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Wait for the next release. I want usable mugs damn it!

55 (71.4%)

We can use the current one. I like the big trees and slightly smarter dorfs.

17 (22.1%)

I'll take .34.11 thanks. I want to know I'll get to kill things for sure.

5 (6.5%)

Total Members Voted: 77

[Mr Frog]

Good news: it looks like I may yet be able to find a happy medium between trash golems being able to survive worldgen and said trash golems actually being killable in fort mode! Hurray!

[Starweaver396]

The one where you talk to your deity and the one where you block are avoidable, just don't do them. But the one where the calendar crashes the game... I can't start any more games, it refuses to get past the calendar. 

On the bright side, I did run around the arena decapitating multiple enemies while I ran past them. It was pretty neat. Archers are still OP though. Don't try to fight them.

[TalonisWolf]

Good news: it looks like I may yet be able to find a happy medium between trash golems being able to survive worldgen and said trash golems actually being killable in fort mode! Hurray!

  I've heard this before...   

[Mr Frog]

I can kind of see morale snafus becoming the soldiers-don't-train-properly of DF2014. I was testing trash golems in the arena and the second I turned morale/fear on an entire squad of 25 fully-armed dwarves turned tail and ran like bitches while the trashie spewed sludge at them and generally fucked them up.

[Splint]

I can kind of see morale snafus becoming the soldiers-don't-train-properly of DF2014. I was testing trash golems in the arena and the second I turned morale/fear on an entire squad of 25 fully-armed dwarves turned tail and ran like bitches while the trashie spewed sludge at them and generally fucked them up.

It takes months of training to yield solid and dependable soldiers, but gone are the days of lone dwarf death machines I believe. Sort of anyway.

Werebull attack one saw my commander run away without trying to fight. Werebull attack two saw her and her squad (who had about 7-9 months of training and very high discipline skill coupled with back-up) dog pile the thing. A factor as to if it will interrupt a dwarf now or cause a flight response seems to be a mix of sight, scent, and size. Small creatures like kea are now considered a minor threat at best that dwarves will ignore while something like a weremarmot will scare the shit out of them.

That being said, it may be a mix of poor discipline and the creature's scent and size scaring them. Also, anyone else vote for a 'Soldier' caste for regular troops that grant the [NO_FEAR] tag? It may be necessary to face the spawn and megaspawn, if that tag affects a unit's morale checks.

EDIT: We'll also have to watch out for any tree loving races. I just got sucked into a war I did nothing to start.

[TalonisWolf]

  Your civ must have already been at war with them, or you cut down ALOT of trees.

  ...actually, it's possible the game figures out how many trees you've cut down by how many logs you've created. Which, now that chopping down a tree yields a ridiculous amount of logs, could equal instant war with the elves. Hehehehe.

[Mr Frog]

@Splint:

Scent may definitely be a factor. I turned the thing's odor value thingy to like 1000 (I figure that a being made entirely of assorted putrified organic matter probably don't smell like a spring breeze).

[Splint]

  Your civ must have already been at war with them, or you cut down ALOT of trees.

  ...actually, it's possible the game figures out how many trees you've cut down by how many logs you've created. Which, now that chopping down a tree yields a ridiculous amount of logs, could equal instant war with the elves. Hehehehe.

Oh no, was at peace with them the second time the caravan showed up, and summer rolls around the same year and the civ screen switched to 'At War' and I got reports of an advancing elven army, two fortresses being conquered, and my king dying without an heir (in fact, the liaison's oldest daughter took over.) The implications are the capital has fallen and the king was killed in battle. Also, it's obvious this war was premeditated and probably in the making on the elves' part with the rapidness of thier advance in just a few short months.

So now Spiritnets (my fortress which was a reclaimed worldgen site that had been trashed by a titan,) is preparing its populous for war. Copper, iron, steel and industry. It will meet wood, claw, and nature on the field of battle in the Hinterlands of The Special Diamond. As an act of war/show of force, all the trees in our surface holding have been felled and many smaller plants ordered to be torn up by herbalists.

Nature will find no place here.

@Splint:

Scent may definitely be a factor. I turned the thing's odor value thingy to like 1000 (I figure that a being made entirely of assorted putrified organic matter probably don't smell like a spring breeze).

That's my assumption since dead humans (I got attacked by a bandit gang in summer of year 2 in Spiritnets,) caused several dwarves to be overwhelmed by horror, presumably from the stench of death. Also the first kill of the fort was a human my once-massive-coward militia commander punched. Hard enough to cave his chest in. Which then actually horrified both her own soldiers and several bandits.

[Starweaver396]

The one where you talk to your deity and the one where you block are avoidable, just don't do them. But the one where the calendar crashes the game... I can't start any more games, it refuses to get past the calendar. 

Speak of the Devil, we got a bug patch.

[Aseaheru]

The calender never crashed, it just lagged it to the point where windows thinks it did.

[The Master]

The one where you talk to your deity and the one where you block are avoidable, just don't do them. But the one where the calendar crashes the game... I can't start any more games, it refuses to get past the calendar. 

Speak of the Devil, we got a bug patch.

Patch doesn't address the slow calendar. The next one will though. Also hello everyone! I'm back and here to stay this time!
waits for roaring applause that never comes

[Splint]

Huzzah! The Master returns!

[The Master]

Huzzah! The Master returns!

To bring doom, death, and despair in packages made from only the purest hazelnut!

[Starweaver396]

Hazelnut... I wonder if that's in the game. I found lots of other weird plants. So much so that I can't find any useful surface plants.

And I just got pig tails back. They disappeared for a while(which is why I wanted Rope Reeds). Weird.

[TalonisWolf]

  The Master is back! Please accept this offering of Wood Stain, Wood Polish, and Hazelnut Weaponry. Spare my soul.