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Until quite recently, it wasn't unusual for the game to go months, and in some cases years, between releases; much of the intervening time the code was "up on blocks" and not compilable due to major rewrites of underlying structure.  The build process took about a full day, during which coding, bugfixing, etc. wasn't happening.  Our understanding is that recent improvements have gotten the build process down to "a few hours", but that's still time not spent fixing bugs or writing new features.  With the exception of rare "hotfix" releases like 0.40.08 to 0.40.09, weekly seems to be a reasonable tempo; much more often, and he's wasting more time building than makes sense. 

Sorry I wasn't aware that there was significant time required for compiling.. This thread has all the wrong energy I'm genuinely sorry I was just trying to understand but this explains it.. Thank you

I could be completely wrong but I got the impression that one of my dwarves was bringing water to another dwarf that was doing a long task and was thirsty for a while...

Is that possible?

Quote from: MrWiggles on August 19, 2014, 08:43:47 pm

ToadyOne to my knowledge hasn't commented on why he doesn't do Nightly builds.

Probably because they don't want to, or feel that its not woth the time to do it.

Probably he only wants to show the version editions and the bugfixes when he feels they are ready, since the game would have bugs that wouldn't the the fun kind, but the fun-killing kind.

So not an official release but a nightly public beta? :3

EDIT: Ok not beta but you know what I mean, like nightly public development/test release

(My preferred set is to set a very low population limit, low child limit, turn off sound, turn on water depth, and switch graphics to Phoebus...SP makes it very easy, including copying saves to the latest DF version)

Ya dude! Phoebus all the way!

Dwarf fortress starter pack 40_09 r1 is the most recent as of this post, its what you want if you'd like to try the most recent version : )

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.0 for windows users

For added fun look for places with TOWER listed as a nearby 'civ' and for even more fun, try a haunted, sinister or terrifying biome : )

You can also consider challening yourself to embarking at a less-than-ideal location with ice/no ores/no trees/aquifer

Wow thats awesome thanks for the info!

That explains why spiked balls are so highly recommended.. Thanks again for this! I would be very interested to read more similar results and test summaries. Please continue!

Hello!

This may be the wrong venue to ask and I appologize for muddying up your deliciously info-rich thread with my yammering but has there been any investigation into the combat mechanics of other types of weapons and armor? Serrated discs vs various, ballista/catapult rounds vs various etc etc...

I've noticed A-LOT more bruising, as opposed to 'the severed piece flies off in an arc' lol

but only qualitatively and certainly not in a controlled investigative manner - could someone say some words about whether we should be experiencing any differences in the way these other combaty things would feel post 34.11 ?