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[ZM5]

Regarding the creation of adventurer parties, will the other created adventurers have the same restrictions in terms of available race?
What I mean is, if a civ only has dwarves available as adventurers, will we only be able to start dwarves from there, or will the "main" adventurer have the dwarf-only restriction, but other party members will be able to be humans, elves, etc. as mercs or friends of the main adventurer?

[Beag]

1. In the monthly report you said you would be adding more to what villains do in the game such as vampire cults. In this villain fleshing out update will player adventurers be able to join vampire cults and do missions for them with the possible reward of getting to drink a vampire in the cult's blood?
2. Will player vampires be able to start their own vampire cults and recruit NPCs to serve them? Will they be able to promote their cultists to full vampires by offering them their blood in this villain fleshing out update?
3. Will bandit groups give player lieutenants quest types different than what a hearth person would get in this villain fleshing out update?
4. Finally will criminal groups finally do more than just hang out underground in this villain fleshing out update? Maybe steal some stuff at night?

[falcc]

Will your adventurer be able to talk about how much they love their pets? How much can you interact with a pet? Can I show off my cool pet to someone I think will like it, and will vermin haters be like "ack, gross! get that outta my face?" Can I give my vermin pet stuff to chew on, put it in barrels, or put it down? Will we be able to put animals in wooden cages on our property now? If you made an animal whose younger forms were shoulder pet sized but as an adult is bigger than you, which of those sizes is it going to think about in terms of its mechanics? Can you tag a pet for both vermin and mounts?

Unrelated, what about pits and dark fortresses make them unsleepable?

I've modded my goblins to be more sociable but their new taverns still don't sound very inviting since you have to stumble through the trenches drunk to sleep. Although that is a very Dwarf Fortress experience.

[Rockphed]

If you made an animal whose younger forms were shoulder pet sized but as an adult is bigger than you, which of those sizes is it going to think about in terms of its mechanics? Can you tag a pet for both vermin and mounts?

Vermin are a completely different chunk of code than larger animals (though they do have defined features now).  So you cannot have an animal that is both a vermin and can be mounted.  I'm not sure if the shoulder-riding hamsters are vermin, or if they are small animals that can target humans as riding targets.  If the latter, then I suspect that you can have a creature that over its lifespan goes from cute, cuddly shoulder pet, to moderate sized attack dog, and finally ends up as a mount.

[KittyTac]

Hamsters are vermin.

[Orangefriedegg]

Will you add fireworks, cannons, hand cannons, rocket arrows or other gun powder based inventions at any point?

[Random_Dragon]

Will you add fireworks, cannons, hand cannons, rocket arrows or other gun powder based inventions at any point?

If I recall, isn't the answer "I'm pretending that China didn't invent gunpowder well before the 1400s" basically? XP

[Shonai_Dweller]

Will you add fireworks, cannons, hand cannons, rocket arrows or other gun powder based inventions at any point?

If I recall, isn't the answer "I'm pretending that China didn't invent gunpowder well before the 1400s" basically? XP

No. That wasn't the impression he gave last time it was discussed (when ships were being talked about as I recall). Which was still kind of doubtful but, less so now that "vanilla" is a much looser context. Interested in seeing what the answer is now.

Don't actually recall any interview even years and years ago where he mistakenly gave the technological cut off date as a reason for not wanting cannon sieges. You'd have to post a link to that one (I expect Zach's corrected him by now though).

[ArmokGoB]

In the upcoming adventure mode update can you throw vermin pets as weapons like you can with the normal vermin you find with 'L'ook?

[KittyTac]

In the upcoming adventure mode update can you throw vermin pets as weapons like you can with the normal vermin you find with 'L'ook?

You can throw ANY item, so if they are items, yes. You can also use any item as a melee weapon. So you can murder someone with a hamster.

[DwarfToys]

Will you add fireworks, cannons, hand cannons, rocket arrows or other gun powder based inventions at any point?

If I recall, isn't the answer "I'm pretending that China didn't invent gunpowder well before the 1400s" basically? XP

Unless the various posts & wiki aren't up to date, doesn't the ability to get a minecart to somewhere around ~3.5MJ of kinetic energy eliminate the need for gunpowder during sieges? 


These ended up being questions with random braindumps attached.  Don't mind that, I enjoy rambling.

