Dwarf Fortress 44.12 Release Notes

See readme.txt for general information about the release.
See file_changes.txt for new init/interface information.

See command_line.txt for information on world generation from command lines.
TO BACK UP SAVES:
(1) Copy the relevant region folder in "data/save" to a safe location.

(2) When you want to reuse it, copy that region back to "data/save". Do *NOT*
overwrite an old folder, as it might leave residual files.
Please *DO* back up saves. Although the game has permanent death and you might
want to play it in that spirit, the game
is also an alpha, and your world might become corrupted by an error. You can also
make use of the auto save features settable in "data/init/init.txt".
TO USE OLD SAVES WHEN UPDATING VERSIONS:
(0) ***Note that this version of DF is only compatible with saves from 0.40.03+.***
(1) Unzip the new dwarves into a *NEW* folder.
(2) Copy "data/save" from the old folder into the new folder, or copy over the
relevant region folders you've saved to "data/save". Keep a backup in case
something is wrong with the new version.
(3) When you start, your world should be accessible and ready to play.
Unzipping the new dwarves into your old folder will work most of the time, but if
files have changed, it can crash, or worse yet, destroy your saves.
TO CHANGE DISPLAY AND SOUND OPTIONS:
Go to "data/init/init.txt". These options will take effect the next time you start
the game.
IF YOUR KEYBOARD ISN'T WORKING:
If you can get to the ESC keybindings menu (from the start screen, press ESC and
then 2/8 to scroll to Key Bindings), you can set your key bindings. If your "?"
key on your keyboard doesn't work for help, you can set the keybinding properly
here. It might not display as a "*". You can set the display up properly in
"data/init/interface.txt" using the display strings at the top of the file.
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Release notes for 0.44.12 (July 7, 2018):
Just some cleaning before we embark on the villain changes. There's a new
offloading popup that can come up on the season change if you have enough activity
in your world; it can take a little time in larger worlds, but that's all time that
is no longer intermittent lag and it's also less time overall due to reduced
redundancies. If you have an autosave, the offload will be incorporated into that,
so autosaves might seem slightly longer (if so, you are also getting the same lag
reduction.)
Major bug fixes
(*) Fixed crash from corrupted units
(*) Made baron elevate to count properly
(*) Removed intermittent lag from off-site conceptions and births (added
seasonal unit offloading)
(*) Made squad orders respect successful site conquest (so new members don't
try to reconquer)
Other bug fixes/tweaks

(*) Fixed broken display for multiple adventurer agreements
(*) Show proper mission text for messengers instead of No Job
(*) Made tantruming dwarves cancel activities
(*) Controlled how market links are formed somewhat
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Release notes for 0.44.11 (June 23, 2018):
There are now peaceful and not-so-peaceful ways of expanding your influence in the
world. Once a site becomes linked to you (through prosperity or by conquest;
you'll see a message), you can send a messenger there to request workers, or send
dwarves from the fort out to such sites (from v-p). This only works on historical
figures, so you might find you don't have off-site workers available at first,
though some sites do have them. This release should also improve the issues
dwarves were having with negative thoughts, and they can also now experience
permanent changes in their personalities and intellectual values due to events in
their lives.
Note: Insurrections were such a problem in sites that I had to turn them off for
your fortress's holdings; we'll get back to that later. It wasn't even the
insurrections, really; the dwarves were bailing on the occupation immediately
because they were afraid of insurrections.
New stuff
(*) Your civilization will send out groups to found sites near prosperous
fortresses
(*) Existing sites near prosperous fortresses will associate themselves to
those fortresses
(*) Added ability to take over sites and install administrators
(*) Can view your new holdings from the 'c' screen
(*) Can send workers off-site and send out messengers to request their return
(*) Mulling over long-term memories can lead to shifts in intellectual values
and personality changes
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed hauling route crash
(*) Fixed problem causing county stage to be skipped in noble elevation
(*) Stopped all visiting barons from being elevated along with your baron
(*) Changed horror calculation from seeing a dead body
(*) Stopped similar memories close in time from taking all the memory space
(*) Stopped stuttering lag from repeated vegetation connectivity checks

(*) Camping refugees will be awake during the day now
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Release notes for 0.44.10 (May 5, 2018):

Here's our next effort, which should change the general situation regarding the
(often inebriated) fortress dwarves and their lack of apparent stress. Part of
this involves a new system of memories, which we'll be improving as we go now.
You'll be able to see these in thought paragraphs as they are remembered, so don't
worry if they aren't apparent at first. There were also other problems with
inebriation and overall stress balance; some of the latter will be ongoing, if
we've overcorrected, as varied long-term forts are difficult to test, but we'll
continue working with it.
I've updated how the adventurer information log works. It's hopefully a bit more
useful for navigation now, when it comes to adventuring and reporting back what has
happened. Old saves might not have everything linked up at first. Hearing rumors
again and so forth should make the log start to work better for them. You can also
cross narrow rivers in travel now (the ones that are jumpable or near jumpable at a
sprint.) Uncrossable rivers will display with double lines in the travel view.
New stuff
(*) Made short and long term memories of emotions and their circumstances
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed crash relating to religion trying to store holy relic without a
temple
(*) Stopped inebriation personality alterations from being permanent

(*) Balanced stress effects
(*) Allowed nicknaming of all buildings/zones/stockpiles
(*) Can now zoom to item and unit for item inaccessible announcements
(*) Added dwarf-style personality and other information in adventurer
description from status screen
(*) Updated adventurer log screen
(*) Allowed adventurer to cross over narrow rivers in travel map
(*) Shows status of single assigned workers in q/t workshop menus
(*) Separated thoughts for seeing somebody die and finding the body
(*) Changed how drunken fistfights work
(*) Side-stepped unit load failure, creating substitute unit upon
irreversible corruption
(*) Added check for duplicate items from returning squads and others to avoid
crashes/corruption
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Release notes for 0.44.09 (April 1, 2018):
And the linux freeze fix process broke projectiles. So that's hopefully all
working all around now.
Major bug fixes

(*) Made projectiles and weapon traps work again

(*) Changed w.g. population calculation for conflicts
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Release notes for 0.44.08 (March 28, 2018):
This should stop Linux from freezing. It also includes some other bug fixes that
could be quickly incorporated.
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped linux from freezing
(*) Fixed crash from demanding tribute from parentless site entities
(*) Stopped artifacts from moving out of backpack and similar when at old
forts or lairs
(*) Properly stopped imprisoned dwarves from claiming positions in fort

(*) Made dwarves visit museums properly
(*) Stopped every tribute rejection from being attached to your fort's
history
(*) Cleaned tribute/spoil reports between forts properly
(*) Added military tactics and leaderships as relevant skills for squad-
leading nobles/appointments
(*) Made uniform settings copy properly when pasting schedule orders
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This is a stability patch for the last release. A few raid-related crashes are
fixed, as well as some strange behavior related to stolen livestock. To get the
full fix for stolen livestock, old saves will need to add [PET] to beak dogs and
unicorns. This isn't crucial; if it isn't done, those animals will no longer be
stolen in that save. But if you were experiencing the bug, the existing animals
will be broken until the tag is added.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed crash from returning certain kinds of contained loot
(*) Fixed crash from exploring entity-free site
(*) Stopped certain failed tribute raids from staying out forever
(*) Stopped certain stolen livestock from being treated like half-citizens

(*) Fixed sieger behavior that caused them to mill around outside for too
long
(*) Stopped stolen livestock from being attacked after they are named
(*) Fixed failure to give half of the one-time tribute items
(*) Allowed military tactics as starting skill choice on embark
(*) Corrected one-time tribute text
(*) Made it produce a proper spoils report if only livestock are stolen
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Here's the first substantial update to the fortress's world map screen. New raid
options are available, and it shouldn't be hard for you to antagonize your
neighbors now if that's what you want to do. Use the 'd'etails option when
preparing the raid to set what sorts of actions you'd like your raiders to perform.
Skills and equipment matter, and skills can be improved during missions. The skill
of your best tactician is important (you'll see feedback in the mission report.)
If you demand tribute on an ongoing basis and the target site agrees to your
demands, you'll receive something like a merchant caravan on an annual basis a few
seasons after the initial demand. They'll drop goods off at your depot and depart.
These goods can be carried off immediately for storage, but there's a new report so
you can look at a complete list of what was delivered; the same is true of spoils
from raids.
A few notes on the bug fixes below: the identity fixes won't stop bad feelings
from existing conflicts in old saves. Also in old saves, distracted animals might
still appear to be broken at first, but they should sort themselves out after a
bit.
New stuff
(*) Can pillage and raze and demand tribute from other sites
(*) Dwarves on missions can now can gain skills
(*) Military tactics skill is now gained and matters in off-site battles
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed several problems causing the meeting queue to get gummed up
(*) Made monster-type critters and non-monster-type critters have proper
hostile again
(*) Allowed people in the same squad to know each other's identities
(*) Made scribe copy job cancel properly to free up materials
(*) Fixed calculation of available writing materials in library

(*) Various speed tweaks
(*) Made clean job work inside and on outdoor constructions
(*) Made clean jobs continue to nearby tiles
(*) Made drunkenness make you less private instead of more private and fixed
a typo there
(*) Made dwarven adventurers experience trances properly
(*) Made non-historical populations defend sites post w.g.
(*) Made off-site raid stealth success depend on site
(*) Fixed broken flags on merchant historical event
(*) Stopped dwarves being dragged to cages/chains from trying to clean the
floor
(*) Stopped live generals from being elevated from zombie populations
(*) Stopped animals from developing need for alcohol after experiencing
trauma
(*) Stopped unintelligent creatures associated to civilizations, like
domestic animals, from worshipping gods when given historical status
(*) Stopped animals from revealing the location of artifacts to questers
(*) Stopped animals from forming grudges and other chat-based relationships
(*) Sped up legends loading in high-artifact worlds
(*) Stopped rooting around in the dirt from resetting path
(*) Fixed issue causing certain older army units from not appearing
(*) Fixed a few errors with abstract skill calculation for armies
(*) Reconciled bandit's map and in-play valuations of opponent strength to
stop aborted ambushes
(*) Disallowed certain flying/swimming/visual/projectile/attack moves
involving half-stairways
(*) Made branches/twigs burning over walls leave behind a floor properly
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Release notes for 0.44.05 (January 14, 2018):
One fix on top of the last release, for visitors that had become broken, acting
like partial residents. Any broken visitors themselves are unpatchable in affected
saves, so it was important to get this one up quickly. Old saves are compatible as
usual, and should not get new broken visitors, but visitors that are currently
acting strange will still be acting strange, and likely will not depart.
Major bug fixes
(*) Stopped certain visitors from being treated like (buggy) residents
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This is another bug fix release to start the new year. A few of the bad five-
second freeze/lag problems caused by the new release have been fixed, and large
beasts should move off the edge of the map again. Over in adventure mode,
inappropriate creatures shouldn't yell 'identify yourself' and companions should
participate in conflicts as they used to, and some other issues of reputation
should be solved, especially among citizens of the starting town.
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped displayed artifacts from duplicating on retirement/offloading of
site
(*) Made attacking giant monsters path to targets properly again
(*) Stopped extraneous dwarf mode conversation text generation (freezes)
(*) Stopped negative artifact location rumors from passing around so much
(freezes)
(*) Made removing first stop of hauling route w/ assigned vehicle not cause
issues/crashes
(*) Stopped crash caused by yielding to muggers
(*) Stopped creatures from asking for identity when they shouldn't be able to
speak
(*) Fixed problem with companions and other close people not always
recognizing your relationship to them

(*) Made returning mercenaries stop petitioning for sanctuary (existing
petitions will still be there)
(*) Prevented unirrigated etc. top-left corners etc. from stopping planting
in farms
(*) Stopped inaccessible pile tiles from stopping bin/barrel placement
throughout pile
(*) Allowed stairs to be carved in ice that is one tile above stone properly
(*) Added building item TSK indicator to ground items as well
(*) Stopped designations for removal of ramps/constructions from working on
hidden tiles
(*) Removed incorrect back instruction from burrow naming
(*) Properly saved freeing hf in relevant historical event (Quietust)
(*) Fixed a few cases of historical event for identities reporting wrong
historical figure
(*) Fixed kitchen job hotkeys
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Release notes for 0.44.03 (December 25, 2017):
Here are some bug fixes to close out the year. Notably, visitors shouldn't arrive
in such large numbers so early on, and fewer of them should overstay their welcome
(in old saves, people already in transit will arrive, but it should taper off.)
Adventure mode commanders etc. should recognize more of your accomplishments
properly and not talk about unknown creatures so much, but identities have
introduced some non-trivial issues there that we'll have to build through more
carefully, and there'll be some ongoing silliness.
Major bug fixes
(*) Fixed crash from guide agreements
(*) Fixed crash related to off-loaded items coming into play
(*) Made agents and roaming questers respect visitor cap
(*) Fixed problem causing agents not to check fort for tavern
(*) Made fort-visiting questers leave properly
(*) Made fort claim certain looted artifacts properly instead of leaving them
on edge of map
(*) Fixed several cases of "unknown creature" utterances
(*) Fixed problem with neighbors not recognizing you, including commander and
other quest givers
(*) Stopped undisplayed items from lingering on display furniture
(*) Made dwarven off-site squads stranded during preparation return to the
fort
(*) Made 32-bit Mac version recognize new keys

(*) Fixed broken plant indicator on food stockpile
(*) Made opinion monologues on performances etc. show text properly
(*) Made log show completed kill orders properly
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Release notes for 0.44.02 (November 23, 2017):
Hopefully this'll stop the problems we've been having in world generation!
Linux Update: I should be able to test the Linux drive on Saturday once I get the
hard drive enclosure, and we'll go from there. Apologies for the continuing delay.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed world gen crash associated to agents checking on site government
after it collapses

(*) Stopped returning pet dogs from petitioning for sanctuary like rescued
prisoners
(*) Stopped uncontested raids reports from starting at year 0
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This is the artifact release, featuring the ability to send your dwarves off to
cause trouble in the world, improved kobold sites, cover identities, artifact
questers, and a bit of artifact diplomacy.
In fort mode, the 'c' screen which used to list civilizations still does that as a
suboption, but its main purpose now is to show the world map and allow you to
interact with it. You can either raid a neighbor generally, or send off squads to
recover specific artifacts or rescue particular people (in which case, the squads
will still bring back other artifacts and prisoners, but focus on the goal.) A
squad questing after an artifact will seek out information if the first site
doesn't work out, and this might take several months, so be prepared. Squads can
also be captured during raids, though typically someone will return to tell the
tale. When squads return, a report will become available; a yellow 'R' will appear
over on the left margin, and pressing 'r' will let you see it. Sometimes reports
are quite lengthy as squads stumble from tavern to tavern; you can press enter to
skip to the end of the path animation.
There are some rough edges here! Be sure not to send off your commander if you are
planning to reorganize your military, as they are the only one with the power to
assign new squads and cannot do so while off the map. There was a last-minute
hiccup with artifacts known to be held by people (rather than stored on sites);
these fort-mode missions will be fruitless for the moment; the most common instance
here is books authored by people that then hang on to them, so don't try to steal
their books! It says on the map screen when an artifact is held by somebody, so it
should be easy to avoid. Raids do not bring back non-artifacts or build skills;
these issues may or may not be addressed in the short-term depending on
difficulties that arise.
The interactions with heroes and invading armies are more straightforward. There
will either be 'P'etitions or a diplomacy popup to handle.
In adventure mode, you can assume a cover identity. You do this from the 'k'
conversation menu (if you are already talking to somebody, it'll be hidden in
"start new conversation".) If you choose to link your identity to a civilization,
you'll be carrying that baggage with you, especially when you are being
interrogated by goblin guards, so one should be prudent. To turn off the identity,
go back to the "assume an identity" menu and choose the 'x' "no identity" option.
You can also reuse existing identities from this menu.
People in adventure mode that are seeking an artifact will list "missing treasure"
among their troubles, and you can then inquire further.
In order to name an object, use 'I' to interact with it, and it'll be one of the
options for appropriate objects. For example, you can give a name to your spear or
waterskin, but not to the water or food you start with.
There are also various adventure rough edges. For instance, if you pick up and
then immediately replace a museum piece in adventure mode, and then tell somebody
about it, you'll get credit as a Treasure Hunter. It'll be difficult to fix that
without additional property information, etc. It's also generally hard right now
to find artifact quests, as most things are in their proper place and/or not
subject to an outside claim. We'll be working with this a bit as we generally work
on stabilizing the release.
Overall, many of the changes occurred under the hood, in preparation for the myth
and magic release, but now the magic release will be able to incorporate artifacts
of all kinds without additional delay, so hopefully it was time well spent.
As usual, your old saves should work, but please back them up before diving into
the new release! It is quite likely that forts will fall into technical ruin as
bugs come up and are handled at this early stage. Old forts won't have object
additions like the pedestals and display cases, but they should be able to send out
raids from the 'c' screen.
We will be focusing on the worst bugs (crashes etc.) at first, and then we'll
broaden out into other bugs, old and new, and minor suggestions/usability
improvements, as well as a general smoothing out of the new features. We're still
working on the design side of the first magic release, so we anticipate we'll be
doing smaller releases for a while.
New stuff
(*) Ability to send out squads to raid sites, rescuing prisoners and
recovering artifacts
(*) Display cases and pedestals, museum zones, both in forts and other sites
(*) Can view the world map w/ rumors from fort mode
(*) Artifacts created during worldgen: dwarf moods, named heroic objects,
holy relics, heirlooms
(*) New artifact events in play and worldgen: questers seek artifacts and ask
for or steal them, invaders demand artifacts
(*) New historical events associated to the creation of artifacts (used in
fort and worldgen)
(*) Agents used by civilizations to gather information, can assume cover
identities
(*) Improved kobold site maps
(*) Goblin site denizens demand an identity instead of immediately attacking
every stranger
(*) More modding control over pets and other animals
(*) Adventurer can assume a cover identity at will
(*) Adventurer can name their possessions
(*) New adventurer reputations related to artifacts
(*) New religious activity: monks, pilgrims and prophets
(*) Museums and other room types can be added to fort locations like taverns
and libraries
(*) Various additional data in the XML export
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed weapon trap crash vs. item breakage
(*) Fixed bug preventing monster slayers from visiting those forts with
monsters to slay
(*) Made animated skulls, hair and other bits easier to pulp
(*) Made idle and vermin-hunting dwarves come down from trees more
successfully
(*) Made thirst/hunger and being pushed out of the way less likely to
terminate dances

(*) Alphabetized broad stock screen categories
(*) Fixed problem with historical bodies not respecting wounds/processing
(*) Fixed bug causing religions to worship too many gods, with duplicates
(*) Made simple burrow beasts start in caves as possible
(*) Fixed broken historical collection linkage with beast attacks during
festivals
(*) Fixed one instance of broken animal person greetings
(*) Stopped natural animals from w.g. rampaging through sites owned by
entities at peace with wildlife
(*) Took age into account for w.g. fights vs. body size (e.g. proper dragon
size)
(*) Stopped people from being enough to satisfy a need to see great beasts
(*) Made visitors less nervous about going to neutral locations
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Here are the first official 64-bit releases! This would not be possible without
help from our community -- you can view the exciting and sometimes late-night
discussion over in the 0.43.04 release thread if you want to see how the cake was
baked. This release should also make worlds generated with the same seed more
consistent, and it has a few other minor fixes we managed to sneak in.
New stuff
(*) 64-bit support, pulling the game from the distant past into the previous
decade
Major bug fixes
(*) Fixed problem with artistic skill assignment causing world histories to
diverge
(*) Fixed problem with worldgen trade causing world histories to diverge

