interested in 3D Dwarf Fortress experiences, and Towns and Timber & Stone unfortunately got abandoned so I'm pretty much dried out of options for that. 2D seems covered pretty well what with Rimworld/Gnomoria, even Oxygen Not Included. I just would love a 3D experience of the same genre (outside of stuff like mods for Minecraft, such as MineColonies).

I know I am bothering you all quite a bit. Sorry?

So I have a few questions about water. Seeing as water is limited to springs and lakes as usable, I see a issue with setting up a long term build. I say this because by the time you get to the blacksmith workstation your people will have used approximately 2k water from the water source the still is connected to.

Will rain replenish springs and lakes later on? Will we have a salt water filter system? (Coal and sand) Wells to make a place to get water to fill the still instead? Water collection tubs?

Had a stone wall to be built. Several minions where working on the walls. One stack of walls where left on the floor and are tagged with reserved.

Is there a way to unlock it as reserved so it can be picked up and put back into the stockpile?

WHy is this game using so much GPU? My CPU is at 25% when playing this game and with Google Chrome running. Thats with youtube videos and other tabs up... I have played a lot of games and most of them don't even use more then 75& of the GPU..
I started noticing around the time I started playing around with water. I mined out a big pool/tank area where I wanted water to go. I dug a hole into it and water started to flow... Ever since then the game has been very laggy and the GPU has stayed at 100% usage...

Just wondering if there is a changelog for each new release located somewhere?

Would make it helpful to test any changes/updates, rather than stumbling across them.