The Bee Mod - version 0.1
This version of the mod contains the basic features of what is intended for the completed mod, but lacks a number of materials and creatures. All around it needs fleshing out, as, for example, the main civ (and currently only added civ) of the mod is smaller than your typical dog, if I'm reading the numbers right (incidently, so are vanilla antmen). Hence why I call it a skeletal release. It needs testing, and testing takes time, and time is short at hand for most students. But some of you out there might have the time. And despite how incomplete it is, it could still be fun.
INSTALLATION - This is important to the proper function of the mod. It can be found in BeeReadMe.txt.Due to a bug in how worldgen handles the LITTERSIZE token in creatures, there are two seperate versions of creature_LL_bee.txt. The one in the folder labeled "Pre-gen" is for worldgen.
Instructions for installation:
1) Copy the contents of Bee Fortress/Pre-gen (but not the folder itself) into the main raw folder (<DFfolder>/raw/objects).
2) Generate a new world
3) Copy the contents of Bee Fortress/Post-gen (but not the folder itself) into DFfolder/data/save/<newlygeneratedregionfolder>/raw/objects.
4) Click yes to replace the old file.
4) Repeat step 3 for each world you generate with the Pre-gen raw folder.
Note: You do NOT need to copy the Post gen file into <DFfolder>/raw/objects at any point.
Features include:
-A new playable civ - the Bumblebee Men. In this caste society, only the the Queen bees reproduce. The rest of their society consists of castes of workers,
soldiers, and the male drones. (Needs their own language, as they are currently using dwarvish)
-wildflowers restricted to growth in certain regions. You can't grow them - you have to gather them in the grassy fields.
-Domestic Honey Bees - these large bees (but still no bigger than a dog) are domesticated by the Bumblebee men. the Bumblebee men milk them for wax scales, which are then matured by the same process used to make cheese. The mature wax scales can then be used to make beeswax blocks at the wax collector workshop. The blocks can be used in construction.
-2 new workshops:
-The aforementioned wax collector, and
-The Honey Cell Shop. This workshop is used to produced small, edible honey cells from collected flower buds and beeswax blocks. The shop
can also be used to brew this honey into mead.
-New weapons specific to the Bumblebee Men
-New adversaries (only one so far) to find for yourself. That's where the dwarven brand of fun is!
Download:
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2338Known Issues:
-There aren't any flowers that can be grown via a farm plot. There are, in fact, only five flowers at all. Feel free to suggest any preferences for flowers to be added.
-It's a little hard to tell worker bees and soldier bees apart. I've done a little to help recognize worker bees, but for soldier bees I may need a little help working out some profession tokens. With queens and drones, you can check their gender with (v) -> (g). They're the only ones that genuinely have genders. The rest are female only in name.
-I forgot to fix honeybees' representative tile before uploading. Instead of showing as a lowercase 'b', they are a solid black square.
Changelog:
-No changes 'cause it's the first version out, of course!
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