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[WriterX]

Hello all,

 Just wanted to let you all know that some time ago we (AlterGamer) interviewed Toady One (Tarn Adams) about Dwarf Fortress, focusing on the World and Future of Dwarf Fortress. If you would like to read said interview just clicky the link below. Feel free to leave comments here and discuss/plot/scheme at will!

http://www.altergamer.com/dwarf-fortress-interview/

Cheers,

WriterX

[slothen]

cool

[Knight Otu]

Thanks! So taverns are now scheduled for after the hero/villain stuff? Interesting. Also, "Dwarf Fortresses are scary places to live" might be an understatement. 

[Pride]

Good stuff, thanks for the heads up.

[Manveru Taurënér]

Really nice interview tbh, quite a few tidbits of info there I hadn't heard about before, and further insight into Toady's plans ^^

[CaptainArchmage]

So elves used to animate trees around the fortress? Wonder if we could get some screenshots. Also wonder if this could be put back in...

I wonder just how much extra content used to be in the game, and was taken out before the initial release.

[Sizik]

There's a movie of it here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=83812.msg2539837#msg2539837

It's elfdeath.cmv.

[vertinox]

I really look forward to dwarf inns and economy.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Interesting quote there:

AG: Vampires are an interesting addition to Dwarf Fortress, but how do they operate exactly? They always reminded me of the Vampires from the Witcher, treating blood like an alcohol, and being fairly capable of functioning without it.
 
TA: The original idea was to randomize all of it, but we didn’t get to that.  Right now not drinking blood just slows them down, but we don’t really have a set idea for them.  The idea is to let a broad range of behaviors take place to keep the random worlds interesting.

Basically, Toady thinks that vampire slowdown ( http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5189 or http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Vampire#Bugs ) is caused by not drinking enough blood, whereas the player base thinks it is due to alcohol withdrawl.

Also see this:

Rainseeker:
Now, is there a disadvantage to having everybody in your fortress be a vampire? Will they starve, eventually?

Toady:
They will, if you don't keep getting migrants to feed them.

Rainseeker:
Worst. Migration. Ever.

Toady:
Yeah. I mean, your fortress should eventually get marked as a death trap if you keep murdering your migrants and then since you'll have no one come to your fortress your vampires would start to slow down. They don't ever die from not drinking, they just get really slow. If they're at maximum slowness they might still be better overall than a regular dwarf in terms of their combat abilities and stuff because they have resistance to damage and higher attributes and stuff like that. There's not really a reason not to do it. I mean, you would have an evil fort, it would be bad to be a vampire. I guess you'd be more immune to zombie attacks because the zombies wouldn't attack your vampires.

[Knight Otu]

Basically, Toady thinks that vampire slowdown ( http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5189 or http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Vampire#Bugs ) is caused by not drinking enough blood, whereas the player base thinks it is due to alcohol withdrawl.

He isn't discounting the possibility that alcohol withdrawal also has an effect, he's simply saying that not drinking blood has the same effect.

[Klitri]

Toady has got this in the bag! Dwarf fortress sums up everything I want in a game. And Toady is just makeing it better.