Mr. Powers posted:

I haven't been able to find this, but is there a way to place furniture of a specific quality? I just had a mason create a masterwork coffer and I wanted to put it in his bedroom because I am benevolent and want to encourage more masterworks. I can't figure out a way nor can I find a way on the internets.

PublicOpinion posted:

When building things you can hit 'x' to view the list of individual items and pick your masterwork ones from there.

packetmantis posted:

It would be great if people would actually skim the thread or, heaven forbid, read it, so we don't get five "shud i download lol" posts per page.

reignofevil posted:

We are still firmly in the "Bug-Fix" portion of the cycle.

Met posted:

Aquifers should just be removed. We have underground tunnels now which provide water and the same tunnels make a Z-level roadblock that's much more fun to work around.

SynthOrange posted:

If a military mom swings her baby and the blow kills whatever she was attacking... does the baby get a kill history?

Kitfox88 posted:

I regularly generate max size worlds with max embark sites and whatnot. Although I have yet to do it beyond SHORT time length.

edit: How fast do all of you usually burrow for the caverns? I wanna try embarking on a site with no above ground wood but I'm scared of the caves

Tars Tarkas posted:

Hey, I started playing this game recently because I've always liked the stories and decided I might as well get started. I am still on my first fort, which at one point had 80+ dwarfs, until a werejackal attacked and soon I had multiple dwarfs turning into werejackals and I had to look up in the wiki how to lock doors. Eventually I put all the werejackals into a squad and sent them to fight everything on the map, which killed all but one of them and he's currently locked in the hospital and is on constant "rest" despite being healed, he even refused to get up when Goblins sieged the castle and killed like 20 dwarfs, so hopefully he starves or dehydrates soon, I had to build a second hospital in the middle of what was supposed to be a farm plot. At this point I have like 10 adult dwarfs and 15 kids or babies left (this includes 4 adults from the latest migrant wave) so hopefully I can build up the population again before some other werething wipes me out. Thanks for the guide on the first page, between that and the dwarf fortress wiki I had enough info to get started and then look up what I needed. I took too long to figure out metal making (by then everyone was too dead to do anything with it, but maybe I'll have enough dwarfs to get that going again if I don't die) and I have a hallway with 100 coffins in it.

Notable things that have happened:
I was attacked by a were-squirrel that had one victim, both of which disappeared from the map until I realized they had dropped down one level and were at the bottom of a lake somehow, where their bodies remain to this day.

A dwarf gave birth to a baby who somehow was in a tree, she could never find him and now he is a ghost. Good job, tree baby.

It took FOREVER to get the stupid dwarfs to make alcohol for some reason, then they finally did so. I have no idea why the manager kept cancelling the jobs then stopped cancelling them.

The dwarven traders had all their wagons disappear somehow(they appear to be in the trading post but are listed as "missing", so they and all their crap is strewn all around the place. They didn't even help when the goblins attacked, all they are doing is clogging up space in the view units tabs. Is this a bug or am I supposed to do something?


My fort is poorly designed because I was learning as I go, and I already know how I'll lay out things differently next time. I also haven't figured out how to use traps yet, so that will be my next big project. I am currently using no mods or tilesets, but I might use both after another fort or two, we'll see.

One other thing, many of the animals brought by various waves of migrants eventually starved, am I correct in guessing they should have been assigned to an area to graze? I put the latest crop of animals in a pasture outside (along with a chimp I bought from the elves) so we'll see if that keeps them from starving.

scamtank posted:

IronicDongz posted:

ToxicSlurpee posted:

I won't be satisfied until the screaming is also screaming.

And that screaming is screaming as well.

All is screaming.

SCREAM.

Gibbo posted:

That would result in a pressure rework, so I could finally make my water elevators.

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

this is actually a really exciting set of patch notes for me

i especially hope that fixing visitors vs. tame megabeasts also fixed the bug with your own soldiers fighting tame megabeasts, although i'm not holding my breath


a whole interconnected family of really annoying bugs just got wiped out in one go, this is a great time to learn DF

my advice for learning it is take it slow. turn off invasions and enemies for the time being, keep the wiki open in another window, start with just figuring out how to keep your dwarves in food and alcohol. gradually expand into new subsystems when you're comfortable with what you've got going on already or when some crisis arrises (everyone's clothes wore out and now they're unhappy about being naked! etc.)

tak posted:

How much art had to be thrown away after meph left?

Wolfechu posted:

Another Toady Devlog. These aren't usually this frequent, which is encouraging. I think Threetoe has posted more in the last month than he ever has total, because he's doing the bulk of playtesting right now.

Spanish Matlock posted:

It's hard to justify an iron dwarf mode because of how easy dwarf fortress is on its face. Even without traps or drawbridges or moats or whatever my fortress has beaten three forgotten beasts and a hill giant with minimal military investment, just a ragtag single squad of random weapon users.

Like you almost have to try to get a game over, so what would be the point of an ironman mode?

The Velvet Witch posted:

Thanks to whichever one of you had the idea for floor rooms lmao this is great, WE built this huge glass pyramid with that floorplan in mind! They kept it together long enough to cap it with a statue of the day we founded the place too

Broken Cog posted:

Man, I can't wait for them to implement magics other than necromancy

Speaking of, is there a roadmap?