So I'm sitting here in game, listening to another etho rant while surfing around and guess what? New DF version out! With bees. Yay...?
Afaik, yes, but no. You are usually able to keep playing your fort, without the new features. If you want new goodies, you usually have to regen the world.
The last few hundred versions haven't changed the graphics. Take a wild guess as to whether this one has.
I have 30 fps when I embark with 7 dwarfs in the new release... I had 100 fps capped in the last version. :/
Let's just be happy it isn't bumblebees and we get a divide by zero. OMGNOES! THEY CAN'T THEORETICALLY FLY! This is nothing new though... since I started at d40 or whatever version it was, every consecutive release has seen a steady decline in fps.
The complete and utter newby tutorial for dwarf fortress (several pages) Worked for me (in its earlier edition) and worked for my friend who started the game this week. Includes ingame pictures (with notes on them) and basic step by step stuff so even a dummy can do it. note: uses MayDay Green's Tileset (the best pack out there imo)
No because it's a forum thread. The old LPs however are on the LP archive. http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Syrupleaf/ You could also wait until the forums become accessible again, they go like that every once in a while. Anyway why the hell do you need to read it, you're playing the damn game.
Wresting anything can wrestle items off opponents. Clothes, weapons, whatever. THere are examples of a cyclops beating dorfs to death with socks.
so was checking the minecraft wiki about mappers and found this thing that converts dwarf fortress levels to minecraft worlds and was like HOLY CRAP. http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=27744&p=599182 at first I was skeptical about it but then I looked at some screenshots and it looks like it works as intended except seems to be out of order right nao.