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[Splint]

CIVILIZATION FORGE UNOFFICIAL BRANCH
[DISCLAIMER]
I am not the original creator of this mod.
Mephansteras has granted me permission to upload my personal update to his mod, found here, since he's unsure when he'll actually have a release available for the mod proper.

WHAT THIS MOD DOES DO
Updates, trims, strips out antiquated systems, and brings Civilization Forge (mostly) to v47.04, and integrates Fungus Expansion and Splint's Utility Mod into the mod, to allow for more varied stuff, and more efficient building, among other things. Some of these changes are based solely on personal preference, and do not reflect any design choices Mephansteras may make.

WHAT THIS MOD DOES NOT DO
Claim to be the original mod, its replacement, or take credit where it isn't due.

Spoiler: CHANGED STUFF (click to show/hide)

- Stuff Mephansteras made, that I changed for one reason or another, or changes to vanilla files.

-- Dyansauri renamed to Saurians, and made hostile: Personal preference, and description implies they're meant to be largely unfriendly. May return them to friendly status later down the line.
--- Dyansauri typo fixed for Anger Propensity.
-- Hobgoblins made hostile: Description implies they're unfriendly.
-- Sand Raiders renamed to Dune Raiders: Chose to use Syrupleaf interpretation of them, and remove the blatant Star Wars reference.
-- Chaos Dwarves renamed to Duergar: Personal preference, avoids confusion with WFB Chaos Dwarfs.
-- Flat slap removed from many, many weapons.
-- Pommel strike added to several weapons.
-- Guard strike added to two-handed swords.
-- Poll strike added to battle axes.
-- Maul changed to Mace Skill. This is because of the inclusion of a new two-handed great hammer.
-- Great weapons in general altered to allow smaller creatures to use them (but they must still do so two-handed.)
-- Whip contact area increased from 1 to 10, to reduce lightsaber-ness.
-- Vamarii arrive to trade in winter, to replace the frost giants and hobgoblins, rather than Autumn.
-- Various invertabrates fixed where necessary.
-- Dyansauri and Invertebrate egg materials fixed.

Spoiler: REMOVED STUFF (click to show/hide)

-- Frost Giants and Dire weapons:  Combination of disinterest and balance concerns due to their size and reliance on glacium. While I could tweak them some, I just don't find them interesting enough to be worth the effort.

To elaborate, large creatures in armor even of poor materials can put serious wear on your own weapons, even when those weapons are made of higher quality materials. While I haven't tested this with steel or other materials, iron would start to show heavy wear even against enemies in plain clothes of sufficient size, and copper would often deflect blows entirely, where against more normal sized enemies, iron would laugh at the poorly or entirely unarmored. Glacium is stated to be better than steel going from Mephansteras' original readme, and given the relative rarity and complexity involved in making something better, it struck me as a major issue for dealing with them should a war begin.

At the same time, several of their weapons are entirely unusable by anyone but other frost giants, making them functionally useless besides being de facto expensive trap components. Additionally, the Vamarii, who inhabit similar conditions, bring similar goods - weapons and armor aside - so losing them as a trade partner isn't a big loss.


-- Jawas: Didn't care for the blatant Star Wars reference.
-- Zephyrs: They'd functionally just be competing with kobolds for places to die in during world gen, and weren't that interesting, being kobolds with a different coat of paint for practical purposes.
-- Primitive civs, including a Dyansauri variant civ, axed for the time being. I'll probably bring'em back in later, but there's other stuff I'd like to do first.
-- Library System: Removed due to new stuff in newer game versions, and to simplify the updating process.
-- Crystal Furnace: Removed because crystal glass works fine in the current version.
-- Jarmaker's Workshop: Because it seemed pointless.
-- Iron Anvil Casting: SUM covers it.
-- Bedroll Making: SUM covers it.
-- Chitin and Scale tanning/processing, for the time being, to reduce changes to vanilla material files.

