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[Mephansteras]

Soldiers are now divided up and assigned to their squad's scheduled orders such as patrols/training and so on according to hunger, thirst, etc. as well as preference settings and to match staffing minimums set in the schedule, and they know what equipment they should use. It'll periodically swap out soldiers to try to keep all of the month's schedule items staffed without interruptions. If it is unable to find replacements, soldiers will staff positions until they are starving (which shouldn't happen if you don't order them all to be someplace). In any case, now they just need to run out and grab their assigned equipment and start following their orders.

A few questions on this:

1) Do soldiers still carry provisions? I assume that'll let them stay out much longer. Relatedly, is there a specific order that lets them leave there post to resupply but then sends them back? This also applies to archers and bolts.
2) Are there any plans to allow haulers to bring provisions (food, booze, bolts, etc) out to soldiers on station?

[Christes]

And related to the above, will there be a way to assign booze to soldiers in the field, or at least make it so they don't drink their assigned water when booze is available.

[Mephansteras]

I can answer the booze question, at least.

From the list of remaining Items: Booze instead of water should be allowed

[James]

Man, future Dwarf Fortress players are going to be so spoiled, with all these burrows and alerts and complex squads and whatnot. I can see myself now: "When I was your age, we used to assign every non-combat dwarf to a squad and have them wait in the deepest darkest hole! We didn't have any of these fancy alerts or doctors. And doctors! Bah! Back in the day, if a dwarf got hurt, we just kept shoving food down his throat till he healed his own damn broken arm!" Etc. I would probably hit them with a walking stick once or twice while I was speaking, just for good measure.

[AbuDhabi]

While the new features are awesome, what I'd really like to see would be a working population cap and the ability to cap pets. Any chance of getting those in the upcoming release?

[chaoticag]

Currently, you can cap your fort pop in the init, but I'm not too sure about pets. The cap for pets is 50 per animal at the moment.

[BigFatDwarf]

... really like to see would be a working population cap ...

I think he refers to the point that although you can cap them, immigrants still come in groups of one at a time usually.

[Javis]

Toady mentions a 3x3 burrow in the latest update. I wonder if you can designate a burrow over multiple z-levels. I ask because I usually vertically integrate workshop areas, with raw material stockpiles below and finished good stockpiles above.

[phi2dao]

Toady mentions a 3x3 burrow in the latest update. I wonder if you can designate a burrow over multiple z-levels. I ask because I usually vertically integrate workshop areas, with raw material stockpiles below and finished good stockpiles above.

I know you can.  I don't remember where Toady said it, but you can create burrows over multiple z-levels.

[ArkDelgato]

Speaking of immagrants filing into a fort in a 1 dwarf at a time line, Will migrants ever ride caravans into the fort? 
It sure would be more safe and immersive.

[James.Denholm]

Toady mentions a 3x3 burrow in the latest update. I wonder if you can designate a burrow over multiple z-levels. I ask because I usually vertically integrate workshop areas, with raw material stockpiles below and finished good stockpiles above.

I know you can.  I don't remember where Toady said it, but you can create burrows over multiple z-levels.

Great, so we can lock dwarves in their workshops! Not that we couldn't already do that, but now they will never leave, because they will never want to leave... Or something like that.

Anyway. What I want to know is, with this new DEFCON Threat Level System alert level system with all of it's burrows, will there be some sort of anti-burrow thing? As in, does the player have the ability to designate an area, and when that alert level is triggered, any dwarves in that area will get out at any cost? I only ask because I mine in ways that produce a lot of dust and stuff, and I don't want anyone being knocked unconscious by that, but I also don't want the fort to stop either.

Does any of that make sense?

[ArkDelgato]

Toady mentions a 3x3 burrow in the latest update. I wonder if you can designate a burrow over multiple z-levels. I ask because I usually vertically integrate workshop areas, with raw material stockpiles below and finished good stockpiles above.

I know you can.  I don't remember where Toady said it, but you can create burrows over multiple z-levels.

Great, so we can lock dwarves in their workshops! Not that we couldn't already do that, but now they will never leave, because they will never want to leave... Or something like that.

Anyway. What I want to know is, with this new DEFCON Threat Level System alert level system with all of it's burrows, will there be some sort of anti-burrow thing? As in, does the player have the ability to designate an area, and when that alert level is triggered, any dwarves in that area will get out at any cost? I only ask because I mine in ways that produce a lot of dust and stuff, and I don't want anyone being knocked unconscious by that, but I also don't want the fort to stop either.

Does any of that make sense?

Make a burrow over the mouth of a cave.
Tell the dwarves to STAY THE HELL AWAY LEST YOU CALL FORTH THE WRATH OF THE DRAGON.

makes perfect sense!

[Thexor]

Toady mentions a 3x3 burrow in the latest update. I wonder if you can designate a burrow over multiple z-levels. I ask because I usually vertically integrate workshop areas, with raw material stockpiles below and finished good stockpiles above.

I know you can.  I don't remember where Toady said it, but you can create burrows over multiple z-levels.

Great, so we can lock dwarves in their workshops! Not that we couldn't already do that, but now they will never leave, because they will never want to leave... Or something like that.

Anyway. What I want to know is, with this new DEFCON Threat Level System alert level system with all of it's burrows, will there be some sort of anti-burrow thing? As in, does the player have the ability to designate an area, and when that alert level is triggered, any dwarves in that area will get out at any cost? I only ask because I mine in ways that produce a lot of dust and stuff, and I don't want anyone being knocked unconscious by that, but I also don't want the fort to stop either.

Does any of that make sense?

It does make sense, but I don't believe that's in. If it's any consolation, you can achieve the same effect by making a burrow that contains all of your fort except one specific area. It'll take longer to set up, but it should do the same thing.

The problem with designating a dwarf-free zone is that, currently, dwarves still path through invalid burrows - if he's got a valid hauling job in burrow A, he'll happily pass through burrows B, C, and D en route. Which means that an anti-burrow might stop dwarves acquiring jobs in the area, but it wouldn't stop them wandering through during their normal tasks. I believe Toady mentioned that changing pathing to block some areas to dwarves would be very difficult - hence why traffic areas can restrict but not block areas, and why you can telekineticaly lock doors to block intruders and dwarves.

[tomato]

Great, so we can lock dwarves in their workshops! Not that we couldn't already do that, but now they will never leave, because they will never want to leave... Or something like that.

Anyway. What I want to know is, with this new DEFCON Threat Level System alert level system with all of it's burrows, will there be some sort of anti-burrow thing? As in, does the player have the ability to designate an area, and when that alert level is triggered, any dwarves in that area will get out at any cost? I only ask because I mine in ways that produce a lot of dust and stuff, and I don't want anyone being knocked unconscious by that, but I also don't want the fort to stop either.

Does any of that make sense?

It does make sense, but I don't believe that's in. If it's any consolation, you can achieve the same effect by making a burrow that contains all of your fort except one specific area. It'll take longer to set up, but it should do the same thing.

AFAICR it's not possible, burrows have to be rectangles. As such, a "deny" acces and work burrow would be at least a godsend.

Question: If i'm wrong about the "burrows have to be rectangles", will pathfinding favor burrow ares if the dwarf doing the job and job object are in the burrow?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Burrows don't have to be rectangles, you paint them out like designations, IIRC. And I think "yes" was the answer to that, though I can't find a quote right now...