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Ah shoot, just missed him.

Hey Toady! I assume by the time you read this the bug tracker will be fixed; but in future, who should we contact/how should we let somebody know when the bug tracker is broken?

It's out of temp space & preventing any new bug reports

lethosor and myk002 have been on making reports about the tracker issues, but messaging any mod on the Kitfox Discord would probably work out pretty well if there's a sudden change in bug tracker status. There's a Kitfox employee assigned to managing it.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/6939545579750546889

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    First Look at Adventure Mode + New Bugtracker and more!

    New Merch and European Storefront

    Hey Urists,

    It’s been a little over a month since our big Adventure Mode Roadmap. If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, go ahead and do that here. Since then, we’ve been working on a ton of new procedural portraits for goblins, kobolds and animal people which will be added to both Adventure Mode and Fortress mode. Soon you will be able to stare into the face of every single being you encounter in your fort or, bring them along with you in Adventure Mode. Watching humanoids slowly go insane from sobriety or die of dehydration was never so personal.

    Here is one of the first screenshots from the new Adventure Mode, featuring an ambitious hippoman at a tavern. Maybe you can convince him to join you on your party? We also see the Adventure Mode UI coming along with your character’s portrait in the bottom left as well as all the new buttons for the various actions you can do.

   

    Below, we also have a first look at the Adventure Mode world map. As you can see, towns are represented in much more detail including roads, farm plots and homes. The little shield acts as the marker for your party as you move through the map to reach new points of interest.

   

    We will have more to show with Adventure Mode as well as a more accurate release timeframe in a couple of weeks. If you're curious to pore over the little pixel icons and implications, Blind did a little livestream grilling Tarn and Zach over the Adventure Mode details, so check that video out here.

    New Bugtracker

    We are happy to announce that we have a new bugtracker ready to go! The bug tracker has now migrated to a new domain with the old account system for reporting and commenting. The previous address and email reporting will no longer be used, so please update your bookmarks and follow the new instructions here: https://bit.ly/3R2d9t5

    Thank you to everyone for your patience and willingness to help to squash all those pesky bugs!

    New FanGamer Merch + European Store

   

    New Dwarf Fortress merch has arrived to FanGamer as well as select items on the FanGamer Europe store. We have the vinyl soundtrack, a journal designed to document your favourite forts, a giant desk mat and a hood with customizable menacing spikes! And European Urists can finally rejoice because you can now pick up the vinyl, journal, desk mat and pin on the European storefront, at least until they sell out:

    Wave 2: https://fanga.me/r/dwarf-fortress-wave-2

    FanGamer Europe: https://www.fangamer.eu/collections/dwarf-fortress

    That’s everything we have for this update. Thanks for reading! In a couple weeks will have some very exciting Adventure Mode stuff to show off and a more accurate timeframe for the release!

    -Alexandra

    P.S.

    Our friends at Freeehold Games just released one of the biggest Caves of Qud patches ever yesterday! It’s been a year in the making and features a ton of new content including new boss fights and factions as well as the next leg of the main quest and HUNDREDS of new visual and audio effects, plus improved Steam Deck controls. Now is the best time to pick up Caves of Qud or return to it. You can buy Caves of Qud in Early Access and read more about the update on Steam or watch the trailer.

Steam Community Update 19 September 2023: "50.10 now live: Alerts, ammo, food, and Linux"



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50.10 now live: Alerts, ammo, food, and Linux
Plus a bit of Adventure Mode insider info...
Here's the long-awaited 50.10! The game is now available for Linux, and this patch has some needed updates, like the ability to look at old alerts, ammo that works when uniforms are changed, and soldiers that don't hoard rotten food in their rooms.



We're going to continue now on parallel tracks. The main work will be on adventure mode. There should be more to show there soon as we get the site travel images in place and get the character running around the world again. Putnam has been working on some interface changes that should allow us to more support the keyboard/mouse interface options as we go, which I know is concerning for some people. It has taken longer than we expected to get the ball rolling generally on adventure mode, but the time ahead is clear now and we're optimistic it'll go smoothly.

We've also got more work to do back in fort mode. Some form of the full ammunition control system needs to come back for instance - we'll continue with patches like this one as we go.

