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[DizzyCrash]

The last update was in 2012!? Thats a huge amount of time... the next release MUST be just around the corner, right? Specially since the game is in a unplayable state without significant modding to give all the entities the same city types..
So has there been any news at all? any speculations about it? any form of news to give us something to look forward to?

[Bralbaard]

I've heard nothing about a release date.

Personally I expect it to be a long way off (half a year?), usually there's an extended bugfixing phase before release, and currently Toady is still busy adding new features.

[Mesa]

I've heard nothing about a release date.

Personally I expect it to be a long way off (half a year?), usually there's an extended bugfixing phase before release, and currently Toady is still busy adding new features.

Not entirely true.
Even Toady himself has said that he hopes to be done with the main feature list this month, but there are two things in the way:

• There would still be the testing/bugfixing period, but that one usually lasts about two weeks before the release.
• He said that he'd be done with the list mid-November and the original release date was March 2013 so...

So here's how I imagine the release dates right now:
January - borderline impossible
February - very likely
March - guaranteed then or sooner

[Nasikabatrachus]

I speculate there will be at least four more "next release speculation" threads before the next version is released in mid-March.

I also speculate that I will see at least seven people call version 34.11 "unplayable" for Arbitrary Reason X despite the game's current public state being entirely playable.

[Untelligent]

NONE MAY KNOW THE HOUR OR THE DAY.

[Necrisha]

But somebody WILL guess the right month

[Telgin]

I'm a  little amused to see in my prior predictions that I genuinely believed it would be released late last year.  I'm pretty confident it'll come out by March.  I'm a little skeptical of a February release, but it's possible.

[Uristsonsonson]

So here's how I imagine the release dates right now:
January - borderline impossible
February - very likely
March - guaranteed then or sooner

Silly. You do realize that 0.34.11 was the last public release, right? All of the work since 06/04/2012 has really just been for the Adams bros' private version.

[Shinotsa]

I must be the best gamer ever to have done so well at playing an unplayable game. I've done the impossible!

[thvaz]

We are all unplayers.

[Nopenope]

It seems Toady has entered a bug-fixing phase so the update can't be that far away - probably mid-March.

[Manveru Taurënér]

It seems Toady has entered a bug-fixing phase so the update can't be that far away - probably mid-March.

Not really. He's currently fixing all the stuff he broke when he rewrote much of the dwarf behaviour systems a while back, so it's not as much bugs as finishing the rewrite. When he actually announces it's only bugs left it shouldn't be more than a few weeks off.

[Putnam]

It seems Toady has entered a bug-fixing phase so the update can't be that far away - probably mid-March.

Not really. He's currently fixing all the stuff he broke when he rewrote much of the dwarf behaviour systems a while back, so it's not as much bugs as finishing the rewrite. When he actually announces it's only bugs left it shouldn't be more than a few weeks off.

Since he's discovering problems right now... let's see the history behind that kind of thing:

3 weeks before DF2012 after finishing all the features.

3 months with DF2010, by the looks. It could be a while yet.

[Manveru Taurënér]

True. I very much hope it won't take much longer after that anyway. He has obviously been doing some amount of bug fixing all along and he won't be finishing them all before release by a long stretch, so I guess it's really mostly a matter of how much time he wants to spend on it before that, minus the time taken to fix truly game crippling bugs. Taking into account his previous release estimates those can't possibly include months of bug fixing, making the assumption he'll leave most of the minor bug fixing until after the first release plausible.

[Mesa]

And now half the community started to wonder what kinds of hilarious "unintended features" might slip into DF2014...
I'm in the other half, if you're wondering.