See readme.txt for general information about the release.
See file_changes.txt for new init/interface information.
See command_line.txt for information on world generation from command lines.


TO BACK UP SAVES:

(1) Copy the relevant region folder in "save" to a safe location.
(2) When you want to reuse it, copy that region back to "save".  Do *NOT* overwrite an old folder, as it might leave residual files.

Please *DO* back up saves.  Although the game has permanent death and you might want to play it in that spirit, the game
is also an alpha, and your world might become corrupted by an error.  You can also make use of the auto save features settable in "data/init/init.txt".



TO USE OLD SAVES WHEN UPDATING VERSIONS:

(0) ***Note that this version of DF is only compatible with saves from 0.50.01+.***
(1) Unzip the new dwarves into a *NEW* folder.
(2) Copy "save" from the old folder into the new folder, or copy over the relevant region folders you've saved to "save".  Keep a backup in case something is wrong with the new version.
(3) When you start, your world should be accessible and ready to play.

Unzipping the new dwarves into your old folder will work most of the time, but if files have changed, it can crash, or worse yet, destroy your saves.



TO CHANGE DISPLAY AND SOUND OPTIONS:

Go to "data/init/init.txt".  These options will take effect the next time you start the game.



IF YOUR KEYBOARD ISN'T WORKING:

If you can get to the ESC keybindings menu (from the start screen, press ESC and then 2/8 to scroll to Key Bindings), you can set your key bindings.  If your "?" key on your keyboard doesn't work for help, you can set the keybinding properly here.  It might not display as a "*".  You can set the display up properly in "data/init/interface.txt" using the display strings at the top of the file.

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Release notes for 53.12 (April 15, 2026):

Here's a quality of life patch that addresses various issues.  You can see your active petitions now and it's harder to disband squads accidentally.  Clothing wears down more slowly.  Selecting items inside bins during trade works more intuitively.  You can see the products and required items for jobs in workshops.  Soldiers wear boots properly.  See the full list below.

General updates
	(*) Added display of accepted petition building projects (guildhalls and temples).
	(*) Added standing orders to automatically accept or reject citizen petitions and various residency petitions.
	(*) Added standing orders allowing mining designations to globally ignore new warm/damp stone warnings.
	(*) Squad disband icon is no longer a red X that looks like it closes the menu.
	(*) Disbanding squads now requires confirmation.
	(*) Items suffer less damage from age and worn items wear down more slowly.
	(*) Traders bring clothes properly sized for all fortress citizens and long-term residents.
	(*) Added tooltips showing products and required materials when adding new tasks in workshops.
	(*) Changed behavior of bin selection in trade menu.  Clicking the bin now selects all items inside as well, and these can be unselected one at a time.  Clicking a selected bin unselects all of its contents.
	(*) You can now click anywhere on item listings in the trade/barter menus to select the item.
	(*) Added a select all button to the move-goods-to-depot menu.
	(*) Made squad soldiers remove shoes properly if they conflict with their uniform's boots.
	(*) Reordered work order buttons.
	(*) Clicking on name of work order or shop text allows number entry.
	(*) Made the difficulty setting "priesthood unit count" properly effect temple petitions.
	(*) Closing the unit selector no longer also closes menu that opened it.
	(*) Made stone use and children's chore scrollbars work properly.
	(*) Changed citizens label to residents in unit list to reflect all who are listed.
	(*) Show residency vs. citizenship status on unit summary sheet.
	(*) Shows the deity being worshipped in meeting hall location info box.
	(*) Shows the deity being worshipped in location assignment list.
	(*) Shows location type in meeting hall location info box.
	(*) Shows location type in location assignment list.
	(*) Shows current guildhall existence/petition status when choosing a new guildhall.
	(*) Shows current temple existence/petition status when choosing a new temple.

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Release notes for 53.11 (March 4, 2026):

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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Release notes for 53.10 (January 12, 2025):

This patch fixes a freeze and a display error in some creature lists.  We also added the final aquatic portraits.

General updates
	(*) Stopped game from freezing during some item storage checks related to burrows.

Graphics updates
	(*) Added 28 aquatic portraits to finish the set.
	(*) Made dwarves clothed again in certain lists.
	(*) Stopped last portrait being shown on small animal sheets if the animal has no portrait.
	(*) Made female peachick visible again.

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Release notes for 53.09 (January 7, 2025):

Here's a patch with lots of routine fixes.  Lots of new portraits and some updated portraits.  Small experimental beasts now have their own colorful graphics to match the forgotten beasts.  Find details below:

Graphics updates
	(*) New procedural graphics for small experiments.
	(*) New animal portraits, and some new full body animal tiles.
	(*) Can pop up basic small animal sheets to view portraits and read descriptions for small animals.
	(*) Offering place, display furniture, and nest box show proper item materials when placed as buildings.
	(*) Uses proper list icons for creatures when choosing animals in embark or adventure setup.
	(*) Added further box highlighting for chosen/hero/ordinary selection in Classic.
	(*) Added error log for unrecognized tile graphics rectangle tokens.
	(*) Properly sized giant flying/gray squirrel list icons and corpses.
	(*) Fixed upright weapon trap display error.
	(*) Minimap properly updates on certain recenter commands.

General updates
	(*) Stopped mood dwarves from choosing inaccessible workshops and causing path cancellation lag.
	(*) Dwarves no longer try to store pile and tomb items which are located outside their burrows.
	(*) Dwarves no longer try to store carried objects outside of their burrows.
	(*) Stopped dwarves with no working grasps from trying to store owned objects and excess equipment.
	(*) Made armor appear again on many non-sieging units where it was missing.
	(*) Mothers seeking lost infants no longer respect burrows but do respect chains.
	(*) Mothers no longer seek ghostly babies.
	(*) If an egg hatches and the mother is assigned to a zone (e.g. pasture), the baby is now assigned to the zone.
	(*) Soldiers given an order while hauling will now drop their hauled job items instead of taking them along on duty.
	(*) Dwarves heading off to meetings will drop hauled items from cancelled jobs.
	(*) Dwarves are more likely to handle their hauled drink-related items after drinking.
	(*) Appropriate buildings now stop rain and snow.
	(*) Added indication during assignment of specific military items whether the item is already assigned elsewhere.
	(*) Animal traps can catch subterranean water creatures like cave lobsters again.
	(*) Cave lobsters can be processed in the fishery and their shell can be used for shell crafts.
	(*) Creatures that leave statue corpses now leave statues of themselves rather than of random creatures.
	(*) Prophets and other religious people with prophetic belief systems will no longer include incorrect beliefs in their greetings.
	(*) Stopped pedestals and display cases from being allowed to display themselves.
	(*) Made mussels and oysters stop appearing on land when animals root around near oceans.
	(*) Stopped a few illegal werebeast types from being created.
	(*) Added visual button to back out of art element creation and deletion.
	(*) Fixed conflicting hauling/hot keys keybindings.  You may have to restore defaults or update it yourself if you have custom bindings.
	(*) Specified amount created in some job names.
	(*) Fixed some item description grammar.
	(*) Fixed broken child/baby strings in certain contexts like action reports.
	(*) Cleaned up procedural creature text a bit.
	(*) Fixed incorrect name for coral material.
	(*) Fixed improper text for mythical dream objects.
	(*) Giant and animal person variants of pool creatures will now appear in savage lakes. (New worlds)
	(*) Fixed a few typos with key binding text.

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Release notes for 53.08 (December 19, 2025):

Here's a little patch to clean up some issues that sprang up (broken deconstruction speeds, broken work detail scrollbar.)

I've also tried to adjust the new material-based dwarf dig speeds to be faster overall - there had to be give somewhere, so legendary miners now aren't as relatively speedy (they are still twice as fast as a novice.)  Native metals were also taking way too long to mine.  And the lack of drinks effect was coming on a little too strong too early in mining in a noticeable way.

General updates
	(*) Reduced erroneously long deconstruction speeds.
	(*) Fixed broken scrollbar for work detail labor list.
	(*) Changed relationship between mining speed, mining skill, and materials.
	(*) Fixed broken mining speeds for native metals.
	(*) Moderated lack of drink effect on work speed.

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Release notes for 53.07 (December 18, 2025):

Here's another patch for the Siege Update.  Dwarves will now have happy thoughts to bolster them after sieges, while invader movement has been made a bit more dynamic.  There are lots of new animal portraits.  Hundreds of them!  And the lua has been brought in line with our full set of procedural creature graphics, so forgotten beasts in new worlds should look extra fancy now.

Siege Updates
	(*) Added a positive thought for everybody in the fortress when a siege is defeated.
	(*) Made siege leaders a bit more dynamic when cut off.
	(*) Made fleeing invaders with special movement (flying, magma etc.) escape more cleanly.
	(*) Added invasion creature cap and strength to the difficulty settings.
	(*) Pick/wall material now impacts digging speed through natural materials (for invaders and the player).
	(*) Hunters reserve only 25 bolts at embark now.
	(*) Default archer uniforms at embark specifies weapon if civilization has only one type.
	(*) Default archer uniforms at embark created for both leather and metal armor.

Graphics Updates
	(*) Added hundreds of new creature portraits, and added new full body graphics for a few natural creatures.
	(*) Added some new graphical layers to forgotten beasts/demons/titans and enhanced other layers.
	(*) Added some missing graphical layers and tweaks to forgotten beasts/demons/titans/experiments.

General Updates
	(*) Fixed a crash caused by kitchen input with no entries.
	(*) Fixed a crash related to post-worldgen population growth.
	(*) Stopped items thrown at visitors by tantruming dwarves from causing an escalation to lethal combat.
	(*) Stopped drunk/tantrum brawlers from attacking small and vulnerable body parts like the throat.
	(*) Throwing and pinching are no longer considered brawling-level moves.
	(*) Added a chance for falling creatures and objects to bounce at each level of stairs or heavy branches, rather than falling all the way down.
	(*) Added (economic) difficulty setting for fortress dig speed.  Currently the same on normal/hard.
	(*) Tree/axe material impacts tree felling speed.
	(*) Stopped certain children/animals from being born with negative sizes and/or random ages.
	(*) Displayed correct age in years on sheets, respecting birthday.
	(*) Displayed proper experimented-upon historical figure name in experiment description.
	(*) Stopped fort vampires from attempting to disguise their kills with unique "Zero Kill" text on their kill list.
	(*) Handled a few more issues with hospital patients and caretakers being frozen.
	(*) Fixed grazer status only being displayed for grazers with long names.
	(*) Brought mead value in line with other drinks.
	(*) Properly respected complete ocean edge minimum settings of 1 and 2 during world generation.
	(*) Added a mitigation for underground feature save corruption.
	(*) Fixed some sort issues with lua for RNG stability.

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Release notes for 53.06 (November 24, 2025):

Continuing to add improvements to the Siege Update.  Some sources of siege freezes/lag are gone, and the invaders should be a bit smarter with more active rams.  Some new graphics tweaks, and a new song, "Nabidas"!  The problem with inter-party fighting in adventure mode on ambush is fixed.

Siege updates
	(*) Fixed slowdown associated with invaders trying to break through certain floors from below.
	(*) Made builders always try to connect staircases even if the main siege path has changed.
	(*) Fixed issue causing siege path to sometimes reset if it required both miners and builders.
	(*) Fixed issue causing battering ram pathing spam.
	(*) Added some more pathing spam prevention to invader planning.
	(*) Made building invaders give up on stale irrelevant far away build jobs.
	(*) Improved siege composition to stop overemphasis on heavily armored unskilled invaders.
	(*) Fixed some exploration behavior that got invaders stuck in trees too often.
	(*) Made rams more active.

Audio
	(*) New song "Nabidas" plays in any context.

Graphics
	(*) Updated dwarf and human skin tones/eyes in full body pictures.
	(*) Blind cave ogre fingers and toes properly represented.
	(*) Updated snail people graphics.
	(*) Updated gem graphics.
	(*) Updated jeweler's workshop graphics.
	(*) Added palettes for leather and skins.
	(*) Creatures without corpse pictures show a skeleton or liquid blob.
	(*) Centered cave swallow and serpent person images and fixed serpent person corpse image.

General updates
	(*) Stopped adventure mode party members from feeling instinctual need to hunt and kill other party members when ambushed by wild animals.
	(*) Stopped glob spitting procedural creatures from spitting unknown material rather than poison.
	(*) Fixed issue that could cause adventure mode bandit harassment from ending prematurely.
	(*) Added more medical job exemptions to mount-being-controlled-by-rider rule.
	(*) Stopped ghosts that return from the dead twice from reporting an improper location as the site of the return.

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Release notes for 53.05 (November 18, 2025):

General updates
	(*) Fixed crash with animal domestication status sorting
	(*) Fixed happiness sorting

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Release notes for 53.04 (November 17, 2025):

Continuing to improve the Siege Update.  You can now view and set the status of your siege engines from a centralized tab.  Lots of improvement for invader AI, and ogres look properly scary now.  There are also some general improvements to item pictures, as well as various stability fixes.

Siege updates
	(*) Randomized attack times throughout a given season.
	(*) Added siege engines to Places.
	(*) Fixed some issues with invader building targeting.
	(*) Fixed issue causing humans and elves to sometimes be unable to send serious attacks.
	(*) Fixed an issue causing more brazen thieves to not have their support groups.
	(*) Fixed issue stopping beasts from exploring the map.
	(*) Stopped immediate fleeing of non-ranged support groups.
	(*) Made support groups want to leave soon after the group being supported is done or aborts.
	(*) Ogres and blind cave ogres have new graphics, including respect of blocks and great picks.
	(*) Fixed error making certain creatures like ogres appear with incorrect ages.
	(*) Fixed issue causing catapult/ballista firing job not to cancel when requested.
	(*) Fixed catapult and ballista hover instructions.

General updates
	(*) Updated various item graphics.
	(*) Fixed occasional crash in the justice screen.
	(*) Fixed justice menu in Classic Mode.
	(*) Fixed potential crash from constructed walls without materials.
	(*) Fixed potential load crash from corrupt strings.
	(*) Fixed issue causing necromancers to always have summons.
	(*) Fixed lua type issue with world gen seeds.
	(*) Fixed issue with kitchen ingredient hash.
	(*) Made multithreading option save after choice during popup.
	(*) Fixed issue with identity selection of infiltrators versus buildings available for visitors.
	(*) Some additional stability changes.

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Release notes for 53.03 (November 10, 2025):

Here are some more fixes for the Siege Update.

(*) Fixed crash when loading certain historical figures from the disk.
(*) Fixed an occasional crash when doing multi-stage construction.
(*) Fixed issue where battering ram operators could get stuck in ground when the ram turns.
(*) Stopped brewing jobs from searching for improper items.
(*) Stopped babies born in fort from worshipping extra deities.

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Release notes for 53.02 (November 4, 2025):

Here's some cleanup for the Siege Update to fix a few issues.

General updates
	(*) Hospital patients and babies don't shut off the brains of people carrying them, again.
	(*) Made siege engine operators leave their engines when not commanded to be there.
	(*) Added practice fire mode for siege engines.
	(*) Fixed a crash if world population is uncapped.
	(*) Corrected minor issues with siege engine target selection and skill use.
	(*) Stopped wagon goods from creating incorrect transparent pixels in wagon.
	(*) Fixed typo with some plurals.

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Release notes for 53.01 (November 3, 2025):

This is the Siege Update.  Invaders should cause some more trouble now.  Aside from a few minor things mentioned below, you don't have to create a new fort or world for this update.

We've done about half of the possible changes we were contemplating on the roadmap and we will certainly be doing some more, especially the magical stuff, as work continues.  This update is a nice self-contained improvement for regular siege behavior, so we're posting it without further delay.

Siege update - Attack
	(*) Invaders can build stairs and floors.
	(*) Invaders can break down constructions and many blocking buildings
	(*) Invaders can bring battering rams to bash through constructions and buildings.
	(*) Invaders can dig through natural walls (including trolls with great picks in new worlds.)
	(*) Invaders can be lead by historical military-related position holders.
	(*) Invaders track where deaths and trap incidents have occurred and eventually plan to avoid them.
	(*) Invader army composition is more varied, and invaders have different behavioral roles.
	(*) Invader can be more skilled and have better equipment.
	(*) Invaders can free their caged companions.
	(*) Goblins use more of the underground creatures (in new worlds.)
	(*) Flying invaders and invaders with flying mounts behavior improved.
	(*) Invaders enter over a wider edge width.
	(*) Difficulty settings allow you to change invader behavior and add restrictions.

Siege update - Defense
	(*) New bolt thrower siege engine.  These fire regular bolts and can be freely rotated to any direction if an operator can stand behind it.
	(*) Catapult and ballista siege engines are placed with fixed firing arcs but can target in the full arc rather than firing only in cardinal directions, and they can fire vertically somewhat.
	(*) Boulders thrown by catapults explode on impact, ejecting sharp rock shards.
	(*) Reinforced walls can be made with two building material and one metal per tile.  These are much more resistant to damage.
	(*) Materials of constructions and buildings matter more for damage amount.
	(*) Siege operators aren't as quick to abandon their positions.
	(*) Added siege operator default work detail (in new forts.)
	(*) Made fortress patrollers more careful to hit the nodes of their routes exactly.
	(*) War dogs should stay with their masters when their masters have squad orders.

Audio updates
	(*) New song Danger Room!  Plays in the lively tavern.

General updates
	(*) Made carrying of the wounded more reliable.
	(*) Fix for non-square worlds.
	(*) Fix for archery training so they use unquivered ammo stacks properly.
	(*) Fixed issue with cavern critters sometimes failing to enter the map.
	(*) Fixed issue causing wilderness populations to slowly drain.
	(*) Fixed necromancer experimentation.
	(*) Fixed a typo in post world generation settlement placement.
	(*) Major optimization for pond filling.
	(*) Some general optimization and memory safety cleanup.
	(*) Fixed some plural names.

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Release notes for 52.05 (October 1, 2025):

General updates
	(*) Fixed crash caused by interrogating certain suspects under certain circumstances in world generation.
	(*) Fixed crash in legends caused by missing works of art.
	(*) Fixed potential out of bounds crash setting appearance contributions from parents in world generation.
	(*) Fixed pathing issues caused by building construction on certain maps.
	(*) Fixed some other issues related to map block allocation and path connectivity.
	(*) Made training marksdwarves use the last bolt in a stack.
	(*) Allowed work orders to specific plants for milling jobs.
	(*) Stopped dyed items from triggering inappropriate export prohibitions.
	(*) Specifying wood in certain work quotas will now actually use the specified wood.
	(*) Stopped meandering behavior for animals that are trained for war or hunting.
	(*) Again allowed impaled weapons to be dropped by the wielder, leaving the item behind.
	(*) Fixed a problem causing minerals to not show up in some mods.
	(*) Fixed issues with blinding and necrosis item powers in scripts.
	(*) Increased world generation stability.
	(*) Fixed problem with material initialization causing unpredictable problems.

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Release notes for 52.04 (August 28, 2025):

Here's a release to fix issues with armies/squads traveling, and some others.

General updates
	(*) Fixed issue with squads/armies breaking into groups and not rejoining.
	(*) Mod upload doesn't clobber info.txt.
	(*) Fixes a crash when choosing clothing sizes in workshop.
	(*) Fixed out-of-bounds error in army processing.
	(*) Fixed out-of-bounds error in transformed units.
	(*) Fixed armies deleting items improperly.
	(*) Fixes a potential crash in wrestling.
	(*) Fixed issue with plant processing job specifiers being ignored.
	(*) Mill job plant can be specified.
	(*) Makes the "placing lakes and minerals" stage of worldgen significantly faster.
	(*) Moods using bars try to use metal now.
	(*) Animal people no longer inherit meandering from their base creature.

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Release notes for 52.03 (August 7, 2025):

Here is a release to continue to stabilize the lua update.  There are several regular fixes as well, listed below in the patch notes.

Also, we have some dye improvements for you!  You can now mix dyes to produce a variety of colors, and you can tint with dyes to mix the natural color of the material and the color of the dye during the dyeing process.  If you make a new world, you'll also have access to some additional outdoor plant dyes.  Leather can now be dyed, and there are some new stockpile controls to help you manage all of the new stuff.

If you want to see your dwarves in their new outfits after you've made some shiny clothes, there's the existing preference setting to show their dyed outfits rather than coloring them by profession.

Dye improvements
	(*) Added dye mixing.
	(*) Added dyeing of leather.
	(*) Added partial dyeing of items (tinting).
	(*) Added 60+ new outdoor plant dyes (in new worlds).
	(*) Leather, cloth, armor, and finished goods stockpiles can now filter by color and dye status.
	(*) Plant processing and extraction jobs can have a specific plant set.
	(*) Added natural colors to undyed cloth, thread, and leather descriptions.
	(*) Added dye color to dye descriptions.

Modding and lua updates
	(*) Mods in mod_upload are now sorted (first by ID, then name, then numeric version, then description).
	(*) The "delete" buttons for saves have been replaced with a "Files" button, which, when clicked, gives the previous menu (with a warning that "Delete" is permanent and instant) with an extra button that opens the saves folder (Windows).
	(*) You may click on mods in the various mod lists to open their folder (Windows).
	(*) Added logging for missing PERMITTED_REACTION and PERMITTED_BUILDING objects.
	(*) Reactions associated to entities that use plant reagents will check that the entity has those plants when making powder list (reaction products are not checked.)
	(*) Changed how duplicate object message boxes work.
	(*) Possible improvement to Linux message boxes.
	(*) Added DYER to list of hard-coded buildings permitted for reactions.
	(*) Nightmares no longer have bogeyman polymorph.
	(*) Fixed angel sphere descriptions.
	(*) Fixed attack tweaks and webs on forgotten beasts.
	(*) Fixed necromancer animation missing IT_MANUAL_INPUT.

General updates
	(*) Fixed issue with not all save files being copied to the folder.
	(*) Archers will no longer infinitely flick each frame between archery training and going to some other training if they have no ammo.
	(*) Fixed problem causing some armies to become stuck.
	(*) Announcement settings save properly again.
	(*) Prevented some potential crashes on startup.
	(*) Removes dead/ghostly/caged/sleeping/paralyzed units from the noble queue.
	(*) Makes nobles drop their haul items when they go to a meeting.
	(*) Noble meetings auto-rebuff if meeting data is lost.
	(*) Improved/optimized memory management for armies/army controllers.
	(*) Optimized a particularly slow army loop.
	(*) Fixed crash associated to transformed creatures with fewer body parts than their untransformed body.
	(*) Fixed the "view sheet" hotkey for items/units.
	(*) Fixed placement of titan shrines.
	(*) Made work orders reset their suggested conditions properly when details are changed.
	(*) Added some crash guards and logs for corrupted units/nemesis records.
	(*) Made default embark cloth items dyeable.
	(*) Updated historical nicknames in more places so that legends mode has them.
	(*) Adds a fix for scrolling on laptop trackpads etc.
	(*) Fixed typo in nemesis corruption message.

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Release notes for 52.02 (July 24, 2025):

General updates
	(*) Fixed hang on Linux when updating an installed mod the first time.
	(*) Removed the temporary geology variables placement layer/freq/parent from lua to prevent crashes.
	(*) Fixed crash when opening the mod menu after deleting the %appdata% folder.
	(*) Fixed a logic issue where any duplicated raws detected will cause further types of duplicated raws to no longer print.
	(*) Init files are loaded from the game folder first so that updates always apply properly.
	(*) The game now checks for prefs/arena.txt and prefs/colors.txt.
	(*) Added more cases of auto-toggling portable mode if something fails to save.

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Release notes for 52.01 (July 21, 2025):

This version introduces lua scripting.  Right now, this affects procedural object generation, like the forgotten beasts, divine curses (vampires and werebeasts), divine items, necromancers and their lieutenants and experiments, evil weather, and so forth.  For the last fifteen years or so, all of these things have been hard-coded in Dwarf Fortress, inaccessible to modders.  Now the algorithms and data are available for modding.  Scripting will come to encompass more hard-coded features of the game as we proceed.

The relevant scripts establishing the vanilla procedural objects are in data/vanilla/vanilla_procedural.  These scripts are structured in the same way as a mod, like the rest of the data/vanilla content, so you can use it as an example for your mods.  The mod should have an init.lua file, but whether or not you organize further scripts and folders is up to you (the vanilla 'mod' has a generators folder with several scripts and a few subfolders).

General updates
	(*) Added lua scripting for procedural objects.
	(*) Fixed a crash related to personality testing of soulless creatures during conversation.
	(*) Made the legends mode creature list searchable by species and interaction name.
	(*) Repaired the <> buttons for Z switching after some strange behavior.

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Release notes for 51.13 (June 27, 2025):

General updates
	(*) Fixed a timing error introduced by ammo loading that caused many actions to be performed in slow motion, leading to all of the dwarves dying over a long period as drinking could not catch up with thirst.
	(*) Adventurer can wait when under attack while nocking or loading.

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Release notes for 51.12 (June 26, 2025):

Ranged weapon update
	(*) Stopped ranged soldiers from aggressively entering melee combat when out of ammo.
	(*) Made ranged units step away from close enemies and try to use any nearby fortifications.
	(*) Ranged attackers can aim at specific body parts.
	(*) Added loading and nocking states and actions for ranged weapons.
	(*) Made firing take much less time than loading.
	(*) Differentiated shooting and post-shot recovery times.
	(*) Added weapon-specific attribute and skill effects for aiming and delays.
	(*) Can set ammunition, food, and drink assignments for squads.
	(*) Fixed various issues with extra ammo being kept in quivers and ammo not being picked up.

New graphics
	(*) Added colorful forgotten beasts and titans.

General updates
	(*) Dwarves that meet with misfortune lose their room assignments properly.
	(*) Changed how item deletion works to fix some army crashes.
	(*) Stopped crash from unspecified inorganic dusts.
	(*) Stopped keyboard cursor from skipping large distances when scroll distance is larger than 1.
	(*) Made modded night trolls appear even when no night trolls are generated.
	(*) Made NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN/RUST add/remove syndromes work properly.
	(*) Stopped requiring music and sound definitions to load saves (makes classic saves compatible again).


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Release notes for 51.11 (April 20, 2025):

Fortress mode
	(*) People that leave the map no longer lose their room ownership associations
	(*) Stopped immigrants from losing their religions and some other affiliations
	(*) Added settings to customize keyboard scroll amounts
	(*) Turned off underground humanoid invasions until they are fixed
	(*) Add grazer text to creatures in unit selectors
	(*) Setting somebody to a work detail now properly disables others not in the detail
	(*) Removed ramp spaces above non-ramp constructions if the constructions are placed on ramps

New graphics
	(*) Differentiated metal caps from wood/bone/leather/shell/woven caps in portraits
	(*) Images for weapon items that are artifacts / special materials

General updates
	(*) Stopped certain interaction of ice and constructions from creating void tiles
	(*) Made cave-ins happen more reliably with constructions vs frozen liquids
	(*) Stopped frozen squares revealed under removed constructions from lingering
	(*) Shrubs covered with frozen water no longer lose their species when they unthaw

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Release notes for 51.10 (April 3, 2025):

(*) Fixed up some issues with the pathing overflow changes.
(*) Readded the only-selected-do-this / everybody-does-this toggle when the first or last dwarf is added/removed from a work detail.

