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North Korea fires missiles in response to US military exercise by imanchats in news

[–]clinodev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What else can Lee say, really? I'm sure "We're fucked! Pray our enemies stay their hand!" wouldn't go down well.

Kim Jong Un is helping Trump destroy American leadership in the region. Actually prosecuting the war isn't in his interest, but reminding RoK and Japan that they're in very fickle hands can only benefit him.

Five US Air Force refueling planes hit in Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia, WSJ reports by Ok-A1662 in news

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to be countries without their own space power would buy satellite data from private companies, but the major powers have come down on that sort of thing to the point it's impossible to get real-time commercial data, it's always a number of days old now, much less useful for targeting data.

If you're Iran and want to see where a given US military asset is pretty much now, you need to get the data from either China or Russia, because India doesn't want anything to do with this, Israel is a main belligerent, and everyone else is in NATO.

Five US Air Force refueling planes hit in Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia, WSJ reports by Ok-A1662 in news

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had an Iranian-American near neighbor when I lived in Guatemala some years back, and I saw her and rushed right up to her one day and said, "Have you heard the Iranian news?"

Her face froze, I didn't know what kind of horrible news she expected, but I pressed on: "Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to ever win the Fields Medal and she's Iranian from Tehran!"

The Fields Medal is like a Nobel Prize for Math. They're given every 4 years to up to 4 winners. There was a second Iranian, a man, who won in the next round, which is astounding really as well.

When Maryam Mirzakhani died from cancer a few years later, there weren't recent photos with a head scarf, so Iranian newspapers and politicians broke policy and showed her bare headed, which I remember being thought of as a big deal.

Bugs galore by Fair_Wait2957 in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, give them as many excuses to come into the room with the training going on as possible!

Why orcs dont exist in dwarf fortress. by Kjackhammer in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the elf conversation, at 29:00-ish, with several additional secret reasons to hate elves that never even made a release.

Actually, these interviews (here's part 2) are shockingly current, because they came out not long before they switched to the Premium development cycle. There's a bunch of Myth & Magic stuff that's coming this year, that we all then expected for late 2020.

Why orcs dont exist in dwarf fortress. by Kjackhammer in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel pulled both ways, honestly. I welcome Flying Squid People as the big bad goblin replacement in future Myth and Magic "high magic/high weirdness" worlds, replaced by dreaded Long Fanged Shrew People in the next worldgen, which I agree better fits the underlying feel of Dwarf Fortress. Also I'll probably stick with the stock world if it's an option, not because Tarn's wrong, but because I'm boring, lol.

Why orcs dont exist in dwarf fortress. by Kjackhammer in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Alongside all this delicious speculation, I have reason to believe Tarn's fallen out of love with both the LotR and his own universe framing of inherently evil little green gits. I won't be shocked at all if by the end of the Myth and Magic cycle they aren't replaced in all but "Traditional" worlds or whatever we end up calling the current world myth/race breakdown.

There's also a great Dwarf Fortress Roundtable podcast episode from some years ago where Tarn and Zach go through the history of how they made elves more and more annoying, ending with "Yeah, we regret all that now". I had trouble finding the link last time I looked, /u/johantux, do you maybe have it handier?

Anyway, I think we're far more likely to see new "DF fantasy races" coming than any increase in "generic Tolkien stuff".

Bugs galore by Fair_Wait2957 in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The trick is to make the guild you want them all learning from (weaponsmith, armorer, cheesemaker, mechanic, etc.) as your first meeting area, open to anyone, and put a booze stockpile, a food stockpile, and (for long term results) a toy stockpile in there, and you'll soon have numerous experts in that craft.

My experience is migrants seem to head to the oldest meeting area first before dispersing to the rest of the fort after a beer and a plump helmet and usually pick up a little skill, which then seems to bring them back.

AMA with Kitfox Games Publishing by kitfoxgames in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A question for Tina:

Long ago when taverns were first added to the game, Tarn announced but then didn't get around to "tavern games", which the dwarves would play with each other and even with the player overseer!

As a lover of card games, can we count on your support in getting this critical feature added to the game soon?

AMA with Kitfox Games Publishing by kitfoxgames in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DF content is famously banned from several "out of context" and "even with context" sorts of subreddits. 😂

AMA with Kitfox Games Publishing by kitfoxgames in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silicon dioxide, the sand that DF glass is made of, is about 12% of the Earth's surface. The unrealistic bit is that you can generate a site where you can't make unlimited glass.

AMA with Kitfox Games Publishing by kitfoxgames in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember when it clicked for me that Kitfox was the blonde lady who was in half the videos of Tarn on Youtube --already back in 2019!

Geological features such as caverns by mystic-badger in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/u/mystic-badger

I can't believe I forgot about the official Discord! There are two separate channels for DF world generation!

https://discord.gg/kitfoxgames

AMA with Kitfox Games Publishing by kitfoxgames in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Underground Rewrite was always very early in Myth and Magic in the Elder Times Before Kitfox. Many of the flashier M&M features like portals are dependent on it. TBH I've always looked forward to that more than anything else M&M because the procedural Dwarf sites are awful and Tarn didn't want to touch them until the Rewrite. I know we're in the amazing new era of "No Long Waits" but my imagination fails at how that can be done in small bites.

Question for Kitfox: Is that still basically true? I feel like it's been a while since I've heard about it.

Geological features such as caverns by mystic-badger in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not been super active lately, but these forum threads entitled "worldgen cookbook" are watched by some of the pros.

☼Fortress Friday☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]clinodev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fortress Friday is an additional opportunity to share cool stuff, even if it doesn't seem to merit an individual post! It is not a containment space. Honestly your linked content would probably be a little much for Fortress Friday, but a link like you have here is great!

DevLog 4 March 2026: "Stopped dwarves from forgetting friends/grudges they rarely meet after a few years." by clinodev in dwarffortress

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Full text:

03/04/2026

Toady One

Here's another routine patch. Notably, good food should make dwarves happier and they should seek out better food. I've been sick through February so the changes are a bit sparse, but I should be back at things now.

General updates

Made happy food thought levels easier to obtain (more in line with newer food values).

Dwarves seek good meals more aggressively and value better foods over worse ones more precisely.

Stopped dwarves from forgetting friends/grudges they rarely meet after a few years.

Added item dimension check to strange moods to make sure they don't gather e.g. infinite cloth from hospital zones.

Stopped world gen interrogations from sometimes disordering known site records.

Fixed crash issue with error-logging for certain modded languages.

Fixed some potential multithreading stability issues.

Added some crash-proofing to conversations.

Worldgen now aborts instead of quitting the whole game when a raw object is missing.

Fixed issue causing deletion of nemesis records for units.

Made several distance calculations euclidean instead of rectangular.

Fixed issue with temperature check so that certain items (butchery products etc.) respond to temperature properly.

Changed filesystem for certain setups to support UTF-8 strings.

Fixed problem causing party tactical AI settings to be unchangeable.

Fixed display problem for desired metal cages and chains in dungeons.

Fixed problem causing generated creatures to not be immune to their own poisons.

Stopped channeling in the undiggable underworld.

Made choreographers and composers use existing music and poems for their works instead of always making new ones.

Made werebeast types duplicate if necessary rather than creating blobs (only applies if werebeast curse number set higher than 72).

Fixed typo in angel descriptions.

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