Listen guys, ever since I've "figured" out Dwarf Fortress I've had considerably "less" !!FUN!!. Because there's not much that can go wrong unless you engineer it to go wrong, then it just becomes a waiting game unless you have a project or some kinda goal in mind.
Its like Minecraft (even after The End) you'll feel like you're having less fun playing it when you aren't failing or trying to amount your efforts to some kind of achievement.