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[Max™]

I uh... huh, not a df bug or question or whatnot but not sure where to even bring it up... anybody else seeing weird lines on parts of their bay12 forums pages?

Spoiler: Like, the colors back there change as I scroll but the lines stay in the same spot. (click to show/hide)

[zakarum]

This was probably answered before so if anyone has a previous answer by Toady I'd be more than happy to hear it.
Can dwarves change/adopt religion? Do sermons make dwarves more inclined to a different religion? Can dwarves lose faith in a god?

[PatrikLundell]

This was probably answered before so if anyone has a previous answer by Toady I'd be more than happy to hear it.
Can dwarves change/adopt religion? Do sermons make dwarves more inclined to a different religion? Can dwarves lose faith in a god?

At least world gen allows for new religions to spring up and recruit followers, which implies those characters can at least adopt religions, and megabeasts have attracted worshipers for a long time.
A post by Toady the other day said you could hold sermons as an adventurer, but that it was rather pointless (which implies that part doesn't do anything useful).
I've gotten the impression religion isn't that powerful in fortress mode yet (lack of time, as usual), but obviously, Toady is the one who knows what the state is.

[Shonai_Dweller]

This was probably answered before so if anyone has a previous answer by Toady I'd be more than happy to hear it.
Can dwarves change/adopt religion? Do sermons make dwarves more inclined to a different religion? Can dwarves lose faith in a god?

At least world gen allows for new religions to spring up and recruit followers, which implies those characters can at least adopt religions, and megabeasts have attracted worshipers for a long time.

I'm amused by the way that some of the demon lords of hell have, after being unleashed and executing everyone in sight, adopted Dwarven religions.

Worldgen relationships question:
Lovers get married, but do childhood friends ever later become lovers? That seems like it should be a thing on occasion.

[Beag]

Probably the last question from me for this month- When I was playing an escaped necromancer experiment I traveled around for a few days and didn't get hungry thirsty or tired, do escaped necromancer experiments not need to eat, drink or sleep?

[Bumber]

Probably the last question from me for this month- When I was playing an escaped necromancer experiment I traveled around for a few days and didn't get hungry thirsty or tired, do escaped necromancer experiments not need to eat, drink or sleep?

Well, necromancers don't, so I would assume the same thing applies.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Probably the last question from me for this month- When I was playing an escaped necromancer experiment I traveled around for a few days and didn't get hungry thirsty or tired, do escaped necromancer experiments not need to eat, drink or sleep?

Well, necromancers don't, so I would assume the same thing applies.

Necromancers have mastered the secrets of life and death and are now immortal, crazy, book writing, lich type things.
Failed experiments are poor folk who got turned into ugly beasts. Why would one equal the other?

[voliol]

This was probably answered before so if anyone has a previous answer by Toady I'd be more than happy to hear it.
Can dwarves change/adopt religion? Do sermons make dwarves more inclined to a different religion? Can dwarves lose faith in a god?

At least world gen allows for new religions to spring up and recruit followers, which implies those characters can at least adopt religions, and megabeasts have attracted worshipers for a long time.
A post by Toady the other day said you could hold sermons as an adventurer, but that it was rather pointless (which implies that part doesn't do anything useful).
I've gotten the impression religion isn't that powerful in fortress mode yet (lack of time, as usual), but obviously, Toady is the one who knows what the state is.

Preaching doesn't seem to do much, no, except for attracting criticism (both positive and negative) from the audience.
If you ask them about the event afterwards they can say "it was according to my faith" if they are a fellow believer. Otherwise they mostly say "it was boring", even if they seemingly enjoyed your sermon while you were doing it, claiming "This preacher is good/promising/great.".
After greeting a person who (recently?) listened to you preach they end their greeting you with "Do you have wisdom to share, preacher?".

[Atomic Chicken]

How does the new RANDOM_NEARBY_LOCATION interaction token argument work? That is to say, what checks are performed to determine whether a particular tile is a valid spawn point? Are creature characteristics (such as the ability to fly) taken into account with regards to summoning interactions using this? What happens if such an interaction were to be performed by a flying creature surrounded by nothing but open space when the unit being summoned is not a flier?

[clinodev]

Let me start by thanking you for this release! Even though it's early days with crash bugs and weary new mothers, folks are having a lot of fun!

I do have two common questions:

Are altars and dice meant to be adventure only, or for both modes? In fortress mode they can be bought at embark, made in the craftdwarf's workshop, and found in reclaimed worldgen forts, but altars at least cannot be built in fortress mode.

Are dwarf necromancers intended to openly arrive as regular migrants in fort mode? I've watched two very funny streams with multiple necromancer migrants, but they didn't end well.

[voliol]

What are the requirements for a non-player fortress/civ breaching the underworld? It has been observed to happen multiple times in the same fortress (link), but could this happen to the previously emerged demon civ, without any intermediate take-over?

[Shonai_Dweller]

What are the requirements for a non-player fortress/civ breaching the underworld? It has been observed to happen multiple times in the same fortress (link), but could this happen to the previously emerged demon civ, without any intermediate take-over?

I'm looking at a world with 20 Circus breache (some at the same site). Two of those were caused by goblin civs (goblin civs that were both created by Dwarf circus breaches). They're different civs so kill each other and take over as you'd expect.

[Bumber]

Probably the last question from me for this month- When I was playing an escaped necromancer experiment I traveled around for a few days and didn't get hungry thirsty or tired, do escaped necromancer experiments not need to eat, drink or sleep?

Well, necromancers don't, so I would assume the same thing applies.

Necromancers have mastered the secrets of life and death and are now immortal, crazy, book writing, lich type things.
Failed experiments are poor folk who got turned into ugly beasts. Why would one equal the other?

Because they're made by necromancers?

[Untrustedlife]

Gotta get a couple more in before the opportunity closes:

How free-willed are the current intelligent undead? (I remember a long time ago you said one of the big essential things about them is that they could, in fact run off and start a farm, or bandit group etc)

Will we ever see any night creatures akin to a Ring Wraith? Eg a night creature or monstrous magical thing associated with certain artifacts who hunt the current user of it.

Why do the new ghouls and intelligent undead have [SYN_CONCENTRATION_ADDED:1000:0]

What does the [EXPERIMENT_ONLY]interaction token which always appears alongside  [I_SOURCE:EXPERIMENT]  do? You would think [I_SOURCE:EXPERIMENT] would be all thats needed here. So [EXPERIMENT_ONLY] must do something special.

[Untrustedlife]

Probably the last question from me for this month- When I was playing an escaped necromancer experiment I traveled around for a few days and didn't get hungry thirsty or tired, do escaped necromancer experiments not need to eat, drink or sleep?

Well, necromancers don't, so I would assume the same thing applies.

Necromancers have mastered the secrets of life and death and are now immortal, crazy, book writing, lich type things.
Failed experiments are poor folk who got turned into ugly beasts. Why would one equal the other?

Because they're made by necromancers?

I don't think that's really how logic works. If a necromancer wanted and toady had implemented it a necromancer could totally create something that isnt undead even though it wouldnt be very thematic since they are associated with dead things. But its doable in any case. Theres no specific limitation there. Someone would have to confirm that no_sleep and no_eat etc. are tokens on these things, but it seems like it makes sense, experiments are technically undead right do they not have the NOT_LIVING tag?  But they could in fact still have to eat and such toady would def have to answer that or someone would need to do some raw checking.
For example , they could totally be able to die of old age, we wouldn't know until we look at the raws. Being made by a certain night creature does not automagically give you the tokens of that night creature.  Its easy to add interactions that dont do anything like that.