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[Moddan]

No, for me it would improve the immersion if I'd at least get hungry once and thirsty twice a day. Willpower, patience and toughness could allow longer food- and drinkless periods of time.

[tfaal]

Couldn't you just assume you're hunting and drinking while travelling?

[thvaz]

Couldn't you just assume you're hunting and drinking while travelling?

Well, let's assume we are travelling then while we are instantly teleported across the map.

Seriously, follow this line of thought and we will end with a ASCII Oblivion.

[KillerClowns]

So lemme get this straight.  Once the Caravan Arc is complete, we won't be able to simply dump physically absurd amounts of glass goblets onto the market indefinitely?

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Just updated the rss feeds. I feel faint... Hooray for trading ^_^

[Knight Otu]

With ThreeToe's mention of pigs and chickens in the devlog and the November report... does that mean that the domestic animals, and any other tamed animals for that matter, will actually appear in adventure mode hamlets/towns again?

[SirPenguin]

Toady, I've noticed you have used the term "we" a lot more lately when referring to the development of the game, and ThreeToe now appears to be posting on the dev log page. Given the page has also received an overhaul to show which one of you is posting the update, does this mean that ThreeToe will have a larger (or, better said, a more public) role in the development of DF?

[thvaz]

The release of 31.17 was a sucess amongst the playerbase, with few bugs and complains about the new mechanics. One of the complains is about the onipresence of bogeymen when alone at night. There will be some fine tuning about them in the future?

I myself would like some randomness in the likeness of bogeyman attacks. Wandering at night should be dangerous for various other reasons.

[madjoe5]

I just read the new dev log, and promptly flailed my arms around in excitement. This is going to be awesome!

[Rexfelum]

Is it just me, or are goblins having a real problem snatching children in history right now (they do it just fine in fort mode, as some newly-migrated couple with child had to find the hard way before they even entered my fort proper)? Looking through the sites of a few generated worlds, most non-empty dark fortresses - even those "owned" by non-goblin civilisations through conquest - have only goblin inhabitants, with the occasional boss demon here and there. In five worlds, I had one dark fortress with one human in it. That's it. Might be just me being a bit unlucky though ...

Yes, thank you for putting it into words.  I enjoy "mixed-race" civilizations (especially when I get to fight them), but recent world gen experimentation has resulted in little mixing, whether by babysnatching or warfare.

It looked like it had to do with crowding: with 40 civilizations in a medium map, humans captured a bunch of elf slaves, and goblins captured (I presume babysnatched) some humans.  With 30-35, I saw two human-captured dark fortresses with goblins and humans, and that was all.  With 20, nothing.  Zilch.

I prefer a smaller number of civilizations for aesthetic and sprawl-control reasons.  Is there something I'm missing?  A feature I can tweak in world generation to increase racial mixing and conquest?  Or did something change in this release that reduced interactions like babysnatching in history?

--Rexfelum

[Rip0k]

New Adventure mode is great! I just can't stop playing.

Strange thing just happened to me. I was buying a bronze buckler, paid for it but forgot to pick it up and proceeded to another shop. When I realized my mistake I got back and the item just wasn't there. All of the sudden people didn't wanna talk to me like I did something wrong.

[Fieari]

Toady, I have a question... I had thought it was an oversight, but it's been going on so long...

In the old dev notes, you mentioned wanting dragon attacks to be righteous, with dragons flying around torching villages from above, picking people up and dropping them from great heights, and generally being really dangerous-- because of their wings. Yet default dragons in DF have been lacking wings for quite a while. Why? I know mythology has plenty of wingless dragons too... but now we have cave dragons, which I'd imagine to be the wingless kind. So why no wings on the regular dragons?

[Mel_Vixen]

Toady, I have a question... I had thought it was an oversight, but it's been going on so long...

In the old dev notes, you mentioned wanting dragon attacks to be righteous, with dragons flying around torching villages from above, picking people up and dropping them from great heights, and generally being really dangerous-- because of their wings. Yet default dragons in DF have been lacking wings for quite a while. Why? I know mythology has plenty of wingless dragons too... but now we have cave dragons, which I'd imagine to be the wingless kind. So why no wings on the regular dragons?

IanFC but toady saidn one of the talks iirc that they lack the flying atm because the Ai and pathing for such an behavior is relativley hard.

Also buildings cant !!Burn!! down yet so i think even the ability would be awesome it would be rather useless.

[Orkel]

Toady I recommend fixing these bugs for next time, pleaaaaaaaaaase, they're quite common, there are saves available and they're annoying.

http://bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=2796
"Soldiers cannot follow orders"

http://bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=309
"Injured dwarves work normally and don't always get healed"

[Quatch]

Maybe there should be a voting mechanism in the bugtracker so we can see what the most irritating bugs are, independent of how severe they are.