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[Toady One]

It's about $45 a month.  I had to move up one notch to a sharing a dedicated server because of speed/bandwidth problems.

Underground depth goes by the actual layers instead of tile depth.  That can really vary based on the contours above.

[Lancensis]

I thought there were only 3 underground layers?

[smjjames]

The firemen raws stuff is pretty cool. It'll be interesting to see a battle against one because I bet when you injure it, it will 'leak' flame and red gas will obscure the battle. Not that obscuring the battle is a bad thing since we have the combat logs.

[decius]

I noticed a tag for molar mass in the flame raw. Will that be used in a significant manner in this release (e.g. lighter fluids rising above heavier fluids)?

If I mod a melting/boiling point to flame, would I get anything particulary usable or interesting after slicing through a fireman, or just flame splatters and/or flame debris?

Not that having a champion with "Flame splatter covering" on his face isn't cool enough.

[Toady One]

I thought there were only 3 underground layers?

Those might be the ones I told you about, he he he.

I noticed a tag for molar mass in the flame raw. Will that be used in a significant manner in this release (e.g. lighter fluids rising above heavier fluids)?

If I mod a melting/boiling point to flame, would I get anything particulary usable or interesting after slicing through a fireman, or just flame splatters and/or flame debris?

Not that having a champion with "Flame splatter covering" on his face isn't cool enough.

Nope.  Nope.  Gas (which is what flame has as a "state") interacts very little with the properties.  Liquids are about as bad.  The molar mass is currently used when you are striking the gas.  An extremely heavy gas might be helped just a tad in combat, but it's probably negligible.  I'll need to do more with it later, but I didn't want to get bogged down with flow stuff.

[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

Do we know how artifact weapons and armor, specifically artifact weapons and armor made with strange materials, will interact with the materials system? Will an artifact bone spear be able to pierce normal steel plate, or will it be largely ineffectual? Will artifact weapons and armor acquire item damage? Would an artifact gold hammer get bent or broken when I bashed it on someone's adamantium helmet?

For combat purposes, artifacts are just unusually high quality:<quotes>

Yeah, the current situation is:

Value*10.
Cannot be owned (can be equipped, you might have to do it explicitly though).
Armor deflection roll has *3 roll modifier instead of the masterwork's *2.
Same for melee attack and archery rolls.
It looks like the artifact edges are the maximum edge for the material, which is also what a masterwork gets, so beyond a masterwork you'd just be getting the hit roll modifier.
Things like artifact bone spears will likely be crap against steel, yeah.  We don't have actual magical artifacts yet, and that's what would be required.

Wow, thanks! I've been wondering about the modifier for artifact weapons and armor for as long as I've been playing DF =). Sounds like weird-material artifact armor and weapons will be great against unarmored opponents, but less than stellar against ones in armor, and steel/adamantine armor/weapon artifacts will be just about the best in the game (apart from the adamantine hammer issue, which is separate).

So it will be worth it to lock my workshop doors and forbid all non-steel bars when my  armorsmith gets a mood Thanks!

[Orkel]

I lol'd at trousers and thirsty military. It seems like most bugs always end up killing off dwarves one way or another if it doesn't crash the game.

[smjjames]

One of Zach's dwarves grew attached to his trousers.

Okaay, not sure if that should be a bug or not since we do have our favorite or preferred shirts, but pants? lol.

[Footkerchief]

What's wrong with having a favorite pair of pants?!

Thanks for the answers as usual, Toady.

[smjjames]

Nothing, just thought it was wierd for dwarves since they pretty much let their clothes rot away without complaint.

[Lancensis]

I thought there were only 3 underground layers?

Those might be the ones I told you about, he he he.

This release is nothing but secrets and lies. >:|

[tfaal]

I noticed that the fireman's [FIXED_TEMP] and the flame's [MAT_FIXED_TEMP] were contradictory. How does that work? Is [MAT_FIXED_TEMP] used for the material once it leaves the fireman's body, or something else? If it's the former, my dream of an exploding Hindenfish looks closer still!

[JoshuaFH]

I thought there were only 3 underground layers?

Those might be the ones I told you about, he he he.

This release is nothing but secrets and lies. >:|

Don't worry, it's all part of the surprise!

[alfie275]

When I first read the pants bit I thought it was a strange bug with creature layers and healing.

Can tags that use an item, eg death drops, take a creature as a parameter? What about body parts that become a seperate creature when cut off? Maybe even a tag so that the new creature is treated like a creature of same type, but all other parts are missing (star fish).

[Misterstone]

I hope we will be able to make masks in this release (without modding a custom workshop), because with all of the dangerous splashings and what not going on, I imagine I might need to equip a squad of dwarves with the equivalent of a dwarven bio-hazard suit (full helmet, full body suit, gloves, boots, etc.) in order to deal with lava men and fire men and so on.