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[KtosoX]

It's out! The list of new features is long as hell!

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New stuff
Ability to designate taverns, temples and libraries in the fortress
Taverns and libraries also exist in adventure mode and world generation
Tavern keepers can serve drinks in both modes, goblets can be used by dwarves to drink (in taverns or otherwise)
Performances include stories, poetry, music and dance (you can view activity descriptions from the unit/job list)
Art forms are randomly generated for each civilization
Instruments are now all generated, instruments can be used in both modes
Most instruments are constructed from multiple pieces using different materials
Personalities and values lead to needs which can be met by various actions in both modes
The fort has visitors, residency petitions and eventual citizenship, including non-dwarves
Tavern visitors include mercenaries, monster slayers, bandits, diplomats and performers
Can set details for clothing/armor jobs to make them for other races that can equip items
Monster slayers can petition your fortress to go down and fight monsters once you discover the underground
Performance troupes are active in world generation and into play, visiting the fort, can be formed in adventure mode
New knowledge system divided into nine branches (though it has very few practical effects so far)
Fortress scholars can advance knowledge, form master-apprentice relationships and write down their findings
Fortress scribes can copy works in your library
Scholars can visit your fortress libraries, bringing knowledge from around the world
Devoted historical figures can visit your fortress temples
Three forms of writing material: papyrus sheets, paper sheets and parchment sheets
Papyrus sheets are made directly from the plant at the farmer's workshop
Paper is made from pressed slurries (start at the quern/mill, then go to a screw press)
Parchment is made from hide and milk of lime at the tanner's (bake quicklime at a kiln, then make milk of lime at an ashery)
Sheets are used to make quires or with rollers to make scrolls -- these are then used for writing
Quires can be bound into codices with bindings after they contain writing
Dwarves read books in the library (they don't need to be scholars)
Values can be passed in writing (both modes) and through adventure mode arguments (uses some conversation skills)
Animal people are playable as adventurers, arrive as fort visitors and sometimes live in towns in (playable) populations
Children play with toys now, and they can also play make believe, in both modes
Personality can be customized/randomized in adventure mode, appearance can be randomized as well
Temples can be defiled in both modes, dwarf temples can be assigned to particular gods
Adventurer can rent rooms in inns
Adventurers can compose new poems, music and dances
Adventurers can write material down on empty quires or scrolls
Alcohol causes inebriation, erratic behavior, unconsciousness, death
Festivals occur in world generation, though we haven't gotten them out of there yet
Dwarves will wear trinkets again"

Which features are you hyped up for the most?
I can't wait for the new tavern system and related bugs! I bet they'll make for some pretty funny stories

[Cyroth]

I'm looking forward to drafting ALL the badgerman visitors into my militia.
Hell hath no fury like a badger army scorned.

Or something like that anyways.

[ChairmanPoo]

I want performance. There are few big new features I'm particularily anxious for (although improvements are always welcome). The game's performance is hitting me hard though. Has kept me away for months

[LostKitten]

I want performance. There are few big new features I'm particularily anxious for (although improvements are always welcome). The game's performance is hitting me hard though. Has kept me away for months

lots of my adventures perish as a result of shitty framerates, particularly when in a big urban area and it takes a thousand years to get anywhere

[Terff]

Hell, I'm looking forward to all of it!  Can't wait for some fresh stuff!

[Uggh]

More fps and less crashes. The rest can wait.

[vjek]

No point until the invader pathing/leader bug(s) are fixed, imho.

If you use any kind of a defensive or trapped entrance, and a/the invader squad leader dies or is captured in it, the rest of the invaders just stand around forever.  It's been an outstanding bug for years, and I know of no other bug that is so blatant and obvious, personally.

So, for me, everything outside of fixing that one thing is just extra fluff to no purpose.  But there's a chance I might be biased. 

[Robsoie]

It does not require much to have me wanting to play the next version :

- fortress mode invaders and ambushers armies finally fixed and actually come to siege more than once every 10 years despite your fort is right next to their dark fortress and your population ready since years
- fortress mode invaders and ambushers gain skills through the years so you can have an actual challenge during those super rare siege instead of the dozen of untrained gob that your legendary military (legendary and high masters that you can get in less than 2 years of -nonexploit- training) destroy easily without breaking a sweat.
- performance , performance and performance, pathfinding cease to break and cripple the game performance if some dwarf move into an area or climb on something it has no idea on how to come back by example
- adventure mode bandits and other hostile factions gain back their former glory and threat level and aren't anymore the ridiculous push-overs they are in df2014, it was such a great experience in 34.11 to adventure into a bandit camp.
- adventure mode factions that are set hostile to each other are back at being actually -hostile- instead of everyone is best friend forever from df2014 adventure mode or "it was inevitable".
- adventure mode NPC will fight back again when you're attacking them, no more killing hundred of gobs and trolls in dark fortress by yourself without having any of those monsters even trying to get you even when you're destroying their best friend in their sight.
- undead aren't overpowered silly anymore so you can actually fight undead siege instead of just waiting for them to go away in your fortress or get buggy and stay immobile forever or play the "let's trap everyone" minigame that isn't really a challenge and break the army AI.

If those part of the next version, i would be super hyped. But for now i'm only hopeful it will be less broken than df2014 and get some more fun again to me like i have when playing 34.11.

[contheman]

What's the ETA on it?

[Max™]

http://www.webcountdown.net/?c=1448982240

Hitting bandits in the head with an artifact lute, playing it later in a tavern while crazy dancefights break out due to buggy weirdness.

Trying to find a way to make a tavern under a face of armok with an open wall that is only protected by the magma falling past it.

[Nakéen]

I can't wait to dwell into the raws of the next version.
I'm particularly hyped about the new changes on syndromes and reactions !

[Terff]

Ooo yeah and invaders, i miss invaders.

[omega_dwarf]

Temples and libraries.

[Dunamisdeos]

I want to integrate visitors into my fort.

I will have the foreign legion, filled with elves and such. They must prove themselves in combat before they are allowed to occupy the same space as the dwarves.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Hype for the Hype God!
Anticipation for the Anticipation Throne!