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I'm clearly advocating for b, are you saying that you think the Trading interface is already near-perfect as is?

No I'm not against the broad UI improvements I'm just saying six different colours is excessive. The only reason things cost more or sell for more is because of trade agreements, and the multiplier is always close to 200%. So one colour for "more expensive to buy" and another colour for "more valuable to sell" would suffice. There's no point making price colours so granular when the game doesn't even bother to do that.

Being able to record custom modlists would be nice, but short of that the ability to simply "load last configuration" would be enough for the majority of mod users I think.

In addition to having single-tile pyramids for lone ramps I think they could just have adjacent ramps "ramp" up onto each other by default, the same way they would ramp onto a wall tile. That way you can always tell visually that a ramp is present in a location instead of it appearing flat when no walls are around, which is not a problem shared by the ASCII version. I don't think this would cause any confusion because if a player looks at two ramps side by side will see that any creature moving over it will walk up one ramp and immediately down the other side. You will never have a ramp that leads to "nowhere'.

I figured this is something that will always be on the todo list. Like one day we'll wake up and find The Ant Update where instead of anthills and termite hills we suddenly have dozens of species. Trees in general are only halfway implemented and there are still a lot of bugs, tower caps for instance are supposed to have trunks five levels high and three tiles thick, very large and on the same scale as highwood trees. But in game they seem to be capped to just one level of trunk because of outstanding bugs despite growing for hundreds of years. Fruits trees in particular are missing some features, such as being able to plant them from seeds (or any other tree for that matter). Fruit seeds in particular are useless because they cannot even be cooked and only exist to clog up storage spaces.

What I figure is that tree distribution will become more realistic in a future update, and at the same time "Fruit Bearing Trees" will become an item on the embark screen, like "Flux Stone" and "Shallow Clay". This lets you know if fruit trees are present in that location and you can make an educated guess on the type based on the biome you picked.

The ability to plant trees of a specific type would let us farm specific types of wood for future megaprojects instead of just using whatever is available. Being able to plant your own orchard to grow specific fruits would also be very thematic, I've always wanted to make an farm fort based around apple cider.

When you build a pyramid in DF you have the choice of making it an even number of tiles wide, or an odd number. This results in the top of the pyramid being 2x2 or 1x1 tiles wide respectively. Currently there is no way to create a capstone to have a properly pointed top to the pyramid, if you place ramps on top they will simply appear to be flat because they are invalid without an orthogonally adjacent wall. So my suggestion would be to add new graphics for ramps placed in 1x1 and 2x2 squares with no supporting wall tiles. A single ramp standing on its own should display a four sided pyramid. A 2x2 square of ramps should combine to create a larger pyramid using four corner ramp tiles.

This would not be difficult to implement because the graphics for this partially exist already. 1x1 ramp tiles are displayed as a pyramid, but only if they are carved out of natural soil instead of constructed. The graphics for 2x2 ramp pyramids are four of the existing corner ramp tiles put together, since this is purely a cosmetic change you would just have to tell the game to display them this way, there is no additional gameplay effect.

Another minor graphical issue is that the existing single-tile ramps have black dots at the corners of the tile, which are even more noticeable when several ramp tiles are placed beside each other. These dots could be recoloured to match the ramp and do not seem to serve a purpose.

This is a good idea but I would suggest also implementing the reverse. Have a generic "make item out of material" command that automatically uses whatever material is available. But also have a detailed menu that lets you specify everything down to a T. Sometimes for fun roleplaying reasons I might want to make a specific item like a red spidersilk cloak decorated with blue cloth images. It is possible to do stuff like that by manipulating stockpiles, but it would be much easier to have that function built into workshops to begin with.

Buckets aren't big enough though. Legendary herbalists can easily pick up and carry several dozen stacks of 5 plants, often to the point that they can barely walk. That doesn't make much sense, but it WOULD make sense if they had a tool like a picker basket they could use to carry everything. I think it makes the most sense to limit dwarves to a realistic carry capacity and then allow them to increase that back up using tools like baskets and wheelbarrows.