# Dwarf Fortress Hotfix: Patch 53.08

- Product: Dwarf Fortress (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dwarf-fortress)
- Vendor: Bay 12 Games
- Date: 2025-12-19
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/520859243419534469
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- **fixed** — Reduced erroneously long deconstruction speeds
- **fixed** — Fixed broken scrollbar for work detail labor list
- **changed** — Changed relationship between mining speed, mining skill, and materials
- **fixed** — Fixed broken mining speeds for native metals
- **changed** — Moderated lack of drink effect on work speed

Here's a little patch to clean up some issues that sprang up (broken deconstruction speeds, broken work detail scrollbar.)

I've also tried to adjust the new material-based dwarf dig speeds to be faster overall - there had to be give somewhere, so legendary miners now aren't as relatively speedy (they are still twice as fast as a novice.)  Native metals were also taking way too long to mine.  And the lack of drinks effect was coming on a little too strong too early in mining in a noticeable way.

**General updates**

-  	Reduced erroneously long deconstruction speeds.

-  	Fixed broken scrollbar for work detail labor list.

-  	Changed relationship between mining speed, mining skill, and materials.

-  	Fixed broken mining speeds for native metals.

-  	Moderated lack of drink effect on work speed.