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[WillowLuman]

No, they remove them through an incision that appears not dissimilar to a bullet wound.

[reality.auditor]

post v1.0 thing.

In 10-15 years Never, then.

FTFY

[WillowLuman]

post v1.0 thing.

In 20 years, then.

FTFY

He was more right the first time

[flabort]

It's unfair to try and put such an exact a date on it, or to say never. It's only been in development for, what, ~10 years so far?
It may seem like forever, but I'm sure that anywhere between 5 and 25 years we'll get 1.0.

[Putnam]

I don't know if this was already answered, but does toady plan on adding slaves to Armok I spells?

I don't know what you're talking about with magic, but there are slaves that show up in worldgen.

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood was the game that Dwarf Fortress took the name of when it took over as the Big Bay 12 Fantasy Game. It had a magic system of sorts which basically involved:

Full body teleportation.

Body part teleportation.

Full body explosion.

Body part explosion.

Creature summoning.

[WillowLuman]

Don't forget:

Full body petrification

Body part petrification

But yes, basically just those effects.

[G D]

And healing spells - very usefull if you want to make clothes out of your own skin and survive that.

[smjjames]

Don't forget:

Full body petrification

Body part petrification

But yes, basically just those effects.

Paralysis and motor nerve damage is closest to this. Not sure if you can make the paralysis syndrome apply to say an arm or leg rather than whole body paralysis.

[LordBaal]

Knew it! This will indeed be the release with a longer period of development since the start of Dwarf Fortress. Toady calculating the developing phase would take him at least 25 days more and then is some testing. We would perhaps have a December release if we are lucky, or a January maybe. Anyway, I think with that the old threshold will be surpassed (if I'm not wrong).

[smjjames]

Well, he is going to try and get any nasty bugs out first.

[LordBaal]

It's to be expected, in my humble opinion this is the greatest update ever, even more than the 2010 one. I mean we finally have a dynamic world that keep going while we play, that's the base of everything else in the game, armies, wars, trade.... you name it.

[Bronze Dog]

DF has definitely been one of those games where patience is greatly rewarded.

I sometimes wonder what it'd be like if we could step into a parallel universe where DF was a "normal" commercial release. On one hand, Toady would have a team helping him to polish a lot of features, smooth out bugs, and optimize our FPS. On the other hand, the executives would likely try to curb his ambition, water down the difficulty, cut down on all the complex interactions, and other stuff that makes DF great.

I'd love it if Toady could get the best of both worlds, but I doubt major game companies would go for the long term investment.

[smjjames]

DF has definitely been one of those games where patience is greatly rewarded.

I sometimes wonder what it'd be like if we could step into a parallel universe where DF was a "normal" commercial release. On one hand, Toady would have a team helping him to polish a lot of features, smooth out bugs, and optimize our FPS. On the other hand, the executives would likely try to curb his ambition, water down the difficulty, cut down on all the complex interactions, and other stuff that makes DF great.

I'd love it if Toady could get the best of both worlds, but I doubt major game companies would go for the long term investment.

Or quality sometimes......

[Putnam]

Well, there's good reason for it:

[Release 5 is] really testing the whole premise of the game, basically, that you can have systems like this that don't totally fall apart, or they only fall apart when they should, more or less. It's something that I can't say how it's going to turn out, there are too many moving parts to know if it's going to work or not, and I hope it works because that's kind of the whole thing we've been aiming at for years is release 5, more or less. Is the world actually going to survive being alive?

[LordBaal]

This is possible, if not 100% sure, the most complex game ever conceived, not by technical complexity alone, but by the very nature of it's simulations. No other game I know off ever dares to scratch the surface of the detailing of DF. Not only that, but it's the only one that actually create huge worlds filled with custom myths and histories worth of billionaire Hollywood movies, and it's not even complete!

My mind shrieks in curiosity and terror into thinking what the would the 1.0 version would be like.