March 6, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.12 has been released.
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And everyone dies if you abandon right?Wait I have a question what happens if you retire a fort fill with ghosts do those ghosts just vanish and never come back again or do they stay on the site?
They will stay.
So, now I have a moat filled with magma AND patrolled by ghosts. It is quite nice actually.I feel an irresistible urge to sig this.
I have to say, a crossbow with a screaming vulture on it does sound pretty badass... Screaming Vulture also sounds like a decent band name of some sort.Hopefully one of the new bard groups will choose it for a name.
I finally got around to installing her own animated severed arm in her bedroom. Hopefully when she grows up she'll appreciate her pet arm; it's a damn shame Toady hasn't gotten around to allowing medical dwarves to reattach limbs - the arm has not rotted one bit, and is in fact even more muscly than when it left little Asmel's body. It would do her good on her body, minus the fact that the arm may still harbour a hatred for everything that lives.Urist McStrangelove cancels sleep: Interrupted by combat
I've been away for some time and was thinking of coming back to Dwarf Fortress, the last thing that was "new" at the time I stopped playing last was multi-tile trees (still with amusing errors such as flying enemies crashing into them and exploding).Trees don't explode creatures as far as I'm aware, but they do explode the world. DO NOT build floors over tree branches.
So I figure lots of things must have changed between now and then, however when I looked at the development page, unless I'm misreading it, nearly everything new is for adventurer mode. Now perhaps that is the case, but I figured I'd ask.
So, yea, anybody want to give me a short rundown of any significant changes in, say, the last year or so?
Appreciated.
A better change would be making them choose the closest based on actual walking distance, taking stairs and such into account.Update: looks like I didn't describe the tweak itself. I mean forcing the dwarves to search for next tiles to mine floor-by-floor, instead of measuring the direct distance. Kind of a nested loop instead of a flat one.This would make exploratory mining with multiple shafts hell, because your dwarves would run up add down stairs to get to times on the same level.
The total value of embarking is set at 1,274 points, though all but 300 of these are pre-spent on an array of basic equipment (the same equipment Play Now! uses). It stands that one should try to maximize the value of their embark by spending all available points.Working as intended.
I keep getting this "rain" fetid slime that horrifies my dwarves im living in a haunted biome im just wondering if there is a way to find out what exactly this slime is as its starting to cover things and giving me horrified spamIt sounds like you got one of the pretty tame evil biomes.
I tried channelling out a square under a stack of boulders on top of an FB. Not only did the 20+ falling boulders do no damage at all, the FB killed the miner who was more than 10' above him... somehow.Dwarves can dodge whales. A boulder is nothing.
So, same fort where I had necromancers in the cavern. We're being swarmed by thieves. Aren't these things supposed to show up one by one? I have received twenty seven thieves since the start of spring, it's the beginning of winter. Gotten a few nice iron large daggers though. I'll have a few knife users going, just to kill thieves.Ali Baba and the forty kobolds.
