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[Quatch]

Underground castles pretty much solves the "how to make dwarf fortresses" bit. Also, with dwarves around, putting your castle partly underground for better down-facing defense may not be a bad idea.

[Dante]

Underground castles pretty much solves the "how to make dwarf fortresses" bit. Also, with dwarves around, putting your castle partly underground for better down-facing defense may not be a bad idea.

I was going to say exactly this. Of course, if they go deep enough to interact with caverns, there could be some trickiness. It used to be that visiting human towns near the ocean (or embarking on them) often had them collapse into the sea. There could easily be something similar here, except with disjointed bits of cavern dropping into the fortress, or underground water features insta-drowning them.

Are dwarf civ fortresses going to connect up to both underground roads and overground roads? Will they access the cave systems, maybe with guards posted, or even farm in them?

[Untelligent]

Where was this posted?

The dev log (vlog?) on the download page. If you checked it earlier today, you might have to F5 to refresh your cache to see the update.

[James.Denholm]

I think, for some reason, the RSS feed was re-created.

[thvaz]

There it goes my weekend of playing the new version.

[Rip0k]

There it goes my weekend of playing the new version.

But at least we know what is going on and...
The longer we wait the better it gets

[tfaal]

And the closer it gets. With each passing day the probability of a release increases.

[piecewise]

Well, here's hoping it comes out on Monday or Tuesday, because I'm stranded in the uni library for 5 hours next Tuesday and this would be a nice way to kill time.

[Quote]

After reading about the next update, I'm pretty sure I'll like it more than the DF2010 update.

[Dakk]

After reading about the next update, I'm pretty sure I'll like it more than the DF2010 update.

Same here. While I do play fortress mode more often then adventurer, it is finally getting some love.

[Dae]

Epic wall of text is Epic.

But this adventurer was only in the wild for 4 or 5 days if I count well, and had his hand lopped off and both his legs gored in a very bad way. It is obvious adventurers won't live a long life as it is. Toady, have you managed to throw in some sort of medical support or is it for a next time ?

[Greiger]

Loving these long adventurer logs Toady.   Big fan of adventure mode and all that sounds like a blast.

I'll just have to remember to kill any large reptiles that manage to get a name near castles.  I could just imagine you showing up a little later with the gator lounging on the throne with the crown on it's head surrounded by corpses.

[freeformschooler]

That was a truly incredible story. The fact that a story like it could be created by any skilled adventure is impressive, too. I remember Toady saying that he doesn't want a "cheap fantasy world", but rather a "cheap fantasy world generator". It looks like he's made leaps in that direction.

Will there be a raw tag to make a civ able to be wandering raiders, as the goblins are now?

[Knight Otu]

I'll just have to remember to kill any large reptiles that manage to get a name near castles.  I could just imagine you showing up a little later with the gator lounging on the throne with the crown on it's head surrounded by corpses.

"My Lord, what big teeth you have!"

Will there be a raw tag to make a civ able to be wandering raiders, as the goblins are now?

From the earlier quote that bandits will come from human and goblin civilizations, with dwarves and elves only if conquered by humans, I imagine that bandit risings for now depend on site type of the original civilization. A tag would be nice, though.

Goblin patrols of the actual civilization, though, that's new info, isn't it? Good that the goblin civs can be met again at least in some capacity.

Sleeping in groups - it would seem that no watch is set up yet, then. Makes sense if this would only come in when other commands can be issued.

[Aqizzar]

After reading that story, I'm really curious what elements were "problems" that deserved being "fixed".  It wasn't Skinnyrends the Alligator of Ambition was it?  Because I love the idea of going out on a quest, only to come back and find the moat-croc also got a wild questing hair up his cloaca and decided to storm the castle, successfully.  It's not out of character, given the legendary hatred of statutes they hold.  It would have been even funnier if Skinnyrends was wearing the king's crown.

It's probably been asked a million times before: Now that individual groups can give up their entity associations, and elven prisoners can hang around castles, it sounds like those connections are a lot more malleable.  How close does that bring the program to multi-species player forts?