User:Lethosor/DF2014 changelog

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This is the changelog for the version of Dwarf Fortress following 0.34.11

Toady has said that it will be released in early July 2014: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139054

The version number will probably be 0.38, 0.39, or 0.40

Combat and Movement*

• Movement and Attack speeds have been split
• Reaction moments (catching a swung fist)

Lethality reduction

• No immediate enemy recognition in cities to avoid fights to the death on the street
• Conflicts and conflict levels are tracked (lethal/nonlethal)
• Critters can enter a state of terror from lethal battle, especially if they’re likely to lose
• Enemies can surrender
• Draw and sheath weapons
  • People in cities won’t appreciate it if your weapon is out.
• Mode can be switched to non-lethal in object testing arena

Sneaking

• Sound indicators/vision cones
• Running, creeping, walking, sneaking, as opposed to just walk and sneak
  • Need to accelerate
  • Sharp turns slow you down
• Vampires can sense creatures with blood.
  • More generally, tags to sense arbitrary creature classes
  • can be attached via interactions/syndromes

Tracking

• Creatures leave tracks as they move unless they fly or are ghosts
  • Track descriptions depend on what left the track - feet, boots, turbans...
• Tracks can be found in their own vision mode

Climbing*

• Climb up to branches, walls or down to ledges
• Can't climb smoothed walls or ice walls

Jumping*

• Can grab onto tiles when jumping or falling

Entity sites

Demons

• Due to spoilers, Toady has revealed nothing about demon sites beyond that he has added them. Sites will contain ample amounts of randomly generated features however.

Goblins

• Central tower with pits and tunnels underneath
• Connects to first underground layer
• Trenches, tunnel entrances, watchtowers
• Prisons with prisoners and snatched children
• Troll-shearing pits

Elf sites

• Orchards
• Trees with canopies as much as thirty tiles wide

Dwarf Sites

• Hill Dwarves - farms and settlements on or near the surface
• Fortresses - connect surface and first cavern layer
• Deep sites - farms and settlements in the first cavern layer, below mountains
• Noble Hierarchy - the king rules a few dukes who each rule a few counts whose barony often includes a few towns with their own mayors.
• Player fortresses can now be non-destructively retired.*
  • Retired fortresses behave as NPC fortresses but retain other information
  • Retired fortresses can be reclaimed.

Other

• AI can now reclaim sites ruined during worldgen. Both during or after worldgen.
• All megabeasts can now attack and sometimes occupy civilization sites.
  • These occupied sites cannot be reclaimed by the AI, but can by the player.*
  • Retired fortresses can be reclaimed.
• Civs will now continue to build settlements after worldgen, with some limitations. No roads or markets will be made in these post-worldgen sites
• Armies inhabiting foreign conquered sites can now alter the sites to some degree.
  • Goblins will begin building trenches and small towers “in human villages, elf sites and dwarf hill sites that have been taken after some time passes”

Entity Groups

• Armies now exist on the world map and move about during play, and you can encounter their camps.
• Bandits harass townspeople.
• Invaders cause mayhem in conquered sites.
  • Destroyed buildings, killed historical figures, things impaled on upright weapons...
    • Killing their leader should often get them to leave.
• Invaders have camps with tents for soldiers and large tents for their commanders.
• Commanders chased out of their camp try to return due to their responsibility. Soldiers patrol the camp, raise the alarm.
• Townspeople no longer know exact positions of lairs.
• Entities have various “claims” to sites, rather than outright uncontested ownership every time.
• Goblins will hunt down a civilization’s leaders and kill them, instead of just slaughtering indiscriminately.

Heritance

• Entity positions will be inherited as they do in worldgen.*
• Anyone who gets too old (as defined in the raws for their species) dies.
• Conceptions occur periodically, and schedule a birth to be resolved at the appropriate time.

Personality and Conversation

Personality*

• Dwarves, and other sentient beings, now have personal values which are based on their cultural values but may deviate.
• Dwarves now have traits which may not be value-neutral.
• Dwarves will have “dreams” or life goals
  • creation of an artifact
  • taking over the world.
• People react to death depending on their personal traits
  • may applaud or call you a murderer and spit at you

Conversation revamp

• Time no longer paused while talking.
• Rumors will spread among NPCs, which they can then relay to you.
• Townspeople may lie to you, if their personality supports it.

Other

• New opening paragraph in Adventure mode depending on your starting situation.
• Companions now join for specific purposes, and will leave afterwards.
• Invaders can now jump and climb when assaulting a fortress. Some limitations apply.*

Multi-tile trees*

• Falling leaves and fruit
• Item clouds/spatter
• Flowers

* These are directly applicable to Fortress Mode

** Toady’s old prediction, as seen at the end of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ZwVuGB_PI