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All this "Carped" stuff is an unpatriotic elven conspiracy.

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[CaptainArchmage]

We're back! Apparently, the initial run of Boatbusted broke because we were on a too-huge region size for most people's computers to load. I'm starting this one over, with a slightly altered mod file to before.

The Boatbusted Mod Version History (currently version 1.2):

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1.0
-Initial version of the Boatbusted special mod, combining Civilisation Forge with the Spearbreakers mod.

1.1
-Added in reactions to make alchemy-related stone economic.

1.2
-Merged in Mr Frog's Maej, made civilisation non-[CIV_CONTROLLABLE] (can be changed).
-Merged in everything from the Vilious mod, and compatiblised with Civ Forge reactions. Made civilisations non-[CIV_CONTROLLABLE] (can be changed).
-Dwarves can now make firearms using the nevrean method, from Vilious
-Forgot to transfer the reactions to make alchemy-related stone economic over from the updated saves to the raws used in worldgen.
-Reduced the number of times a civilisation could appear to something reasonable, except for northern sergals because of an omission.

We're using Civilisation Forge with additions of Spearbreakers material, Mr Frog's Maej, and the Vilius mod. I'm allowing dwarves to make firearms in this game now, using the same reactions as the Niveans. This is probably going to be less useful than people think. The mod has been altered so as to put a hard cap on the number of civilisations of a certain creature that can show up. I've haxed the worldgen heavily to generate more volcanoes and more civilisations, whilst leaving more neutral mountain biomes for dwarves to set themselves up in.

Once again, a recap of the rules:

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-Turns last 48 hours of real time. Play as much as you can in that time, and then give a reason why your dwarf is stepping down. You can play more than a year or less than a year.
-Try to roleplay your fortress and post frequent. I understand that role-playing ability or willingness is extremely variable, producing results between the "realistic made-up-that-which-cannot-be-made-up" and "More secretive than Area 51 under omega+ alert" levels. At least we'd like to see an "end of year report" consisting of the screenshot or the numbers. If roleplaying is insufficient, of course, anyone may publish an interim report based on rumor, speculation, and paranoia.
-Try not to leave the fortress in an unplayable state. If the fortress isn't in a good state to move on from and ends up in an unplayable state, we will revert to a previous state.
-Try to avoid the use of DF hack. If you need to use DF hack, i.e. to plug up a hole in the ocean floor with the water draining into an aquifer, or into the caverns, with sub-zero FPS, we may or probably will let it go ahead.
-Most of these rules are subject to modification. If FPS drops to the point where we need more time, the general allowance will likely be increased.
-There will be 4 possible extensions of 24 hours available per month of real time, for use collectively, with 3 extra extensions of 24 hours available for emergencies per month. You may only take 2 extensions in one sitting, of any kind. The collective-use extensions may be used at any time and for any reason, including no reason. However, you should role play them i.e "In order to finish building the entrances to the caverns, I've been asked to remain overseer for a little longer." Good reasons should be given for emergency extensions. In general, these are because real life interrupts your crushing of the goblin siege with some crap that prevents you from playing Dwarf Fortress.
-Rules are flexible. This means we can give you room to finish off that goblin siege like a hero, or drop your hospital on top of it.

The Turn List

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X marks extension used.

1. Captain Archmage (As Lord Mana)
2. Coral
3. Lightningfalcon
4. Slowpokez
5. Godlysockpuppet
6. Valrandir
7. Australianwinter
8. Betelgeuse

Extensions Available: 4
Emergency Extensions Available: 3

As noted in the previous Boatbusted thread, the turn order will be carried over. In addition, I may play around 1 year before sending it on, which will be the one exception to the 48-hour rule.

[CaptainArchmage]

Reserved.

[CaptainArchmage]

Reserved again.

[CaptainArchmage]

That's enough reserved posts for now. You can go ahead and post now (not that anything was stopping you before)!

[Corai]

Hopefully I will be able to get the files onto my computer this time.

[CaptainArchmage]

A few things. Firstly, this world is a lot more civilised than any I've seen before. Apparently when you shift the bulk of the aligned-region tiles to medium regions, you get a lot more space for dwarves in the world. I've also got most or all civilisations present on the map. The only problem is the quantity of northern sergals present, and that's really only an issue because of the omission I made.

