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[WillowLuman]

Will we have creatures nesting in trees?

To clarify: Would we have to worry about a pair of giant eagles nesting in the tree above the fort and carrying dwarves off to feed to their young?

That would be awesome. If weaponized, you'd have the coolest guard dogs, and maybe even dump the old bones on the heads of invaders every once in a while XD

Then again, Giant Eagles received a huge downgrade when all the new giant/men animals were introduced. Giant Kea though....

[Valtam]

1)Since in the future we will be able to retire fortresses, will we be able to affect the trade with our fortresses and adventures? As an adventurer, clearing an influential gang might, for instance, make the path to a retired fortress safer, allowing for cheaper trade. Also will this fortress's resources and exports be considered for trade for other player fortresses in the same kingdom; or as an adventurer, find in markets things that these fortresses produced when not necessarily at the fortress they were produced?

2)Once Guilds are introduced, can we expect these groups to declare things on a macro scale? If there is a mining guild in the capital, and members migrate to the current fort and induct all your miners, and they declare they must have ☼iron ring☼ and -gabbro mug-, will you be expected to uphold this declaration in other forts?

1) Right now caravans are still abstract, as far as I remember. The only moving stuff around the world are small goblin armies, bandits, lovers and a few megabeasts or other surprising creatures that create ruckus around. Being that for now, they'll ignore hostile obstacles in their routes; however, Toady has said that there will be certain issues if your neighboring trading partners are wiped out or become hostile, so maybe that could block the expected, abstracted caravan movement.

2) There's no timeline or framework for guilds right now, so any answer given by anyone would be, at best, a wishful thinking.

[CaptainArchmage]

So we have a future of the fortress reply and a monthly report in the same day.  Excellent!

Will we be seeing the return of the Royal Guard anytime soon in an upcoming release and if so, what do you see them doing?

Royal Guard were a much-talked-about feature of versions of Dwarf Fortress before DF2010, and in DF2010 were a squad lead by the hammerer (I think?) who were intended to defend various nobles. I'm wondering whether any interesting changes have happened with the movement of nobles and changes to the system of positions.

[MrWiggles]

So we have a future of the fortress reply and a monthly report in the same day.  Excellent!

Will we be seeing the return of the Royal Guard anytime soon in an upcoming release and if so, what do you see them doing?

They didnt function well, and will probably be seeing a return, eventually. But the three discussed avenues of where to go from here, doesnt seem to nessicate having royal guards.

[thvaz]

So we have a future of the fortress reply and a monthly report in the same day.  Excellent!

We used to have devlogs every day. I miss those times.

[FearfulJesuit]

But oh, man, it's gonna be a long while before the release. Ain't no way it's coming out this month, probably not in March neither.

[Whatsifsowhatsit]

Asked a question here, but never mind that. I'm so very excited about the next release. I think when it comes out, after failing my first fortress, I'll go into the legends mode and write a fanfic about the world I was in, looking for the important figures and such. It sounds like there'll be more interesting stuff to discuss now. I came up with this idea earlier, but decided to wait for this release.

[nekronuke]

1. With all these changes, will we get the ability to tell an outpost liaison to relay information to the mountainhomes? Mainly about the number of migrants. Things like- Lots of work: could bring in larger migrant waves while 'In Danger' would restrict the number of dwarves, or send more militia minded dwarves/adventurers.

2. If we retire a fort, and visit it as an adventurer, then retire that adventurer there, could we in theory populate a fortress with superdwarves?

[Eric Blank]

2. If we retire a fort, and visit it as an adventurer, then retire that adventurer there, could we in theory populate a fortress with superdwarves?

You can kinda-sorta do this already, especially if your civ has a very small pool of historical figures. Just retire lots of high-skill adventurers in a site owned by the civ, then create a fortress under it's name somewhere in the world. Your adventurers have the same chance to show up as migrants as any other historical figure, so you will eventually see some immigrate there. Maybe not an especially high concentration, but you'll see a few.

However, in the next version I almost guarantee that what you are suggesting will work in some manner; if we can retire forts as permanent sites under the supervision of the parent civ, then we can retire adventurers there. If the adventurers remain as residents there indefinitely, then they should still be there if you reclaim/take back control of the fortress. Whether or not they are dwarves will make the biggest difference: if they are not dwarves, they will not be a proper member of the fortress population and you will not normally be able to give them orders. Unless Toady accounts for multi-race fortress populations this version, which I haven't heard anything about yet.

Toady, if you could clarify: since retired adventurers become members of the civilization they retire in and are historical figures, does that mean they have a chance to be paired off to a marriage partner, move to their partner's town (or their partner to theirs) and raise children, just like any other historical figure?

