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Very, very cool!

I feel kind of dumb, but did dwarves, goblins and so on get baby graphics too?  I haven't tried starting a fort and waiting for a migrant wave to check yet, but I haven't found anything in the graphics files or graphics configs for it.

The "playable races" type tiles are made up of many layers that go together and he didn't have time to do good testing on them, so not this update.

Try the beta branch for babies & sprouts 🌱
There's a fancy new public beta branch! Check it out!
Tarn's about to be traveling for a little bit but in the meantime, there's a fancy new public beta branch on Steam for folks to try the following fixes for 50.08:

Major bug fixes

    Cleaned out lingering data from autosaves and manual saves that could cause corruption if multiple worlds were active.



Graphics additions/changes

    Added graphics for many child/baby creatures.
    Added hatchling state for dragons.
    Added crop/sprout pictures for outdoor plants.
    Added outdoor sapling graphics.
    Added palettized boulders.
    Ice wall graphics updated.
    Smooth ice wall graphics added.
    Added more fortification images to indicate direction and material.



Other bug fixes/tweaks

    Stopped dwarves without working grasps from trying to get goblets to drink, failing, and dying of thirst.
    Allowed most water-based jobs that use buckets to use partially-filled water buckets in addition to empty buckets.
    Made stocks screen open faster.
    Made all stockpiles not include the refuse option.
    Stopped refuse piles that also have armor/finished good settings from degrading contents.



If that sounds interesting to you, right-click on the game in your Steam library and choose Properties -> Betas -> click the None dropdown to pick public beta. And let us know in all the usual places whether you see a disaster in the making. If all goes well, this patch will be out in a couple of weeks!

In the meantime, if I understand correctly, DFHack ("the Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine") is launching literally tomorrow on Steam! That team of volunteers is entirely independent from Kitfox and Bay 12, but have our blessing to keep working their magic as best as we can without stepping on each others' toes. It has a lot of interesting extensions and tools for different user experiences, and is planned to be totally free. So keep an eye on it if you're curious.



Thanks to all who came to the PAX East panel and/or party. I heard Tarn and Zach had an excellent time, so I hope ya'll did too, minus one known decency violation from the bouncer (we're still agitating angrily about this to the management btw). Relatedly, if you heard or saw anything problematic about the Lucky Strike staff's conduct, please do let us know so we have the full picture of what happened at the venue.

Have a great day!
Tanya

He's relatively active on reddit, /u/Meph248 .

Accounts on the new MANTIS are apparently very expensive. It's for programming teams, not communities, so they figure if you want 900 accounts you're probably Microsoft, so you can afford it.

I'm in the bug tracker Discord for weird historical reasons, and Tarn seems pretty happy with it so far.

Can we please keep this thread to the Steam Announcements and discussions thereof?

This is one of the very least likely places for Tarn and Zach to ever look anyway. There must be a dozen better places to make off-topic complaints.

Hello there! IM new in DF and here too, and while I was playing, I discovered a strange thing, and now I don't know if it's a mistake or I just don't understand something

I apologize in advance if I sent this to the wrong place

Hey there!

I'm not sure what you're trying to ask.

This isn't the right place for it. This is an official announcement/discussion thread.

Try the Kitfox Discord or the /r/dwarffortress subreddit.

Regarding a particular game mode, out of sheer curiosity since I personally don't know much about Dwarf Fortress's development, why is Adventure Mode always at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to updates in comparison to Fortress Mode, Legends Mode, and possibly Arena Mode?

I can totally see how you'd thing that from recent dev cycles, but the normal cycle is 70% Legend, 20% Adventure, and "Oh, we should probably put out a release!" 10% Fortress-- "Didn't get everything we wanted done, but we had to release. Maybe we'll get around to putting those new Adventure features in Fortress one day!"