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[Toady One]

Yeah, I'm not going to make it today, or for the next few days, but things should be back to bug-fixing normal before too long.

[flabort]

I think the next one will break save compatibility, but I don't care.

[Toady One]

Right now I think I can get through with a thought-wipe.

[Narmio]

Dwarven mind-wipe!

OK, the person whose fortress is closest to tantrum spiral when they install .14 wins.

[smjjames]

Dwarven mind-wipe!

OK, the person whose fortress is closest to tantrum spiral when they install .14 wins.

No, it'll be the person in the middle of a tantrum spiral.

[Insanegame27]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

... one can infer a more precise tile size from those! Anyone got the relevant thread link?

Assuming gravity works like real world gravity and you can invent a time unit (obviously not linked to the dwarf mode calendar, which moves too fast for this), then a choice has been made.  It wouldn't make any fewer dragons fit in the tile though.  I think for the purposes of the minecarts it turned out to be 2m x 2m x 3m with 10 clicks / second, but it isn't that important or far-ranging in effect.

So, in surface area terms, a single fortress tile / square is 2 x 2 = 4 m^2.  This converts to the following area measurements (rounded):
* nanoWales: 5.2 squares
* Square Perch / Square Rod: 6.3 squares
* Rood: 253 squares
* Acre: 1,012 squares
  Traditionally the amount plowable by one man and one ox in one day; a furlong (40 rods) by 4 rods
* American football (handegg) field: 1,338 squares
* Joch: 1,439 squares
* FIFI football (soccer) pitch: 1,785 squares
* DF Embark Square (48x48 fortress squares): 2,304 squares
* Hectare: 2,500 squares; 1.09 embark squares
* Oxgang (15 acres): 15,180 squares; 6.6 embark squares
  This was the traditional amount tillable by one ox in a single plowing season
* Survey Quarter-Section (160 acres): 161,920 squares; 70.3 embark squares
  This was the amount traditionally allocated in the US for a single settler (family) in new lands; about 70.3 embark squares, or a bit over an 8x8 embark
* DF Region Square (16x16 embark squares): 589,824 squares; 256 embark squares
  In very round numbers, a DF region square then roughly corresponds to a US survey section; 1/36 of a township
* City of London (traditional, aka "the square mile"): 725,000 squares; 315 embark squares (about an 18x18 embark);
* Manhattan: 14,875,000 squares; 6,456 embark squares; 25 region squares
* Washington, DC: 44,250,000 squares; 19,205 embark squares; 75 region squares;
* DF Pocket World (17x17 region squares): 170,459,136 squares; 73,984 embark squares; 289 region squares
* DF Smaller World (33x33 region squares): 278,784 embark squares; 1,089 region squares
* Rhode Island: 784,750,000 squares; 340,603 embark squares; 1,330 region squares
* DF Small World (65x65 region squares): 1,081,600 embark squares; 4,225 region squares
  ("Three times the size of Rhode Island")
* Wales: 5,199,500,000 squares; 2,256,727 embark squares; 8,815 region squares (~94x94)
* DF Medium World (129x129 region squares): 4,260,096 embark squares; 16,641 region squares
  ("Nearly twice the size of Wales")
* DF Large World (257x257 region squares): 16,908,544 embark squares; 66,049 region squares
  ("Nearly half the size of Germany")

Incorrect. an acre is 100m²
or 10mx10m

[greycat]

Incorrect. an acre is 100m²
or 10mx10m

No, sorry.  https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=convert+1+acre+to+square+meters says 1 acre is 4046.86 square meters.

You're probably thinking of the are.

[wuphonsreach]

40.13 has been fun to play in fortress mode.  The only bug fix mod that I have installed is the plant one which makes the surface crops you find in the wild to be useful in fortress mode.

The main issue that concerns me for long-term play in a single world is how often entire civilizations are wiped out in the space of a single year.  Otherwise know as (I think) the "attacker always wins" bug.  That means you can quickly go from half a dozen civs of each race down to zero or one as all of their sites are wiped out by the aggressor. 

[EinsteinSatDown]

I suspect that the next release will be mind-blowingly epic.

Especially with the improved dwarven emotions.

[Chimerat]

I suspect that the next release will be mind-blowingly epic.

Especially with the improved dwarven emotions.

Probably due to the fact that I just love "farming" type Sims (I thank Harvest Moon for this love  ), I'm looking the most forward to the fruits, personally. I'm sure the emotions will make things...interesting. *hides from Dwarves*

[Spectre Incarnate]

It'll be ready on... probably Saturday, if not Friday.

\o/  Everybody do the Wave! \o/