Dwarf Fortress - Looking at the Theoretical Roadmap 

Not gonna lie, I kinda love how most video game communities are "You get 6 months from release and if we don't start getting drip fed we'll just abandon the game" meanwhile DF community is "It might be out this decade, maybe not, probably not" reminds me of the ASOIAF community where DF updates are The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, they might come, they might not, either way it'll be years until we find out

Would be interesting if mages could curse your fort from afar, in which case you have to take the fight to them. Random dwarves could fall ill or something necessitating the use of the map features.

I'm very excited for refinement of information displays of every kind. I hope they allow you to select which kind of settlement your fort can become instead of always becoming a Mountainhome.

it's incredibly exciting to know that this awesome game will be getting even more interesting

Magic ? In Dwarf Fortress ? Ohoho we're about to see some homelander level brutality

Combat styles involving weapons or natural attacks with associated stances and moves Ability to learn moves, etc. from others with whom you have a high enough reputation Certain moves may only be available as specific counters, while others might just be regular attacks Ability to create new moves/styles when highly skilled these 4 combat changes make me super excited for adventure mode and scenerios I can create with them. I know I have to wait like 6-7 years to see them but that doesn't make me sad lol

I mean I can't blame them at all, its their own creation, they've added so much to the game thats it hard finding out how to fit anything extra without it breaking on them

Honestly, after adventure mode is done, I think their #1 priority needs to be multi-core support. And, yes, it's an absolutely monumental task to do this, I know, but they have the money to bring in consultants and/ or contractors who SPECIALIZE in adapting code from single core to multi core and they absolutely need to do it. Processors are extremely unlikely to get much faster in single core performance unless a paradigm shift happens, and this game already struggles from extreme FPS problems the longer a fort runs. You can do things to slow FPS death, but FPS death ALWAYS comes for everyone, eventually. The longer they wait, the harder it will be, and performance kills every game inevitably even on high-end gaming processors. They want to add even more stuff to the game, which is only going to add to the amount of processing required for each and every game tick. They HAVE to figure out how to spread that load to more cores or they are going to kill their own game with feature creep bloat. And, yes, I know that the steam release is supposed to be much better optimized (I played classic a bit, but never long enough to hit FPS death, so I'm going off of second hand accounts), and they SHOULD continue that process, as well, but I think in the long run supporting multi core is the only option. As an added benefit, going for multi-core would ALSO open the game up to better portability to mobile processors, as well, which could further improve their revenue to pay for programmers to clean up and port their code. I think that they can bring people in just to polish the game while Tarn can keep doing the main programming and game design that he wants to do. They can have most of their cake and eat a lot of it, too.

Right now I mostly just want legends export back, expanding all this stuff is going to be really cool but I want to be able to understand and visualise the game world as-is.

SEARCHBARS EVERYWHERE PLEASSSSE

I pray to Armok that we get adventure mode as soon as a year and some. Hopefully they find a good sound engineer in a timely fashion.

looking forward to playing the complete game with my grandchildren.

I think the 2029 date might be a bit far. Simply because there is an extra coder on board. Sure, Putnam isn’t going to be adding much to the new features, but they can help debug the new features as Tarn creates them. At least, that is what I think the work flow will be like in the long wait.

I'm cool with anything they're doing, but I really hope they fix some of the more game-straining bugs, like the military dwarves and their backpack shenanigans. Maybe do something about worship too.

Aight, I'm going to bed. Wake me up in 20 years 🤪

Thanks for the info and your thoughts. Hope you had a fun weekend.

Thanks Blind!

I'm waiting for adventure-like expeditions for your squads into enemy territory, manually telling your macedwarves which skulls to conk in.

UI Improvement (Especially the possibility to continue to place the same item or the same area as in 100% of the games of the genre) ?

Exciting stuff

Good stuff!

I’ve got two stacks of prepared meals, 20 million and 24 million dwarfbucks each. Afaik there’s no way to split stacks though, so i can either gift it to the elves who’ve demanded 5-tree-quotas in the last 4 years where i’ve cut zero trees and gifted 20k to each of them, or the other civs who all love me, or keep them stockpiled until the game has stack splitting.

👍👍

As an USian (of the trans variety), this gives me a reason to live until at least 2029 🤞 inshallah I see myths and magic

Personally I would prefer quality of life improvements... the Steam release is sometimes even less usable than the vanilla version, and that's saying something...

v.1.0 / 25xx

When will they add more rat-related content?

i hope they make it easier to see important events and needs i only have 50 hrs sofar and i miss shit all the time