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From the latest release:

• Stopped reanimated corpses from being stuck on wrong side of conflicts

(nothing exclusive -- what they didn't say is that I acknowledged at the event that people were trying to guess the release date and to avoid spoiling all the fun the 38% figure was very approximate...  it could be anything!)

the 38% figure was very approximate...  it could be anything!

it could be anything!

it could be anything!

it could be anything!

it could be anything!

I find it a bit hilarious how people feel so confident at guessing how bad/abundant (or not!) the bugs Toady is hammering might be.

Truth is, game developing is hard, and bug-fixing is no easy task. Furthermore, the more code you write, the more likely you are to be introducing bugs affecting things you implemented before. This also gets worse and worse as the development goes on and the code-base gets more bloated (as a software developer, I don't even want to know how many thousands of LoC DF hit at this point).

TL;DR; you don't have any idea about the mess code maintenance is, and I mean it in a completely respectful way.

Definitely interested in hearing about how adventure mode plays after this update. This is the update for towns as well, right? And factions? Basically the "living world" that is a precursor to moving armies about the place?

I might be wrong, but I got the impression armies will be moving around the map in the next release already?

Well, my reasoning is simple: fewer but more varied races > higher number of less interesting races.

That being said, I can easily see a future when number/kinds of civilized races is a world gen parameter. Similarly to how magic is supposed to work way down the road.

I can see why Toad might be contrary to having too many civilized races in the game, but then that doesn't need to be the default world gen option.

What I think would be kind of problematic is the fact that in a game shark-bear people might be an intelligent/civilized entity group, while in the next that same race would be otherwise. The same applies to randomly-generated civilized races, in a sense.

Either way, it'll be very interesting to see how things pan out.

June 27th

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Updated how animals think of their encounters (there will be animal-animal interactions now in dwarf mode, however that'll work out), updated meandering, updated sleeping/resting

Does that include breeding thus are the Spores gone for the Forts own animals? Will Males be aggressive to other Males say if you have territorial Animals? Hunter/prey relationships? Will pets be begging for food? Will cats knock over dwarven Keyboards?

Will we need to start a nobles cattle raising program in order to keep our local War Grizly Bear community fed? In other words, are carnivores going to actually need to keep themselves fed up appropriately just like grazers?

You can only climb scenery fixtures in this release. No creature climbing.

You should be able to climb pretty much any surface except for smoothed walls. Also, the main issue with climbing creatures is pathfinding, so it's not entirely unfeasible if Toady can do something about it before release.

When DF2014 gets released I'll likely experiment with new adventurer stuff and forts retirement/reclaim. Also all kinds of bugs-induced !!FUN!! and exploring the new sites.