Fixes
- A bug in the convection system caused underground magma to cause increasingly massive screaming whirlwinds in the cavern space above it, eventually gaining enough force to blow entire continents into the stratosphere a couple centuries into worldgen. There's now a check for this, although your dwarves can still get blown off walkways by currents, he he he.
- Animal men no longer have their tech level growth rate closely linked to the relative intelligence of their parent species: this stops dolphin men from developing nuclear fusion after about twenty years.
- Human warehouse workers no longer fill boxes with smaller boxes.
- Tent-pitching requires a much lower Temporary Dwelling Assembly skill, after a dwarf managed to suffocate himself with his canvas bedsheet.
- Plump helmets have stronger tissue after I noticed they were unable to grow through walked-on soil and would spread out in one flat sheet underground, erupting only in soft loam. The eruptions were so powerful that one dwarf was actually stabbed through the chest by the pointy tip.
Outstanding Bugs
- Venture capitalists indiscriminately fund companies that produce absolutely useless but cheap products, which causes them to create more goods than any other organization and rule the economy, eventually running the government and taking entire countries by force.
- Exceptionally stupid creatures can still Design goods, leading to single-band puzzle rings and worse. In my testing I ended up with a full range of collectible rock figurines, which ended up combining with the previous bug to create a gigantic collectible rock empire.
- Dwarves who don't own nail clippers will rip off their fingernails when they get too long.
- Goblins who lead sieges tend to be the dumbest goblins in the siege and will happily lead their forces into a gigantic magma-pit if there's a single sign saying "FORTRESS ENTRANCE THIS WAY", no matter what the sign-writer's Liar skill is.
- If a single technician develops a rudimentary von Neumann machine, it will rapidly cover the surface of the globe with more. This happens frequently, since all they need is a miniature glass-fuser, a cutting laser, a quantum kiln and two or more assembly arms, which sets them up to reproduce by fusing the sand grains into another glass laser and assembling the rest by baking the parts in the quantum kiln. Fortunately, dwarves treat the machines as building materials, and I ended up with a mountainhome assembled entirely out of the things, tipped over and smashed so they couldn't wriggle off.
New Features
- Cables can now handle phone signals, so design teams from different towns will be able to co-ordinate faster instead of waiting for someone to invent the cellular phone and set up a signal tower company.
- Tariffs have been introduced at a national level, making trade much more domestic and lowering shipping costs dramatically.
- Tree leaves are properly tracked now and aren't just split up into larger "leaves" sections. This makes autumn much prettier if you take the time to watch at Micro level.
- Electron clouds are finally observable when you're zoomed in to Quantum.
- Different meals now have Flavor scores for each ingredient. Complimentary tastes will boost each others' Flavor scores. However, if a dwarf dislikes a certain taste then his happy thought will increase the less of that taste it is. Legendary Cooks with high Conversationalist and memory/analytical ability will remember preferences and try to make the best possible meal for everyone in the fortress.
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