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[Girlinhat]

I've recently realized, some, that DF is currently in fairly "easy mode" as it were.  There's going to be changes and fixes that are going to really mess up a lot of forts.  Some impending ones are things like necromancers, which will cause open pit goblin body dumps to become a serious security hazard.  Further along, perhaps sooner than we think, the caravans will start applying supply and demand, and that endless pile of rock crafts will be literally worthless.  A varied and high-quality production will be needed to maintain supply lines.  Prepared meals will likely get nerfed hard by supply and demand.  Another "bug" is that all metal items take 1 bar.  Furniture is supposed to need 3 bars, and weapons and armor take several, with a breastplate taking as much as 9 bars to construct.

When bars and trade get touched up, you may find yourself severely lacking wealth and even more severely lacking armor, and then facing off against 5 sieges' worth of skeletal goblins at once.

What do you think will shatter your fort?

[HorridOwn4ge]

Named skeletal former-zombie giant badgers with a title.

[Teneb]

Probably the corpse-piles I keep around in my forts. Or infiltrated vampires.

[Girlinhat]

Not knowing your legendary axelord became a were-badger during that last skirmish, until he's in the dining hall with everyone else and Odom Avuzshed, Axelord has become enraged!

[KtosoX]

Difficulty increase = more losing
Losing = Fun
Problem?

[Necro910]

I burn all my bodies, so that's fine. Infact, I'll probably make a goblin body pit once .26 comes out.

Trade will still be easy, you just need to manufacture more than one good. Spam mugs, then meals, then mechanisms, and then crafts, then... so on. Until the original item is back at acceptable levels.

It's the metal that might mess me up. Now making armor will take about 6 times as much metal, so I'm going to need more iron. Goblinite reserves aren't high enough... I may need to tap Humanium.

[ThatAussieGuy]

I'm looking forward to necromancers.  I'm tempted to let one have the run of my fortress just once to see how many of the 800+  dwarf corpses he can call up.  Or if necromancy becomes a profession, I'll make my undead army march right into the HFS and take it for myself.

[rhesusmacabre]

Oh, everybody's looking forward to necromancers. I've been wondering if it's going to be possible to capture one, and use it to produce industrial quantities of zombie goblins/badgers/monkeys...  Bonus points for repelling a goblin siege with just dead goblins.

[Xen0n]

I think you're right on with the 'easy mode.'  It seems the true challenge of DF is in learning how to play, which I apparently lost out on a bit with my

[PRONE_TO_WIKI:100].  I've actually been actively trying to compensate for these "easy parts" as I find them, to try and release my inner dwarf.  Changes include:

¤   Using (an updated version of) the Seasonal Crops mod to make crops only grow once a year to cut down on foodspam.
¤   'Fixing' the 1 bar per metal object issue, at least for weapons and armor.  Takes 3 bars for a breastplate, among other changes.
¤   Overseer Xenon has issued a new ban on exports!  Exporting of Food, Trap Components, Mechanisms prohibited. (Considering changing this to ONLY allowing Crafts as exports and trying to see if I can edit the caravan prices too EDIT: Turns out I failed.)
¤   Danger Rooms: Nope. 

Considering, but haven't got the beards yet: No bridges. (!)

I'm eagerly awaiting anything to up the ante.  What seems to be the biggest me-breaker will be sapping/tunneling/siege engine building enemies, if they ever come to be.  That will be excellent, as it'll totally change the current "wall yourself in and you're safe" mindset.

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[Forumite]

Necromancer Dwarf, with zombie haulers, hmmm...

Anyway, what might break me is a lack of FPS-helping changes.

I´m not worried about changes in trading, food production or monsters that make the game harder, I´m worried that the game will not play at all because there are too many features.

[MasterMorality]

The usual state of my forts is that the area at my doorstep is carpeted with corpses and battle paraphernalia. I am certainly going to let a necromancer stroll along and raise everything, just to see how bad it can get.

I'm definitely going to have make a 'vanilla' version of my modded race, these updates are fantastic.

[Valdrax]

Probably the metal bar bit.  I've gotten in a bad habit of not bothering with metal production until I can get a magma pump stack going, and I always hated the multi-bar demands of 40d.  (It's probably the main reason I fell in love with glass a long time ago.)

[Ross Vernal]

Rust.

[TheChosen]

Bring it on I say. All my fortresses roll fine with solid craft-trading, giving me access to huge amounts of food and alcohol. I really appreciate making trading more harder.

As for necromancers....guess I gotta make some security measures for refuse pile.

[Necro910]

Bring it on I say. All my fortresses roll fine with solid craft-trading, giving me access to huge amounts of food and alcohol. I really appreciate making trading more harder.

As for necromancers....guess I gotta make some security measures for refuse pile.

MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAA