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[Dradym]

yall know back in the day of the middle ages, in some cultures, fairies were an all encompassing term for vampires, goblins, elves, spirits, elementals, undead....etc.

my comment was a shot at the twilight vamps-who shouldve just been called fairies-who ever said fairies cant be violent and drink blood, imo, wouldve actually interested me then.

yeah...monster drive FTW, though my fav is already in.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Faeries.

[Sowelu]

my comment was a shot at the twilight vamps-who shouldve just been called fairies-who ever said fairies cant be violent and drink blood, imo, wouldve actually interested me then.

...Whoa.  You're actually right.  If they removed all references to "vampires" and just made them traditional faeries instead, it had the makings of a fair-quality urban fantasy.

(note that I did not say 'good-quality')

[monk12]

real vampires are squash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_pumpkins_and_watermelons

http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=658

[Knigel]

Cake and oil! But will it be flammable?

[Dante]

In b4 jokes about "jugs"!

Seriously, I wonder about their usage. Will they be a step between bucket and barrel (think urns), or between bucket and flask (think milk jugs)?

[veok]

Looks like a good way to stretch a food supply.

Turn one stack of items into two, cook them back together, voila!

[Ves]

Will the labour associated with operating a Screw Press be "Screwer"?

Also, more uses for Seeds is excellent, considering how quickly a 9 square farm plot can end up producing 200 seeds.

[vogonpoet]

Looks like a good way to stretch a food supply.

Yes indeed - I love how the game seems to be coming together - it almost feels like efforts to create a balanced supply and demand economy caused potential starvation problems for the peasants in the outer villages, leading in turn to the implementation of more food creation potential. Or something.

Will the next update have a greater than 0.31 version number? Bee keeping surely deserves a +0.01 all by itself

[Jiri Petru]

Are there plans to do something about the abundance of food in Fortress Mode? Right now, it's extremely easy to have almost endless food stocks - plants are easy to grow in huge numbers, using only a small land and dwarfpower; meat is very abundant thanks to the recent body changes which multiplied the number of food units in each creature, and thanks to massive and edible forgotten beasts; and now we have several new food sources to make things even easier. Doesn't this mean the player's fortress is a much bigger food producer than any other settlement on the world?

[therahedwig]

Will villages produce and export other goods besides food? And will they also demand materials for these?

I think it would be awesome if a nearby human town decided that they want to make walls or a special building of some kind and start mass-demanding stone blocks.

[Doomshifter]

(I'm only up to, like, page 5 of this whole thread, but I can't resist posting yet.)

So, when moving fortress pieces are implemented, how mobile will they be?

For example, will we be able to move something to any point of our map, move things off-map, move it within a certain radius/confine/prepared area?
Also:
Could we put buildings and furniture (Workshops, ballistae, beds and etc.) on them? (I ask this because of the unbuildability of bridges, our only moving fortress terrain) How will they be controlled? Powered? Locomoted? Will we be able to make moving fortresses of death? Will we be able to make dwarven mecha suits?! WILL I EVER ACCOMPLISH MY GOAL OF MAKING ONE OF THOSE RIDICULOUS IMPERATOR CLASS TITANS FROM 40K?!?! WHY AM I USING CAPS-LOCK AARGH SO EXCITED!

Ahem. Sorry about that. Too carried away with myself. Especially since my last mecha just sort of dribbled magma at a beach.

Also, I'm not sure if anyone has asked in this thread yet, but has much thought been put into steam-power/other power sources except wind and water? It might not be quite in the time period for steam power, but dwarves are pretty ridiculous. What about animal powered dynamos?

[Cruxador]

Will the next update have a greater than 0.31 version number?

Considering the scope of the economic stuff going in, almost certainly. Footkerchief probably could provide an assessment of which cores are likely to involved, and a range that of numbers for how it could increment based depending on what Toady considers totally done. But there will be more going in than currently is in.

Bee keeping surely deserves a +0.01 all by itself

Nope.

[jellsprout]

This probably won't be the entire Caravan Arc. Also remember the Army Arc is right around the corner, which is just as big. It wouldn't make much sense to release 0.32 now and 0.33 three months later when 0.31 has been around for so long. If I had to guess, I would say Toady will update the version number on the Army Arc release.

[tps12]

I thought the minor version number still tracked the number of core items implemented (hence the jump from 0.28 to 0.31). In that case, how long it takes to go from 0.32 to 0.33 wouldn't have anything to do with how long we've had 0.31.

Completing the Caravan Arc would imply two new core items (one of which, site resources, got worked on during the site sprawl development, so it's not out of the question), jumping right to 0.33.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Consolidated_Development:_Arcs,_core-items,_bloats,_Reqs_and_Powergoals