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[Beardless]

On a more positive note: I like seeing the oldschool bay12 quirkiness show through with the evil/good grasses and troll wool. There is no substitute for that kind of thing.

Love the troll wool. I'd totally forgotten about the Cavern of the Woolly Trolls in the Castle of Frome's dungeon... Man, that was a great series.

[Peaceful Slugman]

do fowl put up much of a fight? I am hoping that I can have my dwarves punch and wrestle turkeys and whatnot to raise their combat skills if the birds are plentiful and easy to find, but if the birds are capable of slicing off legs I will reconsider.

[Captain Mayday]

Hi Toady.

Guinea Fowl have this line for eggs:
"[CLUTCH_SIZE:4:15] should be 25 to 30"

What reason did you have for not just making it 25:30?

[Serrational]

Not sure of this, but has Toady enabled Jabberers to spawn on the surface?

[Lofn]

Toady, what are the conditions for eggs hatching?  Civ races can use nesting boxes and lay eggs, but will the eggs hatch?

Sorry if this has already been asked, I posted it in the wrong thread.

[Neoskel]

So one of the first things i do when a new release comes out is to poke around in the raws to see whats new. I found something interesting.

I see that hydras do not lay eggs. Is this intentional? Do you intend for hydras to have gooey amphibian eggs instead of shelled eggs?

And another, somewhat related question:

Do you intend on giving crocodiles, etc. proper leathery eggs at some point?

[Mel_Vixen]

Well toady isnt a veterinarian so that he may get some things wrong isnt much of a problem. I mean he cant actually know that pus in bunnys isnt normally liquid or the consistence of Croc eggs.

[tps12]

Great Toady, have you planned to make DF multithreaded? Or have at least a separate thread for the GUI, so that it frees at least a few cpu cycles for pathfinding etc.? Is there still hope to avoid the nowadays inevitable FPS-Death some day in the future?
Being able to actually play DF with up to 200 dwarves would make me a lot more happier than all new features and animals combined.

I believe graphics already have their own thread.

[Flaede]

A wild turkey hen just claimed one of my nest boxes and laid some eggs!

You make it sound like a fey mood!

No. Just a fowl one.

[thijser]

Are there any plans to put metal abundance in the worldgen?
and are there any plans to improve the trader interface and improve the amout of traders that will visit you?

[tps12]

and are there any plans to improve the trader interface and improve the amout of traders that will visit you?

"Dwarf mode trading improvements" is release 6 on the dev page.

[Areyar]

Are there any plans to put metal abundance in the worldgen?
and are there any plans to improve the trader interface and improve the amout of traders that will visit you?

It might be fun if you had to prospect for The Smitten Socks civ / hear about rumours of golden mountains in advernture mode.
edit: But as an option, there are times when you just want to get stuck right in the DF and not get bogged down in the specifics. (For some those times are all the times)

[Lord Shonus]

Was it this release where Toady fixed fat? It works so much better now. (Processed as a stack, but creates individual tallows)

[Coaldiamond]

Hi forum peoples. I was about to ask Toady this one directly, since I can't find a direct asnswer in my forum searches. Maybe the B12 forum can deliver?

Question: Has Toady ever mentioned taking the principle of stigmergy from the ACO scheme in order to dynamically modify the PATH_COST value for tiles as dwarves travel over those tiles? My thought is that since we can already improve framerate by manually designating High Traffic Areas, perhaps inserting some code to dynamically modify High Traffic areas as the dwarves are travelling would provide the same benefit while keeping the same A* algorithm in place.

So how about that? Have I missed Toady's prior comments on this very topic?

[Chthonic]

Question: Has Toady ever mentioned taking the principle of stigmergy from the ACO scheme in order to dynamically modify the PATH_COST value for tiles as dwarves travel over those tiles? My thought is that since we can already improve framerate by manually designating High Traffic Areas, perhaps inserting some code to dynamically modify High Traffic areas as the dwarves are travelling would provide the same benefit while keeping the same A* algorithm in place.

So how about that? Have I missed Toady's prior comments on this very topic?

I don't know if he's commented on it, but I'm pretty sure that sort of thing has come up in the pathfinding discussions before (it sounds kind of like how ants lay pheromone trails, more-or-less?).