1.  After magic, etc, are there plans for technological advancement over time? 

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I'm not really thinking of the time period the typical fortress / adventure starts or ends in, but after many ages of the world pass.  Maybe the age of the dwarves comes, and with the forgotten beasts and mythical style creatures dead we end up with more complex machinery, digging machinery, composite materials, etc.  You can spend more time on research when you're not dealing with insane fire breathing winged snails, I've been told.
Humans have the shortest life spans and might advance medicine due to that, tactics in war, weapons like everyone else, energy generation because the dwarves are no longer around to teach their now-mythical free-energy machines nor would they have anyway... 
The elves might dominate and refine their love of trees into a potentially dangerous genetic engineering type scenario...  grow trees harder than slade and nobody can cut them down easily, but the plant life itself starts becoming a threat to normally treeless biomes, water supply, etc in exchange for practically indestructible grown items. 
Maybe one race doesn't end up dominating, but partners with another.
Clowns (if they're still around) might "civilize" and invent an intentionally obfuscated legal system and fast food. Or they might have sat around watching for long enough to realize that if the dwarves all need alcohol to get through the working day, they might eventually need far worse things to get through the day. 
Maybe it isn't new technology at all...   ever wonder where everything from the dwarven atom smasher ends up?  Well, it's approaching critical mass in 3 other dimensions long forgotten about.  The inhabitants are very angry about this lump of neutron-degenerate matter about a year away from collapsing into a singularity and are doing something about it...  Welcome to the age of myth 2, electric boogaloo. 
Those are just random examples.  Half the technology invented might be useless in a given world, or developed in response to a problem that stopped existing by the time it was complete.  Maybe it's still magic fueled, and magic is scientifically proven. 

All complicated to program, but I feel like that's not as much an issue with this game as most

2.  A much simpler one...  Gunpowder brings a lot of other kinds of fun, but just reading about history, what about these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_crossbow, not necessarily with the poison? 

They're not a massive technological leap from the complex mechanisms + crossbows the dwarves already have, and don't really do much except make citizens either more or less of a liability during a siege.  Hand them out and hope they help and don't start shooting other dwarves for fun, or just let the military use them as a shorter distance but faster-firing crossbow... 

[KittyTac]

No. Technological progress will be forever locked in the 1400s or lower in some cases. I had read somewhere that after DF v1.0 there will be increased modding support basically to the level of modifying the source, though. Magitek is probably possible, though.

[Shonai_Dweller]

No. Technological progress will be forever locked in the 1400s or lower in some cases. I had read somewhere that after DF v1.0 there will be increased modding support basically to the level of modifying the source, though. Magitek is probably possible, though.

Hmm. If technological advancements were locked in place there wouldn't be a need for scholars and the as yet mostly unused technical knowledge system. 1400 (ish, it is fantasy after all) seems to be the limit to the technological advancements, not the start line.

Once blowing stuff up magically becomes a regular fun way to pass the time, I imagine the stance on blowing stuff up mechanically/chemically will become a bit more relaxed. Especially in mundane worlds.

[KittyTac]

No. Technological progress will be forever locked in the 1400s or lower in some cases. I had read somewhere that after DF v1.0 there will be increased modding support basically to the level of modifying the source, though. Magitek is probably possible, though.

Hmm. If technological advancements were locked in place there wouldn't be a need for scholars and the as yet mostly unused technical knowledge system. 1400 (ish, it is fantasy after all) seems to be the limit to the technological advancements, not the start line.

Once blowing stuff up magically becomes a regular fun way to pass the time, I imagine the stance on blowing stuff up mechanically/chemically will become a bit more relaxed. Especially in mundane worlds.

Hence why I said "lower in some cases". I knew that it's the end limit.

[Shonai_Dweller]

No. Technological progress will be forever locked in the 1400s or lower in some cases. I had read somewhere that after DF v1.0 there will be increased modding support basically to the level of modifying the source, though. Magitek is probably possible, though.

Hmm. If technological advancements were locked in place there wouldn't be a need for scholars and the as yet mostly unused technical knowledge system. 1400 (ish, it is fantasy after all) seems to be the limit to the technological advancements, not the start line.

Once blowing stuff up magically becomes a regular fun way to pass the time, I imagine the stance on blowing stuff up mechanically/chemically will become a bit more relaxed. Especially in mundane worlds.

Hence why I said "lower in some cases". I knew that it's the end limit.

"Forever locked" implies that lower tech civs won't be able to advance over time which, I think, isn't the case. The whole masterplan when it comes to tech is a bit vague at the moment though.