(*) Stopped babies/children from competing in w.g. events
(*) Made gorlaks able to open doors, stopped desizing of their heads
(*) Fixed some mem leaks
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Here's another bug-fix release. Assuming no issues crop up immediately, we'll now
dive into 64-bit land for next time!
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed error deciding when patients should be moved
(*) Fixed initialization problem with tools causing stone axes to be thought
of as ranged
(*) Stopped completed work order jobs from checking off every matching order
(*) Stopped masterpiece trades in containers from triggering artwork
defacement
(*) Stopped storage from always failing in the second tavern/library/temple
you define
(*) Stopped broken crash-prone entry from appearing at the end of the stocks
list

(*) Attackers will remove armor from unconscious opponents if it is blocking
attacks
(*) Made people wear more armor according to their roles again
(*) Allowed new citizens with some previously site-wide occupations to be
reassigned
(*) Allowed some site-wide occupations for dwarves
(*) Made combat damage weapon and armors depending on material differences
etc.
(*) Made dwarves prefer undamaged equipment during the periodic uniform
upgrades
(*) Allowed strong attacks/shakes to translate some force to joints and
parent parts even if blocked by armor
(*) Reduced clothing stopping power based on penetration depth
(*) Made paper slurries stockpile-able (won't work without updated raws)
(*) Fixed problem with adv mode tribute demand check
(*) Fixed ghost initial positioning problem
(*) Made macros save correctly even if the macro directory is deleted
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Here are some more bug fixes.
Major bug fixes

(*) Made customized magma forge jobs use metal instead of making things out
of coal
(*) Adjusted conflict code to stop taverngoers from joining siegers over
petty grievances
(*) Fixed material overcount in adv site work menu

(*) Made pain from broken tissues depend on relative part size
(*) Made embark profiles load fish properly
(*) Made assigning an animal to a restraint remove it from pasture
assignments properly
(*) Made pasturing jobs respect connectivity in creation and in seeing if
they should continue
(*) Made dwarves remove animals assigned to pastures from cages/chains that
are in the pasture
(*) Fixed display error causing creature to be described as gigantic too
often
(*) Allowed metal mechanisms to be made from the job manager
(*) Made dragonfire affect metal items and generally amplified fire effects a
bit
(*) Stopped veins in large mineral clusters from being improperly restricted
(*) Stopped placement issue with minerals that had more than one specific
environment
(*) Stopped woodcutters from using axes without edges (like training axes)
(*) Allowed soil critters to live in wider temperature ranges
(*) Fixed problem with temperature checks on certain wilderness populations
(*) Made construct mechanisms job show material
(*) Made mountain travel restriction not affect other actions
(*) Allowed adventure mode divers to move through deep water properly
(*) Made placing items on tables remove item from your inventory properly
(*) Made improvement reactions increase and apply skill properly
(*) Reported site of adventurer masterpieces correctly
(*) Stopped manually-set low frame rate cap from being stuck
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Smoothed out some rough areas in the adventure part of the release. We'll be
continuing on with bug fix releases.
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped zone corruption problem from adventure sites (caused crashes)
(*) Stopped adventure camps from being aged by the age of the world
repeatedly
(*) Stopped certain site build orders from skipping the collapse check
(*) Stopped prisoners in goblin sites from starting no quarter fights with
their rescuers
(*) Made people that join you stop personal/shared activities that might
interfere them from following you

(*) Stopped felling of trees in the arena, so you wouldn't be teleported to a
weird hidden region map
(*) Indicated child/baby state of prisoners during look etc.
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A new version number! With the work order additions and adventurer-created sites,
this one ended up with more new stuff and fewer bug fixes than expected, and my
version calculator just tipped over at 0.43. You can use the new 'b' site building
option in adventure mode to create a site (outside the bounds of other sites). For
dwarf mode work orders, you can set conditions and details from the manager. You
can also create orders tied to specific shops from their workshop profiles.
A miscellaneous note: in order to retire at the adventurer sites you create, you'll
need to name the site, create a main hall zone, and claim the hall during
conversation (or while shouting to yourself).
Next up we'll be doing more bug fix releases to make sure we have a vaguely
presentable DF before we disappear into a new compiler and 64 bits.
New stuff
(*) Ability to build up new sites in adv mode, either yourself or by
assigning companions
(*) Ability to do carpentry in adv mode
(*) Ability to chop down trees in adv mode
(*) Ability to make stone axes in adv mode
(*) Ability to pull branches from trees in adv mode
(*) Can put start conditions on work orders (by amount of resources or
dependence on other work orders)
(*) Can specify materials/images/etc. in work orders
(*) Can create work order from profile which is tied to specific workshop
(*) Can set maximum number of shops that a general work order can task at
once
(*) Can set maximum number of general work orders per shop or disallow them
by profession or altogether (note: this won't work for active old-save jobs)
(*) Allowed perpetual work orders
(*) Repeatable work orders, ability to set restart frequencies
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped masterpiece trading from causing artisans to suffer effects of
art defacement

(*) Got rid of work order limit of 30 jobs
(*) Improved work order filtering (respect partial vs. full results etc.)
(*) Stopped work orders from taking more than one slot per workshop
(*) Stopped non-citizens from being charged for violating production orders
(*) Stopped mother from getting both her and spouse's miscarriage thought
(*) Refreshed material list when deleting uniform item
(*) XML export now has the exact site rectangle
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Release notes for 0.42.06 (February 10, 2016):
Here's the material and image specification release, along with several important
bug fixes. There's more to be done with job settings -- we need to improve work
orders and allow the decoration of specific objects, to name a few, but this should
be a good start.
New stuff
(*) Can set specific job material in job details
(*) Added jobs to construct the various specific crafts
(*) Can specify images in statue, figurine, engraving, decorate jobs to
varying degrees
(*) Can specify group's symbol at embark
(*) Can specify type of decoration
(*) Added adv mode bone craft carving with image specification
Major bug fixes
(*) Counted exported wealth properly again (old saves will start counting w/
next caravan that leaves)
(*) Flour, dye, seeds etc. not dumped out of bags into barrels
(*) Allowed captured intelligent non-residents to be chained/caged/pitted
again
(*) Various useful objects like minecarts and goblets no longer ownable as
personal possessions
(*) Made ownable objects that aren't worn storeable again
(*) Fixed problem causing some surface-underground sites to become
disconnected

(*) Allowed travel map to be shown even when you can't travel
(*) "Really attack?" gives more information
(*) Show adv companions by first name in announcements etc.
(*) Used adjectives from physical descriptions for use in adv mode creature
designations
(*) Stopped premature elevation of wagons to historical status
(*) Fixed missing space when reporting success on beast mission
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Here's another one! We're still going to be working through adventure

reputation/quest/etc. improvements, so consider this a first stage. Other
highlights are the fortress mode sparring and mug-carrying fixes. Enjoy your
zombies.
New stuff
(*) New hearth orders for killing beasts and fighting outlaws
(*) Added a hunter reputation and cleaned up reputation system around beast-
slaying
(*) Made citizens understand their relationship to bandits and added
reputation for protecting people from them
(*) A few lizards
Major bug fixes

(*) Made drunken dwarves spar properly again
(*) Stopped dwarves from carrying mugs forever
(*) Stopped adv goblin performance troupes from attacking strangers while
traveling
(*) Stopped reanimated corpses from being stuck on wrong side of conflicts
(*) Gave underground populations zone assignments to stop them from erupting
outward
(*) Fixed inconsistent underground vegetation generation (which caused
underground site maps to generate inconsistently)
(*) Fixed various city vegetation clearing routines which were causing holes
in the ground above sewers and catacombs

(*) Zombies no longer dodge, parry, block, wrestle or run, and they do
charging attacks whenever possible
(*) Zombies don't get defense adjustments for body part type and they don't
find or stop combat opportunities
(*) Reduced zombie strength bonus (old saves will still be strong)
(*) Made severing all non-smashed heads put down a zombie (can be reanimated
if has working grasp, smashing heads already worked)
(*) Made severing/smashing any working grasp put down a headless zombie (can
be reanimated if has another working grasp)
(*) Neck gets same combat chance adjustment as head
(*) Made bandits that run off cancel town harassment goals
(*) Bandits camps don't immediately send new armies to re-harass towns
(*) Stopped camp bandits from being placed in trees so often
(*) Allowed save/load in arena
(*) Made creature object load bar page properly
(*) Labeled xml encoding as cp437 instead of utf-8
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Various fixes and various giant and peopled animals. I held off on common domestic
animal people for now, but there are plenty of canine and feline critters that got
the treatment.
New stuff
(*) Giant and person versions of many of the older creatures, including the
elephant
(*) Vampire purges in world generation to control their overfeeding which was
stopping cities from growing
Major bug fixes

(*) Allowed dwarves praying at temple dedicated to no particular god to
choose prayer target according to need
(*) Stopped adv mode goblin animals from fighting gobs and each other
(*) Fixed error causing underground sewer dwellers to copy town stockpile,
lag-killing certain towns
(*) Stopped crash with goblet trading
(*) Made retire store away merchants and diplomats and not mark visitors and
residents as hostile
(*) Made non-military visitors do citizenship petitions properly
(*) Fixed broken merchant-elevated-to-liaison that sits at trade depot for
entire life

(*) Fixed error with building profiles causing underground bandit leaders to
roam streets
(*) Vampire guests of various kinds give themselves cover identities (those
on-site will still be revealed in old saves)
(*) Stopped some position elevation announcements from giving away vampires
(*) Removed trade goods from retired sites if living merchant is still
present
(*) Made animals less afraid of casual relationships
(*) Various animal tweaks that came up during the peopling (see file
changes.txt)
(*) Marked visitors correctly in site text export
(*) Fixed a cause of string entry key conflicts
(*) Made it list proper subregion when talking about certain adventurer rumor
sites instead of subregion where speaker is standing
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Here's another release which cleans up various outstanding issues.

Major bug fixes
(*) Fixed world generation crash from wandering artist writing a book
(*) Fixed crash from retiring locations in certain circumstances
(*) Fixed crash associated to adventurer sleeping in inn rooms
(*) Fixed issue with militia not picking up armor
(*) Fixed error causing some instruments in chests to not be played
(*) Fixed error causing instruments and drink service to fail in dining rooms
(*) Fixed error causing scribes not to use some blank writing materials
(*) Fixed error causing overall scribe operation to be stalled by a bad
target codex
(*) Made training marksdwarves want both combat and training ammunition and
fetch stacks appropriately (thanks to ag for analyzing this one)
(*) Fixed issue with starting instrument causing it to duplicate
(*) Fixed one way for horses to become playable (not sure about dogs/donkeys)
(*) Stopped dead/caged commanders from stopping invaders from moving (thanks
to vjek for preparing a very useful and funny save)
(*) Stopped cats from dying of alcohol poisoning after walking over damp
tavern floors and cleaning themselves (reduced effect)
(*) Put new caps in place on animals in towns during world generation
(*) Stopped bookbinders and string makers from trying to use loose spider
webs (thanks to Knight Otu for reminded me about raw tag)

(*) Made the add new task list remember where it was again
(*) Tweaked how distance is calculated for certain jobs
(*) Stopped certain ramp/channel digging jobs from temporarily disturbing
pathing and distance calculations (thanks to Loci for reproducible procedure)
(*) Made edible seed-type growths gatherable
(*) Stopped wander history spam for adventurer
(*) Stopped nobles from other civilizations from making mandates and demands
(*) Stopped weapon slayer list from giving away fort vampires
(*) Handled some basic shaped conflicts with clothing vs. armor
(*) Changed how owned objects are managed with clothing -- might be some
trinket drops in old saves
(*) Allowed goblets on embark
(*) Made modded wood furnace reactions list properly
(*) Fixed typo with untitled written content
(*) Fixed typo in haunting conversation
(*) Fixed several typos in personality/value strings
(*) Fixed instrument values in old saves
******************************************************
Here's a quick follow-up for some of the worst bugs. There are still some strange
things going on (horses all over, duplicate companions, etc.), but hopefully this
version will work much better than the last one.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed world generation freeze caused by error in poetry refrains
(*) Fixed crash from building constructions on tree leaves etc.
(*) Fixed calendar crash from bandit bar hoppers
(*) Fixed crash with children joining socialize activities (most common with
migrant waves)
(*) Made worship activity branch properly (so prayer needs can be satisfied)
(*) Fixed world gen seed not repeating after abort
(*) Can see deity for temple in location screen
(*) Cannot spot vampires from occupation list anymore
(*) Fixed a few typos
******************************************************
Here is the new version we've been working on all year! The flow of fortress life
is quite a bit different now -- specific breaks and parties have been replaced by
taverns and performances and needs and inebriation. You can designate a tavern,
temple or library from a meeting area zone, bedroom or dining room using the new
Assign Location option. The location list ('l') will let you know what sort of
furniture and items you need, and you can set tavern keepers, scribes and other
occupations there as well. You'll need to set up a drink stockpile and a chest for
goblets in taverns for drink service to work properly, but dwarves can still drink
without a tavern as before. You can assign multiple rooms/zones to a single
location. There's a lot more -- see the feature list below.
The bug fix list below is partial. Large chunks of the game were changed, which
has a way of making old bugs go away while bringing in new ones to take their
place. We'll be focusing on bugs old and new in subsequent releases, starting with
crashing saves and moving down the list. The next set of bug-fix releases will be
measured on a scale of days and weeks rather than months, as usual.
New stuff
(*) Ability to designate taverns, temples and libraries in the fortress
(*) Taverns and libraries also exist in adventure mode and world generation
(*) Tavern keepers can serve drinks in both modes, goblets can be used by
dwarves to drink (in taverns or otherwise)
(*) Performances include stories, poetry, music and dance (you can view
activity descriptions from the unit/job list)
(*) Art forms are randomly generated for each civilization
(*) Instruments are now all generated, instruments can be used in both modes
(*) Most instruments are constructed from multiple pieces using different
materials
(*) Personalities and values lead to needs which can be met by various
actions in both modes
(*) The fort has visitors, residency petitions and eventual citizenship,
including non-dwarves
(*) Tavern visitors include mercenaries, monster slayers, bandits, diplomats
and performers
(*) Can set details for clothing/armor jobs to make them for other races that
can equip items
(*) Monster slayers can petition your fortress to go down and fight monsters
once you discover the underground
(*) Performance troupes are active in world generation and into play,
visiting the fort, can be formed in adventure mode
(*) New knowledge system divided into nine branches (though it has very few
practical effects so far)
(*) Fortress scholars can advance knowledge, form master-apprentice
relationships and write down their findings
(*) Fortress scribes can copy works in your library
(*) Scholars can visit your fortress libraries, bringing knowledge from
around the world
(*) Devoted historical figures can visit your fortress temples
(*) Three forms of writing material: papyrus sheets, paper sheets and
parchment sheets
(*) Papyrus sheets are made directly from the plant at the farmer's workshop
(*) Paper is made from pressed slurries (start at the quern/mill, then go to
a screw press)
(*) Parchment is made from hide and milk of lime at the tanner's (bake
quicklime at a kiln, then make milk of lime at an ashery)
(*) Sheets are used to make quires or with rollers to make scrolls -- these
are then used for writing
(*) Quires can be bound into codices with bindings after they contain writing
(*) Dwarves read books in the library (they don't need to be scholars)
(*) Values can be passed in writing (both modes) and through adventure mode
arguments (uses some conversation skills)
(*) Animal people are playable as adventurers, arrive as fort visitors and
sometimes live in towns in (playable) populations
(*) Children play with toys now, and they can also play make believe, in both
modes
(*) Personality can be customized/randomized in adventure mode, appearance
can be randomized as well
(*) Temples can be defiled in both modes, dwarf temples can be assigned to
particular gods
(*) Adventurer can rent rooms in inns
(*) Adventurers can compose new poems, music and dances
(*) Adventurers can write material down on empty quires or scrolls
(*) Alcohol causes inebriation, erratic behavior, unconsciousness, death
(*) Festivals occur in world generation, though we haven't gotten them out of
there yet
(*) Dwarves will wear trinkets again
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed some army pathing issues
(*) Goblins have mounts again
(*) Fixed long-standing flow bug with unit occupancy
(*) Stopped some issues with brawls escalating to non-lethal

(*) Looking at reaction screen for redded-out reactions in workshop will
indicate missing reagents now
(*) Fixed inversion problem with half of the child/parent conversation
thoughts
(*) Lots of historical figures that weren't around from the beginning didn't
have deities when they were supposed to
(*) Allowed site finder to look for 1x1 sites
(*) Human civilizations now have randomized values
(*) Added ability to set invasion wave cap size
******************************************************
Here is another release with fixes. Old saves are compatible, but there will be
some error logs due to minor issues with the old raws. These logs can be ignored,
but old saves will still experience problems like blank seed names.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed problem causing dwarves to sometimes fail to attack
monsters/invaders
(*) Stopped active blocks/parries from rarely freezing adv mode
(*) Stopped certain situations where you could be stuck in the air above
certain tiles
(*) Fixed a few problems with necromancers attacking (and generally being
killed by) their zombies
(*) Stopped crash from moving/centering squad menu going out of bounds
(*) Fixed crash involving squads and minimap
(*) Fixed unretire crash that generally triggered when caravan arrived
(*) Stopped dwarf from stressing out over the same wound forever
(*) Stopped certain inaccessible jobs from blocking lower priority ones

(*) Allowed embarks with x/y dim 1
(*) Made removal of trees check building/bridge/machine stability
(*) Stopped worker chaining to next construction job from choosing suspended
one
(*) Tentatively fixed text mode error on OSX (lethosor)
(*) Tentatively fixed broken sound on some linuxes (Baughn)
(*) Fixed problem with water disappearing when it crosses the z=0 boundary
(*) Made certain old civilian weapon assignments clear over time
(*) Made t/q building selector respect stockpile shapes when looking for
closest one
(*) Fixed error with underground pops in small forts not appearing
(*) Stopped mood jobs from going outside of burrows
(*) Capped various combat skill gains per action (Urist Da Vinci)
(*) Stopped "fighting" skill from increasing from trap/projectile attacks
(*) Stopped random creature proboscis from sometimes messing up poison
attacks
(*) Fixed key display issue in bindings screen (lethosor)
(*) Fixed problem with display of kill order status
(*) Made geld indicator appear for pets on animal screen properly
(*) Fixed display problem with agreement conclusion dates
(*) Added error logs for missing materials set to defaults, fixed various
raws
(*) Stopped announcement screen date from overrunning title depending on
window size
(*) Differentiated two pain readouts on health screen
(*) Fixed a few empty announcement errors
******************************************************
A third set of fixes for the job priority release, as well as a fix for the army
"camp forever" problem from July.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed cancellation bug with farming jobs
(*) Fixed problem causing camping armies to lose sight of certain goals once
play began

(*) Stopped situation where channeling dwarf decides to stand on channel tile
(*) Fixed some raw typos (Gorobay)
******************************************************
Major bug fixes

(*) Multi-item jobs like artifact moods, forging breastplates and smelting
pig iron should work now
(*) Made toggle marker behave like toggle engraving mouse-wise
******************************************************
This fixes some large and small problems with yesterday's release. Save corruption
was quite possible, so upgrading is important! You can still bring your old saves
from 0.40.03+ into this new version.
Major bug fixes

(*) Made hauling jobs that chain to other hauling jobs respect job postings,
instead of causing crashes and other horror
(*) Fixed stair/ramp removal

(*) Made digging look up/down for continuing jobs
(*) Fixed problem with harvest jobs stealing dwarves from each other
******************************************************
Here is the job priorities release. It should work fine with old saves, though
existing hauling jobs may need to work themselves out for a bit. Further job
prioritization work can be done when we get through the framework for start
scenarios, since we'll better understand how dwarves fit into the fortress at that
time.
New stuff
(*) New job selection process where dwarves choose important tasks with more
regularity
(*) Very important jobs can remove dwarves from less important jobs
(*) Ability to prioritize a job so that it gets done immediately
(*) Mining, engraving and other designation jobs can now be prioritized
numerically
(*) Designation jobs can be placed in a "marker only" mode, marker can be
removed later to start work
(*) Mining jobs can be set to automatically follow veins and clusters
(*) Mining designation can be set to only select visible gems or useful stone
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed crash related to armies failing to take over villages

(*) Hauling jobs that used to need a held container now allow the dwarf to
carry many items without a container
(*) Building jobs can swipe items from hauling jobs if the item is not held
(*) Wall/floor construction and road construction use new skill-free labor
settings
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Here is another release for November, mostly related to livestock.
New stuff
(*) Added gelding and associated profession/skill/etc.

