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[Linthar]

Did some quick tests in all the various modes. Arena mode is incredibly fun. Setting megabeasts against megabeasts, sending swarms of 50 animals against megabeasts, elves vs dwarves, so many fun things to do with it.

In my new fortress I haven't managed to do all that much. The health care system seems intimidating, but seems to work ok once I realized I needed to actually enable the various healthcare labors on my doctor dwarf. I've broke into a large underground cavern filled with spiderwebs, fungi, mud and water which seemed to be the perfect place to expand my farms, instead of messing with irrigation. Of course the second I started to try and make said farm, a bunch of naked mole dogs came out of no where and starting running all around my fort. They didn't attack anyone but it led to what must have been a very comical scene of five dwarves with a slight bit of military training chasing after them in every direction until they finally caught them all about 5 minutes later. Speaking of that, the military interface seems very very intimidating. I'm sure it will give my a far greater level of control but it's going to take a while to learn. Can't wait to see what else I can find.

My only real notes from adventure mode are that the underground is big, very big. I didn't get to explore all that much.

Finally with legends mode the titans and forgotten beasts look great, just like everyone else is saying.

Performance wise I haven't really noticed any noticeable slowdown. A few of the menus seem to be slightly unresponsive, but it's perfectly playable on my end.

[N3X15]

Farming is completely screwed up, doesn't help that I'm 10 z-levels and 50 tiles away from a river.

[InsanityPrelude]

What the- Elephants. Wandering around inside my fort.

Also, hooves seem to be craftable with via "make horn crafts" but what do you do with hair and cartilage?

[Aklyon]

Farming is completely screwed up, doesn't help that I'm 10 z-levels and 50 tiles away from a river.

needing irrigation on soil tiles is a bug.

[alway]

It seems migrants are no longer as useless as they used to be! I just got a high master fish dissector! Which means one could theoretically get a high master weaponsmith/armorsmith!

[bombcar]

You can name a bed.

[Zruku]

Well that was pathetic, my woodcutter who was a competent axedwarf didn't even land a hit on a troglodyte and died instantly, while my mason who wasn't even a novice wrestler has held off 8 troglodytes so far.

EDIT: Make that 5, 3 are still unconscious, 1 he's still fighting, and the 4 others escaped.

EDIT EDIT: The 4 came back and swarmed him so I sent the rest of my dwarves to help. My dwarves are skilling up in wrestling pretty quickly too.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Dear god, so many dead troglodytes, and miasma. Two dwarves died in the fight, against 13 troglodytes. To top it all off I got migrants after the fight.
The aftermath:

[diefortheswarm]

What the- Elephants. Wandering around inside my fort.

Also, hooves seem to be craftable with via "make horn crafts" but what do you do with hair and cartilage?

You should be able to make fur clothing.

[bombcar]

If you change the ESC key to Space to make it like the old version; beware that you then can't type a space in the manager when searching for items to build.

[Lemunde]

Don't know if this is typical but there seems to be an abnormal abundance of resources at my site.  I just barely got my fort going and already I've struck magnetite, lignite, coal, native silver, some other ore and an abundance of gems.  Not that I'm complaining.  If this is the way stuff is distributed now I'm all for it.

[alway]

Ya, apparently everything is everywhere now! It is quite awesome, since it changes the game a bit away from exploratory mining tunnels and towards exploring the underground.

[Bandages]

he repeats concerned: how does one mod the raws to make forgotten beasts arena-able?

[Frumple]

My personal impression is summed up in the line, "Wagon toppled by Ugithrash, Shade Banshee." It's beautiful.

[Cruxador]

he repeats concerned: how does one mod the raws to make forgotten beasts arena-able?

Impossible. Each one is unique; there is no forgotten beast that is generic enough to work.

[Bandages]

sadness wells up within me.

I assume it's the same for titans?

So, as of now the most BAMF thing you can make in arena is a dragon?