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Release notes for 51.09 (April 2, 2025):

Another routine patch for the game.

Fortress mode
	(*) Stopped dwarves from using forbidden and uncompleted coffins for burial
	(*) Stopped greyed out "everybody does this" for mining/hunting/chopping labors from being pressable
	(*) Stopped Mining, Woodcutting, Hunting from being able to be assigned to the same dwarf
	(*) Stopped reclaimed/unretired forts with magma features from having magma overflows
	(*) Stopped unretired forts from being marked as capitals
	(*) Reordering manager work orders no longer causes display issues in workshop view sheet
	(*) Can now set pressure plates to include zero depth for water/magma
	(*) Made squad scrollbar responsive to clicks
	(*) Fixed custom difficulty settings for irritation in the embark screen
	(*) Random improvements are no longer applied instantly to fort-made crafts
	(*) Fixed typo on squad equipment assignment screen

Adventure mode
	(*) Made adventure mode respect manual disabling of sound in init file

General updates
	(*) Fixed pathing overflow errors in very large and/or twisty forts

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Release notes for 51.08 (March 13, 2025):

Fixed an input problem related to popups in adventure mode travel.

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Release notes for 51.07 (March 12, 2025):

Continuing along with the routine patches after the adventure mode release.

Fortress mode
	(*) Allowed use of last material when placing simple one-stage buildings and constructions
	(*) Stopped land holders without a residence from automatically moving to and gumming up capitals
	(*) Animals marked for slaughter and then assigned as war animal pets are now unmarked for slaughter
	(*) Stopped hidden zones in NPC fortresses on reclaims from clouding information in tomb and dungeon sheets
	(*) Work orders: changed "stone stones" to "stone boulders" and "stones" to "boulders", because they can be made from ice

Adventure mode
	(*) Allowed ordinary destiny adventurers to start anywhere in their civilization
	(*) Handled infinite loop having to do with sites near oceans
	(*) Unstackable items no longer stacked in character creation
	(*) Movement blocking announcements are displayed during travel properly
	(*) FPS display no longer blocks the speed readout
	(*) Potential containers are no longer shown with nonsense directions when placing items
	(*) Classic combat indicators are displayed in the correct position
	(*) Changes to fort mode sound level sliders no longer affect adv mode sound levels

General updates
	(*) Stopped projectiles and falling creatures from falling through thin floors if they hit a sideways obstacle first
	(*) Creatures with multigrasp weapons should no longer be generated with shields
	(*) Fixed potential troublesome loop involving stone inclusion loops
	(*) Creatures without exertion have their exertion set to zero
	(*) Handled situation where FPS caps could underflow
	(*) Fixed potential overflow in corpse sizes

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Release notes for 51.06 (February 26, 2025):

Fortress mode
	(*) Made some strange mood dwarves not get stuck at workshop selection stage
	(*) Stopped people from claiming and using inactive bedroom zones
	(*) Stopped the dead from claiming inactive tomb zones
	(*) Decreased prepared food item value
	(*) Made custom announcement settings load properly
	(*) Added setting to turn off visible rectangle dimensions
	(*) Added crash safeguards to report popups and other widgets
	(*) Fixed seed cap limit and made deletion of seeds over cap respect planting status

Adventure mode
	(*) Added escape/rbut to leave adventurer difficulty selection
	(*) Fixed issue with adventurer race selection lists not being unpopulated on exit
	(*) Fixed buffer overrun involving tents
	(*) Fixed crash related to site plot use allocations
	(*) Added highlight to adventurer destiny selection in Classic mode

General updates
	(*) Added crash safeguard for syndromes
	(*) Updated some metal elasticities
	(*) Fixed graphics for tiger, whale, and whitetip reef sharks

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Release notes for 51.05 (February 12, 2025):

Fortress mode
	(*) Fixed crash on justice screen and adjusted convicts menu position
	(*) Fixed crash relating to empty work details list
	(*) When choosing rectangles, shows dimension of rectangle
	(*) Allowed numbers and symbols in unit list search

Adventure mode
	(*) Display speed and gait and momentum on main screen
	(*) Summoning abilities should work now
	(*) Stopped creating beast rumors (and thereby kill quests) for civilized predator/subterranean creatures (new worlds only)
	(*) Added button to go back to destiny/difficulty selection from character creator
	(*) Classic mode travel maps now show up properly

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Tree growth pictures (leaves, flowers, fruit, etc.)
	(*) Added zombie syndrome class to husks so they'll display properly (new worlds only)
	(*) Option to print only periods for the ground in Classic mode returns

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Release notes for 51.01 (January 23, 2025):

Adventure mode graphics and UI update.

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Release notes for 50.15 (December 12, 2024):

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Expanded graphics for containers
	(*) Added ability to view worn clothing by dye or by profession
	(*) Shields in right arms displayed in correct order

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash in Linux related to object pools

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Added some safeguards to ages of generated migrant children
	(*) Made tutorial close button behave consistently when tutorial is minimized
	(*) Made the agitation decay setting work properly
	(*) Removed case sensitivity on unit filters
	(*) Fixed some issues with list sorting
	(*) Fixed crash related to possible null building in sheets
	(*) Fixed a crash with creature variation mods
	(*) Fixed some threading issues in unit loops
	(*) Fixed problem with mod version compatibility setting
	(*) Fixed command line world generation
	(*) Made game respect caste population ratio in more places
	(*) Fixed some possible null pointer references
	(*) Added more information to crash log headers

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Release notes for 50.14 (September 19, 2024):

Major bug fixes
	(*) Linux trainer crash fixed (again)
	(*) Added crash guard for bad civilian alert

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Dwarves/humans/elves/goblins/kobolds have child and baby images, new equipment, and palette support
	(*) Garden and crop plants have more images
	(*) Mandible portrait fixed for experiments

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Good/bad thoughts about tombs work
	(*) Poisonous forgotten beasts work more reliably
	(*) Various minor tweaks to input/layout
	(*) Fixed drinks being destroyed on unretire
	(*) Fixed a few broken sorts

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Release notes for 50.13 (April 23, 2024):

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed statue-related crash
	(*) Fixed syndrome-related crash
	(*) Fixed temperature-related crash
	(*) Fixed crash from empty kitchen menu
	(*) Fixed multi-kill squad orders
	(*) Fixed world gen crash from the appointing of chefs by demon rulers that had been influenced by outside reading materials on decorum and leisure time
	
Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Portraits!
	(*) Centered some creatures that were printing off-center

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Large gems and gem crafts should be produced properly by gem cutting jobs again
	(*) Fixed cave adaptation
	(*) Fixed problem with numbers in wild creature clusters
	(*) SELECT_GROWTH and SELECT_MATERIAL available in plant modding

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Release notes for 50.12 (March 6, 2024):

New stuff
	(*) Ability to sort the lists from the creature/task menus
	(*) Kitchen interface sorting and searching
	(*) Work detail sorting and searching
	(*) Can edit and restore default work details
	(*) Saves can be sorted by world and folder on the title screen
	(*) Keyboard support for many unit lists
	(*) Ability to designate burrows over multiple Z levels

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed a few crashes relating to pregnancy
	(*) Fixed save corruption related to bad job ids
	(*) Fixed crash related to language mods
	(*) Goblins should have trolls again, and some additional friends (new worlds only)
	(*) Vampires in forts should hide properly

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Additional statue graphics
	(*) Fixed some classic building interface lights

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Squad assignment now lists already-assigned units last
	(*) Fixed error in calculation of bridge support
	(*) Fixed issue in how environment-appropriate work animals are selected for visiting fortress
	(*) Fixed missing autopause tooltip
	(*) Additional miscellanous optimizations
	(*) Fixed minor issue with forest variant display
	(*) Fixed clipping issue on unit sheets
	(*) Fixed minor issue with cage contents display
	(*) Fixed pet list display on unit sheet rarely skipping a pet
	(*) Llamas are pack animals now

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Release notes for 50.11 (October 3, 2023):

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash on linux related to game log threading
	(*) Fixed broken tutorial on click workshop step
	(*) Stopped tutorial prompt in tiny worlds where tutorial is invalid
	(*) Cleaned up a source of squad schedule corruption
	(*) Made classic graphics setting work properly on restart (hopefully for real this time!)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed potential problem with doctors vs. multiple hospitals
	(*) Ballista arrows etc. that chop down trees now count for treecap diplomacy
	(*) Image sets with non-uniform types now properly display as having a variety of types
	(*) Generic improvements now properly display "made a masterful improvement" in histories
	(*) Allowed single pair dances to generate properly
	(*) Fixed potential minor oddity involving animal placement

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Release notes for 50.10 (September 12, 2023):

New stuff
	(*) Can view all alerts, including old ones that have been dismissed
	(*) Can view combat reports from creature sheets
	(*) Can pause combat reports whenever new events are added
	(*) Added crash logging

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash from removing zone with assigned unit
	(*) Fixed multithreading crash related to announcements
	(*) Fixed a potential crash issue with monarch arrival and made them provide more wagons properly
	(*) Fixed potential crash related to certain traveling creatures
	(*) Ammo assignments are updated properly when changing uniforms
	(*) Removed ownership of food items whenever they are dropped (stops rotten food hoarding in rooms)

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) New stone ramp graphics

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made creatures more able to get out of trees
	(*) Sped up mid-level map retrieval (helps slowdowns on large world embarks)
	(*) Optimized relationship lookup for socializing dwarves
	(*) Fixed out of bounds issue with wheelbarrows
	(*) Stopped music mods from throwing error when making a new world
	(*) Fixed crash when there's an invalid language (mods)
	(*) Made broker leave depot when last wagon leaves instead of first

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Release notes for 50.09 (June 28, 2023):

New stuff
	(*) Updated to SDL2 and made many surrounding changes.  Various performance gains!
	(*) Experimental multithreading is available from game settings.

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Some more trees now have individual graphics (maple, willow, cedar, larch, kapok, papaya, macademia.)

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Release notes for 50.08 (May 2, 2023):

New stuff
	(*) XML export is back in legends mode.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Cleaned out lingering data from autosaves and manual saves that could cause corruption if multiple worlds were active.

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Added graphics for many child/baby creatures.
	(*) Added hatchling state for dragons.
	(*) Added crop/sprout pictures for outdoor plants.
	(*) Added outdoor sapling graphics.
	(*) Added palettized boulders.
	(*) Ice wall graphics updated.
	(*) Smooth ice wall graphics added.
	(*) Added more fortification images to indicate direction and material.

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped dwarves without working grasps from trying to get goblets to drink, failing, and dying of thirst.
	(*) Allowed most water-based jobs that use buckets to use partially-filled water buckets in addition to empty buckets.
	(*) Made stocks screen open faster.
	(*) Made all stockpiles not include the refuse option.
	(*) Stopped refuse piles that also have armor/finished good settings from degrading contents.


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Release notes for 50.07 (February 7, 2023):

Major bug fixes
	(*) Made confirm button work when there are embark warnings.

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Release notes for 50.06 (February 6, 2023):

New stuff
	(*) Arena mode is back, with an updated interface.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped new timelines from always saving into region1.
	(*) Fixed crash when copying trade information like ownership on certain items.
	(*) Fixed crash from giant/diagonal activity zones.

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Underground crops now have sprouting textures.
	(*) Added planted soil texture and updated farmplot texture.
	(*) Fixed list icons for several creatures.
	(*) Updated designation textures.
	(*) Updated statue textures.

Audio additions/changes
	(*) Made ambiences continue from where they left off rather than starting at the beginning each time.
	(*) Now only plays a few random cards for a song on subsequent playthroughs rather than playing them in order each time.
	(*) Added neutral cavern ambience.
 	(*) Replaced wild ambience with the biome-specific ambiences (and the existing wild sounds).
	(*) Updated thunderstorm ambience.

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped dragons and other megabeasts from appearing as relatives of random dwarves in the fort.
	(*) Allowed emotionless creatures to satisfy needs if they still have them.
	(*) Added a few additional embark warnings.
	(*) Added culling of certain dead units to help with performance.
	(*) Made invader summons parts of the invasion.

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Release notes for 50.05 (January 5, 2023):

Welcome to Putnam, who started this year and prepared this important fix for a nasty save corruption bug.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed saved corruption caused by certain armies bringing uninitialized protocreatures instead of monsters

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Sped up line-of-sight code
	(*) Bees no longer included in food count


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Release notes for 50.04 (December 22, 2022):

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Can now swap back and forth from Classic tile mode (in video settings.)
	(*) Graphics for some picked outdoor plants.
	(*) Updated engraved walls.
	(*) Added some custom symbols.

Audio additions/changes
	(*) Added a music frequency option in the audio settings (default 3-5 minutes, can be set from 10 minutes to 10 seconds.)
	(*) Made outdoor ambiences alternate between being more active and a few neutral wind ambiences.
	(*) Made the wild ambience use some randomly spaced howls and giant footsteps.
	(*) Updated trade depot ambience.

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Ability to add/remove all civilians/soldiers from a burrow
	(*) Can advance the game one frame (default key = period)
	(*) Made assigning multiple squad positions continue to position 10 instead of stopping at 9

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Release notes for 50.03 (December 12, 2022):

One more quick release to handle additional stability issues.  This version also includes 72 new werebeast tiles, some changes to ambience, and a start to quality of life additions with the ability to select more materials at once when building constructions.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed save corruption from manual saves with case mismatch.
	(*) Fixed crash when sorting pets/livestock by domestication status.
	(*) Fixed crash when removing burrows from a scrollable burrow list.
	(*) Fixed crash related to storing objects in recently deleted location zones.
	(*) Fixed crash on squad equipment screen when there are multiple traveling squads.
	(*) Fixed crash related to removing objects from display cases/pedestals.
	(*) Fixed crash from looking at Groups for certain consorts.

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) New graphics for werebeasts.

Audio additions/changes
	(*) Updated forest, grassland, rainforest, siege ambiences.
	(*) Added new wild ambience, moved old wild ambience to terrifying areas.
	(*) Replaced siege horns with something less intense.

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Added ability to add/remove every item of a given material when building structures that require multiple items.
	(*) Holding a navigation key no longer recenters the screen during string entry.
	(*) Now displays remove construction designation when designated instead of requiring unpause.

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Release notes for 50.02 (December 8, 2022):

Quick release mainly to handle a widescreen crash and some menu issues there.  With that stabilized, we'll be able to start properly addressing the reports and feedback we've collected for a bulkier patch next.  Thanks for a wonderful launch!

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash from compressed menu lists (e.g. workshop assignment) on widescreen default settings
	(*) Changed init option for interface pixel width to be a percentage (to fix many widescreen menu issues)
	(*) Stopped fishing from hugely amplifying creature agitation in the wilds (zeroed general agitation level in old saves)

Graphics additions/changes
	(*) Improved images for planned walls, floors, and fortifications
	(*) Updated doors, hatches, chests, and other containers so that palettes will affect handles and other add-ons if the mods desire it, but made the default behavior consistently not palettize these add-ons
	(*) Missing occupied animal trap images included

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Release notes for 50.01 (December 6, 2022):

Here's the first Premium release!  There are too many changes to list, but we'll start keeping up the change log again now.

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Release notes for 0.47.05 (January 28, 2021):

Here's an interim release - this is a fixer-upper for the old version, and not related at all to the new graphical stuff.  This isn't meant to address everything of course, or even most things, and we'll be cleaning up a lot more bugs and issues for the Premium release itself.  This one gets rid of some long-standing crashes and also attempts to address most of what we learned from the stress discussion from the forum.  There are still a few unmet needs (which don't contribute much to stress, but are an eyesore), and a few outstanding ideas related to winning sieges, ending wars and unattended children, but we'll need larger changes there that are better integrated with the Premium work.

It's always a little weird splitting the bug fixes into the two major/minor categories, but especially here, where the stress changes add up to a lot, so the division below is particularly arbitrary on that score.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed w.g. crash related to dark fortress civs having fixed positions not held by demons
	(*) Fixed zero-size creature crash
	(*) Fixed off-site werebirth crash
	(*) Stopped visitors from siding against fort in any conflict where the fort's tame megabeasts are involved
	(*) Made cave adaption negative effects less frequent
	(*) Made people get used to seeing dead bodies
	(*) Stopped corpse raising, shapeshifting and non-living non-vampire visitors
	(*) Made basic friendships easier to form for slow-to-love people

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made people that work outside a lot get used to bad weather
	(*) Made valuable food satisfy good meal thought in addition to preferences
	(*) Added some additional dwarf chat types to meet some other needs and reduce stress
	(*) Stopped many minor thoughts from forming memories
	(*) Removed stress from migrants (e.g. ones from old forts)
	(*) Vengefulness is no longer stressful (as it was mainly related to defending others from attacking animals)
	(*) Changed balance of migrant professions
	(*) Patched one form of military item corruption on load (root cause not identified)
	(*) Expulsion exception 'child not present' now only applies to minor children
	(*) Fixed MUNDANE and HAS_ANY_CAN_SWIM for interactions/transformations

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Release notes for 0.47.04 (February 29, 2020):

Our second leap day release!  Fixes old and new this time.  From the new category, aside from crashes, marriages were being dissolved frequently and friendly visiting experiments were breaking too much furniture.  Among the older bugs fixed, we've got the one where people could teleport through walls while fighting or sparring, a loyalty cascade civil war issue, and a creature/item duplication bugs that was corrupting saves.

Barring sudden issues, this will be the final bug-fix release before we get the code work started on the graphical version.  There's a lot left to fix before that version is ready to be released, and we'll be doing parallel bug fix releases as the graphics stuff progresses.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed w.g. crash related to society infiltration
	(*) Fixed w.g. crash related to variable position creation
	(*) Fixed crash involving misbehaving roads
	(*) Fixed loyalty cascade due to death of questers etc. that had positive relationships with fort dwarves
	(*) Stopped charge collisions from teleporting people through walls
	(*) Fixed save corruption/duplication related to fort/adv retirement
	(*) Stopped dwarves from silently dissolving their marriages when they make a close friend
	(*) Stopped large visitors and residents from seeking and destroying buildings even if they do so as invaders
	(*) Stopped overwide shrines in npc forts from flooding the underground
	(*) Fixed issue causing broken castle maps

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped pantheons of mortal races from frequently having very high numbers of deities
	(*) Fixed summon effects for small-sized creatures
	(*) Removed building destroyer/trample/trapavoid from smaller procedural creatures
	(*) Made divorce thought appear properly
	(*) Added stone altar building job
	(*) Fixed broken reunion historical entry
	(*) Removed various forgotten beast traits from experiments
	(*) Corrected issue with rumor system
	(*) Made item creation interactions work harder to select a material if none is provided

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Release notes for 0.47.03 (February 16, 2020):

Here's another bug-fix release, ranging into some older issues as well.  There's been some work on the raid crash/corruption problem, though I suspect that is ongoing - hopefully the frequency is lessened.  I've also done a few quick changes to socializing and stress, but that's a longer project as well.  Dwarves clump now in zones and taverns, which should help with the friendship rate, and I've made the most stressable dwarves a little more fixable.  One of the major causes of loyalty spirals/civil wars has been handled, and I did some work with hospital rest and diagnosis problems.

Reminder:  We'll start coding on the graphical version in a few weeks.  We'll still have these bug-fix releases periodically, though there will be an initial gap of some time while I get the core framework done to the point where the artists can use it.  But there should be at least one more bug-fix release around the change of the month before that work begins.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Cleaned up equipment tracking issue for returning fort-mode raiders
	(*) Made historical spies drop possibly divisive cover identities when arriving as regular fort citizens
	(*) Stopped patients that have been in traction for a week from requiring diagnosis repeatedly
	(*) Made dwarves inside hospitals return to rest if rest is cancelled
	(*) Supported doctor's guildhall to fix broken petitions
	(*) Fixed freeze related to forbidding doors/hatches
	(*) Fixed crash related to starting modded fort mode critters with natural skills
	(*) Stopped crash related to artifacts/books placed on adv pack animals
	(*) Fixed crash related to deleting zones in adv mode site planning
	(*) Fixed unretirement crash in adv mode
	(*) Fixed bug causing you to become a different historical figure when unretiring
	(*) Fixed w.g. crash related to imprisonment by civilizations that have lost their capitals

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Allowed placement of altars in fort mode (they have no specific function yet)
	(*) Added person-seeking behavior to socialize activity and to jobless milling about in zones
	(*) Changed stress calculation for high vulnerability personalities
	(*) Made mummies control tombs more fully so allies couldn't call on zombies to fight themselves
	(*) Stopped mercenaries from being hired to attack their own forts
	(*) Fixed problem causing w.g. people to falsely befriend themselves for information
	(*) Fixed xml log for entities acquiring buildings
	(*) Fixed xml log for entities breaching the underworld

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Release notes for 0.47.02 (February 6, 2020):

This is the first bug-fix release, focusing on newly introduced problems.  Most notably, world gen crashes should happen less often, having babies should cause less trouble, and some adventure mode problems with quests and mounts should be fixed.  We'll continue on with this process, working in some older bugs for next time as well.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash from starting in adventure mode as an outsider
	(*) Fixed world gen crash involving civs attacking ruins that still had livestock
	(*) Fixed world gen crash involving criminals and arrest
	(*) Fixed crash from certain description strings
	(*) Fixed crash involving stressed out wilderness creatures wanting to complain to priests
	(*) Stopped carried newborns from setting their mothers' paths like riders
	(*) Stopped flying mount from taking control when it is airborne
	(*) Fixed broken hearthperson links for adventurers
	(*) Made animals follow the follow command instead of waiting forever
	(*) Fixed issues with mount movement after fast travel

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made undead riled up by dwarf raids as with normal civs
	(*) Starting dwarves pulled from underground cultures no longer start with cave adaptation
	(*) Stopped non-dwarves from doing w.g. underworld disasters
	(*) Increased werebeast triggers further to match semi-megabeasts
	(*) Took quantity into consideration in chargen equipment value
	(*) Fixed item quality interaction effect range setting
	(*) Fixed masterpiece quality error in chargen equipment value
	(*) Allowed legless animal people to pet animals
	(*) Stopped pets from dropping all packed luggage when they attack
	(*) Stopped some cases of animals being called recruits after travelling
	(*) Fixed broken scroll/expand commands in adventurer intrigue log
	(*) Stopped chargen beliefs from persisting incorrectly when certain options are selected
	(*) Fixed villain network export from legends (only works for living - no snapshots)
	(*) Changed Create New World civ number distribution (new numbers suggested by Talvieno)
	(*) Changed human 'fortress' to 'castle' to avoid confusing with dwarf fortresses
	(*) Fixed inconsistency in kill name changes
	(*) Fixed interrogator/conspirator xml
	(*) Fixed some busted world gen param newlines

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Release notes for 0.47.01 (January 29, 2020):

Here is the villains release!  There are various bits we're going to have to loop back around to after the graphics work is complete (see previous lengthy dev log), so perhaps this should be called the first villains release, or more "the guilds and temples and adventurer parties and pets release which also has artifact heists and extensive historical villainy, with lots of new mostly evil magical stuff", ha ha.  We will get to the fortress plots beyond artifact heists when we return, as well as the ability for the adventurer to be a villain and to investigate them more effectively.

The features are listed below.  For fortress mode, the most important new elements that will be commonly encountered are petitions for guildhalls and temples.  When enough believers or laboring dwarves are in the fort, you'll receive a petition, and it's up to you if you want to try to build the location for them or not.  To satisfy the temple petitions, you must assign a priest (the game will remind you with an announcement when your temple is ready for one, after a certain value threshold is crossed.)  The main benefits of guildhalls and priests currently is the ability of guild members to share knowledge, and of priests to give inspiring sermons and comfort stressed-out dwarves.

Less commonly, but also important, a villain may target your fortress, especially when you get up to having artifacts they might covet.  If you notice an artifact has been stolen in a non-kobold way (the announcements will be different, make sure you have a sheriff to receive the reports), you will be able to interrogate anybody about the crime - witness reports might be useful with a name, or they might just indicate the artifact is missing.  Interrogation leads to a report indicator on the left, which you can read in the usual way (with 'r'.)  This also opens up the counterintelligence screen, which will keep track of information for you.  If you manage to interrogate the handler of any treacherous dwarf, generally on a return visit, you might even get the name of their master, if they have one, or get details of other plots throughout the world, though most of them cannot impact your fort directly (yet.)

Dwarves have some more general relationship types now (especially the historical ones, who can arrive as war buddies or athletic rivals), and they can also have multiple lovers or get divorced or have children before they are married.

Most aquifers in the fort are now slower filling.  You still have to act pretty quickly (this makes them remain useful for wells and other liquid matter), but it is very possible to just wall them off or otherwise deal with the water if you are ready.  You can still place a wall on top of shallow water.  If you want an old-style aquifer, just embark where there's a "heavy aquifer."

Your fort may also be invaded by horrible things if the necromancers or demons have been entertaining themselves.

The main new bit in adventure mode is right in the beginning - well, not quite.  Don't be fooled by the first character creation screen (which is unchanged), you'll get to the good stuff right after.  There are a lot of new options there (starting background, religion, starting site selection, equipment including quality, mounts/pets), including the option to make party members, who can be from different civilization.  Mounts greatly speed up travel if everybody has one (make sure the mount is their pet.)  If you forget a mount or meet with tragedy, you can claim a new mount generally from the pastures of human cities, or wherever tame animals can be found.  You do not have to purchase them currently.  Just press 'h' near one (the same key you use to mount and lead animals.)  If the wrong party member claims it, that party member can give it to the right one as a gift (a new conversation option which can be applied to anybody.)  Pack animals (including many mounts) can also carry items.  Press 'p' to place an item on a creature.  This can greatly increase your capacity to carry food or treasure.  If you claim a pet that is unnamed, you can name them as a conversation option (with the pet.)

