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[Footkerchief]

Personally, I think Toady should just put night troll abductions into the game already.

The eternal tension between features and the release.

Now that vehicle collisions have been fixed, does that mean the minecarts in the gravity-fed minecart autocannon will stack up to the ceiling?

I think the fix was most likely for one or more of these bugs, not a new stacking mechanic.

[smjjames]

Sure there's a way to suspend aging. The necromancer syndrome already does it. The only thing is, it's likely permanent.

Hm, Mephs Masterwork mod has tons of syndrome stuff, maybe he would know how to do this? Maybe some kind of reverse secret, I dunno.

[lethosor]

In order for the experiment to work and for it to be true stasis, the syndrome would have to eliminate the need for food and drink. Also, I don't think there is a way to suspend the aging proccess, so you'd have to use young dwarves (or children even) to make sure they don't die of old age, or increase lifespan in the raws.

Fifty twenty year old dwarves, twenty five male and twenty five female, are put locked in a chamber

Dwarves live to be 150-170 years old, and they'd only end up being 120 years old after 100 years. It would take a lot of careful management (or luck) to get 50 20-year-old dwarves, though, so increasing their lifespan would make it a lot easier to obtain dwarves that wouldn't die after 100 years.

One possible way to circumvent the eating/drinking problem would be to transform the dwarves into another creature or caste with [NO_EAT], [NO_DRINK], etc., or even add those tags to all dwarves (although the syndrome would still be necessary for hibernation).

[WillowLuman]

The syndrome can give them [NO_EAT] and [NO_DRINK]

[Mesa]

Why don't you leave that question for the actual release and find out what happens yourself?

[King Mir]

I imagine there may be a problem with the syndrome being properly realized when the dwarves are offloaded.

[Putnam]

Nah, they're stored just fine in the historical figure.

[smjjames]

I agree with DarkDXZ, as much as we discuss about it, it will only be hypothetical until its tested in the new version.

Also, I since FBs can attack retired forts (I think), its entirely up to the RNG as to what they will find.

[King Mir]

But they need to be more than stored. You want the dwarves to wake up in the same spot they fall asleep, without consuming food or drink, and without producing any goods. As more of those are tracked, more attention is needed to make sure syndromes that prevent them are honored.

[Putnam]

Units are also stored if my reading of the save folders is correct.

[thvaz]

Toady, please release the new version ASAP, so people stop doing these futile questions!

[Putnam]

He's already releasing it ASAP

[smjjames]

Lol thvaz.....

[Eric Blank]

Toady hasn't mentioned any changes to the way the game decides where creatures residing in a fortress will be placed in that site. I suspect that locking dwarves in a room underground with zero access will more than likely still result in them showing up above-ground.

[Mel_Vixen]

Well for propper handling of this teh engine would have to to a pathing check. Much like "is there a open way to the map-edge?" for every creature. Also it would have to consider doors and such and the ability of the creature to use/destroy them.

It would be a tideous thing to go and code that for a Lone vampire but it would be possible. 

A transformation like the werebeast syndrom should work. No Eat, no drink and a predefined creature that is Imobile. The syndrom also should Render the transformed dorf unconcious. Fix that to a fooditem (apples?) and restrict the stockpile to the Hybernation Chamber.