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I have to also thank Deathworks for being so positive. Seeing that familiar 'Hi!' at the start of each post gives me an amused smile.

I've got to say, I've found nothing about the new DF to hate, frankly. Yes, there are bugs to be worked out... But, it's a game in development, that's to be expected. I utterly love healthcare and the new military. It's beginning to feel like things are moving forward, and we're seeing some really neat things added here. Bound to be some bumps, but.. well, it's amusing in it's own way even when they fail to suture someone forever. I know Toady's working on it.

I learned from this thread that I can edit the behavior of pausing through the announcement.txt file. That. Is. Awesome.

The new underground is a complete ton of fun, and I like how I don't have to generate billions of worlds to get a perfect setup. I pretty much embark wherever I feel, now based more on how close I want to be to other civilizations, aquifiers, and a few other factors,.. Heck, I don't even worry about sand anymore, since it's now a trade item. No more being afraid of mooded dwarves freaking out for it.

There's nothing not to love about 0.31, in this dorf's view.

   Wulfe

Dwarves will stop doing a job if they are starving or dehydrated and go fetch food at all costs, including leaving any assigned burrow they're in. They get unhappy thoughts from this of course, but a dwarf should not starve so long as food/drink is available somewhere on the map the dwarf can path to, and assuming that you're not making a death chamber at the end of an absurdly long maze and assigning the dwarves you don't like to that burrow with no food or water, such that by the time they finally reach your dining hall they drop dead our of thirst just inches away from touching that barrel of delicious booze...

You know, there are times I begin to wonder if I am cruel and ... dare I say? .. Evil enough to play this game. I... I am shamed, I had not thought of that. And it's beautiful. Poetic. The dwarf drops dead, mere inches from his goal, grasping out towards the precious food, which taunts him with it's proximity, and gasps his last anorexic breath.

I love it.

I thank whoever necroed this thread. Wow, I'd not seen it before. That tale was incredible.. and made me spew my drink. Thank you for making me clean my monitor, it needed it apparently.

This is definately one for the stones. I keep having deer and foxes wander INTO my forts and decide to take up residence in the well room. Really disrupts a fort.

Others may not favor it, but I'm quite eager to see Stonesense finished. I quite like the eight-bit look of it.

One thing I did was edit clothing out of the raws. First, I got tired of goblins running in and dumping craptons of garbage on me (which I can produce more of anyway, so having a ton of garbage from Gobbos never appealed to me, especially silk crap).

Another is to make sure you don't have too many animals. While the meat industry is now a VERY viable (and probably too productive) source of food, having tons of puppies and horses run all over your fort drains the FPS as quickly as more dwarves, with much less return.

I edited all crap clothing out, from all races, to keep things 'level'... and noticed a good 50% increase in FPS. I normally get 20 or so FPS with 100 dwarves, and I'm at 50-70, when there's no merchants. The more junk on your map, the slower you'll run. I advise an atom smasher to get rid of garbage, also, and you'll have to be on top of your vermin piles.

Hmn, what else?

Not sure, I'll add more later if I think of it.

What I wanna know, is why are cave fish/cave shrimp listed twice on embark?  It never saves my shrimp choice, so I always have to manually re-add to my embark profile.

I believe it's a symptom of the new caste system. Male and female are listed separately, even when buying dead ones!

Or construct an updown stair just to be sure.

I've gotten stuck when I try to build the up only ontop of a down stairwell. I think up stairwase have a 'floor' tile built into them, thus when you build one in 'open air' nothing can fly up through the bottom of them.