Dwarf Fortress News

Издательство Kitfox Games сообщило, что симулятор строительства с элементами рогалика Dwarf Fortress продался тиражом более 600 тысяч копий за два месяца — в четыре раза больше, чем ожидалось.

There are countless ways for dwarves to die in Dwarf Fortress, a colony management game that I've sometimes described as "a game about entirely preventable tragedies." The latest Dwarf Fortress update adds a new one: gladiatorial battles between dwarves and any number of the game's many strange and violent creatures.

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If you're still intimidated by base building in Dwarf Fortress's Steam release, then there's good news. Patch 50.06, released today, has added Arena Mode into the Steam version. Arena is a sandbox mode where you can spawn any of Dwarf Fortress's various creatures, kit them out with gear, set special conditions, and then watch them battle it out. It is great.

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• Arena mode is back, with an updated interface.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.