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Biologist: Study killed enemies for permanent buffs against that species.

Thaumaturg: Magical items and/or item sets.

Religion Overhaul: Introduce priests and high-priests, blessing of items, and warlock-specific reactions.

Warlock Overhaul: Balance the race... remove rot and fire, add new abilities.

Ore Processor: Adds a refining step to metalproduction, allows fix for slag bars in moods.

Arbalest & Trebuchet Overhaul: Different ammos and special effects, like AoE ammo.

Trap Engineer Overhaul: Boobytraps with AoE, Darthrowers, Unique Trapcomps.

Landmine Overhaul:  Remove Landmines, make changeling to berstling in warpstone lab. Moving, breeding, no toolkits required.

Magic Overhaul: Summon creatures and just MOAR of it.

 Megabeasts: Add a reward, soul and trophy to all of them. Add "revive beast with soul", so you either get a legendary skill OR a friendly megabeast.

Glazing Overhaul: Make metal, gem and ash glazes, allow glazing of each indiviual item. Decorational only.

[Meph]

Biology is leading the poll, and BIOLOGY IS FINISHED

I also did the megabeast revival/rewards, which is 5th on the poll, because it also uses a similar itemcorpse system, and it was easier to do both at the same time.

The ore processor I had a look at, but I will have to rewrite every metal-ore, make a second fake-metal ore, make a reaction for each ore, and change all reactions that currently use ores. And since its inorganics, I have to do this for each tileset. And because it is not race-specific, I have to do it for dwarves, orcs and kobolds... in short: DAMN, its a ton more work then I thought.

[silentdeth]

About the warlocks: Since you are, I assume, removing some of their ranged abilities; I thought you might should give them a better melee caste. I don't know much about the creature raws, thus wasn't able to get very far on making them, but a few ideas.

Instead of an interactions, give the melee class actual bone plates. Something like:

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[TISSUE:BONE_PLATES]
[TISSUE_NAME:bone plates:NP]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:CREATURE_MAT:ANIMAL:BONE]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:5]
[HEALING_RATE:250]
[VASCULAR:0]
[PAIN_RECEPTORS:0]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:SCALES]

[TISSUE_LAYER_OVER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:BONE_PLATES]

Not quite right, but it is as far as I got.

Since they are mutated anyway why not give them some natural weapons like:

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[BODY:ARM_SPIKES]
[BP:LBS:left bone spike:STP][CON:LLA][SKELETON][LEFT][CATEGORY:BONE]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:200]
[BP:RBS:right bone spike:STP][CON:LLA][SKELETON][RIGHT][CATEGORY:BONE]
[DEFAULT_RELSIZE:200]


Didn't get very far on that, the way the bodies are put together is... non-intuitive.

[Meph]

No, I was planning on keeping them spellcasters, but as soon as they are injured and flee, they transform into different sorts of werebeasts that are prone-to-rage and go into melee. Priests can block this sort of transformation.

[silentdeth]

That... Doesn't sound like an improvement. Though I did have a similar idea, a death curse, have a rare caste that drops some kind of boiling rock when they die that summons a demon or something to that effect.

[Meph]

Finished poll item #1 (biology), #2 (ore processor) and #5 (megabeasts) #3-#4 (warlocks and religion, which interlock quite a bit) are next on the list.

I also added the greater dyery, which is not on the list, but was easy to make.

[Apani]

I was the only one to vote about glazing.

[silentdeth]

Is there a way to make the warlocks fire projectiles, like the turrets, but have the items they fire have item syndrome? I don't like them having unblockable/undodgeable abilities, nor the way they tend to kill themselves with their spells. I think having them shoot a physical item will prevent that. I'm just not sure if it should be a solid form of their current spell that boils, or an itemsyndrome projectile.

How do you get things to have their own category in stockpiles, like books do?

I was the only one to vote about glazing.

I think most people turn towards encrusting when they want to add value to an item. You tend to have a lot of gems lying around anyway, and it doesn't require as much effort as glazing. Not to mention starting off with a clay item isn't going to yield near as valuable a result as using some form of precious metal.

[Meph]

Yes, I can to material emissions like turrets that have use projectileExpansion for special effects.

Its inorganics, they all have their own materials "INORGANIC:BLANK_LIBRARY" NAME:(library supplies) and so forth.

[silentdeth]

not the material type category but the item type. i.e. books instead of tools.

[Meph]

I dont. Books are vanilla, you cant add new categories. I did rename toys to illumination though.

In theory I guess that I could rename books (because fort-mode has no books usually) and use it for "custom tools" or something.

[Meph]

I'll lock this, because I try to keep the board a bit tidy. All discussion from here can be continued in the new release pos for 3h. I also added the changelog from 3g to 3h, in a spoiler at the bottom.

About the poll:
Biology, Megabeasts,Ore Processor are done.

Thaumaturg, Religion and Warlock Overhaul are on my list now, as the highest voted items.