Spoiler: NEW STUFF - Civilization Forge Unofficial v1 (click to show/hide)

Savage Weapons
- Adds a number of primarily edged weapons to the Saurian, Duergar, Bugbear, and Goblin civs. Most have higher contact areas, resulting in theory, in shallower but large and bloody wounds and poorer armor penetration. I could be wrong though, and they're mostly just for flavor anyway.
-- Crude Sword: One-handed short sword with a higher contact area.
-- Serrated Cleaver: One-handed short sword with a higher contact area.
-- Makeshift Greatsword: Two-handed sword. Lacks guard strike added to vanilla two-handed sword.
-- Rough Saber: A blunt one-handed slashing sword.
-- Serrated Spear: Much higher contact area than a vanilla spear.
-- Crude Lance: Higher contact area than a vanilla pike.
-- Crude Great Axe: Two-handed axe.
-- Serrated Axe: Battle Axe with higher contact area.
-- Simple Fighting Axe: Hatchet varient intended to invoke early bronze/copper age axes.
-- Hunting Spear: A spear that uses Mephansteras' javelins as ammo. Uses Throwing skill for ranged attacks.
-- Weight-chain: A chain with a weight on on end. Two-handed blunt whip.
-- Spiked Weight-chain: Same as the Weight Chain, but with spikes. Two-handed edged whip.

Savage Armor
- Armors meant to invoke improvised, partially-looted, low skill craftsmanship, or poor care by their owners. They don't cover as much as their non-junky counterparts.
-- Scrap Armor: Chest Armor, 75 Coverage
-- Chest-plate: Chest Armor, 50 Coverage
-- Makeshift Armor: Chest Armor, 90 Coverage
-- Scrap Helm: Helmet, 60 Coverage
-- Leg Guards: Greaves, 60 Coverage
-- Plated Gloves: Gauntlets, 50 coverage
-- Crude Gauntlets: Gauntlets, 75 coverage

Vamarii Weapons
- Adds a small selection of "Vamar" weapons, which are mainly just for flavor.
-- Vamar Mace: Meant to invoke a Pernach. It falls between a vanilla mace and warhammer in terms of contact area.
-- Vamar Saber: Meant to invoke a Cossack or Hussar Saber.
-- Vamar Halberd: Meant to invoke a full-sized Long Bardiche.
-- Vamar Axe: Mean to invoke a scaled down, one-handed Bardiche. Unique for an axe, it has a stabbing attack.

Other Weapons
-- Great Hammer: Generic two-handed hammer-skill weapon based on the Maul. It has a lower contact area than the Maul

Splint's Utility Mod Integration
- Adds a great deal of additional functionality, building options, and other stuff, such as shield painting.
-- The Shield Painter will accept any shield item, unlike in the base mod.

Fungus Expansion Integration
- By Mottledpetrel, found here. Mainly added for the mood-assisting drinks and dyes.

Spoiler: NEW STUFF IN VERSION 2 (click to show/hide)

- Included Utility files and entities that use them updated to SUM v11.
- All entities updated to include die and altars where appropriate.
- A "No Additions" version that removes the Utility Mod, for those who prefer that (you'll lose anvil casting if that matters.)
- A playable Vamarii entity found in its own folder, with a very mild focus on living in colder climates. The Vamarii now have their own unique material in the form of enchanted ice, a steel-grade material, and can make goodies out of both it and regular ice. To do so though you'll need at least a cold season that lasts long enough to transform the ice, and ice shaping only works in biomes cold enought o let ice exist safely.

Spoiler: PLANNED STUFF (click to show/hide)

-Humans as playable entity, with a reliance on trade and alchemy to get materials better than wrought iron for weapons and armor. Mostly because I like to play humans.
-- Plate armor to make up for lack of trances or consistent access to steel and the like.

-Hobgoblins as playable bad guy entity, with all the violence that entails. Suggestions for it are welcome.

-Gnolls as stealing civ, as a far nastier threat than Zephyrs were.

I'm open to suggestions as far as other stuff to add, bring back in (besides the library system) or change.

CREDITS
Mephansteras - For creating Civilization Forge and granting permission for this unofficial branch to be made available publically. It was a good mod once upon a time, and I'm eager to see the mod brought up to modern specs properly.
ZM5 - For help in fixing the bugged invertebrates.
MottledPetrel - For Fungus Expansion

NOTICE!
This release may have issues. Please please please let me know if problems crop up.

