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[CaptainArchmage]

Once again, Toady just exceeded my expectations. We're getting fruits and flowers, so will we have seeding patterns too?

With the addition of fruits and flowers on trees, will animals such as elephants be able to browse trees?

Will roots be able to damage structures within your fortress?

Are all trees going to use the new multi-tile code?

Some real life trees, such as Baobabs, store large quantities of water inside their trunks. Will some large trees be filled with replenishing water?

How compatible will this version be with previous saves?

Now that climbing is going in, will we be getting ladders?

[Phibes]

Will invaders be linked to the new elven and goblin sites?

And if so, will this have any effect on sieges? Variety of unit types, historical figures, etc?

[pisskop]

Will Kobolds or cave civs see any revision?

[Rip0k]

Will climbing require special equipment, like grappling hooks, spiked shoes, picks and so on?

With this new climbing mechanics, will we see those high cliffs back again?

[Mel_Vixen]

Will Bamboo "grass" turn to Bamboo "Trees"? Also will we have multitile "Bushes" and "Hedges" like ribes, Hazelnuts or Hibiscus?

edit:

Will certain Trees/bushes/plants breed by other means then fruits and seeds? Like over the Rhizome by vegetative reproduction (natures own cloning) etc.? (quaking aspen does this)

[Torchy]

Very excited for the vegetation changes. Might as well post the multi-tile tree mockups I made.

Damn, I've been worried about how multi-tile trees will look in the ASCII, because I've had trouble visualizing them in a way that would both make it clear what they are and not be ass-ugly to look at. But those, those are beautiful. If I wasn't so sure Toady's design will surprise me I'd recommend he use something like that. Those branches, those leaves - wow!

[Mel_Vixen]

I wonder how toady is going to code the trees. I dont think he will use a standard palette like many games. Since trees are already in the raws i could imagine today will add some "growth-rules"  to them making them more or less fractal along the lines of the set rules. Given enough diversity and values any kind of tree/plant could be created. The interaction between trees now (as in a forrest) is another interresting problem.

[Putnam]

Hey, I just realized! We passed Toady's original set release date for DF a week ago!

Eight years.

[darklord92]

I wonder how toady is going to code the trees. I dont think he will use a standard palette like many games. Since trees are already in the raws i could imagine today will add some "growth-rules"  to them making them more or less fractal along the lines of the set rules. Given enough diversity and values any kind of tree/plant could be created. The interaction between trees now (as in a forrest) is another interresting problem.

Custom workshops already have a "layout" framework, i don't see if that would be too difficult to change trees to use a workshop type of format where each stage of construction is instead a layer of tree growth.

i think this tool is the best example of what i mean : http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=54004.0

[CLA]

I wonder how toady is going to code the trees. I dont think he will use a standard palette like many games. Since trees are already in the raws i could imagine today will add some "growth-rules"  to them making them more or less fractal along the lines of the set rules. Given enough diversity and values any kind of tree/plant could be created. The interaction between trees now (as in a forrest) is another interresting problem.

I think following real life organization would be the easiest and most modular (including user mods) solution. You could even apply it to grass.
Separating it into
ROOT
STEM
LEAF

and giving it tags like
LIGNIFIED
XYLEM
ANGIOSPERM
etc
And for the actual growth, a couple of parameters could be enough.
Given that a lot of these tags are also traits that determine their taxonomy, it'd be easy to assign tags and find mistakes.
Edit:
Multi tile plants would be part of one of the parameters. For non multi-tile plants, it would translate the parameters into more simple categories (i.e. "dense" grass, "very dense" grass, etc)

[Knight Otu]

Will Kobolds or cave civs see any revision?

Apparently.

goblin/elf/dwarf/kobold sites

Unless by cave civs you mean cavern civs like the deep animal men. They'll probably have to wait.

Also, I'm pretty sure that most of the plant/tree questions that have been posted here would be answered in the upcoming devlogs anyway because of how important they are. I understand the enthusiasm, but shouldn't we wait a little bit to see what we won't know?

[therahedwig]

Ah, do you guys think semi-rotten fruits will contain alchohol? They do in real life and I heard cows sometimes get drunk on fruit

Very excited for this release, as person who made shit for stonesense, I adored the grass and I'm excitedly awaiting flowers and trees

[Sidhien]

What is this? He's working on elves before dwarves.

Toady One, I respect you, but I'm concerned your priorities are not in order.






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HOLY CRAP those trees are awesome!

[Talvieno]

Will tree roots be multi-tile, and if so, will they remain and decay after the tree is chopped down?
edit:
Will creatures in Dwarf Fortress mode and/or Adventure mode be able to jump across one-tile gaps at the same z-level?
edited again, but the question still stands.

[darklord92]

What is this? He's working on elves before dwarves.

Toady One, I respect you, but I'm concerned your priorities are not in order.

Who says he's not saving the best for last?

I'll be interesting to finally be able to visit all of the sites instead of just human towns ^^