(*) Showed animal gender symbols in a few more places
(*) Got rid of mating-at-a-distance
(*) Added drink tab to kitchen screen
(*) Moved all remaining announcements to announcements.txt
(*) Added ability add/remove bp flags to set bp group
(*) Tweaked crowded pasture anger counter
(*) Stopped liaison from inserting own gender into position change news
(*) Added more work-arounds for compiler issue (fixing broken vault weapons
and other problems)
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The flag changes brought forth a compiler issue on Windows (breaking smelting, for
example). Hopefully it'll work better now.
******************************************************
Here is another friendly little release.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed collapsing shrines
(*) Fixed army crash/bad behavior near the right/lower edge of the map
(*) Fixed a conversation crash related to uncivilized people/creatures trying
to sell something in the market
(*) Made people only jump into actual conflicts, rather than animal
encounters and training events

(*) Made stress levels drop faster the longer no stressors are applied
(*) Made gathering plants from the ground add to herbalist skill properly
again
(*) Made plants that grow in winter-spring plantable at all proper times
(Quietust)
(*) Optimized flag checks for non-windows OSs (ag)
(*) Fixed problem deleting stockpile links in the case that stockpile had
multiple give/take settings
(*) Fixed blinking behavior for stockpiles/zones vs. ramps/stairs
(*) Fixed blinking behavior for designations vs. anything obscuring them
(*) Fixed double untranslated name in thoughts screen
(*) Fixed elf diplomacy typo
******************************************************
The purpose of this release is to make stress from long-term separation due to
goblin snatching less severe and to stop attackers from always winning in post-
world-generation non-player battles. The fix for the latter could not be done
cleanly at this time, so the battle readouts in legends are a little off compared
to the ones from world-gen, but defenders are very often successful now. I also
fixed some missing aunts/uncles/cousins in the listing of relatives.
******************************************************
Here's another release with bug fixes and small changes to brighten your day.
Major bug fixes

(*) Made growing trees update cave-in and light information properly
(*) Handled stress counter timing properly in adv mode
(*) Stopped nerve check from bypassing broken parts between thought center
and body roots
(*) Stopped part from being pulped if inner nervous tissue is not detached
(*) Made pulped parts bleed properly
(*) Stopped crash from trying to place unit in proper connected component of
crowded retired fort
(*) Fixed reversed inside/outside check for outdoor refuse hauling

(*) Animals that can escape from cages no longer brought by traders
(*) Made reactions try to guess how their containers will be filled to stop
problems with brewing large stacks etc.
(*) Small coin stacks can no longer be stuffed into non-containers
(*) Small coin stacks no longer pass through opponents
(*) Stopped tantrum dwarves from checking burrows for fistfights
(*) Changed tantrum action frequency
(*) Being in an owned site makes bogeyman not an issue
(*) Made ballista arrow heads and ballista arrows have edges
(*) Added ability to trade everything in the depot from either column
(*) Made column widths even in trade view and abbreviated strings differently
(*) Added select visible and select category to bring-to-depot menu
(*) Added totems to crafts tab of bring-to-depot screen
(*) Added a few categories to the kitchen menu
(*) Alphabetized stone and kitchen menus
(*) Added magma-safe indicator to stone menu
(*) Made encrust jobs respect furniture tools
(*) Cannot go into specific encrust menus if selected gem not available for
encrust
(*) Dead dwarves removed from burrow count
(*) Made toggle button update properly when moving unit labor view to non-
laborer
(*) Fixed a problem causing the right edge of the embark world map to
disappear, including the cursor
(*) Fixed location of cursor in minimap for resized windows
(*) Made DOES_NOT_EXIST exclude creatures from certain lists properly
(*) Stopped stress reactions from being applied to unintelligent critters
(*) Stopped stress reactions of hidden creatures from being announced
(*) Fixed many typos (Gorobay)
(*) Updated description for pulping so it doesn't say "bruised" etc.
(*) Fixed broken artifact thought text
(*) Stopped immortality goal from having a broken display in thoughts
(*) Properly recognized multiple embark minecarts of the same material
(*) Slowed down tantrum/mood/etc. indicators
(*) Stopped zombies from interrupting your sleep to ask if they can help you
with something
(*) Increased default embark points to compensate for more default equipment
(stepladder etc.)
(*) Allowed deletion of first uniform
(*) Stopped crafts brought by traders from satisfying craft mandates
(*) Made weather init option clear up weather properly instead of just
turning off the global simulation
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Release notes for 0.40.14 (October 25, 2014):
Here is the next release. The focus was not bugs this time, but rather completing
the work started on emotions as well as basic fruit harvesting. A note -- adding
stepladders to old saves was not possible, so you'll have to wait for a new world
for those. Fallen fruit can still be gathered in old saves using the new plant
gathering zones. Dwarves in old saves have also had their current thoughts wiped
clean to make way for the new emotion/circumstance pairs.
New stuff
(*) Dwarf thoughts have been replaced with personality-dependent
emotion/circumstance pairs
(*) Dwarf happiness has been replaced by a longer-term stress level, and a
few new effects have been added
(*) Plant gathering zones can be used to set up fruit harvesting from trees
using the new stepladder
(*) Plant gathering zones can also handle the old shrub jobs, and fallen
fruit can also be gathered from zones
(*) Shrubs now have their berries/etc. gathered properly (bean-type plants
that only have edible seeds are still an issue)
(*) As a stopgap, farm plot plants yield viable growths out of season upon
harvest
(*) In adventure mode, it is possible to ask about people about yourself,
other people, and how they are feeling

(*) Stopped IMMOBILE creatures from trying to flee terrain
(*) Fixed problem with fear vs. stating proper opinion
(*) Stopped harvest/plant jobs from being added to farms slated for
destruction
(*) Deconstructed farm plot loses items
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Release notes for 0.40.13 (September 17, 2014):
This release fixes some more bugs, old and new.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed item storage crash related to minecart being destroyed
(*) Stopped dwarves from trying to clean their own missing or internal body
parts
(*) Cleared old activities properly so they aren't considered by dwarves for
too long

(*) Decreased frequency of conversation-skill-building dwarf chats
(*) Reworked grazing formula, used fractional exponent to scale properly
according to size
(*) Made grazing tile selection less top-left biased and made it prefer non-
creature'd tiles with denser grass
(*) Made butcher jobs for corpses not in piles respect z coordinate of
building (Quietust)
(*) Handled some issues with subterranean areas being removed through trees
(*) Made workshop profile skill checks ignore skill rust
(*) Fixed problem with siege operator skill check (Quietust)
(*) Stopped a lever linking job from being added if it is already in progress
(*) Stopped fort dwarves from throwing their clothes off into a pile during
unretire after being visited by adventurer
(*) Stopped fort animals from getting clothing during unretire after being
visited by adventurer
(*) Stopped animals with kills from getting trinkets from corpses
(*) Stopped animals from growing attached to and bestowing names on items in
their possession
(*) Stopped embark screen from setting neighbors with regular sites that
happen to have zombies (due to another bug)
(*) Made "place item in tomb" job governed by burial instead of item hauling
labor
(*) Made outside refuse order respect inside/outside instead of above
ground/subterranean
(*) Stopped inside above ground corpses/corpse pieces from being destroyed
periodically
(*) Stopped evaporation of inside above ground water from depending on the
weather
(*) Stopped water items on the ground from being cleanable -- they evaporate
instead
(*) Made water spatter evaporate properly over time
(*) Sped up extrasensory detection
(*) Sped up tracking of food consumption
(*) Re-enabled effects of cave adaptation
******************************************************
This release has some more bug fixes in it, mostly related to healthcare, prisoners
and morale.
Major bug fixes

(*) Made dwarves that fall unconscious while going to rest or sleep location
not get stuck on the spot
(*) Fixed symptoms of wrestling error that could cause dwarves to freeze in
place forever
(*) Stopped civs from sending a squad when they failed to find
thieves/snatchers to send (led to small sieges in the first year)
(*) Allowed recover wounded jobs to bring dwarves to hospital floor if no
beds are available
(*) Stopped recover wounded jobs from bringing dwarves to non-hospital beds
(*) Made caged/chained people request water/food with proper frequency

(*) Made doctors remove dwarves from traction properly (checks weekly)
(*) Made dwarves move/get moved to new hospital more quickly if old hospital
is removed
(*) Roots function as ramp walls properly now
(*) Can cross ramps covered by bridges in adventure mode
(*) Made critters that join up with your adventurer stop traveling if they
were on a journey
(*) Made critters with entity-based army duties unwilling to join adventurers
(*) Stopped critters joined with you from considering moving, joining armies
and other issues
(*) Added ability to repeat, suspend and cancel jobs from unit/job lists
(*) Made civ-level nobles attached to locations (e.g. barons) include their
site in their name when possible
(*) Made dwarves that have been grabbed for chaining/etc. cancel their jobs
properly
(*) Stopped certain events (like giving birth, resting or getting an artifact
mood) from causing a working dwarf to suspend jobs for the whole fort
(*) Stopped chained mothers from seeking wandering infants
(*) Changed name of chaining/other jobs to include target instead of saying
"animal" for everybody
(*) Made certain creatures like minotaurs act less civilized (requires
LARGE_PREDATOR in raws)
(*) Stopped alarm moods from persisting long beyond event itself
(*) Made non-soldier adventure companions not default to flight (this could
include giant demons, etc.)
(*) Stopped companions with stranger-kill ethics from starting no-quarter
fights with strangers the party meets
(*) Made stranger-kill creatures respect their own prisoners/etc.
(*) Stopped adventure mode critters from persisting on outmoded paths when
destination has changed
(*) Made sure dipscripts were loaded in the same order on different platforms
(Quietust)
(*) Trading a worthless item for a non-worthless item no longer results in
you initiating a robbery
(*) Wooden chests brought by elven traders are grown now
(*) Seeds that should be edible raw in adv mode are now edible
******************************************************
Here is the first release for September! As usual, a few bugs like sleep screwups,
cowardly companions and wandering children might persist for a while into old saves
until the system clears itself out.
Major bug fixes

(*) Accounted for site populations properly when moving around (stopping
doubling in lairs/player forts)
(*) Removed the old animal people camp items, as they cause duplication
errors and will work with a better overall army framework later
(*) Handle some more instances where led creatures could drag their leader
into conflicts (a dwarf caging a goblin, for example)
(*) Made historical figures react properly to historical undead
(*) Made chained animal checks respect z coordinate properly
(*) Gave your companions a bit of a courage boost in terms of intervening in
conflicts
(*) Fixed some problem with resource stockpiles causing shop types to revert
on insurrection

(*) Made dwarf children not seek their mothers when idle, especially in
violation of area restrictions
(*) Made dwarves prefer claimable rooms to dormitory master beds
(*) Stopped uninjured dwarves from sleeping in beds in active hospital zones
(*) Tried to make items in markets/homes match races more closely (cannot be
completed until later -- right now, resources are based on original site owners)
(*) Stopped brief necro master-apprentice relationships from forming in towns
(*) Stopped other necro tower townish behavior like fake grazing disputes
(*) Made sleeping on the floor respect burrow assignments
(*) Made strength/agility/tissue layer effects work for gaits (Quietust)
(*) Stopped overuse of plant structure tag causing people to say they
preferred to eat trees
(*) Fixed other issues causing dwarves to be able to prefer the wrong
(generated) materials
(*) Stopped adventure skill list from overflowing on status screen
(*) Discounted rust when listing relevant skill for squad candidate
(*) Stopped evaporation of 1/7 liquid when over 7/7 liquid of the same kind
(*) Made flying adventurer able to fly over ramps without using them
(*) Fixed missing bindings for animal training keys (Quietust)
(*) Adjusted firing rate for projectiles again to make them more like the
older versions
(*) Made adamantine clothing available in arena
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Release notes for 0.40.10 (August 24, 2014):
Here is another round of fixes. Note that for morale fixes in old saves there
could be some persistent alarm data that causes people to continue to run for a
bit, even for a few in-game hours in some cases, so you might need to let things
work themselves out.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed crash that could happen when refugee rumors were created
(*) Fixed crash from visiting former player fortress with adventurer if
certain army is present
(*) Fixed crash related to surgery
(*) Fixed crash that happened when it considered certain units in play for
succession
(*) Stopped a conversation crash from talking to mute creatures about their
troubles
(*) Allowed flying/climbing wilderness critters to work their way off the map
(*) Fixed problem allow the player to become invisible among many units even
when clearly visible
(*) Made running away in terror/fear respect only valid combat location
information
(*) Made genuine retreat and alarm state more separate from each other (being
alarmed was being equated with flight for morale)
(*) Stopped certain old conflicts from causing alarm
(*) Made people that are attacked briefly have some knowledge of attacker's
position
(*) Stopped certain jobs from being able to teleport items and engage in
other action-at-a-distance antics
(*) Stopped necromancer towers from doing various inappropriate townish
things that lead to tower proliferation etc.
(*) Fixed some reclaim/unretire bugs involving unavailable seeds
(*) Adjusted projectile firing speed which became broken during wagon fix

(*) Adjusted emotional strain vs. willpower etc. calculation
(*) Made non-extra-sensory creatures also respect z coord of potential
targets
(*) Fixed a pathing lag associated to mood dwarves not being able to get to
their buildings
(*) Added stockpile option for cut stones
(*) Removed obsolete relieved/drafted thoughts
(*) Made extra-sensory creatures even less perturbable by critters sensed
through layers of rock
(*) Stopped erroneous conflicts between certain hunting creatures
(*) Stopped shared/wrestled items from being used for block/parry
(*) Stopped creatures with multiple attacks like hydra from stacking attack
modifiers incorrectly
(*) Made attacker always look at target upon initiating attack
(*) Ordered farm plot plant lists by seed availability/name
(*) Lowered cap for wrestle skill gain so it wouldn't be hit triple digits
attacking large opponents
(*) Removed double entry of "slabs" from stocks screen
(*) Adjusted 'v' menu location for window height (so it wouldn't overwrite
certain lists, etc.)
(*) Fixed a few typos causing double periods in personality paragraphs
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The cleaning continues with this release! Some notes on poles: For no-pole,
you'll need to handle glacier and tundra biomes in one way or another (wider
temperature range, remove region requirements, etc.). For instance, to make a
valid no-pole large island, all I needed to do was widen the temperature max/min
from 75/25 to 110/-10. This made a few glaciers and tundras scattered around the
world, and it also allowed a few tropical biomes to appear. For no-pole, base
temperatures of at least 85 make an environment tropical (worlds with poles
continue to use latitude), though 75 works for certain biomes. You should be able
to input your own temperatures in the txt parameters now without the game applying
a polar shift. No-pole worlds do not yet experience any seasonal temperature
variations, and worlds with two poles still have seasons at the same time of year
on either side of the equator until that can be made less confusing.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed problem causing domestic underground animals to be placed beyond
their number (and then replaced at that new number)
(*) Made people not so eager to jump in on the side of their relatives and
friends if the relative/friend is berserk/etc.
(*) Made creatures prefer to flee normally if possible (rather than jumping
off cliffs etc.)
(*) Stopped liquid flows in confined spaces from sometimes making items
disappear
(*) Made items that froze in ice reappear properly when ice melts
(*) Allowed dwarves interested in marriage to start relationships properly
(Quietust)
(*) Removed some vestigial code stopping wagons from moving properly after
move/attack speed split
(*) Fixed a wagon AI error that caused them to fail to unload sometimes
(*) Gave wagons the ability to go past each other in certain instances
(*) Made invaders not come back as ghosts
(*) Stopped non-historical dwarves from coming back as ghosts (put in fix for
old saves that should lay them to rest soon after unpause)
(*) Stopped ghosts from being considered in regular sight code
(*) Fixed the defend burrow order
(*) Allowed items made from gem materials (including large gems) to be stored
in finished goods pile
(*) Fixed broken logic that made trade good hauling require both trade good
hauling and lever operation labors

(*) Fixed up quarry bush bag job vs. rock nuts
(*) Added appropriate announcements for some additional circumstances under
which a fort dwarf could assume a civ-level position
(*) Added embark warning if civ is dead
(*) Added optional confirmation window after preparing embark (default: pops
up if points remain)
(*) Printed job after name when following unit
(*) Marked dwarves as "New Arrival" on unit/job screen instead of "No Job"
while they are new
(*) Added pole-setting parameters for world gen, allowed north+south pole and
no-pole options
(*) Fixed an error causing nearby site maps to be offloaded too often
(*) Made hill dwarf sites put animals in pastures properly
(*) Made animals not placed in pasture/waste/yard get placed even if their
preferred type isn't available
(*) Fixed some manual typos (Gorobay)
(*) Initialized strict pop cap to 220 if not present in d_init
(*) Made alerts without names show properly as "Alert State #" in squad mode
(*) Finished updating pineapple raws
(*) Made several export filenames use the format (region)-YYYYY-MM-DD-(etc)
(*) Added error for unrecognized CREATURE in entity raw
******************************************************
A few new errors crept in. Hopefully they will creep out now.
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped ESC from ending the game when setting up fort or adventurer
(*) Made constructions use materials properly again
******************************************************
Enjoy another set of bug fixes!
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed crash that involved promoting certain stops above their route
(*) Removed some stale invasion data preventing further invasions
(*) Stopped dwarves from breeding like animals, technically speaking
(*) Made diplomats search for civ-level land-holders properly
(*) Fixed some path buffering problems that could screw up neighbor list etc.
(*) Fixed a few problems with undead AI
(*) Stopped sleeping/incapacitated dwarves from doing things
(*) Fixed problem with squad leader assignment in military screen
(*) Made sparring people use their weapons properly
(*) Made unretired forts unhide fully, flowing from surface and all units

