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[tfaal]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one with that suspicion. It gets tense when the time frame is "Two weeks to THIS INSTANT".

[Putnam]

God damnit I've got a serious feeling that the release is nigh but for all I know there are dozens of misc issues left.

I am getting IRL mocked for how often I'm refreshing /dwarves

You know it's coming when Footkerchief is getting worked up about it

[G-Flex]

God damnit I've got a serious feeling that the release is nigh but for all I know there are dozens of misc issues left.

You make it sound like these are mutually exclusive possibilities.

[Malt_Hitman]

New post on the main page.

I caught a vampire too. A fisher-dwarf accused the expedition leader, who I knew was innocent of course. So I had my sheriff drag the fisher-dwarf to the dungeon. I had no hammer, so he had to wait to be executed while we forged one. After 50 hammer strikes I knew I was right, because he lived.

Did anyone else get a "We're going to execute you because God will protect you if you're innocent." vibe from this?  It just struck me as funny that Dwarven justice is about proving that someone is guilty if they can take an obscene punishment and survive it.

[Dae]

Damn you ThreeToe, you can't tease us like that and just leave us hanging !
Will it be out tonight ? Will it be out tomorrow ? I can't take the wait any longer !

[NobodyPro]

Did anyone else get a "We're going to execute you because God will protect you if you're innocent." vibe from this?  It just struck me as funny that Dwarven justice is about proving that someone is guilty if they can take an obscene punishment and survive it.

I thought that surviving the hammer proved that he was guilty?

[612DwarfAvenue]

Did anyone else get a "We're going to execute you because God will protect you if you're innocent." vibe from this?  It just struck me as funny that Dwarven justice is about proving that someone is guilty if they can take an obscene punishment and survive it.

I thought that surviving the hammer proved that he was guilty?

He survived even after 50 strikes, he's gotta be a Vampire. That's what i thought it meant.

Damnit, i'm getting all giddy now, thinking of the modding possibilites that the new release will open up...

[EmeraldWind]

Did anyone else get a "We're going to execute you because God will protect you if you're innocent." vibe from this?  It just struck me as funny that Dwarven justice is about proving that someone is guilty if they can take an obscene punishment and survive it.

I thought that surviving the hammer proved that he was guilty?

He survived even after 50 strikes, he's gotta be a Vampire. That's what i thought it meant.

Damnit, i'm getting all giddy now, thinking of the modding possibilites that the new release will open up...

If they sink and drown, they be innocentdwarf.
If they float and live, they be a witch a carp.

[rhesusmacabre]

Of course, the logical thing to do is subject all migrants to some sort of physical trial. Just to be sure...

And let's not forget:

A hammering is difficult to survive, but should it happen, then the punishment is served and the community naively assumes the convict is reformed.  It's reasonably silly as things stand, and we'll have to do more in the future.

[Organum]

;-; Well now I'm really wishing I could sleep for the next two weeks.

[drvoke]

With enough creative social engineering, could we end up with a Vampire Fortress?

[Keldane]

With enough creative social engineering, could we end up with a Vampire Fortress?

I'm pretty sure it's been said that it's possible. A repeating spike trap in the middle of a food stockpile set to only accept prepared meals and no barrels with the vampire burrowed on the spike might spatter blood all over your food, which has been confirmed (I believe) to spread vampirism among your dwarves. Alternatively, drop vampires from great heights into your food stockpile so they explode on impact. You lose the dwarf, but when the food gets eaten, you get more.

[FoiledFencer]

Am I the only one who is more hyped about the historical immigrants than the vampirism? Imagine what it will do for the storytelling when immigrants can come from abandoned forts (or even that your fortress can be bloody enough to depopulate the world). I am all giddy about that. And the suggestion that the game runs much faster is even better. Can't begin to tell you how many fortresses I lost to FPS-death after large sieges and such.

[Glanzor]

No, you're not! I look forward to naming my favorite adventures baron!

[NobodyPro]

Don't forget that now when you lose your fort to the ever-present threat of lag you can abandon and start again. Three years in, Urist Baconface the Blind Justice of Murder, your old blind, fatless, legendary axedorf arrives.