[NW_Kohaku]

Will we have creatures nesting in trees?

To clarify: Would we have to worry about a pair of giant eagles nesting in the tree above the fort and carrying dwarves off to feed to their young?

That would be awesome. If weaponized, you'd have the coolest guard dogs, and maybe even dump the old bones on the heads of invaders every once in a while XD

Then again, Giant Eagles received a huge downgrade when all the new giant/men animals were introduced. Giant Kea though....

Aren't flying creatures still borked because pathfinding isn't capable of tracking flying through anything other than flood-fill?  (Meaning that tamed flyers forget how to fly because they start pathing like dwarves.)

[NW_Kohaku]

You can kinda-sorta do this already, especially if your civ has a very small pool of historical figures. Just retire lots of high-skill adventurers in a site owned by the civ, then create a fortress under it's name somewhere in the world. Your adventurers have the same chance to show up as migrants as any other historical figure, so you will eventually see some immigrate there. Maybe not an especially high concentration, but you'll see a few.

You can also just make an adventurer and murder all the historical figures, then create a series of adventurers that retire into those civs to up the odds if we have actually-on-the-map NPC forts this time.

(Of course, this would be more useful if we could actually train useful skills besides combat in Adventure Mode instead of just being legendary in combat skills, swimming, knapping, and not much else.)

[monk12]

1. With all these changes, will we get the ability to tell an outpost liaison to relay information to the mountainhomes? Mainly about the number of migrants. Things like- Lots of work: could bring in larger migrant waves while 'In Danger' would restrict the number of dwarves, or send more militia minded dwarves/adventurers.

2. If we retire a fort, and visit it as an adventurer, then retire that adventurer there, could we in theory populate a fortress with superdwarves?

I'm pretty sure the first one is something that won't be in this release, it's a feature Toady is willing to implement in one form or another, no timeline. I don't have a quote handy for that one though.

Second one, however,

I also tested out retiring a dwarven adventurer in a retired fort and then unretiring the fort, and it basically worked out -- the adventurer was listed as a soldier without a squad, which I need to fix, and I need to tweak the items they are carrying, but otherwise they were a proper fortress citizen. If you hand your former adventurer an official position in the fort and then retire the fort and then unretire the adventurer, I guess you'd be controlling an official, but you wouldn't have any actual powers, since we don't have anything set up for that yet in adv mode. When I first started the adventure, I was expecting to have to walk from the main dwarven civ out to my retired fortress, but the game just started me in the retired fort.

So yes, you can totally retire dwarven adventurers in your forts, then unretire the fort.

[Brotato]

You can kinda-sorta do this already, especially if your civ has a very small pool of historical figures. Just retire lots of high-skill adventurers in a site owned by the civ, then create a fortress under it's name somewhere in the world. Your adventurers have the same chance to show up as migrants as any other historical figure, so you will eventually see some immigrate there. Maybe not an especially high concentration, but you'll see a few.

You can also just make an adventurer and murder all the historical figures, then create a series of adventurers that retire into those civs to up the odds if we have actually-on-the-map NPC forts this time.

(Of course, this would be more useful if we could actually train useful skills besides combat in Adventure Mode instead of just being legendary in combat skills, swimming, knapping, and not much else.)

I'm kind of shocked to suddenly recognize that the idea of murdering everyone else just to increase the likelihood of better migrants is no longer shoking, (i.e. Before Dwarf Fortress) or even mildly horrifying.

[WillowLuman]

Will we have creatures nesting in trees?

To clarify: Would we have to worry about a pair of giant eagles nesting in the tree above the fort and carrying dwarves off to feed to their young?

That would be awesome. If weaponized, you'd have the coolest guard dogs, and maybe even dump the old bones on the heads of invaders every once in a while XD

Then again, Giant Eagles received a huge downgrade when all the new giant/men animals were introduced. Giant Kea though....

Aren't flying creatures still borked because pathfinding isn't capable of tracking flying through anything other than flood-fill?  (Meaning that tamed flyers forget how to fly because they start pathing like dwarves.)

But this is if there's wild ones nesting in the trees around the fort...

[NW_Kohaku]

Since we are getting a movement/everything else split for speed, and the concept of running starts, are there plans for coding other types of special movements/attacks coming soon for animals/monsters soon?

I.E. A snake that slithers slowly, but can coil and lunge quickly for an instant strike.  Falcons diving.  Crocodiles doing a death roll.  Etc.

(Of course, if we are talking about lunges, it also opens the question of adventurers/bandits leaping out of the shadows in a sudden sneak attack...)