(*) Made masterpiece announcements wait for all item info to be decided
before trying to print item name
(*) Eliminated an OSX key conflict for text deletion
(*) Made install colony jobs respect each other's targets
(*) Made install colony jobs react to missing hive at gather destination
(*) Added another adjustment to designation jobs to help them vs. paths that
became bad
(*) Required animal hauling labor for various jobs
(*) Added new labors for hauling trade goods, pulling levers, removing
constructions and hauling water
(*) Attached trap cleaning to clean labor
(*) Made laborless building construct/destroy jobs take furniture hauling
(*) Allowed burrows to restrict workshop item search or not (default off)
(*) Added assigned citizen number to burrow list
(*) Stopped paralyzed injured dwarves from spamming rest cancellation
messages
(*) Stopped some CPU-intensive temperature wobble (ag)
(*) Cleaned up the creature pressure plate interface
(*) Made paved roads only need as much material as required by the road tiles
(rather than the whole rectangle)
(*) Made translated name appear properly at the top of the screen when
viewing creature
(*) Stopped dwarves from liking special items
(*) Fixed a problem with unnamed historical figure statue/figurine item names
and descriptions
(*) Fixed color display problem in civ list
(*) Gave not-you civs range of 30 path-wise for neighbor status on embark
(towers still 10)
(*) Allowed use of number in burrow names without moving cursor
(*) SDL string question mark should no longer enter as a pipe, and pipe
should be enterable
(*) Respected question mark entry in several places
******************************************************
Another bug fix release.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed a problem causing certain jobs to become stuck when their paths
were interrupted
(*) Stopped dwarves from starting conflicts with led creatures
(*) Stopped led creatures from wandering away from leader
(*) Made buildings with burrows require a connectivity check when searching
for items
(*) Made dwarves forbid webs that are "accessible" but require pathing
through unexplored areas
(*) Reduced number of automation jobs created
(*) Made some jobs respect fish/vermin amount when producing products
(*) Make potash from lye respects lye stacks
(*) Made jobs requiring several e.g. bones not need many individual stacks
(*) Made thread spinning job not use up all of a stack of wool
(*) Stopped decoration job from consuming entire stacks
(*) Stopping using entire stack of meat to bait animal trap
(*) Stopped reactions from consuming way too many raw materials from stacks
(ag), though reactions that use very small amounts still use at least 1 item from a
stack
(*) Stopped mining of root from removing the tree

(*) Stopped announcement of theft of hidden reclaimed underground objects
(*) Stopped birth announcements for hidden creatures and separated wild/tame
animal birth announcements
(*) Stopped hidden/forbidden buildings from being listed in lever link menu
(*) Stopped hidden/forbidden buildings from appearing in room list
(*) Stopped hidden items from appearing in military equipment lists
(*) Made trees update indoor/etc. settings properly upon removal
(*) Made building/stockpile menus to respect different window heights
(*) Made hunger/thirst/etc. indicators display properly in travel
(*) Made vision arc display turn off for blinded creatures
(*) Made scarred over wounds to broken functional layers continue to impair
function
(*) Removed requirement that a creature have a baby/child state to breed
(*) Fixed plant growth consumption preferences (Quietust)
(*) Fixed display of tree roots designated for mining
(*) Fixed reversed display of zone sizing controls
(*) Made random creatures only spit liquid spittle
(*) Fixed state token for mud creature tissues (Quietust)
(*) Stopped traders from bringing unspecified "liquid" from bloodsucking
animals (Quietust)
(*) Fixed problem causing multiple plant listings in stockpile
(*) Made jobs properly cut away pieces of corpses for use (so that
reanimation etc. respects partial use)
(*) Made reactions count up and trim away body component materials properly
(*) Added wound description for partially butchered parts
(*) Made globs stackable
(*) Fixed unretire message on linux/osx
(*) Stopped dwarven forges in world gen sites from using thrones instead of
anvils
(*) Fixed message for being caught in a cloud of vapor/dust (Quietust)
(*) Removed special materials from dwarf prefs
(*) Clarified generated items in stockpiles (can't remove yet)
(*) Fixed adjectives for randomly generated blowdarts/bolts (old saves still
broken)
(*) Made burrow indicator show over hidden areas
(*) Fixed broken language selection for certain names
(*) Can copy basic item type/subtype with reagent using
GET_ITEM_DATA_FROM_REAGENT:<reagent token>:NONE
******************************************************
This is a bug fix and optimization release, which is probably something we should
get used to for a while, since there is a lot left to do! I've tried to make it
possible to play in larger worlds again, but there's also more that can be done.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed several large slow-down culprits
(*) Stopped trees from growing through floors
(*) Fixed a problem causing the suspension of constructions (old saves with
affected jobs will still need to restart them) (ag)
(*) Fixed a few problems with hospital code causing them to overstock item
(ag)
(*) Fixed problem stopping underground fishing (UristDaVinci/Quietust)
(*) Made cultures that oppose intruders more lax when in places controlled by
less wary groups (one cause of marketplace knifefights)
(*) Made adventure-mode ambushers somewhat more in tune with their task
(*) Made master soldiers stop reverting back to corresponding regular soldier
type
(*) Fixed crash that could occur when looking at adventure log while
traveling

(*) Stopped clearing professions upon achieving master soldier type
(*) Fixed the population cap
(*) Made it possible to detect plantings too late in the season again
(Quietust)
(*) Stopped migrants from retaining certain adv/etc. flags harmful to their
integration into the fort (making them 'hostile') Note: those from old saves might
take off articles of clothing and store them and other strange things, since the
integration could not be made complete easily...
(*) Fixed problem with non-entity armies/travelers failing to evaluate nearby
creatures properly
(*) Tried to improve prioritization for creatures trying to handle many
targets, especially w/ extra senses (caused combat AI paralysis)
(*) Stopped fliers from wanting to jump (and sometimes colliding mid-air)
(*) Added some basic climbing skill to wg/etc. soldiers, esp. thieves
(*) Vermin can escape from non-artifact containers properly (Quietust)
(*) Caravans check weapon type properly for material selection (Quietust)
(*) Diplomats that wanted bodyguards should get them now (Quietust)
(*) Stopped aquarium check from turning off other vermin code (Quietust)
(*) Fixed crash that happened in the arena when doing v-p on a dwarf with a
weapon
(*) Creature art value considered properly by civs now (Quietust)
(*) Fixed problem dividing out item milligrams in weapon velocities
(UristDaVinci)
(*) Can now melt metal chests (Quietust)
(*) Handled a few problems causing extra/erroneous long patrol thoughts
(Quietust)
(*) Made children get full list of default labors upon growing up and
respected any existing skills
(*) Stopped migrant historical children from receiving labors
(*) Made underground populations properly respect layer size (the numbers can
get very high, but blame the giant under-ocean caves in part)
(*) Stopped hyper-obese digesting dwarves from constantly recalculating
insulation/mass data (ag)
(*) Fixed some problems causing certain jobs to check too many items
(angavrilov/Quietust)
(*) Allowed egg-laying critters without baby/child state to have viable eggs
(*) Stopped listing dead non-fort animals/etc. as missing
(*) Fixed a rounding error with projectile calculations (Pirate
Bob/UristDaVinci)
(*) Adjusted contact area/depth of ammo, max velocity of shooters (Joben)
(*) Fixed a problem causing saplings to grow up 10x as fast as they should
(*) Stopped sparring from being placed in combat reports
(*) Displayed proper key for viewing agreements in civ screen
(*) Stopped dwarves from swiping hospital goods from the caravan
(*) Made the game respect more circumstances whereby medical inventory items
are removed (fixing the crutch speed bug, for instance)
(*) Stopped ghosts from being able to realize dreams after they are dead
(*) Fixed problem where tools made from adamantine wafers required the wrong
material amounts (Quietust)
(*) Fixed problem with seed initialization for mid-level maps that could
cause inconsistency (Quietust)
(*) Fixed broken lack of cage/chain thought for law dwarf (Quietust)
(*) Adjustments to animal people frequencies (see file_changes.txt)
(*) Made king cobra people legless like other snake people
(*) Fixed a problem causing the tortoises not to appear
(*) Made random creature spines connect up properly
(*) Fixed material values for obsidian (UristDaVinci)
(*) Various typos fixed (see file_changes.txt) (thanks to Gorobay for finding
most of these)
(*) Re-added elven diplomacy, though it is still unchanged from its first
incarnation
******************************************************

This is mainly another crash-fix release, though I was able to handle some other
problems as well. I'm still hoping to get to optimizations (for the third time in
these release notes!), but as usual that depends on stability. As you'll note
below, a few of the older bugs are gone -- as we continue in this process, I'll
work fixes for old bugs into the mix.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed a crash with pathing for jumps
(*) Fixed a crash related to invading squads attempting to train
(*) Fixed an overpopulation bug for civilized critters and a related one for
site animals
(*) Fixed problem with retired fort uniform settings crashing later visits to
the fort
(*) Stopped a crash associated to misplaced books/slabs (root cause remains,
added some logs)
(*) Fixed position appointment issue that caused some instability
(*) Tried to make idle code somewhat better about climbing while still
getting dwarves out from being stuck
(*) People with a weapon should use it with the proper frequency now

(*) Fixed problem with animal training/taming vs. lingering combat data
(caused job cancel spam and inability to complete jobs)
(*) Stopped nearby objects from being teleported by construction removal and
a related problem with the item loop (ag/Quietust)
(*) Made site finder properly indicate flux layers (Quietust)
(*) Made game better respect existing directory structure in data/save when
creating new directories
(*) Made tops of walls appear properly when trees above walls are removed
(*) Made strangulation take less time
(*) Enhanced sapling survivability
(*) Fixed a problem that caused vermin to occasionally be generated out of
the loaded area
(*) Fixed a problem that corrupted the information about items on the ground
with temperature changes
(*) Fixed some brokenness with climbing AI vs. ledge tops
(*) Fixed a broken instance of chasing opponent AI vs unwalkable spaces
(*) Made climbing have a higher path cost
(*) Made people less likely to climb after a failure
(*) Babies don't start strapped with a knife
******************************************************
Many more crash issues fixed. Mystery babies and large city walls had a corrupting
effect that was not possible to manage, so saves are not compatible yet again.
I'll try to keep saves together as we move forward, but there aren't any
guarantees, especially this early on. If things have settled down on the stability
front, I can finally move on to the optimizations and other issues. We'll see what
happens!
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed relationship screen crash from certain historial/old-player-fort
migrants and adventurer migrants
(*) Fixed adv retirement cloning
(*) Fixed crash when game tries to realize certain low population sites
(*) Fixed crash/corruption problem from large city walls
(*) Fixed crash when asking about site trade partners
(*) Fixed problem causing travelers originating from realized
forts/sewers/dungeons to go out of map bounds (caused crashes)
(*) Stopped the babies of the world from appearing in the unit list (and
associated minimap crash)

(*) Made farm plant list refresh properly with season selection
******************************************************
It's not DF without save corruption! This release should fix an issue with
autosaves corrupting and causing various crash issues down the line. For this
reason 0.40.01 saves are not compatible with this version -- I'm going to try to
avoid compatibility breaks as we go, but sometimes they happen. I've also fixed
the talk-to-deity crash (closely related to the shout-when-nobody-is-around crash,
also fixed), the blocking crash, and some other bad issues. Due to the save
corruption, I didn't get a chance to work on the calendar speed, but assuming this
release works as planned, I should be able to jump into that now.
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped autosave features from corrupting worlds (thanks to everybody
that helped sort that out so quickly!)
(*) Made the game not crash when talking to a deity or shouting out in the
wilderness
(*) Fixed a crash from trying to actively block in the adventure attack menu
(*) Fixed the size bug where 9 of 10 young critters did not grow up beyond
baby size (thanks Urist Da Vinci and so many others for all the work on that! I'd
thank you all properly if I could do the archaeology to figure out how it was
sorted out...)
(*) Fixed a crash that came sometimes when asking about the position of site
forces
(*) Stopped a freeze that happened when swimming in deep water

(*) Fixed the tracking key in the SDL version so you should be able to do
that with capital K now
(*) Added the short wait button to the adventurer manual -- you can use ,
instead of . to wait for one instant
(*) Made quarry bushes process to an edible leaf properly
(*) Typo when impersonating divine being
******************************************************
Here is the world activation release! Lots of processes from world generation --
birth, invasions, succession, site foundation, and so on -- now operate in the
world after play has begun. Getting all of that to work led to a meandering route
through various pieces of the game, some of which are described below. Aside from
any bugginess, a lot of it will still feel rough and unfinished as things bump
around.
New stuff
(*) World activation! There are a few things that aren't active, like
megabeast invasions, but lots of world gen actions made it into the game. Birth,
death (to the extent it wasn't handled before), marriages, site foundation as well
as reclaims, basic succession and appointments/etc., invasions, as well as some
more detail beyond world gen, like patrols, banditry and animal population
handling. We still don't have army battles -- the invasions are all successful
right now, unless they are locally interfered with by you.
(*) The game advances two weeks before each play -- the calendar there still
moves slowly when there's a lot of action, as there is in larger worlds, but there
are quite a few things I can do soon to speed that up. Due to the speed of the
calendar, new forts in particular also get just two weeks. This'll probably cause
some shenanigans with the caravan (or you'll just have to wait a year in an autumn
fort for your first one) until we sort it out.
(*) Fortresses can be retired and unretired. Losing is still fun but if it
doesn't happen when you want, you can put it off for a while. Retired forts can be
conquered (much more easily than they would be if you still controlled them), so
don't be surprised if you have to reclaim instead of being able to unretire
sometimes. You can reclaim forts that didn't make it through world generation.
(*) Site maps for dwarves, elves and goblins. These are very basic, but they
are there, anyway.
(*) Multi-tile trees and lots of new plants. Fruit and flowers. Leaves that
fall in little clouds. I had to put off dwarf mode tree harvesting, but we should
get to that before long.
(*) Megabeasts/forgotten beasts can attack, destroy and then reside within
world gen sites like dwarf fortresses.
(*) Various movement changes. Climbing/jumping/sprinting in both modes,
though invaders still require a line of site to use them. Adventure mode has a
stealth rewrite, and some elements of that are present in dwarf mode (it is
generally easier to spot thieves and ambushers, and I'll probably need to make them
smarter about finding cover). Movement and combat are separate now. Startled
people climb up the walls of their homes a little too often.
(*) Tracking information in adventure mode. You can pull up a little window
and see tracks (capital K), and you can also have it describe the freshest track
that isn't yours to more easily stay on a trail (alt K). Tracks are also part of
the regular look command.
(*) Different levels of conflict -- your opponents in adventure mode will be
listed with the current status (non-lethal, lethal, no quarter, etc.).
(*) Combat moves take place over a period of time now, and you can do things
like catching an opponent's attack -- you have to do that by targeting a grab at
the offending part now (reactions used to have a menu, but that was before combat
got more smeared out). You can get information about what attacks your opponent is
doing in the attack menu -- the quality of the information depends on your
situational awareness skill. You can add adjective modifiers to your attacks
(quick/heavy/etc.) and you can perform more than one attack at a time for a
significant penalty to its force. It might make sense with two adamantine swords
or something, twirling them about.
(*) Rumors of incidents can be spread, and the rumors need to be spread
before you gain reputation (good or bad). Killing all of the witnesses to an event
will effectively remove it from play if you don't let them get off the screen.
People are a little psychic as it regards ongoing conflicts, so that they can make
decisions non-stupidly. Your liaison can share rumors with your fort, but I still
need to set up the screen for reviewing them after you've seen them the first
time... not that you can do much with the information.
(*) You can travel through tunnels.
(*) You can get a guide to travel with you to a faraway place -- it still
ended up being too cumbersome, so locals continue to be able to tell you the
location of sites, but only within a certain distance of their home town.
(*) In general, conversations have been redone. They no longer have their
own screen, but run along with other actions, and there are many more options.
(*) The mind has been rewritten quite a bit -- people now experience emotions
according to different circumstances (lots of awkward monologues there), and they
consider actions differently. The main outstanding issue is that I didn't get
around to converting existing dwarf mode thoughts, so they sort of exist
concurrently with the new emotions and that needs to be changed. I'll get to that
before job priorities (which was one of the main shorter-term reasons for the
rewrite). Some dwarves have life-long dreams and it is possible for them to
recognize that they've accomplished the ones relating to skills and family. They
cannot yet realize their dreams of taking over the world.
(*) The paragraph at the beginning of adventure mode was marginally more
useful, but that slipped a bit at the end as things were tweaked. I think it'll
still describe certain invasions and abductions, but it needs to be redone.
(*) Lots of new arena options -- not just the conflict state, but you can set
the temperature etc. to all sorts of extremes.
(*) Some experiments with procedural items, though the new demon-type sites
are still quite un-fun now. The knowledge on the slab at the bottom can be used,
but it is probably not worth the trouble.
(*) The stuff I forgot
Bug fixes
(*) I'm sure several old bugs were "fixed" as large portions of the code was
rewritten/removed, but I haven't tried to track exactly which ones. Bug fixes will
commence in earnest now, and everything will be handled over at the bug tracker
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/.
******************************************************
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped crash from forbidden or otherwise lost containers in haul jobs
(*) Stopped crash from naming routes when no routes are present
(*) Stopped crash from renaming non-squads in the military screen
(*) Stopped adventurer from turning into an underground creature when solid
ground for placement couldn't be found
(*) Stopped children from having missing/damaged clothing thoughts

(*) Stopped dwarves from walling/isolating themselves oftentimes
(*) Worker chooses the closest tile instead of preferring tile at the top
left of each designation job location (they don't use path distance, nor does this
impact global behavior like choosing which designation job is picked overall)
(*) Removed ramps near natural waterfalls
(*) Added confirmation for burrow deletion
(*) Added generic armor options (like those in the default uniforms)
(*) Stopped haulers from wandering in loops in certain circumstances
(*) Stopped removed constructions from injuring dwarves
(*) Stopped dwarves from looping between civ/squad equipment if they can't
follow their orders
(*) Allowed dwarves to ride/push minecarts even when they don't have walking
access to destination
(*) Made dwarves equip items based on clothing layering order (there can
still be conflicts if some items are already worn)
(*) Made dwarves eat from backpacks/drink from waterskins earlier
(*) Made armor objects count for missing clothing thoughts
(*) Made dwarves drop equipment extra equipment more promptly when they are
hungry/thirsty
(*) Stopped empty bags from popping out of minecarts
(*) Cleared kill orders when completed (they can take a few extra clicks to
clear up)
(*) Non-fire-immune creatures will dodge out of hot squares
(*) Fixed extra flashing _ problem when naming routes
(*) Random seeds can now be typed up to the proper number of characters
(*) Auto-assign new baby animals to mother's pasture/pond
(*) Stopped certain game actions from advancing when designations are placed
(*) Added indication of items which are already assigned in specific item
assignment on military screen
(*) Stopped objects from being forbidden on enemy deaths if they are
associated to fort military equipment
(*) Made command line world gen exit without forcing a key press confirmation
(*) Made command line understand quotes so that parameters with spaces in
their names can be used
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Major bug fixes

(*) stopped powered rollers from pushing every track cart everywhere
(*) fixed lye/milk bucket storage jobs
(*) stopped them from storing assigned cart that is on a valid trackless stop
(*) allowed them to store unassigned cart that is on a track

