lowercase16 posted:

That was it! I just deleted that line and it everything's back to normal.

posted:

Here's an interim release - this is a fixer-upper for the old version, and not related at all to the new graphical stuff. This isn't meant to address everything of course, or even most things, and we'll be cleaning up a lot more bugs and issues for the Premium release itself. This one gets rid of some long-standing crashes and also attempts to address most of what we learned from the stress discussion from the forum. There are still a few unmet needs (which don't contribute much to stress, but are an eyesore), and a few outstanding ideas related to winning sieges, ending wars and unattended children, but we'll need larger changes there that are better integrated with the Premium work.

It's always a little weird splitting the bug fixes into the two major/minor categories, but especially here, where the stress changes add up to a lot, so the division below is particularly arbitrary on that score.

Major bug fixes

Fixed w.g. crash related to dark fortress civs having fixed positions not held by demons
Fixed zero-size creature crash
Fixed off-site werebirth crash
Stopped visitors from siding against fort in any conflict where the fort's tame megabeasts are involved
Made cave adaption negative effects less frequent
Made people get used to seeing dead bodies
Stopped corpse raising, shapeshifting and non-living non-vampire visitors
Made basic friendships easier to form for slow-to-love people


Other bug fixes/tweaks

Made people that work outside a lot get used to bad weather
Made valuable food satisfy good meal thought in addition to preferences
Added some additional dwarf chat types to meet some other needs and reduce stress
Stopped many minor thoughts from forming memories
Removed stress from migrants (e.g. ones from old forts)
Vengefulness is no longer stressful (as it was mainly related to defending others from attacking animals)
Changed balance of migrant professions
Patched one form of military item corruption on load (root cause not identified)
Expulsion exception 'child not present' now only applies to minor children
Fixed MUNDANE and HAS_ANY_CAN_SWIM for interactions/transformations

promising carl posted:

I don't suppose 47.05 works with the 47.04 starter pack?

Popete posted:

Are there any repercussions to taking these merchant goods?

posted:

Having arrived at rooms, we fairly quickly decided that, contrary to an earlier response in one of the Future of the Fortress questions, furniture-based rooms (like the bedroom flooding out from a single bed, whether it's an entire dormitory filled with beds or not) were not going to be survive. They would have been weird to tutorialize, since the idea that one piece of furniture rules over and determines the function of a room that could have all sorts of furniture in it is kind of strange. So now it's all done zone-style. You place a bedroom zone in the new system, for instance, by just laying out a rectangle (or whatever shape) and selecting that type. Have a bed placed there? Good. Don't have a bed? The floor is being suggested, and if you add a bed later, that'll work too. The logic for tombs, dining halls, archery ranges, some meeting halls, etc. is being tweaked a bit in line with this.

This has been a somewhat involved ongoing rewrite, but presumably no more than trying to explaining the old system. So this will be fine. We also have various exciting art movement on the underground vegetation and elf front, among other things, so we should have some more cool images soon as well.

Spanish Matlock posted:

It would be kind of a pain in the rear end to have to manually zone build every mason and carpenter shop, unless you could have multiple dwarves work in the same shop.

IronicDongz posted:

my #1 is interacting with the gemcutter workshop in general

feb 11th Steam news posted:

... I've also redone the old jeweller's workshop screen (the old gem cutting interface was very baroque, to say the least.) It now works like a regular workshop. The same is true of seven other workshops previously inaccessible to our modding infrastructure. They all work like regular workshops now (the loom, the mechanic's workshop, the dyer, etc.)

quote:

I had iron menacing spikes in a weapon trap along with glass serrated disks. After one use on a critter the trap deconstructed, all the disks were XXserrated glass discXX but the spikes were undamaged.

posted:

Here's the Steam news post from last time showing the new lever interface and a barrels-show-their-contents update.

The trade depot stuff is going well. We have a new trade depot design that shows the goods of the traders on the top portion, and the fortress goods at the bottom portion, so you'll be able to more easily see what has been placed and who is ready. The traders stand on the north side of a little table in the depot, and the broker takes their place on the south side with the fortress goods. Wagons no longer pull all the way into the depot but stop short so nothing is obscured. Pack animals are shown with graphical saddlebags now to indicate roughly the number of items they are carrying.

I've also mostly finished up the new "bring stuff to the trade depot" screen. Even though it is easier to select things now, it's sort of fundamentally unsatisfying to have everything so centralized, so we'll likely also allow the player to select individual items or entire stockpiles to be brought to the depot as well. The next big project is the trade screen itself.

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Do you ever get tired of jobs never being finished, and of always having to tell your dwarves which labors they are allowed to accomplish? Now all dwarves will pick up the slack. Even children will have menial tasks to perform and keep the fortress running smoothly, all for the call of industry and the greater good. But nothing will be more difficult for those of you that desire greater control over how things get done, for everything will be easier and simpler. Fear not, for change, like death, is the vehicle for a greater rebirth.

Congratulations to the generous!

posted:

Thanks for helping out last month! I should finally be finishing off my move in May, and also my vaccination! Trade is coming along nicely, and the depots are looking much nicer. And yeah, we've started dipping our dwarfy toes into the labor additions. With the job auction system we had in place already, it wasn't so hard to get a basic automated labor selection in, but it will take some time to get the details correct and to continue to give people more control over job placement when they want it. This will all mix in with the workshop profile updates and updates to standing orders, and likely some other places.

Evil Fluffy posted:

Dwarf therapist is still a must-have I assume?

Maugrim posted:

The update mentioned guilds allowing demonstrations of tricks of the trade so I wonder if there will be some kind of medical guild with surgeons doing live/public demonstrations - would not be too far away from actual historical precedent

animist posted:

it's amazing that it now looks like a map instead of opening a jpeg in vim. im still a little nostalgic for the old look but i bet a lot more people will be interested in the game now

Nessus posted:

* The coder gestured at the CPU!
* The CPU rose from the dead!

nielsm posted:

Hopefully all the UI enhancements from DFhack will no longer be needed. Hopefully there will also be less need for hacks like "cleanall" etc.

The modding system is specifically for TXT+graphics mods, to add or modify items, creatures and buildings in the game. I think I saw somewhere that even the base game is packaged in the same format, so if you have a mod that contains everything you can disable the base game data and use the mod as a total conversion.

Bad Munki posted:

Cowards

MonkeyforaHead posted:

MonkeyforaHead posted:

Yes. good

Flavahbeast posted:

oh, is this a early access game?

toasterwarrior posted:

I got heresy coming up: back then I once tried to make a mod that vastly cut down on the various subtypes of everything: wood, stone, animals, plants, you name it. I was sick of menus getting bloated to gently caress by all the various meats and leathers you could get, and things of that nature. I wonder if anyone made a mod like that and if it'll find its way to Steam eventually...

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Have any of the old utilities been updated yet? Specifically looking for an update of quick fort and the thing that lets you see all the un-dug terrain.