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DF does feature facing and attacks from the side/behind. Fort mode creatures face their current opponent in melee. A limited amount of flanking strategies are possible. At the very least, you can set up archers on a ledge above to shoot enemies in the back as they fight your axedwarves.

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Looks like its fixed in the next version so we can make complicated aquaducts for item collection and intruder management : )

- Toilet traps (flush thy enemy)
- Ice encasement traps
- Overly complex system to wash the surface of corpses and loot

Previous 0.34.11 thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=131995.0
There have been several large changes, and perhaps more to come, so I though I would start with a clean thread.

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New mechanics: Pulping

Pulping appears to work by evaluating the layers in a body part. If each layer meets any one of the following criteria then the body part is pulped:
a) 100% bruised/burned/frostbite/melt/necrosis/blister/boil/freeze/condense (i.e. 10000+ in layer_effect_fraction)
b) 250% dented (i.e. 25000+ in layer_dent_fraction)
c) 100% cut (i.e. 10000+ in layer_cut_fraction) (cut in this case is synonymous with fracture)

Spines, skulls, and perhaps other body parts have the [PREVENTS_PARENT_COLLAPSE] token which prevents the parent body part (such as the head, upper body, or lower body) from being pulped until the sub-part is broken. It appears that only external body parts can be pulped, not internal organs. You will find that boneless body parts that don't contain a spine/skull part will pulp VERY easily (i.e. eyes/ears).

There does not appear to be any distinctions between the combat text descriptions of the pulping, beyond the messages being appropriate to the weapon used (edged, blunt, or creature body part).

EDIT: Updated Ranged Weapon Mechanics

Projectile_velocity = ( SHOOT_FORCE / Weight ) / 20 , capped at the SHOOT_MAXVEL and rounding down
i.e. for a vanilla iron bolt and crossbow: (1000/1.1775)/20 = 42
silver 31, copper 37, wood 200, adamantine 200

As before, momentum = velocity * weight , so iron, copper, and silver end up with almost identical momentums (49). Wood has about 30% of the momentum of most metal bolts and much less cutting ability. These momentums are now on par with melee weapons and human body part attacks. The 0.34.11 "railgun" bolts/arrows had velocities around 1000 and momentum 1000 to 1600.

Comments and questions are welcome. Next, I will probably try to see if the momentum-based mechanics from 0.34.11 were changed with the combat/move speed update.

Quote from: mobucks on August 15, 2014, 05:26:25 pm

I've seen it happen that once an inactive squad is activated, but with no orders or barracks set to (t)rain, they sometimes will walk out to the position of their last (m)ove or (k)ill order I had given them, even if it had been months since that order had been given/completed.

That's an interesting bug.

IIRC move orders are implemented by altering the "idle" position of the unit.

..., and then jumped up a tree.  Poor invader couldn't seem to get down afterwards though, so she was stuck in a tree for 3 seasons.   

You can't jump UP. The invader merely climbed.

I had a badass miner jump towards the elf bandits she was ordered to attack. That's enthusiasm right there.

Very interesting. Where was the miner positioned in relation to the bandits?

But did you see them jumping?

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This is acceptable as long as the baby has been decontaminated.
And I'm not worried about zombie babies so much as the 3 Dwarf Elite Wrestler evil dust husks on the surface

Trying to think of some screenshot or image to visualize those guys, but I'm drawing a blank

The animated corpses died at least once before, are soulless, and may just be severed hands/heads or the like. You can get someone's animated corpse and their ghost at the same time, in different places. They probably look dead or decaying.

The husks (also sometimes called "thralls" or "zombies" by the RNG) never actually died, contain the souls (so no ghosts from those guys until you kill the husks!), and retain skills/learning/equipment. I think of it a lot more like "the corruption" or mind-controlling blood-draining plant spore parasites. A lot more like the technically-living modern zombies than the classic necromancy. They probably look like normal living dwarves, except for being dust-covered, dehydrated, and pale.

So is it possible for a weapon to hit someone hard enough to blow apart? Like if they hit a obstacle.

No, but weapon hits can be hard enough to send someone flying, possibly so that they hit an obstacle and explode. This generally requires modding to accomplish.