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Daaaaayum

This is a real old one.

With the new identities system, could an adventurer conceivably gain a criminal reputation in a town as one identity, get a hand chopped off by something somewhere else, then go to another town and raise the hand up and claim that you had killed your secret alter ego?

BAG_ITEM-producing items is for processable-to-bag plants, like Quarry Bushes.


Murdered items is either used for fell/macabre moods or for vampires, probably the latter (so when a dwarf finds a corpse with the Murdered tag it starts an investigation).


Non-economic stones are stones that have no special purpose, and are therefore useable for making things that can be made with any stone type, like furniture (toggleable on your z->Stone menu).


Non-pressed is for pressable items that haven't been pressed yet.






EDIT: Found some more. A lot of the weirder traits are used for tools, many of which don't actually have any purpose yet (like the mortars and pestles). Small Object Storage is for pouches, which I think adventurers can have? Track Cart is minecarts, there's no difference except that one's an item type and one's a trait (all tool item types must have their own trait, it seems). Folded sheet protectors are book bindings. I would've thought glass-making items would be one of these, but it's not.

Sneaky bastards.

Is the army arc, as a design/timeline conceit, well and truly dead? If so, can we get some sort of post-mortem? In particular, the basic gameplay elements that could make fort mode a bit more strategy-oriented, with players taking a more active governance role and sending out armies (partly composed of hill dwarves) to conquer and stuff. I'm asking now because artifact retrieval seems mechanically related. Will a lot of army arc stuff tie into that? I imagine some will come up in embark scenarios too, and some bits are probably in the no timeline category.

All those concepts are still on the table. The DF dev cycle tends to involve Toady realizing he bit off more than he could chew, or that some other dev goal ought to be done first, or just getting bored of working on the same thing for a few months, and things get shelved on the backburner. The backburner with all these shelves is built into table, though. Toady's kitchen setup is weird. Anyway, all of this eventually comes back around (lest one end of the table get too hot and catch fire); as Pat said, being able to send out parties to get your stuff back after some jerk takes them is the first step toward influencing the wider world around your fort, which was one of the goals of the Army Arc years ago.




As far as the Age system changing, it's changed in the past and I don't see any reason to assume it'll never change again in the future. The Creation Myth Generator alone will likely shake things up enough to have to rework it a bit.

I've always used the default ASCII tiles, graphcs sets always looked too cluttered to me. On top of that, when a lot of objects share a tile with other objects, I'd rather have more abstract tiles than more detailed ones.