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With the steam release's redesign of activity zones, will there be support for activity zones that exist across multiple z-levels? This would be especially useful for outdoor pastures on hillsides, where there isn't enough room on a single z-level to support many animals.

The new world map stuff in the most recent update looks great! The colors are much more in keeping with the rest of the project. Good job, artists!

For cleaning spotclean will remove mud and other contaminants from individual tiles.

Fantastic! Thanks.

I think its important to compare like to like. So for example, just to compare the new world map tiles, with the fortress mode tiles:

Water: Both waters have similar saturation, it's just that the fortress mode water is significantly darker.
Grass: The fortress mode grass is both darker, and less saturated than the new world map tiles.

Here I have both:
1) Desaturated and darkened the grass.
2) Darkened the water, and shifting the hue more green.

For anyone that's been reading the forum, the answer to Blomquistador's question is as obvious as a sore thumb.

Right now we can make a whole bunch of guesses and nothing else. You are obviously referring to the uncredited/questionably acquired content that is part of Meph's mod/tileset, but that is all that I know.

Did Kitfox fire Meph for something he did in a free tileset several years ago?
Or did Kitfox fire Meph for doing something in the present, while working on a paid project?

That is not a trivial difference.

We'll need to rework some of the art behind the scenes.

Why is this content being reworked? Was it of questionable provenance, as before? Or was it merely unfinished content? Again, this is not a trivial distinction.

Will Kitfox be redoing all of Meph's work so far, or merely some? In other words, are they willing to take his work, but just not him?


All of these questions bear a lot of weight on how Kitfox and Meph should be judged going forward.

Is this a change to Vettlingr's tileset? I no longer see the Kruggsmash font in the PyLNP Launcher under Graphics > Customize > Font.

These are my notes from testing the manipulation of 'reanimating' weather via biome manipulator:

Reanimation should be thought of as two separate phenomena, which always occur together by default. These are:

1) Undead creatures spawn into the map.
2) Dead creatures in the reanimating biome reanimate as undead.

Biome manipulator is currently capable of turning off reanimating weather. That is to say, if you set the weather from 'reanimating' to 'none', both effects 1) and 2) are turned off.

Biome manipulator is more limited, however, in its ability to turn on reanimating weather. If you take a region with non-reanimating weather, and set it to 'reanimating', only effect 2) will turn on. Currently biome manipulator doesn't activate effect 1).

I don't know if this is something that can be fixed, or if the nature of Dwarf Fortress makes it impossible.


Alignment does not appear to affect reanimating at all, though by default it only occurs in evil biomes. If you take a reanimating biome and change the alignment, both 1) and 2) still occur. If you set the weather of a non-evil biome to reanimating, only 2) turns on, just as is observed above.

The percentage of dead plants also has no effect on reanimation.