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On anouther note, are coins really that bad I will be disapointed if I cant manage my ecnonomy and wouldnt like to skip coinage if possible.

Yes, coins make a huge mess, and I'm pretty sure the economy works the same way with or without them.

Yeah, but I maintain that there are plenty of examples out in the game universe of mechanics that balance combat without resorting to tracking multiple groups of teeth which is just needlessly complex. I don't like losing a dwarf out of a fort to maintain framerate for teeth.

What makes you think it'll affect framerate?

You got a bad case of the ellipses, son.

I haven't played in a couple months, can someone sum up major changes before I start a community fortress on another forum?

- Variable amount of tiles displayed (i.e. true fullscreen)
- Site finder (basically an automated, built-in regional prospector)
- Highly customizable world gen
- More complex civilization histories with wars, conquest, etc.
- Embark settings can be saved
- Ability to forbid/dump/melt/hide items en masse, either with a designation or from Stocks
- Ability to place large sections of constructions (walls, floors) at once, rather than one at a time

Depending on how many months you've been away, these may or may not be new to you.

I'm still curious if with all this body detail if there would be sexual organs.

He mentioned "basic di/polymorphism for creatures" being on the table for this release, so what Toady doesn't make explicit, the modders will.

Okay.   And what if I want something better than masterpiece?  Say...  Artifact level?

You could try setting itemcorpse quality to 6, I guess, but I doubt it'll work.  The game treats artifacts differently in lots of ways.

Will we be able to determine certain body layers' hardness? So we can have a creature with a hard exoskeleton but a soft, easy to gouge out inside.

I was wondering about this too, in the context of material lists in general.  It would be nice to be able to individually specify material properties such as hardness, sharpness, and strength (catchall for tensile, shear, compressive, etc.) with hardcoded defaults based on the material category (e.g. silk shouldn't be sharp unless otherwise specified).  Dragons with exceptionally strong bones, feathertree treants easier to kill, flint being sharper than granite but not as sharp as obsidian, chitin being hard but brittle.

Making items of a specific quality requires ITEMCORPSE (more specifically, ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY) -- you can't set quality at a smelter.  For masterwork adamantine plate (untested):

[ITEMCORPSE:ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_PLATEMAIL:METAL:ADAMANTINE]
[ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY:5]