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Toady's Devlog for 12/12/2024 - Dwarf Fortress 50.15 Released

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Release notes for 50.15 (December 12, 2024)

Graphics additions/changes (+) Expanded graphics for containers (+) Added ability to view worn clothing by dye or by profession (+) Shields in right arms displayed in correct order

Major bug fixes (+) Fixed crash in Linux related to object pools

Other bug fixes/tweaks (+) Added some safeguards to ages of generated migrant children (+) Made tutorial close button behave consistently when tutorial is minimized (+) Made the agitation decay setting work properly (+) Removed case sensitivity on unit filters (+) Fixed some issues with list sorting (+) Fixed crash related to possible null building in sheets (+) Fixed a crash with creature variation mods (+) Fixed some threading issues in unit loops (+) Fixed problem with mod version compatibility setting (+) Fixed command line world generation (+) Made game respect caste population ratio in more places (+) Fixed some possible null pointer references (+) Added more information to crash log headers

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Toady's Devlog for 12/03/2024

Here's a report for the month. Also a the Future of the Fortress reply.

My condolences to the Adams brothers for the loss of their father.

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Dwarf Fortress Beta Update

I don't usually post about the steam updates, but since the beginnings of the chosen/divine direction updates have been posted, here's some quick impressions -

The deity tells you to go to a temple to offer your service. It seems you don't actually want to go there, as all the priests prefer to hang out in the city keep. Hopefully that'll be resolved soon.

My character was tasked to find a remnant of creation, "The Elder Lightning," from a lair with a dwarf servant of storms, or a similar title.

I don't think they used storm powers, but they drank a "mysterious liquor" during combat. This may have been a healing drought. While I gathered one portion of it, I haven't yet used it.

As this is only the first of the updates, I suspect the elder lightning I'm carrying now has no magical properties. I have yet to re-fnd my quest giver (perhaps they did relocate to the temple after all?), but my understanding is that the quest is it, with some difficulty variations.

Poking around in legends mode suggests there are three tiers of mysterious site and, for my world, dwarven storm shamans, with the one I went to being the most common, and presumably easiest/weakest of the bunch. Maybe if I find the priest again, I'll be asked to go to more difficult ones, but that's conjecture.

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Toady's Devlog for 11/01/2024

Toady One, from the Bay12Games forums:

Ah, things have been a bit marriagey lately and I missed the October logs and reports and things. I did manage the Future of the Fortress reply to September's questions before I left, and here's the reply to October's questions. Here's the late October report and the timely November report.

Congratulations to Tarn!

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Toady's Devlog for 09/25/2024 - Dwarf Fortress 50.13 Released

Toady One, from the Bay12Games forums:

Major bug fixes Linux trainer crash fixed (again) Added crash guard for bad civilian alert Graphics additions/changes Dwarves/humans/elves/goblins/kobolds have child and baby images, new equipment, and palette support Garden and crop plants have more images Mandible portrait fixed for experiments Other bug fixes/tweaks Good/bad thoughts about tombs work Poisonous forgotten beasts work more reliably Various minor tweaks to input/layout Fixed drinks being destroyed on unretire Fixed a few broken sorts

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Toady's Devlog for 09/01/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

Here's the monthly report. Here's a Future of the Fortress reply.

If you've been worried that Zach hasn't been writing in the Devlogs and the like recently, Tarn assures us that everything's cool, it's just trouble with coordinating, and the monthly reports shifting:

Flying Teasets asks: Why has Zach stopped posting monthy announcements with you? Is it due to a business change or a private matter?

Toady answers: Everything's cool.  We've just had a little more trouble coordinating it lately with all that's going on, and the monthly report became something different after the Steam release, so it's in this current form now.

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Toady's Devlog for 08/02/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

A report for August and a modest Future of the Fortress reply. Here also is the summer update video.

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Toady's Devlog for 07/01/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

Here's the report and the Future of the Fortress reply to start us off.

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Toady's Devlog for 06/25/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

The adventure continues. The beta on Steam where we've been testing the adventure mode conversion out now has abilities, butchery, and crafting enabled. There are a few more menus to go, and we're also going to start in on the magical stuff now. This should be reasonably fun ha ha. The 9th Dwarf Fortress Gladiator Tournament has arrived! Signups are open until July 4th, 15:00 GMT. Zach and I found the other underground creature notebook today! These are the images the two of us made in a couple of notebooks in our parents living room one day more than a decade ago when we were trying to populate the new-at-the-time 3D underground. The gorlak and other favorites came out of this process. Both notebooks: Notebook Image 1 Notebook Image 2 Notebook Image 3 Notebook Image 4 Notebook Image 5 Notebook Image 6 Notebook Image 7 Notebook Image 8 Notebook Image 9 Notebook Image 10 Notebook Image 11 Notebook Image 12 Notebook Image 13 Notebook Image 14

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Toady's Devlog for 06/01/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

A report and a Future of the Fortress reply for the month. Menus.

