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I am pretty certain I got a bloodsucker in my fort (a vampire) as I got a dwarf that died from getting all of blood drained. But how do I find which one it is?

Could it be done (at least in Premium) since the game now has a proper audio engine? I mean tavern musicians playing actual music for the player that is procedurally generated in real time, probably a variation of Dunc's AlgoMusic (google it).

Dragons in DF are so utterly... boring.
Yes, they're powerful, they are dangerous to deal with, but they're utterly boring.

So, as a part of myth and magic update I propose to add the following changes to the dergs:

1. Randomized breath weapons. Not every dragon should breathe fire. Some should breathe ice, acid, poison, electricity or even other stuff.
2. Dragon personalities. I think dragons shouldn't be just dumb beasts to be disposed of. I think they should be intelligent and have varying personalities, just like the other races. Yes, some would want to burn and destroy everything in sight, but some should be neutral or even friendly/helpful, so the player, both in fort and adventure mode would have to think if he/she really wants to kill that dragon and risk angering neutral or even friendly dragon.*
3. Dragons should know advanced magic and be able to teach them to dwarfs and other civs if they're friendly. They have lived for centuries, if not millennia so it makes sense they'd pick up some tricks.
*Dragon personalities explanation:

Decided to put it after the asterisk, because otherwise the second point would be too long.

Bad/angry/evil/whatever you want to call it: These dergs just want to burn everything in sight, either because they were wronged in the past (looking at you, Alan!) or because they were just born that way (being raised by "evil" dragons increases likelihood that the child will also be evil). They can be turned neutral, but it would take a lot of time and appeasement, they also would mellow over the time (centuries) given they aren't disturbed and angered further.

Neutral: Neither good, or bad. Be careful, if attacked they would turn into bad/evil dergs, though unlike the pregenerated evil dergs, they'd not be fully gone, allowing players to right the wrong (though if too much time passes before the player makes things right, they'd be evil for good). If the player decide to be nice to them, they'd slowly become friendly/helpful dergs.


Friendly/helpful: Nice dergs. These will help players in various ways, from making nice ash piles where the enemies once stood, to helping in forges and kitchens (and anywhere the fire would be useful). They also make sure to control the range and the temperature of their flames, although accidents do happen. They would also teach and learn from the local wizards that are either a part of or friends with the civ these nice dergs are part of.

While I've described it as 3 states, I would actually like this to be a spectrum from fully bad to really friendly. Some "evil" dergs would still help out if it aligns with their interests, while some good dergs are good to the point of refusing to hurt a living thing, even if they're the enemy. Or on the flipside, would help dispose of enemies or making weapons, but refuse to teach any magic either because the dragon in question thinks the mortals aren't yet ready, or wouldn't be able to safely use it.

With all the UI changes in DF, I feel that the wiki will quickly become outdated as nothing will match with what players will actually see on screen. And since the wiki is such a huge part of the DF experience, I think the people who write guides there should get early DF Premium keys, or at least access to the builds in order to update the wiki in time for the release.

These things:

take too much space IMO. Also due to the slashes being misaligned, they break the ASCII immersion. How about doing something like this instead?
Creatures | Tasks | Places | Labor | etc.Or something like this:
[tab][tab][tab][tab][tab]
Basically research how various DOS/UNIX text mode GUI apps did tabs and do it like that.

I want to make my playthrough extra difficult by doing the most undwarfy things you can (as much as I can get away with it) and make most of the income from farming. Selling crops is easy, but I have no idea how do you sell livestock after you breed them.

While some people may already engage in what I'm about to explain, I do believe that more people will once Steam version with proper graphics rolls around do so.
In short words: Fashion fortress.
Now there's little to no reason to use materials other than what's "on site" because the only graphics (unless someone is using a tileset) are ASCII and all the stuff is obscured by it.
While some people already make some dwarves wear stuff for fashion reasons more than any practical ones, I do believe more people will engage with this sort of gameplay when they're actually able to see how certain stuff looks on their dwarves (unless it's something that can't be really represented in a 32x32 tile, such as a ring).
Another thing is actually building the fortress. Currently players mostly use materials found on-site in the embark, because wall is a wall and slight variation in the color of the █ character can be satisfied by any number of materials. But, when graphics are in, with every type of stone represented in its own graphic, I can see players importing materials by caravan trading in order to beautify their fortress (currently any beauty of the fortress is reserved for intricate passages rather than materials used).