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[Flaede]

You'd have to scatter little bits of happiness throughout the fort instead.
Legendary Hallways!
Epic fountains in the middle of the warehouses...
Statues for the Booze Depot!

[Tenebrais]

Statues for the Booze Depot!

You mean you don't already give your dwarves an epic tavern?

[Zironic]

You have to build a kill switch in every legendary room, so when you see a dwarf about to party - bam. Magma flood.

[SmileyMan]

You have to build a kill switch in every legendary room, so when you see a dwarf about to party - bam. Magma flood.

Magma flood + barrels of booze = crater

[nil]

Maybe I'm not thinking apocalyptic enough for DF, but I see party-related violence and the new health care system averaging out to make it so any well functioning fortress will simply have a dozen dwarves walking around with splints and casts from last weekend's fights.  The dwarves let off some steam, the doctors have plenty of work, the jails aren't populated exclusively by mandate-missers and homicidal maniacs, and everyone is a novice wrestler.

[Puller of the lever]

It will be awesome. 

Everything that can enhance the "inner life" of the fortress is welcome.

Jails full of drunk dwarves (mmh... actually pleonastic), totally awesome.

[Puzzlemaker]

I have a few questions about some of the new stuff.

About Burrows:

I will be able to assign certain dwarves to certain burrows, right?

If so, can I make two different emergency burrows for two different groups of civilians?  AKA everyone assigned to this burrow goes to this emergency area, everyone assigned to this one goes to a different one.

About New Damage System:

Will magabeasts be more dangerous with the new damage system?

Will size come into play more when it comes to damage?  AKA, a bolt has to travel through a lot more flesh to get to a dragons heart then a goblin?

Will the new damage system effect how often weapons get Stuck?

About Military:

How will siege engineers be handled now?  Will they still run away from enemies?

Will formations give any bonuses other then simply having your dwarves where you want them?  Will they allow you to make your dwarves "face" a certain direction for better combat bonuses?  Or are there other bonuses you have in mind?

[Footkerchief]

Here's the questions I can't answer:

If so, can I make two different emergency burrows for two different groups of civilians?  AKA everyone assigned to this burrow goes to this emergency area, everyone assigned to this one goes to a different one.

Will size come into play more when it comes to damage?  AKA, a bolt has to travel through a lot more flesh to get to a dragons heart then a goblin?

Will formations give any bonuses other then simply having your dwarves where you want them?  Will they allow you to make your dwarves "face" a certain direction for better combat bonuses?  Or are there other bonuses you have in mind?

I will be able to assign certain dwarves to certain burrows, right?

Yes.

Will magabeasts be more dangerous with the new damage system?

Almost certainly.  Hydras won't go down nearly as easily (there's a List item to ensure this), and Toady also mentioned that iron men will be more difficult to kill (which should go for bronze colossuses as well).  And if that doesn't make them dangerous enough, you'll be able to mod them in much more interesting ways than you can currently.

Will the new damage system effect how often weapons get Stuck?

The entire wounding system has been rewritten, so it'll certainly affect it somehow.  I can't say whether they'll get stuck more or less, but they'll get stuck differently, e.g. it'll distinguish between getting stuck in flesh vs. bone.

How will siege engineers be handled now?  Will they still run away from enemies?

This came up a while ago.  Sounds like it won't be changing yet:

Any ideas to incorporate siege operators in the military, and making siege weapons more useful overall? Well, siege weapons should have a role in the military, at least its what i believe in. Making them more useful and incorporating the new squad system to siege operators and maybe linking them to levers and pressure plates would make them a blast to use.

There's an overall vehicle rewrite thing planned for some point during the overall invader improvements.  This'll likely change everything about fortress siege engines and establish some more structure on the associated staff.  It's not the farthest away thing in the world anyway, since invader improvements are one of the things on the plate for after this release.  The vehicle rewrite is one of the more ambitious parts of that, though, so some other invasion changes might be coming in first.

[Puzzlemaker]

Thanks for the replies, mate.  I thought I had panned through enough information that these questions wouldn't be redundant, but I was wrong. 

Still worried about megabeasts, especially with their annoying tendency to take one critical arrow to the heart and die (Hence my question about sizes).

[Zironic]

Thanks for the replies, mate.  I thought I had panned through enough information that these questions wouldn't be redundant, but I was wrong. 

Still worried about megabeasts, especially with their annoying tendency to take one critical arrow to the heart and die (Hence my question about sizes).

It's come to a point that even Toady doesn't to answer questions anymore. He usually fully explains stuff in the devlogs if you read it carefully. He's amazing in that he updates more than once a month. Even more amazing is his ability to do it daily to twice weekly.

[Name Lips]

It will be awesome. 

Everything that can enhance the "inner life" of the fortress is welcome.

Jails full of drunk dwarves (mmh... actually pleonastic), totally awesome.

Wait... would you go to jail for being drunk, or for being sober? These are dwarves after all.

Urist McDwarfinHammer: "I'm sorry, you've been accused of public sobriety."
Urist McDidn'tDrink: "But my burrow didn't have any ale barrels! Just a well!"
McDwarfinHammer: "No excuses. You are to be locked up in a holding cell with a barrel of ale until you are properly drunk."
McDidn'tDrink: ".......ok!"

[neo1096]

Looks like there are only ~75 or so points remaining some of which are already partially completed. Does this mean more than half of the work is completed?

[Footkerchief]

Looks like there are only ~75 or so points remaining some of which are already partially completed. Does this mean more than half of the work is completed?

Yes.  Work on this release started last September, and the List wasn't started until January, so the first four months of work don't appear on the List.  I feel safe saying it's closer to 2/3 or 3/4 done.

[Strife26]

Looks like there are only ~75 or so points remaining some of which are already partially completed. Does this mean more than half of the work is completed?

Yes.  Work on this release started last September, and the List wasn't started until January, so the first four months of work don't appear on the List.  I feel safe saying it's closer to 2/3 or 3/4 done.

*Hits Footkerchief*

No, it won't be done for a really long time, I don't expect it to be here until next september, it's a big project and stuff!!

_{As soon as we think that it'll be done soon, the wait'll be unbearable, and some major delay will come up!}

[Armok]

It will be awesome. 

Everything that can enhance the "inner life" of the fortress is welcome.

Jails full of drunk dwarves (mmh... actually pleonastic), totally awesome.

Wait... would you go to jail for being drunk, or for being sober? These are dwarves after all.

Urist McDwarfinHammer: "I'm sorry, you've been accused of public sobriety."
Urist McDidn'tDrink: "But my burrow didn't have any ale barrels! Just a well!"
McDwarfinHammer: "No excuses. You are to be locked up in a holding cell with a barrel of ale until you are properly drunk."
McDidn'tDrink: ".......ok!"

This = dwarven!