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[Osmosis Jones]

When it be done. Arr.


Seriously though, Toady has stated he will release before the end of the year, even if he has to cut some dev items.

[Mike Mayday]

There are not enough smilies in the whole internet to express my joy at today's devnotes.

[Warlord255]

There are not enough smilies in the whole internet to express my joy at today's devnotes.

Seriously. I don't even know where to start...

[Deimos56]

There are not enough smilies in the whole internet to express my joy at today's devnotes.

Seriously. I don't even know where to start...

I think I might  know where to start...
Where it will go, on the other hand...

[Granite26]

awesome....

[sweitx]

I'm doing custom workshops and furnaces. I'm going to use it to make a place for soap making, which may or may not deserve its own workshop. Most or all of the old buildings will have to remain hard-coded for the time being. - Toady

So does this mean technically, the custom workshops/furnaces will be able to replace the old buildings if we edit the raw?

... SWEET!

[IHateOutside]

There are not enough smilies in the whole internet to express my joy at today's devnotes.

I disagree

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[PTTG??]

Arrrgh, I look ahead yonder to be makin' all sorts a' mods.

't would defn'ly make them thar sci-fi mods easyer.

Yarrrr.

[Christes]

Saturday is talk like a pirate day - you have permission to slug anyone in the throat who does.

[sweitx]

Saturday is talk like a pirate day - you have permission to slug anyone in the throat who does.

Nah, we should talk like a dwarf pirate.
Plundering elven villages!
First we'll flood the world with magam.
Then we build a *Admantium Ship*
And hunt down those pesky elves!

[Footkerchief]

I wonder if we can use the custom workshops/reactions to make "living" creatures?

Probably not -- creating creatures with reactions (and using them in reactions, for that matter) still has some special complications.

So does this mean technically, the custom workshops/furnaces will be able to replace the old buildings if we edit the raw?

... SWEET!

If the old buildings are still hardcoded, you probably can't get rid of them, just add new ones.

Now that the parades have been rained on -- holy cow this is going to rule.

[darkflagrance]

Personally I prefer to have a healer/carpenter in my embark group.

I see what you did there...

[chaoticag]

I've gone ahead and removed the green bits from Toady's post out of curiosity, and what I got is pretty cool. It certainly makes the list look a lot shorter, and that is before you optimists discount the deep blue bits! I'm a little afraid I might have gotten rid of something by accident. (Of course, as soon as he is done, the bug hunt is on)

Health Care (last changed Sep 18)

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• Medical information and chief physician appointment

Map Features (last changed Apr 25)

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• Underground feature resources more likely and useful (farmable areas, etc.)
• Consider rope/ladder/etc. building particularly for downward movement into large open spaces

Sites

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• Tie in cave sites to map features
• Handle how mega beasts in world gen move between the new caves
• Update cave size calcs
• Update generation of cave pops
• Entity cave dwellers vs. new caves
• Update cave diggers in world gen
• Update cave generation vs. map features
• Update text/symbol/color of sites (particularly caves) vs. map features
• Update entity site preferences vs. new caves
• New caves vs. skulker stealth during world gen
• Update world gen site defense values vs. new caves
• Update conversation vs. new caves

Entity Positions (last changed Jun 2)

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• Update guards (as a position, other parts during squad update below)
• Update liaison
• Update meetings vs. new positions
• Respect gender/caste for generated position holders
• Update position spouse names
• Update position holder seat of power
• Update temple greeting triggers vs. new positions
• Handle entities with variable world gen positions
• Update monarch arrival
• Remove any final remnants of replaced unit types
• Creature/mount prefs for leaders
• Remove demons as forced powers for goblins and have such arrangements arise through mega-beast behavior

Squads (last changed Jul 26)

