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[Darnis]

Great job on the mod, lots of sweet additions and great changes, I especially like the extra FPS awesome font and simpler materials..

One weird thing that happend to me though is... one of the children at age 1 was a vampire... or so I believe.. he later went on to get locked out of the fortress during a siege go into a martial stance become an elite wrestler kill 14 automatrons barehanded and go insane right afterwards... he's been hanging around my fortress for quite a while now.. nothing seems to want to mess with him not even the undead.. he just sits there all day !.. !.....  !...

[Meph]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I am having a blast in my RL though, currently on the mexican coastline and having done no coding in the past week. Hope you can understand. All the balancing issues and proposed changes are noted down and will be done when I continue modding

[Werdna]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I am having a blast in my RL though, currently on the mexican coastline and having done no coding in the past week. Hope you can understand. All the balancing issues and proposed changes are noted down and will be done when I continue modding

Understand?  Hell, I have no idea why you're even firing up the computer!    Enjoy, and have a blast! 

[Meph]

Oh, doing something productive once in a while is good as well. And that note:

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V 1.8 <<<

• Ironhand tileset !
• Evil Races - Evil Doppelgangers of Dwarves, Elves, Humans and Drow to fight
• Alchemy. Find the philosophers stone, brew the elixir of life and create matter from nothing.
• 14 armored pets. Now in Iron or Steel, with healing interaction.
• 21 Golems. Sword, Hammer, Spear, with 7 different materials.
• 8 Plagues that ravage your fortress. Battle them with medical wards.
• 6 new religious reactions. Pray for silk, water or gems, and perform ceremonies for fortresswide stat boosts.
• Cult of the Carp God, lovecraftian-style hidden enemy.
• Better Brick Oven for Megaprojects, makes all possible colors now.
• Thatchery, make furniture from plant wicker.
• Automatons redone from scratch. New everything.
• Undead Invaders replaced with Illithid Spellcaster Race
• Includes the 10 best-rated stories from dfstories.com.
• Includes LegendsViewer and PerfectWorld Utilities.
• GUI allows Concubines, Bodyguards, Diseases and more to be toggled.
• Many, many rebalances and bugfixes.

Special Thanks
To cc and his thatchery idea. Also thanks at deon for his brilliant illithids, although I did butcher the raws for them a bit.

Notes
This Version is untested. I thought about doing a long testrun, but I think I go back this time to the old way of releasing it and having hundrets of testers who can give me feedback and point me in the right direction, while I work on the next features. I hope this is ok for you. I am mostly interested on the balancing, how Illithids and Golems, and the Alchemy system will work out. Same goes for diseases and the Cult of the Carp God. Have fun. Feedback is, as always, appreciated.

