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[Starver]

Or else as per pinnipeds.

(Like I didn't say before: -ped relates to feet, leg relates to supportive[1] limbs, so you could argue centaurs as six-limbed (but four-legged) quadruped... So long as you group hooves as feet, which might depend upon how much you're a lumper or splitter at such a technical level.


[1] You may argue over sloths, now, whose limbs are adapted to be suspensive for so much of their life; thus four-armed (or some other classification) even beyond the most brachiating of omnigrasping primates.

[hanni79]

Cooking and how food preferences are handled.

1. Cooking
It is possible in theory to make dorfs actually use 4 different ingredients, but it needs rather extreme measures to guarantee this. 30% of my dorfs are hauling food all the time.

2. Excessively specific food preferences without any chance to satisfy them properly.
Or do you have were-orca-liver-gills lying around? Well, good for you!

I really wish we could have a noble profession like "chef", who oversees kitchens and gives you the ability to specify exactly what is getting cooked or letting you specify meals in a meaningful way, like "1. ingredient: liver; 2. ingredient: any crocodile eggs; 3. ingredient Giant Alpaca fat 4. ingredient: any alcohol".

I really love the thought of my dorfs eating only the very best stuff.

[Uthimienure]

The list of artifacts is not searchable or sortable, and grows too long because named weapons included.

Beds don't show if they are assigned or free unless you query them individually.

[SQman]

Maksdwarves climbing over fortifications. I know that you can build fortifications in a way that prevents climbing, but that should not be necessary.

[Orange-of-Cthulhu]

That goblins build these annoting ditches around their towers. Making it to the tower is harder than killing the goblins when you finally get there!

[BoogieMan]

FPS loss. Feeling pressured to build around minimizing performance loss instead of being more individualistic.

[Starver]

Not to disregard your own feelings about this, but you really don't notice decreasing FPS when you spend most of your time with the game effectively paused whilst micromanaging stuff...

(Not sure I ever did anything to mitigate the issue. In fact, my default archetecture probably causes significant routing slowdown, from what I've heard from those that notice these things...)

[victor11]

The most annoying thing is the issues with Burrows. No matter what you do, you won't find a neat way to use burrows to solve that hauling problem.

[Shazial]

To many it's probably just a minor thing, but when you want to build individual bedrooms to your hundreds of little Urists, bags and chests being in the same build category is quite frustrating. To me, it doesn't even really make sense when it comes to over all mechanics of the game, since the chests are only used in something if they are built first, and the bags are one of the most used commodities2, going around the fortress in multiple industries. Okay, both are containers, but cages and cabinets are also containers and have their own designations.

Okay it's probably not my biggest annoyance, but it's something that I keep running into quite frequently and feels like it could be more intuitive. It's annoying trying to find my few handfuls of masterful chests in the ocean of bags. It'd be neat if it had a split path, kind of like Meeting area ones, e.g. b-h-c for chests, and b-h-b for bags.

[Magmacube_tr]

Okay it's probably not my biggest annoyance, but it's something that I keep running into quite frequently and feels like it could be more intuitive. It's annoying trying to find my few handfuls of masterful chests in the ocean of bags. It'd be neat if it had a split path, kind of like Meeting area ones, e.g. b-h-c for chests, and b-h-b for bags.

Fully agreed. Can't count the number of times where I had furbished 10 or so rooms with sand bags.

[Neckbeard]

The same thing that annoys me in any game with workflows...

Logistics.

Granted, Dwarf Fortress is one of the better games at handling logistics, but it's still super annoying.

[Timeless Bob]

On slabs, when a dwarf has died from NOT completing an artifact, it still says "creator of <Artifact>".  WTH?  They died from going berzerk or depression because it DIDNT happen! Why lie?  Easy enough to just leave that off the slab altogether.

[Laterigrade]

Maksdwarves climbing over fortifications. I know that you can build fortifications in a way that prevents climbing, but that should not be necessary.

I stay away from marksdwarves for that reason.

[Nordlicht]

Giving up the creative freedom and development speed of pure ascii. But maybe i'll be wrong with that. We'll see.

[Starver]

...well, fake ASCII(ish), in the default circumstance.

Spoiler: This was supposed to be just one sentence, not three paragraphs, and quickly wanders off the subject of Codepage art (click to show/hide)

And so long as we have the artists doing the art (no tautology intended!) then that removes a lot of the extra burden by going no-lies graphical. There's the addition of neighbours/shadows/multichoice dependencies that need extra overlay code (in cooperation with the development of the exact graphics to support and to be supported by, hopefully symbiotically) and the like. And the burden to ensure the de-premiumed fallback is as functional as it needs to be (no need for suitable grass-fringes to overlay drop-offs, or the multitude of water-effects applied to stream-tiles, etc).

I think devopment speed is most governed by arc-level changes where (in-between making the invading army look 'good' and not just cloned sprites en-mass) the background to the gameplay is getting sweeping overhauls in an attempt to balance "the quirks we all know and love and would rather keep, thanks" with "revolutionary new world interactions that introduce stretch aims to definitely wow the so-car-unwowed audience".

But I may be projecting how I would (mis)handle what I see emerging. A bit of idealism, a lot of unnecessary diversion needing to be diverted back away from, loads of unworkable ideas and flights of fancy. (And, compared to the many games I never got beyond the prototype/imagination stage, Tarn has accomplished a small set of actually self-published games already, not even counting the massive evolutions undertaken of DF out of its 2D era up until the current pre-Premium stage.)

Based on that, what annoys me most (apartbfrom anything else legitimate that I may have previously mentioned) is that it apparently needs to be upgraded this way. Why can't it both have a mass-appeal and be a niche product?

...but the reasoning behind the current aims and the path it leads us down isn't much to do with the core game.