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[Lancensis]

Will it be possible to squeeze off somebody's head by means of their own guts? Please? As in strangling them until the head pops off.

Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows that the eyeballs pop out first, relieving the pressure.

[Jiri Petru]

So after a long while, we finally got a saucy update! And I love it. I can already see the floods of other dreadful bugs just looming behind the horizon, waiting to be released on the unsuspecting players... it'll be FUN! 

[smjjames]

I saw in one of the threads over on the adventure mode section that someone had modded zombie humanoids or something like that. I forget the persons name, but its the same person who made the expanded body parts mod with individual muscles and their names and the bones.

procedural creature graphics

Like Spore maybe? Seriously though, Spore uses it in a different and far more complex way than is applicable for DF. I mean, Maxis took like 4 or 5 years to make it, plus they were pretty much trailblazers in using procedural animation/graphics/programming in that way. Still, it depends on what Toady wants to do with procedural graphics.

We'll have to see what horrors are created with the new random titans.

That bieng said, I'm looking forward to metallic behemoths and titans that may as well be aliens.

[Eduren]

We are inching ever closer to me being able to strangle a king with the entrails of a priest.

[Sysice]

New megaproject idea: make a temple to a god your dwarves worship every year, then raze it when the year ends and build a new one. Constant speed challenge! Can you pump magma and blood in one year, then water, fish, and the dawn the next year? Live out the life of a world-gen group of priests!

[Dwarfu]

The new dev post made me so happy.

I so much prefer little anecdotal stories during the dev cycle than podcasts/meetups/color-coded organizational charts...

[smjjames]

Sounds like you are talking about a bioengineered building, or a plant.

At least deconstructing it will take between a day to a month (ingame), depending on how you built it.

[AbacusWizard]

...and titans that may as well be aliens.

Dwarf Fortress + H.P. Lovecraft =

[CobaltKobold]

The goal for November is to finish off the Entity Positions and Squads entries on the list of remaining items.  A year-end release would still look difficult at that point, but at least everything remaining would essentially be loose ends and cleaning up.

\o/

hmm. There is a lack of penguins in the game.

[BigFatDwarf]

Sounds like you are talking about a bioengineered building, or a plant.

At least deconstructing it will take between a day to a month (ingame), depending on how you built it.

WAT U SAY

No really, all you need to do is PULL DA LEVER.

[Ixoran]

So, after listening to the DF Talk 4 teaser, and asking this question a few times and not getting answered I figured I'd ask it here (as was suggested)
I was just curious as to how big the Dwarf Fortress code base is these days. It seems like it'd be a huge amount of code.

[CobaltKobold]

So, after listening to the DF Talk 4 teaser, and asking this question a few times and not getting answered I figured I'd ask it here (as was suggested)
I was just curious as to how big the Dwarf Fortress code base is these days. It seems like it'd be a huge amount of code.

footkerchief in 5...4...3...2...
Though, I'm sure it has changed a fair amount with the material rewrite.

[Markham]

The goal for November is to finish off the Entity Positions and Squads entries on the list of remaining items.  A year-end release would still look difficult at that point, but at least everything remaining would essentially be loose ends and cleaning up.

\o/

hmm. There is a lack of penguins in the game.

There need to be Giant Cave Penguins in the next game now, especially since we already have Bat-Men.

[Chronas]

The goal for November is to finish off the Entity Positions and Squads entries on the list of remaining items.  A year-end release would still look difficult at that point, but at least everything remaining would essentially be loose ends and cleaning up.

\o/

hmm. There is a lack of penguins in the game.

There need to be Giant Cave Penguins in the next game now, especially since we already have Bat-Men.

i see what you did there
to add to this facade we only have giant cave swallowmen, no robins...

how about iron men?

[Footkerchief]

So, after listening to the DF Talk 4 teaser, and asking this question a few times and not getting answered I figured I'd ask it here (as was suggested)
I was just curious as to how big the Dwarf Fortress code base is these days. It seems like it'd be a huge amount of code.

footkerchief in 5...4...3...2...
Though, I'm sure it has changed a fair amount with the material rewrite.

I wasn't expecting to find anything, but that prompted me to give it a try:

Doing a search for the character ;, which ends a statement in C/C++, I get 143431 lines containing it.  This doesn't count complex conditionals or additional statements on the same line, and it does count things like "break;" and commented-out code blocks, so it's a rough estimate.

That was over two years ago though.

There need to be Giant Cave Penguins in the next game now, especially since we already have Bat-Men.

Okay, this got me wondering: Have the underground biomes been extended beyond the CHASM, LAVA and WATER types?  In particular, do regions/layers have varying temperatures?  It would be neat if some of the randomized creatures had thick fur to deal with the cold of their native environments (yes, I know the Earth generally just gets hotter as you go down, but it's fantasy).