In adventure mode, if you have judge of intent, you'll be able to see the new readout of your conversation partner's mood/relationship with you (without that skill, you still get some basic info.)  You have the ability to interrogate people, using the persuade and intimidate skills, though this is limited now because we didn't get to most evidence.  People can confess to schemes, and sometimes that'll even be meaningful, but it's mostly a giant mush of data until we add more structure.  But it shouldn't be hard to find some even without proper story/evidence hooks - just go to a nearby castle in a human town, and some portion of the nobles and administrators there will be up to something.  But it'll be ultimately unsatisfying until we get to more.  As a small note, only confessions of schemes will show up in the new adv mode intrigue view currently (confessions of masters/handlers don't have a proper evidence link yet.)  Finally, there were a ton of existing conversation options and most are not linked to the new conversation variables (like confidence and agitation and how much they want to leave.)  But you should see them in action if you interrogate, argue about values, flatter, tell jokes or pacify.  Additionally, depending on personality, most people slowly loses patience with a conversation no matter what the subject is, unless they are kept entertained.  These ephemeral conversation values are reset every two hours, so don't worry if you lose a chance to speak to somebody at a given time.

If you want to play with divination dice, you'll need to find a pedestal with some at a shrine.  About half of the shrines should have them, though a lot of the smaller road and intersection shrines won't have room and will just have statues.  Shrines labeled in text on the travel map have the best chance, since they are large.  Temples can also have them in the basement with the relics.  To roll dice, make sure they are in your hand and 'I'nteract with them.  Rolling should be an option there.  Once you do that, the roll announcement has a lot of information.  Statues generally give some idea as to whose shrine you are at.  Shrines can be both for organized religions or generally to a deity, and both types can have divination traditions.

New stuff
	(*) Guilds organize and petition for guildhalls, guild members can do skill demonstrations
	(*) Members of organized religions can petition for temples and priesthood recognition, priests give sermons and comfort stressed dwarves
	(*) Traitor dwarves, artifact heists, interrogation for crime from the justice screen, counterintelligence readout with organization charts
	(*) Most aquifers are much slower filling
	(*) Can start with a party in adventure mode
	(*) Specify background and starting location and beliefs in adventure mode (most labor skills still meaningless)
	(*) Can start with specified equipment and pets in adventure mode
	(*) Tactical combat mode for adventurer party
	(*) Adventurer can ride mounts, place items on pack animals, lead animals, claim pets, gift pets, and name pets (rider skill matters for melee/ranged rolls currently)
	(*) Can pet animals in adventure mode
	(*) Addition mood information in adventure mode conversations, (simple) interrogation options, flattery, joke-telling, calming remarks, (very simple) sermons
	(*) Simple intrigue display with actors and charts discovered in interrogation in adventure mode (in 'Q')
	(*) Divination shrines with dice and various effects
	(*) Lots of new intermediate positions (mostly without new mechanics) in entities (chamberlains etc.)
	(*) Alliances against world-ending threats in world generation
	(*) Various villainous activity in world generation, in play off-site, and (more limited) in fort mode, world generation surveillance, interrogation and punishment.  Historical plots include theft, sabotage, abduction, assassination, coups, corrupt advancement promises, embezzlement, starting wars, and framing enemies.
	(*) Romantic relationship changes (multiple lovers, affairs, children outside marriage, divorces, etc.) as well as other relationship changes and details (friendship/rival types, variables like trust, respect and loyalty)
	(*) Merchant companies, military orders and mercenary companies, craft guilds in world generation
	(*) Individual mercenaries and companies can upgrade their equipment, and richer world gen people can purchase houses and build up their own city towers
	(*) Various religious interactions (shrine building, sermons, persecution) in world generation, lots of religious demographics tracking which influences shrine creation, religious sites and sermons influencing membership numbers, holy cities and a few levels of priest
	(*) Various horrifying new necromancer/mummy/demon/vampire etc. matter - snow-balling zombie invasions, multiple experiment types, intelligent undead lieutenants with new powers, nightmarish summons, spreading evil zones, promises of immortality in villainous plots
	(*) Dwarves can trigger dig-deep disasters in world generation, with repercussions coming to other sites, including fort mode
	(*) Some new locations, some map details still in-progress, monasteries, private city towers, guildhalls, merchant counting houses, forts (bandits and mercenaries), castles have returned (basically unchanged), better necromancer towers and simple outlying buildings

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed visitor crash related to broken meetings
	(*) Fixed crash related to broken crimes and travelers/sent-away dwarves

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Changed werecreature trigger condition
	(*) Bogeyman limited to a few regions and given new powers
	(*) Fixed error where bandit groups would be deleted prematurely in worldgen
	(*) Fixed size issue with certain werecreatures
	(*) Fixed bug where only last half of performance sentence was shown
	(*) Fixed problem where biome and landmass names were sometimes split on the same biome/landmass

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Release notes for 0.44.12 (July 7, 2018):

Just some cleaning before we embark on the villain changes.  There's a new offloading popup that can come up on the season change if you have enough activity in your world; it can take a little time in larger worlds, but that's all time that is no longer intermittent lag and it's also less time overall due to reduced redundancies.  If you have an autosave, the offload will be incorporated into that, so autosaves might seem slightly longer (if so, you are also getting the same lag reduction.)

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash from corrupted units
	(*) Made baron elevate to count properly
	(*) Removed intermittent lag from off-site conceptions and births (added seasonal unit offloading)
	(*) Made squad orders respect successful site conquest (so new members don't try to reconquer)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed broken display for multiple adventurer agreements
	(*) Show proper mission text for messengers instead of No Job
	(*) Made tantruming dwarves cancel activities
	(*) Controlled how market links are formed somewhat

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Release notes for 0.44.11 (June 23, 2018):

There are now peaceful and not-so-peaceful ways of expanding your influence in the world.  Once a site becomes linked to you (through prosperity or by conquest; you'll see a message), you can send a messenger there to request workers, or send dwarves from the fort out to such sites (from v-p).  This only works on historical figures, so you might find you don't have off-site workers available at first, though some sites do have them.  This release should also improve the issues dwarves were having with negative thoughts, and they can also now experience permanent changes in their personalities and intellectual values due to events in their lives.

Note: Insurrections were such a problem in sites that I had to turn them off for your fortress's holdings; we'll get back to that later.  It wasn't even the insurrections, really; the dwarves were bailing on the occupation immediately because they were afraid of insurrections.

New stuff
	(*) Your civilization will send out groups to found sites near prosperous fortresses
	(*) Existing sites near prosperous fortresses will associate themselves to those fortresses
	(*) Added ability to take over sites and install administrators
	(*) Can view your new holdings from the 'c' screen
	(*) Can send workers off-site and send out messengers to request their return
	(*) Mulling over long-term memories can lead to shifts in intellectual values and personality changes

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed hauling route crash
	(*) Fixed problem causing county stage to be skipped in noble elevation
	(*) Stopped all visiting barons from being elevated along with your baron
	(*) Changed horror calculation from seeing a dead body
	(*) Stopped similar memories close in time from taking all the memory space
	(*) Stopped stuttering lag from repeated vegetation connectivity checks

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Camping refugees will be awake during the day now

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Release notes for 0.44.10 (May 5, 2018):

Here's our next effort, which should change the general situation regarding the (often inebriated) fortress dwarves and their lack of apparent stress.  Part of this involves a new system of memories, which we'll be improving as we go now.  You'll be able to see these in thought paragraphs as they are remembered, so don't worry if they aren't apparent at first.  There were also other problems with inebriation and overall stress balance; some of the latter will be ongoing, if we've overcorrected, as varied long-term forts are difficult to test, but we'll continue working with it.

I've updated how the adventurer information log works.  It's hopefully a bit more useful for navigation now, when it comes to adventuring and reporting back what has happened.  Old saves might not have everything linked up at first.  Hearing rumors again and so forth should make the log start to work better for them.  You can also cross narrow rivers in travel now (the ones that are jumpable or near jumpable at a sprint.)  Uncrossable rivers will display with double lines in the travel view.

New stuff
	(*) Made short and long term memories of emotions and their circumstances

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash relating to religion trying to store holy relic without a temple
	(*) Stopped inebriation personality alterations from being permanent

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Balanced stress effects
	(*) Allowed nicknaming of all buildings/zones/stockpiles
	(*) Can now zoom to item and unit for item inaccessible announcements
	(*) Added dwarf-style personality and other information in adventurer description from status screen
	(*) Updated adventurer log screen
	(*) Allowed adventurer to cross over narrow rivers in travel map
	(*) Shows status of single assigned workers in q/t workshop menus
	(*) Separated thoughts for seeing somebody die and finding the body
	(*) Changed how drunken fistfights work
	(*) Side-stepped unit load failure, creating substitute unit upon irreversible corruption
	(*) Added check for duplicate items from returning squads and others to avoid crashes/corruption

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Release notes for 0.44.09 (April 1, 2018):

And the linux freeze fix process broke projectiles.  So that's hopefully all working all around now.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Made projectiles and weapon traps work again

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Changed w.g. population calculation for conflicts

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Release notes for 0.44.08 (March 28, 2018):

This should stop Linux from freezing.  It also includes some other bug fixes that could be quickly incorporated.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped linux from freezing
	(*) Fixed crash from demanding tribute from parentless site entities
	(*) Stopped artifacts from moving out of backpack and similar when at old forts or lairs
	(*) Properly stopped imprisoned dwarves from claiming positions in fort

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made dwarves visit museums properly
	(*) Stopped every tribute rejection from being attached to your fort's history
	(*) Cleaned tribute/spoil reports between forts properly
	(*) Added military tactics and leaderships as relevant skills for squad-leading nobles/appointments
	(*) Made uniform settings copy properly when pasting schedule orders

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Release notes for 0.44.07 (March 12, 2018):

This is a stability patch for the last release.  A few raid-related crashes are fixed, as well as some strange behavior related to stolen livestock.  To get the full fix for stolen livestock, old saves will need to add [PET] to beak dogs and unicorns.  This isn't crucial; if it isn't done, those animals will no longer be stolen in that save.  But if you were experiencing the bug, the existing animals will be broken until the tag is added.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash from returning certain kinds of contained loot
	(*) Fixed crash from exploring entity-free site
	(*) Stopped certain failed tribute raids from staying out forever
	(*) Stopped certain stolen livestock from being treated like half-citizens

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed sieger behavior that caused them to mill around outside for too long
	(*) Stopped stolen livestock from being attacked after they are named
	(*) Fixed failure to give half of the one-time tribute items
	(*) Allowed military tactics as starting skill choice on embark
	(*) Corrected one-time tribute text
	(*) Made it produce a proper spoils report if only livestock are stolen

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Release notes for 0.44.06 (March 9, 2018):

Here's the first substantial update to the fortress's world map screen.  New raid options are available, and it shouldn't be hard for you to antagonize your neighbors now if that's what you want to do.  Use the 'd'etails option when preparing the raid to set what sorts of actions you'd like your raiders to perform.  Skills and equipment matter, and skills can be improved during missions.  The skill of your best tactician is important (you'll see feedback in the mission report.)  If you demand tribute on an ongoing basis and the target site agrees to your demands, you'll receive something like a merchant caravan on an annual basis a few seasons after the initial demand.  They'll drop goods off at your depot and depart.  These goods can be carried off immediately for storage, but there's a new report so you can look at a complete list of what was delivered; the same is true of spoils from raids.

A few notes on the bug fixes below:  the identity fixes won't stop bad feelings from existing conflicts in old saves.  Also in old saves, distracted animals might still appear to be broken at first, but they should sort themselves out after a bit.

New stuff
	(*) Can pillage and raze and demand tribute from other sites
	(*) Dwarves on missions can now can gain skills
	(*) Military tactics skill is now gained and matters in off-site battles

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed several problems causing the meeting queue to get gummed up
	(*) Made monster-type critters and non-monster-type critters have proper hostile again
	(*) Allowed people in the same squad to know each other's identities
	(*) Made scribe copy job cancel properly to free up materials
	(*) Fixed calculation of available writing materials in library

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Various speed tweaks
	(*) Made clean job work inside and on outdoor constructions
	(*) Made clean jobs continue to nearby tiles
	(*) Made drunkenness make you less private instead of more private and fixed a typo there
	(*) Made dwarven adventurers experience trances properly
	(*) Made non-historical populations defend sites post w.g.
	(*) Made off-site raid stealth success depend on site
	(*) Fixed broken flags on merchant historical event
	(*) Stopped dwarves being dragged to cages/chains from trying to clean the floor
	(*) Stopped live generals from being elevated from zombie populations
	(*) Stopped animals from developing need for alcohol after experiencing trauma
	(*) Stopped unintelligent creatures associated to civilizations, like domestic animals, from worshipping gods when given historical status
	(*) Stopped animals from revealing the location of artifacts to questers
	(*) Stopped animals from forming grudges and other chat-based relationships
	(*) Sped up legends loading in high-artifact worlds
	(*) Stopped rooting around in the dirt from resetting path
	(*) Fixed issue causing certain older army units from not appearing
	(*) Fixed a few errors with abstract skill calculation for armies
	(*) Reconciled bandit's map and in-play valuations of opponent strength to stop aborted ambushes
	(*) Disallowed certain flying/swimming/visual/projectile/attack moves involving half-stairways
	(*) Made branches/twigs burning over walls leave behind a floor properly


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Release notes for 0.44.05 (January 14, 2018):

One fix on top of the last release, for visitors that had become broken, acting like partial residents.  Any broken visitors themselves are unpatchable in affected saves, so it was important to get this one up quickly.  Old saves are compatible as usual, and should not get new broken visitors, but visitors that are currently acting strange will still be acting strange, and likely will not depart.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped certain visitors from being treated like (buggy) residents

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Release notes for 0.44.04 (January 10, 2018):

This is another bug fix release to start the new year.  A few of the bad five-second freeze/lag problems caused by the new release have been fixed, and large beasts should move off the edge of the map again.  Over in adventure mode, inappropriate creatures shouldn't yell 'identify yourself' and companions should participate in conflicts as they used to, and some other issues of reputation should be solved, especially among citizens of the starting town.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped displayed artifacts from duplicating on retirement/offloading of site
	(*) Made attacking giant monsters path to targets properly again
	(*) Stopped extraneous dwarf mode conversation text generation (freezes)
	(*) Stopped negative artifact location rumors from passing around so much (freezes)
	(*) Made removing first stop of hauling route w/ assigned vehicle not cause issues/crashes
	(*) Stopped crash caused by yielding to muggers
	(*) Stopped creatures from asking for identity when they shouldn't be able to speak
	(*) Fixed problem with companions and other close people not always recognizing your relationship to them

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made returning mercenaries stop petitioning for sanctuary (existing petitions will still be there)
	(*) Prevented unirrigated etc. top-left corners etc. from stopping planting in farms
	(*) Stopped inaccessible pile tiles from stopping bin/barrel placement throughout pile
	(*) Allowed stairs to be carved in ice that is one tile above stone properly
	(*) Added building item TSK indicator to ground items as well
	(*) Stopped designations for removal of ramps/constructions from working on hidden tiles
	(*) Removed incorrect back instruction from burrow naming
	(*) Properly saved freeing hf in relevant historical event (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed a few cases of historical event for identities reporting wrong historical figure
	(*) Fixed kitchen job hotkeys

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Release notes for 0.44.03 (December 25, 2017):

Here are some bug fixes to close out the year.  Notably, visitors shouldn't arrive in such large numbers so early on, and fewer of them should overstay their welcome (in old saves, people already in transit will arrive, but it should taper off.)  Adventure mode commanders etc. should recognize more of your accomplishments properly and not talk about unknown creatures so much, but identities have introduced some non-trivial issues there that we'll have to build through more carefully, and there'll be some ongoing silliness.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash from guide agreements
	(*) Fixed crash related to off-loaded items coming into play
	(*) Made agents and roaming questers respect visitor cap
	(*) Fixed problem causing agents not to check fort for tavern
	(*) Made fort-visiting questers leave properly
	(*) Made fort claim certain looted artifacts properly instead of leaving them on edge of map
	(*) Fixed several cases of "unknown creature" utterances
	(*) Fixed problem with neighbors not recognizing you, including commander and other quest givers
	(*) Stopped undisplayed items from lingering on display furniture
	(*) Made dwarven off-site squads stranded during preparation return to the fort
	(*) Made 32-bit Mac version recognize new keys

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed broken plant indicator on food stockpile
	(*) Made opinion monologues on performances etc. show text properly
	(*) Made log show completed kill orders properly

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Release notes for 0.44.02 (November 23, 2017):

Hopefully this'll stop the problems we've been having in world generation!

Linux Update: I should be able to test the Linux drive on Saturday once I get the hard drive enclosure, and we'll go from there.  Apologies for the continuing delay.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed world gen crash associated to agents checking on site government after it collapses

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped returning pet dogs from petitioning for sanctuary like rescued prisoners
	(*) Stopped uncontested raids reports from starting at year 0

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Release notes for 0.44.01 (November 22, 2017):

This is the artifact release, featuring the ability to send your dwarves off to cause trouble in the world, improved kobold sites, cover identities, artifact questers, and a bit of artifact diplomacy.

In fort mode, the 'c' screen which used to list civilizations still does that as a suboption, but its main purpose now is to show the world map and allow you to interact with it.  You can either raid a neighbor generally, or send off squads to recover specific artifacts or rescue particular people (in which case, the squads will still bring back other artifacts and prisoners, but focus on the goal.)  A squad questing after an artifact will seek out information if the first site doesn't work out, and this might take several months, so be prepared.  Squads can also be captured during raids, though typically someone will return to tell the tale.  When squads return, a report will become available; a yellow 'R' will appear over on the left margin, and pressing 'r' will let you see it.  Sometimes reports are quite lengthy as squads stumble from tavern to tavern; you can press enter to skip to the end of the path animation.

There are some rough edges here!  Be sure not to send off your commander if you are planning to reorganize your military, as they are the only one with the power to assign new squads and cannot do so while off the map.  There was a last-minute hiccup with artifacts known to be held by people (rather than stored on sites); these fort-mode missions will be fruitless for the moment; the most common instance here is books authored by people that then hang on to them, so don't try to steal their books!  It says on the map screen when an artifact is held by somebody, so it should be easy to avoid.  Raids do not bring back non-artifacts or build skills; these issues may or may not be addressed in the short-term depending on difficulties that arise.

The interactions with heroes and invading armies are more straightforward.  There will either be 'P'etitions or a diplomacy popup to handle.

In adventure mode, you can assume a cover identity.  You do this from the 'k' conversation menu (if you are already talking to somebody, it'll be hidden in "start new conversation".)  If you choose to link your identity to a civilization, you'll be carrying that baggage with you, especially when you are being interrogated by goblin guards, so one should be prudent.  To turn off the identity, go back to the "assume an identity" menu and choose the 'x' "no identity" option.  You can also reuse existing identities from this menu.

People in adventure mode that are seeking an artifact will list "missing treasure" among their troubles, and you can then inquire further.

In order to name an object, use 'I' to interact with it, and it'll be one of the options for appropriate objects.  For example, you can give a name to your spear or waterskin, but not to the water or food you start with.

There are also various adventure rough edges.  For instance, if you pick up and then immediately replace a museum piece in adventure mode, and then tell somebody about it, you'll get credit as a Treasure Hunter.  It'll be difficult to fix that without additional property information, etc.  It's also generally hard right now to find artifact quests, as most things are in their proper place and/or not subject to an outside claim.  We'll be working with this a bit as we generally work on stabilizing the release.

Overall, many of the changes occurred under the hood, in preparation for the myth and magic release, but now the magic release will be able to incorporate artifacts of all kinds without additional delay, so hopefully it was time well spent.

As usual, your old saves should work, but please back them up before diving into the new release!  It is quite likely that forts will fall into technical ruin as bugs come up and are handled at this early stage.  Old forts won't have object additions like the pedestals and display cases, but they should be able to send out raids from the 'c' screen.

We will be focusing on the worst bugs (crashes etc.) at first, and then we'll broaden out into other bugs, old and new, and minor suggestions/usability improvements, as well as a general smoothing out of the new features.  We're still working on the design side of the first magic release, so we anticipate we'll be doing smaller releases for a while.

New stuff
	(*) Ability to send out squads to raid sites, rescuing prisoners and recovering artifacts
	(*) Display cases and pedestals, museum zones, both in forts and other sites
	(*) Can view the world map w/ rumors from fort mode
	(*) Artifacts created during worldgen: dwarf moods, named heroic objects, holy relics, heirlooms
	(*) New artifact events in play and worldgen: questers seek artifacts and ask for or steal them, invaders demand artifacts
	(*) New historical events associated to the creation of artifacts (used in fort and worldgen)
	(*) Agents used by civilizations to gather information, can assume cover identities
	(*) Improved kobold site maps
	(*) Goblin site denizens demand an identity instead of immediately attacking every stranger
	(*) More modding control over pets and other animals
	(*) Adventurer can assume a cover identity at will
	(*) Adventurer can name their possessions
	(*) New adventurer reputations related to artifacts
	(*) New religious activity: monks, pilgrims and prophets
	(*) Museums and other room types can be added to fort locations like taverns and libraries
	(*) Various additional data in the XML export

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed weapon trap crash vs. item breakage
	(*) Fixed bug preventing monster slayers from visiting those forts with monsters to slay
	(*) Made animated skulls, hair and other bits easier to pulp
	(*) Made idle and vermin-hunting dwarves come down from trees more successfully
	(*) Made thirst/hunger and being pushed out of the way less likely to terminate dances

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Alphabetized broad stock screen categories
	(*) Fixed problem with historical bodies not respecting wounds/processing
	(*) Fixed bug causing religions to worship too many gods, with duplicates
	(*) Made simple burrow beasts start in caves as possible
	(*) Fixed broken historical collection linkage with beast attacks during festivals
	(*) Fixed one instance of broken animal person greetings
	(*) Stopped natural animals from w.g. rampaging through sites owned by entities at peace with wildlife
	(*) Took age into account for w.g. fights vs. body size (e.g. proper dragon size)
	(*) Stopped people from being enough to satisfy a need to see great beasts
	(*) Made visitors less nervous about going to neutral locations

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Release notes for 0.43.05 (July 5, 2016):

Here are the first official 64-bit releases!  This would not be possible without help from our community -- you can view the exciting and sometimes late-night discussion over in the 0.43.04 release thread if you want to see how the cake was baked.  This release should also make worlds generated with the same seed more consistent, and it has a few other minor fixes we managed to sneak in.

New stuff
	(*) 64-bit support, pulling the game from the distant past into the previous decade

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed problem with artistic skill assignment causing world histories to diverge
	(*) Fixed problem with worldgen trade causing world histories to diverge

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped babies/children from competing in w.g. events
	(*) Made gorlaks able to open doors, stopped desizing of their heads
	(*) Fixed some mem leaks

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Release notes for 0.43.04 (June 20, 2016):

Here's another bug-fix release.  Assuming no issues crop up immediately, we'll now dive into 64-bit land for next time!

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed error deciding when patients should be moved
	(*) Fixed initialization problem with tools causing stone axes to be thought of as ranged
	(*) Stopped completed work order jobs from checking off every matching order
	(*) Stopped masterpiece trades in containers from triggering artwork defacement
	(*) Stopped storage from always failing in the second tavern/library/temple you define
	(*) Stopped broken crash-prone entry from appearing at the end of the stocks list

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Attackers will remove armor from unconscious opponents if it is blocking attacks
	(*) Made people wear more armor according to their roles again
	(*) Allowed new citizens with some previously site-wide occupations to be reassigned
	(*) Allowed some site-wide occupations for dwarves
	(*) Made combat damage weapon and armors depending on material differences etc.
	(*) Made dwarves prefer undamaged equipment during the periodic uniform upgrades
	(*) Allowed strong attacks/shakes to translate some force to joints and parent parts even if blocked by armor
	(*) Reduced clothing stopping power based on penetration depth
	(*) Made paper slurries stockpile-able (won't work without updated raws)
	(*) Fixed problem with adv mode tribute demand check
	(*) Fixed ghost initial positioning problem
	(*) Made macros save correctly even if the macro directory is deleted

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Release notes for 0.43.03 (May 22, 2016):

Here are some more bug fixes.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Made customized magma forge jobs use metal instead of making things out of coal
	(*) Adjusted conflict code to stop taverngoers from joining siegers over petty grievances
	(*) Fixed material overcount in adv site work menu

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made pain from broken tissues depend on relative part size
	(*) Made embark profiles load fish properly
	(*) Made assigning an animal to a restraint remove it from pasture assignments properly
	(*) Made pasturing jobs respect connectivity in creation and in seeing if they should continue
	(*) Made dwarves remove animals assigned to pastures from cages/chains that are in the pasture
	(*) Fixed display error causing creature to be described as gigantic too often
	(*) Allowed metal mechanisms to be made from the job manager
	(*) Made dragonfire affect metal items and generally amplified fire effects a bit
	(*) Stopped veins in large mineral clusters from being improperly restricted
	(*) Stopped placement issue with minerals that had more than one specific environment
	(*) Stopped woodcutters from using axes without edges (like training axes)
	(*) Allowed soil critters to live in wider temperature ranges
	(*) Fixed problem with temperature checks on certain wilderness populations
	(*) Made construct mechanisms job show material
	(*) Made mountain travel restriction not affect other actions
	(*) Allowed adventure mode divers to move through deep water properly
	(*) Made placing items on tables remove item from your inventory properly
	(*) Made improvement reactions increase and apply skill properly
	(*) Reported site of adventurer masterpieces correctly
	(*) Stopped manually-set low frame rate cap from being stuck

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Release notes for 0.43.02 (May 11, 2016):

Smoothed out some rough areas in the adventure part of the release.  We'll be continuing on with bug fix releases.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped zone corruption problem from adventure sites (caused crashes)
	(*) Stopped adventure camps from being aged by the age of the world repeatedly
	(*) Stopped certain site build orders from skipping the collapse check
	(*) Stopped prisoners in goblin sites from starting no quarter fights with their rescuers
	(*) Made people that join you stop personal/shared activities that might interfere them from following you

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped felling of trees in the arena, so you wouldn't be teleported to a weird hidden region map
	(*) Indicated child/baby state of prisoners during look etc.

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Release notes for 0.43.01 (May 9, 2016):

A new version number!  With the work order additions and adventurer-created sites, this one ended up with more new stuff and fewer bug fixes than expected, and my version calculator just tipped over at 0.43.  You can use the new 'b' site building option in adventure mode to create a site (outside the bounds of other sites).  For dwarf mode work orders, you can set conditions and details from the manager.  You can also create orders tied to specific shops from their workshop profiles.

A miscellaneous note: in order to retire at the adventurer sites you create, you'll need to name the site, create a main hall zone, and claim the hall during conversation (or while shouting to yourself).

Next up we'll be doing more bug fix releases to make sure we have a vaguely presentable DF before we disappear into a new compiler and 64 bits.

