Hey Urists,

Alexandra here with with today’s patch and a bunch of community news! We've got an AMA on r/dwarffortress, some support for creating your own Dwarf Fortress gatherings and some cool stuff from the community. But first, patch 53.11 from Tarn:


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.

Tanya, Tina and I are hosting an AMA on r/dwarffortress on March 9th at 11am ET. Ask us about Dwarf Fortress things, publishing things, anything you’d like! You can submit your questions before the AMA starts here and we'll answer in the same thread. Looking forward to chatting with you all on Monday!


Most of the screenshots on Steam are from community-made forts and we’d like to get some new ones showing off the siege fortifications. If you’d like to show off your fort (with credit) on the Dwarf Fortress store pages, send us your screenshots to http://info@kitfoxgames.com and include how you’d like to be credited.


In the past, we’ve hosted a few Dwarf Fortress fan meetups called The Fey Mood Society Gatherings during major events like PAX and Gamescom. Since we can’t always make it to those events, and there’s urists from all over the world, we’d like to support you in hosting your own Fey Mood Gathering. If you have a meetup planned for Dwarf Fortress fans, fill out this form[forms.gle] and we might send you a merch package and other Dwarf Fortress goodies to use at your event.


The Adventure Mode vinyls have started shipping! There’s still a few copies in stock[gamemusicrecords.com] so if you'd like to snag the limited edition version with exclusive colours, now is your chance. If you've already pre-ordered keep your eyes out for the mail.


Speaking of music, Blindirl recently interviewed Dabu and Simon Swewer about the creation of the Dwarf Fortress soundtracks. It covers everything from the musical backgrounds of the composers, how the soundtracks were created and the trials and tribulations along the way. Give it a watch!

Mod Spotlight -HEWN (A Total Graphical Overhaul)

We wanted to shoutout phlegm7qmtvs for creating the first tileset mod for the Steam version. This mod transforms the game into a classic retro style inspired by traditional roguelikes like Caves of Qud and DF Classic.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3662002056

That's all for today, see you on Monday in the subreddit!

-Alexandra