(*) updated some screens for higher dimensions (if you enlarge in windowed
mode for instance)
(*) wrestles/shared items don't persist when cart moves
******************************************************
Here are the latest fixes. Note that your furniture stockpiles have some more type
options now, and your old piles that had pots enabled will start with all the new
tool options enabled (you should set them how you want them after you load it).
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed various broken bucket jobs
(*) Rollers require power properly now and get carts to speed faster
(*) Stopped injuries from channeling and made objects and the digger move
down to the ramp square when appropriate
(*) Stopped picking up of unit-occupied/speeding carts in adv mode
(*) Stopped wheelbarrow from getting stuck on obstacles that are built as it
is moving
(*) Fixed problem where carts leaving ramps get their velocity throttled too
much (or just outright stopped)

(*) Stopped salt from spreading to fresh water, made fresh water destroy
stagnant water
(*) Cleaned up stockpile options for tools
(*) Increased output of coke reactions
(*) Made materials for embark tools match definition
(*) Stopped fast travel when riding carts
(*) Fixed scrolling of hauling menu for screen heights greater than 25
(*) Made older saves set new vehicle ids correctly
(*) Fixed busted string when looking at objects on rollers
(*) Fixed typo in white sand density
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Here is a hauling release. I'm sure it has all kinds of interesting issues --
we're going to iron out problems for the next few releases without embarking on
anything major in order to restabilize it. The tile-wise physics causes some
oddities on its own (items can't be given a meaningful sub-tile width, so they act
a bit strangely if you look at the collisions closely). Dwarves are also a bit
enthusiastic with their new bin/barrel jobs -- when they grab a bin/barrel to load
it up, it might have objects in it, and that might lead to conflicts/false
shortages on occasion. We'll have to continue playing around with it. As far as I
can tell, old saves load up fine and have usable minecart/wheelbarrows, so feel
free to move your data/save folder over to the new version. You'll notice your old
save stone haulers moving slower -- get some wheelbarrows built at the carpenter's
for your stone stockpiles to alleviate that problem.
New stuff
(*) Minecarts can be used to haul things around on carved/constructed
tracks/bridges ('h'auling to set up routes)
(*) Dwarves can be set to guide, push off, or ride carts that are ready to
move to the next stop
(*) Track stops used to slow/stop cart and/or dump the contents on vehicle
entry, can be disengaged with lever/plate
(*) Pressure plates can be triggered by carts
(*) Rollers can be used to push cart along when powered
(*) Minecarts limited to one per tile in general, various collisions can
occur
(*) Wheelbarrows can be linked to stockpiles in order to move heavy objects
(it'll auto-request one for stone stockpiles)
(*) Falling objects can collide with critters
(*) Camera can be attached to unit or item, can be linked to hotkeys from the
unit/item screens

(*) Stockpiles can be linked to workshops, can be set to give to multiple
piles, can be set to accept items from links only
(*) Hauling jobs will often be combined, using one container
(*) Heavy items harder to haul
(*) Densities/colors updated, based on Uristocrat's data collection thread
(*) Can filter creature names in arena
(*) Mine drop rates tweaked, no longer skill-based
(*) Puzzleboxes/drum makeable
(*) Stopped blinking on bridges
(*) Projectiles using new code (most non-shot/thrown projectiles) can
skip/skid on liquid/ground
(*) All flying units use new minecart parabolic flight paths
(*) Many projectiles do not resolve in adventure mode before your turn (so
you can dodge a flying cart by moving away)
(*) Can create/assign to squads from v-p
(*) Squads can be given nicknames from v-p or the military screen
(*) Fixed broken clay stockpile option
******************************************************
Here is another set of bug fixes. Be warned that some animals had their tiles
changed to match the size convention.
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped crash from some odd creatures transforming into werebeasts
(*) Fixed crash from sites on the edge of the map
(*) Fixed old adv mode save imports
(*) Slab to missing allowed, once missing status has been announced (unless
from reclaim, then you can always do it)
(*) Made animated corpses that collapse still count toward putting down
ghosts
(*) Stopped undead from getting werecurses -- generally made
animation/ghost/acquired tags count for more
(*) Removed negative clothing thoughts for children

(*) Stopped people from dropping random crafts/weapons on edge of map again
(*) People should more consistently bring axes, picks, crossbows, quivers,
ammo
(*) Temporarily made amulets/backpacks etc. have no layering info (was
screwing up clothing, will return to it)
(*) Limited number of hunting/vamp crafts
(*) Flux check in site finder should match with text now
(*) Stopped vamps from bragging about their kills
(*) Lists ghost/slab number/burial state in memorial list and stuck announced
ghosts without slab item on the very top
(*) Fixed blank memorial names
(*) Husks have more information removed (pasture/pet/some job targeting/etc)
(*) Opposition to life now overrides peace with wildlife
(*) Stopped dwarves leading animals from going moody
(*) Imported saves from 34.05 and earlier will have eggs that produce tame
hatchlings
(*) Option between skill/unit based profession setting in d_init
(*) Made initial equipment based on profession setting rather than unit type
(*) Fixed broken animal overall training scrolling
(*) Mood dwarves no longer ask for "rock bars" and it says "bones" instead of
"body parts"
(*) Displayed medical dates correctly (they were a day off)
(*) Season announcement appears with correct date
(*) Correct year will show up on announcement screen
(*) Displayed gender for some items that were showing up as duplicate entries
(*) Gender in kill list (duplicate entries again)
(*) Fixed some mannerism pronouns
(*) Various raw fixes (see file_changes) -- highlight is that various
underground animal men have attacks again
******************************************************
Here is the next one! The main features are the animal training and clothing
changes. You can get at the animal training options from the 'z' animal tab.
New stuff
(*) Each civilization has animal training familiarity based on
locale/journeys/domestication
(*) Your site picks up training knowledge as you go
(*) Your civilization picks it up from you if merchants survive
(*) Animals have training status which can deteriorate
(*) Added tools to the arena
(*) Added text site color key for town map export
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed a save corruption from saving at the moment of trade meetings
(*) Animals that have killed/attacked civ members no longer attack when
trained
(*) Allowed people to pick up their own owned clothes
(*) Stopped sever victims from obsessing over lost clothes
(*) Stopped failed pickup job from keeping item in uniform plan
(*) Pickup equipment spam handled
(*) Workshop clutter changed

(*) Evil/good trees/shrubs are back
(*) Made ownership lapse for things that have been thrown away -- can take
about 10-20 days
(*) Clothing deterioration in refuse pile
(*) Training jobs for large animals decoupled from kennels -- assign trainers
in animal screen
(*) Animals being trained wander around less
(*) Allowed selection of war/hunting animals
(*) Stopped young animals from lashing out
(*) Decreased vampire frequency for fort migration
(*) Fixed metal/bone helm artifacts (Quietust)
(*) Fixed problems with socks going on the same foot
(*) Champion can be appointed, fixed various circumstances causing failed
position activations
(*) Tool weights fixed (at least to align with raws)
(*) Material size respected in standard tool construction jobs
(*) Reintroduced negative thoughts from clothing, nakedness thoughts take a
few weeks
(*) Stopped zillions of chat thoughts from being stacked up
(*) Stopped critters from breaking away from being led in an inconsistent way
(*) Various string changes for TrueType (will also affect other modes in
hopefully minor ways)
******************************************************
The necromancer crash was coming up so often in crash reports that I figured now
was a good time for another release. Here it is! Note that any old vanilla saves
you move over will have a short error log on load for their broken eyelid raws.
This isn't a big deal, and you can either update the body detail plan file or just
leave it. New saves won't have this problem.
Major bug fixes

(*) fixed crash from necromancers in dwarf mode
(*) fixed crash from seed traders that only have access to wool bags
(*) stopped adv mode sleeping from sticking you on rooftops and teleporting
you outside of castles (underground case not done yet)
(*) removed many effects and secret identity from ghosts
(vampirism/lycanthropy/necromancer status etc.)

(*) traded adv mode items will go to backpack/quiver first depending on type
(*) dwarves won't get unhappy thoughts from dead/rotting relatives if their
deaths are not known
(*) made various animals non-threatening (new saves only -- BENIGN tag can be
added to old save raws, see file_changes.txt)
(*) stopped untowered necromancers from losing their zombie pops in their
camps
(*) fixed broken names for bones and other butcher products
(*) removed items from abandoned houses/shops
(*) allowed adv mode abilities/powers to page through targets
(*) vampires no longer blame children/babies
(*) fixed broken companion paging/viewing for large numbers of companions
(*) stopped undead cats from adopting dwarves
(*) messed with crabs/horseshoe crab water behavior
(*) disallowed animation of bogeymen (new saves only)
(*) changed mule/muskox color
(*) fixed a few animal descriptions
(*) eyes/eyelids were broken in various ways
(*) tweaked appearance of nearly empty sleep bar
******************************************************
There was a world gen crash if you exported an image after it was done running the
history and then tried to offload the world.
******************************************************
Here is the second set of fixes for the major release. There are still enough
problems with the new stuff to warrant continued work there before I move on to
older issues, and the next release will probably be within the timeframe of the
last two.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed crash with historical figure cull vs. wandering groups
(*) Stopped historical figures from starving
(*) Stopped various corruption crashes and weird effects, mainly from aborted
world gens (nice catch, Lightning4!)
(*) Stopped original population associated to historical figure from screwing
up its allegiances
(*) Stopped it from moving criminal leaders with routine civilian moves,
changing their allegiances
(*) Stopped populations from villages/trade partners from migrating into
dungeon outcast groups all at once (one group had 15000!)
(*) Stopped werebeasts from gumming up world gen
(*) Stopped raised corpses from having various allegiances
(*) Vampires that take over sites lose other allegiances
(*) Made soldiers from previous forts clean up military info upon arrival at
current fort
(*) Stopped ghosts and royal family members and undisguised vampires (aside
from the king/king's group vamps) from immigrating to fort
(*) Fixed a new bug that completely stopped archery training
(*) SDL version: TrueType crash from long strings (Baughn)

(*) Changed which entity moves to which sites, mainly so elf pops don't live
in fortresses and vice versa without acclimating to a city first
(*) Set labor list for migrants by default (can turn off in data/d_init.txt)
(*) Added a tab for other stones in stone list and made stones with a
reaction product class list as economic in stone list
(*) Sped up adv mode loading/offloading somewhat, and cleaning should be a
bit faster -- there are still really slow patches that need work
(*) Controlled snatcher number in world gen
(*) Decreased questing rate in world gen
(*) Stopped reraised corpses from bleeding to death
(*) Stopped forbid/melt/traffic/etc. mouse from messing with keyboard
(*) Gave more indication for forbidden workshops
(*) Made forbid/etc. from stocks screen not effect building items when
applied to an entire group
(*) Changed ramp names to indicate unusability due to missing walls or lack
of space above
(*) Sterilized zombies and mummies (only husk-type zombies need the STERILE
tag)
(*) Cleaned up some botched zombie names (old saves will need to let their
zombies fall once and they should be better on reraise)
(*) Made vampires fleeing to site in world gen require pop to fit into
(*) Made vampire cults follow tyrant vampires properly
(*) Vampire nicknames, profession, position names work
(*) Vampires won't try to pin crimes on animals
(*) Can 'g'et items from cabinets and other building furniture in adv mode
now
(*) Kea will not follow each other so closely when stealing
(*) Fixed busted horseshoe crabs/men
(*) Improved the age name calculator, especially as it regards the dominant
race after megabeasts are cleared
(*) Changed treasure room quality and item selection
(*) Stopped designation at the bottom of the map from unhiding portions of it
sometimes
(*) Unobscured unit list option from main menu
(*) Stopped world gen group from lingering in memory after bandits become
criminals under town
(*) Goblins can have higher pops in their important towns
(*) Applied att change syndrome size modifiers properly (stops weird speed
issues with adv blood drinking)
(*) A few other minor tweaks listed in file_changes.txt
(*) SDL version: Highlighting on unit screen fixed for TrueType (Baughn)
(*) SDL version: Turning on playback while recording will no longer record
the previously recorded keys (Baughn)
(*) SDL version: TrueType text will now overwrite properly in some adventure
mode circumstances (Baughn)
(*) SDL version: Fixed some minor memory leaks (Baughn)
(*) SDL version: Minor stability improvements (Baughn)
(*) SDL version: Fixed some of the spacing issues with TrueType
******************************************************
The first bugfix release has arrived. Unfortunately, you'll have to restart --
even if your save seems fine, it's likely that it is dying a slow death due to
corrupted buildings. Hopefully a compatibility break won't be necessary again for
a while. There are still many new issues to resolve, and I'll be focusing on those
for the next bugfix release(s) before we start to transition over to older bugs.
New stuff
(*) Generated some default interaction effects for arena use
(*) SDL version: Can repeat commands/macros - default Ctrl+u <number>
<command> (Baughn)
(*) SDL version: Can toggle TrueType - default F12 (Baughn)
Major bug fixes

(*) Save corruption/crash from old forts and some other sites corrected
(*) Fixed conversation crash
(*) Fixed werewolf crash after aborted world generation
(*) Stopped books and other artifacts from duplicating in player inventory
(*) Stopped companions from getting hungry/thirsty during travel
(*) Correct ambush frequency in adv mode
(*) Made it possible to remove designation jobs again

(*) SDL version: various technical fixes (Baughn)
(*) Dwarves will stop walking toward cancelled jobs
(*) Made wagons appear again (Quietust)
(*) Stopped mouse designation from messing with keyboard designation
(*) Stopped lye making from using full water buckets (Quietust)
(*) Made magma/fire safe building materials work properly (Quietust)
(*) Stopped worshippers of certain beings from mentioning it
(*) Cleaned up stone menu (Quietust)
(*) Doors/floodgates display properly after being placed (Quietust)
(*) Stopped glazed items from having cabochon shapes in the glaze
(*) Sped up conversation initialization
(*) Made forge jobs use bar amounts properly (Quietust)
(*) Made automated fisher/kitchen/etc. settings display properly (Quietust)
(*) Stopped weird job cancellation numbers for bars/cloth/thread
(*) Various manual/other grammar tweaks
(*) Various broken creature tweaks, notably the giant mosquito epidemic
should end
******************************************************
Here's the release we've been working on for nearly eleven months. I've tried to
collect the major changes below, but it won't be a complete list. I hope you enjoy
the game!
New stuff
(*) cities in adventure mode that have various buildings, dungeons, items,
livestock, etc.
(*) protect your community from secret vampire dwarves or hunt them as an
adventurer
(*) defend your fort during the full moon or risk a werewolf infestion --
hunt/be hunted as an adventurer
(*) face armies of the dead in dwarf mode or visit their necromancers' towers
and learn their secrets as an adventurer
(*) evil regions where the dead and pieces of the dead can come alive, with
evil mists and rain
(*) tombs built in world gen which can be visited in adv mode, either beneath
towns or out in the wilds -- beware the dead!
(*) revamped justice/witness/death notification system in dwarf mode
(*) immigrants to your fortress will now be historical figures whenever
possible, which means more family relationships and history for each one
(*) dropped items/bodies tracked between plays in the wilderness anywhere in
the world
(*) more battlefield information tracked/war dead raisable in world gen
(*) all sponsorship animals and their giant/man versions are in the game now
(*) various new abilities for creatures (see file_changes.txt for list and
syntax)
(*) adventurers can use creature abilities/learned powers and they can be
tested from the arena
(*) new site travel map to make navigating towns easier
(*) reading/swimming/observer (for traps) relevant in adv mode now
(*) established historical figures can lead bandits
(*) rivers block movement in adv mode travel
(*) eating/drinking required in adv mode
(*) ingested syndromes are now possible
(*) ability to make campfire (from 'g') and warm items at campfire/fire/magma
(from 'I') in adv mode
(*) traps work in adv mode, once spotted they can be ignored
(*) gems now have different cuts
(*) necromancers can write books about various topics (all books are in their
towers as it stands)
(*) moon phase indicator in fort
(*) alphanumeric world gen seeds and some more world gen params (see
file_changes.txt)
(*) the legends xml has a lot of new info for historical figures
Major bug fixes

(*) buffer overload from aborted world gen fixed
(*) fixed cave-in-on-embark issue with hidden underground structure, and a
few others

(*) designations over z levels all at once now possible
(*) unit screen divided into four sections
(*) rivers/pools have ramps now
(*) able to trade portions of stacks in both modes
(*) messed with adv mode currency trading and made items teleport to you
(*) tweaked how fire damage works
(*) made vision work through floor grates and bars properly
(*) fixed some road/bridge problems
(*) crystal glass items possible again
(*) tweaked adventure mode swimming and alt-movement readout (use alt-
movement to get into a river you want to cross)
(*) skeletons/zombies replaced by animation effect
(*) demons masquerading as gods will try a little harder
(*) restricted mandates so they'll be more reasonable
(*) stopped blank map from being exported when you back out of detailed map
export
******************************************************
Major bug fixes

(*)fixed crash related to an items vs. temperature optimization
(*)fixed world gen crash that could happen if all the beasts were killed
(*)fixed world gen crash caused when a prisoner escapes from a site at the
same time the last person to arrive at the site commits murder

(*)made dwarves a little more proactive about seeking a diagnosis for health
care that might have been interrupted
(*)cave dragon gets claw attack, loses stance strike skill
******************************************************
Major bug fixes

(*)stopped bamboo flicker
(*)stopped dwarves from ripping patients out of traction to bring them to bed

(*)made it display traction state in health screen
(*)decreased triggers for cleaning a bit to try to stop paranoid over-
cleaning of patients
(*)fixed key conflict for clay crafts/statue
(*)corrected NECK_SPINE bodypart token
(*)made rodent man bite use teeth properly
(*)dragon/hydra natural stance skill removed, given claw attack
(*)corrected baby guineafowl to "keets"
******************************************************
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped large pots from forgetting their stockpile assignments
(*) Cleaned up some more resting/infinite job issues with hospitals (surgery
in particular)
(*) Stopped plant regrowth underground from deleting ramps and stairs, and
stopped plants underground from regrowing in magma, deep water, and some other
situations
(*) Stopped buckets from occasionally becoming filled with many, many units
of water
(*) Stopped goblin siegers from fighting amongst themselves all the time

(*) Fixed some issues with natural skills not being applied
(*) Handled some more instances of overstockpiling by the hospital zones
(*) Fixed erroneous interlink between furniture/ammo stockpile interfaces
(*) Made enraged announcement show up for prone-to-rage critters
(*) Some more quick speed tweaks (assorted, but not much: bucket save from
27/28FPS -> 31/32FPS)
(*) Gave rodent men their rodent teeth and added them to the subterranean
entity definition
(*) Gave reptile men teeth
(*) Changed penguin wings to flippers
(*) Made platypuses amphibious and made them swim underwater
(*) Changed sizes for most giant variants of animals and gave some thought
preference strings to ones that didn't have them
(*) Added missing "mundane" tag to penguins and domestic birds
******************************************************
Here's the second large bug fix release for 0.31.19.
Major bug fixes

(*) Fixed a linux crash from units leaving the map with a kill order on them
(*) Fixed a crash from tileless burrows
(*) Fixed adv mode crash on service conversation option
(*) Made healthcare work for dwarves that need crutches
(*) Made healthcare/hospitals handle plaster/casts properly
(*) Stopped creatures from attacking across several Z levels
(*) Stopped hospitals from stocking everything, ignoring the item caps
(*) Stopped pots from storing almost infinite numbers of items
(*) Stopped inaccessible spam from cleaning jobs with soap
(*) Made fish appear in many situation where they were erroneous missing (old
forts will still be off, unfortunately)
(*) Stopped massive lag from certain ghosts
(*) Fixed up bone artifacts
(*) Cleaned up persistent activities and squads that were lingering
(*) Sorted out an issue with combat/training bolts

(*) Made pots show up in the trade depot list
(*) Better stockpile options for stone, blocks, metal clothing, etc. and
fixed some broken existing options
(*) Cleaned up some issues with glass items
(*) Wooden/bone crossbows specifically selectable from uniform screen now
(*) Made migrant hunters recognize their crossbows properly
(*) Changed how skills are applied to job products -- attributes are
accounted for properly and skills should work in adv mode now, but you'll notice a
different distribution of qualities in the final product, especially for no/low
skill when differing attributes are involved
(*) Stopped surgery cancellations over patient not resting in some
circumstances
(*) Ungummed up the hauling system from certain stale jobs
(*) Made lavish etc. meals take the proper number of item piles
(*) Made magma forges available more regularly to mood dwarves
(*) Stopped raw processing from including backup files
(*) Fixed some capybara and panda typos and tweaked giraffe and reptile eggs
(*) Cleaned some trouble with grass regrowth and generic "grass" tiles
(*) Made recentering hotkeys work in other dwarf modes (ones with x cursors)
(*) Fixed broken readout for completed jobs in unit health screen
(*) Cleaned up spam from rest jobs from webbed dwarves
(*) Fixed broken key in hospital zone mode
(*) Moved underground camp creatures from civ list and stopped their items
from being counted in fortress wealth
(*) Stopped underground theft announcements in hidden areas from being
displayed
(*) Fixed various ugly blank "" names in legends mode
(*) Fixed a random number overflow from creatures with no attacks
New stuff
(*) Sponsored animals included: penguin, platypus, badger, moose, along with
related buddies
(*) Rodent men underground
(*) Invader mounts/monsters have first names
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.31.20/21 (March 6, 2011):
This is the first bug fix release for 0.31.19, where I've focused on new bugs. The
fixes are listed below. It also includes a few sponsored critters (pandas and
capybaras), as well as some of their wilder relatives. Pandas are restricted to
bamboo grazing and capybaras can vocalize in adv mode (bark, whistle, etc). I
added a mineral availability parameter that you can set from Create World Now or
from the detailed parameter screen. There are a few more things I can do there,
but any extensive rewrite is going to have to wait for 3D veins and mine maps
(Release 2 in the schedule). Barring any catastrophes, we'll be moving on to the
old-bug-fixing now.
Major bug fixes

(*) Stopped the game from treating every tool like a container for
stockpiles/adv mode
(*) Stopped hive product collection from removing hive building tag
(*) Stopped birds from claiming multiple nest boxes when a nest box is
deconstructed
(*) Fixed crash with unusual egg laying
(*) Made pastured animals spread out more during grazing and allowed pets to
be grazed
(*) Fixed situation where some stockpiled items were not available to jobs
(lye, etc.)