New stuff
	(*) Ability to build up new sites in adv mode, either yourself or by assigning companions
	(*) Ability to do carpentry in adv mode
	(*) Ability to chop down trees in adv mode
	(*) Ability to make stone axes in adv mode
	(*) Ability to pull branches from trees in adv mode
	(*) Can put start conditions on work orders (by amount of resources or dependence on other work orders)
	(*) Can specify materials/images/etc. in work orders
	(*) Can create work order from profile which is tied to specific workshop
	(*) Can set maximum number of shops that a general work order can task at once
	(*) Can set maximum number of general work orders per shop or disallow them by profession or altogether (note: this won't work for active old-save jobs)
	(*) Allowed perpetual work orders
	(*) Repeatable work orders, ability to set restart frequencies

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped masterpiece trading from causing artisans to suffer effects of art defacement

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Got rid of work order limit of 30 jobs
	(*) Improved work order filtering (respect partial vs. full results etc.)
	(*) Stopped work orders from taking more than one slot per workshop
	(*) Stopped non-citizens from being charged for violating production orders
	(*) Stopped mother from getting both her and spouse's miscarriage thought
	(*) Refreshed material list when deleting uniform item
	(*) XML export now has the exact site rectangle

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Release notes for 0.42.06 (February 10, 2016):

Here's the material and image specification release, along with several important bug fixes.  There's more to be done with job settings -- we need to improve work orders and allow the decoration of specific objects, to name a few, but this should be a good start.

New stuff
	(*) Can set specific job material in job details
	(*) Added jobs to construct the various specific crafts
	(*) Can specify images in statue, figurine, engraving, decorate jobs to varying degrees
	(*) Can specify group's symbol at embark
	(*) Can specify type of decoration
	(*) Added adv mode bone craft carving with image specification

Major bug fixes
	(*) Counted exported wealth properly again (old saves will start counting w/ next caravan that leaves)
	(*) Flour, dye, seeds etc. not dumped out of bags into barrels
	(*) Allowed captured intelligent non-residents to be chained/caged/pitted again
	(*) Various useful objects like minecarts and goblets no longer ownable as personal possessions
	(*) Made ownable objects that aren't worn storeable again
	(*) Fixed problem causing some surface-underground sites to become disconnected

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Allowed travel map to be shown even when you can't travel
	(*) "Really attack?" gives more information
	(*) Show adv companions by first name in announcements etc.
	(*) Used adjectives from physical descriptions for use in adv mode creature designations
	(*) Stopped premature elevation of wagons to historical status
	(*) Fixed missing space when reporting success on beast mission

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Release notes for 0.42.05 (January 17, 2016):

Here's another one!  We're still going to be working through adventure reputation/quest/etc. improvements, so consider this a first stage.  Other highlights are the fortress mode sparring and mug-carrying fixes.  Enjoy your zombies.

New stuff
	(*) New hearth orders for killing beasts and fighting outlaws
	(*) Added a hunter reputation and cleaned up reputation system around beast-slaying
	(*) Made citizens understand their relationship to bandits and added reputation for protecting people from them
	(*) A few lizards

Major bug fixes
	(*) Made drunken dwarves spar properly again
	(*) Stopped dwarves from carrying mugs forever
	(*) Stopped adv goblin performance troupes from attacking strangers while traveling
	(*) Stopped reanimated corpses from being stuck on wrong side of conflicts
	(*) Gave underground populations zone assignments to stop them from erupting outward
	(*) Fixed inconsistent underground vegetation generation (which caused underground site maps to generate inconsistently)
	(*) Fixed various city vegetation clearing routines which were causing holes in the ground above sewers and catacombs

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Zombies no longer dodge, parry, block, wrestle or run, and they do charging attacks whenever possible
	(*) Zombies don't get defense adjustments for body part type and they don't find or stop combat opportunities
	(*) Reduced zombie strength bonus (old saves will still be strong)
	(*) Made severing all non-smashed heads put down a zombie (can be reanimated if has working grasp, smashing heads already worked)
	(*) Made severing/smashing any working grasp put down a headless zombie (can be reanimated if has another working grasp)
	(*) Neck gets same combat chance adjustment as head
	(*) Made bandits that run off cancel town harassment goals
	(*) Bandits camps don't immediately send new armies to re-harass towns
	(*) Stopped camp bandits from being placed in trees so often
	(*) Allowed save/load in arena
	(*) Made creature object load bar page properly
	(*) Labeled xml encoding as cp437 instead of utf-8

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Release notes for 0.42.04 (December 26, 2015):

Various fixes and various giant and peopled animals.  I held off on common domestic animal people for now, but there are plenty of canine and feline critters that got the treatment.

New stuff
	(*) Giant and person versions of many of the older creatures, including the elephant
	(*) Vampire purges in world generation to control their overfeeding which was stopping cities from growing

Major bug fixes
	(*) Allowed dwarves praying at temple dedicated to no particular god to choose prayer target according to need
	(*) Stopped adv mode goblin animals from fighting gobs and each other
	(*) Fixed error causing underground sewer dwellers to copy town stockpile, lag-killing certain towns
	(*) Stopped crash with goblet trading
	(*) Made retire store away merchants and diplomats and not mark visitors and residents as hostile
	(*) Made non-military visitors do citizenship petitions properly
	(*) Fixed broken merchant-elevated-to-liaison that sits at trade depot for entire life

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed error with building profiles causing underground bandit leaders to roam streets
	(*) Vampire guests of various kinds give themselves cover identities (those on-site will still be revealed in old saves)
	(*) Stopped some position elevation announcements from giving away vampires
	(*) Removed trade goods from retired sites if living merchant is still present
	(*) Made animals less afraid of casual relationships
	(*) Various animal tweaks that came up during the peopling (see file changes.txt)
	(*) Marked visitors correctly in site text export
	(*) Fixed a cause of string entry key conflicts
	(*) Made it list proper subregion when talking about certain adventurer rumor sites instead of subregion where speaker is standing

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Release notes for 0.42.03 (December 12, 2015):

Here's another release which cleans up various outstanding issues.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed world generation crash from wandering artist writing a book
	(*) Fixed crash from retiring locations in certain circumstances
	(*) Fixed crash associated to adventurer sleeping in inn rooms
	(*) Fixed issue with militia not picking up armor
	(*) Fixed error causing some instruments in chests to not be played
	(*) Fixed error causing instruments and drink service to fail in dining rooms
	(*) Fixed error causing scribes not to use some blank writing materials
	(*) Fixed error causing overall scribe operation to be stalled by a bad target codex
	(*) Made training marksdwarves want both combat and training ammunition and fetch stacks appropriately (thanks to ag for analyzing this one)
	(*) Fixed issue with starting instrument causing it to duplicate
	(*) Fixed one way for horses to become playable (not sure about dogs/donkeys)
	(*) Stopped dead/caged commanders from stopping invaders from moving (thanks to vjek for preparing a very useful and funny save)
	(*) Stopped cats from dying of alcohol poisoning after walking over damp tavern floors and cleaning themselves (reduced effect)
	(*) Put new caps in place on animals in towns during world generation
	(*) Stopped bookbinders and string makers from trying to use loose spider webs (thanks to Knight Otu for reminded me about raw tag)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made the add new task list remember where it was again
	(*) Tweaked how distance is calculated for certain jobs
	(*) Stopped certain ramp/channel digging jobs from temporarily disturbing pathing and distance calculations (thanks to Loci for reproducible procedure)
	(*) Made edible seed-type growths gatherable
	(*) Stopped wander history spam for adventurer
	(*) Stopped nobles from other civilizations from making mandates and demands
	(*) Stopped weapon slayer list from giving away fort vampires
	(*) Handled some basic shaped conflicts with clothing vs. armor
	(*) Changed how owned objects are managed with clothing -- might be some trinket drops in old saves
	(*) Allowed goblets on embark
	(*) Made modded wood furnace reactions list properly
	(*) Fixed typo with untitled written content
	(*) Fixed typo in haunting conversation
	(*) Fixed several typos in personality/value strings
	(*) Fixed instrument values in old saves

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Release notes for 0.42.02 (December 5, 2015):

Here's a quick follow-up for some of the worst bugs.  There are still some strange things going on (horses all over, duplicate companions, etc.), but hopefully this version will work much better than the last one.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed world generation freeze caused by error in poetry refrains
	(*) Fixed crash from building constructions on tree leaves etc.
	(*) Fixed calendar crash from bandit bar hoppers
	(*) Fixed crash with children joining socialize activities (most common with migrant waves)
	(*) Made worship activity branch properly (so prayer needs can be satisfied)
	(*) Fixed world gen seed not repeating after abort

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Can see deity for temple in location screen
	(*) Cannot spot vampires from occupation list anymore
	(*) Fixed a few typos

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Release notes for 0.42.01 (December 1, 2015):

Here is the new version we've been working on all year!  The flow of fortress life is quite a bit different now -- specific breaks and parties have been replaced by taverns and performances and needs and inebriation.  You can designate a tavern, temple or library from a meeting area zone, bedroom or dining room using the new Assign Location option.  The location list ('l') will let you know what sort of furniture and items you need, and you can set tavern keepers, scribes and other occupations there as well.  You'll need to set up a drink stockpile and a chest for goblets in taverns for drink service to work properly, but dwarves can still drink without a tavern as before.  You can assign multiple rooms/zones to a single location.  There's a lot more -- see the feature list below.

The bug fix list below is partial.  Large chunks of the game were changed, which has a way of making old bugs go away while bringing in new ones to take their place.  We'll be focusing on bugs old and new in subsequent releases, starting with crashing saves and moving down the list.  The next set of bug-fix releases will be measured on a scale of days and weeks rather than months, as usual.

New stuff
	(*) Ability to designate taverns, temples and libraries in the fortress
	(*) Taverns and libraries also exist in adventure mode and world generation
	(*) Tavern keepers can serve drinks in both modes, goblets can be used by dwarves to drink (in taverns or otherwise)
	(*) Performances include stories, poetry, music and dance (you can view activity descriptions from the unit/job list)
	(*) Art forms are randomly generated for each civilization
	(*) Instruments are now all generated, instruments can be used in both modes
	(*) Most instruments are constructed from multiple pieces using different materials
	(*) Personalities and values lead to needs which can be met by various actions in both modes
	(*) The fort has visitors, residency petitions and eventual citizenship, including non-dwarves
	(*) Tavern visitors include mercenaries, monster slayers, bandits, diplomats and performers
	(*) Can set details for clothing/armor jobs to make them for other races that can equip items
	(*) Monster slayers can petition your fortress to go down and fight monsters once you discover the underground
	(*) Performance troupes are active in world generation and into play, visiting the fort, can be formed in adventure mode
	(*) New knowledge system divided into nine branches (though it has very few practical effects so far)
	(*) Fortress scholars can advance knowledge, form master-apprentice relationships and write down their findings
	(*) Fortress scribes can copy works in your library
	(*) Scholars can visit your fortress libraries, bringing knowledge from around the world
	(*) Devoted historical figures can visit your fortress temples
	(*) Three forms of writing material: papyrus sheets, paper sheets and parchment sheets
	(*) Papyrus sheets are made directly from the plant at the farmer's workshop
	(*) Paper is made from pressed slurries (start at the quern/mill, then go to a screw press)
	(*) Parchment is made from hide and milk of lime at the tanner's (bake quicklime at a kiln, then make milk of lime at an ashery)
	(*) Sheets are used to make quires or with rollers to make scrolls -- these are then used for writing
	(*) Quires can be bound into codices with bindings after they contain writing
	(*) Dwarves read books in the library (they don't need to be scholars)
	(*) Values can be passed in writing (both modes) and through adventure mode arguments (uses some conversation skills)
	(*) Animal people are playable as adventurers, arrive as fort visitors and sometimes live in towns in (playable) populations
	(*) Children play with toys now, and they can also play make believe, in both modes
	(*) Personality can be customized/randomized in adventure mode, appearance can be randomized as well
	(*) Temples can be defiled in both modes, dwarf temples can be assigned to particular gods
	(*) Adventurer can rent rooms in inns
	(*) Adventurers can compose new poems, music and dances
	(*) Adventurers can write material down on empty quires or scrolls
	(*) Alcohol causes inebriation, erratic behavior, unconsciousness, death
	(*) Festivals occur in world generation, though we haven't gotten them out of there yet
	(*) Dwarves will wear trinkets again

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed some army pathing issues
	(*) Goblins have mounts again
	(*) Fixed long-standing flow bug with unit occupancy
	(*) Stopped some issues with brawls escalating to non-lethal

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Looking at reaction screen for redded-out reactions in workshop will indicate missing reagents now
	(*) Fixed inversion problem with half of the child/parent conversation thoughts
	(*) Lots of historical figures that weren't around from the beginning didn't have deities when they were supposed to
	(*) Allowed site finder to look for 1x1 sites
	(*) Human civilizations now have randomized values
	(*) Added ability to set invasion wave cap size

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Release notes for 0.40.24 (January 7, 2015):

Here is another release with fixes.  Old saves are compatible, but there will be some error logs due to minor issues with the old raws.  These logs can be ignored, but old saves will still experience problems like blank seed names.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed problem causing dwarves to sometimes fail to attack monsters/invaders
	(*) Stopped active blocks/parries from rarely freezing adv mode
	(*) Stopped certain situations where you could be stuck in the air above certain tiles
	(*) Fixed a few problems with necromancers attacking (and generally being killed by) their zombies
	(*) Stopped crash from moving/centering squad menu going out of bounds
	(*) Fixed crash involving squads and minimap
	(*) Fixed unretire crash that generally triggered when caravan arrived
	(*) Stopped dwarf from stressing out over the same wound forever
	(*) Stopped certain inaccessible jobs from blocking lower priority ones

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Allowed embarks with x/y dim 1
	(*) Made removal of trees check building/bridge/machine stability
	(*) Stopped worker chaining to next construction job from choosing suspended one
	(*) Tentatively fixed text mode error on OSX (lethosor)
	(*) Tentatively fixed broken sound on some linuxes (Baughn)
	(*) Fixed problem with water disappearing when it crosses the z=0 boundary
	(*) Made certain old civilian weapon assignments clear over time
	(*) Made t/q building selector respect stockpile shapes when looking for closest one
	(*) Fixed error with underground pops in small forts not appearing
	(*) Stopped mood jobs from going outside of burrows
	(*) Capped various combat skill gains per action (Urist Da Vinci)
	(*) Stopped "fighting" skill from increasing from trap/projectile attacks
	(*) Stopped random creature proboscis from sometimes messing up poison attacks
	(*) Fixed key display issue in bindings screen (lethosor)
	(*) Fixed problem with display of kill order status
	(*) Made geld indicator appear for pets on animal screen properly
	(*) Fixed display problem with agreement conclusion dates
	(*) Added error logs for missing materials set to defaults, fixed various raws
	(*) Stopped announcement screen date from overrunning title depending on window size
	(*) Differentiated two pain readouts on health screen
	(*) Fixed a few empty announcement errors

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Release notes for 0.40.23 (December 24, 2014):

A third set of fixes for the job priority release, as well as a fix for the army "camp forever" problem from July.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed cancellation bug with farming jobs
	(*) Fixed problem causing camping armies to lose sight of certain goals once play began

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped situation where channeling dwarf decides to stand on channel tile
	(*) Fixed some raw typos (Gorobay)

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Release notes for 0.40.22 (December 21, 2014):

Major bug fixes
	(*) Multi-item jobs like artifact moods, forging breastplates and smelting pig iron should work now

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made toggle marker behave like toggle engraving mouse-wise

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Release notes for 0.40.21 (December 19, 2014):

This fixes some large and small problems with yesterday's release.  Save corruption was quite possible, so upgrading is important!  You can still bring your old saves from 0.40.03+ into this new version.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Made hauling jobs that chain to other hauling jobs respect job postings, instead of causing crashes and other horror
	(*) Fixed stair/ramp removal

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made digging look up/down for continuing jobs
	(*) Fixed problem with harvest jobs stealing dwarves from each other

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Release notes for 0.40.20 (December 18, 2014):

Here is the job priorities release.  It should work fine with old saves, though existing hauling jobs may need to work themselves out for a bit.  Further job prioritization work can be done when we get through the framework for start scenarios, since we'll better understand how dwarves fit into the fortress at that time.

New stuff
	(*) New job selection process where dwarves choose important tasks with more regularity
	(*) Very important jobs can remove dwarves from less important jobs
	(*) Ability to prioritize a job so that it gets done immediately
	(*) Mining, engraving and other designation jobs can now be prioritized numerically
	(*) Designation jobs can be placed in a "marker only" mode, marker can be removed later to start work
	(*) Mining jobs can be set to automatically follow veins and clusters
	(*) Mining designation can be set to only select visible gems or useful stone

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash related to armies failing to take over villages

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Hauling jobs that used to need a held container now allow the dwarf to carry many items without a container
	(*) Building jobs can swipe items from hauling jobs if the item is not held
	(*) Wall/floor construction and road construction use new skill-free labor settings

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Release notes for 0.40.19 (November 26, 2014):

Here is another release for November, mostly related to livestock.

New stuff
	(*) Added gelding and associated profession/skill/etc.

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Showed animal gender symbols in a few more places
	(*) Got rid of mating-at-a-distance
	(*) Added drink tab to kitchen screen
	(*) Moved all remaining announcements to announcements.txt
	(*) Added ability add/remove bp flags to set bp group
	(*) Tweaked crowded pasture anger counter
	(*) Stopped liaison from inserting own gender into position change news
	(*) Added more work-arounds for compiler issue (fixing broken vault weapons and other problems)

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Release notes for 0.40.18 (November 20, 2014):

The flag changes brought forth a compiler issue on Windows (breaking smelting, for example).  Hopefully it'll work better now.

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Release notes for 0.40.17 (November 19, 2014):

Here is another friendly little release.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed collapsing shrines
	(*) Fixed army crash/bad behavior near the right/lower edge of the map
	(*) Fixed a conversation crash related to uncivilized people/creatures trying to sell something in the market
	(*) Made people only jump into actual conflicts, rather than animal encounters and training events

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made stress levels drop faster the longer no stressors are applied
	(*) Made gathering plants from the ground add to herbalist skill properly again
	(*) Made plants that grow in winter-spring plantable at all proper times (Quietust)
	(*) Optimized flag checks for non-windows OSs (ag)
	(*) Fixed problem deleting stockpile links in the case that stockpile had multiple give/take settings
	(*) Fixed blinking behavior for stockpiles/zones vs. ramps/stairs
	(*) Fixed blinking behavior for designations vs. anything obscuring them
	(*) Fixed double untranslated name in thoughts screen
	(*) Fixed elf diplomacy typo

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Release notes for 0.40.16 (November 12, 2014):

The purpose of this release is to make stress from long-term separation due to goblin snatching less severe and to stop attackers from always winning in post-world-generation non-player battles.  The fix for the latter could not be done cleanly at this time, so the battle readouts in legends are a little off compared to the ones from world-gen, but defenders are very often successful now.  I also fixed some missing aunts/uncles/cousins in the listing of relatives.

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Release notes for 0.40.15 (November 5, 2014):

Here's another release with bug fixes and small changes to brighten your day.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Made growing trees update cave-in and light information properly
	(*) Handled stress counter timing properly in adv mode
	(*) Stopped nerve check from bypassing broken parts between thought center and body roots
	(*) Stopped part from being pulped if inner nervous tissue is not detached
	(*) Made pulped parts bleed properly
	(*) Stopped crash from trying to place unit in proper connected component of crowded retired fort
	(*) Fixed reversed inside/outside check for outdoor refuse hauling

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Animals that can escape from cages no longer brought by traders
	(*) Made reactions try to guess how their containers will be filled to stop problems with brewing large stacks etc.
	(*) Small coin stacks can no longer be stuffed into non-containers
	(*) Small coin stacks no longer pass through opponents
	(*) Stopped tantrum dwarves from checking burrows for fistfights
	(*) Changed tantrum action frequency
	(*) Being in an owned site makes bogeyman not an issue
	(*) Made ballista arrow heads and ballista arrows have edges
	(*) Added ability to trade everything in the depot from either column
	(*) Made column widths even in trade view and abbreviated strings differently
	(*) Added select visible and select category to bring-to-depot menu
	(*) Added totems to crafts tab of bring-to-depot screen
	(*) Added a few categories to the kitchen menu
	(*) Alphabetized stone and kitchen menus
	(*) Added magma-safe indicator to stone menu
	(*) Made encrust jobs respect furniture tools
	(*) Cannot go into specific encrust menus if selected gem not available for encrust
	(*) Dead dwarves removed from burrow count
	(*) Made toggle button update properly when moving unit labor view to non-laborer
	(*) Fixed a problem causing the right edge of the embark world map to disappear, including the cursor
	(*) Fixed location of cursor in minimap for resized windows
	(*) Made DOES_NOT_EXIST exclude creatures from certain lists properly
	(*) Stopped stress reactions from being applied to unintelligent critters
	(*) Stopped stress reactions of hidden creatures from being announced
	(*) Fixed many typos (Gorobay)
	(*) Updated description for pulping so it doesn't say "bruised" etc.
	(*) Fixed broken artifact thought text
	(*) Stopped immortality goal from having a broken display in thoughts
	(*) Properly recognized multiple embark minecarts of the same material
	(*) Slowed down tantrum/mood/etc. indicators
	(*) Stopped zombies from interrupting your sleep to ask if they can help you with something
	(*) Increased default embark points to compensate for more default equipment (stepladder etc.)
	(*) Allowed deletion of first uniform
	(*) Stopped crafts brought by traders from satisfying craft mandates
	(*) Made weather init option clear up weather properly instead of just turning off the global simulation

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Release notes for 0.40.14 (October 25, 2014):

Here is the next release.  The focus was not bugs this time, but rather completing the work started on emotions as well as basic fruit harvesting.  A note -- adding stepladders to old saves was not possible, so you'll have to wait for a new world for those.  Fallen fruit can still be gathered in old saves using the new plant gathering zones.  Dwarves in old saves have also had their current thoughts wiped clean to make way for the new emotion/circumstance pairs.

New stuff
	(*) Dwarf thoughts have been replaced with personality-dependent emotion/circumstance pairs
	(*) Dwarf happiness has been replaced by a longer-term stress level, and a few new effects have been added
	(*) Plant gathering zones can be used to set up fruit harvesting from trees using the new stepladder
	(*) Plant gathering zones can also handle the old shrub jobs, and fallen fruit can also be gathered from zones
	(*) Shrubs now have their berries/etc. gathered properly (bean-type plants that only have edible seeds are still an issue)
	(*) As a stopgap, farm plot plants yield viable growths out of season upon harvest
	(*) In adventure mode, it is possible to ask about people about yourself, other people, and how they are feeling

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped IMMOBILE creatures from trying to flee terrain
	(*) Fixed problem with fear vs. stating proper opinion
	(*) Stopped harvest/plant jobs from being added to farms slated for destruction
	(*) Deconstructed farm plot loses items

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Release notes for 0.40.13 (September 17, 2014):

This release fixes some more bugs, old and new.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed item storage crash related to minecart being destroyed
	(*) Stopped dwarves from trying to clean their own missing or internal body parts
	(*) Cleared old activities properly so they aren't considered by dwarves for too long

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Decreased frequency of conversation-skill-building dwarf chats
	(*) Reworked grazing formula, used fractional exponent to scale properly according to size
	(*) Made grazing tile selection less top-left biased and made it prefer non-creature'd tiles with denser grass
	(*) Made butcher jobs for corpses not in piles respect z coordinate of building (Quietust)
	(*) Handled some issues with subterranean areas being removed through trees
	(*) Made workshop profile skill checks ignore skill rust
	(*) Fixed problem with siege operator skill check (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped a lever linking job from being added if it is already in progress
	(*) Stopped fort dwarves from throwing their clothes off into a pile during unretire after being visited by adventurer
	(*) Stopped fort animals from getting clothing during unretire after being visited by adventurer
	(*) Stopped animals with kills from getting trinkets from corpses
	(*) Stopped animals from growing attached to and bestowing names on items in their possession
	(*) Stopped embark screen from setting neighbors with regular sites that happen to have zombies (due to another bug)
	(*) Made "place item in tomb" job governed by burial instead of item hauling labor
	(*) Made outside refuse order respect inside/outside instead of above ground/subterranean
	(*) Stopped inside above ground corpses/corpse pieces from being destroyed periodically
	(*) Stopped evaporation of inside above ground water from depending on the weather
	(*) Stopped water items on the ground from being cleanable -- they evaporate instead
	(*) Made water spatter evaporate properly over time
	(*) Sped up extrasensory detection
	(*) Sped up tracking of food consumption
	(*) Re-enabled effects of cave adaptation

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Release notes for 0.40.12 (September 10, 2014):

This release has some more bug fixes in it, mostly related to healthcare, prisoners and morale.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Made dwarves that fall unconscious while going to rest or sleep location not get stuck on the spot
	(*) Fixed symptoms of wrestling error that could cause dwarves to freeze in place forever
	(*) Stopped civs from sending a squad when they failed to find thieves/snatchers to send (led to small sieges in the first year)
	(*) Allowed recover wounded jobs to bring dwarves to hospital floor if no beds are available
	(*) Stopped recover wounded jobs from bringing dwarves to non-hospital beds
	(*) Made caged/chained people request water/food with proper frequency

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made doctors remove dwarves from traction properly (checks weekly)
	(*) Made dwarves move/get moved to new hospital more quickly if old hospital is removed
	(*) Roots function as ramp walls properly now
	(*) Can cross ramps covered by bridges in adventure mode
	(*) Made critters that join up with your adventurer stop traveling if they were on a journey
	(*) Made critters with entity-based army duties unwilling to join adventurers
	(*) Stopped critters joined with you from considering moving, joining armies and other issues
	(*) Added ability to repeat, suspend and cancel jobs from unit/job lists
	(*) Made civ-level nobles attached to locations (e.g. barons) include their site in their name when possible
	(*) Made dwarves that have been grabbed for chaining/etc. cancel their jobs properly
	(*) Stopped certain events (like giving birth, resting or getting an artifact mood) from causing a working dwarf to suspend jobs for the whole fort
	(*) Stopped chained mothers from seeking wandering infants
	(*) Changed name of chaining/other jobs to include target instead of saying "animal" for everybody
	(*) Made certain creatures like minotaurs act less civilized (requires LARGE_PREDATOR in raws)
	(*) Stopped alarm moods from persisting long beyond event itself
	(*) Made non-soldier adventure companions not default to flight (this could include giant demons, etc.)
	(*) Stopped companions with stranger-kill ethics from starting no-quarter fights with strangers the party meets
	(*) Made stranger-kill creatures respect their own prisoners/etc.
	(*) Stopped adventure mode critters from persisting on outmoded paths when destination has changed
	(*) Made sure dipscripts were loaded in the same order on different platforms (Quietust)
	(*) Trading a worthless item for a non-worthless item no longer results in you initiating a robbery
	(*) Wooden chests brought by elven traders are grown now
	(*) Seeds that should be edible raw in adv mode are now edible