Full Changelog:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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######    PATCH 1.8         ######
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 - Added Ironhand tileset!
 - 8 Plagues. Might arrive with migrants, might randomly break out.
 - All plagues last for rougly 1 season, than slowly subside... you can battle them however, using the apothecarius.
   - Hulk, 5% go berserk, rest gets stronger/faster.
   - Death, 10% die, rest feels sickly.
   - Vomiting, 100% get sick, vomit.
   - Sleep, 100% get tired, will fall asleep randomly.
   - No Sleep, 100% get no_sleep, but feel drowsy and dizzy.
   - Blind, 100% turn blind.
   - Plague, 100% get fever and cough blood.
   - Sterile, 100% get sterile, !!! lasts forever !!!
 - Changed slave stone template to stone vapor template. (bugfix)
 - Removed animal trainer jobs from FD races, hopefully no more super warbeasts in sieges.
 - Nerfed Bloodbeast strength and syndrome
 - Added some GOOD/EVIL tags back in.
 - All building destroying units (those that path to your fortress) have the SAVAGE tag now. Calm areas are secure, no more ogres raiding you there.
 - Raised population limit for all dwarf chocolate creatures
 - Nerfed amount of spells sorcerers, shamans and liches can do.
 - Fixed adamantine golem cast reaction
 - Added [PERMITTED_REACTION:CRAZY] for tech lab back in. TEST IT OUT, you wont regret it.
   - This reaction allows the creation of a random item from a rather random selection of items.
 - New colors for the brick oven, can now produce all possible colors
 - Added "ornamental" bricks. These need 2 boulders for 2 bricks, but are worth more then normal bricks. All colors. For people who dislike the low value of normal bricks. Again, the brick oven is unbalanced and mostly for megaprojects.
 - Added reaction to craftsdwarf: make bed from silver, gold, or bone. All need 1 cloth as well, to keep it balanced.
 - Added "make bedroll" to craftsdwarf. A bed made from 5 pieces of cloth.
 - Removed religious nobles, no more templars, priests, archpriests or prophets, since the nobles go fixed by today.
 - Preacher is still there to meet tantruming dwarves, same function as psychatrist.
 - Added philosopher noble (does nothing, not even work) for people who liked them in df40
 - Added Overseer noble, for people playing succession games.
 - Screw Press reaction "log to paper" only accepts rough wood now, no more steeloak/crystal trees/ironbark.
 - Added "scrapwood to paper" to screw press
 - Added "scrapwood to ash" to crematorium
 - Added 6% chance for an idirium bar to each blast furnace reaction.
 - Made frost giants butcherable, to get rid of the bodyparts they leave.
 - Removed Buildings Guides for Guildhall and Wheelbarrows. These buildings are not included anymore.
 - Lowered range of slade/bullet turrets a bit, and gave them solid instead of liquid globs.
 - Living rock is now rarer and not sedimentary anymore. It also gives 10 instead of 1 meat in the kitchen
 - Cave fungus is now called rubble and looks more neutral
 - You can still find small cluster of cave fungus in the earth, these leave solid fungus that can be made into cheese.
 - Added the Thatchery. You can make wicker bales from 5 kinds of plants. Then make furniture and crafts from wicker.
 - Raised cost of lye for batch soap reactions from 1 to 5.
 - Added wards. Immobile pets you can equip in the apothecarius and immunize your dwarves against plagues.
 - You can also make blessed wards in the Altar of Armok. These cleanse possessed (secret) dwarves.
 - Added the cult of the carp god, a new secret threat. Armoks Wards help to unveil them.
 - The cult will leave signs before they act, so prepare for them, before your fortress gets overrun. You have over 1 season for this.
 - Changed layers in worldgen from 25:25:25:25 to 20:10:10:10, to avoid maps with more then 200 zlvls...
 - Added 10 short stories from a collection I found online. Some you might know, Tholtig Cryptbrain by darkflragrance for example.
 - Shoes can now be worn under boots, allowing for fully clothed AND fully armored dwarves
 - Added a glacier world to the embark profiles
 - Fixed dwarves collecting ammo from turrets (at least I think so, I tested with turrets in fortress mode and an "accept all" stockpile, they did not touch the used ammo)
 - Slighty modifiactions in the stone occurences
 - Massive GUI changes
   - Armory Button
   - Weaponry Button
   - Thatchery Button
   - Diseases Button
   - Disabling gunsmith also removes gun blueprints and tradegoods
   - Disabling magic also removes magic books and tradegoods
   - Evil version of standard races moved to creatures tab (for space reasons)
   - Buildings section ordered alphabetically
   - Scriptorium, the 4 library sections and the Garden/Fountain moved into one
   - New Training System button combining the above
   - Concubines are now optional, and by default OFF
   - New balancing feature: Enable or Disable bodyguards for traders/caravans.
   - New utility: Perfect World is now included
   - New Utility: Legends Viewer is now included
   - (I decided on those two since they only add 2mb in total)

 - Added bone breastplate to craftsman
 - Nerfed Burning/Frozen skulls, no more firestarting. Frozen skulls only in cold areas, and smaller cluster number.
 - Raised number of needed essence fractures from 3 to 5.
 - New reaction for pet armory: Heal nearby pet, fully heals any pet stationed nearby.
 - Automatons got new graphics, new descriptions, replaced CS Gas with Steam (weaker) and no explosion upon death, but mechanisms. The are made of copper now instead of iron. Can also be butchered to get rid of bodyparts.
 - They also got caste specific colors, custom named attacks and bodyparts. Way more steampunky now, as I wanted them.
 - Made drow bloodsteel and demonbone materials a bit tougher.
 - Added reaction to stone grinder to grind boulders into sand. 3 boulder, 1 bag = 1 bag of sand
 - New reaction for magma factory: Improve ballista bold, needs 1 ballista ammo and 1 slade. Makes slade ballista ammo.
 - New designs for 6 buildings. Armory/weaponry/Magma Armory/Magma Weaponry/gemworkshop/Brewery
 - Added "brew drink" reaction to brewery. Same reaction as vanilla still, makes no sense that the bewery cant do this.
 - Moved bloodwine, fuel from alcohol and purify water from alcohol from still to brewery.
 - Nerfed tame dragons a tiny bit. Slower rate of firebreath mostly.
 - Made Sauropods war trainable
 - Lowered the number for all teeth to 2. No more "teeth-explosions" creating clutter.
 - Changes armoks metal to a gem, instead of an ore. Was being used in any ore-accepting reaction.
 - New reaction at transmutation chamber: Work Armoks Metal, gives a random selection of bars, usually around 10-ish.
 - Sacrifice Weapon/Armor reactions in Temple have three times more weapon/armor types as products then before
 - NEW: GOLEMS FORGE
 - Three golem kinds: Sword, Hammer and Spear.
   - Slightly more expensive, you need 4 mechanisms for the cast now, and 1 weapon of the chosen material
   - Since the boiling stone does not always work, the weapon is preserved 75% of the time
 - Golems can be upgraded with more strength, speed or AoE stun attacks using clockwork dropped by Automatons
 - Golem can be repaired using mechanisms. Lost limbs are lost however.
 - Golems lose oil (harmless) and hydraulical fluid. If too much hydraulical fluid is lost, the golem "bleeds" to death
 - Custom named body tissues, if piping/major pipes break the golem might bleed to death.
 - Added 3 inorganic materials back in: Rocksalt, Cinnabar and Realgar. Used for salt, mercury and arsenic
 - NEW: ALCHEMY LAB
 - Two new tools for dwarves: [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_PESTLE] & [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_MORTAR] for alchemy.
 - Find 6 ingredients: Cinnabar, Realgar, Rocksalt, Olivine, Potash, Silver
 - Refine those into: Mercury, Arsenic, Salt, Magnesium, Saltpeter, Truesilver
 - Make a philosophers stone from those. 10% success chance.
 - Distill the philosophers stone into the elixir of life, which regrowths limbs, fully heals and gives no_aging.
 - Use any metal to extract the metal-aether from it.
 - Use the philosophers stone and aether to make new metal. The philosopher stone is preserved.
 - This means if you have 1 bar of a specific metal, you can slowly make unlimited amounts.
 - Distill Tears of Armok into drinks that give constant! +10% speed, no_dizziness and no_exert.
 - NEW: PET ARMORY
 - You can now armor pets in iron or steel.
 - Armor casts are now made of 5 bars, 4 mechanisms, 4 chains and 2 daggers. Try to visualise it.
 - Ironclad pets can be bought at embark, steelclad pets you must create yourself.
 - Made the new buildings guides for all changes
 - Made building guide for Fish Farm. Was somehow missing before.
 - Made "conduct experiment (random item) easier. No fuel needed and one stone instead of 1 flux
 - 3 new Reactions for the Shrine: Pray for Water(for the injured), Pray for Riches (gems), Pray for Silk (for moods)
 - 3 new Reactions for the Temple: Perform Ceremony of Armoks Blessing, Courage and Wrath
   - All three function the same way as diseases and spread through the fortress. With positive effects.
   - Blessing gives minor boost to speed, strength, endurance and agility
   - Courage gives no_fear, no_pain and likesfighting
   - Wrath give no_emotion (sic!) stopping tantruming. Shows armoks wrath against his stupid underlings
   - Only one can be active at a given time
 - Raised time of positive effect from upgraded drinks. Now last 1 month.
 - Renamed creatures used for evil race version to: Chaos dwarf, elf fanatic, bandit (human), deep drow. This way you can identify them more easily. Otherwise still the same, modded the chaos dwarves slightly to remove the caste system.
 - Set Warlocks to OFF by default
 - Removed undead invaders, because vanilla offers undead invasion already
 - NEW: ILLITHIDS
 - A tentacle-faced spellcaster race that make your dwarves berserk. UNTESTED IN FORTRESS MODE, FEEDBACK MORE THEN WELCOME
 - Known from Genesis, but heavily modded, including custom sprites.
 - Illithids, unarmed/almost unarmored, should in the end replace undeads and warlock invaders. This is a test for them.
 - Added Illithid button to launcher.
 - Changed some toys to tools to give them proper tiles, instead of default "toy" tile
 - Illithids now drop brains upon death.

