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I can't find the post right now, but apparently at some point during the .40.xx bugfixing cycle, Toady tried to do a 64 bit build to see how(if) it would work. If I recall, he ran into problems getting his development toolchain to actually work right in producing a 64 bit build, and abandoned the effort for the short term.

However, while enabling large address awareness by default (on windows, this is unnecessary on Linux or OSX) might buy a couple more years, DF is approaching the point where it will need to go 64 bit just for the larger memory space.

Fell moods can still happen in .40.24 But only very unhappy dwarves ever seem to get them, and unless you have too many corpses lying about or run afoul of the 'vengeful thoughts' bug, it's fairly easy to not have many unhappy dwarves who could end up in a fell mood.

What about the problem of dwarves getting unhappy about being drafted for too long?  Should we insert some scheduled off-duty time, and if so how much?

That was a bug which has been fixed in the current version. Training orders no longer count as 'active duty' for calculating whether dwarves were on duty long enough to create bad thoughts.

Quote from: vjmdhzgr on May 05, 2015, 12:42:51 am

Quote from: NCommander on May 04, 2015, 10:03:20 pm

* Armor User - controls armor movement penalities. At legendary, the weight of armor is negated. Also appears to control the chance of something glancing off (this is a relatively recent change). Levels up at a glacier speed, though dwarves DO give armor demostrations; four years of training which had everything at Legendary+5, and armor user was still at 6 ...

When was that glancing off chance added? Also in my experience armor user trains up far faster after giving them full armor, though still quite of slowly.

In my current fort, I just spotted Give Armor Demostration. Guess they do teach that skill by demostrations. Now if there was just a way to keep them doing that.

I had one fort where one squad consistently did armor demonstrations, after I added a migrant who showed up with Armor User of 10 to their squad. The squad all made it to 12 ranks in armor use within 2 years (most of the first year was slow gains due to the teacher not having any teaching skill). So I *think* that having one dwarf in the order who is much better at armor use than the rest will make armor demonstrations more frequent, though I haven't tested it extensively. I have noticed that skill demonstrations are usually led by the dwarf with the highest value in the skill being demonstrated (from among the dwarves sharing the same order).

I interpreted the 3 possible values for each gender as 'no romantic/sexual interest', 'romantic/sexual interest, but unwilling to commit long-term', and 'romantic/sexual interest, and willing to commit long term'. After all, even with the default values, every dwarf gets only one of the three values for each gender, meaning that if 'willing to marry' doesn't imply love, then ALL marriages are already potentially loveless. With the values you suggest, you end up with all male dwarves willing to get into romantic relationships with either gender, but only willing to marry females.

And utunnels is correct that 2 dwarves having the correct orientation/age doesn't guarantee that they will eventually get married. There's a progression of acquaintance->friend->lover->spouse, and if any step in that progression fails to happen, they never get to the later steps.

In versions prior to .40.xx, danger rooms trained every military skill that mattered, and did it much faster than normal training. In .40.xx, danger rooms miss to skills that matter for your military (discipline and fighting) and only train the others slightly faster than normal training (because normal training trains skills up faster than in previous versions). That being said, danger rooms can still be useful. In particular, if you set one up in your barracks and have the dwarves training at the same time as they are in the danger room.

I made carbonara the other day! I didn't take an pictures but it was awesome, and actually quite easy to make.

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on April 30, 2015, 09:15:22 pm

Juniper berries are apparently a pretty good marinade ingredient.

Won't it end up tasting like gin then?

A splash of gin in a marinade isn't bad either.

In order of ascending dwarfiness:

• Disassemble the wagon, create a wooden training axe
• Trade with the next caravan
• Disassemble the wagon, burn one of the logs for charcoal, make coke, smelt some iron, forge an axe

There's a still more dwarfy option:
Dig down until you find magma. Build a magma smelter and forge. Smelt some iron and forge an axe.