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[Chronas]

My new fort of DF 2010 was called "firstborn" i set my leader to also be my commander. later in the year a mason, blacksmith and then a weaponsmith mooded, producing a bituminous coal throne and a platinum crown with the founding of firstborn detailed on it in alder, as well as a platinum mace with fire agate spikes... it was awesome -i encountered a forgotten beast shortly after that, an eyeless humanoid with fan like antennae. i sent my leader and honor guard out to meet it, it seemed to be benign -but turned out just to be blind. it died after a single blow to the skull "collapsing the bone into the brain and ripping it apart" the mace lodged in his brain just before he died...
the fort later died out due to farming issues...

This game is FUN

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Also note that the underground farms seem to be misleading in their warning messages (I have not done underground farming in ages, so I am just reporting other people's experiences):

While you may be able to create a farm plot, if even one tile of it is not watered, no seeds will be planted and some error about the seeds, I think, is given.

Deathworks

P.S.: Once your first fortress is ruined, start digging down - it is quite interesting.
P.P.S.: What civs does your civ screen list?

[shadowform]

I have a question:

Why do giant tigers have the [trAINABLE] tag?

[Owlbread]

Fantastic. Truly fantastic. That is the only response that I can give to this.

However, I understand that no graphics sets have been created that can be used effectively with this version, correct? I mean, it's only been out for a day. It's not like we're expecting them to update a tileset on a vast scale in a day.

As I find it difficult to understand the current ASCII format, I shall amuse myself by inspecting the wiki on a variety of features, most likely the new military positions and whether or not Generals actually exist, as opposed to militiamen.

I must also ask as to what the Forced Administrator is, as one of his details appears to be "LAW_MAKING".

Its been on the wiki since the new release was, well, released 

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Tileset

Ah, fantastic! Perhaps I am expecting too little of people. I shall use it right away.

[Shoku]

Fantastic. Truly fantastic. That is the only response that I can give to this.

However, I understand that no graphics sets have been created that can be used effectively with this version, correct? I mean, it's only been out for a day. It's not like we're expecting them to update a tileset on a vast scale in a day.

As I find it difficult to understand the current ASCII format, I shall amuse myself by inspecting the wiki on a variety of features, most likely the new military positions and whether or not Generals actually exist, as opposed to militiamen.

I must also ask as to what the Forced Administrator is, as one of his functions appears to be "LAW_MAKING", and seems to control a "conquered region"?

Graphics are different from tilesets and the difference is really quite simple: the tileset is a file with a bunch of (mostly) two color shapes on it for drawing the whole ground. Default game takes everything from a tileset called curses. The mayday pack used one similar to Belial.
These are just a single rectangle image of mostly pink squares (in d## versions you could use png files that had actual tranparency instead of pink fill.)

Graphics are used exclusively for living things that move around the map except for vermin. A text file specifically directs any animal/person to a full color image file and says what square of space in it to use. You could make graphics shaped like letters if you wanted but they don't automatically get adjusted to yellow or red or such.
This works very much like a tileset but it just isn't as hard coded.

But who am I kidding? You weren't interested in learning how it works 

[zchris13]

DF 0.31.01
One small step for games. One giant leap for Gamers.

Properly, it would be:
DF 0.31.01
One small step for [a] game. One giant leap for gamekind.

[xxicemanx]

Because I can't for some reason log on to the Mantis Tracker, I'll post it here instead. I've had a 1050-year long Age of Myth. I don't think that's supposed to happen. Or is it?

It switches to the Age of Legend after a certain percentage of megabeasts die.  Megabeasts are much harder to kill now, which means that most of them survive to 1050 (the default "End Year" in world gen params), and the age doesn't change.  So this isn't a bug per se.

Hmm i've generated 3 10,000 year old worlds and haven't left the age of Myth in any of them lol

[ToonyMan]

Is that you Deathworks?

HI.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Hmm i've generated 3 10,000 year old worlds and haven't left the age of Myth in any of them lol

Could you please check whether ANY megabeasts got killed during worldgen at all?

Especially the colossi might benefit from non-living immortality other people mentioned.

But then again, weapons seem to be toned down considerably (^_^;;

Deathworks

[Grax]

Unicorns have elk fawns.

[CHILD:1][GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:elk fawn:elk fawns]

[Rashilul]

Hell yeah, freaking awesome

[Grax]

Where's damblock?
How can i make my goblins much stronger?

[Huw_Dawson]

So at the moment, farming is impossible without somehow irrigating?

[Samoorai]

I don't know if anyone's asked this, but are there eventual plans to put it large doors? Like say, 3 tiles across, perhaps even 2 tiles high?

[Diablous]

I don't know if anyone's asked this, but are there eventual plans to put it large doors? Like say, 3 tiles across, perhaps even 2 tiles high?

There is like a bloat or something for big gates.

For the non-living immortality, I've set a broze collosus and a dragon against each other in the arena. The dragon's fire is hot enough to melt the collosus to death.