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Release information/53.06

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Revision as of 02:44, 25 November 2025 by Ziusudra (talk | contribs) (Creating release notes for v53.06)
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Continuing to add improvements to the Siege Update. Some sources of siege freezes/lag are gone, and the invaders should be a bit smarter with more active rams. Some new graphics tweaks, and a new song, "Nabidas"! The problem with inter-party fighting in adventure mode on ambush is fixed.
Toady One, November 24, 2025

Siege updates[edit]

  • Fixed slowdown associated with invaders trying to break through certain floors from below.
  • Made builders always try to connect staircases even if the main siege path has changed.
  • Fixed issue causing siege path to sometimes reset if it required both miners and builders.
  • Fixed issue causing battering ram pathing spam.
  • Added some more pathing spam prevention to invader planning.
  • Made building invaders give up on stale irrelevant far away build jobs.
  • Improved siege composition to stop overemphasis on heavily armored unskilled invaders.
  • Fixed some exploration behavior that got invaders stuck in trees too often.
  • Made rams more active.

Audio[edit]

  • New song "Nabidas" plays in any context.

Graphics[edit]

  • Updated dwarf and human skin tones/eyes in full body pictures.
  • Blind cave ogre fingers and toes properly represented.
  • Updated snail people graphics.
  • Updated gem graphics.
  • Updated jeweler's workshop graphics.
  • Added palettes for leather and skins.
  • Creatures without corpse pictures show a skeleton or liquid blob.
  • Centered cave swallow and serpent person images and fixed serpent person corpse image.

General updates[edit]

  • Stopped adventure mode party members from feeling instinctual need to hunt and kill other party members when ambushed by wild animals.
  • Stopped glob spitting procedural creatures from spitting unknown material rather than poison.
  • Fixed issue that could cause adventure mode bandit harassment from ending prematurely.
  • Added more medical job exemptions to mount-being-controlled-by-rider rule.
  • Stopped ghosts that return from the dead twice from reporting an improper location as the site of the return.