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Release notes for 0.40.11 (September 3, 2014):

Here is the first release for September!  As usual, a few bugs like sleep screwups, cowardly companions and wandering children might persist for a while into old saves until the system clears itself out.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Accounted for site populations properly when moving around (stopping doubling in lairs/player forts)
	(*) Removed the old animal people camp items, as they cause duplication errors and will work with a better overall army framework later
	(*) Handle some more instances where led creatures could drag their leader into conflicts (a dwarf caging a goblin, for example)
	(*) Made historical figures react properly to historical undead
	(*) Made chained animal checks respect z coordinate properly
	(*) Gave your companions a bit of a courage boost in terms of intervening in conflicts
	(*) Fixed some problem with resource stockpiles causing shop types to revert on insurrection

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made dwarf children not seek their mothers when idle, especially in violation of area restrictions
	(*) Made dwarves prefer claimable rooms to dormitory master beds
	(*) Stopped uninjured dwarves from sleeping in beds in active hospital zones
	(*) Tried to make items in markets/homes match races more closely (cannot be completed until later -- right now, resources are based on original site owners)
	(*) Stopped brief necro master-apprentice relationships from forming in towns
	(*) Stopped other necro tower townish behavior like fake grazing disputes
	(*) Made sleeping on the floor respect burrow assignments
	(*) Made strength/agility/tissue layer effects work for gaits (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped overuse of plant structure tag causing people to say they preferred to eat trees
	(*) Fixed other issues causing dwarves to be able to prefer the wrong (generated) materials
	(*) Stopped adventure skill list from overflowing on status screen
	(*) Discounted rust when listing relevant skill for squad candidate
	(*) Stopped evaporation of 1/7 liquid when over 7/7 liquid of the same kind
	(*) Made flying adventurer able to fly over ramps without using them
	(*) Fixed missing bindings for animal training keys (Quietust)
	(*) Adjusted firing rate for projectiles again to make them more like the older versions
	(*) Made adamantine clothing available in arena

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Release notes for 0.40.10 (August 24, 2014):

Here is another round of fixes.  Note that for morale fixes in old saves there could be some persistent alarm data that causes people to continue to run for a bit, even for a few in-game hours in some cases, so you might need to let things work themselves out.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash that could happen when refugee rumors were created
	(*) Fixed crash from visiting former player fortress with adventurer if certain army is present
	(*) Fixed crash related to surgery
	(*) Fixed crash that happened when it considered certain units in play for succession
	(*) Stopped a conversation crash from talking to mute creatures about their troubles
	(*) Allowed flying/climbing wilderness critters to work their way off the map
	(*) Fixed problem allow the player to become invisible among many units even when clearly visible
	(*) Made running away in terror/fear respect only valid combat location information
	(*) Made genuine retreat and alarm state more separate from each other (being alarmed was being equated with flight for morale)
	(*) Stopped certain old conflicts from causing alarm
	(*) Made people that are attacked briefly have some knowledge of attacker's position
	(*) Stopped certain jobs from being able to teleport items and engage in other action-at-a-distance antics
	(*) Stopped necromancer towers from doing various inappropriate townish things that lead to tower proliferation etc.
	(*) Fixed some reclaim/unretire bugs involving unavailable seeds
	(*) Adjusted projectile firing speed which became broken during wagon fix

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Adjusted emotional strain vs. willpower etc. calculation
	(*) Made non-extra-sensory creatures also respect z coord of potential targets
	(*) Fixed a pathing lag associated to mood dwarves not being able to get to their buildings
	(*) Added stockpile option for cut stones
	(*) Removed obsolete relieved/drafted thoughts
	(*) Made extra-sensory creatures even less perturbable by critters sensed through layers of rock
	(*) Stopped erroneous conflicts between certain hunting creatures
	(*) Stopped shared/wrestled items from being used for block/parry
	(*) Stopped creatures with multiple attacks like hydra from stacking attack modifiers incorrectly
	(*) Made attacker always look at target upon initiating attack
	(*) Ordered farm plot plant lists by seed availability/name
	(*) Lowered cap for wrestle skill gain so it wouldn't be hit triple digits attacking large opponents
	(*) Removed double entry of "slabs" from stocks screen
	(*) Adjusted 'v' menu location for window height (so it wouldn't overwrite certain lists, etc.)
	(*) Fixed a few typos causing double periods in personality paragraphs

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Release notes for 0.40.09 (August 17, 2014):

The cleaning continues with this release!  Some notes on poles:  For no-pole, you'll need to handle glacier and tundra biomes in one way or another (wider temperature range, remove region requirements, etc.).  For instance, to make a valid no-pole large island, all I needed to do was widen the temperature max/min from 75/25 to 110/-10.  This made a few glaciers and tundras scattered around the world, and it also allowed a few tropical biomes to appear.  For no-pole, base temperatures of at least 85 make an environment tropical (worlds with poles continue to use latitude), though 75 works for certain biomes.  You should be able to input your own temperatures in the txt parameters now without the game applying a polar shift.  No-pole worlds do not yet experience any seasonal temperature variations, and worlds with two poles still have seasons at the same time of year on either side of the equator until that can be made less confusing.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed problem causing domestic underground animals to be placed beyond their number (and then replaced at that new number)
	(*) Made people not so eager to jump in on the side of their relatives and friends if the relative/friend is berserk/etc.
	(*) Made creatures prefer to flee normally if possible (rather than jumping off cliffs etc.)
	(*) Stopped liquid flows in confined spaces from sometimes making items disappear
	(*) Made items that froze in ice reappear properly when ice melts
	(*) Allowed dwarves interested in marriage to start relationships properly (Quietust)
	(*) Removed some vestigial code stopping wagons from moving properly after move/attack speed split
	(*) Fixed a wagon AI error that caused them to fail to unload sometimes
	(*) Gave wagons the ability to go past each other in certain instances
	(*) Made invaders not come back as ghosts
	(*) Stopped non-historical dwarves from coming back as ghosts (put in fix for old saves that should lay them to rest soon after unpause)
	(*) Stopped ghosts from being considered in regular sight code
	(*) Fixed the defend burrow order
	(*) Allowed items made from gem materials (including large gems) to be stored in finished goods pile
	(*) Fixed broken logic that made trade good hauling require both trade good hauling and lever operation labors

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed up quarry bush bag job vs. rock nuts
	(*) Added appropriate announcements for some additional circumstances under which a fort dwarf could assume a civ-level position
	(*) Added embark warning if civ is dead
	(*) Added optional confirmation window after preparing embark (default: pops up if points remain)
	(*) Printed job after name when following unit
	(*) Marked dwarves as "New Arrival" on unit/job screen instead of "No Job" while they are new
	(*) Added pole-setting parameters for world gen, allowed north+south pole and no-pole options
	(*) Fixed an error causing nearby site maps to be offloaded too often
	(*) Made hill dwarf sites put animals in pastures properly
	(*) Made animals not placed in pasture/waste/yard get placed even if their preferred type isn't available
	(*) Fixed some manual typos (Gorobay)
	(*) Initialized strict pop cap to 220 if not present in d_init
	(*) Made alerts without names show properly as "Alert State #" in squad mode
	(*) Finished updating pineapple raws
	(*) Made several export filenames use the format (region)-YYYYY-MM-DD-(etc)
	(*) Added error for unrecognized CREATURE in entity raw

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Release notes for 0.40.08 (August 11, 2014):

A few new errors crept in.  Hopefully they will creep out now.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped ESC from ending the game when setting up fort or adventurer
	(*) Made constructions use materials properly again

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Release notes for 0.40.07 (August 10, 2014):

Enjoy another set of bug fixes!

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash that involved promoting certain stops above their route
	(*) Removed some stale invasion data preventing further invasions
	(*) Stopped dwarves from breeding like animals, technically speaking
	(*) Made diplomats search for civ-level land-holders properly
	(*) Fixed some path buffering problems that could screw up neighbor list etc.
	(*) Fixed a few problems with undead AI
	(*) Stopped sleeping/incapacitated dwarves from doing things
	(*) Fixed problem with squad leader assignment in military screen
	(*) Made sparring people use their weapons properly
	(*) Made unretired forts unhide fully, flowing from surface and all units

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made masterpiece announcements wait for all item info to be decided before trying to print item name
	(*) Eliminated an OSX key conflict for text deletion
	(*) Made install colony jobs respect each other's targets
	(*) Made install colony jobs react to missing hive at gather destination
	(*) Added another adjustment to designation jobs to help them vs. paths that became bad
	(*) Required animal hauling labor for various jobs
	(*) Added new labors for hauling trade goods, pulling levers, removing constructions and hauling water
	(*) Attached trap cleaning to clean labor
	(*) Made laborless building construct/destroy jobs take furniture hauling
	(*) Allowed burrows to restrict workshop item search or not (default off)
	(*) Added assigned citizen number to burrow list
	(*) Stopped paralyzed injured dwarves from spamming rest cancellation messages
	(*) Stopped some CPU-intensive temperature wobble (ag)
	(*) Cleaned up the creature pressure plate interface
	(*) Made paved roads only need as much material as required by the road tiles (rather than the whole rectangle)
	(*) Made translated name appear properly at the top of the screen when viewing creature
	(*) Stopped dwarves from liking special items
	(*) Fixed a problem with unnamed historical figure statue/figurine item names and descriptions
	(*) Fixed color display problem in civ list
	(*) Gave not-you civs range of 30 path-wise for neighbor status on embark (towers still 10)
	(*) Allowed use of number in burrow names without moving cursor
	(*) SDL string question mark should no longer enter as a pipe, and pipe should be enterable
	(*) Respected question mark entry in several places

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Release notes for 0.40.06 (August 3, 2014):

Another bug fix release.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed a problem causing certain jobs to become stuck when their paths were interrupted
	(*) Stopped dwarves from starting conflicts with led creatures
	(*) Stopped led creatures from wandering away from leader
	(*) Made buildings with burrows require a connectivity check when searching for items
	(*) Made dwarves forbid webs that are "accessible" but require pathing through unexplored areas
	(*) Reduced number of automation jobs created
	(*) Made some jobs respect fish/vermin amount when producing products
	(*) Make potash from lye respects lye stacks
	(*) Made jobs requiring several e.g. bones not need many individual stacks
	(*) Made thread spinning job not use up all of a stack of wool
	(*) Stopped decoration job from consuming entire stacks
	(*) Stopping using entire stack of meat to bait animal trap
	(*) Stopped reactions from consuming way too many raw materials from stacks (ag), though reactions that use very small amounts still use at least 1 item from a stack
	(*) Stopped mining of root from removing the tree

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped announcement of theft of hidden reclaimed underground objects
	(*) Stopped birth announcements for hidden creatures and separated wild/tame animal birth announcements
	(*) Stopped hidden/forbidden buildings from being listed in lever link menu
	(*) Stopped hidden/forbidden buildings from appearing in room list
	(*) Stopped hidden items from appearing in military equipment lists
	(*) Made trees update indoor/etc. settings properly upon removal
	(*) Made building/stockpile menus to respect different window heights
	(*) Made hunger/thirst/etc. indicators display properly in travel
	(*) Made vision arc display turn off for blinded creatures
	(*) Made scarred over wounds to broken functional layers continue to impair function
	(*) Removed requirement that a creature have a baby/child state to breed
	(*) Fixed plant growth consumption preferences (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed display of tree roots designated for mining
	(*) Fixed reversed display of zone sizing controls
	(*) Made random creatures only spit liquid spittle
	(*) Fixed state token for mud creature tissues (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped traders from bringing unspecified "liquid" from bloodsucking animals (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed problem causing multiple plant listings in stockpile
	(*) Made jobs properly cut away pieces of corpses for use (so that reanimation etc. respects partial use)
	(*) Made reactions count up and trim away body component materials properly
	(*) Added wound description for partially butchered parts
	(*) Made globs stackable
	(*) Fixed unretire message on linux/osx
	(*) Stopped dwarven forges in world gen sites from using thrones instead of anvils
	(*) Fixed message for being caught in a cloud of vapor/dust (Quietust)
	(*) Removed special materials from dwarf prefs
	(*) Clarified generated items in stockpiles (can't remove yet)
	(*) Fixed adjectives for randomly generated blowdarts/bolts (old saves still broken)
	(*) Made burrow indicator show over hidden areas
	(*) Fixed broken language selection for certain names
	(*) Can copy basic item type/subtype with reagent using GET_ITEM_DATA_FROM_REAGENT:<reagent token>:NONE

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Release notes for 0.40.05 (July 27, 2014):

This is a bug fix and optimization release, which is probably something we should get used to for a while, since there is a lot left to do!  I've tried to make it possible to play in larger worlds again, but there's also more that can be done.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed several large slow-down culprits
	(*) Stopped trees from growing through floors
	(*) Fixed a problem causing the suspension of constructions (old saves with affected jobs will still need to restart them) (ag)
	(*) Fixed a few problems with hospital code causing them to overstock item (ag)
	(*) Fixed problem stopping underground fishing (UristDaVinci/Quietust)
	(*) Made cultures that oppose intruders more lax when in places controlled by less wary groups (one cause of marketplace knifefights)
	(*) Made adventure-mode ambushers somewhat more in tune with their task
	(*) Made master soldiers stop reverting back to corresponding regular soldier type
	(*) Fixed crash that could occur when looking at adventure log while traveling

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped clearing professions upon achieving master soldier type
	(*) Fixed the population cap
	(*) Made it possible to detect plantings too late in the season again (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped migrants from retaining certain adv/etc. flags harmful to their integration into the fort (making them 'hostile')  Note: those from old saves might take off articles of clothing and store them and other strange things, since the integration could not be made complete easily...
	(*) Fixed problem with non-entity armies/travelers failing to evaluate nearby creatures properly
	(*) Tried to improve prioritization for creatures trying to handle many targets, especially w/ extra senses (caused combat AI paralysis)
	(*) Stopped fliers from wanting to jump (and sometimes colliding mid-air)
	(*) Added some basic climbing skill to wg/etc. soldiers, esp. thieves
	(*) Vermin can escape from non-artifact containers properly (Quietust)
	(*) Caravans check weapon type properly for material selection (Quietust)
	(*) Diplomats that wanted bodyguards should get them now (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped aquarium check from turning off other vermin code (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed crash that happened in the arena when doing v-p on a dwarf with a weapon
	(*) Creature art value considered properly by civs now (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed problem dividing out item milligrams in weapon velocities (UristDaVinci)
	(*) Can now melt metal chests (Quietust)
	(*) Handled a few problems causing extra/erroneous long patrol thoughts (Quietust)
	(*) Made children get full list of default labors upon growing up and respected any existing skills
	(*) Stopped migrant historical children from receiving labors
	(*) Made underground populations properly respect layer size (the numbers can get very high, but blame the giant under-ocean caves in part)
	(*) Stopped hyper-obese digesting dwarves from constantly recalculating insulation/mass data (ag)
	(*) Fixed some problems causing certain jobs to check too many items (angavrilov/Quietust)
	(*) Allowed egg-laying critters without baby/child state to have viable eggs
	(*) Stopped listing dead non-fort animals/etc. as missing
	(*) Fixed a rounding error with projectile calculations (Pirate Bob/UristDaVinci)
	(*) Adjusted contact area/depth of ammo, max velocity of shooters (Joben)
	(*) Fixed a problem causing saplings to grow up 10x as fast as they should
	(*) Stopped sparring from being placed in combat reports
	(*) Displayed proper key for viewing agreements in civ screen
	(*) Stopped dwarves from swiping hospital goods from the caravan
	(*) Made the game respect more circumstances whereby medical inventory items are removed (fixing the crutch speed bug, for instance)
	(*) Stopped ghosts from being able to realize dreams after they are dead
	(*) Fixed problem where tools made from adamantine wafers required the wrong material amounts (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed problem with seed initialization for mid-level maps that could cause inconsistency (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed broken lack of cage/chain thought for law dwarf (Quietust)
	(*) Adjustments to animal people frequencies (see file_changes.txt)
	(*) Made king cobra people legless like other snake people
	(*) Fixed a problem causing the tortoises not to appear
	(*) Made random creature spines connect up properly
	(*) Fixed material values for obsidian (UristDaVinci)
	(*) Various typos fixed (see file_changes.txt) (thanks to Gorobay for finding most of these)
	(*) Re-added elven diplomacy, though it is still unchanged from its first incarnation

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Release notes for 0.40.04 (July 20, 2014):

This is mainly another crash-fix release, though I was able to handle some other problems as well.  I'm still hoping to get to optimizations (for the third time in these release notes!), but as usual that depends on stability.  As you'll note below, a few of the older bugs are gone -- as we continue in this process, I'll work fixes for old bugs into the mix.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed a crash with pathing for jumps
	(*) Fixed a crash related to invading squads attempting to train
	(*) Fixed an overpopulation bug for civilized critters and a related one for site animals
	(*) Fixed problem with retired fort uniform settings crashing later visits to the fort
	(*) Stopped a crash associated to misplaced books/slabs (root cause remains, added some logs)
	(*) Fixed position appointment issue that caused some instability
	(*) Tried to make idle code somewhat better about climbing while still getting dwarves out from being stuck
	(*) People with a weapon should use it with the proper frequency now

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed problem with animal training/taming vs. lingering combat data (caused job cancel spam and inability to complete jobs)
	(*) Stopped nearby objects from being teleported by construction removal and a related problem with the item loop (ag/Quietust)
	(*) Made site finder properly indicate flux layers (Quietust)
	(*) Made game better respect existing directory structure in data/save when creating new directories
	(*) Made tops of walls appear properly when trees above walls are removed
	(*) Made strangulation take less time
	(*) Enhanced sapling survivability
	(*) Fixed a problem that caused vermin to occasionally be generated out of the loaded area
	(*) Fixed a problem that corrupted the information about items on the ground with temperature changes
	(*) Fixed some brokenness with climbing AI vs. ledge tops
	(*) Fixed a broken instance of chasing opponent AI vs unwalkable spaces
	(*) Made climbing have a higher path cost
	(*) Made people less likely to climb after a failure
	(*) Babies don't start strapped with a knife

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Release notes for 0.40.03 (July 13, 2014):

Many more crash issues fixed.  Mystery babies and large city walls had a corrupting effect that was not possible to manage, so saves are not compatible yet again.  I'll try to keep saves together as we move forward, but there aren't any guarantees, especially this early on.  If things have settled down on the stability front, I can finally move on to the optimizations and other issues.  We'll see what happens!

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed relationship screen crash from certain historial/old-player-fort migrants and adventurer migrants
	(*) Fixed adv retirement cloning
	(*) Fixed crash when game tries to realize certain low population sites
	(*) Fixed crash/corruption problem from large city walls
	(*) Fixed crash when asking about site trade partners
	(*) Fixed problem causing travelers originating from realized forts/sewers/dungeons to go out of map bounds (caused crashes)
	(*) Stopped the babies of the world from appearing in the unit list (and associated minimap crash)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made farm plant list refresh properly with season selection

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Release notes for 0.40.02 (July 10, 2014):

It's not DF without save corruption!  This release should fix an issue with autosaves corrupting and causing various crash issues down the line.  For this reason 0.40.01 saves are not compatible with this version -- I'm going to try to avoid compatibility breaks as we go, but sometimes they happen.  I've also fixed the talk-to-deity crash (closely related to the shout-when-nobody-is-around crash, also fixed), the blocking crash, and some other bad issues.  Due to the save corruption, I didn't get a chance to work on the calendar speed, but assuming this release works as planned, I should be able to jump into that now.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped autosave features from corrupting worlds (thanks to everybody that helped sort that out so quickly!)
	(*) Made the game not crash when talking to a deity or shouting out in the wilderness
	(*) Fixed a crash from trying to actively block in the adventure attack menu
	(*) Fixed the size bug where 9 of 10 young critters did not grow up beyond baby size (thanks Urist Da Vinci and so many others for all the work on that!  I'd thank you all properly if I could do the archaeology to figure out how it was sorted out...)
	(*) Fixed a crash that came sometimes when asking about the position of site forces
	(*) Stopped a freeze that happened when swimming in deep water

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed the tracking key in the SDL version so you should be able to do that with capital K now
	(*) Added the short wait button to the adventurer manual -- you can use , instead of . to wait for one instant
	(*) Made quarry bushes process to an edible leaf properly
	(*) Typo when impersonating divine being

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Release notes for 0.40.01 (July 7, 2014):

Here is the world activation release!  Lots of processes from world generation -- birth, invasions, succession, site foundation, and so on -- now operate in the world after play has begun.  Getting all of that to work led to a meandering route through various pieces of the game, some of which are described below.  Aside from any bugginess, a lot of it will still feel rough and unfinished as things bump around.

New stuff
	(*) World activation!  There are a few things that aren't active, like megabeast invasions, but lots of world gen actions made it into the game.  Birth, death (to the extent it wasn't handled before), marriages, site foundation as well as reclaims, basic succession and appointments/etc., invasions, as well as some more detail beyond world gen, like patrols, banditry and animal population handling.  We still don't have army battles -- the invasions are all successful right now, unless they are locally interfered with by you.
	(*) The game advances two weeks before each play -- the calendar there still moves slowly when there's a lot of action, as there is in larger worlds, but there are quite a few things I can do soon to speed that up.  Due to the speed of the calendar, new forts in particular also get just two weeks.  This'll probably cause some shenanigans with the caravan (or you'll just have to wait a year in an autumn fort for your first one) until we sort it out.
	(*) Fortresses can be retired and unretired.  Losing is still fun but if it doesn't happen when you want, you can put it off for a while.  Retired forts can be conquered (much more easily than they would be if you still controlled them), so don't be surprised if you have to reclaim instead of being able to unretire sometimes.  You can reclaim forts that didn't make it through world generation.
	(*) Site maps for dwarves, elves and goblins.  These are very basic, but they are there, anyway.
	(*) Multi-tile trees and lots of new plants.  Fruit and flowers.  Leaves that fall in little clouds.  I had to put off dwarf mode tree harvesting, but we should get to that before long.
	(*) Megabeasts/forgotten beasts can attack, destroy and then reside within world gen sites like dwarf fortresses.
	(*) Various movement changes.  Climbing/jumping/sprinting in both modes, though invaders still require a line of site to use them.  Adventure mode has a stealth rewrite, and some elements of that are present in dwarf mode (it is generally easier to spot thieves and ambushers, and I'll probably need to make them smarter about finding cover).  Movement and combat are separate now.  Startled people climb up the walls of their homes a little too often.
	(*) Tracking information in adventure mode.  You can pull up a little window and see tracks (capital K), and you can also have it describe the freshest track that isn't yours to more easily stay on a trail (alt K).  Tracks are also part of the regular look command.
	(*) Different levels of conflict -- your opponents in adventure mode will be listed with the current status (non-lethal, lethal, no quarter, etc.).
	(*) Combat moves take place over a period of time now, and you can do things like catching an opponent's attack -- you have to do that by targeting a grab at the offending part now (reactions used to have a menu, but that was before combat got more smeared out).  You can get information about what attacks your opponent is doing in the attack menu -- the quality of the information depends on your situational awareness skill.  You can add adjective modifiers to your attacks (quick/heavy/etc.) and you can perform more than one attack at a time for a significant penalty to its force.  It might make sense with two adamantine swords or something, twirling them about.
	(*) Rumors of incidents can be spread, and the rumors need to be spread before you gain reputation (good or bad).  Killing all of the witnesses to an event will effectively remove it from play if you don't let them get off the screen.  People are a little psychic as it regards ongoing conflicts, so that they can make decisions non-stupidly.  Your liaison can share rumors with your fort, but I still need to set up the screen for reviewing them after you've seen them the first time...  not that you can do much with the information.
	(*) You can travel through tunnels.
	(*) You can get a guide to travel with you to a faraway place -- it still ended up being too cumbersome, so locals continue to be able to tell you the location of sites, but only within a certain distance of their home town.
	(*) In general, conversations have been redone.  They no longer have their own screen, but run along with other actions, and there are many more options.
	(*) The mind has been rewritten quite a bit -- people now experience emotions according to different circumstances (lots of awkward monologues there), and they consider actions differently.  The main outstanding issue is that I didn't get around to converting existing dwarf mode thoughts, so they sort of exist concurrently with the new emotions and that needs to be changed.  I'll get to that before job priorities (which was one of the main shorter-term reasons for the rewrite).  Some dwarves have life-long dreams and it is possible for them to recognize that they've accomplished the ones relating to skills and family.  They cannot yet realize their dreams of taking over the world.
	(*) The paragraph at the beginning of adventure mode was marginally more useful, but that slipped a bit at the end as things were tweaked.  I think it'll still describe certain invasions and abductions, but it needs to be redone.
	(*) Lots of new arena options -- not just the conflict state, but you can set the temperature etc. to all sorts of extremes.
	(*) Some experiments with procedural items, though the new demon-type sites are still quite un-fun now.  The knowledge on the slab at the bottom can be used, but it is probably not worth the trouble.
	(*) The stuff I forgot

Bug fixes
	(*) I'm sure several old bugs were "fixed" as large portions of the code was rewritten/removed, but I haven't tried to track exactly which ones.  Bug fixes will commence in earnest now, and everything will be handled over at the bug tracker http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/.

