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[Mr_Quack]

After having played this game for a long time I'm finding that I can face near every challenge in Fortress Mode. I'm looking for new ways to increase the difficulty of the game. Megabeast encounters always intrigued me, is there a way to make them occur more often and if I increase their stats how high should I increase them? I find that legendary wrestler/axedwarf/shield user/armor users are easy enough to get and just one of them can take down any megabeast in a single swing. Also any other suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

[quintin522]

Get the Ender Goblin mod. Each one can kick take a dragon on, unarmed, and win

[Earthquake Damage]

The best ways I know to increase difficulty without making things retarded is to first buff goblins a bit (size 8 maybe, plus [DAMBLOCK:2]) then copy-paste the [ENTITY:EVIL] block in entity_default.txt a few times.  You'll have to rename each copy ([ENTITY:EVIL2] and so forth work fine).  Every different hostile entity type means potentially one more siege each season.  Having 5-10 copies of goblins means you'll have up to 5-10 times as many goblins attacking your fort.

You can also make things harder by reducing the number of friendly civs.  Add [ITEM_THIEF] or [BABYSNATCHER] to humans ([ENTITY:PLAINS]), for example, or disable them entirely by setting [MAX_STARTING_CIV_NUMBER:0].  Or you could just prevent them from bringing wagons by removing [COMMON_DOMESTIC_PULL] (they'll bring pack animals instead, like dwarves do).

Another thing you can do is double the [GROWDUR:#] entry on all plants (matgloss_plant.txt).  That'll slow down farming.  Removing [EDIBLE_RAW] from plump helmets and some of the different berries might also make the early game a bit tougher.

[Blakmane]

have you tried difficult embark spots and/or dangerous megaprojects? Things like the one dwarf challenge, glacier challenge or underwatermagma fortresses can really increase the difficulty of the game.

[Mr_Quack]

Yeah I've tried a few super projects and I've done the hardest natural occuring locations I've seen. Super projects don't really interest me though, usually I end up giving up half-way through them because I lose interest in them. Thanks for the suggestions though guys I'll definitely try them.

[Slappy Moose]

By making all the [PROGRESS:] tags in the entity raws set 1 for orcs and goblins, you can make them siege within the first season. Definitely an interesting challenge.

[Neruz]

I currently run the Orc mod and 5 Goblin civs; it seems to be working well.

Grab the Orc mod; odds are they'll make things sufficiently difficult.

[warlordzephyr]

yea orc mod, or that chosen one mod.