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[A_Curious_Cat]

Will it be possible for modders to mod in their own custom procedurally generated portaits (for example, for a modded in race)?

[Eric Blank]

I hope so, but god do I dread having to draw even more sprites. Ive just been tracing over top of the vanilla ones where possible out of shear laziness.

[Pillbo]

The walrus man is described as "A legless person with the head and back flippers of a walrus" and has the tag ANIMAL_PERSON_LEGLESS, but in the new sprites clearly has legs. It's the same with the elephant seal man (but not the leopard seal man or harp seal man...). The snail man is kind of the opposite, it should have legs but it's sprite shows it as legless.

Are the animal people going to be updated to match their sprites or is that just not an important detail to you?


 

For what it's worth I like all three of these changes (snails shouldn't have legs!), but it will be strange when a legless looking snail man gets his legs broken or kicks you.

[Shinziril]

The latter sounds like snail men ought to just gain the ANIMAL_PERSON_LEGLESS tag.

[mross]

A snail person should have exactly one leg

[Bumber]

the new sprites clearly has legs.

They're just really beefy flippers.

[Immortal-D]

Has working on Premium Adventure Mode allowed you to make any progress towards restoring the keyboard cursor in Fortress Mode?

[lethosor]

Has working on Premium Adventure Mode allowed you to make any progress towards restoring the keyboard cursor in Fortress Mode?

There's already a keyboard cursor option that you can enable in fortress mode (I believe as far back as 50.01).

If you mean additional keyboard controls... I suspect no fortress mode keyboard controls are coming along "for free" as part of the adv mode work, but I do know Putnam has been working on some significant UI backend/framework improvements that may make keyboard support (in both modes) easier to develop in the long run. (One nearer-term goal here is to make native searching/sorting features easier to develop as well.)

[ror6ax]

Any recent programming discoveries/new approaches since Putnam joined?

Has there been any movement towards automating game tests before releases?

[mikekchar]

In terms of the keyboard cursor, it would be *fantastic* if the cursor overrode the mouse hover and described the tile it was sitting on.  At the moment, if you use the keyboard cursor, you can't tell what it's over without moving the mouse there -- which basically makes the keyboard cursor meaningless.

[Beag]

I remember in an interview earlier this year that you said you may sneak in small additions related to future content as you continue the updates at hand. Is there any chance next year after adventure mode comes out, we get another magical side activity like the divination dice?

[Eric Blank]

did you get any cool christmas presents?

[Randomizer]

When you get to the map rewrite, how far do you intend to go to change the current system of mining? Right now a large number of tiles cleared do not drop stone. This practically annoying when you mine an ore vein and see a large number of tiles not drop ore. This seems like a quick fix for something you intent to overhaul later.

I could see a couple dwarves mining and another dwarf loading a mine cart and taking the unwanted rubble out of the mine.  We already have mine carts!!! We already have dumping zones too. You might have to tweak how quantum stockpiling works, but it could be done. Quantum stockpiling also seems like a quick fix that will be overhauled later.

[Eric Blank]

We used to have that actually, legendary miners had a 100% chance of getting a boulder from every tile. It was changed to a flat 25% except for small clusters and individual tiles (which still yield 100%) iirc for balancing reasons, because that was a lot of stone.

[PatrikLundell]

The mining yield is a balancing issue rather than a map issue, and has been addressed once, as mentioned by Eric Blank.

The map rewrite may well change the vein/cluster/... logic, in particular to generate a 3D connection (so several levels build up a body or ore, rather than the current logic where each Z level is generated independently of the other levels within the same layer. Such a change would probably result in in more tiles of ore for the kinds that are selected, but fewer kinds would likely be generated (basically larger but fewer bodies of ore, potentially resulting in about the same number of ore tiles in total)). This might potentially result in a balancing change.