March 6, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.12 has been released.
News: February 3, 2024: The February '24 Report is up.
News: February 4, 2021: Dwarf Fortress Talk #28 has been posted.
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The first thing I thought when I saw the headline, is "damn, I hope noone died".
The second was "this needs to be mentioned in the DF forum".
Its a good thing they had a water pipe nearby or they might have flooded the whole map
Thanks, there is quite a bit of information there. Any idea when the mouse interface is going to get done? :pMost likely after the Interface for key bindings and menus is finished. Or in Layman's terms, before Toady dies, he will make clones of himself. Full mouse support will probably take place during the 9th generation of clones or so >.>
Another very noticeable change will be the underground diversity. It will be kind of hard to ignore a cave river with subterranean forest growing next to it 5 z-levels down. Or a giant crystal room 9 z-levels down. Or at least, one can hope.
Thought: If Toady puts in crystal rooms, will they appear high enough that they could be exposed on the side of a mountain similar to mineral patches?
It's a peasant woman stuck inside a red box?
Not if they don't breed.Um, he's already tackled polymorphism where the different stages/castes can be completely different.
Oh good, then we can have a phoenix that has a circular life cycle egg -> bird -> egg -> bird, where killing any one stage will simply drop a phoenix egg and ash.
Nop, I don't want to see immortal creatures in my game. Sooner of later the whole world would be filled with Phoenixes.
If it doesn't blink, it ain't legendary.
I wonder if album covers can be GIF's...
When DF will hit v1.0 we gonna have high-tech animated box covers anyway.
Hm I cannot remember...there was a movie with techs like this. Minority Report perhaps?
How about the lowtech route, one of those ridge-plate things that changes when you wave it around. A flashing peasant, perhaps.
If it doesn't blink, it ain't legendary.
I wonder if album covers can be GIF's...
Um, he's already tackled polymorphism where the different stages/castes can be completely different.
A... ghrm. We don't really know how that system will work, but logic dictates that every creature will start out with default materials for flesh, bones, and all applicable tissues. If your question is of the "what if I call a material belonging to the creature from another material belonging to the same creature" variety, then my answer would be that you will get a default material if the material in question has not been initialized yet, or the actual material used for the creature if that material was already defined by that point. It would be an obvious loophole to plug, and Toady would probably think of that.
I presume the actual question you were trying to ask is "what would happen if I wanted to make a borgle, with bones made of borgle's borgle". The answer is: depends on whether the borgle's borgle is initialized before or after the borgle's bones; in one case you get a default material with average properties and a default name, in the other you get the borgle's borgle.
Thanks for the answers.We'll be able to have ironwood trees, and iron wood trees.
Now, a new question based on today's dev notes.QuoteIt'll let you do some weird things now, like farm plants that can be processed into weavable metal threadDoes this mean that you'll put in some changes so that things like "weave metal thread" don't automatically assume adamantine? That's the main reason I haven't put in any new metal cloth into my mod, the fact that it's a pain to tell what metal it's talking about.
Here is my question:
Now that creatures can have non-standard materials for their parts will this allow dual purpose for them?
For example will a being with a skeleton made of Iron be capable of making both rather strong Bone armor and be capable of having its bones melted down into Iron?
Or for something less "Melt it down"ish. If someone's skin was made out of Jewels, could you cut it into gems or turn it into extravegant leather?
Basically stuff along those lines I am aware that there is also a chance that certain combos could do nothing (For example a Tiger with Ruby eyes may not give material for rubies upon cutting it up just by virtue of having ruby eyes alone)
Yey, finally I can start working on more interesting creatures. Also looking forward to the enhanced versions of the existing mods.
Here's to hoping you can make creatures bleed liquid fire. Constantly. Out of their pores.