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• Add yearly squad schedules
• Appointee to handle individual equipment overrides, automation of equipment upgrades, as well as training supplies
• Soldiers that are standing down should sort out their equipment according to their assignments
• More control over archery training materials
• More control over hunter equipment
• Better handling of axe/pick issues with civilian vs. military equipment
• Familiarity with individual weapons, attachment to them, weapon mentions in legends
• Booze instead of water should be allowed
• Ability to create formations and have squads hold a given formation at a position or during movement
• Framework for instructor-led training, with instructor and evaluation of pupils determining nature of sparring/routines
• Associated skills for leading/teaching
• Formation drills, with training having an impact on the ability to hold formation and overall military discipline
• Check out sparring injury rates vs. new wound system
• Update archery training and some associated settings
• Ability to use free time for additional practice/drills if so inclined
• Personality effects on training

Some other unfinished business (last changed Jul 3)

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• Handling butchery/rot/fish cleaning/eat leavings vs. body materials
• Updating undead severs
• Some quick function updates based on tissue materials
• Handle issue with totem items vs. castes
• Update some issues with moods vs. new corpses
• Update some of the optimizations for job reactions
• Update automation of tanning jobs
• Issue with stout creatures vs. items
• Handle a few material contaminant issues
• Update blood flow/contam pushes

Final

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• Explore a few other (very minor) compat issues
• Fix the annoying cat bug
• Perform the hydra test
• Any remaining tests
• Handle a few misc. bug reports and minor interface requests that have arisen
• Merge with the 40d# stuff

[ilsadir]

I've gone ahead and removed the green bits from Toady's post out of curiosity, and what I got is pretty cool. It certainly makes the list look a lot shorter, and that is before you optimists discount the deep blue bits! I'm a little afraid I might have gotten rid of something by accident. (Of course, as soon as he is done, the bug hunt is on)

Even better, I removed some bits from each based on the level of blueness!

Health Care (last changed Sep 18)

• Medical information and chief appointment

Map Features (last changed Apr 25)

• resources useful
• Consider rope/ladder/etc. building particularly for downward movement into large open spaces

Sites

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• Tie in cave sites to map features
• Handle how mega beasts in world gen move between the new caves
• Update cave size calcs
• Update generation of cave pops
• Entity cave dwellers vs. new caves
• Update cave diggers in world gen
• Update cave generation vs. map features
• Update text/symbol/color of sites (particularly caves) vs. map features
• Update entity site preferences vs. new caves
• New caves vs. skulker stealth during world gen
• Update world gen site defense values vs. new caves
• Update conversation vs. new caves

Entity Positions (last changed Jun 2)

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• Update guards (as a position, other parts during squad update below)
• Update liaison
• Update meetings vs. new positions
• Respect gender/caste for generated position holders
• Update position spouse names
• Update position holder seat of power
• Update temple greeting triggers vs. new positions
• Handle entities with variable world gen positions
• Update monarch arrival
• Remove any final remnants of replaced unit types
• Creature/mount prefs for leaders
• Remove demons as forced powers for goblins and have such arrangements arise through mega-beast behavior

Squads (last changed Jul 26)

• Add yearly
• training
• that down their
• More control over archery training materials
• More control over hunter equipment
• handling of with vs. equipment
• Familiarity with individual weapons, attachment to them, weapon mentions in legends
• Booze instead of water should be allowed
• Ability to create formations and have squads hold a given formation at a position or during movement
• nature
• skills
• Formation drills, with training having an impact on the ability to hold formation and overall military discipline
• Check out sparring injury rates vs. new wound system
• Update archery training and some associated
• Ability to use free for additional practice/drills if so inclined
• Personality on training

Some other unfinished business (last changed Jul 3)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• Handling butchery/rot/fish cleaning/eat leavings vs. body materials
• Updating undead severs
• Some quick function updates based on tissue materials
• Handle issue with totem items vs. castes
• Update some issues with moods vs. new corpses
• Update some of the optimizations for job reactions
• Update automation of tanning jobs
• Issue with stout creatures vs. items
• Handle a few material contaminant issues
• Update blood flow/contam pushes

Final

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• Explore a few other (very minor) compat issues
• Fix the annoying cat bug
• Perform the hydra test
• Any remaining tests
• Handle a few misc. bug reports and minor interface requests that have arisen
• Merge with the 40d# stuff

[Leafsnail]

Is the plan to just finish the chief physician thing so that healthcare (one of the biggest changes, in my opinion) can be crossed off the list?  Then continue to obliterate the remaining items in a downwards direction?