March 6, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.12 has been released.
News: February 3, 2024: The February '24 Report is up.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
News: November 21, 2018: A new Threetoe story has been posted.
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AKA you need to kill everyone...there can be no peace where man or mer meddles....luckily you are a demigod human who can deliver such justiceROCKETOOO PAAAAWNCH!
A funny thing happened on my way to a capital city a bit ago... My LoZ infatuation at the present time drove me to make a human swordsman named Shadow Link (don't laugh. i'm obsessed. Completely.)You could just... climb out. Put away your weapons usinq "q", then press "h" and grab on to something. Aftewards just use "<" to go up and get the heck out of there.
I recruited five random characters and renamed them accordingly while traveling. Then I came across a particular castle called abovemandates. Let's just say that I decided to move in. The lady didnt put up a fight at all and was swiftly executed. My bowman tried to negotiate, my maceman ran away, fish cleaner (how'd he get there?) decided to start a 'non-lethal' fight for other reasons, and the lord from the castle I was from gave me questing information on myself and was immediately given the position of 'hearthsperson' by me.
I realised how much of that lined up with a particular manga... and laughed my eyes out.
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Aaaaand I fell into a well and retired down there. Because the guy in my party pushed me. The traitor
I don't think a huge change in game performance will be noticeable. Most changes don't directly concern fortress mode, but, depending on when history is simulated, the changing of seasons/years will probably be slower. That said, this update also brings rewrites to old parts of the code that weren't fit for his purposes anymore. (Which probably translates into improvements, assuming that Toady's coding skill goes up with time)Don't worry, skills can go over Legendary Codedwarf+1 even higher with time. Toady's probably between +5 and +10 by now, one can only wonder how big his skill gain be in the next ten or so years. Sadly, he's the only one working on it, so there's no one else to have the code menacing with spikes of bugfixes and adorned with optimizations, which means a lot of his time is also invested on raising the codefixerdwarf and optimidwarf (Optimus Dwarf? Urist Prime?) skillsets, making the entire process slower.
