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[Elone]

Of course, it's released when I'm asleep because I have to work in the morning. It'll be about ten hours before I can play. >_<

Moe: This truck mounted giant frier can fry a bull in 40 seconds.
Homer: I dont want it in 40 seconds... I want it now!

I cannot play this until DFhack and splintermind's Therapist update. I wish that this wasnt the case though.

[Jacob/Lee]

Ah yes, you can filter creature names in the arena now.

[irdsm]

Can create/assign to squads from v-p

FINALLY!

[Elone]

Can create/assign to squads from v-p

FINALLY!

Now if we could also switch between units/building/look/designation without losing our cursor or at least without resetting it to the middle...

[EmeraldWind]

Of course, it's released when I'm asleep because I have to work in the morning. It'll be about ten hours before I can play. >_<

Moe: This truck mounted giant frier can fry a bull in 40 seconds.
Homer: I dont want it in 40 seconds... I want it now!

I cannot play this until DFhack and splintermind's Therapist update. I wish that this wasnt the case though.

splinter's update is already up, I think. So is regular DT. Hack though will probably take a good bit of time to come out.

[Tov01]

I generated two worlds in this new update, and both had no flux at all. Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?

[Putnam]

I generated two worlds in this new update, and both had no flux at all. Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?

Flux is always either sedimentary or metamorphic, it's not that unusual, etc.

[NW_Kohaku]

I generated two worlds in this new update, and both had no flux at all. Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?

This isn't something for the Future of the Fortress thread - it's more of a Fortress Mode Forum thing.

To answer the question, though, if you set minerals as ultra-common, then flux has trouble spawning.  If you set your mineral scarcity low, then put your mineral scarcity back up a little higher, and flux should appear again.

Otherwise, you did something silly to your raws, like copy-paste something over you shouldn't have.

[ag]

Hmm, this is something of a feature suggestion, so no green - but what is the intended way of preventing carts going over-speed when going down a long descent? Placing low-friction stops could be a solution, but from observing speed values change in memory it seems that:

• There is no stop friction value close to the ramp acceleration: the closest values are 500 and 10000, while ramps give 4900 units per frame.
• The cumulative friction effect from stops is proportional to time, and thus decreases with speed. Effectively constraining speed requires something with friction that increases with speed. (Effectively meaning with a stable equilibrium that lets slow carts speed up, but slows fast ones.)

So maybe friction applied by stops should vary within a certain range depending on speed? As it is, it seems the only effective solution to constraining speed is actually abusing the behavior of carts flying into the air when going overspeed, i.e. if you dig you tunnel in the ramp - flat - ramp - flat - ... fashion, about every 3 z-levels the cart flies off the track, bumps into the wall, and falls vertically onto the track with 0 speed.

[Areyar]

-pushed carts are not considered, these have speed depending on the pusher's strength and the cart/freight's weight.

-Allow riding dwarves to use a handbrake?
requiring either a personality tie-in for what the dwarf considers a safe speed or a riding skill that allows dwarves to estimate when braking is wisest.

-unmanned carts indeed need an external brake.
The stops are the most likely candidate for this, but a brake-activator would still brake a slowmoving cart more than a faster one (all brakes are based on friction). 

It is best not to allow carts to get out of controll at all (by planning): the logical thing is to exponentially increase cart crashchance with higher speeds, even on straight routes, bacause a fast moving cart is more succeptible to small irregularities in the track. And though I'm not an expert on mining classical nor modern, I don't think that any brakes were available in the way you describe.

[SmileyMan]

Haven't been in here in a long time!  Quick question:

With the new multiple-bar-per-ore smelting, will the reactions for tetrahedrite and galena change?  At the moment, they create 4 bars of the main metal with a percentage chance of an extra 4 bars of the junior metal.

Would it not make more sense for galena to produce two lead and two silver bars every time, and tetrahedrite to produce three coppers and a silver every time?

[Aerval]

With the new multiple-bar-per-ore smelting, will the reactions for tetrahedrite and galena change?  At the moment, they create 4 bars of the main metal with a percentage chance of an extra 4 bars of the junior metal.

Would it not make more sense for galena to produce two lead and two silver bars every time, and tetrahedrite to produce three coppers and a silver every time?

Another question about this topic:
Isn't a bit unbalanced that you can cut a rough stone into four blocks = 4 walls or a single pair of earrings? Maybe there should be another intermediate that than can be cut down into crafts or similar.

[bombzero]

oh hell Aerval is right, that just made the mass conversion for stone even weirder with crafts.

[NW_Kohaku]

Alternately, just use blocks for crafts.  I don't think we need anything much smaller than a block, anyway.

Of course, at the same time, I think I speak for more than just myself when I say that the purpose of stone crafts is more to just get rid of stone than it is to make the most out of my stone. 

If we want to make infinite crafts, there's always sand and clay, after all.  I usually embark on one or the other nowadays.

[dree12]

Alternately, just use blocks for crafts.  I don't think we need anything much smaller than a block, anyway.

Of course, at the same time, I think I speak for more than just myself when I say that the purpose of stone crafts is more to just get rid of stone than it is to make the most out of my stone. 

If we want to make infinite crafts, there's always sand and clay, after all.  I usually embark on one or the other nowadays.

Stone is so rare now that making stone crafts is unrealistic. Clay and sand crafts require either magma or wood, the latter of which is no better than just making wood crafts. Before magma, I find wood crafts to be simplest (barring bone, which depends on the situation).