(*) Stopped weird bone-glazing situations
(*) Made llama/alpacas get sheared properly
(*) Stopped dwarves from cleaning up wax cakes in stockpiles
(*) Stopped heroes in world gen from picking fights with dead megabeasts
(*) Stopped various tug-of-war fights over animals by different jobs
(*) Stopped wildlife from claiming nests
(*) Stopped masons from using clay
(*) Fixed up a situation where the same params would not generate the same
worlds
(*) Made potters apply their skill to statues etc. properly
(*) Added a clay category to stone stockpiles and cut some inorganics out
(*) Added wax to food stockpiles pressed material category
(*) Added wax goods option to finished goods pile
(*) Made empty pots go to the furniture pile
(*) Made pots available for brewing
(*) Fixed some erroneous names of groups of object in the stocks screen
(*) Made ash glazing use the correct amount of ash (0.31.19 saves might have
half-exhausted piles that act up a bit until they are used)
(*) Stopped extra grass types being stacked on a tile during regrowth
(*) Stopped aboveground grass from growing in tunnels
(*) Stopped "grass" from appearing in some underground areas
(*) Made grass grow back properly in desert etc. areas (0.31.19 saves will
get too much regrowth now)
(*) Stopped grass ramps from flashing in no-varied-ground-tiles mode
(*) Stopped pet/tame vermin from spawning many copies
(*) Reordered the new units in the unit list
(*) Adjusted value of bees
(*) Stopped vermin assignment to pastures
(*) Made pen/pasture interface give status of animals (caged, etc.)
(*) Stopped dwarves from encrusting honeycombs with jewels, etc.
(*) Corrected egg liquid densities/text error
(*) Stopped text export from listing zero population animals
(*) Fixed some issues with red reactions and other jobs not being listed in
the workshops
(*) Allowed object melting and yarn rope jobs from manager
(*) Made it select the active zone properly when you enter activity zone mode
(*) Made zooming to units go to the proper unit when multiple units are in
the same tile
(*) Cleaned up some pronoun trouble in personality descriptions
(*) Properly initialized banditry information (can cut down on some
inappropriate dwarf/elf banditry)
(*) Deer antlers
(*) Sheep text lines up with there shearability now
(*) Fixed some creature description text and other small raw tweaks (see
file_changes.txt)
(*) See file_changes.txt for new raw tags
New stuff
(*) Sponsored animals included: panda and capybara, along with related
buddies
(*) Added world-wide mineral availability parameter
******************************************************
This is the first release of what we once called the Caravan Arc, where we'll be
changing how trade and the economy work. The entire release schedule is up at
http://bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html. This particular release doesn't have
visible changes to trade -- just a lot of world generation infrastructure. People
eat and starve in world gen now, though it doesn't matter afterward. Subsequent
releases coming up will be making use of these changes during play, but don't
expect too much there this time. There have been many other changes. Seeing most
of them will require generating a new world.
There are lots of new domestic animals. We also added giraffes, rhinos, honey bees
and bumblebees. Bees were the winner of the animal sponsorship drive and they had
many associated jobs, so we didn't try to get into the other sponsored beasts, but
we'll be adding those in with every release.
Animals can be placed in pen/pasture zones, and grazing animals will need to graze
on grass (they can also eat underground fungus found in many open cave layers).
Pastures should be made large enough to provide ample grass and to prevent animals
from being stacked on top of each other. Animals crammed into one place for too
long can become grumpy and violent, but the animals will stay in the pastures
without much tending (a dwarf may occasionally run over to an animal if it wanders
off the pasture border to walk around something). There is no way to trade for hay
or animal feed at this time, so don't expect grazing animals in new forts to
survive on glaciers or the deepest deserts. Many deserts have patches of grass (or
succulents) now.
Sheep, llamas and alpacas (and trolls for goblins) can be sheared and the wool can
be spun into yarn. Chickens and other birds will lay eggs in nest boxes if you
place the boxes in accessible areas. You can mill rocknuts into paste and press
the paste for oil (which goes into jugs). Pressing occurs at the new screw press
building.
You can make many of the more clayish soil types into earthenware ceramics now (and
you can make fire clay into stoneware and kaolinite into porcelain). If a fort
embark location has clay above the aquifer (or any clay if there is no aquifer),
it'll be displayed in the embark readout. I didn't get very far into glazing, but
you can ash glaze and tin glaze (with cassiterite). Earthenware jugs need to be
glazed to hold liquids. Stoneware and porcelain jugs don't require glaze but can
be glazed. You can also make large pots out of various materials, and these act
like barrels (they are associated to stockpiles in the same way, etc.).
Honey bees can be collected and kept in artificial hives (which you can make out of
various materials). You'll need one natural hive on your embark location to get
started, but after that you can split the colony into new artificial hives. The
process is fairly automated. You just need to place the hive buildings and a
beekeeper will do the rest. You can adjust a few settings on each hive to control
which hives are held for splitting and which are collected. You'll need to have
jugs around to collect honeycombs (the royal jelly holds up the process otherwise),
and you'll need another jug to collect the honey. Wax cakes can only be made into
crafts by a wax worker at this time.
The site finder records the best hit in each square now, and you can stop the
finder at any time and browse the results. The categories and readout have been
changed up a bit. Minerals have been redistributed on the world map, though this
might not be satisfying as I was expecting to get a bit farther with dwarf mode
trade. Adjustments might have to be made there until trade is updated. We'll see.
Animals and plants occur with more or less contiguous ranges now, respecting biome.
There are specific grasses. The evil grasses are probably a little extreme and
seizure-inducing. I might throttle that back.
I'm starting the first one to two week bug fix cycle now, so there weren't a lot of
bug fixes for this release, but creatures, items and vegetation don't pick up as
many contaminants now.
There are new options in the graphical map export from legends mode, and I fixed a
bug there with village maps getting cut off.
For a list of the new tags available for modding (container reagents in reactions,
etc.) see file_changes.txt or the new stock reactions.
******************************************************
This one fixes up several crashes and other problems. Maybe most notably, the
problem where you'd become a criminal in adventure mode just by going back to a
store, the handedness issue with uniform assignments (it might take it a while to
clear out problems in old saves, and I can only state this as confidently as the
tests I performed), and SDL movie recording.
Major bug fixes

(*)fixed crash from shop signs being placed off map
(*)fixed crash during character generation of human outsiders if you back out
of the name menu
(*)fixed crash from trap announcements/reports
(*)fixed world gen crash that arose from creature in secondary entity
population taking over leadership role when caste mods are present
(*)fixed crash from walking off the left or upper edge of the world
(*)corrected misaligned bodypart appearance modifiers on load and resulting
crash in pref screen, origin of misalignment unclear
(*)fixed problem where you are considered a thief after shopping at a store
that had previous had its inventory offloaded
(*)made uniform assignments respect handedness
(*)reenabled SDL movie recording
(*)stopped unfinished quests performed by previous characters from stopping
nobles from giving new characters quests

(*)made skill rates copy over to castes correctly
(*)fixed problem that added bogeyman kills to the wrong parts of the kill
lists
(*)stopped retirement in town when bogeymen are active
(*)stopped unequipable soldier unit types from occasionally appearing in
ambushes/sites/migrants
(*)corrected placement of cauldrons
(*)got rid of size bonus mistakenly applied to opportunity skill rolls and
put in the rage penalty it was supposed to be
(*)made master pikemen get proper skill
(*)stopped lair hatch covers from rotting away
(*)added announcement for falling damage
(*)adding retching after initial vomiting
(*)changed metal use for humans/gobs/kobs via existing raw tags
(*)changed a few two-handed weapon sizes
(*)updated dwarf party organization conditions
(*)fixed problem with movie playback showing an extra garbage frame for each
chunk of the movie
(*)changed conversation colors
(*)fixed double adjective in dark fortress
(*)made Elite Bowman name appear correctly (was showing up as blowgunner),
and a few related typos
(*)fixed some other typos
******************************************************
If you want to try out the improvements to adventure mode, I'd recommend generating
a new world with at least 100 years of history. I tried out adventuring in a world
from 0.31.03, and it technically worked, but there wasn't much to do. The reason I
recommend some history is just to let the beasts get settled a bit, though it's not
strictly required. We haven't gotten threats moving around and arising during
actual play yet, so your worlds will inevitably run out of adventure opportunities
as you exhaust them, and games tend to be fast-paced and brief overall once you get
the hang of it. This will change during the next few major releases. There's an
update to the "Your First Adventurer" manual section that might be worth glancing
at even if you have played an adventurer before. Don't be surprised if you die
learning a few facts about the world.
Major bug fixes

(*)fixed problem with baron not arriving due to stale merchant reports
(*)stopped old jobs/projectiles from tying up items on reclaim

(*)changed ring/bracelet symbol to make way for adv mode tools
(*)cut kill-bragging to 5 kills
(*)fixed bug through which demon could take over two or more civs in one year
(*)name change: graveyard -> corpses (since it isn't appropriate for final
burial)
(*)stopped occupancy from being erased upon entering adv mode in arena
(*)allowed labors to be toggled by category
(*)added standing order for outdoor vermin refuse
(*)fixed erroneous material bonuses in world gen fights
(*)updated wrestling interface
(*)implemented text for wrestling attacks
(*)changed combat announcement colors and stun/paralyze color to light blue
from light cyan
(*)toes/fingers protected by armor
(*)elves are now small e's to match their size
(*)different soldier/civilian symbols for human/elf (as with the two dwarf
symbols)
(*)stopped triggerable vermin groups from becoming visible occasionally
(*)fixed some old problems where input wasn't registering properly on
movement, etc.
(*)disabled need to eat/drink in adv mode until we get some more general work
in
(*)various minor adv mode tweaks and fixes
New stuff
(*)added night creatures
(*)added lairs for some creatures
(*)added new travel screen (old worlds might have misplaced moons in the sky
bar)
(*)updated how adv mode sleep works, permission to sleep in buildings
(*)updated character generation
(*)added memorial slabs to dwarf mode
(*)added shops with signs to towns
(*)changed how lower body/head severs work (spinal sever required)
(*)changed how guts popping out works
(*)see file_changes.txt for some new modding tags
(*)can get tasks from most people and report success to anybody friendly
(*)added human castles
(*)made peasants refer you to better quests
(*)added banditry
(*)added aimed attacks, random combat opportunities and the ability to use
secondary attacks/weapons (both adv mode and dwf mode combat reports)
(*)added (harder) rolling away for dodgers on the ground
******************************************************
Hopefully this one doesn't have any weird new issues. That bumpy lag should be
gone now, and there are expanded refuse pile options. You can also turn off having
your dwarves track around blood (it starts off in the init). I left it on in
adventure mode, but you can turn it off there too if you want.
Major bug fixes

(*)got rid of intermittent lag that popped up in 0.31.15
New stuff
(*)added spatter init options (dwarf mode defaults to no walking spread of
spatter)
(*)allowed skull/bone/shell/tooth/horn settings from refuse pile
******************************************************
The purpose of this release is to restore the missing invasions, and I threw in
some easy fixes on top of it, mostly to the raws.
Major bug fixes

(*)made invasions come again

(*)lots of raw fixes (see "file changes.txt")
(*)made reactions show the proper building
(*)made LEAVES load the 'character' style tile properly
(*)corrected labor name "soap maker" -> "soap making"
(*)fixed typo in world gen rejection dialog for missing civ definitions
(*)fixed spelling of chinchilla for forgotten beasts (new ones only)
******************************************************
The main issues here were to handle the new bugs from 0.31.13 which were gumming
things up (broken migration, undiggable adamantine) and to address site sprawl
concerns a bit. To the latter end, there's a new world gen option to limit the
total number of sites and I've added a few options to "Create World Now!" to make
use of that. It's not going to be truly satisfying until dwarven sprawl is better
defined and there are more things to do with the sprawl in adventure mode and in
dwarf mode wars, but overall I don't plan to decrease the amount of sprawl
drastically on default settings once that is handled -- sprawl will likely increase
again once memory problems are addressed, there are more things to do with it, and
it shifts more dynamically over long periods of time (improved war, disease,
famine, migrations, etc). For now you can control sprawl with the site cap, with
the civilization number, with the savagery, and with the history end year from the
"Create World Now!" menu without much fuss (and the default setting is much lighter
on sprawl than the default in 0.31.13).
Major bug fixes

(*)fixed problems with immigrants having strange unit types and erroneous
announcements about terrifying forts
(*)allowed raw adamantine to be diggable now by adding a new tag to slade for
the time being. There is a side effect -- slade in old saves will be diggable.
Add [UNDIGGABLE] to slade in the save's raws in inorganic_stone_mineral.txt in your
save to fix that. If you choose to dig through the slade, please don't report any
associated bugs. The game likely won't be able to deal with it properly.

(*)fixed plant text in food preferences and stopped generated forgotten
beasts etc. from being chosen
New stuff
(*)added site cap option to world gen parameters
(*)added beast cap options to world gen parameters
(*)added a few options to "create world now"
******************************************************
The framework for villages and sprawl is in place, and there are now "entity
populations" which are made up of thousands of critters for which less information
is tracked. As it stands, this amounts to, say, ten times the number of historical
figures after world generation has been running for a while, though it can vary a
lot. These changes have left adventure mode gutted, so don't expect old adventure
mode saves to retain much information or work all that well. Old dwarf mode saves
should be fine for continued dwarf fortresses. In new worlds, you can wander
around the new villages, but don't expect anything to be going on. This is the
launching pad for what should be the Funification of adventure mode in the next
(non-fix) release, but like many launching pads, it is kind of dull and gray.
As for the merits of this release, there are the bug fixes in the lists below. The
game should also be a bit faster. I'm on a new compiler in Windows, which led to a
general speed increase, and I also optimized some code for improvements on all OSs.
It's not the end of the story there by a long shot, but it is progress, anyway.
World generation itself might be a bit slower overall, since there's a lot more
going on site-wise. This is going to change as we set up relationships between the
leaders, one way or another, but I can make a medium island world in around 10
minutes without the memory going totally nuts, and I thought that state was fit for
release.
There are some side effects to not having any stable relationships between world
gen sites while cutting down on site destructions, like having a site get pillaged
for the thousandth time and so on, which will iron themselves out later. For now,
it's a bit weird. I also saw a battle with negative numbers of soldiers but
couldn't reproduce the situation, so there are probably additional issues as well.
The SDL version has the first pass at the experimental TrueType font support that
Baughn is working on. It is off by default in init.txt and it only works in the 2D
print mode. There are lots of justification etc. problems -- you don't need to
report those. Getting those fixed up is part of the process. It's difficult to
read in the standard window size, so you might want to limit yourself to full-
screen or a large window with large grid cells when you are trying it out.
Crash fixes
(*)fixed some potential problems with aborting zone placement, though it's
not guaranteed to solve the crash there
Major bug fixes

(*)fixed problem causing dwarves to not sleep in any bed
(*)fixed problem causing dwarves not to respect ownership in sleeping
priorities
(*)made cursor center on buildings properly when linking them up to a lever
etc.
(*)stopped other civilizations from bringing liaisons
(*)stopped building destroyer diplomats/traders from destroying things
(*)made units check the validity of targets more often (counters certain
interrupt spam)

(*)fixed broken vial making jobs
(*)make rock short swords use the proper material for the final product
(*)made horn silver use the stone template
(*)moved all native metals off of metal template
(*)stopped season counter from resetting to spring after travel in adventure
mode
******************************************************
Aside from the major bug fixes listed below, I made skill increases a little faster
during training. Part of the problem is with how classes work -- the teacher and
student skills are important, and they can heavily amplify the effects, so the
gains for people without those skills were small. Now it'll be even more extreme
that the base rate has increased, so we'll have to see how that plays out in forts
that get good teachers.
If your old fort has a dead liaison, your replacement liaison will be named after
one of the standard professions most likely, but they should still perform their
job. New worlds should have dead liaisons kicked out completely and get new
liaisons.
Crash fixes
(*)fixed military training crash
(*)fixed a crash during dwarf creation in arena mode after dwarf mode game
had been played
(*)fullscreen/windowed mode switch crash fixed (Baughn)
Major bug fixes

(*)fixed new liaison coming when previous liaison is unavailable for any
reason
(*)fixed problem which stopped the liaison from talking about making a barony