D O W N L O A D   H E R E

[Splint]

reserved, in case I need it.

[Splint]

What's up you beautiful motherfuckers, I bet you thought I wasn't gonna keep up with this.

Well guess again.

While it's been a long-ass time in the making (not really, I literally did this in an afternoon,) I've finally gotten off my ass to make another release!

The main things in V2 are some minor updates to bring the mod up to v47.04, namely adding the Dungeon Master to the dwarf entity, adding altars and dice where needed, and updating the mod to use the most up to date version of the utility mod.

As mentioned on the OP above there, in the README file, and on the download page, this update consists of the following.
- Included Utility files and entities that use them updated to SUM v11.
- All entities updated to include die and altars where appropriate.
- A "No Additions" version that removes the Utility Mod, for those who prefer that. You'll lose bedrolls and anvil casting going that route, but those aren't strictly essential anyways.
- A playable Vamarii entity found in its own folder, with a very mild focus on living in colder climates.

Now the Vamarii are a little more special, in that they are designed to live in colder biomes. This is achieved by a few unique buildings, the Iceshaper's Shrine, and Icepump.

The Iceshaper's Shrine
Built from a bunch of blocks and some statues, the shrine's main purpose is to shape items from ice into the desired furniture. However, it can also be used to create the steel-grade Enchanted Ice, which can then be worked by stonecrafters and masons, be split into rough gems for jewelers to work, or cut into bars for smiths to turn into military gear and other goods that way. It's more valuable than iron or silver, but the relative ease of access to its base parts makes it much less valuable than steel or gold.

The caveats are that you need silver and flux to make the stuff, and a cold environment in which to make/harvest the ice you need as well (any old hunk of ice will do,) so as the Vamarii you need to be at least a little picky about where you set up to get the most out of their stuff.

The Icepump
Built from blocks and a statue. Basically a glorified water pump, its main job is to vomit out ice boulders for use in the Iceshaper's Shrine in the event you lack a decent amount of frozen water to harvest locally to meet your needs, though you can also use it to fill barrels and buckets with drinking water. For best roleplay results, settle on an aquifer of some kind or stick it by a body of water.

Like the shrine, you need a cold environment for the boulders, otherwise you'll just be making puddles of water in the workshop.

You'll also find they have some nobles renamed/removed.
- Monarchs are referred to as Tsars and Tsarinas
- The Militia Commander and Captain have been renamed to the Militia Captain and Sergeant respectively
- Army Captains have been removed.
- Dungeon Masters are referred to as Spymasters among the Vamarii.

The Vamarii as a playable entity are entirely optional, as is the Utility and Fungus Expansion stuff. I'm also reasonably certain I remembered to include a patch for the mod's unique dyes for the shield painter in the main version, but don't quote me on that. Knowing me and my own slothful nature, I probably forgot to do that properly.

Everything should, in theory, work correctly as I reused Meph's iceshaper reactions with his permission, but if something doesn't work then please LET ME KNOW. As I will 100% confess to having not fully play-tested this shit properly.

As before there is almost certainly a mess of issues or missing tags or what have you, seeing as I'm basically just kicking this mod up a few versions.  Hell, for all I know given that it's after midnight here, I forgot one or more entity tags for the Vamarii or something.

Any suggestions, offerings of stuff to crowbar in, or big reports are appreciated.

Enjoy! Or don't, it's not really my business what you do with your spare time.

[Lidku]

Besides the Vamarii race mentioned here, are any of the other races playable?

[Splint]

Besides the Vamarii race mentioned here, are any of the other races playable?

Nope, but I'm open to suggestions.

[Stokeling9701]

could have the Chaos dwarves be able to make evil constructs (golems/mechanical machines) that run off of blood or something. Hobgoblins could focus on mass production and maybe slavery?

[Splint]

In regards to the former, being able to make various constructs is doable but a bit janky, and requires DFhack or an extremely clunky workaround.

The latter could be doable, tough minus slavery (it's just not something able to be done without a derpy caste-level workaround which floods your fort with inept rubes and insufficient numbers of leaders/competent fighters.)