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[misko27]

Yay fruit! and flowers, I wondered why DF had no flowers. I didn't even think about roots!. Hmm.

Will we be able to damage roots by mining nearby and trampling?

[MrWiggles]

Walking over saplings is already kills trees.

[monk12]

Heck yeah fruit! Although the mention of flowers intrigues me somewhat, since I didn't really think it would be something worthy of mention.

Do you have plans for flowers as a resource of some kind (decorative or otherwise,) or are they just an aesthetic choice to make the grass pretty? Does their coincidence with Elven sites indicate that Elves will have more flowers around than anyone else, or is it just "I'm doing trees and fruits and stuff, I'll throw in flowers quick?"

[Mr S]

I think maybe the idea is trees, not saplings, growing to their determinant size much more slowly, or not at all, if the soil layer around them is compacted due to heavy traffic.

And, holy crap.  I sure hope fall damage is further refined else we'll get jumping related broken toes all over the place.  Does this mean soon we'll have Dwarven excercise programs that don't just involve air pumps?  That also train agility?  The mind boggles.

Edit: Also, flowers may tie into the existing BEES!! structure.  And if he gets really nasty, bees could be a pre-requisite for really fertile farming, as well as wild find (i.e. herbalism).

[MrWiggles]

So the question is asking if the trampling effect is going to be changed with the addition of new vegetation and tree changes?

[EmeraldWind]

With fruit going in will you make adventurers able to gather fruit and other plants for food straight from the source?

[MaximumZero]

So, ToadyOne is going to be tackling Jumping and climbing. So, I think this means that'll be getting ladders in Fort Mode.

I initially read this as "ToadyOne is going to be tackling, jumping, and climbing." My first reaction was, "Gosh, I hope he stretches. Programming doesn't leave a lot of time for exercise."

[monk12]

"Next here on American Ninja Warrior we have Tarn Adams, a reclusive programmer and game designer with a Ph.D in Mathematics. He's hoping the copious quantities of alcohol he consumed with his dedicated fans will fuel his run through the course and into the second stage!"

[Phlum]

1) gobbo's have underground forts and pits to shear trolls,
2) there is sneaking and tracking, not to forget the combat/movement split,
3) multi level trees, Jumping and ladders.
4) active world outside of worldgen,

Hell yea, this update will be the best damn thing ever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is my first DF update, we're the others this great?

But the jumping would give the player character's a huge edge over NPC's, won't this require a new AI? I'm scared to green this, seems like too much to hope for dosn't it?

[misko27]

1) gobbo's have underground forts and pits to shear trolls,
2) there is sneaking and tracking, not to forget the combat/movement split,
3) multi level trees, Jumping and ladders.
4) active world outside of worldgen,

Hell yea, this update will be the best damn thing ever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is my first DF update, we're the others this great?

But the jumping would give the player character's a huge edge over NPC's, won't this require a new AI? I'm scared to green this, seems like too much to hope for dosn't it?

Well, the minecarts were great, and I was REALLY looking forward to the bug-fix where kill orders cancel upon death. I have ADHD, so a kill order would go out, and then they'd just stand there till I remembered them. Poor guys.

[hermes]

With their industries and troll shearing pits most of the way there,

Do you think the gobbos get the kidnapped children to shear the trolls?  When the kids return to Dwarven civilization do they have all kinds of freaky skills?

Roots for trees!  Can't imagine how trees are going to work out, but it really sounds like they're going to give a lot more colour to the countryside.  Looking forward to more tree-info.   

[Squanto]

Calling it right now:  A bug where you end up embarking on the canopy of a tree.

[DNK]

So, given that in real life many trees exceed 20 ft in height (and in jungle biomes, far more), does this mean that we're going to be seeing these multi-tile trees popping up regularly in fortress mode across many biomes as well? Are their canopies going to be just single tiles or multiple tiles on multiple Z levels?

[Torchy]

Do you think the gobbos get the kidnapped children to shear the trolls?  When the kids return to Dwarven civilization do they have all kinds of freaky skills?

This is a great question actually, so I'm greening it:

We know that, after a time, children kidnapped by Goblins become Goblin-naturalized, to the point of even leading armies against their original civ. Now that abducted children are locatable and rescuable, have you put any thought into how long they have to be saved before they become willing little Goblins themselves (at which point I'd imagine they would no longer want to be rescued)? Would you have this timeframe vary based on certain personality traits of the child abducted, or their age? More importantly - would kids rescued from Goblin civs after a significant length of time be changed in any way, be it in terms of picking up a skill like Shearing from slave labor, or another trait they might acquire from the ordeal?

[smirk]

Heck yeah fruit! Although the mention of flowers intrigues me somewhat, since I didn't really think it would be something worthy of mention.

Do you have plans for flowers as a resource of some kind (decorative or otherwise,) or are they just an aesthetic choice to make the grass pretty? Does their coincidence with Elven sites indicate that Elves will have more flowers around than anyone else, or is it just "I'm doing trees and fruits and stuff, I'll throw in flowers quick?"

Flowers are an important part of many plants' reproductive cycles, so putting them in now to be built upon later seems reasonable. I doubt he'll get too complex with it right now, as it'd be quite a sidetrack, but something basic and possibly beekeeping-related probably wouldn't be out of the question.