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[Sinfullyvannila]

I haven't played since early after the 2012 version was released. Ever since I heard of the release of 2014, I've been fighting a strange mood.

I have my world generated.

I have Prepared Carefully for my journey.

My dwarves have arrived.

Aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnd:

Pause, Save and quit.



It's just been so long since I've played. What major changes should I expect from 2012.

Also, encourage me to unpause please.

[Codyo]

If Dwarf Fortress isn't your game, then don't play it.

Mainly, things can climb walls now and dwarves are cowards without discipline skill.
Also the world is alive in real time now while you play fortress mode.

[StagnantSoul]

Plus the huge trees, thought rewrite, and grazing redo.

[Sinfullyvannila]

Oh, this is very much my game.

I just know that I'll be at it for a few months once I get going lol

[Tacomagic]

Honestly, other than the recent emotion rework, the orientation addition, the new gathering zones, new plants, the new tree mechanics, and the new siege mechanics based on site distance, most of the changes for dwarf mode in 40.xx are actually bug-fixes.

Dwarf mode is really not all that different from what it was in 34.11, aside from a lot of bugs getting quashed and the above additions which haven't changed the dynamic too terribly much (with the exception of the emotion rework, which is quite different).

Additionally the battle mechanics were tweaked a bit and zombies of all flavors are now much more powerful.  And they can use armor and weapons.  Zombies are extremely nasty, leading to a lot more FUN!! when embarking in reanimation biomes.  Thrall dust is just down-right terrifying now.

[StagnantSoul]

Plus the fact that ballistae shoot better based on siege engineer skill, plus the fact that sharpness now effects bolts.

[Max™]

SO MUCH WOOD LITERALLY RAINING FROM THE SKY... that is basically the first thing I noticed after going from hoarding what I got for making beds and diving straight for magma if I wasn't near a volcano, to "holy crap, I can just make charcoal and actually use wood for furniture if I want", due to the multi tile trees.

Though you missed the hilarity of the pathing bugs where dorfs would start going somewhere, path up a tree, get to the edge of the branches, jump out and injure themselves or another dorf, freak out, run back up the tree in a panic, freak that they were in a tree, jump out, and repeat for far, far too long.

Some of the material properties were rebalanced, make sure you check up on them before you commit to building a military, the military fix was pretty significant as I recall, and while they still have bugs, they are capable of doing more than dying hilariously outside of a couple of uberdorf champions, though you'll still get cases where an alligator or zombie bites and/or punches everyone to death.

Reanimating stuff, good lord, I had a string of forts where I had partial reanimating biomes and while I didn't have much trouble due to the normal undead, I have actually lost a couple of forts due to my own stupidity about placing butcher shops or farmers workshops and so forth in a place that ended up setting loose a horde of yak hair and donkey skeletons to efficiently kill everyone up top while I was trying to probe the edges of a cavern down below.

[CaptainLambcake]

i never understand why people ask others to convince them to play lol

if you wanna play, then play

[Sinfullyvannila]

I see they added Quinoa. My mom would go nuts over that, if she knew what Dwarf Fortress was.

[Max™]

Oh god, so many obscure fruits and veggies, and in .14 you can gather fruit now which means infinite booze, booze fountains for the booze god, wood thrones for the wood god!

[Sinfullyvannila]

Turns out I should have been more worried about the basics because I didn't add a pick after the rest of the embark was screwed up.


Although now that I'm typing this I realize I did have the resources to make one.

Oh well, always wanted to try doing an aboveground fort.