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Stay away from LibreCAD - it's 2d only and from the job description (designing furniture) you need 3D. For 3D either FreeCAD or SolveSpace are good open source options. Both seem to have AutoCAD import/export although I don't know how good they are. Currently learning FreeCAD to hopefully do 3d printing designs in it in the future, but both FreeCAD and SolveSpace have great tutorials available online.

So I've checked the Wiki and statues can be made out of stone, metal, glass, or clay, but not from the wood? Wooden statues are a thing and should also be a thing in the world of DF. Preferably crafted either at Carpenter's workshop or at Craftsdwarf one.
//edit: Placing a wooden statue anywhere an Elf can see it would generate an unhappy thought for that Elf.

Another thing I've thought about - Save and quit the game option on the ESC menu. More often than not when I'm saving and quitting, I'm done with the game in general and don't want to load up another fort, why should I waste a click to quit the game after returning to the title screen?

Yes, it is, however these graphics raws aren't shipped in Classic, in classic instead of directories full of raws, you get an almost empty folder with an info.txt file that says something to the effect of "for save compatibility".


I'm not asking him to distribute the art, because that's against his contract, but at least have graphics RAWs in there so making a compatible graphic pack is as simple as making proper graphics.


//edit: This is what I mean on the example of "data\vanilla\vanilla_creatures_graphics\graphics" folder which in premium is: https://i.imgur.com/WDn0s6z.png\
And in the classic (winrar screenshot because I can't be bothered to unpack classic): https://i.imgur.com/k4HiEfR.png

Well - there's not even a "graphics" subfolder in vanilla_creatures_graphics which would contain the raw. And the info.txt is: https://i.imgur.com/torgNgL.png
I understand why "images" folder would be either missing, empty, or contained empty images, but the raws should be there so custom tilesets that work both in Classic and Premium could be developed.

Will you add graphics raws to the Classic version so implementing custom graphics packs that are compatible both with premium and Classic will be easier? I'm talking about the TXT files in vanilla*_graphics that are present in premium but not in classic, not the art itself.

So DF is largely CPU-bound game that hardly uses GPU. And most AI generative algorithms run on GPU. Putting those two thing together, I think it would be nice if DF could use some sort of a GPT-based algorithm to generate conversations instead of the preset one we all know too much. It wouldn't even have to be the newest billion bajillion parameters GPT, I think even something like GPT-2 would provide decent enough results. Of course older conversation system would remain as a fallback for computers which can't support even GPT-2 and maybe for quest-givers, but ability to chat naturally with NPCs would be really cool.

Perhaps it could be like a strange mood (though less fatal, if no book writing material is available) in the way that a single dwarf can write only one skill book over his/her lifetime and can't make new ones over and over. It would be randomized then on which level (competent or better) he'd then write one.

IMO it should be like adventure mode, but with megabeasts, so that you could then travel to another sites and destroy/subdue them. You can already make some very OP adventurers, but it pales in comparison with what megabeasts can do.