As some of you might have seen on beta, here are the full patch notes:

New stuff

    Can view all alerts, including old ones that have been dismissed
    Can view combat reports from creature sheets
    Can pause combat reports whenever new events are added
    Added crash logging
    Can now play the game on Linux




Major bug fixes

    Fixed crash from removing zone with assigned unit
    Fixed multithreading crash related to announcements
    Fixed a potential crash issue with monarch arrival and made them provide more wagons properly
    Fixed potential crash related to certain traveling creatures
    Ammo assignments are updated properly when changing uniforms
    Removed ownership of food items whenever they are dropped (stops rotten food hoarding in rooms)




Graphics additions/changes

    New stone ramp graphics




Other bug fixes/tweaks

    Made creatures more able to get out of trees
    Sped up mid-level map retrieval (helps slowdowns on large world embarks)
    Optimized relationship lookup for socializing dwarves
    Fixed out of bounds issue with wheelbarrows
    Stopped music mods from throwing error when making a new world
    Fixed crash when there's an invalid language (mods)
    Made broker leave depot when last wagon leaves instead of first



Have fun!
Tarn and Zach

P.S. from Kitfox:
Although Tarn had covid and sadly had to miss it, the procedural generation panel we organized at PAX West features three game designers discussing various Dwarf Fortress systems and others. It's insightful and brilliant! Watch it here on YouTube, though I'll warn the visuals aren't very compelling, so maybe think of it more like a podcast. Enjoy!

Early on, Kitfox said that that the two purchase methods were about equal, as Steam would get much more attention to the game, while itch.io would provide more income.

The game was a fantastic success on Steam, but it's not likely to be a top 5 game showing up on the front page until some future super update, so an itch.io purchase is probably objectively better at this point in time for everyone.

An itch.io purchase also includes a Steam key, providing access to the betas and the Steam Workshop

Steam Community Update 12 September 2023: "Beta Branch Patch Notes v50.10 Fixes for some of your most requested issues!"

https://steamcommunity.com/games/975370/announcements/detail/3693570314255962426

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Beta Branch Patch Notes v50.10 (Sept. 12 2023)
Fixes for some of your most requested issues!
Hi Urists,

We have an update to the beta branch with some of your most requested fixes including the ability to view all alerts and a fix for archer ammo. You can look at your old alerts now, and you can also view combat history from a creature's sheet and advance through it one step at a time if a combat is active.

Ammo should work if you've made custom uniforms for archers now. Soldiers shouldn't hoard rotten food in their rooms. Lots of crash fixes and some more optimization. There's also a potential fix for dwarves being stuck in trees but it needs more testing to see how effective it is. All of the following updates are going on beta first so we can figure out what kind of problems will arise before we move over to the main branch.

Thank you to everyone for being so patient with us as we get back to full strength!

New stuff

    * Can view all alerts, including old ones that have been dismissed
    * Can view combat reports from creature sheets
    * Can pause combat reports whenever new events are added
    * Added crash logging



Major bug fixes

    * Fixed crash from removing zone with assigned unit
    * Fixed multithreading crash related to announcements
    * Fixed a potential crash issue with monarch arrival and made them provide more wagons properly
    * Fixed potential crash related to certain traveling creatures
    * Ammo assignments are updated properly when changing uniforms
    * Removed ownership of food items whenever they are dropped (stops rotten food hoarding in rooms)



Graphics additions/changes

    * New stone ramp graphics



Other bug fixes/tweaks

    * Made creatures more able to get out of trees
    * Sped up mid-level map retrieval (helps slowdowns on large world embarks)
    * Optimized relationship lookup for socializing dwarves
    * Fixed out of bounds issue with wheelbarrows
    * Stopped music mods from throwing error when making a new world
    * Fixed crash when there's an invalid language (mods)
    * Made broker leave depot when last wagon leaves instead of first

Hope you're feeling better!

I wonder if you could give us a quick "near term" summary of the things you plan on working on for the next 2 months or so? Not asking for any predictions of what will get done, just a plan like we used to get in the DevLogs of what you'd like to work on!

When will the merch be available in Europe?

I had asked Alexandra Orlando at Kitfox about this a few days ago, and she messaged Fangamer (the merch company), and just got a reply.

Long story short, it's in the works, but there's no fixed date. It sounds like it depends almost entirely on Fangamer.

He's fine. He's been traveling and anticipates posting on the 5th or 6th when he has access to the new Report numbers.