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[NW_Kohaku]

Yes, what Askot is proposing would be utterly fantastic if we could see it.

I'd really like to see something like a diagonal layer of metamorphic stone, with veins of ore travelling in a similar diagonal band, and then have the layer above it be a horizontally-flat sedimentary stone.

[TolyK]

hmmm I'm already seeing some of this in my current fort. there's soil/sand/sedimentary/flux going in a sort of "wave" on the z-axis.
Like this kinda (side view):

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[zwei]

hmmm I'm already seeing some of this in my current fort. there's soil/sand/sedimentary/flux going in a sort of "wave" on the z-axis.
Like this kinda (side view):

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This usually happens when you have several different biomes meeting at map, layers are then kida erratic like this.

[TolyK]

hmmm I'm already seeing some of this in my current fort. there's soil/sand/sedimentary/flux going in a sort of "wave" on the z-axis.
Like this kinda (side view):

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This usually happens when you have several different biomes meeting at map, layers are then kida erratic like this.

it's actually 1 biome. I think it's already partially in (light folding and such)

[Mel_Vixen]

IIrc if the surface changes the z level your the layer below it including Aquifers do the same. This can be a bit awkward at times in a place with hills.   

[NW_Kohaku]

That's a start, but I mean something more like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Canyon_geologic_column.jpg

See the diagonal layers at the bottom with the horizontal layers stacked on top?  Yeah, like that.

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This is ideal.  This isn't just "the layer bends with the surface height", it's "actual geologic processes are modeled and represented in-game."

If we had things like modeling how mafic or felsic magma was, and what minerals it would produce in specific regions, so that we would have to start having that Abundance of Resources type of thing, where we would have to look for very specific geological formations to have any chance of finding that Lapis Lazuli deposit which is so imperitive to find for your Aquamarine pigments that are so valuable in trade.

[Knigel]

I'm posting a little late, but I have personally seen animals siege a town in Adventure mode: it was in a early .31 version (before .08, because I remember I couldn't butcher anything) where a town was invaded by horses and rhesus macaques.

[EmperorNuthulu]

I have also seen animals attack, but it was a Dwarven fortress. There was goats, gophers, antmen, bears and all sorts. I attacked a mountain goat on my way there, but I don't think that provoked the attack or anything.

[metime00]

I'm posting a little late, but I have personally seen animals siege a town in Adventure mode: it was in a early .31 version (before .08, because I remember I couldn't butcher anything) where a town was invaded by horses and rhesus macaques.

I kited a wolf pack into a town once. I believe there was one or two human casualties. Does that count?

[NSQuote]

> The time frame for the release is <7 days
> Just started a new fortress hours before the announcement

EVERY SINGLE TIME

[NW_Kohaku]

> The time frame for the release is <7 days
> Just started a new fortress hours before the announcement

EVERY SINGLE TIME

So?  It shouldn't be save-breaking, so just enjoy your fort, and upgrade when it's time to upgrade.

If you held off on playing because there would be a new version coming out, then you would never have played DF at all.  The game will probably never truly stop having updates until Toady either ragequits the whole thing or dies of old age.

[Mel_Vixen]

And after that it goes Open-source (given that toady did die on oldage) and someone else like Baughn and small group of enthusiasts takes the hat.

Btw. thanks toady for the scamps picks he has grown up very well. He kinda reminds me of the cat i head some years ago. *sheds a tear*

[Untelligent]

whoah scamps got big

[NSQuote]

> The time frame for the release is <7 days
> Just started a new fortress hours before the announcement

EVERY SINGLE TIME 

So?  It shouldn't be save-breaking, so just enjoy your fort, and upgrade when it's time to upgrade.

If you held off on playing because there would be a new version coming out, then you would never have played DF at all.  The game will probably never truly stop having updates until Toady either ragequits the whole thing or dies of old age.

Since Toady said there was a new version coming soon, I decided to hold off for a few weeks and build up some serious apetite for Microcline.
 
The day I crack and give into temptation is the day I find out a new version is on the horizon. I am the worst~ :U
 
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Former-Baby Scamps looks adorable, you need to post more pictures of our fuzzy-wuzzy megabeast.

[caknuck]

... although I'm not sure actual geology works that way, though.  They shouldn't all be the same depth, but at the same time, layers are layers because they are created at different times through different geological methods.  A geode might form inside of a small pocket in the stone, but a total sphere doesn't seem like the sort of thing that should happen.

... I'm going to Wikipedia to look at how these things actually form, be back later...

Igneous intrusive formations (granite, gabbro, etc.) almost never occur in layers. If you want a good Wikipedia article with which to start, try batholith.