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I find it very weird, as it makes it far too challenging in the early game when I'm trying to mine ore to make gear for a military.

Why did Tarn include this in the steam release?

I found a demon in an ore pocket in the very first cave layer.

For example, say I set the max temp to 100 and the min to 75, would such a world be more dangerous than one set to max 0 min -50?

So I'm considering embarking on a major project that will eventually involve a magma moat.

The world size will be 64X64 to help reduce fps issues, but i'm planning to embark in a cold area, maybe a glacier or tundra or something, and on top of a volcano.

I plan for this fortress to last for centuries, as I want to get Cave Dragons.

I also plan to set up an obsidian generator and farm obsidian blocks for the project, as well as glass, if I can manage to make sand, or find sand on the embark site.

I'm already planning to take steps to reduce FPS problems, but once I start the  project itself the fortress will be centuries old by then and thus likely to already be aflicked with FPS loss.

I guess my question is: will a significantly large magma moat cause problems for the FPS?

Edit: I meant when they're stable and not flowing.

Hey, we're all thinking it, I just feel someone has to say it.

Ever since the release of ArchCrystal, Hundred year old forts have become the ideal, but FPS death is a major obstacle in front of it.

Even the guy who made ArchCrystal have to restrict his population to 35 just to keep the fps issues under control.

Now that Putnam is working on the project, I hope that he can somehow bring the FPS issue under control, as it's the one major outstanding issue affecting Dwarf Fortress.

None of the community pages seem to have activity on them.

We all know that adamantine is the best metal so far, usually because of it's ease of access and high qualities.

But what if there was there was an even higher quality of metal that was rare and hard to get without going to extra lengths to get it?

The idea I present to you is rainbow gold, and ghost silver.

In this idea, Unicorn horns are made of rainbow gold. A single horn, when melted down, yields a varying amount of bars.

The quality of the metal depends on how old the unicorn is. 100 year old unicorns should yield metal that is maybe half as good as adamantine, while 200 year old unicorns should yield metal that is just as good, with older unicorns yielding the best quality.

Ghost silver comes from the bones of undead that have been around for a while. when an Undead has been around for at least 10 years, their bones start hardening into ghost silver.

Like with Unicorns, the older the undead, the higher quality the bones are.

What do you guys think?

Edit: obviously, Unicorns would have to be altered to make this an actually rare thing. Ideally, once a unicorn reaches 10 years of age they become legendary in all combat skills, and are untamable from birth, have a preternatural ability to dodge arrows, and become hostile to dwarves when their young are threatened.

Just throwing some ideas out there.   

By active I mean you actively have dwarf fortress open, with a fortress mode game playing right now.

I'm tired of having to actively check and write notes on relationships if I want to do familial suites.

Someone, please make a utility that does this, I would really appreciate that.

In the recent Kit-fox email you metioned that you were thinking of delaying work on Item #5 and #6 until after release.

I don't think you should do this. There's an old saying, It's released when it's done. Or in valve terms: 'soon'.

I would rather you finish work on all of your items and giving it a nice sheen of polish, instead of releasing a half finished product before it's done.

I don't mind waiting a few more years.