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Just in the vanilla DF there's already an amazing plethora of things to focus on. I've tried a few mods that add a lot of stuff, and more often than not it just adds to the general messiness and lack of focus. From a mod I appreciate through-out testing and robust, sensible changes to game mechanics. Streamlining the game experience is an option worth considering. Basically it doesn't matter what you mod, as long as it's better than sliced bread.

In the 0.31.x series there are numerous game balance problems which I hope are going to get fixed in the vanilla DF. Any serious mods should wait for the 'next 40d' as their base DF version.

It could be released any time now. Even during the next five minutes.

Not the first thing, but a recurring thing in the new version will be reading through brutally detailed fight reports....

This is all very disturbing. How can there be a fight club without the proper rules?

Anyway, I just thought that it wouldn't be impossible to write a little handler in Python (or whatever rocks your boat) which keeps track of a money integer and what's bought with it, then modifies the raws to reflect these transactions and launches the DF arena mode with the correct arguments to initiate the fight. The only thing that's unsure about it is that whether or not you can launch the DF arena mode (team) fights with command line arguments and/or specific raw files, but the same limitation applies to any IRC bot.

I just took the new head and am getting the following error:

mkdir: cannot create directory `unused_libs': File exists
mv: cannot stat `libs/libSDL*': No such file or directory
./dwarfort.exe: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: undefined symbol: TIFFReadRGBAImage

Running Ubuntu 9.10. libsdl1.2-dev should be installed, at least sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2-dev claims it's ok. Is this a problem that could get fixed by symlinking? I've never done that before...

From the embark point, I can see a lot of bauxite and iron around the place. Some copper and coke too. I really wish there is flux somewhere...

Using the Mayday 40d16 pack.

I'm not sure about the cooking methods of chicken though.

Raw chicken is a serious health hazard - It's an easy method to get food poisoning. It should always be served fully cooked with +75 degrees Celcius inside, which is enough to kill the most common hazardous bacteria. As for the source... I don't think I'm going to translate my cooking class books to English, it should be easily accessible information anyway.

Ok got an automated test suite running, it tests combinations of randomly selected passable points.  A bunch of relavent info is written to file (I'll put it on the screen too soon).

This is a very interesting project. I just read through the thread, and suggest that you'd put that test suite up for grabs in the first post -- It would give a much more 'upbeat' feeling to reading through all the posts knowing that there was something released in the end.