Apologies for delving even further off topic, but: would the notion of knowledge be tied in with events? That seems like an even more compelling use of a knowledge system, with huge implications for military stuff, diplomacy, trade, and lots of small flavorful possibilities like meaningful conversation (link to old Suggestions thread), quests to acquire/convey information, etc. Misinformation is an amazingly cool facet, but tracking it only as a property of a real fact wouldn't be enough to allow some of the more amusing types of misinformation like creative slander -- I'm envisioning something here like an adventurer spreading rumors in a town about the mayor's predilection for insert deviancy here, maybe with a Madlibs-ish interface for constructing a "fake event."
On the other hand, given the sheer potential number of events (compared to a small, fixed set of technologies), it seems likely that storing the knowledge of those events could get expensive even if it's done at the civ level.
Yeah, this gets to be one of those complicated nightmares, but I wanted to do some stuff with that. There are a few things from the armok notes waiting to be power-goaled having to do with false legends and false maps, and at least some element of that should make it in. It won't be able to track potential misinformation about every event, but if it just keeps track of really important lies and player lies (both heard and spoken), that should be enough.
I'm wondering. If we created a race that somehow considered it's skin layer 'cosmetic' and would periodically skin itself, would another race that was subjugated by this one then begin skinning themselves with hilarious effect?
You'd need to explicitly include a tissue style unit for it to link up with the entity style definition, and that would be cruel to say the least.
Made me think, will it be possible to make a creature immune to certain diseses?
For the poison effects that are currently in, you add in affected classes and then immune classes, and when other diseases go in I don't think it'll be handled differently, unless poisons have become more refined by that time.
Are the splints fastened with thread? Also, are splints a new type of object or improvised wooden logs?
I was considering what material other than the main base material might be used, but in the end I decided not to add one since that would be a bit picky compared to other items and splints might be very necessary. Then I saw a badass ancient splint that just used flexed rods of the base material to keep things in place and it looked very dwarfy and I felt fine about it.
Dragons are definatly not immune to heat, their own firebreath seems to become their downfall. Is this intended or is that going to be handled in the next version?
I hope so, but I guess I won't guarantee anything.
1: Will milking be updated? To where we can milk cows?
2: In the description paragraph, will there be the dwarves' ages?
3: Will dwarves eventually be able to ride mounts?
4: Will war dogs be able to be put on a patrol route?
5: Will there be an update to hunting?
1 Nope.
2 Probably, one way or another. There's a note to that effect in what I have left to do. Right now you can just see the amount of gray in their hair.
3 Eventually, probably, though it's almost as odd to me as them using poison.
4 By itself? Probably not.
5 Beyond what Footkerchief mentioned, probably not, though it's not completely clear how the squad changes will impact hunting outside of equipment.
Toady, have there been any further significant changes to the raw tags outside your preview? I understand that you'd not want to reveal too much about the poisons and whatnot, but are the way creatures constructed and tissues defined and used pretty much the same? I'd like to start converting a few mods over to the new version in preparation for the new version, so I'd just like to know how much last-minute tweaking I'd have to end up doing in order to get them working fast.
It's all very similar. I might have changed the orders around in the body plans for adding tissues, but I think it's all pretty easy to fix. In any case, I can refresh the posted data this weekish, I guess.
Does anyone know if Toady is planning on addressing the machine-gun (cross)bow-goblins in this release?
I don't think that'll change until I get down to doing all of the combat stuff, in particular splitting speed up in many ways.
With the new variable tissue healing rates, is the act of healing itself going to exist on a different timescale from immediate actions, or will it be constantly occurring? For instance, if two dwarfs are brawling, and one scratches their elbow, does the elbow immediately start healing then and there? Or does it wait until after the combat is over?
If it starts right away, then critters might have extreme rates of healing, either extremely fast (so that it happens even as you wound the critter) or extremely slow.
Not quite "regeneration", but something beyond the norm, as a stand-in for true regeneration.
Also, from my understanding, there are secondary injuries planned (a broken rib might pierce a lung), do those include such a thing as inflammation? scabbing? the clotting of blood? I'm guessing infection is already somewhere in the works, and I think I read in-depth bruising is planned, but not for this version. Scarification I already know is out for now.
It starts right away. You can make the rates pretty fast, almost like regeneration. I remember writing about this, and I did the calculations there, but maybe it was just an email... in any case, you could get away with healing heavy damage fully after an hour? Or was it faster. I think it was pretty fast, and that it wouldn't be very hard to make it faster or instantaneous as needed with a little change.
I think infection got purpled out in the list (hidden under venom)... there's bruising, but I'm not sure what in-depth means. Scars are in. Scabs aren't in at this time. Swelling only works with poison for now, though it's easily extendable since the swelling is a property of the wound.
WIll there be asexual reproduction?
The closest I'm going to get to that is the upcoming ant stuff, and I'm not sure how far that will go toward a general system. Probably not very far this time around, since I'd have to make it all work out in world gen too and the calculations can get annoying if they go too far from the current model.
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