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This is really interesting. For me the question is if some of the costly calculations could just be delayed to happen only every X frames and maybe even staggered by number of Dwarfs and dynamically less regular as FPS worsens or if the game breaks down completely if that happens.

Like putnam specified LOS checks and family interactions took most of the CPU time in one of his tests. How often do those currently happen and it is crucial that they happen all the time or would the game break down if they happen half as much and could there be some failsafe to account for any frozen state that could occur because of it?

Very interesting, thanks for posting this. Do above ground fort areas, big rooms with lots of workshops inside and big dormatory/dining room/tavern make massive difference in these calculations?

Reason why I ask is because I have pop 80, 2x2 forts that follow all FPS advice I studied in dozens of hours and experimented 100s of hours with but I still get FPS issues after 5-10+ years.
I always use big rooms like that instead of lots of small rooms so maybe that's bad too because theres more exponential interaction between creatures in the same room/line of sight?

Once the units are gone, build a 3 to 5 wide bridge over the river and it will never be a problem again (new invaders/migrants will use the bridge instead of the river-exit).

You seem to be a river expert. Do you know if there is a way to safely remove wood logs which fell into water (except DFhack that I know) from cutting trees? My dwarfs don't collect it from inside there. Do they need to learn swimming first to be able to do that? It looks really ugly with all of the wood logs in there.

1.) getting too many migrants too soon (it also breaks immersion; why does a small settlement of your starting 7 immediately attract hordes of migrants?)
2.) bins - they are badly needed to be able to manage your space, but are broken. I will currently only use a bin if I don't care about using the stored item ever again. And because of the bin malfunctioning, you're almost forced to use quantum stockpiles, which feel like a dirty hack.

Also the default population maximum should be reduced to something like 80 and embark size to 2x2 default.

They need line of sight. To shoot downward through fortifications, the wall needs to be several tiles (>8 or so) away from whatever they're trying to shoot, otherwise the floor they're standing on and the floor beneath the fortification gets in the way. And that's only for a single z-level drop; any more and they probably won't be able to hit anything on the ground at all.

8 tiles horizontal for one vertical seems pretty insane! So any high above ground tower like 4+ z levels over z0 will never work?

is there any way to revert remove-stress command?

So set stress to 0 again or so?

also revflood does not work with constructed walls right? did not work here for me:


edit: I used tiletypes painting and revflood after to hack the wall dont like different colors

wiki says there is this:

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Narwhal_man/raw

maybe in the files there is an even bigger one no idea

Orca man and Sperm whale man exist as well

edit: ah you meant exactly the size sorry