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[Enemy post]

The mod's done, but I need to pack it up, get it to work with the Lazy Newb Pack, and send it back to you. Load times are much longer and I'm sure there's a few crash bugs, but that's pretty much inevitable with this sort of thing.

*Alright, try this pack by itself.

Like I said before, there are still bugs and the occasional crash, but it's about as stable as such a pack can be. I recommend smaller worlds or shorter histories to keep the crashes to a minimum.

Spoiler: Sources (click to show/hide)

Jawa Fortress is by me.
Undertale, Mushroom Kingdom, and Mortal Kombat by Indigo Fenix.
ZM5's pack and Zombies ate my Dwarves by ZM5.
Spellcrafts by Eric Blank.
Pokemon by FirePhoenix11.
Dinosaurs by Eotyrannus.
My Little Pony by Sorcerer.
Fluffy Pony Mod by DSD.
Colony Alpha by Icecoon.
Dragonball by Putnam.

[dewy60]

Thank you. I have another question, how do you make mod packs?

[Enemy post]

You're welcome.

A literal answer to your question is that you just install them together and run them at the same time. However, the thing that makes this complicated is raw duping. Like I said before, raw duping is when you have two entries with the same name. Two [CREATURE:TOAD]s or the like. If you have that, the game breaks down. The solution is to go through the mods you downloaded and eliminate or adjust the matching files. Small mods and anything made by IndigoFenix are generally the easiest to combine with other mods in my experience.

[dewy60]

Okay, I have one more question, If I don't see any instances of a mod being launched or working through LNP, can you provide any explanation of how to install a mod or a pack of mods, properly?

[Enemy post]

Did you generate a new world? That's necessary for most of the content to work. Try checking the Arena for the new things too, that might be quicker. If the mod didn't install through Lazy Newb Pack, copy the contents from the mod folder I gave you and paste them directly into your Dwarf Fortress folder. You might want to make a backup for when you decide to go back to vanilla.

[knainoa]

I'm having a similar problem merging Grimlocke and Meph pack, but without LNP. How did you go about this? I tried hand merging the raws myself but that only barely worked, still a lot of stuff broke.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

I'm having a similar problem merging Grimlocke and Meph pack, but without LNP. How did you go about this? I tried hand merging the raws myself but that only barely worked, still a lot of stuff broke.

See Meph's stuff is like Grimlocke's and a few other overhaul mods. Some base stuff like tissues, and materials have been altered by both of them extensively or even "normalized" so Meph might have on STONE_TEMPLATE [REACTION_CLASS:RAW_STONE] but Grim might have [REACTION_CLASS:BREAKABLE_STONE] and then they have reactions that use those classes in their own way

but when you merge them (in the easy overwrite this file with this one) you're going to lose 1 or the other for a class which can break stuff, not in a hard way but more of "this reaction won't work anymore"

there are other things that could break but in the case of merging you have to see what all their differences are between vanilla and that mod, then combine them into manually