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Got it. I’ve tried generating some new worlds, on a medium world generated for 200 years, it crashes unless the entity site cap is set at the default. Does anyone have problems with worldgen crashes when the number of sites exceeds a certain amount?

Otherwise I look forward to trying this world out.

But damn, saves are not compatible. Now Heavymetal has to start over!

Archmage, have you made Dwarf Fortress Large Address Aware? During world generation, all the data is stored in RAM until the world is complete, meaning large worlds can easily exceed the 2 GB default limit for a 32 bit application.

Quote from: Archereon on July 10, 2014, 07:34:44 pm

Leaders of different races are not unheard of, your civ probably conquered some goblin sites, and somehow one of the goblins or their descendants became king. If you mange to get him to come to the site in person, make sure to tell us whether he's considered a friendly creature or an actual part of your fort; I'm quite curious if that's been fixed.

Quote from: Toady One on July 09, 2014, 09:36:08 pm

I haven't changed any old bugs deliberately for the big release...

Note the bolded text; the non-dwarf citizens not being properly handled may very well have been tied up in entity behavior and so on, which had a massive overhaul in 0.40.

There appear to be 2-3 figures in white on the horizon.

I think those are actually towers/ruins behind the hills, though I'm not sure.

Quote from: Toady One on July 10, 2014, 07:19:53 pm

It's almost futile to guess this early on -- it's best just to get a reproducible method or a broken save and follow the trail.

  Did we figure out what was with the mystery babies yet?  Is it those new underground goblin forts?

Well, from what toady just said, he suspects its a historical figure duping bug, which he said could potentially result in serious issues beyond the mild annoyance/FPS drops mystery babies cause.

Was council of owners the group the adventurer had formed or the group that formerly governed the site?

It IS inevitable that overusing this meme will turn it into "Arrow to the Knee": Dwarf Fortress Edition. That's what part of me thinks. The other part of me hopes that when gods of fate release demons from hell for reasons generally along the lines of "it was written", that there will eventually be multiple possible lines to describe the reasoning, one of which will be "because it was inevitable."

I've heard terrifying news about hydras able to rip apart multiple enemies at once.

The thing is, having hydras turn out to be total murder machines isn't at all unexpected, even from the perspective of an outsider to the DF community. The novelty of the King of Beasts is usually that it's an been a series of extremely improbable menaces with each new KoB being more ludicrous than the next. elephants in real life are huge, but not hyper-aggressive like they were in 40d, nobody expected a common fish to be a brutal aquatic killer, and after having a completely sessile aquatic organism being the most dangerous enemy a dwarf could face in the previous version, I'm not sure anything in .40 will top that.