The Cheshire Cat posted:

It'd be fun if the effect was tied to the kind of mood that led to the artifact. So standard fey moods will lead to something generally beneficial, while fell moods might be something more mixed (purely negative would be boring). For fun, maybe posessed moods could just straight up not even tell you what the effect is since the dwarf has no idea what they've done.

Threetoe posted:

As the work goes on... and the game gets easier and easier to interface with, you will find new mechanics to rely on that you scarcely knew existed. This week I want to talk about the work order system. This screen is only available once you have appointed a manager, but if you have you will find yourself clicking on it again and again as your fortress grows and you have more important things to worry about than ordering enough beds for the new living quarters.



As you can see, it takes a metric ton of work orders to keep my fortress running smoothly. However, if you aren't afraid of a little typing and logic, you will never have to worry about running out of wooden doors, rock toys, or dwarven rum! The orders are created via typing filter or by selecting the tasks exactly like you would if you clicked on the appropriate workshop. Just make sure you have the right material and workshops available and away you go.

This might be good if you want to fire away an order for 5 silk ropes without looking for the clothier, but what if you need a standing order to keep your fortress going full-auto? Here is the new standing order screen:



The veterans may see the newly suggested conditions. You will find that your propensity for making orders will skyrocket when you notice how easy it is now. You will never run out of empty bins, or barrels, and never will your dwarves go thirsty because you were in the middle of designing your latest drowning chamber for the goblin invaders. All you need to make sure everything keeps running is to piss off the elves and cut down as many trees as it takes!

Tunicate posted:

possessed moods reference the personality attributes, likes, and dislikes, of one of the preexisting dead characters from worldgen

Neurion posted:

One quern to rule them all
One quern to find them
One quern to bring them all
And in the darkness grind them

moonmazed posted:

what

Vichan posted:

Wolfechu posted:

werebeasts seem less frequent, or at least less deadly.

Wolfechu posted:

Toady definitely did something about some of the more common complaints around 47.05 - dwarves going into tantrum spirals because they got rained on six years ago doesn't happen for instance, and werebeasts seem less frequent, or at least less deadly.

Kenning posted:

I can't wait until they finally release on Steam cause I wanna see Toady and his brother get their bag for decades of game development. My dudes deserve to have a good payday and a comfortable lifestyle. It'll also definitely kick me back into playing DF after a few years off.

Zesty posted:

Okay. You can just play other games? It's just a one-man long-running passion project not even in 1.0

Nettle Soup posted:

I tried rimworld but it just felt so... Empty. I wanted more, without having to download a hundred million mods. Also the fact I couldn't control it entirely with keyboard irritated me. Maybe it's had some updates in the past couple of years, but when I was playing it, I always just had the thought of "I could be playing DF instead right now"

a7m2 posted:

I like Rimworld well enough but I don't think it gets even close to the same level of depth. Rimworld is a bit easier to "game" to keep everything going smoothly and while the difficulty certainly ramps up, there's not really any surprises after a few hours. You can't pull off anything close to the cool mega projects that DF has either.

Spanish Matlock posted:

Even though it's still super early access, I can't stress how much more fun I got out of Going Medieval just because it's exactly rimworld with z-levels. Just the idea that I could have a food storage cellar beneath my main dining area or bedrooms above it instead of sprawling across the entire map to accomodate all the stuff I needed to build was awesome.

Average Bear posted:

As much as I love dwarf fortress, it's fallen behind games like RimWorld. Dwarf fortress just gave up on being a game. It's a bunch of disjointed and badly implemented bugged systems that wear you down until you give up playing it. Want to slay goblins with your well equiped dwarf axemen? They won't equip both boots. Finally got all of them to equip all of their armor? It degrades now. No repair function. No way to sort by wear status in stockpiles. Sure, you can probably micromanage every one of your soldiers after every battle to make sure they drop their worn armor. Hope it's worth the hour or two.

The hospital system is still broken, and doesn't even address things like syndromes for which there is still no answer to. A dusting of forgotten beast extract on the wrong tile is the end of a fort.

You still have insanely basic things like gold being 10x more plentiful than IRON, which isn't present on 90% of embark tiles. Butchering animals returns exactly one hide, no matter the size of the animal. Sieges are defeated by a moat and drawbridge still.

There's a good reason why very few are playing this anymore, and I hate to see it, because there's nothing quite like it. But the game just saps you with all of these little things and doesn't really give much more in return than it did 14 years ago.

Neurion posted:

One quern to rule them all
One quern to find them
One quern to bring them all
And in the darkness grind them

Toady One posted:

I've spent the last some days updating tracks and rollers and stops. I've also updated how constructions work - you can place any construction over a constructed floor now, so you don't have to remember to deconstruct them or think about which ones are itemless wall tops. I've also tried to make carved and constructed tracks play nice with each other - they understand each other's jobs a bit and can update work in progress to keep the tracks connected if you make additions.

With all that done, it was time to do the hauling menu itself, and that's been going well. The track stops still plug into the custom stockpile menu like before, and I also had a stockpile linkage menu sitting around from the workshops and stockpiles, so much of what we needed was already there. The messiest part of the previous hauling menu is the conditions, with its nested and strange keyboard options. That's the next bit I'm working on, and it should just end up all cleanly laid out and hopefully sensible. Then there are some quality of life things we'd like to add, like being able to view routes from track stop sheets, that sort of thing.

Last week I mentioned being done with the image and name creators - you can see some images over at the last Steam News. All the while, the artists have been trucking along through items and interface elements and snakes and things, ha ha. We'll continue to show these in the screenshots as they come up, though we are always a little behind (for instance, we now have final art for the old announcement alert icons in those image creator screen.)

ninjewtsu posted:

I hope the game never makes "dig a hole in the ground, seal it up, and live forever off of underground mushroom farms and purified groundwater" not an easily achieved state. The fun of df is not losing is actually very easy with even a basic understanding of half the mechanics. What's difficult is achieving anything of note, at which point your hubris will be your ultimate downfall.

Every lost fort comes down to "we could have just stayed in our little hidey hole, but noooo we had to build a castle with a moat and now a giant flying camelephant is feasting on our corpses" and that's such a special part of the experience