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[Max™]

This doesn't impact specific ethics yet, so you won't have to worry that an elf-written book will make all your dwarves start eating dead bodies, but such a thing is now threatened for a later date by these changes.

Thus were the book burnings and inquisitions of later versions set in motion.

[endlessblaze]

This doesn't impact specific ethics yet, so you won't have to worry that an elf-written book will make all your dwarves start eating dead bodies, but such a thing is now threatened for a later date by these changes.

Thus were the book burnings and inquisitions of later versions set in motion.

book burnings? armok no, think about it, think of all the elf, and goblin bone bolts.

[falcc]

Just to clarify: if a philosophical outlook becomes popular can it change civilization or individual values now? Or do they just become familiar with a value position in order to write a reply? Can a goblin civilization be won over to the value of art or ...craftsgoblinship?

It's not quite as exciting as an ethics shift, but it'd be kind of neat to set your most radical dwarves to creating philosophical treatises and watch moods change in your fort. Especially if it can impact things like religiosity that determine needs.

[FallacyofUrist]

Do you plan to add randomly generated books of magic(not just necromancy)?

It would be interesting if gods didn't have only one type of controlled magic to bestow.

[Knight Otu]

Do you plan to add randomly generated books of magic(not just necromancy)?

It would be interesting if gods didn't have only one type of controlled magic to bestow.

Eventually, yes. That may be a topic Toady hits in the World-Gen Artifacts releases, even.

[LordBaal]

Would be possible to have some impromptu poem or sing a song made on the fly on a conversation, you know, in the sake of the arts of seduction?

[Dirst]

Would be possible to have some impromptu poem or sing a song made on the fly on a conversation, you know, in the sake of the arts of seduction?

Anyone who taunts Giant Cave Spiders with Tomnoddy and Attercop will be summarily executed

[MobRules]

Why are goblin sieges so small? The largest one I've seen had 30 goblins. In the previous version the sieges were much larger, and armies in world gen seem to consist of hundreds or even thousands of soldiers.

They at least can be larger than 30, but reports of this are rare and tend to be from fairly long lived forts.

Will goblin warriors become more skilled in the future?

More highly trained attacking soldiers when approprate

From the improved sieges \section of the dev page.

I just got a siege of 90 goblins and trolls at my DF2014 fort. (Though it is a dozen years old, and at a point where a siege that size was a mere inconvenience rather than a challenge)

[Alfrodo]

Why are goblin sieges so small? The largest one I've seen had 30 goblins. In the previous version the sieges were much larger, and armies in world gen seem to consist of hundreds or even thousands of soldiers.

They at least can be larger than 30, but reports of this are rare and tend to be from fairly long lived forts.

Will goblin warriors become more skilled in the future?

More highly trained attacking soldiers when approprate

From the improved sieges \section of the dev page.

I just got a siege of 90 goblins and trolls at my DF2014 fort. (Though it is a dozen years old, and at a point where a siege that size was a mere inconvenience rather than a challenge)

You are a lucky man.  I have to get my founding dwarves to sneak into goblin territory to get that.

Will reading philosophy books in adventure mode modify your own adventurer's values / ethics?

[MrWiggles]

Why are goblin sieges so small? The largest one I've seen had 30 goblins. In the previous version the sieges were much larger, and armies in world gen seem to consist of hundreds or even thousands of soldiers.

They at least can be larger than 30, but reports of this are rare and tend to be from fairly long lived forts.

Will goblin warriors become more skilled in the future?

More highly trained attacking soldiers when approprate

From the improved sieges \section of the dev page.

I just got a siege of 90 goblins and trolls at my DF2014 fort. (Though it is a dozen years old, and at a point where a siege that size was a mere inconvenience rather than a challenge)

You are a lucky man.  I have to get my founding dwarves to sneak into goblin territory to get that.

Will reading philosophy books in adventure mode modify your own adventurer's values / ethics?

Probably, there are recorded instances where the player's pawn, is crying from the action that the player is forcing the pawn to do, as it violates their mores and ethics. Though Toadyone and ThreeToe have said that they wouldnt ever make the game prevent a player's action because it went against morals and ethics.

[Alfrodo]

Probably, there are recorded instances where the player's pawn, is crying from the action that the player is forcing the pawn to do, as it violates their mores and ethics. Though Toadyone and ThreeToe have said that they wouldnt ever make the game prevent a player's action because it went against morals and ethics.

So I could get my adventurer to read Goblin philosophy to make them not sad?

Excellent.

[MrWiggles]

Probably, there are recorded instances where the player's pawn, is crying from the action that the player is forcing the pawn to do, as it violates their mores and ethics. Though Toadyone and ThreeToe have said that they wouldnt ever make the game prevent a player's action because it went against morals and ethics.

So I could get my adventurer to read Goblin philosophy to make them not sad?

Excellent.

Unless the raws have been changed, Goblins don't get sad because they're incapable of empathy. Its quality of their creature.

[Spish]

Since wild animal men are now eligible for immigration, will it also be possible to mod feral creatures like, for instance, gnomes and trolls to be able to join civilizations?

It'll be possible to mod it, though only gorlaks have the setting in vanilla.  The game doesn't recognize animal people in any special way -- I've just put a new creature tag in their creature variation (and the gorlak def).

A tag, you say? Is it possible for intelligent megabeasts/semimegas to join civilizations, or perhaps even player fortresses in this manner?

[Max™]

Newest dev update mentions forming performing troupes and being able to kick people out of them.

You can actually form a band and go from town to town trying to get famous.

[Shonai_Dweller]

With the worlds of Dwarf Fortress being somewhat dangerous, is it possible to hire fighting types with no real interest in the arts to join your troupe as bodyguards?