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[penguify]

Can working gloves and gauntlets be created by adventurer reactions yet? Will that be in this release?

[Cruxador]

Can working gloves and gauntlets be created by adventurer reactions yet? Will that be in this release?

It isn't in the vanilla game. It might be possible to mod in, I don't know.

[Footkerchief]

12/03/2011: The first section of town issues from the B12 Report are done. Distribution of scarce items, handling gloves/shoes in cabinets properly, as well as a few different broken road issues, and what was hopefully the main cause of all those long-standing cave-in-on-embarks. Next up are all the market and shopping-related notes.

Oh damn, that would be a relief.

[Putnam]

Can working gloves and gauntlets be created by adventurer reactions yet Will that be in this release?

Helped you there.

To answer the first question, you can make gloves, but they have no handedness and that can't be worn.

[Jacob/Lee]

Can anyone give me a little lesson on how to link the Dwarf Fortress devlog to my Windows 7 RSS feed widget?

[NobodyPro]

Can anyone give me a little lesson on how to link the Dwarf Fortress devlog to my Windows 7 RSS feed widget?

As far as I know, it doesn't have an RSS feed. Keeps me on my toes.

[Jacob/Lee]

Can anyone give me a little lesson on how to link the Dwarf Fortress devlog to my Windows 7 RSS feed widget?

As far as I know, it doesn't have an RSS feed. Keeps me on my toes.

I swear I saw a Bay12er post their desktop with Dwarf Fortress RSS feeds on it.

[monk12]

It has an RSS feed, but since I don't use RSS I don't know how to help ya.

[G-Flex]

Can anyone give me a little lesson on how to link the Dwarf Fortress devlog to my Windows 7 RSS feed widget?

As far as I know, it doesn't have an RSS feed. Keeps me on my toes.

You missed the giant "RSS Feed" link on the dev page.

http://bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.rss

[Willfor]

I made a "draw your own adventure" style comic based on one of the bugs that was/is being quashed in the devlog today.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I've got to thank you Toady for keeping the rate of devlog postings consistent. I know I went into this pessimistically about the chances of it happening, and I am gratefully proven wrong.

[monk12]

That comic is hilarious.

And yeah, I didn't expect to get this. It's pretty cool. Thanks, Toady!

[FearfulJesuit]

I actually doubt it would be realistic for all those bones to become crafts. I mean, think about it. How many bone crafts does the world need? I suspect that you'd have legendary bone crafters in one or two cities, and their crafts are exported, but they would need a relatively limited number of bones to do that. Elsewhere, the bones'd just be buried.

[EmeraldWind]

I actually doubt it would be realistic for all those bones to become crafts. I mean, think about it. How many bone crafts does the world need? I suspect that you'd have legendary bone crafters in one or two cities, and their crafts are exported, but they would need a relatively limited number of bones to do that. Elsewhere, the bones'd just be buried.

Well actually... bones served a lot of other purposes over time. Some were fed to dogs, some were made into tools (like needles), and others into crafts. The problem is I think animals produce too many craft-able bones and not all the uses of bones are reflected in DF yet.

[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

I like that Toady for last few month write to devlog often. This make wait more bearable and sometimes there are interesting bits of information.

[Greendogo]

Toady, you mentioned that you had an abundance of bone materials in cities that builds up making the number of bone crafts unreasonable.  I think one problem with this viewpoint is that in the real world bone material often has many more uses than are present in the game and in large industry and small industry alike the bones get used for all sorts of things.  For instance, there is a small amount of bone ash present in many pet food brands (for cats and dogs) even though the higher quality companies try to limit that amount for health reasons.  Many early cultures used bones for needles or knitting needles (Dwarf Fortress lacks knitting, btw).  Also, bones were often used as jewelry, something that already occurs in the game.  I think if you wanted to increase the usability of bones and thereby decrease their build-up in city stockpiles you would need to make the market for bone larger by increasing the demand for bone crafts or bone decoration, or other uses such as bone meal for fertilizer.  I think this would be much more realistic than trying to limit the production and accumulation of bone. If you don't want the stores to be full of the stuff, why not make it more prevalent as something that is actually more useful for the townspeople?