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Release notes for 0.34.11 (June 4, 2012):

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped crash from forbidden or otherwise lost containers in haul jobs
	(*) Stopped crash from naming routes when no routes are present
	(*) Stopped crash from renaming non-squads in the military screen
	(*) Stopped adventurer from turning into an underground creature when solid ground for placement couldn't be found
	(*) Stopped children from having missing/damaged clothing thoughts

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped dwarves from walling/isolating themselves oftentimes
	(*) Worker chooses the closest tile instead of preferring tile at the top left of each designation job location (they don't use path distance, nor does this impact global behavior like choosing which designation job is picked overall)
	(*) Removed ramps near natural waterfalls
	(*) Added confirmation for burrow deletion
	(*) Added generic armor options (like those in the default uniforms)
	(*) Stopped haulers from wandering in loops in certain circumstances
	(*) Stopped removed constructions from injuring dwarves
	(*) Stopped dwarves from looping between civ/squad equipment if they can't follow their orders
	(*) Allowed dwarves to ride/push minecarts even when they don't have walking access to destination
	(*) Made dwarves equip items based on clothing layering order (there can still be conflicts if some items are already worn)
	(*) Made dwarves eat from backpacks/drink from waterskins earlier
	(*) Made armor objects count for missing clothing thoughts
	(*) Made dwarves drop equipment extra equipment more promptly when they are hungry/thirsty
	(*) Stopped empty bags from popping out of minecarts
	(*) Cleared kill orders when completed (they can take a few extra clicks to clear up)
	(*) Non-fire-immune creatures will dodge out of hot squares
	(*) Fixed extra flashing _ problem when naming routes
	(*) Random seeds can now be typed up to the proper number of characters
	(*) Auto-assign new baby animals to mother's pasture/pond
	(*) Stopped certain game actions from advancing when designations are placed
	(*) Added indication of items which are already assigned in specific item assignment on military screen
	(*) Stopped objects from being forbidden on enemy deaths if they are associated to fort military equipment
	(*) Made command line world gen exit without forcing a key press confirmation
	(*) Made command line understand quotes so that parameters with spaces in their names can be used

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Release notes for 0.34.10 (May 21, 2012):

Major bug fixes
	(*) stopped powered rollers from pushing every track cart everywhere
	(*) fixed lye/milk bucket storage jobs
	(*) stopped them from storing assigned cart that is on a valid trackless stop
	(*) allowed them to store unassigned cart that is on a track

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) updated some screens for higher dimensions (if you enlarge in windowed mode for instance)
	(*) wrestles/shared items don't persist when cart moves

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Release notes for 0.34.09 (May 17, 2012):

Here are the latest fixes.  Note that your furniture stockpiles have some more type options now, and your old piles that had pots enabled will start with all the new tool options enabled (you should set them how you want them after you load it).

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed various broken bucket jobs
	(*) Rollers require power properly now and get carts to speed faster
	(*) Stopped injuries from channeling and made objects and the digger move down to the ramp square when appropriate
	(*) Stopped picking up of unit-occupied/speeding carts in adv mode
	(*) Stopped wheelbarrow from getting stuck on obstacles that are built as it is moving
	(*) Fixed problem where carts leaving ramps get their velocity throttled too much (or just outright stopped)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped salt from spreading to fresh water, made fresh water destroy stagnant water
	(*) Cleaned up stockpile options for tools
	(*) Increased output of coke reactions
	(*) Made materials for embark tools match definition
	(*) Stopped fast travel when riding carts
	(*) Fixed scrolling of hauling menu for screen heights greater than 25
	(*) Made older saves set new vehicle ids correctly
	(*) Fixed busted string when looking at objects on rollers
	(*) Fixed typo in white sand density

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Release notes for 0.34.08 (May 14, 2012):

Here is a hauling release.  I'm sure it has all kinds of interesting issues -- we're going to iron out problems for the next few releases without embarking on anything major in order to restabilize it.  The tile-wise physics causes some oddities on its own (items can't be given a meaningful sub-tile width, so they act a bit strangely if you look at the collisions closely).  Dwarves are also a bit enthusiastic with their new bin/barrel jobs -- when they grab a bin/barrel to load it up, it might have objects in it, and that might lead to conflicts/false shortages on occasion.  We'll have to continue playing around with it.  As far as I can tell, old saves load up fine and have usable minecart/wheelbarrows, so feel free to move your data/save folder over to the new version.  You'll notice your old save stone haulers moving slower -- get some wheelbarrows built at the carpenter's for your stone stockpiles to alleviate that problem.

New stuff
	(*) Minecarts can be used to haul things around on carved/constructed tracks/bridges ('h'auling to set up routes)
	(*) Dwarves can be set to guide, push off, or ride carts that are ready to move to the next stop
	(*) Track stops used to slow/stop cart and/or dump the contents on vehicle entry, can be disengaged with lever/plate
	(*) Pressure plates can be triggered by carts
	(*) Rollers can be used to push cart along when powered
	(*) Minecarts limited to one per tile in general, various collisions can occur
	(*) Wheelbarrows can be linked to stockpiles in order to move heavy objects (it'll auto-request one for stone stockpiles)
	(*) Falling objects can collide with critters
	(*) Camera can be attached to unit or item, can be linked to hotkeys from the unit/item screens

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stockpiles can be linked to workshops, can be set to give to multiple piles, can be set to accept items from links only
	(*) Hauling jobs will often be combined, using one container
	(*) Heavy items harder to haul
	(*) Densities/colors updated, based on Uristocrat's data collection thread
	(*) Can filter creature names in arena
	(*) Mine drop rates tweaked, no longer skill-based
	(*) Puzzleboxes/drum makeable
	(*) Stopped blinking on bridges
	(*) Projectiles using new code (most non-shot/thrown projectiles) can skip/skid on liquid/ground
	(*) All flying units use new minecart parabolic flight paths
	(*) Many projectiles do not resolve in adventure mode before your turn (so you can dodge a flying cart by moving away)
	(*) Can create/assign to squads from v-p
	(*) Squads can be given nicknames from v-p or the military screen
	(*) Fixed broken clay stockpile option

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Release notes for 0.34.07 (March 30, 2012):

Here is another set of bug fixes.  Be warned that some animals had their tiles changed to match the size convention.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped crash from some odd creatures transforming into werebeasts
	(*) Fixed crash from sites on the edge of the map
	(*) Fixed old adv mode save imports
	(*) Slab to missing allowed, once missing status has been announced (unless from reclaim, then you can always do it)
	(*) Made animated corpses that collapse still count toward putting down ghosts
	(*) Stopped undead from getting werecurses -- generally made animation/ghost/acquired tags count for more
	(*) Removed negative clothing thoughts for children

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped people from dropping random crafts/weapons on edge of map again
	(*) People should more consistently bring axes, picks, crossbows, quivers, ammo
	(*) Temporarily made amulets/backpacks etc. have no layering info (was screwing up clothing, will return to it)
	(*) Limited number of hunting/vamp crafts
	(*) Flux check in site finder should match with text now
	(*) Stopped vamps from bragging about their kills
	(*) Lists ghost/slab number/burial state in memorial list and stuck announced ghosts without slab item on the very top
	(*) Fixed blank memorial names
	(*) Husks have more information removed (pasture/pet/some job targeting/etc)
	(*) Opposition to life now overrides peace with wildlife
	(*) Stopped dwarves leading animals from going moody
	(*) Imported saves from 34.05 and earlier will have eggs that produce tame hatchlings
	(*) Option between skill/unit based profession setting in d_init
	(*) Made initial equipment based on profession setting rather than unit type
	(*) Fixed broken animal overall training scrolling
	(*) Mood dwarves no longer ask for "rock bars" and it says "bones" instead of "body parts"
	(*) Displayed medical dates correctly (they were a day off)
	(*) Season announcement appears with correct date
	(*) Correct year will show up on announcement screen
	(*) Displayed gender for some items that were showing up as duplicate entries
	(*) Gender in kill list (duplicate entries again)
	(*) Fixed some mannerism pronouns
	(*) Various raw fixes (see file_changes) -- highlight is that various underground animal men have attacks again

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Release notes for 0.34.06 (March 23, 2012):

Here is the next one!  The main features are the animal training and clothing changes.  You can get at the animal training options from the 'z' animal tab.

New stuff
	(*) Each civilization has animal training familiarity based on locale/journeys/domestication
	(*) Your site picks up training knowledge as you go
	(*) Your civilization picks it up from you if merchants survive
	(*) Animals have training status which can deteriorate
	(*) Added tools to the arena
	(*) Added text site color key for town map export

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed a save corruption from saving at the moment of trade meetings
	(*) Animals that have killed/attacked civ members no longer attack when trained
	(*) Allowed people to pick up their own owned clothes
	(*) Stopped sever victims from obsessing over lost clothes
	(*) Stopped failed pickup job from keeping item in uniform plan
	(*) Pickup equipment spam handled
	(*) Workshop clutter changed

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Evil/good trees/shrubs are back
	(*) Made ownership lapse for things that have been thrown away -- can take about 10-20 days
	(*) Clothing deterioration in refuse pile
	(*) Training jobs for large animals decoupled from kennels -- assign trainers in animal screen
	(*) Animals being trained wander around less
	(*) Allowed selection of war/hunting animals
	(*) Stopped young animals from lashing out
	(*) Decreased vampire frequency for fort migration
	(*) Fixed metal/bone helm artifacts (Quietust)
	(*) Fixed problems with socks going on the same foot
	(*) Champion can be appointed, fixed various circumstances causing failed position activations
	(*) Tool weights fixed (at least to align with raws)
	(*) Material size respected in standard tool construction jobs
	(*) Reintroduced negative thoughts from clothing, nakedness thoughts take a few weeks
	(*) Stopped zillions of chat thoughts from being stacked up
	(*) Stopped critters from breaking away from being led in an inconsistent way
	(*) Various string changes for TrueType (will also affect other modes in hopefully minor ways)

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Release notes for 0.34.05 (March 6, 2012):

The necromancer crash was coming up so often in crash reports that I figured now was a good time for another release.  Here it is!  Note that any old vanilla saves you move over will have a short error log on load for their broken eyelid raws.  This isn't a big deal, and you can either update the body detail plan file or just leave it.  New saves won't have this problem.

Major bug fixes
	(*) fixed crash from necromancers in dwarf mode
	(*) fixed crash from seed traders that only have access to wool bags
	(*) stopped adv mode sleeping from sticking you on rooftops and teleporting you outside of castles (underground case not done yet)
	(*) removed many effects and secret identity from ghosts (vampirism/lycanthropy/necromancer status etc.)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) traded adv mode items will go to backpack/quiver first depending on type
	(*) dwarves won't get unhappy thoughts from dead/rotting relatives if their deaths are not known
	(*) made various animals non-threatening (new saves only -- BENIGN tag can be added to old save raws, see file_changes.txt)
	(*) stopped untowered necromancers from losing their zombie pops in their camps
	(*) fixed broken names for bones and other butcher products
	(*) removed items from abandoned houses/shops
	(*) allowed adv mode abilities/powers to page through targets
	(*) vampires no longer blame children/babies
	(*) fixed broken companion paging/viewing for large numbers of companions
	(*) stopped undead cats from adopting dwarves
	(*) messed with crabs/horseshoe crab water behavior
	(*) disallowed animation of bogeymen (new saves only)
	(*) changed mule/muskox color
	(*) fixed a few animal descriptions
	(*) eyes/eyelids were broken in various ways
	(*) tweaked appearance of nearly empty sleep bar

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Release notes for 0.34.04 (February 29, 2012):

There was a world gen crash if you exported an image after it was done running the history and then tried to offload the world.

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Release notes for 0.34.03 (February 28, 2012):

Here is the second set of fixes for the major release.  There are still enough problems with the new stuff to warrant continued work there before I move on to older issues, and the next release will probably be within the timeframe of the last two.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed crash with historical figure cull vs. wandering groups
	(*) Stopped historical figures from starving
	(*) Stopped various corruption crashes and weird effects, mainly from aborted world gens (nice catch, Lightning4!)
	(*) Stopped original population associated to historical figure from screwing up its allegiances
	(*) Stopped it from moving criminal leaders with routine civilian moves, changing their allegiances
	(*) Stopped populations from villages/trade partners from migrating into dungeon outcast groups all at once (one group had 15000!)
	(*) Stopped werebeasts from gumming up world gen
	(*) Stopped raised corpses from having various allegiances
	(*) Vampires that take over sites lose other allegiances
	(*) Made soldiers from previous forts clean up military info upon arrival at current fort
	(*) Stopped ghosts and royal family members and undisguised vampires (aside from the king/king's group vamps) from immigrating to fort
	(*) Fixed a new bug that completely stopped archery training
	(*) SDL version: TrueType crash from long strings (Baughn)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Changed which entity moves to which sites, mainly so elf pops don't live in fortresses and vice versa without acclimating to a city first
	(*) Set labor list for migrants by default (can turn off in data/d_init.txt)
	(*) Added a tab for other stones in stone list and made stones with a reaction product class list as economic in stone list
	(*) Sped up adv mode loading/offloading somewhat, and cleaning should be a bit faster -- there are still really slow patches that need work
	(*) Controlled snatcher number in world gen
	(*) Decreased questing rate in world gen
	(*) Stopped reraised corpses from bleeding to death
	(*) Stopped forbid/melt/traffic/etc. mouse from messing with keyboard
	(*) Gave more indication for forbidden workshops
	(*) Made forbid/etc. from stocks screen not effect building items when applied to an entire group
	(*) Changed ramp names to indicate unusability due to missing walls or lack of space above
	(*) Sterilized zombies and mummies (only husk-type zombies need the STERILE tag)
	(*) Cleaned up some botched zombie names (old saves will need to let their zombies fall once and they should be better on reraise)
	(*) Made vampires fleeing to site in world gen require pop to fit into
	(*) Made vampire cults follow tyrant vampires properly
	(*) Vampire nicknames, profession, position names work
	(*) Vampires won't try to pin crimes on animals
	(*) Can 'g'et items from cabinets and other building furniture in adv mode now
	(*) Kea will not follow each other so closely when stealing
	(*) Fixed busted horseshoe crabs/men
	(*) Improved the age name calculator, especially as it regards the dominant race after megabeasts are cleared
	(*) Changed treasure room quality and item selection
	(*) Stopped designation at the bottom of the map from unhiding portions of it sometimes
	(*) Unobscured unit list option from main menu
	(*) Stopped world gen group from lingering in memory after bandits become criminals under town
	(*) Goblins can have higher pops in their important towns
	(*) Applied att change syndrome size modifiers properly (stops weird speed issues with adv blood drinking)
	(*) A few other minor tweaks listed in file_changes.txt
	(*) SDL version: Highlighting on unit screen fixed for TrueType (Baughn)
	(*) SDL version: Turning on playback while recording will no longer record the previously recorded keys (Baughn)
	(*) SDL version: TrueType text will now overwrite properly in some adventure mode circumstances (Baughn)
	(*) SDL version: Fixed some minor memory leaks (Baughn)
	(*) SDL version: Minor stability improvements (Baughn)
	(*) SDL version: Fixed some of the spacing issues with TrueType

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Release notes for 0.34.02 (February 18, 2012):

The first bugfix release has arrived.  Unfortunately, you'll have to restart -- even if your save seems fine, it's likely that it is dying a slow death due to corrupted buildings.  Hopefully a compatibility break won't be necessary again for a while.  There are still many new issues to resolve, and I'll be focusing on those for the next bugfix release(s) before we start to transition over to older bugs.

New stuff
	(*) Generated some default interaction effects for arena use
	(*) SDL version: Can repeat commands/macros - default Ctrl+u <number> <command> (Baughn)
	(*) SDL version: Can toggle TrueType - default F12 (Baughn)

Major bug fixes
	(*) Save corruption/crash from old forts and some other sites corrected
	(*) Fixed conversation crash
	(*) Fixed werewolf crash after aborted world generation
	(*) Stopped books and other artifacts from duplicating in player inventory
	(*) Stopped companions from getting hungry/thirsty during travel
	(*) Correct ambush frequency in adv mode
	(*) Made it possible to remove designation jobs again

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) SDL version: various technical fixes (Baughn)
	(*) Dwarves will stop walking toward cancelled jobs
	(*) Made wagons appear again (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped mouse designation from messing with keyboard designation
	(*) Stopped lye making from using full water buckets (Quietust)
	(*) Made magma/fire safe building materials work properly (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped worshippers of certain beings from mentioning it
	(*) Cleaned up stone menu (Quietust)
	(*) Doors/floodgates display properly after being placed (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped glazed items from having cabochon shapes in the glaze
	(*) Sped up conversation initialization
	(*) Made forge jobs use bar amounts properly (Quietust)
	(*) Made automated fisher/kitchen/etc. settings display properly (Quietust)
	(*) Stopped weird job cancellation numbers for bars/cloth/thread
	(*) Various manual/other grammar tweaks
	(*) Various broken creature tweaks, notably the giant mosquito epidemic should end

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Release notes for 0.34.01 (February 14, 2012):

Here's the release we've been working on for nearly eleven months.  I've tried to collect the major changes below, but it won't be a complete list.  I hope you enjoy the game!

New stuff
	(*) cities in adventure mode that have various buildings, dungeons, items, livestock, etc.
	(*) protect your community from secret vampire dwarves or hunt them as an adventurer
	(*) defend your fort during the full moon or risk a werewolf infestion -- hunt/be hunted as an adventurer
	(*) face armies of the dead in dwarf mode or visit their necromancers' towers and learn their secrets as an adventurer
	(*) evil regions where the dead and pieces of the dead can come alive, with evil mists and rain
	(*) tombs built in world gen which can be visited in adv mode, either beneath towns or out in the wilds -- beware the dead!
	(*) revamped justice/witness/death notification system in dwarf mode
	(*) immigrants to your fortress will now be historical figures whenever possible, which means more family relationships and history for each one
	(*) dropped items/bodies tracked between plays in the wilderness anywhere in the world
	(*) more battlefield information tracked/war dead raisable in world gen
	(*) all sponsorship animals and their giant/man versions are in the game now
	(*) various new abilities for creatures (see file_changes.txt for list and syntax)
	(*) adventurers can use creature abilities/learned powers and they can be tested from the arena
	(*) new site travel map to make navigating towns easier
	(*) reading/swimming/observer (for traps) relevant in adv mode now
	(*) established historical figures can lead bandits
	(*) rivers block movement in adv mode travel
	(*) eating/drinking required in adv mode
	(*) ingested syndromes are now possible
	(*) ability to make campfire (from 'g') and warm items at campfire/fire/magma (from 'I') in adv mode
	(*) traps work in adv mode, once spotted they can be ignored
	(*) gems now have different cuts
	(*) necromancers can write books about various topics (all books are in their towers as it stands)
	(*) moon phase indicator in fort
	(*) alphanumeric world gen seeds and some more world gen params (see file_changes.txt)
	(*) the legends xml has a lot of new info for historical figures

Major bug fixes
	(*) buffer overload from aborted world gen fixed
	(*) fixed cave-in-on-embark issue with hidden underground structure, and a few others

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) designations over z levels all at once now possible
	(*) unit screen divided into four sections
	(*) rivers/pools have ramps now
	(*) able to trade portions of stacks in both modes
	(*) messed with adv mode currency trading and made items teleport to you
	(*) tweaked how fire damage works
	(*) made vision work through floor grates and bars properly
	(*) fixed some road/bridge problems
	(*) crystal glass items possible again
	(*) tweaked adventure mode swimming and alt-movement readout (use alt-movement to get into a river you want to cross)
	(*) skeletons/zombies replaced by animation effect
	(*) demons masquerading as gods will try a little harder
	(*) restricted mandates so they'll be more reasonable
	(*) stopped blank map from being exported when you back out of detailed map export

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Release notes for 0.31.25 (March 28, 2011):

Major bug fixes
	(*)fixed crash related to an items vs. temperature optimization
	(*)fixed world gen crash that could happen if all the beasts were killed
	(*)fixed world gen crash caused when a prisoner escapes from a site at the same time the last person to arrive at the site commits murder

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)made dwarves a little more proactive about seeking a diagnosis for health care that might have been interrupted
	(*)cave dragon gets claw attack, loses stance strike skill

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Release notes for 0.31.24 (March 27, 2011):

Major bug fixes
	(*)stopped bamboo flicker
	(*)stopped dwarves from ripping patients out of traction to bring them to bed

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)made it display traction state in health screen
	(*)decreased triggers for cleaning a bit to try to stop paranoid over-cleaning of patients
	(*)fixed key conflict for clay crafts/statue
	(*)corrected NECK_SPINE bodypart token
	(*)made rodent man bite use teeth properly
	(*)dragon/hydra natural stance skill removed, given claw attack
	(*)corrected baby guineafowl to "keets"

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Release notes for 0.31.23 (March 26, 2011):

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped large pots from forgetting their stockpile assignments
	(*) Cleaned up some more resting/infinite job issues with hospitals (surgery in particular)
	(*) Stopped plant regrowth underground from deleting ramps and stairs, and stopped plants underground from regrowing in magma, deep water, and some other situations
	(*) Stopped buckets from occasionally becoming filled with many, many units of water
	(*) Stopped goblin siegers from fighting amongst themselves all the time

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Fixed some issues with natural skills not being applied
	(*) Handled some more instances of overstockpiling by the hospital zones
	(*) Fixed erroneous interlink between furniture/ammo stockpile interfaces
	(*) Made enraged announcement show up for prone-to-rage critters
	(*) Some more quick speed tweaks (assorted, but not much: bucket save from 27/28FPS -> 31/32FPS)
	(*) Gave rodent men their rodent teeth and added them to the subterranean entity definition
	(*) Gave reptile men teeth
	(*) Changed penguin wings to flippers
	(*) Made platypuses amphibious and made them swim underwater
	(*) Changed sizes for most giant variants of animals and gave some thought preference strings to ones that didn't have them
	(*) Added missing "mundane" tag to penguins and domestic birds

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Release notes for 0.31.22 (March 24, 2011):

Here's the second large bug fix release for 0.31.19.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Fixed a linux crash from units leaving the map with a kill order on them
	(*) Fixed a crash from tileless burrows
	(*) Fixed adv mode crash on service conversation option
	(*) Made healthcare work for dwarves that need crutches
	(*) Made healthcare/hospitals handle plaster/casts properly
	(*) Stopped creatures from attacking across several Z levels
	(*) Stopped hospitals from stocking everything, ignoring the item caps
	(*) Stopped pots from storing almost infinite numbers of items
	(*) Stopped inaccessible spam from cleaning jobs with soap
	(*) Made fish appear in many situation where they were erroneous missing (old forts will still be off, unfortunately)
	(*) Stopped massive lag from certain ghosts
	(*) Fixed up bone artifacts
	(*) Cleaned up persistent activities and squads that were lingering
	(*) Sorted out an issue with combat/training bolts

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Made pots show up in the trade depot list
	(*) Better stockpile options for stone, blocks, metal clothing, etc. and fixed some broken existing options
	(*) Cleaned up some issues with glass items
	(*) Wooden/bone crossbows specifically selectable from uniform screen now
	(*) Made migrant hunters recognize their crossbows properly
	(*) Changed how skills are applied to job products -- attributes are accounted for properly and skills should work in adv mode now, but you'll notice a different distribution of qualities in the final product, especially for no/low skill when differing attributes are involved
	(*) Stopped surgery cancellations over patient not resting in some circumstances
	(*) Ungummed up the hauling system from certain stale jobs
	(*) Made lavish etc. meals take the proper number of item piles
	(*) Made magma forges available more regularly to mood dwarves
	(*) Stopped raw processing from including backup files
	(*) Fixed some capybara and panda typos and tweaked giraffe and reptile eggs
	(*) Cleaned some trouble with grass regrowth and generic "grass" tiles
	(*) Made recentering hotkeys work in other dwarf modes (ones with x cursors)
	(*) Fixed broken readout for completed jobs in unit health screen
	(*) Cleaned up spam from rest jobs from webbed dwarves
	(*) Fixed broken key in hospital zone mode
	(*) Moved underground camp creatures from civ list and stopped their items from being counted in fortress wealth
	(*) Stopped underground theft announcements in hidden areas from being displayed
	(*) Fixed various ugly blank "" names in legends mode
	(*) Fixed a random number overflow from creatures with no attacks

New stuff
	(*) Sponsored animals included: penguin, platypus, badger, moose, along with related buddies
	(*) Rodent men underground
	(*) Invader mounts/monsters have first names

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Release notes for 0.31.20/21 (March 6, 2011):

This is the first bug fix release for 0.31.19, where I've focused on new bugs.  The fixes are listed below.  It also includes a few sponsored critters (pandas and capybaras), as well as some of their wilder relatives.  Pandas are restricted to bamboo grazing and capybaras can vocalize in adv mode (bark, whistle, etc).  I added a mineral availability parameter that you can set from Create World Now or from the detailed parameter screen.  There are a few more things I can do there, but any extensive rewrite is going to have to wait for 3D veins and mine maps (Release 2 in the schedule).  Barring any catastrophes, we'll be moving on to the old-bug-fixing now.

Major bug fixes
	(*) Stopped the game from treating every tool like a container for stockpiles/adv mode
	(*) Stopped hive product collection from removing hive building tag
	(*) Stopped birds from claiming multiple nest boxes when a nest box is deconstructed
	(*) Fixed crash with unusual egg laying
	(*) Made pastured animals spread out more during grazing and allowed pets to be grazed
	(*) Fixed situation where some stockpiled items were not available to jobs (lye, etc.)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) Stopped weird bone-glazing situations
	(*) Made llama/alpacas get sheared properly
	(*) Stopped dwarves from cleaning up wax cakes in stockpiles
	(*) Stopped heroes in world gen from picking fights with dead megabeasts
	(*) Stopped various tug-of-war fights over animals by different jobs
	(*) Stopped wildlife from claiming nests
	(*) Stopped masons from using clay
	(*) Fixed up a situation where the same params would not generate the same worlds
	(*) Made potters apply their skill to statues etc. properly
	(*) Added a clay category to stone stockpiles and cut some inorganics out
	(*) Added wax to food stockpiles pressed material category
	(*) Added wax goods option to finished goods pile
	(*) Made empty pots go to the furniture pile
	(*) Made pots available for brewing
	(*) Fixed some erroneous names of groups of object in the stocks screen
	(*) Made ash glazing use the correct amount of ash (0.31.19 saves might have half-exhausted piles that act up a bit until they are used)
	(*) Stopped extra grass types being stacked on a tile during regrowth
	(*) Stopped aboveground grass from growing in tunnels
	(*) Stopped "grass" from appearing in some underground areas
	(*) Made grass grow back properly in desert etc. areas (0.31.19 saves will get too much regrowth now)
	(*) Stopped grass ramps from flashing in no-varied-ground-tiles mode
	(*) Stopped pet/tame vermin from spawning many copies
	(*) Reordered the new units in the unit list
	(*) Adjusted value of bees
	(*) Stopped vermin assignment to pastures
	(*) Made pen/pasture interface give status of animals (caged, etc.)
	(*) Stopped dwarves from encrusting honeycombs with jewels, etc.
	(*) Corrected egg liquid densities/text error
	(*) Stopped text export from listing zero population animals
	(*) Fixed some issues with red reactions and other jobs not being listed in the workshops
	(*) Allowed object melting and yarn rope jobs from manager
	(*) Made it select the active zone properly when you enter activity zone mode
	(*) Made zooming to units go to the proper unit when multiple units are in the same tile
	(*) Cleaned up some pronoun trouble in personality descriptions
	(*) Properly initialized banditry information (can cut down on some inappropriate dwarf/elf banditry)
	(*) Deer antlers
	(*) Sheep text lines up with there shearability now
	(*) Fixed some creature description text and other small raw tweaks (see file_changes.txt)
	(*) See file_changes.txt for new raw tags

New stuff
	(*) Sponsored animals included: panda and capybara, along with related buddies
	(*) Added world-wide mineral availability parameter

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Release notes for 0.31.19 (February 16, 2011):

This is the first release of what we once called the Caravan Arc, where we'll be changing how trade and the economy work.  The entire release schedule is up at http://bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html.  This particular release doesn't have visible changes to trade -- just a lot of world generation infrastructure.  People eat and starve in world gen now, though it doesn't matter afterward.  Subsequent releases coming up will be making use of these changes during play, but don't expect too much there this time.  There have been many other changes.  Seeing most of them will require generating a new world.

