I will probably just enjoy underground exploration. It sounds like the new version will be much more fun when it comes to that, it's kinda dull with how it's currently with underground features being rather rare (sure there is the site finder... but I rather be guaranteed that I find something as long I dig deep enough).

I like that healthcare is revamped. I always felt a little helpless over my hurt dwarves (especially when half my fortress consist of dwarves in beds). :/ Having someone help them to recover would be awesome. Plus now there's "hospital" zones, so you no longer have sick dwarves filling the barracks next to the healthy/sparring dwarves.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the underground features as well. Especially because some of it is still unknown... I got spoiled on HFS before I ever met it, so I'm looking forward to the unknown! Still, I think having a nice plan for the fortress layout might be nice. It's helping me to get psyched again, if anything.

The HFS... I remember that it used to randomly kill fortresses in the old 2D version. Thankfully it's not that drastic this time around.

Mm, I saw a fortress like that once. One big, long cylinder bored into the earth. Apparently was quite effecient. Then it was made even more dwarfy by channeling out a strip of land all around the cylinder, down to the bottom, and filling it with water.

Yeah, the efficiency is due to the shorter trips up/down one level instead of having to traverse one room to get to another room.

That isn't my plan, though. I intend to have the cylinder itself be hollow, save for the walkways. It's not efficient, but it's COOL. Efficient forts get boring.

I'll probably stick with my 'core section' of stacked hab/dining zones and stacked production/werehouse zones just far enough away to keep the bedrooms quiet.

All the new features underground kind of bolix my old pattern of brotecting my little guys by building the 'Bjorg Cube,' walls all the way around the map edge, and reaching up to the limit of the sky.

(It lets me use all the blocks made from all the stone from all the expert miners digging up the ground everywhere.)

So you wall off your section of the map? That sounds kinda boring, imo. The only reason I did a similar project was to make sure the invaders wouldn't flee before my sheriff could get them. Never completed it though.

Also, I'm pretty sure workshops dont produce noise anymore. Toady/the wiki said so.

I like a nice peaceful community, and having my woodsmen and herbalists being attacked by random ambushes, and thieves sneaking in and out with no regard for my carefully placed sentry posts, complete with sentries who seem to keep wandering off to get the booze three levels down instead of the supply five squares away on the same level, tends to upset me and i lose focus on the magnificent contraptions I was trying to build.

Why not just disable invasions, then? :P

It's not an invasion, it's just the ambush parties coming in to make my life hell. And if I disable them, I wouldn't be able to lead them into my intricately designed traps.

New Dwarf Fortress version being released? Huzzah!

Huzzah!

FUCK YEAH DWARF FORTRESS! <3

STRIKE THE EARTH!

I can't wait until the new version comes out. :3 No idea what I"m gonna do, I'll think of something when I get there.