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[Keldane]

That town sounds incredibly amusing, in the "Oops, I duplicated the RAWs and now I'm embarking as living trees that eat wagon meat" way. I bet the inhabitants were just glad the river was frozen.

[Rockphed]

I see that toady encountered the flying frozen river bug. I've met that one.

I don't think I have seen that bug, but it sounds amusing in the extreme.

[Rose]

Well, I made a fortress in a tundra once, and there was a pair of stone walls reaching into the sky, with a block of ice suspended between them I made that the entrance to my fortress.

Here's the map: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8566-domainmirrored

[Footkerchief]

The Christmas devlog entry brings good tidings!  The steady progress through the dungeon issues has been really encouraging. 

[monk12]

The Christmas devlog entry brings good tidings!  The steady progress through the dungeon issues has been really encouraging.

Indeed it has! It gives me hope for the mid-January release date, despite my cynicism.

[Caldfir]

The Christmas devlog entry brings good tidings!  The steady progress through the dungeon issues has been really encouraging.

Indeed it has! It gives me hope for the mid-January release date, despite my cynicism.

Bug 0003169:
Players retain hope for an on-schedule release. 

[Rockphed]

The Christmas devlog entry brings good tidings!  The steady progress through the dungeon issues has been really encouraging.

Indeed it has! It gives me hope for the mid-January release date, despite my cynicism.

Bug 0003169:
Players retain hope for an on-schedule release.

An on-schedule release would have been in July.  At this point it is more "players hope for release soon."  Then again, I do sometimes wish this were all a dream and it were July.  On the other hand, finals were evil and I don't want to go through them again.

In any case, I enjoy the progress through dungeon issues and the tackling of an unexpected bug(the flying frozen river thing).  I look forward to finding humerous bugs in the next release.  And by humerous I mean things like the magma spawning above pits thing from a couple years ago.  I wish I knew where a video of that one was.  It was most amusing.

[NobodyPro]

Then I test-embarked in a different town, and bandit leaders were embedded in the walls, dungeon rooms came up through the street and into the center of stores, the sewers were completely inaccessible, amphibian men were hanging out in a farm house and a gigantic frozen river of ice raised up from the ground and partitioned the town except where the bridges cut tunnels through it. I fixed all of those problems to get back where I thought I was when I started.

I've read this several times and I still can't find these problems you men- Oh. Those things were unintentional.

[Aqizzar]

Then I test-embarked in a different town, and bandit leaders were embedded in the walls, dungeon rooms came up through the street and into the center of stores, the sewers were completely inaccessible, amphibian men were hanging out in a farm house and a gigantic frozen river of ice raised up from the ground and partitioned the town except where the bridges cut tunnels through it. I fixed all of those problems to get back where I thought I was when I started.

I've read this several times and I still can't find these problems you men- Oh. Those things were unintentional.

Sounds like Dwarf Fortress.  Who else wishes they could see towns like this?  It's totally unplayable sure, but it'd sure be fun to visit.

[zwei]

Ice wall right in middle of town pierced by tunnels sounds like awesome sight.

[franti]

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this, but I'd like to have an option to 'turn away' waves of migrants. Sometimes, a dozen idle craftdwarves is enough, you know?

[monk12]

I wonder how many times future features are shaped by past bugs.

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this, but I'd like to have an option to 'turn away' waves of migrants. Sometimes, a dozen idle craftdwarves is enough, you know?

First, you can already do this in game- set the population cap lower in the .ini file. Second, the Suggestions forum would be more appropriate. Third, reformed immigration has already been suggested multiple times, so if it's really important to you you could go vote for it in the Eternal Suggestion Voting. Dwarven INS (which would make Immigration Control a noble-related function) is currently 84 (out of ~350, that's pretty good) and Slow Down Immigration (which would just cut down size/frequency of migrant waves) is at 30. Note you get 3 votes, so go ahead and spread them around to worthy causes!

[MasterMorality]

Hmmm, I don't know if this has been asked yet, but do vampires necessarily require fresh blood? Of a sentient being? Because merchants have barrels and barrels of various types of blood, but I don't know a single use for any of it. Maybe I could, in future, stock up on it for the sake of my potential night-dwelling population?

[Areyar]

You can throw them into a pond and have your dwarves bathe in the bloody mess.
(or have them drink from it)
Besides that, I've not thought of any other use for barrels of blood either.

Will you add bleeding out animals into barrels to the butchershop chores?
Will harvesting blood from forgotten monstrosities be possible via such a job?
Will symptoms (*)syndromes be carried by blood harvested into barrels?

(*) I forget the word used for effects caused by contact poisons etc.

[Footkerchief]

Hmmm, I don't know if this has been asked yet, but do vampires necessarily require fresh blood? Of a sentient being? Because merchants have barrels and barrels of various types of blood, but I don't know a single use for any of it. Maybe I could, in future, stock up on it for the sake of my potential night-dwelling population?

I believe it's the actual drinking-warm-blood-from-a-sleeping-person thing that quenches the bloodthirstiness, not just ingestion of blood per se.

Will you add bleeding out animals into barrels to the butchershop chores?
Will harvesting blood from forgotten monstrosities be possible via such a job?
Will symptoms (*)syndromes be carried by blood harvested into barrels?

1, 2: there's no timeline for these features.  Definitely not in this release.
3: If the slaughtered creature has a syndrome attached to its blood material species-wide, or if the creature is a historical figure and had a syndrome attached to its blood via interaction, then the drinkers will be subject to the syndrome.  If you mean a syndrome of which the slaughtered creature is a victim, e.g. a cave spider injected venom into the cow's bloodstream, the contaminant (venom) would not end up in the barrel unless the code specifically checked for it.