(*)adjusted skill rates up a bit on indiv training and demonstrations
(*)made att/skill rate loader treat 0s like NONE instead of the fastest rate
******************************************************
Combat was the focus last time, and this time I moved over to equipment and
training. There are a number of bugs left to fix, but a lot of the largest
problems should be cleaned up and training should be somewhat usable now. I wanted
to shift ammunition over to a default system where it doesn't get tied to
particular squads/hunters (with the old way left as a default for people that want
to control it more), since that remains one of the more annoying things, but I
didn't have time to finish it up. Just make sure you have some extra bolts sitting
around, and 'm'-'f' should show you how your squads are doing ammo-wise. Barracks
should also probably default to a non-reserved/non-purposed system, though that's
not as bad as ammunition reservation is. In any case, I'll be moving on to the
month-end project and entity populations, though I'll release again sooner if
something comes up.
Crash fixes
(*)stopped crash when individual squad members were selected in 's' and you
go back to 's' after leaving
(*)fixed crash moving from ammo assignment creation to material assignment
(*)fixed reclaim crash
(*)fixed text mode crash in SDL version (Baughn)
Major bug fixes

(*)freed up assigned items properly when uniforms are overwritten
(*)freed up equipment properly from empty positions when squad is disbanded
(*)made civilian jobs respect attributes properly
(*)fixed turtle (vermin) shell crafts/helms/gauntlets/etc.
(*)stopped squad/off-time training activities from persisting when guy goes
off to eat, do squad orders, die, etc.
(*)made inactive/ordered squads free up their old training activities more
quickly
(*)stopped off-time training from gumming up squad training barracks
assignment
(*)removed dead/crazy/etc. dwarves from squads
(*)dropped injured dwarves out of their activities properly
(*)stopped bleeding dwarves from thinking they need to jump on the ground and
be dragged to the hospital
(*)stopped miners/woodcutters coming out of the military from thinking they
had a claim to old tools
(*)made people doing off-time training stop if it becomes inappropriate
(kicked out of squad, etc.)
(*)made quota countdown respect reactions again

(*)stopped body-component-based artifacts from defaulting out to iron
figurines
(*)made skill rust display properly on 'v' and made temporary skill loss
conditions not display on military screen
(*)changed rust display for skills
(*)restricted shell moods to dwarves with shell prefs
(*)stopped metal goblet/flask construction jobs from shuffling metal of
product
(*)fixed up idle strings for non-soldiers vs. lingering squad activities
(*)decreased effect of low self-discipline on individual training
(*)sped up training organization
(*)WINDOWEDX/Y values respected when moving to windowed mode from full screen
(Baughn)
(*)fixed problem with skill demonstration session timer
(*)added timers for sparring and individual combat drills
(*)adjusted sparring pulled shots for recent combat balancing
(*)adjusted skill rates for all practice activities
(*)put forest start biome on humans (for proactive forest clearing)
(*)changed hauling encumbrance speed formula and made hauling build atts
slowly
(*)stopped picks from being available to indiv choice soldiers
(*)required subtype match for armor even under "partial match"
(*)made off-duty archery training occur for indiv choice ranged weapons (not
just crossbow)
(*)cleaned up various raw typos (see file_changes.txt)
(*)fixed a bunch of the "you" announcements in dwarf mode
(*)made counter to stop excessive party attendence work properly
(*)made it set up default ammo profiles for ranged squads
******************************************************
(*)fixed problem where your units would not recognize the nice people arriving on
business as their friends
(*)stopped problem where removing a worn object in adv mode could leave you with
two copies
(*)stopped seg-fault at quit in linux if sound wasn't initialized (oliver)
******************************************************
Lots of combat changes this time. Keep in mind that old saves use the old raws, so
you'll want to copy over at least item_weapon.txt, item_ammo.txt and
inorganic_metal.txt to get more of the positive effects. The adventure mode stone-
making ability won't be available in old saves but butchery will be.
Crash fixes
(*)fixed potential crash with container reactions
(*)stopped arena mode from caving in/locking up when you leave control mode
Major bug fixes

(*)made material-based random headless beasts killable
(*)stuckin bleeding updated properly
(*)fixed major artery tag when added from creature raw with TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES
(also TL_CONNECTS)
(*)made major artery strike for 25%+ fractures on major artery parts
mandatory
(*)amplified effects for announced major artery strikes
(*)fixed swing velocity calculation for weapons
(*)fixed clothing size calculation (messed up shields, gloves, boots)
(*)changed contact area and size for bolts
(*)fixed blowouts in giant creature wrestling
(*)fixed weird skill/profession mixup that stopped marksdwarves from firing
on enemies
(*)freed up some ammo that became lost in limbo after squad deletion/ammo
reassignments/etc.
(*)made hunters grab ammo more reliably when they run out or when labor is
changed
(*)fixed reordering of reaction/ore mats and a few other indexing problems
between operating systems

(*)reworded some combat announcements
(*)fixed reaction screen product display error
(*)fixed contact area issue with misc object fighting
(*)changed dodging rules for people mounting a charge defense
(*)fixed problem with edge being disregarded too soon after impact breaks
(*)changed skill effects on firing rate
(*)changed contact area calculations for body parts
(*)various changes to weapon raws
(*)changed edge/impact calculations
(*)metal values changed in raws
(*)fixed problems preventing some gut pop-outs from happening
(*)fixed issue with extra dodge rolls causing shots to become less square
(*)other combat tweaks
(*)obliterated arsenal dwarf (position will still exist in old saves, but
won't be used/needed)
(*)extended distance at which hunters are willing to shoot
(*)made hunters return kills under more circumstances
(*)allowed miners/woodcutters to switch immediately to hunt labor without
getting confused about crossbow
(*)stopped targeting of benign, far away wilderness creatures after they see
you, unless they are close
(*)force-allowed targeting of kill targets in some cases where it wasn't
permitting it
(*)stopped indiv choice melee/ranged from picking out weapons of the opposite
type instead of just preferring them
(*)fixed problem with custom workshops blanking out at times (save compat
iffy here, might have to rebuild shops)
(*)made reaction job interface/automation check inside barrels/etc. (stuff
manager jobs did right)
(*)changed stuckin chances
New stuff
(*)added cumulative wounds
(*)added adv mode knapping
(*)added adv mode butchery
(*)allowed use of (buildingless) reactions in adv mode
(*)changed adv mode hunger/thirst/drowsiness durations and penalties
(*)start with spear/dagger in adv play now
(*)default dwf start with a few quivers
(*)gave hunters default ammo assignment
SDL Version: Baughn fixed up the macro delay timer, a PPC Mac bug where the screen
would be yellow and a seg-fault.
******************************************************
Fixed up the crash with the look command and made backing out of embark warnings
and reclaim selection work.
******************************************************
Crash fixes
(*)fixed crash when over 200x200 in some screens
(*)fixed crash associated to assigning daggers to dwarven soldiers
(*)fixed a crash on the military screen
Major bug fixes

(*)stopped doctors from picking up and dropping their patients repeatedly
when it was time to carry them
(*)restricted doctors to using tables and traction benches in hospital zones
(stalled doctors from old saves will ignore this)
(*)made workers stop taking new jobs if they can and want to eat/drink/sleep
instead
(*)made certain jobs like updating records and partying quittable at any time
due to hunger/thirst/drowsiness
(*)fixed pathfinding problem in special features that were placed within
surrounding liquid layers
(*)allowed options screen from dwarf/adv mode setup
(*)fixed some job overwrite issues
(*)made stockpiles able to take from other stockpiles again
(*)made ownable items like cloaks that are part of uniforms not put soldiers
into pickup/drop loops
(*)made cooking require a non-liquid object to start (prevents liquid food
errors, powders okay)
(*)stopped item namers from repeatedly naming their items
(*)changed conditions for feeding/watering of injured dwarves so beds aren't
required
(*)made militia commander assignment from noble screen respect current squad
settings properly
(*)stopped removal of squad commanders from noble screen if they have
subordinates
(*)stopped dwarves from holding multiple positions that lead squads
(*)got rid of some flashing and debris in SDL version

(*)reduced hunger/thirst/drowsiness skill/speed penalties
(*)made hunger/thirst/drowsiness thoughts occur a bit later in the process
(*)made alcohol turn into separate liquid objects less often
(*)made non-brewing events that create liquids handle alcohol correctly
(*)stopped clothier from messing up craft shop task listing (and some related
issues)
(*)stopped non-locals from announcing their item attachments
(*)fixed traction bench situation on manager screen
(*)added pillar tile to d_init
SDL Version: Baughn improved the curses and 2D output, fixed a text mode display
bug, added keys to change the FPS up/down (default alt-- and alt-=), and likely
some other things.
******************************************************
Crash fixes
(*) fixed crash on abandon related to having a box/cabinet building assigned
to somebody
(*) fixed crash from using nearly spent soap bars to clean people
(*) fixed up crash from scrolling over globs in stock screen if certain fats
were present
(*) SDL mode image export crash fixed (Baughn)
(*) fixed cursor position on farm season selection (possible crash)
Major bug fixes

(*) made dwarves that initiate individual training recognize when they are no
longer doing so properly
(*) stopped dwarves from swapping out their equipment for newly made items of
equal value
(*) stopped dwarves from assigning equipment from caravans or unforbidden
possessions held by outsiders
also incoming woodcutters/miners/etc.
(*) stopped dwarves from being assigned large equipment
(*) added default trade capacity to creatures to stop near-infinite caravan
goods from being added to certain creatures
(*) fixed material template values causing many natural creatures to be very
squishy and underpowered

(*) 2D mode colors fixed (Baughn)
(*) curses mode color initialization fixed (Baughn)
(*) sound header fix (Baughn)
(*) fixed temporary pathing problems that came from digging out brook tiles
(negative construction distance etc.)
(*) fixed deletion for zones that have all their tiles removed
(*) fixed problem stopping hospital zones that have some tiles deleted from
updating their furniture assignments
(*) removed forest temperature dampening for artificially hot worlds
(*) fixed some duplicate tags and other issues in the raws (see
file_changes.txt)
(*) graphical map export should be back in the SDL versions
******************************************************
There are probably some Baughn SDL version tweaks not listed below.
Crash fixes
(*) SDL graphics mode should work now (Baughn)
(*) creating squads in Linux shouldn't crash the game now
(*) stopped melting items from eventually crashing the game
Major bug fixes

(*) animals/babies no longer try to clean themselves at water sources
(*) stopped losers from keeping their positions at elections (could not
easily repair old saves with this problem though)
(*) fixed problem where ID numbers would be invalid on load after generating
a world
(*) adjusted seasonal temperatures (should actually fix the rain bug)
(*) SDL grid sizes no longer stuck on 80x25 if you let intro movies play
(Baughn)

(*) site finder will advanec without keypresses now
(*) SDL version 2D mode colors are corrected (Baughn)
(*) stopped cursor from skipping over large entries in stocks screen in SDL
versions (Baughn)
(*) ESC no longer quits SDL keybinding screens instead of going up a level
(Baughn)
(*) slow SDL unit offloading and other similar problems sped up (Baughn)
New stuff
(*) immediately runs elections for unappointed, unelected positions like
expedition leader if leader dies
(*) can set held key repetition behavior in SDL versions from init.txt
(Baughn)
(*) SDL version 2D mode now allows zooming (Baughn)
******************************************************
The main thing here is the new OpenGL code by Svein Ove Aas (Baughn). Especially
if you weren't running at maximum framerates even on the title screen, you should
notice a great improvement. There are some modes worth messing around with in
data/init/init.txt -- try "2D" if the game does not work as well as it used to (or
stick with the legacy version if truly necessary).
You can get at macros with:

Ctrl+r = record
Ctrl+p = play
Ctrl+s = save
Ctrl+l = load
There is a directory data/init/macros for them.
You can use PNGs for (translucent) tilesets, you can resize the window using the
border, you can zoom using the mouse wheel (reset with F10, you can rebind this to
keys if you like) and multiple keys can be bound to one command.
A lot of changes were necessary to get this running, so there are likely to be a
variety of bugs. The legacy version has also been reorganized to make releases
easier, so there could be new bugs even there.
Aside from that, we have some general fixes:
Crash fixes
(*) stopped site finder from eating up a ton of memory (crashing the game on
large maps)
Major bug fixes

(*) changed day/night temperature calculations (fixes fish availability and
melting in the rain)
(*) stopped suture and dressing jobs from being repeated over and over on
healed wounds
Minor changes
(*) made all vermin and smallish outdoor corpse items disappear over time
(can be hit after a month for vermin, season for corpse chunks)
(*) changed ranges for adv mode temperature text
(*) made temperature of squares adjacent to lava slightly lower
******************************************************
I handled some more crashes and the main pathing issue. Undead aren't quite where
they need to be yet (skeletons in particular still don't understand how the skull
and spine should be holding them together), but they are more killable in this
version. Since they don't make sense in the first place, there's a sort of
hitpoint system for them now that'll get them dead eventually if you don't break
them apart, though punching a skeleton to death takes a long time in this system
and maces are still a bit underpowered. The undead HP will be revisited once the
undead have more of a basis in the underlying reality. I'll get to maces etc.
sooner.
Crash fixes
(*) fixed a zone deletion crash (only for zones with buildings in them)
(*) fixed crash in military screen upon switching to item assignment view
when no squads were present
(*) fixed crash from copying a schedule cell with fewer orders to one with
more
(*) fixed crash from changing alert view while scrolling through a schedule
cells orders
Major bug fixes

(*) fixed pathing problem (root cause was map generation vs. liquids, would
mess up ramps/channels and more)
(*) stopped missing undead/melted/etc. tissues holding parts from being
severed
New stuff
(*) allowed undead in arena
(*) allowed undead to be killed by accumulated impacts for the time being
while they don't make sense
(*) stopped people from trying to wrestle the undead at all
Minor changes
(*) messed with corpse piece colors a bit
(*) fixed "and" spacing in stripe/spot descriptions
(*) fixed nervous mannerism typo
(*) fixed some raw typos (see file_changes.txt)
******************************************************
Here's the first little update. Things are still settling down after the release,
but it looks like I'll be able to work with the new bug tracker and handle things
there day by day. There will be a few more of these small releases before I begin
the SDL/Mac/Linux/40d# merge, since there are more crashes and huge problems, but
I'm going to start some of the preparation for the merge as well.
Crash fixes
(*) [GRAPHICS:YES] should no longer crash the arena or world generation
(*) fixed training activity crash (from removal of barracks)
(*) fixed crash from doing a large flow-style activity zone
Minor changes
(*) made zone removal still work if flows are corrected (uses rectangles)
(*) made material projectile breath happen intermittently properly
(*) corrected gorlak color
(*) made blind cave bears eyeless and gave them extravision
(*) fixed broken eyelid relationships
(*) fixed broken child names for goat/unicorn/cave swallow
(*) swapped giant caste names
(*) fixed giant cave spider bite (was blunt)
(*) fixed alligator eye text
(*) made soap bars instead of globs
(*) fixed horn silver environment
(*) added cookability/vermin eating to meat material templates
(*) added cookability/vermin eating to plant leaf/seed materials
******************************************************
It has been a long journey, and it is ongoing. This release has all of the new
stuff we've been talking about for more than a year, but it is quite buggy. I also
still need to do the merge with the OpenGL/Mac/Linux stuff as I mentioned in the
dev log. We have a new bug tracker at http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/
which we are going to try out. Expect it to be populated over the next few days
with hundreds of issues. All the same, the testers seemed to be able to enjoy
themselves, so please try everything out and have fun!
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.28.181.40d (September 6, 2008):
I decided to release the current bug fixes since a few of them involve patching up
submitted saves and I wanted to get those out before I'm forced to break save
compatibility for the next version. I'll still be able to look at all previously
submitted saves (and any saves submitted against this version), but fixes won't
apply to the saves themselves as the next release won't be able to load them.
Minor Changes
(*) made sparring dwarves work on their selected weapon/unarmed skills rather
than using their best skills
Bug Fixes:
(*) stopped thrown tantrum items from causing dwarf to become site enemy
(*) resolved shared item conflicts during map offloads
(*) prevented units with shared items (eg stuckins/wrestles) from leaving the
dwarf mode play area
(*) got rid of world gen crash during succession after death of prolific
long-standing position holders with inbred descendants
(*) fixed crash from human siege campfires
(*) stopped dwarves from taking their current hauled object off to bed when
they schedule a rest due to injuries
(*) stopped dwarves from choosing to sleep on top of traps
(*) made adventure mode store transactions respect containment
(*) made combat-produced chunks respect forbid orders
(*) made cats able to carry vermin properly again
(*) got rid of erroneous goblin siege announcement for elves
(*) stopped custom profession names from obscuring recruitment announcements
(*) made forbidden items count toward wealth properly
(*) stopped fell moods from occurring if the fortress race does not drop a
corpse
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Release notes for 0.28.181.40c (August 21, 2008):

Coffee'd up and fixed a display thing.
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Release notes for 0.28.181.40b (August 21, 2008):
Another one. The partial print for graphics has been changed to a default-no init
option, so if you weren't having display trouble and had a better framerate, you
should turn it on. It's in data/init/init.txt and it's called "PARTIAL_PRINT".
It'll probably take a while to resolve issues for everyone else.
Minor Changes:
(*) added an init option for partial screen refreshes (defaults to off)
(*) added windowed/fullscreen grid sizes
Bug Fixes:
(*) stopped designation cursor from leaving a trail when the minimap is
updating
(*) fixed reclaim crash from units holding multigrasp clothing
(*) fixed lockup for glassmaker moods where the glassmaker doesn't like glass
(*) handled some other potential multigrasp inventory indexing issues
(*) fixed problem potentially capping caravan wagon number at 2
(*) handled new forbid orders vs. butchery, severs and sever-drops
(*) fixed problem with delay on up digging tasks
(*) fixed problem causing single tile mountain civs from using feature plants
(*) fixed wagon occupancy problem leaving behind flags that stopped
construction
(*) stopped reclaim from creating a second site at the spot
(*) stopped dirt road construction at glacier/stone interface
(*) fixed problem with map export and flashing job markers
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.28.181.40a (August 18, 2008):
Here's another one. Hopefully I can transition to some new features next month,
since I've been handling technical issues and problems for a while now.
Additions:
(*) you can save your embark settings for later use
(*) added note-taking ability for embark screen
(*) added forbid-on-death orders for your corpses, other non-hunted corpses,
your items and other items
(*) added forbid order for fired projectiles
(*) made dwarves prefer to combine items in existing bags/barrels/bins with
init options to govern this behavior
Minor Changes:
(*) made obsidian an economic stone
(*) did some display optimizations
Bug fixes:
(*) fixed problem causing site finder to miss areas of the map when hunting
for hidden features and rivers
(*) stopped new kitchen restrictions on contained items from causing no-
ingredient food items
(*) stopped new kitchen restrictions on free item from causing silent
cancellations of cook jobs
(*) fixed problem with up/down windows in adv mode for larger grid sizes
(*) changed how fireballs interact with the ground
(*) patched up decorated ammo values a bit
(*) made cageless traps display properly in all circumstances
(*) fixed problem with nobles pushing prices out of the displayable range
(*) handled adventurers retired while sleeping
(*) fixed display mix-up with FPS/GFPS counter in main dwarf screen
(*) fixed problem with cursor scrolling vs. y coord in expanded grids
(*) allowed mouse designations to work below y=23
(*) stopped the one-step key from messing up pausing when in a menu mode
(*) made zombie/skels that die in cages have proper corpses
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Release notes for 0.28.181.39f:
More fixes, a bit of work toward armies and caravans, and an expandable view. If
you want to try different grid dimensions, change the relevant entry [GRID:80:25]
near the top of data/init/init.txt. You'll also have to adjust your window size or
full screen resolution to match if you don't want the new, larger grid to be
squashed. If you overshoot, it'll stretch them unless you turn black space on.
Additions:
(*) allowed basic expansion of 80x25 grid
(*) gave world gen refugees entities and realized them as moving groups on
the map after world gen
(*) added notification and history event for reaching summits of peaks and
volcanos in adv mode
Minor Changes:
(*) added notification for low migration seasons
(*) added object of worship to religion view in legends
(*) made detailed map export respect new peak heights
(*) locally steepened peaks a bit
(*) added world name to top of history file
Bug Fixes:
(*) fixed crash involving lava pushing objects
(*) stopped many bottomless pits from having their upper portions filled with
lava
(*) made reclaim dwarves start with the proper civilian labors enabled
(*) fixed problem causing just good or just evil params not to function
(*) stopped message spam from pit/pond/chain/cage jobs where the animal is
inaccessible
(*) stopped note entry from conflicting with a few of the keys
(*) made constructed ramps stick around even if you dig out the walls near
them
(*) fixed erroneous upper cap on detailed temperature export values
(*) fixed problem that caused peaks to be raised in flat areas during erosion
(*) suppressed erroneous "Zeroth" text for non-finalized history collections
in dwarf-mode art descriptions
(*) made usable/unusable option appear when metals are selected in
weapon/armor stockpiles
(*) fixed spacing problem with related hist fig race display
(*) fixed problem with the evil/good conversion of very large subregions
(*) fixed lockup from dragon fire modded civs in world gen army fights
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.28.181.39e:
Another quick patch.