I upped the civilisation number to something obscene to make sure. I also upped the volcano number to something obscene, so there isn't a shortage there either. For the record, there are four dwarven civilisations present in this world, and the are pretty expansive, having spread to their entire mountain range. The file is a bit big again, but this time only because the worldgen was run for longer (50 years).

Edits: Oh God, this world doesn't have any humans. Again. At least we have the Spawn of Holistic... as well as Chaos Dwarves.

[Frontestro]

Humans are weak sauce anyways. Posting to watch.

[CaptainArchmage]

Humans are weak sauce anyways. Posting to watch.

It means more sieges.

I may need to experiment with more worldgens before I actually start the game. The reason is mostly the quantity of a single civilisation overcrowding, but also dealing with the number of aligned tiles - I think I might up the number in small regions so we get more overall.  In the meantime, I can either make firearms harder to make, or remove them entirely for dwarves, or remove them entirely for everyone. Even if we remove firearms for dwarves, we keep them for nevreans.

[Mephansteras]

Posting to Watch, again.

[CaptainArchmage]

Time has been unsurprisingly scarce recently, but I fixed what I wanted to fix.

Boatbusted Mod, 1.2.1

-There's a magma version of the gun workshop now. It looks the same as the normal gun workshop.
-To make gunpowder, you need a block of saltpeter (which you can make at the Saltpeter beds in Civilisation Forge), refined coal, and a barrel; the reaction is made at the alchemists workshop and doesn't require any fuel. I dropped the use of brimstone, as that would be a serious complication.
-Bullets require gunpowder to make.
-I increased the material size of the rifle. Firearms also require fire-safe mechanisms to build.
-Most entities can now use electrum (10) and platinum currency (30) if they use copper, silver, and gold currency, and will also update currency by year. This is completely redundant in terms of the game, besides roleplaying.
-Fixed the alchemical block reactions.
-Civilisations can make any non-gunpowder ammunition even if they don't make the respective weapons. This will make those artefact blowguns actually useful.
-Added in the display case, because those artefact thongs need some showtime.

I'm going to start genning some worlds.

Well I hope I'll be able to start on world 1.

Edit: The Absolute World is in generation. With luck, this will be a good one. I'm seeing a lot of good locations for dwarves to start out, and plenty of volcanoes.

Edit2: Generation is done and saved. From what I can see we have a good world on our hands, with five dwarf civilisations. The world save is 62MB though... what the hell. Also still no humans, it seems like I forgot to change another civilisation generation tag.

[CaptainArchmage]

And so it begins: The new fortress of Boatbusted has been founded!

This location is much better than the previous one, too.

[Lightningfalcon]

Posting so I can follow on phone

[CaptainArchmage]

As in the title. We're going from the beginning here, though we may actually repeat material from the old Boatbusted thread.

So the embark location (apologies, I wasn't very comfortable with grabbing shots before the game started) is Half Good Half Oh God What. Its reasonably sized, so everyone should be able to play it. We also have Spawn of Hollistic this time! Fun features are that there's only one male dwarf, and also there's an upright sword on the map. The map has the polar cap at north, but for some reason the region to the south is frozen and the one the dwarves have embarked on is quite warm. The civilisation is called The Angelic Rack, and the Group Name is Stardrunken the Golden Bejeweled Star-King of Liberty. The capitol of The Angelic Rack is called Foggychambers, and is located in a mountain range in a tropical part of the world.

Oh, you wanted me to !!XX+<<+ROLEPLAY+>>+XX!! it?

The Journal of Lord Mana, 20th of Granite, year 50

The Angelic Rack's Bailout Fund went bankrupt today. I strongly suspect things are going to get bad very quickly around here, and have thus devised an exit plan from the mountainhomes that have been my primary residence for the past fifty years.

My Uncle's smelter business has been hit hard by the crisis, but I swapped some sunshine and swamp whisky for the debt a few months ago, and took an out of court settlement. In short, my minor study of economics has landed me with a pile of potentially valuable ore and some smelting equipment.

Last year, I went on a prospecting mission to the west, where we discovered a large forested region with flux and interesting wildlife, which is called The Right Forest. I am going to organise an expedition there to establish a new settlement.

In the meantime, I need to find some dwarves for the expedition.