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In other news, I've had a couple fortresses with no visitors at all, and a couple fortresses where I get almost as many visitors as migrants.  Is anyone experimenting with what situations attract visitors?  I feel like building near a road or another fortress improves your chances of visitors greatly.  In one of fortresses, I played as mod-race-A and got only mod-race-B visitors.  Maybe I was close enough to a mod-race-B fortress to attract visitors from them, but not close enough to any home civ fortresses. 

I went with a more natural approach:



The space is an empty magnetite and copper vein, in a sandstone layer.  The tables and chairs are hydrochalcum (blue gold) and the statues are stoneware.  If you've got big empty spaces, they'll sometimes start doing dance routines. 



Oh yeah, does anyone know what Tavern Keepers are supposed to do?  I can't detect any change in functionality with or without a keeper on hand. 

Maybe a group of space-faring humans left to settle on a savage world to rebuild the way of their viking ancestors.  If you want to borrow a little from ERB's Barsoom, the savage world could be in the process of dying out. 

My first instinct is to just ditch elves rather than try to fix them, but there are a few tricks you could employ.  Elves can use GOOD animals the same way goblins can use EVIL animals, so creating an animal that is COMMON_DOMESTIC and GOOD should give the elves exclusive access to it the same way goblins have access to beak dogs.  Wood could also be powered up.  DF's default wood is not very much like the types of wood that were historically used in combat, and there are a few rare woods like desert ironwood and lignum vitae which would possibly be as strong as bronze but much lighter.  There's also the idea of a fictional ironwood or steelwood that is as strong as real metal.  There might be a way to force the elves to preferentially select the best woods for weapons and armor, but I don't know how to do that.  Elves could be themed to be more like jungle savages and less like forest hippies, although DF's cannibal elves are arguably already like that. 

Could also be interesting to increase the number of tameable megabeasts, like dragons, so that you can catch an army of them and start a megabeast breeding campaign.  Or mod in animals like mammoths or quetzalcoatlus that are dangerous enough to take on megabeasts on their own.  Maybe give all animals PRONE_TO_RAGE so that the sissies will actually stand and fight if they get hunted. 

New world, new literary masterpieces:

Start Your Day with Valves
The Examination and the Coming Troubles
The Author, My Love

I caught one of my scholars Pondering Reproductive Behavior!  On the status screen, "I've been mulling over reproductive behavior.  This cannot end well."  She is pessimistic after pondering reproductive behavior. 

This is perhaps a bit more tragic now that I see that her husband died in the weremoose epidemic. 

Okay, I'm starting to generate questions.  I've got a tavern and a tavern keeper, but he doesn't seem to do much tavern keeping.  I've got  lots of tables and chairs, some empty space and containers in the tavern.  Does their need to be food/drink stored in the tavern or something? 

Also temples are befuddling me.  The only way I can figure out to start a Location is to use a table, which doesn't make sense for temples.  I've got several nice temples dedicated to specific deities, and one crummy temple dedicated to no one in particular and the crummy one gets a lot more visitors.  I've assigned a performer to the crummy temple, but he doesn't seem to do much. 

So, first defense hiccup of the new version, I got attacked by a platoon of Barn Owl Man zombies, which can fly, rendering my extensive mote and wall useless.  I guess I got a little too used to 40.x sieges not bringing any critters with them and didn't bother any air defense.  Now I know better. 

Well, the new release crashed 3 times in 10 minutes, so I'm going to occupy myself otherwise. 

I'm using https://www.diffchecker.com to find differences. 

creatures_default:
Dwarves have a new token called [STRANGE_MOODS], which would allegedly allow them to build artifacts.  It would be interesting to see if this is a caste-level token. 
Dwarves have [SYNDROME_DILUTION_FACTOR:INEBRIATION:150].  Humans do not have this tag, so it seems to have a default setting. 
Humans have [OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE], allegedly referring to playing as an outsider in adventure mode.  Kobolds lack this tag. 
[CREATURE_TILE:64] has changed to [CREATURE_TILE:'U']
Scaled creatures have [REMOVE_MATERIAL:PARCHMENT]

entity_default:
INDIV_CONTROLLABLE replaced with [ALL_MAIN_POPS_CONTROLLABLE] and CIV_CONTROLLABLE replaced with SITE_CONTROLLABLE. 
The old instruments have been removed.  Replaced with generated instruments:  [GENERATE_KEYBOARD_INSTRUMENTS][GENERATE_STRINGED_INSTRUMENTS][GENERATE_WIND_INSTRUMENTS][GENERATE_PERCUSSION_INSTRUMENTS][GENERATE_POETIC_FORMS][GENERATE_MUSICAL_FORMS][GENERATE_DANCE_FORMS]
Added:  [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_SCROLL_ROLLERS][TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_BOOK_BINDING][TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_SCROLL][TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_QUIRE]   [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_BOOKCASE]
Added:  [SELECT_SYMBOL:TEMPLE:NAME_BUILDING_TEMPLE]   [SELECT_SYMBOL:LIBRARY:NAME_BUILDING_LIBRARY]
Removed [ADVENTURE_TIER:3]
Added Scholar types.  [SCHOLAR:ALL][SCHOLAR:PHILOSOPHER]   [SCHOLAR:MATHEMATICIAN]   [SCHOLAR:HISTORIAN]   [SCHOLAR:ASTRONOMER] [SCHOLAR:NATURALIST] [SCHOLAR:CHEMIST] [SCHOLAR:GEOGRAPHER] [SCHOLAR:DOCTOR]   [SCHOLAR:ENGINEER]
Jobs and reactions added for paper-making:  [PERMITTED_JOB:PAPERMAKER] [PERMITTED_JOB:BOOKBINDER][PERMITTED_REACTION:MAKE_QUICKLIME][PERMITTED_REACTION:MAKE_MILK_OF_LIME] [PERMITTED_REACTION:MAKE_PARCHMENT][PERMITTED_REACTION:MAKE_SCROLL][PERMITTED_REACTION:MAKE_QUIRE][PERMITTED_REACTION:MAKE_SHEET_FROM_PLANT][PERMITTED_REACTION:MAKE_SLURRY_FROM_PLANT][PERMITTED_REACTION:PRESS_PLANT_PAPER][PERMITTED_REACTION:BIND_BOOK]
New value, KNOWLEDGE

Humans are supposedly more randomized now.
Humans have [SET_SCHOLARS_ON_VALUES_AND_JOBS]
Humans have [VARIABLE_VALUE:ALL:-30:30]  Interesting.  One could allegedly set a specific value to variable as well. 

I haven't completely plumbed through the file changes file yet.  Looks like some good reactions stuff in there too.