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[Rip0k]

It's gonna be sooooooo cool!!! I can't wait for this release!
Will adventurer still heal during fast travel?

[thvaz]

It's gonna be sooooooo cool!!! I can't wait for this release!
Will adventurer still heal during fast travel?

If not, I hope we can get medical treatment somewhere.

[Knight Otu]

What about rivers?  With the lower level map will we have to go around them now if we don't have swimming skill or are able to fly, or will the adventurer still be able to teleport over an otherwise uncross-able torrent of water?

From the screenshots, it looks like rivers remain passable, and since impassable rivers were mentioned on the dev page, I figure Toady would mention if that was implemented. Similarly, I would assume that mountain tiles remain impassable in travel mode?

Also, as a forward look when rivers are impassable and we can create adventurer sites - would we be able to create bridges that work in travel mode as well?

[Untelligent]

Local map traveling looks great.

[tfaal]

Indeed it does. The extra space makes it a lot easier to conceive of the distance being traveled, especially with accurate villages for scale.

[wilsonns]

What exactly changed on the travel map, other than the day/night meter?

[Sowelu]

My understanding (I do not play Adventurer mode much) is that there's now a mid-level map between the really high scale parchment map and the combat-scale map.

[thvaz]

What exactly changed on the travel map, other than the day/night meter?

The scale. It is in a closer scale.

[Untelligent]

To be more specific, y'know those three maps you see when you look for a spot to embark in dwarf mode? Travelling used to be on the region map (middle map). Now it's on the local map (left map).

To get a sense of scale, each tile on the region map (old travel map) has 16x16 local tiles (new travel map) in it. Each tile on the local map has 48x48 regular tiles in it.

[wilsonns]

Whoa!So, even a pocket world is going to be enormous, right?

[G-Flex]

Not any bigger than it is now, but it'll seem bigger when traveling.

[Mel_Vixen]

Nope but they feel more "to scale" like uhhh. See the old traveling was between a "birds view" and a "google earth-view". The new traveling map is between that two things showing you villages and the general outline of very local terrain-features.   

[James.Denholm]

I feel that, at that level, a sense of elevation while travelling might be good, for both information and immersion reasons.

Do you intend to show elevation on tile maps at any stage? Such as through subtle use of slight background colour deviation?

[tfaal]

Slight background color changes are currently beyond the capacity of the game. It only supports 32 colors at the moment.

[G-Flex]

Actually, it's 16; although tilesets allow whichever color you want, along with shading of the background and foreground colors, any colors defined by the game itself are from a palette of 16.