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Megabeasts do have values for their [DIFFICULTY] token, which is said to increase skill gains for fighting such creatures. I believe its main purpose is selecting what creatures a quester may fight.

I feel like most of the character accomplishments you'd want to brag about would just be events stored in legends anyways. Kill lists, artifact claims, created art, ascending to a position. You really can't quantify all that in the same way.

Silk has superior mechanical properties compared to plant cloth, the shear strength is orders of magnitude higher than that of plant cloth. That may be the cause of the silk group winning.

The Adventurer mode prerelease will be available on April 17. This will come with major changes for the interface, among other changes yet to come. Much of this will seem obvious but I thought it would be good to organize some efforts and make a list of what might require changes.

- Adventurer keybinds should be squared away ASAP, and the quick reference (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Adventure_mode_quick_reference) should serve as a guide to them for other wiki editors.

These categories are going to be the main focus of edits, one is very narrow and the other incredibly broad.
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Category:Adventurer_mode
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Category:Migrated_pages_needing_review

Deities (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Deity) are going to have a lot of new mechanics, with the changes to the "demigod" start option/relationship being a highlight.

Portraits would be nice to add to creature infoboxes, for completeness. I'm not the manager, it's a community effort, there will be much tedium involved, but way less than doing it for all the creatures ever.

There's a couple other topics that I feel are relevant and would like to bring attention to for the future update.
Villainry is likely to be looked at. (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Intrigue, https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Category:Non-player_characters)
Flasks (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Flask) aren't tagged as adventure mode, but refilling them is a keybind that's going to come up.
Is there anything else that would be good to have in mind before the release?

Will caste requirements for different jobs/positions be introduced to civilizations at some point? This could have a lot of potential for modding, specifically. For instance, an insectoid civilization which has worker miners and soldier soldiers, or an amazonian kingdom which only allows females into the military and positions of power. I know this wouldn't be top priority, but is it on the easier side of things, or is it relegated to the "far future," if at all planned?

For positions of leadership, there's [GENDER], [ALLOWED_CLASS] and [ALLOWED_CREATURE], which should be effective for purposes of caste restriction. Restricting professions can be essentially hacked in on the creature level (by nerfing those skill gains to the ground), but there's no similar tokens to divide labor on a societal level. Could be very interesting to see where modding tools and generated cultures go.

The forgotten beast, naturally, will be named Davesh Scuttleboat.the Rancidity of Desks.

Thank you for the replies! (And the awesome game, of course!)
I have a couple of questions regarding Adventure Mode, generally on the modder's side of things.

1. The portraits look like they're set up to automatically apply the hundred-or-so raw colors for worn items and eyes, but I haven't seen them applied to any previews. Will there be palette support for layered graphics? Any new uses for palettes planned, like doing unit-colored clothing as a palleted graphic?

2. Adventure crafting is minimal without modded reactions, and thus end up running into unexpected limitations. Is it likely we will see any bugfixes for typical reaction pitfalls, like unwearable gloves or stacked/dimensioned reagents (bone, bars, globs, etc) in the April update?

My "victory" in an adventure mode playthrough was constructing a simple cabin over many days and nights, complete with a casket to bury the last of the giant spiders that I had wrangled from a strange pasture. It had all the necessities - a workshop, some barrels and storage, a roof, and a bed.

My weary hero hoped to lay down and finally have a reprieve from the road, but woke up in the same condition as every other nap in the mud she went through - hungry, thirsty, and not able to really appreciate life's comforts. This was particularly aggravating during construction, where I couldn't eat enough at one time of adventurer-control to stay full during both my labor shifts and nightly rests.

I propose that sleeping in a proper bed means that a unit's hunger and thirst timers are paused for the duration of the task (in a Fortress) or fast-forward (as an Adventurer). It would be most relevant for adventurers taking the effort to rest in tavern lodgings or build a camp, as their sleep cycle lasts for more ticks. For fortress citizens, it would just be a minor delay to the next time a citizen with a room goes for another snack. This is only for parity with the Adventure-centric mechanic, as the primary motivator for making dwarven beds is their mood.

This sleep benefit should only be for deliberate/scheduled sleep, not for hospital rest. I believe the unconsciousness from that condition is tracked separately, and administering rations to resting patients should be preserved. Creature-specific need counters (vampiric bloodthirst and dwarven withdrawal) don't need this benefit, since they aren't essential needs and are reset to zero when fulfilled.