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Scary Ogres, Siege Fixes + Fangamer Update 🗡 Dwarf Fortress Patch 53.04

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Hey Urists,

Here's a bigger patch for siege mode and a handful of general fixes. We've also had two hotfixes go live for immediate siege mode fixes, which you can read about here for patch 53.02 and 53.03.

We've also got some news about a Fangamer sale and the highly requested restock of the pint glasses.

Release notes for 53.04:

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.

Scarier Ogre portrait

Fangamer Sale and Pint Glass Update

A few items from the Fangamer Dwarf Fortress collection are up to 50% and available now in the Fangamer Year-End Sale.

We've also had requests make the pint glass available again and we're working with Fangamer to bring them back to the store soon. You can request to get notified when it's back in stock on the store page.

-Alexandra

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