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If you like Dwarf Fortress and you like Minecraft then try the Terrafirmacraft mod. That mod has the same basic idea: keep things realistic, and it does it with style. If you imagine you're a Dwarf stranded somewhere, it almost feels like DF Adventure mode, just with better graphics.

And if you want the full challenge, play on highest difficulty and hardcore mode.

As far as I can tell from my observations Dwarfs so far have only been climbing trees, mostly down. However they do definitely use the jump ability if it shortens a path considerably.

Assuming you're using Windows, delete <DF>/hack/plugins/twbt.plug.dll.

My alternate solution is to not update to R4 as this seems to be the only relevant change.

However for future updates I'd love to see this resolved, as the purpose of activating this plugin can hardly be to disable it.

So I tried R4 yesterday and the graphics look all weird now (I play with Mayday). Not sure if this is how the mayday pack is supposed to look, or if something went wrong with the update.

Code doesn't age, but programmers learn.

Magma will wash away every toxin the Dwarven world knows of. Including but not limited to Dwarfs.

Grates are a fine thing, but sometimes Dwarfs will get pushed through it, however that can easily be compensated by giving them an exit from the sewers. Babies tend to be pushed through more often, so maybe this isn't even a bug.

The secret to Dwarf washing is to not dump more water on the Dwarfs than your canal system is able to purge, otherwise your fortress will get flooded. In addition try to keep the water level below 4, as otherwise the drain can be too strong for Dwarfs to handle. You can do simple math here: if 7 water levels / tick get in, then 7 water levels per tick need to get out. 7 levels distributed to 3 blocks means 2-3 levels of water per block, as water distributes about evenly.

║▼▼▼║ ← down to your hallway
║232║ ← safe water levels
║3╬4║
╠═7═╣ ← removes pressure
║4╬3║
╚╗7╔╝
▓║∩║▓ ← lever-door, just in case
▓║#║▓ ← grate to keep attackers out
▓║7║▓

The door is the most important part, it allows you to correct mistakes without flooding the fort. Make sure to build it behind the grate, so attackers will not destroy your safety device.

It is a good idea to have some amount of wood/stone inside your fortress in case of a siege, and then your workshops need a small buffer, so crafters are not spending the majority of time with hauling themselves.

I usually make a 9x9 area for wood and another for stone, and then surround my workshops with a 1 block wide buffer stockpile, setting the large on to give to the buffer stockpile.

After all we know, it could be a sleep(100) statement that Toady forgot somewhere inside the code. It is true that lag occurs more often if certain conditions are present (like zombie invasions, those are always bad, in general), however the cause of it is just pure speculation. And without access to the code, it stays pure speculation. Therefore ideas for fixes might be as beneficial as they might be harmful.

Threading if done right is a very easy way to calculate two things at the same time, however if it is not done right, it has devastating results, mostly because threading bugs are extremely difficult to locate as they seem to happen randomly. I doubt that the DF code is prepared to handle threading, so without a major rewrite, only very few things can be made threaded.

However there are several models for threading, and some - again if implemented correctly - could increase performance significantly. Pathing is a good example for such a task, as it is completely independent from everything else, and therefore could be done in parallel for all entities. I cannot however say anything about Toady's experience with multi-threading, so there might be other reasons why he is not doing it.