There are lots of new domestic animals.  We also added giraffes, rhinos, honey bees and bumblebees.  Bees were the winner of the animal sponsorship drive and they had many associated jobs, so we didn't try to get into the other sponsored beasts, but we'll be adding those in with every release.

Animals can be placed in pen/pasture zones, and grazing animals will need to graze on grass (they can also eat underground fungus found in many open cave layers).  Pastures should be made large enough to provide ample grass and to prevent animals from being stacked on top of each other.  Animals crammed into one place for too long can become grumpy and violent, but the animals will stay in the pastures without much tending (a dwarf may occasionally run over to an animal if it wanders off the pasture border to walk around something).  There is no way to trade for hay or animal feed at this time, so don't expect grazing animals in new forts to survive on glaciers or the deepest deserts.  Many deserts have patches of grass (or succulents) now.

Sheep, llamas and alpacas (and trolls for goblins) can be sheared and the wool can be spun into yarn.  Chickens and other birds will lay eggs in nest boxes if you place the boxes in accessible areas.  You can mill rocknuts into paste and press the paste for oil (which goes into jugs).  Pressing occurs at the new screw press building.

You can make many of the more clayish soil types into earthenware ceramics now (and you can make fire clay into stoneware and kaolinite into porcelain).  If a fort embark location has clay above the aquifer (or any clay if there is no aquifer), it'll be displayed in the embark readout.  I didn't get very far into glazing, but you can ash glaze and tin glaze (with cassiterite).  Earthenware jugs need to be glazed to hold liquids.  Stoneware and porcelain jugs don't require glaze but can be glazed.  You can also make large pots out of various materials, and these act like barrels (they are associated to stockpiles in the same way, etc.).

Honey bees can be collected and kept in artificial hives (which you can make out of various materials).  You'll need one natural hive on your embark location to get started, but after that you can split the colony into new artificial hives.  The process is fairly automated.  You just need to place the hive buildings and a beekeeper will do the rest.  You can adjust a few settings on each hive to control which hives are held for splitting and which are collected.  You'll need to have jugs around to collect honeycombs (the royal jelly holds up the process otherwise), and you'll need another jug to collect the honey.  Wax cakes can only be made into crafts by a wax worker at this time.

The site finder records the best hit in each square now, and you can stop the finder at any time and browse the results.  The categories and readout have been changed up a bit.  Minerals have been redistributed on the world map, though this might not be satisfying as I was expecting to get a bit farther with dwarf mode trade.  Adjustments might have to be made there until trade is updated.  We'll see.

Animals and plants occur with more or less contiguous ranges now, respecting biome.  There are specific grasses.  The evil grasses are probably a little extreme and seizure-inducing.  I might throttle that back.

I'm starting the first one to two week bug fix cycle now, so there weren't a lot of bug fixes for this release, but creatures, items and vegetation don't pick up as many contaminants now.

There are new options in the graphical map export from legends mode, and I fixed a bug there with village maps getting cut off.

For a list of the new tags available for modding (container reagents in reactions, etc.) see file_changes.txt or the new stock reactions.

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Release notes for 0.31.18 (November 16, 2010):

This one fixes up several crashes and other problems.  Maybe most notably, the problem where you'd become a criminal in adventure mode just by going back to a store, the handedness issue with uniform assignments (it might take it a while to clear out problems in old saves, and I can only state this as confidently as the tests I performed), and SDL movie recording.

Major bug fixes
	(*)fixed crash from shop signs being placed off map
	(*)fixed crash during character generation of human outsiders if you back out of the name menu
	(*)fixed crash from trap announcements/reports
	(*)fixed world gen crash that arose from creature in secondary entity population taking over leadership role when caste mods are present
	(*)fixed crash from walking off the left or upper edge of the world
	(*)corrected misaligned bodypart appearance modifiers on load and resulting crash in pref screen, origin of misalignment unclear
	(*)fixed problem where you are considered a thief after shopping at a store that had previous had its inventory offloaded
	(*)made uniform assignments respect handedness
	(*)reenabled SDL movie recording
	(*)stopped unfinished quests performed by previous characters from stopping nobles from giving new characters quests

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)made skill rates copy over to castes correctly
	(*)fixed problem that added bogeyman kills to the wrong parts of the kill lists
	(*)stopped retirement in town when bogeymen are active
	(*)stopped unequipable soldier unit types from occasionally appearing in ambushes/sites/migrants
	(*)corrected placement of cauldrons
	(*)got rid of size bonus mistakenly applied to opportunity skill rolls and put in the rage penalty it was supposed to be
	(*)made master pikemen get proper skill
	(*)stopped lair hatch covers from rotting away
	(*)added announcement for falling damage
	(*)adding retching after initial vomiting
	(*)changed metal use for humans/gobs/kobs via existing raw tags
	(*)changed a few two-handed weapon sizes
	(*)updated dwarf party organization conditions
	(*)fixed problem with movie playback showing an extra garbage frame for each chunk of the movie
	(*)changed conversation colors
	(*)fixed double adjective in dark fortress
	(*)made Elite Bowman name appear correctly (was showing up as blowgunner), and a few related typos
	(*)fixed some other typos

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Release notes for 0.31.17 (November 11, 2010):

If you want to try out the improvements to adventure mode, I'd recommend generating a new world with at least 100 years of history.  I tried out adventuring in a world from 0.31.03, and it technically worked, but there wasn't much to do.  The reason I recommend some history is just to let the beasts get settled a bit, though it's not strictly required.  We haven't gotten threats moving around and arising during actual play yet, so your worlds will inevitably run out of adventure opportunities as you exhaust them, and games tend to be fast-paced and brief overall once you get the hang of it.  This will change during the next few major releases.  There's an update to the "Your First Adventurer" manual section that might be worth glancing at even if you have played an adventurer before.  Don't be surprised if you die learning a few facts about the world.

Major bug fixes
	(*)fixed problem with baron not arriving due to stale merchant reports
	(*)stopped old jobs/projectiles from tying up items on reclaim

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)changed ring/bracelet symbol to make way for adv mode tools
	(*)cut kill-bragging to 5 kills
	(*)fixed bug through which demon could take over two or more civs in one year
	(*)name change: graveyard -> corpses (since it isn't appropriate for final burial)
	(*)stopped occupancy from being erased upon entering adv mode in arena
	(*)allowed labors to be toggled by category
	(*)added standing order for outdoor vermin refuse
	(*)fixed erroneous material bonuses in world gen fights
	(*)updated wrestling interface
	(*)implemented text for wrestling attacks
	(*)changed combat announcement colors and stun/paralyze color to light blue from light cyan
	(*)toes/fingers protected by armor
	(*)elves are now small e's to match their size
	(*)different soldier/civilian symbols for human/elf (as with the two dwarf symbols)
	(*)stopped triggerable vermin groups from becoming visible occasionally
	(*)fixed some old problems where input wasn't registering properly on movement, etc.
	(*)disabled need to eat/drink in adv mode until we get some more general work in
	(*)various minor adv mode tweaks and fixes

New stuff
	(*)added night creatures
	(*)added lairs for some creatures
	(*)added new travel screen (old worlds might have misplaced moons in the sky bar)
	(*)updated how adv mode sleep works, permission to sleep in buildings
	(*)updated character generation
	(*)added memorial slabs to dwarf mode
	(*)added shops with signs to towns
	(*)changed how lower body/head severs work (spinal sever required)
	(*)changed how guts popping out works
	(*)see file_changes.txt for some new modding tags
	(*)can get tasks from most people and report success to anybody friendly
	(*)added human castles
	(*)made peasants refer you to better quests
	(*)added banditry
	(*)added aimed attacks, random combat opportunities and the ability to use secondary attacks/weapons (both adv mode and dwf mode combat reports)
	(*)added (harder) rolling away for dodgers on the ground

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Release notes for 0.31.16 (October 4, 2010):

Hopefully this one doesn't have any weird new issues.  That bumpy lag should be gone now, and there are expanded refuse pile options.  You can also turn off having your dwarves track around blood (it starts off in the init).  I left it on in adventure mode, but you can turn it off there too if you want.

Major bug fixes
	(*)got rid of intermittent lag that popped up in 0.31.15

New stuff
	(*)added spatter init options (dwarf mode defaults to no walking spread of spatter)
	(*)allowed skull/bone/shell/tooth/horn settings from refuse pile

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Release notes for 0.31.15 (October 3, 2010):

The purpose of this release is to restore the missing invasions, and I threw in some easy fixes on top of it, mostly to the raws.

Major bug fixes
	(*)made invasions come again

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)lots of raw fixes (see "file changes.txt")
	(*)made reactions show the proper building
	(*)made LEAVES load the 'character' style tile properly
	(*)corrected labor name "soap maker" -> "soap making"
	(*)fixed typo in world gen rejection dialog for missing civ definitions
	(*)fixed spelling of chinchilla for forgotten beasts (new ones only)

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Release notes for 0.31.14 (September 23, 2010):

The main issues here were to handle the new bugs from 0.31.13 which were gumming things up (broken migration, undiggable adamantine) and to address site sprawl concerns a bit.  To the latter end, there's a new world gen option to limit the total number of sites and I've added a few options to "Create World Now!" to make use of that.  It's not going to be truly satisfying until dwarven sprawl is better defined and there are more things to do with the sprawl in adventure mode and in dwarf mode wars, but overall I don't plan to decrease the amount of sprawl drastically on default settings once that is handled -- sprawl will likely increase again once memory problems are addressed, there are more things to do with it, and it shifts more dynamically over long periods of time (improved war, disease, famine, migrations, etc).  For now you can control sprawl with the site cap, with the civilization number, with the savagery, and with the history end year from the "Create World Now!" menu without much fuss (and the default setting is much lighter on sprawl than the default in 0.31.13).

Major bug fixes
	(*)fixed problems with immigrants having strange unit types and erroneous announcements about terrifying forts
	(*)allowed raw adamantine to be diggable now by adding a new tag to slade for the time being.  There is a side effect -- slade in old saves will be diggable.  Add [UNDIGGABLE] to slade in the save's raws in inorganic_stone_mineral.txt in your save to fix that.  If you choose to dig through the slade, please don't report any associated bugs.  The game likely won't be able to deal with it properly.

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)fixed plant text in food preferences and stopped generated forgotten beasts etc. from being chosen

New stuff
	(*)added site cap option to world gen parameters
	(*)added beast cap options to world gen parameters
	(*)added a few options to "create world now"

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Release notes for 0.31.13 (September 15, 2010):

The framework for villages and sprawl is in place, and there are now "entity populations" which are made up of thousands of critters for which less information is tracked.  As it stands, this amounts to, say, ten times the number of historical figures after world generation has been running for a while, though it can vary a lot.  These changes have left adventure mode gutted, so don't expect old adventure mode saves to retain much information or work all that well.  Old dwarf mode saves should be fine for continued dwarf fortresses.  In new worlds, you can wander around the new villages, but don't expect anything to be going on.  This is the launching pad for what should be the Funification of adventure mode in the next (non-fix) release, but like many launching pads, it is kind of dull and gray.

As for the merits of this release, there are the bug fixes in the lists below.  The game should also be a bit faster.  I'm on a new compiler in Windows, which led to a general speed increase, and I also optimized some code for improvements on all OSs.  It's not the end of the story there by a long shot, but it is progress, anyway.  World generation itself might be a bit slower overall, since there's a lot more going on site-wise.  This is going to change as we set up relationships between the leaders, one way or another, but I can make a medium island world in around 10 minutes without the memory going totally nuts, and I thought that state was fit for release.

There are some side effects to not having any stable relationships between world gen sites while cutting down on site destructions, like having a site get pillaged for the thousandth time and so on, which will iron themselves out later.  For now, it's a bit weird.  I also saw a battle with negative numbers of soldiers but couldn't reproduce the situation, so there are probably additional issues as well.

The SDL version has the first pass at the experimental TrueType font support that Baughn is working on.  It is off by default in init.txt and it only works in the 2D print mode.  There are lots of justification etc. problems -- you don't need to report those.  Getting those fixed up is part of the process.  It's difficult to read in the standard window size, so you might want to limit yourself to full-screen or a large window with large grid cells when you are trying it out.

Crash fixes
	(*)fixed some potential problems with aborting zone placement, though it's not guaranteed to solve the crash there

Major bug fixes
	(*)fixed problem causing dwarves to not sleep in any bed
	(*)fixed problem causing dwarves not to respect ownership in sleeping priorities
	(*)made cursor center on buildings properly when linking them up to a lever etc.
	(*)stopped other civilizations from bringing liaisons
	(*)stopped building destroyer diplomats/traders from destroying things
	(*)made units check the validity of targets more often (counters certain interrupt spam)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)fixed broken vial making jobs
	(*)make rock short swords use the proper material for the final product
	(*)made horn silver use the stone template
	(*)moved all native metals off of metal template
	(*)stopped season counter from resetting to spring after travel in adventure mode

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Release notes for 0.31.12 (July 25, 2010):

Aside from the major bug fixes listed below, I made skill increases a little faster during training.  Part of the problem is with how classes work -- the teacher and student skills are important, and they can heavily amplify the effects, so the gains for people without those skills were small.  Now it'll be even more extreme that the base rate has increased, so we'll have to see how that plays out in forts that get good teachers.

If your old fort has a dead liaison, your replacement liaison will be named after one of the standard professions most likely, but they should still perform their job.  New worlds should have dead liaisons kicked out completely and get new liaisons.

Crash fixes
	(*)fixed military training crash
	(*)fixed a crash during dwarf creation in arena mode after dwarf mode game had been played
	(*)fullscreen/windowed mode switch crash fixed (Baughn)

Major bug fixes
	(*)fixed new liaison coming when previous liaison is unavailable for any reason
	(*)fixed problem which stopped the liaison from talking about making a barony

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)adjusted skill rates up a bit on indiv training and demonstrations
	(*)made att/skill rate loader treat 0s like NONE instead of the fastest rate

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Release notes for 0.31.11 (July 23, 2010):

Combat was the focus last time, and this time I moved over to equipment and training.  There are a number of bugs left to fix, but a lot of the largest problems should be cleaned up and training should be somewhat usable now.  I wanted to shift ammunition over to a default system where it doesn't get tied to particular squads/hunters (with the old way left as a default for people that want to control it more), since that remains one of the more annoying things, but I didn't have time to finish it up.  Just make sure you have some extra bolts sitting around, and 'm'-'f' should show you how your squads are doing ammo-wise.  Barracks should also probably default to a non-reserved/non-purposed system, though that's not as bad as ammunition reservation is.  In any case, I'll be moving on to the month-end project and entity populations, though I'll release again sooner if something comes up.

Crash fixes
	(*)stopped crash when individual squad members were selected in 's' and you go back to 's' after leaving
	(*)fixed crash moving from ammo assignment creation to material assignment
	(*)fixed reclaim crash
	(*)fixed text mode crash in SDL version (Baughn)

Major bug fixes
	(*)freed up assigned items properly when uniforms are overwritten
	(*)freed up equipment properly from empty positions when squad is disbanded
	(*)made civilian jobs respect attributes properly
	(*)fixed turtle (vermin) shell crafts/helms/gauntlets/etc.
	(*)stopped squad/off-time training activities from persisting when guy goes off to eat, do squad orders, die, etc.
	(*)made inactive/ordered squads free up their old training activities more quickly
	(*)stopped off-time training from gumming up squad training barracks assignment
	(*)removed dead/crazy/etc. dwarves from squads
	(*)dropped injured dwarves out of their activities properly
	(*)stopped bleeding dwarves from thinking they need to jump on the ground and be dragged to the hospital
	(*)stopped miners/woodcutters coming out of the military from thinking they had a claim to old tools
	(*)made people doing off-time training stop if it becomes inappropriate (kicked out of squad, etc.)
	(*)made quota countdown respect reactions again

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)stopped body-component-based artifacts from defaulting out to iron figurines
	(*)made skill rust display properly on 'v' and made temporary skill loss conditions not display on military screen
	(*)changed rust display for skills
	(*)restricted shell moods to dwarves with shell prefs
	(*)stopped metal goblet/flask construction jobs from shuffling metal of product
	(*)fixed up idle strings for non-soldiers vs. lingering squad activities
	(*)decreased effect of low self-discipline on individual training
	(*)sped up training organization
	(*)WINDOWEDX/Y values respected when moving to windowed mode from full screen (Baughn)
	(*)fixed problem with skill demonstration session timer
	(*)added timers for sparring and individual combat drills
	(*)adjusted sparring pulled shots for recent combat balancing
	(*)adjusted skill rates for all practice activities
	(*)put forest start biome on humans (for proactive forest clearing)
	(*)changed hauling encumbrance speed formula and made hauling build atts slowly
	(*)stopped picks from being available to indiv choice soldiers
	(*)required subtype match for armor even under "partial match"
	(*)made off-duty archery training occur for indiv choice ranged weapons (not just crossbow)
	(*)cleaned up various raw typos (see file_changes.txt)
	(*)fixed a bunch of the "you" announcements in dwarf mode
	(*)made counter to stop excessive party attendence work properly
	(*)made it set up default ammo profiles for ranged squads

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Release notes for 0.31.10 (July 11, 2010):

(*)fixed problem where your units would not recognize the nice people arriving on business as their friends
(*)stopped problem where removing a worn object in adv mode could leave you with two copies
(*)stopped seg-fault at quit in linux if sound wasn't initialized (oliver)

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Release notes for 0.31.09 (July 10, 2010):

Lots of combat changes this time.  Keep in mind that old saves use the old raws, so you'll want to copy over at least item_weapon.txt, item_ammo.txt and inorganic_metal.txt to get more of the positive effects.  The adventure mode stone-making ability won't be available in old saves but butchery will be.

Crash fixes
	(*)fixed potential crash with container reactions
	(*)stopped arena mode from caving in/locking up when you leave control mode

Major bug fixes
	(*)made material-based random headless beasts killable
	(*)stuckin bleeding updated properly
	(*)fixed major artery tag when added from creature raw with TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES (also TL_CONNECTS)
	(*)made major artery strike for 25%+ fractures on major artery parts mandatory
	(*)amplified effects for announced major artery strikes
	(*)fixed swing velocity calculation for weapons
	(*)fixed clothing size calculation (messed up shields, gloves, boots)
	(*)changed contact area and size for bolts
	(*)fixed blowouts in giant creature wrestling
	(*)fixed weird skill/profession mixup that stopped marksdwarves from firing on enemies
	(*)freed up some ammo that became lost in limbo after squad deletion/ammo reassignments/etc.
	(*)made hunters grab ammo more reliably when they run out or when labor is changed
	(*)fixed reordering of reaction/ore mats and a few other indexing problems between operating systems

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)reworded some combat announcements
	(*)fixed reaction screen product display error
	(*)fixed contact area issue with misc object fighting
	(*)changed dodging rules for people mounting a charge defense
	(*)fixed problem with edge being disregarded too soon after impact breaks
	(*)changed skill effects on firing rate
	(*)changed contact area calculations for body parts
	(*)various changes to weapon raws
	(*)changed edge/impact calculations
	(*)metal values changed in raws
	(*)fixed problems preventing some gut pop-outs from happening
	(*)fixed issue with extra dodge rolls causing shots to become less square
	(*)other combat tweaks
	(*)obliterated arsenal dwarf (position will still exist in old saves, but won't be used/needed)
	(*)extended distance at which hunters are willing to shoot
	(*)made hunters return kills under more circumstances
	(*)allowed miners/woodcutters to switch immediately to hunt labor without getting confused about crossbow
	(*)stopped targeting of benign, far away wilderness creatures after they see you, unless they are close
	(*)force-allowed targeting of kill targets in some cases where it wasn't permitting it
	(*)stopped indiv choice melee/ranged from picking out weapons of the opposite type instead of just preferring them
	(*)fixed problem with custom workshops blanking out at times (save compat iffy here, might have to rebuild shops)
	(*)made reaction job interface/automation check inside barrels/etc. (stuff manager jobs did right)
	(*)changed stuckin chances

New stuff
	(*)added cumulative wounds
	(*)added adv mode knapping
	(*)added adv mode butchery
	(*)allowed use of (buildingless) reactions in adv mode
	(*)changed adv mode hunger/thirst/drowsiness durations and penalties
	(*)start with spear/dagger in adv play now
	(*)default dwf start with a few quivers
	(*)gave hunters default ammo assignment

SDL Version: Baughn fixed up the macro delay timer, a PPC Mac bug where the screen would be yellow and a seg-fault.

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Release notes for 0.31.08 (June 19, 2010):

Fixed up the crash with the look command and made backing out of embark warnings and reclaim selection work.

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Release notes for 0.31.07 (June 19, 2010):

Crash fixes
	(*)fixed crash when over 200x200 in some screens
	(*)fixed crash associated to assigning daggers to dwarven soldiers
	(*)fixed a crash on the military screen

Major bug fixes
	(*)stopped doctors from picking up and dropping their patients repeatedly when it was time to carry them
	(*)restricted doctors to using tables and traction benches in hospital zones (stalled doctors from old saves will ignore this)
	(*)made workers stop taking new jobs if they can and want to eat/drink/sleep instead
	(*)made certain jobs like updating records and partying quittable at any time due to hunger/thirst/drowsiness
	(*)fixed pathfinding problem in special features that were placed within surrounding liquid layers
	(*)allowed options screen from dwarf/adv mode setup
	(*)fixed some job overwrite issues
	(*)made stockpiles able to take from other stockpiles again
	(*)made ownable items like cloaks that are part of uniforms not put soldiers into pickup/drop loops
	(*)made cooking require a non-liquid object to start (prevents liquid food errors, powders okay)
	(*)stopped item namers from repeatedly naming their items
	(*)changed conditions for feeding/watering of injured dwarves so beds aren't required
	(*)made militia commander assignment from noble screen respect current squad settings properly
	(*)stopped removal of squad commanders from noble screen if they have subordinates
	(*)stopped dwarves from holding multiple positions that lead squads
	(*)got rid of some flashing and debris in SDL version

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*)reduced hunger/thirst/drowsiness skill/speed penalties
	(*)made hunger/thirst/drowsiness thoughts occur a bit later in the process
	(*)made alcohol turn into separate liquid objects less often
	(*)made non-brewing events that create liquids handle alcohol correctly
	(*)stopped clothier from messing up craft shop task listing (and some related issues)
	(*)stopped non-locals from announcing their item attachments
	(*)fixed traction bench situation on manager screen
	(*)added pillar tile to d_init

SDL Version: Baughn improved the curses and 2D output, fixed a text mode display bug, added keys to change the FPS up/down (default alt-- and alt-=), and likely some other things.

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Release notes for 0.31.06 (June 9, 2010):

Crash fixes
	(*) fixed crash on abandon related to having a box/cabinet building assigned to somebody
	(*) fixed crash from using nearly spent soap bars to clean people
	(*) fixed up crash from scrolling over globs in stock screen if certain fats were present
	(*) SDL mode image export crash fixed (Baughn)
	(*) fixed cursor position on farm season selection (possible crash)

Major bug fixes
	(*) made dwarves that initiate individual training recognize when they are no longer doing so properly
	(*) stopped dwarves from swapping out their equipment for newly made items of equal value
	(*) stopped dwarves from assigning equipment from caravans or unforbidden possessions held by outsiders
		also incoming woodcutters/miners/etc.
	(*) stopped dwarves from being assigned large equipment
	(*) added default trade capacity to creatures to stop near-infinite caravan goods from being added to certain creatures
	(*) fixed material template values causing many natural creatures to be very squishy and underpowered

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) 2D mode colors fixed (Baughn)
	(*) curses mode color initialization fixed (Baughn)
	(*) sound header fix (Baughn)
	(*) fixed temporary pathing problems that came from digging out brook tiles (negative construction distance etc.)
	(*) fixed deletion for zones that have all their tiles removed
	(*) fixed problem stopping hospital zones that have some tiles deleted from updating their furniture assignments
	(*) removed forest temperature dampening for artificially hot worlds
	(*) fixed some duplicate tags and other issues in the raws (see file_changes.txt)
	(*) graphical map export should be back in the SDL versions

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Release notes for 0.31.05 (June 4, 2010):

There are probably some Baughn SDL version tweaks not listed below.

Crash fixes
	(*) SDL graphics mode should work now (Baughn)
	(*) creating squads in Linux shouldn't crash the game now
	(*) stopped melting items from eventually crashing the game

Major bug fixes
	(*) animals/babies no longer try to clean themselves at water sources
	(*) stopped losers from keeping their positions at elections (could not easily repair old saves with this problem though)
	(*) fixed problem where ID numbers would be invalid on load after generating a world
	(*) adjusted seasonal temperatures (should actually fix the rain bug)
	(*) SDL grid sizes no longer stuck on 80x25 if you let intro movies play (Baughn)

Other bug fixes/tweaks
	(*) site finder will advanec without keypresses now
	(*) SDL version 2D mode colors are corrected (Baughn)
	(*) stopped cursor from skipping over large entries in stocks screen in SDL versions (Baughn)
	(*) ESC no longer quits SDL keybinding screens instead of going up a level (Baughn)
	(*) slow SDL unit offloading and other similar problems sped up (Baughn)

New stuff
	(*) immediately runs elections for unappointed, unelected positions like expedition leader if leader dies
	(*) can set held key repetition behavior in SDL versions from init.txt (Baughn)
	(*) SDL version 2D mode now allows zooming (Baughn)


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Release notes for 0.31.04 (May 16, 2010):

The main thing here is the new OpenGL code by Svein Ove Aas (Baughn).  Especially if you weren't running at maximum framerates even on the title screen, you should notice a great improvement.  There are some modes worth messing around with in data/init/init.txt -- try "2D" if the game does not work as well as it used to (or stick with the legacy version if truly necessary).

You can get at macros with:
	Ctrl+r = record
	Ctrl+p = play
	Ctrl+s = save
	Ctrl+l = load
There is a directory data/init/macros for them.

You can use PNGs for (translucent) tilesets, you can resize the window using the border, you can zoom using the mouse wheel (reset with F10, you can rebind this to keys if you like) and multiple keys can be bound to one command.

