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Update 51.09: Forbidden Coffins now unusable
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Hey Urists!
We are back from GDC with an update for Fortress and Adventure Mode. Next we'll be starting work on sieges, while also keeping a pace of regular fixes and improvements.
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In case you missed it, we also have a seasonal update video from Tarn. He goes over the last few months of updates as well as lua, the upcoming siege and site building updates. Watch on Youtube:
Patch Notes for 51.09
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
-Alexandra
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