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[Untrustedlife]

I can't seem to find anything about that on the dev page, though I swear I've seen it mentioned before that the game will eventually move more towards work-zones than workshops.

He mentioned it in df talk. Have you checked the old dev page?

[Rose]

Will adventurers be able to make buildings from cloth?
And if they can, will that eventually migrate to fort mode as well?

I guess cloth should have some disadvantages. Maybe rot.

[iceball3]

Oh, I'm suddenly remembering that boogeymen exist.
In what manner do boogeymen exist? Are they phantasmagorical, physical-just-summoned, or some kind of spiritual entity, like a ghost?

Looking forward, how do you think boogeymen should exist in relation to the citizens of fortresses? What sort of cultural influence do you think they should have? Will their degree of physicality vary with the "world fancifulness" settings you mentioned implementing at one point or another?

Do bogeymen set off traps? Should bogeymen set off traps?

[Eric Blank]

With being able to build now, does the construction exist as a true site, with a name, people who know of it could give directions, an entry in legends mode? Would we have a claim of ownership to our site? Would that be an independent claim (only we are associated with it, nobody else) or would it belong to our civilization if we are a member of one?

Since you made a workshop, which workshops and reactions are available to us in adventure mode for now? All of them?

So we can entomb the dead now in coffins we made (they are a container), right? Will that actually count as them being properly memorialized? Can we make slabs to memorialize someone as well?

[Dirst]

Oh, I'm suddenly remembering that boogeymen exist.
In what manner do boogeymen exist? Are they phantasmagorical, physical-just-summoned, or some kind of spiritual entity, like a ghost?

Looking forward, how do you think boogeymen should exist in relation to the citizens of fortresses? What sort of cultural influence do you think they should have? Will their degree of physicality vary with the "world fancifulness" settings you mentioned implementing at one point or another?

Do bogeymen set off traps? Should bogeymen set off traps?

Boogeymen are real things, but you are under such existential stress that perceptions are warped into phantasmagorical proportions.  You see, boogeymen are the fervent supporters of a political party other than your own

[Kiloku]

Im unsure if this fits FoTF, but do you edit the RAW files by hand? Or did you develop your own RAW tool?

[therahedwig]

Will workshops be replaced by zones or rooms eventually? Like a tavern, you build tools and store them in it.

Outside of him mentioning it in DF talk, the prime reason it isn't implemented yet seems to be the issue of tools and stockpiles. Like, should there only be a saw and hammer for carpetting, or does there need to be more and add sanding, pliers, rulers for measuring etc etc, and how to prevent the player going insane juggling all these.

Not sure though, my memory is a bit fuzzy lately.

[Tharwen]

I expect someone else will be able to answer this, but I have no idea where to find an answer myself...

Will the 30-item cap for manager jobs ever be lifted? Sometimes I need 100 statues or something to be made at once and it's tedious to add in several different jobs and sort out their priorities separately.

[Max™]

Oh my, when you use a reaction that specifies only something empty (for brewing into flasks/waterskins/mugs/barrels as an adventurer, for example) it lists weapons you are holding. From poking around trying to do this with dfhack I know there isn't much difference between a weapon containing a corpse and a coffin containing a corpse. You recently mentioned putting items in containers, will we be able to have a nice cozy little cabin in the woods with rows of upright weapons and the bodies of our foes impaled on them?

[ZM5]

Will we eventually be able to define our own custom biomes, just like with custom weather effects?

[DG]

You could soon be able to repair some of the dodgy procedural bridges/roads created during worldgen with an adventuring carpenter.

[Amperzand]

Do you have any intention of adding a sound engine at some point in development?

[Untrustedlife]

Will we eventually be able to define our own custom biomes, just like with custom weather effects?

Thats not really how the game works, the biomes are ingrained deeply into the simulation eg, swamps are based on a salinity maps, water maps , temperature, climate etc and a ton of other maps on the world map.It doesnt just randomly place biomes they come about based on climate and stuff like real life.  If you mean defining something akin to a"good/evil" biome the plan is to base them off of spheres. I doubt we will be able to create our own, we might be able to edit raw files for them like with evil biomes and stuff though.

[Illgeo]

Do you plan to ever add any new Ages?

Will Armok appear in any capacity in generated mythology?

[Untrustedlife]

Do you plan to ever add any new Ages?

Will Armok appear in any capacity in generated mythology?

Doubtful,  the gods are procedurally generated, and  I believe toady has said armok is not planned to appear in dwarf fortress without modding ever (though I might be wrong about armok).

What do you mean by more ages btw?
list of ages here, though most ages are based on adlibbing names of creatures and such.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Calendar