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If you played DF2012 (34.11 IRC), you're pretty done, the major changes are as said in multy- tile trees, fuits and tons of new plants to use, and the fact that the world is now simulated also during play. This expecially change the way enemy attacks you (you have to be really close to them, and to be reaaally interesting to them) and the fact that now it's a little bot harder to keep FPS high.

Yeah, that's a really nice idea! I would love such a feature!

It could be interesting, but i suppose i would need a "reason" to declare my indipendence.

 In real world, colonies were often overtaxed, ignored, and kept in poverty both of money and political power, only used to gain resources and/or store political enemies and fellons.

Dwarven civs instead ask nothing from you, trade fairily and give you the possibility to become the mountainhome with some effort.

So why would i need/want to be indipendent?

Yeah, but you're not. You are just a random gobbo.

Uh... ok, now i feel reeeeeeally silly! I looked at that page for about 40 minutes!

Thank you all guys!

Sorry to bother the community, but i can't find a way to tell my food stockpile to only accept prepared meals. I searched various menus and submenus, but it seems that the option simply do not exists.

Someone knows how to set up a stockpile in this way?

Uhm... really interesting topic...

I could have a suggestion, but i'm not a programmer and english is not my main language, so i apologize in advance fir everything stupid i could say.

using sounds to "read" the world seems the way to go, but reading each single cell would be problematic at least. You would end hearing only "grass, grass, goblin on grass, grass, grass".

But, what if you could express what the program is reading not with "read text" but with simple sounds?
An "empty" (grass, soil, stone) could be expressed maybe with a low humming sound,  different for pitch and intensity to differenciate maybe stone and grass, and units would be instead expressed with normally voiced text.

Also, to avoid the "hunt that goblin cell by cell" thing, the reading program could use a reading grid that would read, lets say, a 3x3 or 5x5 grid and express the position of interesting things with a "radar" sistem using a surround sound sistem ( a good headset would be more than sufficient, or you could use a 5.1/7.1 sistem).

So i'm figuring...
Your pointer is at a coordinate. You hear a low ambience sound that makes you understand that you are surrounded by stone floors. Another, different sound pointing the north means there is a wall in that direction. A ping in the wesr indicates something interesting there. You move your pointer closer, the ping gets stronger, and when you are directly pointing at it a voiced text tells you there is a dwarf farmer there. Different pings can indicate different thing.

That way you could experience the surroundings without a voice telling each thing.

Well, nice catch! I'll try to respond to your questions:

A - It is safe... but it would be safe-ish to keep him caged. He will probably respect the pasture, but a sudden burst of flames can kill anything near him. If you really want to let him roam freely, keep a lot of cage traps nearby, to catch him promptly in the case he goes wild.

B - If you put a trainer without any other job (really, nothing else, no hauling of sort, no cleaning... nothing!) a single one should be sufficent to keep him under control.

It will never become "domesticated" sadly. To domesticate a creature, you have to have a trained breeding couple of them, and the offspring would be domesticated. You can only keep him trained. When the training level starts to lower, you trainer will automatically re-train him, and it could be more or less trained.

C - Nope. Burrows are respected only by your own dwarves, and only when they are performing any kind of job, so if the vampire is idle he can freely roam the map, unless you keep it with locked doors or similar.

Having nothing to do do not increase the chances they will try to kill themselves, but you have to remember that the dragon will slowly turn wild.

Vampires do not feed on animals, only on your population.

And for the latter... if the dragon hit the vampire with his flames, the vampire is pretty quickly dead, but dragons are the classical "glass cannons". If the vampire survives enought to hit the dragon a couple of times, it has high possibility to kill it or at least cripple it very badly, expecially with the help of a crossbow.