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Toady's Devlog for 05/09/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

Here's a report and a Q&A reply. Things have been going well. Beta seems to have been received okay as the rough critter it is, missing some menus but still able to provide amusement as we get things done. I've returned from a short rest and am back on menus. Once these menus are done I'll be less on menus all the time which will be nice ha ha.

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Toady's Devlog for 04/23/2024 - Dwarf Fortress 50.13 Released

Toady One, from the Bay12Games forums:

Release notes for 50.13 (April 23, 2024): While the adventure mode beta is ongoing over on Steam, here are some crash fixes for the stable branch, and a few other tweaks. This also has portrait support if anybody is modding them in. Major bug fixes () Fixed statue-related crash () Fixed syndrome-related crash () Fixed temperature-related crash () Fixed crash from empty kitchen menu () Fixed multi-kill squad orders () Fixed world gen crash from the appointing of chefs by demon rulers that had been influenced by outside reading materials on decorum and leisure time Graphics additions/changes () Portraits! () Centered some creatures that were printing off-center Other bug fixes/tweaks () Large gems and gem crafts should be produced properly by gem cutting jobs again () Fixed cave adaptation () Fixed problem with numbers in wild creature clusters () SELECT_GROWTH and SELECT_MATERIAL available in plant modding

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Toady's Devlog for 04/17/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

We posted an Adventure mode beta over on Steam. There are lots of good bits to it but some missing bits as well, so we're slowing rolling it out this time, while still letting more people test it out and have some fun. A lot of the Adventure mode experience is there. You can currently, in the released beta, create a party in character generation, visit your old forts, retire, unretire, get NPC companions, take quests, fight monsters with the various melee/wrestling/ranged options, set fires, tell stories, and travel the world. Portraits are available for dwarves, humans, elves, goblins, kobolds (minus some clothing variations), animal people (no items), and necromancer experiments (no items). These portraits are in both modes. So there's fun to be had, but there's quite a bit more to do before we'll do the full launch. Non-exhaustively: Clean up the big crash issues etc. Quest log / information screen Butchering and crafting Ability use, from necromancy to pet animal to spit Composing Motion/attack indicators Building interactions (levers, doors, etc.) Wrestle button Stealth vision arcs Better UI for stuff like going through hatches over ramps Some other info like movement speed / encumbrance Tracking / odor / weather / light / time etc. information Some travel map stuff like visible armies and zooming and highlights Minimap / map memory Trading and bartering (and the town shops being generally a mess) Assuming false identities Full personality customization in chargen Graphics and audio that didn't make it in for the initial beta release Get Classic conversions for the new buttons etc. The new stuff: chosen mode with deities, town improvements, dungeon improvements, healing options, and so forth As we mentioned before, cabin building is a larger interface project, so that'll come with the update after the full launch. A Future of the Fortress reply for February questions. A Future of the Fortress reply for March questions.

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Toady's Devlog for 03/06/2023 - Dwarf Fortress 50.12 Released

Toady One, from the Bay12Games forums:

New stuff () Ability to sort the lists from the creature/task menus () Kitchen interface sorting and searching () Work detail sorting and searching () Can edit and restore default work details () Saves can be sorted by world and folder on the title screen () Keyboard support for many unit lists () Ability to designate burrows over multiple Z levels Major bug fixes () Fixed a few crashes relating to pregnancy () Fixed save corruption related to bad job ids () Fixed crash related to language mods () Goblins should have trolls again, and some additional friends (new worlds only) () Vampires in forts should hide properly Graphics additions/changes () Additional statue graphics () Fixed some classic building interface lights Other bug fixes/tweaks () Squad assignment now lists already-assigned units last () Fixed error in calculation of bridge support () Fixed issue in how environment-appropriate work animals are selected for visiting fortress () Fixed missing autopause tooltip () Additional miscellaneous optimizations () Fixed minor issue with forest variant display () Fixed clipping issue on unit sheets () Fixed minor issue with cage contents display () Fixed pet list display on unit sheet rarely skipping a pet () Llamas are pack animals now

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In case things go terribly wrong, this is the current bsky link.

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Toady's Devlog for 02/23/2024

Toady One, from the Dwarf Fortress Development Log:

The forum appears to have crashed badly - I have a support ticket open, no ETA on return. I have several recent backups so it shouldn't be catastrophic. Here's a recent demo video of adventure mode.

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I have made a "blue sky" account. Quite incosiderate, seeing as I'm [CAVE_ADAPTED], but we deal with what we can.