Made a new fort, running it off my laptop on version 0.28.181.40d (it also says it's an alpha, if that matters).
Wierd things have been occuring. Firstly, most frustratingly, I can't dig any deeper than z-level 18; I can't even move the camera down any lower. Secondly, there doesn't seem to be a button for combat reports-- at all. Not sure what's going on there, is it a feature unique to the version?
I also got a dungeon master, awesomely-- even though I don't have a baron or any other nobles, for that matter... despite the Wiki saying that Dungeony won't appear until the barons do. At this point I'm wishing I hadn't embarked on a map with Literally No Exotic Animals At All. XD. Could her appearance perhaps be due to the sheer amount of slaughter that has occured at my fort? I've only had the damn thing running for a year or two (dwarftime) and I've killed 260 carps, sturgeon and sea lampreys and many more foxes, deers and groundhogs.
Somehow my fort population is 75, despite the fact I carved it into a mountain made mostly of sand and I've only had 3 influxes of migrants.
And how does the military work these days? I was really impressed to see my hunter actually Really Using his Crossbow for once, but then I tried to command my lone wrestler (who carries a spear with him, for reasons I don't fully understand) to attack a crazed fisherdwarf and there was no button to attack a specific unit. Had to station him at the approximate spot where I thought Crazyfish would end up; as a result, the berserk dwarf managed to smother her husband to death right in front of her newborn child, before she herself was beat down by Wrestly (the baby also seems to have a punctured lung and a dead kitten. He is "Getting used to tragedy".).
So what on earth is going on here?