A lot of changes were necessary to get this running, so there are likely to be a variety of bugs.  The legacy version has also been reorganized to make releases easier, so there could be new bugs even there.

Aside from that, we have some general fixes:

Crash fixes
	(*) stopped site finder from eating up a ton of memory (crashing the game on large maps)

Major bug fixes
	(*) changed day/night temperature calculations (fixes fish availability and melting in the rain)
	(*) stopped suture and dressing jobs from being repeated over and over on healed wounds

Minor changes
	(*) made all vermin and smallish outdoor corpse items disappear over time (can be hit after a month for vermin, season for corpse chunks)
	(*) changed ranges for adv mode temperature text
	(*) made temperature of squares adjacent to lava slightly lower


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Release notes for 0.31.03 (April 12, 2010):

I handled some more crashes and the main pathing issue.  Undead aren't quite where they need to be yet (skeletons in particular still don't understand how the skull and spine should be holding them together), but they are more killable in this version.  Since they don't make sense in the first place, there's a sort of hitpoint system for them now that'll get them dead eventually if you don't break them apart, though punching a skeleton to death takes a long time in this system and maces are still a bit underpowered.  The undead HP will be revisited once the undead have more of a basis in the underlying reality.  I'll get to maces etc. sooner.

Crash fixes
	(*) fixed a zone deletion crash (only for zones with buildings in them)
	(*) fixed crash in military screen upon switching to item assignment view when no squads were present
	(*) fixed crash from copying a schedule cell with fewer orders to one with more
	(*) fixed crash from changing alert view while scrolling through a schedule cells orders

Major bug fixes
	(*) fixed pathing problem (root cause was map generation vs. liquids, would mess up ramps/channels and more)
	(*) stopped missing undead/melted/etc. tissues holding parts from being severed

New stuff
	(*) allowed undead in arena
	(*) allowed undead to be killed by accumulated impacts for the time being while they don't make sense
	(*) stopped people from trying to wrestle the undead at all

Minor changes
	(*) messed with corpse piece colors a bit
	(*) fixed "and" spacing in stripe/spot descriptions
	(*) fixed nervous mannerism typo
	(*) fixed some raw typos (see file_changes.txt)

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Release notes for 0.31.02 (April 8, 2010):

Here's the first little update.  Things are still settling down after the release, but it looks like I'll be able to work with the new bug tracker and handle things there day by day.  There will be a few more of these small releases before I begin the SDL/Mac/Linux/40d# merge, since there are more crashes and huge problems, but I'm going to start some of the preparation for the merge as well.

Crash fixes
	(*) [GRAPHICS:YES] should no longer crash the arena or world generation
	(*) fixed training activity crash (from removal of barracks)
	(*) fixed crash from doing a large flow-style activity zone

Minor changes
	(*) made zone removal still work if flows are corrected (uses rectangles)
	(*) made material projectile breath happen intermittently properly
	(*) corrected gorlak color
	(*) made blind cave bears eyeless and gave them extravision
	(*) fixed broken eyelid relationships
	(*) fixed broken child names for goat/unicorn/cave swallow
	(*) swapped giant caste names
	(*) fixed giant cave spider bite (was blunt)
	(*) fixed alligator eye text
	(*) made soap bars instead of globs
	(*) fixed horn silver environment
	(*) added cookability/vermin eating to meat material templates
	(*) added cookability/vermin eating to plant leaf/seed materials

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Release notes for 0.31.01 (April 1, 2010):

It has been a long journey, and it is ongoing.  This release has all of the new stuff we've been talking about for more than a year, but it is quite buggy.  I also still need to do the merge with the OpenGL/Mac/Linux stuff as I mentioned in the dev log.  We have a new bug tracker at http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/ which we are going to try out.  Expect it to be populated over the next few days with hundreds of issues.  All the same, the testers seemed to be able to enjoy themselves, so please try everything out and have fun!

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Release notes for 0.28.181.40d (September 6, 2008):

I decided to release the current bug fixes since a few of them involve patching up submitted saves and I wanted to get those out before I'm forced to break save compatibility for the next version.  I'll still be able to look at all previously submitted saves (and any saves submitted against this version), but fixes won't apply to the saves themselves as the next release won't be able to load them.

Minor Changes
	(*) made sparring dwarves work on their selected weapon/unarmed skills rather than using their best skills

Bug Fixes:
	(*) stopped thrown tantrum items from causing dwarf to become site enemy
	(*) resolved shared item conflicts during map offloads
	(*) prevented units with shared items (eg stuckins/wrestles) from leaving the dwarf mode play area
	(*) got rid of world gen crash during succession after death of prolific long-standing position holders with inbred descendants
	(*) fixed crash from human siege campfires
	(*) stopped dwarves from taking their current hauled object off to bed when they schedule a rest due to injuries
	(*) stopped dwarves from choosing to sleep on top of traps
	(*) made adventure mode store transactions respect containment
	(*) made combat-produced chunks respect forbid orders
	(*) made cats able to carry vermin properly again
	(*) got rid of erroneous goblin siege announcement for elves
	(*) stopped custom profession names from obscuring recruitment announcements
	(*) made forbidden items count toward wealth properly
	(*) stopped fell moods from occurring if the fortress race does not drop a corpse

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Release notes for 0.28.181.40c (August 21, 2008):

Coffee'd up and fixed a display thing.

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Release notes for 0.28.181.40b (August 21, 2008):

Another one.  The partial print for graphics has been changed to a default-no init option, so if you weren't having display trouble and had a better framerate, you should turn it on.  It's in data/init/init.txt and it's called "PARTIAL_PRINT".  It'll probably take a while to resolve issues for everyone else.

Minor Changes:
	(*) added an init option for partial screen refreshes (defaults to off)
	(*) added windowed/fullscreen grid sizes

Bug Fixes:
	(*) stopped designation cursor from leaving a trail when the minimap is updating
	(*) fixed reclaim crash from units holding multigrasp clothing
	(*) fixed lockup for glassmaker moods where the glassmaker doesn't like glass
	(*) handled some other potential multigrasp inventory indexing issues
	(*) fixed problem potentially capping caravan wagon number at 2
	(*) handled new forbid orders vs. butchery, severs and sever-drops
	(*) fixed problem with delay on up digging tasks
	(*) fixed problem causing single tile mountain civs from using feature plants
	(*) fixed wagon occupancy problem leaving behind flags that stopped construction
	(*) stopped reclaim from creating a second site at the spot
	(*) stopped dirt road construction at glacier/stone interface
	(*) fixed problem with map export and flashing job markers

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Release notes for 0.28.181.40a (August 18, 2008):

Here's another one.  Hopefully I can transition to some new features next month, since I've been handling technical issues and problems for a while now.

Additions:
	(*) you can save your embark settings for later use
	(*) added note-taking ability for embark screen
	(*) added forbid-on-death orders for your corpses, other non-hunted corpses, your items and other items
	(*) added forbid order for fired projectiles
	(*) made dwarves prefer to combine items in existing bags/barrels/bins with init options to govern this behavior

Minor Changes:
	(*) made obsidian an economic stone
	(*) did some display optimizations

Bug fixes:
	(*) fixed problem causing site finder to miss areas of the map when hunting for hidden features and rivers
	(*) stopped new kitchen restrictions on contained items from causing no-ingredient food items
	(*) stopped new kitchen restrictions on free item from causing silent cancellations of cook jobs
	(*) fixed problem with up/down windows in adv mode for larger grid sizes
	(*) changed how fireballs interact with the ground
	(*) patched up decorated ammo values a bit
	(*) made cageless traps display properly in all circumstances
	(*) fixed problem with nobles pushing prices out of the displayable range
	(*) handled adventurers retired while sleeping
	(*) fixed display mix-up with FPS/GFPS counter in main dwarf screen
	(*) fixed problem with cursor scrolling vs. y coord in expanded grids
	(*) allowed mouse designations to work below y=23
	(*) stopped the one-step key from messing up pausing when in a menu mode
	(*) made zombie/skels that die in cages have proper corpses

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Release notes for 0.28.181.39f:

More fixes, a bit of work toward armies and caravans, and an expandable view.  If you want to try different grid dimensions, change the relevant entry [GRID:80:25] near the top of data/init/init.txt.  You'll also have to adjust your window size or full screen resolution to match if you don't want the new, larger grid to be squashed.  If you overshoot, it'll stretch them unless you turn black space on.

Additions:
	(*) allowed basic expansion of 80x25 grid
	(*) gave world gen refugees entities and realized them as moving groups on the map after world gen
	(*) added notification and history event for reaching summits of peaks and volcanos in adv mode

Minor Changes:
	(*) added notification for low migration seasons
	(*) added object of worship to religion view in legends
	(*) made detailed map export respect new peak heights
	(*) locally steepened peaks a bit
	(*) added world name to top of history file

Bug Fixes:
	(*) fixed crash involving lava pushing objects
	(*) stopped many bottomless pits from having their upper portions filled with lava
	(*) made reclaim dwarves start with the proper civilian labors enabled
	(*) fixed problem causing just good or just evil params not to function
	(*) stopped message spam from pit/pond/chain/cage jobs where the animal is inaccessible
	(*) stopped note entry from conflicting with a few of the keys
	(*) made constructed ramps stick around even if you dig out the walls near them
	(*) fixed erroneous upper cap on detailed temperature export values
	(*) fixed problem that caused peaks to be raised in flat areas during erosion
	(*) suppressed erroneous "Zeroth" text for non-finalized history collections in dwarf-mode art descriptions
	(*) made usable/unusable option appear when metals are selected in weapon/armor stockpiles
	(*) fixed spacing problem with related hist fig race display
	(*) fixed problem with the evil/good conversion of very large subregions
	(*) fixed lockup from dragon fire modded civs in world gen army fights

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Release notes for 0.28.181.39e:

Another quick patch.
	(*) stopped crash in site finder from large x dims
	(*) changed designation selection timers (aka lazy miners)
	(*) made site finder use embark rectangle size from init options

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Release notes for 0.28.181.39d:

This is the third and final fix release, barring any silliness that forces another quick patch.  Here's the complete list of changes:
	(*) added init options/world parameters to show map features during embark
	(*) added basic site finder to embark
	(*) added a few optimizations for rivers and designation job selection
	(*) stopped message spam from repeated animal taming job when no food is available
	(*) stopped message spam from caging and other jobs when a dwarf is picked that is already leading another animal
	(*) made dwarves cook quarry leaves properly
	(*) allowed scrolling and premature stoppage during world generation
	(*) added display and other features relating to last seed used by world gen
	(*) added world gen parameter for minimum cave size
	(*) stopped people from giving quests to kill themselves
	(*) stopped abandoned stores from being stocked
	(*) disallowed placement of non-empty bags as container buildings
	(*) changed insanity text for animals
	(*) fixed some other minor typos
	(*) made volcanic shafts that are visible in embark always exit through the surface
	(*) handled some cavein-at-start cases from pits and volcanos
	(*) stopped farming restrictions from stopping setting up other seasons
	(*) stopped dwarves holding a two-handed weapons from seeking another weapon if they are set to carry multiple weapons
	(*) added races to historical figure list and event text
	(*) did more context-based name shortening
	(*) added ability for speakers to use first person when talking about historical events
	(*) capitalized first names in trading screens
	(*) got rid of some erroneous birth date display information
	(*) allowed resters to get up once they are not wounded
	(*) allowed resters to move again if they've made bad decisions about where to plop down
	(*) added various detailed map export options (elevation, temperature, etc.)
	(*) made the generator skip more of the minimum reject values if presets are present
	(*) made the generator pop up helpful windows after many rejects and give an option to continue, abort, allow that reject type, or allow all rejects
	(*) fixed crash on large 100 volcanism worlds
	(*) fixed load crash from nullified items
	(*) fixed crash from friendship evaluations when stuck merchant animals give birth
	(*) stopped lockup on artifact creation when 6-7 of the same material are used
	(*) fixed region rejections from savagery (civs still reject savage regions)
	(*) made params load the post-region count variables properly
	(*) added ability to leave notes on the map in dwarf mode
	(*) stopped ramp removal from highlighting hidden areas for regular dig
	(*) stopped masterwork ammunition used in weapon traps from making creators go insane
	(*) stopped removed constructions from removing the floor if another constructed wall is below them
	(*) made viewing historical event artwork in dwarf mode reveal events
	(*) stopped double listing of modded MEGABEAST/POWERS in age name

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Release notes for 0.28.181.39c:

This is the second fix for the new world generation release.  Here's the complete list of changes:
	(*) fixed problem with pathfinding that caused jobs to be randomly cancelled
	(*) fixed bug stopping fish/turtles from being available during embark selection/trade
	(*) fixed rng issue causing duplicate cave names and other problems
	(*) sped up the history export, especially on worlds with lengthy histories
	(*) stopped merchants from complaining about depot when there is one there
	(*) stopped hidden items from making buildings invisible when they are used in constructions
	(*) stopped parameter seeds from being set to Various when you abort a randomly seeded generation
	(*) stopped people from saying RANDOM_DEF_SPHERE when they talk about their megabeast deities
	(*) stopped adv mode conversations with paralyzed/ko'd people
	(*) controlled long names during trading
	(*) moved "Desel All" out of the way in build menu
	(*) allowed artifact gloves to be left-handed, based on handedness of creator
	(*) changed King's to Royal in advisor title text

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Release notes for 0.28.181.39b:

This is the first fix for the new world generation release.  Here's the complete list of changes:
	(*) fixed bug causing dwarves and others to sleep forever
	(*) fixed a few crashes with maps with Y dimensions larger than X dimensions
	(*) fixed another world gen crash
	(*) fixed bug stopping caves from appearing
	(*) fixed bug causing hauling, cleaning and health care professions to disappear from labor list
	(*) made the escape key work properly when setting world gen parameters
	(*) loosened travel restrictions based on enemy seeing the player
	(*) changed effects of temperature on food objects
	(*) changed creature layout during ambushes
	(*) stopped world gen roads from being obstructed by swamps and fixed a problem with how they handled slopes
	(*) stopped world gen animals from starting as drunks
	(*) stopped null civ membership from being added to moving megabeasts
	(*) changed the text for culled historical parents
	(*) fixed problem where tundra rejects were being logged instead of grass/hill rejects
	(*) fixed some grammar issues with battle summaries
	(*) fixed "Peasants" display in status

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Release notes for 0.28.181.39a:

Okay, here's the new version.  You can do various things with world generation, though not much has changed with the regular game.  If you go into the world generation advanced parameters and start designing/drawing your own world, please keep in mind that you'll probably end up getting infinite reject cycles -- you can turn on the reject log in data/init/init.txt to see what's going wrong.  Oftentimes you'll be violating biome restrictions (you can just go through any that you find and 'n'ullify them to solve this problem).  As usual, let me know if it crashes and how to make it crash if it does -- I suspect there are new problems of all sorts lurking within every part of the game, despite having fixed more than 100 bugs for this version.

Save compatibility is a little iffy this time around -- there have been extensive changes to the mid-level maps, so it might get confused about the biome of a particular tile...  and worse.  I haven't noticed anything in limited messing around with old saves, but there will very likely be problems.

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Release notes for 0.27.176.38c:

This release should stop the command line crash from non-standard worlds, and it also has a shot at stopping the site sprawl issue during repeated world generation.  A fix for Power PC Macs is still in progress.

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Release notes for 0.27.176.38b:

This is the first Mac release.  Barring some tragic mistake, this is also the last bug fix release before the continuation of the Army Arc.  Again, this release is made up mostly of small changes that people wanted and some bug fixes for the worst problems introduced during the last release.  See the dev log for a complete list.

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Release notes for 0.27.176.38a:

Various little things that people have wanted for a while this time, as well as many additional bug fixes.  See the dev log for a complete list.

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Release notes for 0.27.173.38a:

The first army arc release, complete with no armies.  It really is mostly foundational work, but you'll notice some small changes here and there, more if you play adventure mode.  See the dev log for a complete list.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.33g:

A few more fixes, a few new init options and a new interface for bringing items to the trade depot.  See the dev log for a complete list.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.33f:

Various fixes people have been waiting for.  Fixed the farm problem from 33e, goblin sieges, mud tracking, made the treeline less annoying, made the missing gemstones available, and lots of other stuff.  See the dev log for a complete list.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.33e:

Continuing along with bug fixing.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.33d:

Fixed a few of the serious problems (one of the trade crashes, resting injury loops, waterskin filling at wells forever).  See the dev log for other minor changes.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.33c:

Continuing along with bug fixing.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.33b:

Various crash and lag fixes again.  See the dev log for other minor changes.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.33a:

Various crash and lag fixes.  There are still lags and crashes, but many of the major offenders have been handled now.  There were also several minor fixes.  See the dev log for those.

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Release notes for 0.27.169.32a:

Well, it has been a while.  That means potential instability, so don't get too attached to your fortresses at this point.  I'll be doing subsequent releases more often now as I solve problems.  In any case, dwarf mode now has a z-axis and you can make fortresses that span several levels.  Fluids behave much more reasonably, and you can walk across the world in adventure mode in the local view without having to step off of an artificial edge.  And various other lots more stuff.

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Release notes for 0.23.125.23a:

The backbone of temperature is in now, but there's still a lot to do.  I'm not working on it for a while again.

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Release notes for 0.22.123.23a:

A bug fix release along with a test-change for the FPS toggling.

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Release notes for 0.22.121.23b:

Few more crash bug fixes and several minor changes.

If you are having speed trouble, you can go to init and turn off temperature and weather to see if that's the issue.

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Release notes for 0.22.121.23a:

Here are some fixes for crash problems.  I've also added metal bins and more information to the sites in the setup screen.  I fixed the FPS/black space problems with the BMP export options and a few other minor problems as well.

There are still potentially serious problems from the temperature and other recent additions.  I'm going to continue working on bugs for the time being.

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Release notes for 0.22.120.23b:

I'm partly through the temperature rewrite.  This release has a lot of bug potential.  You should back up your save folders if you are updating from an older version.

You can set fire to shrubs as an adventurer using the [g] command when you are standing near one.  This is not a permanent command.

The temperature behavior of flows has not been implemented yet.  Very hot/cold creatures do not change the air temperature yet either.  There are a number of features that are in progress regarding temperature.

The problem with dwarves being stuck outside during the stay-inside order should be fixed, as well as a number of other bugs.  You can now move the cursor quickly by using shift + direction.

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Release notes for 0.22.120.23a:

Lots of bugs fixed this time around.  I caught a lot of the stay-inside problems, but there are probably some new issues with random jobs now.  I'll fix these as I hear about them.  I'll also correct any additional stay-inside problems as I hear about them.  It should be easier now that more infrastructure is in place.

There's also some creature graphics stuff you can play with.  See "raw/graphics/graphics_example.txt" to mess around with it.  You'll also need to set [GRAPHICS:YES] in "init/init.txt".  I only drew a miner picture, and a blobby dwarf thing, so I don't recommend this unless you are going to draw/use some additional tiles.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.23c:

Quick fix for missing color definition problem.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.23b:

Quick fix for dyes and a crash bug with inventories in adventure mode.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.23a:

There were various cosmetic changes to the game, mainly the addition of dyes and more art images.  The selection of dyes is very limited at present, and only involves ground plants.  There is a new workshop for this in dwarf mode.  You can use blue mushrooms or import other dyes from human traders.  This will be expanded later.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.22f:

This release is mainly to handle the issues with specific piles.  There are a few other bug fixes as well.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.22e:

Fixed a save corrupting problem.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.22d:

Quick patch for a crash bug from saving furniture piles.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.22c:

Aside from fixing some crash bugs, the main change this time is the addition of specific pile types.  You can access these from [q] on existing piles or you can set them when you are placing piles by selecting "custom settings".  Piles now make claims on bins and barrels.  This is displayed as "Cedar Bin <#12>".  You can use the [q] view for a pile to set the maximum number of bins and barrels it uses.  For now, a pile will only take one extra empty bin/barrel until something is placed inside, then it will take another until it gets up to the maximum.  We'll add some other options later.  In the [p]ile menu, you can also designate a number of reserved bins and barrels that will be used by jobs such as distillation before any stockpile gets to claim them.

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Release notes for 0.22.110.22a:

I fixed a lot of bugs; see the dev list.

The main change for this version was the rewrite of the inventory system.  There will probably be several compat. issues, as well as various horrible bugs.  I've tested and fixed what I've found, but you'll find more.  **Back up your old saves before trying this version**  The old saves will work with this version, but you need to be careful with them.

Those that deserve fingers and toes have them in this version.  You'll also notice right/left gloves.  Creatures lose items now with severs, so you'll lose your left gauntlet if your left arm is removed, for instance.

Creatures are a bit silly about wear they put on rings and other trinkets.  Rings will probably pile up on the right thumb for instance, and earrings will pile up in the right ear.  Armor stands will also only store one glove and one boot for the time being.  This will be sorted out over time.

There aren't any temperature effects despite the residents wearing clothing depending on the average temperature.  This will also be handled later.

Finally, there aren't any gender links to clothing right now, so you might see male dwarves in "dresses" and "skirts".  Keep in mind that men all over the world wear clothing like this, and that's what is meant by these generic terms.  You can remove the items from the entity raw before you play if it makes you feel uncomfortable.

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Release notes for 0.22.107.21a:

There will be families and guards in new world towns, concluding the first third of the Bustling Town Arc.

There's a wait key in adventure mode now (period), as well as some helpful "are you sure?" prompts.

Various bug fixes -- including the clothing acquirement bug, the shield equipment bug and some ashery bugs.

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Release notes for 0.21.104.21c:

I fixed various bugs and implemented other minor changes.  See the changes list for those.  Nobles can still demand items involving small creature bones in old saves, but the preference is no longer generated in new dwarves.

New worlds will see a few cosmetic changes in adventure mode towns (it was not possible to include them in old saves).  It's probably not worth generating a new world for them (and I haven't put up new pregenerated worlds), but the new towns have some larger cookie-cutter buildings like apartment complexes, and everybody will sleep at night and eat three meals a day from a magic barrel in their room that refills at midnight.  Once the caravans and a notion of wealth are in, this can all be differentiated properly instead.  As we progress along the Bustling Town Arc, it'll eventually be worthwhile to regenerate if you play adventure mode, but it's not a big deal right now.  In old worlds, you might notice some things like merchants taking breaks to wander around or sleeping on the beds in the mead hall.  They are just trying their best to follow the new schedules without having a home to go to.

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Release notes for 0.21.104.21b:

There's a skeleton of a workshop profile now.  It is in progress and undocumented.  You can select workers to work at the shop either by name or by skill level.  The list is not ordered yet.  You can use the mouse on this screen.  It's also written up in a new way that is independent of the 80x25 window to facilitate some more flexibility later on.

Many small fixes (read the dev log).

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Release notes for 0.21.104.21a:

This fixes a problem with the export feature, lets you play around with the mouse when doing designations and cleans up some of the problems with flows and channel-related spam.

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Release notes for 0.21.104.19c:

Some highlights include fixing the disappearing bone/shell problem and allowing engraved wall images to be toggled on and off.  The detailing jobs shouldn't shut off at random any more.

Some of the issues with cat butchery have been handled.

I did a little bit with consolidating announcments (x2, x3, etc.), but I'll need more time to do it properly.

Alt-tabbing in full screen might work a little better.  Seems to work here is all I can say.

Until I make the cleaners smarter, blood disappears at the beginning of every season now.

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Release notes for 0.21.104.19a:

Fixed several crash bugs and cleaned up some affected saves.  I also found out why named creatures were disappearing sometimes and fixed that, though saves in which the problem is currently active will still see some of it.

Chasming refuse is in, though there will probably be some irregularities of which you'll have the pleasure of informing me.

There were some other changes that might help with sheriff/injury tantrums.

Some of the tree designation clearance problems should be gone.

Trade agreements should work properly.

The thieves that enter the fortress are somewhat easier to detect now.

Depending on how you've bound your keys, you should have the odd hold-down behavior only when using a cursor or scrolling now.

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Release notes for 0.21.102.19a:

Fixed a couple more crashes and various other errors (see the change log).

Genders are mixed on starting animals now and horses should breed.  The unit screen will show some other designations beside "No Job" and there it will distinguish merchants and diplomats.  Water should flow into the cliff face now, at least from new channels.

You can give your units nicknames and profession names now.  Do this from the [vpz] profile using [y] to customize them.  In adventure mode, you do it from the [l]ook + [enter] status view (again [y] to customize).  The [y] command appears onscreen.

Some tantrum issues were fixed.  Placing artifact furniture was actually making them unhappier.  Fist fights and beatings still led to a minor version of the civil war bug.  These issues have been resolved.

The "Shift + R Menu" instead of "n" for the N key has been resolved, though you might need to clean up your old files a bit if you are important old ones.

You can toggle between windowed and fullscreen mode using F11 (or whatever key you bind) whenever you like now.  Let me know what problems come up with this.  I haven't handled direct minimization from fullscreen, but you can toggle and minimize from the windowed mode.  You can also get rid of the "fullscreen?" box that pops up the beginning in "data\init\init.txt" now.

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Release notes for 0.21.101.19d:

Resolved a unit scrambling issue from active saves in adventure mode.  You will no longer turn into the stray dog in town or a random goblin or warthog.

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Release notes for 0.21.101.19c:

Fixed a few more crash problems, but the main thing was to hopefully remove some of the strange mainly adventure mode instability introduced by the last version.  In case this sort of thing persists, please be careful to back up your saves before trying this one.  Worlds that were generated in or even played in the briefly-available 0.21.101.19b are likely to be twisted to pieces, especially if you played adventure mode.


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Release notes for 0.21.101.19b:

Many more crash fixes, including stopping some of those inflate errors.  Those saves are still corrupted though.

I've changed how some of the search routines work.  I tested it out on several saves, but you should keep a copy of yours safe before you try this one just in case, as usual.  If you get around to creating a new world, you'll notice a significant speed increase when the years march up.  Some of this also carries over to the main game.

Finally, aqueduct behavior has been partially repaired.  Building an aqueduct over your chasm should work, but aqueducts over water can randomly drown your fortress.  If you want to get lava over the river, try a stone bridge instead.  If you lava is in a channel next to the bridge, you might need to use a floodgate to get it over.  Bridges over water filled channels probably won't conduct lava properly.  I'll get around to fixing the rest of this in time, but there are still some crash bugs etc. that are higher priority.

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Release notes for 0.21.101.19a:

Several crash bugs should be fixed now.  Most saves will be recoverable, unless they have a load inflate error.

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Release notes for 0.21.100.19a:

See command_line.txt for information on world generation from command lines.

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Release notes for 0.21.95.19c:

Old save farmplots might show "Ft 0/0" for the fertilizer amount.  It will update at the beginning of the season.