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I haven't seen anything specific to the new version, but slips, falls and tumbles do happen. Although I I also only see them rarely.

What is the layout near where you are getting the reports?

I always make a small emergency fortress in the soil layers for the first years of my game. Mostly because I like to have my fortresses well made, so they take years to be functional. I never, ever, EVER, make any definitive places less than 2z in height; I hate the idea that my might fortress has walls lower than my room. I also build pillars in evenly distributed spaces, as if the floors had to be supported.

I also like to build arches and columns in my fortresses. I dream of replicating the design of the Hagia Sophia in one of my halls, but never managed to do so.

That would probably be a pretty cool mega project.

As for me, I never build temporary forts in the dirt before my main fort. I just set up anything I need in the first year or two in the area I channel out of a hill/mountain side that will end up being the military training area/entrance then move things as different areas get dug out.

Maybe a stupid question, but those having pitting issues are locking the hatches over the hole, right?

If you're gonna do that, you may as well make the actual milk brewable instead of meat.

Quote from: crapabear on July 23, 2014, 09:11:41 pm

Asking him about armies, he just happened to mention to me that an army from Oarhell was getting ready to march on Problembell. Huh. I wonder how much of a fight they'll put up.

Giggled when I read this, in-case you didn't know already, invasions currently have a 100% success rate, so much so that small squads can conquer massive, historic fortresses.
Though you could probably save it by un-retiring it, and playing until you reach the siege after your adventurer is done with his journey. (you could even retire your adventurer there, and he might be able to single-handedly fight off a siege)

Just remember the two week calender jump before you will be able to un-retire the fort. I don't know how fast armies move about, but there is probably a good chance they will make it to the fort and take control before you can load back into Dwarf Mode, which could cause some wacky loyalty stuff.

My current fort recently got a combat report of a Yak Bull fighting a Werelizard without an announcement, so something definitely seems to have changed with the new version. The report never mentioned anything about it attacking stealthily though, so I don't know if it was sneaking at any point.

Definitely adds a little more FUN to having a were-creature show up though.

Throwing together some Adventure Mode reactions I came across the [METAL_ARMOR_LEVELS] and [CHAIN_METAL_TEXT] tags for armor/clothing, which I hadn't seen being used in various mods I've browsed through.

Is there anything wrong with how they work that might make people avoid them, or anything like that?

Only asking because it seems like they would allow for different armor pieces depending on material without having to add more items. Which might lean towards helping FPS and all that. Of course now that I think about it the difference would probably be to small to really matter.

Not really a new version specific question, but didn't think it really needed it's own thread, so yeah.