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Progress on the trees is looking good!

Thanks, unfortunatly I'm having tablet trouble, so I haven't been able to really continue on it. >_>
There's plenty for pretty pictures, but half of the fruits are still missing and palm trees and feathertrees look weird :/

Outside of the hardcoded migrant waves, I too haven't noticed caravans on dead civs. (I have, however had elves and humans )

It still worries me, as there are still tons of bugs to fix and I see that Toady already gets bored. Pray that your "favourite" bug will be fixed before Toady has enough and start doing something fun (adding more bugs features). IMO it is bad to change gears so soon, because next bugfix crunch will be after next major release - in other words, in 2-3 years.

Whoa, dramatic much?

1) I don't know if you've ever developed any project, but briefly doing something else is not a sign of boredom, it's a sign of making sure you don't turn into a vegetable while keeping your output high
2) 2014 is very likely to have been the longest release cycle, because Toady said in an interview he 'finally has enough clay to play with'. Basically, implementing new features is going to be significantly easier because all the base frameworks are in the game now.
(This is why a lot of people are super excited about this release despite it not bringing 'much' to fort mode.)

Well, it would make more sense (and work) if it used vector graphics (just saying...)

Not necessarily.
I'm a huge vector advocate, but this does take away gradients from Andrew's toolbox.
Plus, vectors just aren't as easy to make, even in this artstyle. It requires a lot of time to get right.

And in case of things like body parts, they won't benefit from vector, as the muscles and the fat can't be applied as a difference to a generic set, unlike 3d model-parts. (Which would bring it's own problems)

Maggarg, as someone who just got in before 2010:

*Hospitals- Are pretty easy, just assign a zone, put in some beds, make sure you have a well, and have a dude with diagnose enabled, rest is on wiki.
*Military - make a barrack, make a squad, set the squad to the training alert, set the barrack to be the training place for squads, follow the wiki for the rest.

*Main difference - material rewrite: silver hammers are much more useful than spoiler hammers, while spoiler swords are better than silver ones.
*Main difference 2 - All maps are potentially interesting. Don't worry about perfect embark for the beginning.

*New nasties - forgotten beast, night creatures, and other fun. The wiki has details, of course
*Zombies require pulping, so a squad of hammerdwarves pulping all their limbs into unrecognisable messes should work.

*more creatures.
*bees! (and beekeeping)
*animal training now works differently and requires a zone.

*mining skill no longer affects ore return.
*dwarves no longer haul things one at a time, they now they item weight and size into account. Stones are now slow to move without wheel barrows.
**Minecarts!

*main difference - The world now moves during play.
*This means your sieges come from actual world pops.
*this also means your kings, queens, liasons etc are from somewhere and will take time to get to you.

*burrows!(dwarves will only use burrows as job restrictions, not for anything else, except if the civilians are set to alert in that specific burrow)
*dwarven personalities, they affect things, and stuff.
*things are afraid, buggily so.
*trees! A lot of wood!
*for that matter, Clay!

You should be able to get going with what you've always known.

Dame, that was what he was trying to poing out.