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[Retro]

Pump stacks still work. I just tried it.

Thank god. I was terrified when I read that they didn't for the first time. Pump stacks have about doubled in importance with how the new version's features work.

[o_O[WTFace]]

This is a more general case of the new behavior, which is basically "dwarves act like programmers".  When they're "in the zone" doing something, they tend to put off self-maintainence until they reach a stopping point, and then catch up on bodily needs before starting another task.  This leads to fewer interrupted tasks in the long run, and makes sense in-universe (dwarves are frequently depicted as being a bit monomaniacal), but does mean that they're a little less responsive to sudden "orders from beyond" rearranging their lives. 

Once a fort has a regular military, with multiple squads in rotation, this shouldn't be a problem; finding the best way to handle it at the very beginning is still a bit of a question. 

It just bugs me that they choose to work instead of eat and then get bad thoughts for being starving.  I like the feature overall, it seems much more dwarfy. 

Male and female critters are normally listed as such on the embark screen; if you just selected 5 of the first dog entry without reading, you'll get all males.  Given that you can now explicitly start off with exactly the mix of male and female dogs, horses, etc. that you want, complaints on this seem a bit odd. 

Yea I was mostly frustrated with my own not paying attention, its a good feature. 

[Acanthus117]

It makes livestock keeping easier! I can have increased birth rates without having to wait several years!

[Nikov]

I got it. The biggest frustration is not being able to order dwarfs to follow veins. It's so time-consuming and annoying to designate a few more tiles to be dug out every minute. Even more so now that the stuff is all over the place.

Given the way your dwarves would gleefully dig clear through to an underground cavern and spider's den, I don't mind designating myself. Usually I just dig a narrow little 'I guess the vein runs this way' shaft and then dig it out  properly with most of the tiles already revealed. That's more realistic hard rock mining anyway; hanging wall and foot wall.

My biggest frustration is crashes. Everything else I can dwarf it the hell up.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Can't stockpile the two dozen barrels of carp blood I've been ordering from the humans.

[Ilmoran]

The problem I have with the "finishing jobs before eatting/drinking" is that my dwarves have a tendency to view "move stuff into stockpiles" as a single, continuous job.  I've had dwarves hauling stuff inside while complaining that they're thirsty and hauling a barrel of beer.  When the finish, they run up to the surface to start hauling the next item. Drink your freaking booze!!! 

[LemonFrosted]

The overworked negative thoughts are pretty easy to counterbalance for the most part: epic dining room, modest bedroom, and some statue gardens near main avenues can provide more than enough happy thoughts to keep your dwarves from dismay. Do have to be better about disposing of the dead, though. Unless your entire fort is sheer mind bending bling then "forced to endure the decay of a loved one" can put your whole populace on edge as tantrums start to flare up. A crypt of any size or value takes care of this, like as simple as dropping coffins flagged for general use in corners or wherever. This can actually do more good than just prevention as I've heard that it'll not only prevent the decay unhappy thought but also trigger a "honored the dead" happy thought, though that's largely hearsay as I've never personally seen that happy thought, but I've never gone looking either.

[Afthartos]

FPS drops to 6 after about 5 minutes with a new fort. Nothing seems to be able to raise it higher.

edit: corrected typo

[Lord Snow]

vermin not going away.

1.5 years into my first .31 game this is all i have to report. No fights, no sieges, no beasts, no bronze colossi, smoothly running at 76fps/gfps.

[jocan2003]

ATOM smashing!!

Can we atom smash the bronze collussus?

[The Mad Engineer]

The frequent crashes when I accidentally do stupid things like make zones on top of each other, or try to make my military wear a hat that's not in a stockpile.

[Heliomance]

The fact that I'm currently 50 miles away from my desktop and my laptop can't hack running it.

[Psychoceramics]

channeling a single tiles leaves a dwarf with the ability to go down but not up, and if there's something to dig down there, they'll go down and leave themselves trapped. And then rather than being patient and wait to be rescued, to try to dig somewhere else, to find they can't walk through solid rock. So they give up, and the dig order is canceled.

ugh

[Talith]

The fact that needing to irrigate before planting is considered a bug annoys me.  2D was great for that very reason.

[Vieto]

channeling a single tiles leaves a dwarf with the ability to go down but not up, and if there's something to dig down there, they'll go down and leave themselves trapped. And then rather than being patient and wait to be rescued, to try to dig somewhere else, to find they can't walk through solid rock. So they give up, and the dig order is canceled.

ugh

hey, I was about to mention that.