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It seems like two rather different things are being confused here: thread resurrection and thread necromancy.

When you post a new message to a "dead" thread which contributes to or otherwise renews the discussion in a meaningful way, then the thread has been resurrected. For example, somebody might post a help request in the Modding forum and never get an answer, only for somebody years later to find the thread and have the answer to that question. Thread resurrection isn't an inherently bad thing - the only real problem is that newcomers might waste a bunch of time reading through old comments which are no longer relevant. Some forums encourage reviving threads, while others encourage starting new ones (and possibly linking to the old ones); I don't recall which is preferred on the Bay 12 forums.

On the other hand, when you post a message to a dead thread which does not contribute to the discussion in any meaningful way (e.g. "Me too!" or "Hey! Read this thread, it's awesome!"), then all you have accomplished is reanimating the thread like a zombie, just like what necromancers do to dead creatures. This act is never acceptable, and such posts should ideally be Reported as abusive behavior.

In prior versions, migrant waves were only scheduled at the very beginning of the season; given what you're describing, however, it would seem to no longer be the case...

If you want the unit record for yourself in Adventurer mode, try df.global.world.units.active[0].

The bug "forum" was closed over 6 years ago - nowadays, you post stuff on the bug tracker at http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/, provided you are able to create an account there.

if your adventurer species does not start out with said ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT token, will killing enough things, gaining the 'drink alcohol' need and being sober for a long time still reduce your speed (i.e. does adventurer gain ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT token)?

Yes - in Dwarf Fortress, that's what it means to be an alcoholic.

Only thing I can think of it has to be smoothed first before it can be turned into a fortification.

By extension, this means that you cannot carve fortifications in clay or dirt - you can only carve them in stone.

save http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12271

Out of curiosity, I downloaded that save (only 2 living dwarves, lol) and attempted an abandon/reclaim, and it worked without crashing. It's possible the crashiness was a symptom of the fires, and now that everything's been extinguished it's stable again.

Quote from: Quietust on July 07, 2016, 07:04:08 pm

If you're using the same size of floating point number (32-bit "float" or 64-bit "double"), you should always get exactly the same result whether you're running 32-bit or 64-bit code.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22710272/difference-in-floating-point-arithmetics-between-x86-and-x64

You learn something new every day - for those too lazy to click the link, 64-bit code uses SSE instructions (which have separate versions for 32-bit "float" and 64-bit "double") for floating point arithmetic, while 32-bit code uses FPU instructions (which upconvert all floats to 80-bit "long double", which you can't actually use directly on Windows) because of the possibility that SSE might not be available.

Apparently, though, newer versions of MSVC use (or can be told to use) SSE in 32-bit code as well to make things stay consistent, though I'm not sure if that's an option in the old version of GCC Toady's using.