(*) stopped crash in site finder from large x dims
(*) changed designation selection timers (aka lazy miners)
(*) made site finder use embark rectangle size from init options
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.28.181.39d:
This is the third and final fix release, barring any silliness that forces another
quick patch. Here's the complete list of changes:
(*) added init options/world parameters to show map features during embark
(*) added basic site finder to embark
(*) added a few optimizations for rivers and designation job selection
(*) stopped message spam from repeated animal taming job when no food is
available
(*) stopped message spam from caging and other jobs when a dwarf is picked
that is already leading another animal
(*) made dwarves cook quarry leaves properly
(*) allowed scrolling and premature stoppage during world generation
(*) added display and other features relating to last seed used by world gen
(*) added world gen parameter for minimum cave size
(*) stopped people from giving quests to kill themselves
(*) stopped abandoned stores from being stocked
(*) disallowed placement of non-empty bags as container buildings
(*) changed insanity text for animals
(*) fixed some other minor typos
(*) made volcanic shafts that are visible in embark always exit through the
surface
(*) handled some cavein-at-start cases from pits and volcanos
(*) stopped farming restrictions from stopping setting up other seasons
(*) stopped dwarves holding a two-handed weapons from seeking another weapon
if they are set to carry multiple weapons
(*) added races to historical figure list and event text
(*) did more context-based name shortening
(*) added ability for speakers to use first person when talking about
historical events
(*) capitalized first names in trading screens
(*) got rid of some erroneous birth date display information
(*) allowed resters to get up once they are not wounded
(*) allowed resters to move again if they've made bad decisions about where
to plop down
(*) added various detailed map export options (elevation, temperature, etc.)
(*) made the generator skip more of the minimum reject values if presets are
present
(*) made the generator pop up helpful windows after many rejects and give an
option to continue, abort, allow that reject type, or allow all rejects
(*) fixed crash on large 100 volcanism worlds
(*) fixed load crash from nullified items
(*) fixed crash from friendship evaluations when stuck merchant animals give
birth
(*) stopped lockup on artifact creation when 6-7 of the same material are
used
(*) fixed region rejections from savagery (civs still reject savage regions)
(*) made params load the post-region count variables properly
(*) added ability to leave notes on the map in dwarf mode
(*) stopped ramp removal from highlighting hidden areas for regular dig
(*) stopped masterwork ammunition used in weapon traps from making creators
go insane
(*) stopped removed constructions from removing the floor if another
constructed wall is below them
(*) made viewing historical event artwork in dwarf mode reveal events
(*) stopped double listing of modded MEGABEAST/POWERS in age name
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.28.181.39c:
This is the second fix for the new world generation release. Here's the complete
list of changes:
(*) fixed problem with pathfinding that caused jobs to be randomly cancelled
(*) fixed bug stopping fish/turtles from being available during embark
selection/trade
(*) fixed rng issue causing duplicate cave names and other problems
(*) sped up the history export, especially on worlds with lengthy histories
(*) stopped merchants from complaining about depot when there is one there
(*) stopped hidden items from making buildings invisible when they are used
in constructions
(*) stopped parameter seeds from being set to Various when you abort a
randomly seeded generation
(*) stopped people from saying RANDOM_DEF_SPHERE when they talk about their
megabeast deities
(*) stopped adv mode conversations with paralyzed/ko'd people
(*) controlled long names during trading
(*) moved "Desel All" out of the way in build menu
(*) allowed artifact gloves to be left-handed, based on handedness of creator
(*) changed King's to Royal in advisor title text
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.28.181.39b:
This is the first fix for the new world generation release. Here's the complete
list of changes:
(*) fixed bug causing dwarves and others to sleep forever
(*) fixed a few crashes with maps with Y dimensions larger than X dimensions
(*) fixed another world gen crash
(*) fixed bug stopping caves from appearing
(*) fixed bug causing hauling, cleaning and health care professions to
disappear from labor list
(*) made the escape key work properly when setting world gen parameters
(*) loosened travel restrictions based on enemy seeing the player
(*) changed effects of temperature on food objects
(*) changed creature layout during ambushes
(*) stopped world gen roads from being obstructed by swamps and fixed a
problem with how they handled slopes
(*) stopped world gen animals from starting as drunks
(*) stopped null civ membership from being added to moving megabeasts
(*) changed the text for culled historical parents
(*) fixed problem where tundra rejects were being logged instead of
grass/hill rejects
(*) fixed some grammar issues with battle summaries
(*) fixed "Peasants" display in status
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.28.181.39a:
Okay, here's the new version. You can do various things with world generation,
though not much has changed with the regular game. If you go into the world
generation advanced parameters and start designing/drawing your own world, please
keep in mind that you'll probably end up getting infinite reject cycles -- you can
turn on the reject log in data/init/init.txt to see what's going wrong. Oftentimes
you'll be violating biome restrictions (you can just go through any that you find
and 'n'ullify them to solve this problem). As usual, let me know if it crashes and
how to make it crash if it does -- I suspect there are new problems of all sorts
lurking within every part of the game, despite having fixed more than 100 bugs for
this version.
Save compatibility is a little iffy this time around -- there have been extensive
changes to the mid-level maps, so it might get confused about the biome of a
particular tile... and worse. I haven't noticed anything in limited messing
around with old saves, but there will very likely be problems.
******************************************************
This release should stop the command line crash from non-standard worlds, and it
also has a shot at stopping the site sprawl issue during repeated world generation.
A fix for Power PC Macs is still in progress.
******************************************************
This is the first Mac release. Barring some tragic mistake, this is also the last
bug fix release before the continuation of the Army Arc. Again, this release is
made up mostly of small changes that people wanted and some bug fixes for the worst
problems introduced during the last release. See the dev log for a complete list.
******************************************************
Various little things that people have wanted for a while this time, as well as
many additional bug fixes. See the dev log for a complete list.
******************************************************
The first army arc release, complete with no armies. It really is mostly
foundational work, but you'll notice some small changes here and there, more if you
play adventure mode. See the dev log for a complete list.
******************************************************
Release notes for 0.27.169.33g:
A few more fixes, a few new init options and a new interface for bringing items to
the trade depot. See the dev log for a complete list.
******************************************************
Various fixes people have been waiting for. Fixed the farm problem from 33e,
goblin sieges, mud tracking, made the treeline less annoying, made the missing
gemstones available, and lots of other stuff. See the dev log for a complete list.
******************************************************
Continuing along with bug fixing.
******************************************************
Fixed a few of the serious problems (one of the trade crashes, resting injury
loops, waterskin filling at wells forever). See the dev log for other minor
changes.
******************************************************
Continuing along with bug fixing.
******************************************************
Various crash and lag fixes again. See the dev log for other minor changes.
******************************************************
Various crash and lag fixes. There are still lags and crashes, but many of the
major offenders have been handled now. There were also several minor fixes. See
the dev log for those.
******************************************************
Well, it has been a while. That means potential instability, so don't get too
attached to your fortresses at this point. I'll be doing subsequent releases more
often now as I solve problems. In any case, dwarf mode now has a z-axis and you
can make fortresses that span several levels. Fluids behave much more reasonably,
and you can walk across the world in adventure mode in the local view without
having to step off of an artificial edge. And various other lots more stuff.
******************************************************
The backbone of temperature is in now, but there's still a lot to do. I'm not
working on it for a while again.
******************************************************
A bug fix release along with a test-change for the FPS toggling.
******************************************************
Few more crash bug fixes and several minor changes.
If you are having speed trouble, you can go to init and turn off temperature and
weather to see if that's the issue.
******************************************************
Here are some fixes for crash problems. I've also added metal bins and more
information to the sites in the setup screen. I fixed the FPS/black space problems
with the BMP export options and a few other minor problems as well.
There are still potentially serious problems from the temperature and other recent
additions. I'm going to continue working on bugs for the time being.
******************************************************
I'm partly through the temperature rewrite. This release has a lot of bug
potential. You should back up your save folders if you are updating from an older
version.
You can set fire to shrubs as an adventurer using the [g] command when you are
standing near one. This is not a permanent command.
The temperature behavior of flows has not been implemented yet. Very hot/cold
creatures do not change the air temperature yet either. There are a number of
features that are in progress regarding temperature.
The problem with dwarves being stuck outside during the stay-inside order should be
fixed, as well as a number of other bugs. You can now move the cursor quickly by
using shift + direction.
******************************************************
Lots of bugs fixed this time around. I caught a lot of the stay-inside problems,
but there are probably some new issues with random jobs now. I'll fix these as I
hear about them. I'll also correct any additional stay-inside problems as I hear
about them. It should be easier now that more infrastructure is in place.
There's also some creature graphics stuff you can play with. See
"raw/graphics/graphics_example.txt" to mess around with it. You'll also need to
set [GRAPHICS:YES] in "init/init.txt". I only drew a miner picture, and a blobby
dwarf thing, so I don't recommend this unless you are going to draw/use some
additional tiles.
******************************************************
Quick fix for missing color definition problem.
******************************************************
Quick fix for dyes and a crash bug with inventories in adventure mode.
******************************************************
There were various cosmetic changes to the game, mainly the addition of dyes and
more art images. The selection of dyes is very limited at present, and only
involves ground plants. There is a new workshop for this in dwarf mode. You can
use blue mushrooms or import other dyes from human traders. This will be expanded
later.
******************************************************
This release is mainly to handle the issues with specific piles. There are a few
other bug fixes as well.
******************************************************
Fixed a save corrupting problem.
******************************************************
Quick patch for a crash bug from saving furniture piles.
******************************************************
Aside from fixing some crash bugs, the main change this time is the addition of
specific pile types. You can access these from [q] on existing piles or you can
set them when you are placing piles by selecting "custom settings". Piles now make
claims on bins and barrels. This is displayed as "Cedar Bin <#12>". You can use
the [q] view for a pile to set the maximum number of bins and barrels it uses. For
now, a pile will only take one extra empty bin/barrel until something is placed
inside, then it will take another until it gets up to the maximum. We'll add some
other options later. In the [p]ile menu, you can also designate a number of
reserved bins and barrels that will be used by jobs such as distillation before any
stockpile gets to claim them.
******************************************************

I fixed a lot of bugs; see the dev list.
The main change for this version was the rewrite of the inventory system. There
will probably be several compat. issues, as well as various horrible bugs. I've
tested and fixed what I've found, but you'll find more. **Back up your old saves
before trying this version** The old saves will work with this version, but you
need to be careful with them.
Those that deserve fingers and toes have them in this version. You'll also notice
right/left gloves. Creatures lose items now with severs, so you'll lose your left
gauntlet if your left arm is removed, for instance.
Creatures are a bit silly about wear they put on rings and other trinkets. Rings
will probably pile up on the right thumb for instance, and earrings will pile up in
the right ear. Armor stands will also only store one glove and one boot for the
time being. This will be sorted out over time.
There aren't any temperature effects despite the residents wearing clothing
depending on the average temperature. This will also be handled later.
Finally, there aren't any gender links to clothing right now, so you might see male
dwarves in "dresses" and "skirts". Keep in mind that men all over the world wear
clothing like this, and that's what is meant by these generic terms. You can
remove the items from the entity raw before you play if it makes you feel
uncomfortable.
******************************************************
There will be families and guards in new world towns, concluding the first third of
the Bustling Town Arc.
There's a wait key in adventure mode now (period), as well as some helpful "are you
sure?" prompts.
Various bug fixes -- including the clothing acquirement bug, the shield equipment
bug and some ashery bugs.
******************************************************
I fixed various bugs and implemented other minor changes. See the changes list for
those. Nobles can still demand items involving small creature bones in old saves,
but the preference is no longer generated in new dwarves.
New worlds will see a few cosmetic changes in adventure mode towns (it was not
possible to include them in old saves). It's probably not worth generating a new
world for them (and I haven't put up new pregenerated worlds), but the new towns
have some larger cookie-cutter buildings like apartment complexes, and everybody
will sleep at night and eat three meals a day from a magic barrel in their room
that refills at midnight. Once the caravans and a notion of wealth are in, this
can all be differentiated properly instead. As we progress along the Bustling Town
Arc, it'll eventually be worthwhile to regenerate if you play adventure mode, but
it's not a big deal right now. In old worlds, you might notice some things like
merchants taking breaks to wander around or sleeping on the beds in the mead hall.
They are just trying their best to follow the new schedules without having a home
to go to.
******************************************************
There's a skeleton of a workshop profile now. It is in progress and undocumented.

You can select workers to work at the shop either by name or by skill level. The
list is not ordered yet. You can use the mouse on this screen. It's also written
up in a new way that is independent of the 80x25 window to facilitate some more
flexibility later on.
Many small fixes (read the dev log).
******************************************************
This fixes a problem with the export feature, lets you play around with the mouse
when doing designations and cleans up some of the problems with flows and channel-
related spam.
******************************************************
Some highlights include fixing the disappearing bone/shell problem and allowing
engraved wall images to be toggled on and off. The detailing jobs shouldn't shut
off at random any more.
Some of the issues with cat butchery have been handled.
I did a little bit with consolidating announcments (x2, x3, etc.), but I'll need
more time to do it properly.
Alt-tabbing in full screen might work a little better. Seems to work here is all I
can say.
Until I make the cleaners smarter, blood disappears at the beginning of every
season now.
******************************************************
Fixed several crash bugs and cleaned up some affected saves. I also found out why
named creatures were disappearing sometimes and fixed that, though saves in which
the problem is currently active will still see some of it.
Chasming refuse is in, though there will probably be some irregularities of which
you'll have the pleasure of informing me.
There were some other changes that might help with sheriff/injury tantrums.
Some of the tree designation clearance problems should be gone.
Trade agreements should work properly.
The thieves that enter the fortress are somewhat easier to detect now.
Depending on how you've bound your keys, you should have the odd hold-down behavior
only when using a cursor or scrolling now.
******************************************************
Fixed a couple more crashes and various other errors (see the change log).
Genders are mixed on starting animals now and horses should breed. The unit screen
will show some other designations beside "No Job" and there it will distinguish
merchants and diplomats. Water should flow into the cliff face now, at least from
new channels.
You can give your units nicknames and profession names now. Do this from the [vpz]
profile using [y] to customize them. In adventure mode, you do it from the [l]ook
+ [enter] status view (again [y] to customize). The [y] command appears onscreen.
Some tantrum issues were fixed. Placing artifact furniture was actually making
them unhappier. Fist fights and beatings still led to a minor version of the civil
war bug. These issues have been resolved.
The "Shift + R Menu" instead of "n" for the N key has been resolved, though you
might need to clean up your old files a bit if you are important old ones.
You can toggle between windowed and fullscreen mode using F11 (or whatever key you
bind) whenever you like now. Let me know what problems come up with this. I
haven't handled direct minimization from fullscreen, but you can toggle and
minimize from the windowed mode. You can also get rid of the "fullscreen?" box
that pops up the beginning in "data\init\init.txt" now.
******************************************************
Resolved a unit scrambling issue from active saves in adventure mode. You will no
longer turn into the stray dog in town or a random goblin or warthog.
******************************************************
Fixed a few more crash problems, but the main thing was to hopefully remove some of
the strange mainly adventure mode instability introduced by the last version. In
case this sort of thing persists, please be careful to back up your saves before
trying this one. Worlds that were generated in or even played in the briefly-
available 0.21.101.19b are likely to be twisted to pieces, especially if you played
adventure mode.
******************************************************
Many more crash fixes, including stopping some of those inflate errors. Those
saves are still corrupted though.
I've changed how some of the search routines work. I tested it out on several
saves, but you should keep a copy of yours safe before you try this one just in
case, as usual. If you get around to creating a new world, you'll notice a
significant speed increase when the years march up. Some of this also carries over
to the main game.
Finally, aqueduct behavior has been partially repaired. Building an aqueduct over
your chasm should work, but aqueducts over water can randomly drown your fortress.
If you want to get lava over the river, try a stone bridge instead. If you lava is
in a channel next to the bridge, you might need to use a floodgate to get it over.
Bridges over water filled channels probably won't conduct lava properly. I'll get
around to fixing the rest of this in time, but there are still some crash bugs etc.
that are higher priority.
******************************************************
Several crash bugs should be fixed now. Most saves will be recoverable, unless
they have a load inflate error.
******************************************************
See command_line.txt for information on world generation from command lines.
******************************************************
Old save farmplots might show "Ft 0/0" for the fertilizer amount. It will update
at the beginning of the season.

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See readme.txt for general information about the release.

See file_changes.txt for new init/interface information.

(1) Copy the relevant region folder in "data/save" to a safe location.

TO USE OLD SAVES WHEN UPDATING VERSIONS:

TO CHANGE DISPLAY AND SOUND OPTIONS:

IF YOUR KEYBOARD ISN'T WORKING:

Release notes for 0.44.12 (July 7, 2018):

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.11 (June 23, 2018):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.10 (May 5, 2018):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.09 (April 1, 2018):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.08 (March 28, 2018):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.07 (March 12, 2018):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.06 (March 9, 2018):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.05 (January 14, 2018):

Release notes for 0.44.04 (January 10, 2018):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.03 (December 25, 2017):

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.02 (November 23, 2017):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.44.01 (November 22, 2017):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.43.05 (July 5, 2016):

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.43.04 (June 20, 2016):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.43.03 (May 22, 2016):

Here are some more bug fixes.

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.43.02 (May 11, 2016):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.43.01 (May 9, 2016):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.42.06 (February 10, 2016):

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.42.05 (January 17, 2016):

Here's another one! We're still going to be working through adventure

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.42.04 (December 26, 2015):

Major bug fixes

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.42.03 (December 12, 2015):

Here's another release which cleans up various outstanding issues.

Other bug fixes/tweaks

Release notes for 0.42.02 (December 5, 2015):

Major bug fixes