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[scaliper]

Code red!


Also, I hesitate to bring this up because it makes me very happy, but has anyone else noticed the silly amount of starting points?

[Dr. D]

Hurray! I don't have to scroll through the list of dead things to find where the nasties are anymore! Thanks, Toady!

[monk12]

Hurray! I don't have to scroll through the list of dead things to find where the nasties are anymore! Thanks, Toady!

This. I'm so happy about that.

[Starver]

Why don't they just get to work and simply make a doctor's appointment?!

Do you know how long it takes to get one of them?  You call up first thing in the morning for something that hurts like hell and you're already too late to grab any emergency appointment slot, so you ask if you can come in the next day, and they say "No, all the appointments for that day are already taken, except for the emergency appointment slots."  "Can I have one of them?" "No, we've got to leave them open for tomorrow's emergencies, call again first thing tomorrow to try to get one of those, or we can book you in a regular slot for two weeks' time...".

Spoiler: Completely off-topic, instead of mostly. (click to show/hide)

No word of a lie.  Although it might have changed in the few years since I last had cause to take advantage of the the healthcare system in this way.  And I don't blame the doctors, but the people who forced the doctors to adopt the system because of 'targets' that needed to be 'hit'.  As opposed to the aforementioned people who forced the doctors, who do need to be...

[Sparrorf]

Thaaaaaaanks toady, this made my day more perfect than it already was,   valentines day + dwarf ver0.34   

i'm gonna try it right awaaay 

[Lord Shonus]

maybe he became a vampire after becoming mayor?

Point is that, unless the vampire was unmasked in some way, being able to look at a coin and see that a particular person is a human vampire does not seem like intended behavior.

[Khym Chanur]

I might just be bad luck, but I'm finding just starting adventurer mode a lot harder than previously.

1) On the way from one hamlet/town/keep/etc to another, I keep getting ambushed by bandits multiple times, and have to use my superior agility to run away.
2) I get trounced if I try to fight the bandits one on one.
3) Guards at the keep won't join me when I ask them, so I have to try to face the bandits alone (and can't travel safely at night).

Also, the first time I tried, my adventurer started with a silver saber.

[Buttery_Mess]

I can't see to keep my followers from starving to death. Is there any way to get them to feed on the blood and guts of your enemies (which is how I stay alive)

[Khym Chanur]

Wait, did this release include anything about changing how trading works in fortress mode, or was that pushed off to the next major release?

[Squidpalace]

And in the sky they did appear:
"My name is Mosquitomandias, king of beasts:
Look on my numbers, ye Mighty, and despair!"

[Miuramir]

Is this version multithreaded? i'm getting equal usage on all 4 cores during worldgen, though total capacity usage is only maxing 27%. so its using 1/4th of all cores equally?

As noted, this is not only normal on modern multi-core CPUs, but desirable.  The overhead from switching a heavy single-core task from core to core several times a second is fairly low in computer time; but the ability to run at a higher speed due to spreading the thermal load out over all the cores is significant.  Some older guides may suggest locking DF to a single core; on modern CPUs, you will usually get significantly *worse* speeds if you force it to heat one core up without rotation. 

[monk12]

Spoiler: Previously on... (click to show/hide)

@Foot, I think the curses are permanent for now- it's a game over even if you survive in much the same way a missing leg is.

This release is also really crashy for me, particularly when loading world info after selecting what mode I want to play. Part of me says it's worse when I'm alt-tabbing away from it, but I suspect that's just my brain grasping at straws. I'll try a really short world gen instead of the 199 I ran.

EDIT: Fiddling around with that last world, I found if I waited for the entire intro movie to play I'd be able to load the world, but when selecting a site in Fort mode it'd still crash when I moved the cursor too far.

I'm happy to report that, although still rather crash-prone, the smaller world size did help, and once in actual play there are is no crashiness. Still something of a crapshoot though. Now to see if I can get a fort to live long enough to be worth saving

It appears I spoke too soon- my crashiness persists into Fort mode. Thank god for Initial Autosave.

Good news! I turned off Truetype for entirely unrelated reasons, and I have not experienced another crash. Let the good times roll!

It would be nice to get saves that demonstrate any remaining TrueType crashes.

I'm not sure what to upload, since most the time the crashes are in the main menus and not a region/game. The few times I had a crash during play before I figured it out were not obviously connected to anything- once I was assigning labors, and once I was following around a migrant child while they got a drink outside.


I just now figured out a completely separate crash that happens whenever I tried to save in fort mode- reported with save here. That one took some doing since I thought it was an embark thing, until I thought to disable initial save (or whatever it is.) I think I'll go to bed and let other people find crazy crashes for a while

[dreadmullet]

Wait, did this release include anything about changing how trading works in fortress mode, or was that pushed off to the next major release?

Trading in Adventure Mode was changed: everything you buy teleports into your inventory, so you don't have to find it and pick it up yourself.

[Jacob/Lee]

Oh god.

Spoiler: Necromancer/Zombie Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Zombies have no limit on how many times they can be raised. Is there a way to stop these horrifying creatures?

[Behrooz Wolf]

And to think, if we didn't have the new unit view, I wouldn't know the specific number of the host of 173 giant mosquitos outside my fortress.

After appreciating the sheer numbers of the mosquito horde, I was hoping that a 'giant' mosquito is around the 'squirrel' size-range. 

...until one of them bit my expedition leader's leg off.  Bit of a problem, that.