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[carebear]

The Future of the Fortress is looking extremely good!

[Untelligent]

Personally, I think the chartreuse color is easier to read.


Will plant-gathering from wild shrubs go in fairly early? I can't find it specifically mentioned on the list, but it seems like something that's fairly simple, both survival-wise and programming-wise.

[RCIX]

Will i be able to define my guilds? Because i'd honestly like those to match up with my generalized dwarf labor plans, and not have infighting among, for instance, Crafters because they share different guilds and happened to get into a brawl.

One of the ideas was to give dwarves some freedom to associate as they like and to make more use of their friends, families and grudges so there is some push and pull.  Turning off infighting would be a possibility, although hopefully it won't need to come to that.  I'm not quite sure what your situation is (things like lots of miner-craftsdwarf dwarves?  or just different craft combinations?), but it'll be good to go into some specific examples and see what sorts of situations will arise.  We're sure the guild/religion/etc subgroup mechanism will add a lot to the game, but we haven't charted the exact path yet, and we'll be proceeding cautiously when we get there.  The idea certainly isn't to add a strictly annoying burden (like a new shell mandate), but to provide emerging challenges, more atmosphere and more things to do.er because they hate rocks and would prefer the powder either never exist or just gets dispersed as with the dust in a cave-in, but I'm not sure.

I just meant that i would kinda like to see all my Crafters (which do all crafting, plus construction tasks) worship the same Crafing god or whatever, and have one guild i can satisfy at once. That's all

[Askot Bokbondeler]

if you guys don't want enemies digging into your mountain, place sentry towers in strategic places and intercept them before they bring the sappers. a scar or two in your fortress will only give it some history, and if you let it become a swiss cheese you're probably not meant to survive and should probably be playing with invaders off. I'm eager to engrave the tunnels the enemies dug with picture of their slaughter.

Ability to till tile (faster with tool)

will other jobs in fortress mode requires or benefit from tools? like smithing require a hammer, carpenting require a saw, farming requiring...the farming thingie, etc?

[Diablous]

farming requiring...the farming thingie, etc?

A hoe?

[Askot Bokbondeler]

yeah, that

also this

[Neonivek]

I think, if I remember correctly.

That Fortress mode will still be extrapolated when it comes to tools, while Adventurer mode will still require them.

[Strangething]

Does this entity population center thing mean that our fortresses will have suburbs? Because I am cool with that.

[Willfor]

Does this entity population center thing mean that our fortresses will have suburbs? Because I am cool with that.

The word is that you'll be able to have outlaying settlements to pull soldiers and resources from for your armies, and have your fortress serve as a central government and, well, fortress. It will allow bigger armies without dealing with FPS death.

[tfaal]

yeah, that

also this

Plows I could see. They're large enough and you'll need relatively few of them. Could probably fall into the siege engine system.

[Org]

Build walls in the underground rooms to stop diggers.

[Skeggox]

I think with digging invaders we should use the material system to keep things in check.

With soil and rocks having different hardness, you could require invaders to be armed with hard-enough tools to be able to actually dig through it. So, kobolds with copper tools might only be able to dig through soil, but bronze-armed goblins can take on softer stone (like sandstone). Humans with their iron picks can manage hard rock, like granite. Elves will have to stand there and and look pansy, unless they descend below the kobold level and dig away with wooden training picks Creatures will have similar abilities, based on the material hardness of their claws. Groundhogs could maybe manage soil, but you'd need a forgotten beast at least to tackle obsidian.

Constructions could either add or take away from the strength of a natural stone, I'm still undecided on that. Smoothing might also make a difference, potentially.

[Footkerchief]

I think with digging invaders we should use the material system to keep things in check.

With soil and rocks having different hardness, you could require invaders to be armed with hard-enough tools to be able to actually dig through it. So, kobolds with copper tools might only be able to dig through soil, but bronze-armed goblins can take on softer stone (like sandstone). Humans with their iron picks can manage hard rock, like granite. Elves will have to stand there and and look pansy, unless they descend below the kobold level and dig away with wooden training picks Creatures will have similar abilities, based on the material hardness of their claws. Groundhogs could maybe manage soil, but you'd need a forgotten beast at least to tackle obsidian.

Constructions could either add or take away from the strength of a natural stone, I'm still undecided on that. Smoothing might also make a difference, potentially.

That was all covered in the big Suggestions thread on tunneling enemies (plus another thread).  This discussion should probably move there, since it's repeatedly shown its potential to utterly derail a thread.

Also, this item

• Ability to offer quick deaths to mortally wounded people to get them to talk

is super hardcore.

[Randall Octagonapus]

I think with digging invaders we should use the material system to keep things in check.

With soil and rocks having different hardness, you could require invaders to be armed with hard-enough tools to be able to actually dig through it. So, kobolds with copper tools might only be able to dig through soil, but bronze-armed goblins can take on softer stone (like sandstone). Humans with their iron picks can manage hard rock, like granite. Elves will have to stand there and and look pansy, unless they descend below the kobold level and dig away with wooden training picks Creatures will have similar abilities, based on the material hardness of their claws. Groundhogs could maybe manage soil, but you'd need a forgotten beast at least to tackle obsidian.

Constructions could either add or take away from the strength of a natural stone, I'm still undecided on that. Smoothing might also make a difference, potentially.

I dont think this makes much sense since our dwarves can dig through fun metal with copper picks

[Urist Imiknorris]

I'm curious to see how mine carts will be implemented. I hope there will be some entertaining bugs with them, like atomsmashing whatever's pulling it whenever it moves or something.

Let's start guessing what bugs will show up with each new feature!