Known Issues:
 - Manual not yet updated.
 - Illithids drop brains that are not used for anything... yet.

[the_game_hunt]

Meph, you're the best, thanks for the update!!!

[micha]

quick feedback for 1.7.1 ..  3rd war elephant siege just arrived and like the last 2 times they drop all their grasped items right after i unpause the siege announcement.  make 70k on the last set of tallow and ground meat stews, plus my recruits enjoy the hunt, but still.. for loitering and dumping at the edge of the map they've been ordered to get their tags fixed   that's why i'm here.  was this fixed in 1.72... and what tags to do i backport where?  thanks!

p.s. how do i build a guildhall?
p.p.s compressing clay into slade, mechanisms from earthenware and the trap enhancements are lovely exploits, but perhaps the siege triggers ought to be tuned a tad cause a mastwork fort can be worth 50..100x a normal fort with so little effort.

[Meph]

The elephants were missing a grasp bodypart, this is fixed.

Guildhall has been removed, because of Dwarf Therapist problems and issues with other transformations, like mages and golems.

My testfortresses stay below 100.000 worth usually for 1-1.5 years, so no. If you want fancy and expensive stuff, be ready that the bad people want a piece of the pie

[micha]

The elephants were missing a grasp bodypart, this is fixed.

Guildhall has been removed, because of Dwarf Therapist problems and issues with other transformations, like mages and golems.

My testfortresses stay below 100.000 worth usually for 1-1.5 years, so no. If you want fancy and expensive stuff, be ready that the bad people want a piece of the pie

thank you!    and yes, i've been enjoying the bad people coming to try my death machines.  plus stuff built from slade, earthenware and earthenware brick calms my soul, so its all good.

one tiny thing that noone else has would let me tweak the siege triggers, another would let me make everyone speak english so that i don't get so friggn lost in legends mode. maybe you have the time to flow that in one day.

as for the 5 year challenge, no problem. because i can make materials easier now i don't need to dig useless spaces.  it doesn't even feel cheaty since buying out caravans is easy with food already; not that i really buy anything. after the 3rd or 4th time anyways.  if you could too fix the price of food so that it would use 2..3 times the resources it does now, df might start to feel balanced!

thanks for all the great work!

[Meph]

one tiny thing that noone else has would let me tweak the siege triggers, another would let me make everyone speak english so that i don't get so friggn lost in legends mode. maybe you have the time to flow that in one day.

This can be done, but would result in quite a few buttons... OR one for all, early sieges on, late sieges on, something like that. The english thing is presumably very easy as well, but yes, you are the first to ask for it

I can raise the price of food, but that also counts for the food produced by the fortress itself. This means you will have to pay 100 instead of 10 for the raw food from caravans, but your masterwork prepared meals are suddenly worth 10 times more as well. I noticed the same problem, since the wagons come again the amount of food and booze you get sets you up for the end of days...

[Twangykid]

Any chance that masterwork can buff siege engines? I goddamn love ballistas but hate how they suck a barrel of dicks.
Also, genning world for the challenge now. All settings on.
Also, I'm going to completely follow every caste. Legendary weaponsmith immigrant, who is a bow savant? Start pumping out some crossbows!
EDIT: Thousand year pocket age, Age of Drows. Lets hope for friendsies ok?

[Meph]

I cant mod the siege engines, BUT you can make slade boulders for the catapult and even better, you can use the rockforge to make a slade ballista bolt. Believe me, they hit hard.

I am working on updating to 34.08, but I have to wait for dfhack to update before I can offer any download.

[Meph]

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V 1.9 <<<

 - Win, Mac and Linux Support
 - Updated to 34.08
 - Spiked and bladed minecarts
 - NO dfhack
 - Two new super-metals: Volcanic and Bifrost
 - Create volcanic items in the great magma forge
 - Work bifrost bars from dead frost giants
 - Gemworkshop splitted into Gemcutter and Gemforge
 - New grass, Evil and Good region design. Hope you like it.

Spoiler: Full Changelog (click to show/hide)

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 - Updated to DF 34.08
 
 - Modded grass, evil grass and good grass for more flavor.
 - Doubled/quadrupled amount of gunpowder made in the ammo mint.
 - Archeologist need 5 stones, instead of 10 for excavation.
 - Arc Furnace now makes 4 bars from one bag of ore-powder.
 - Brick Oven now makes 4 bricks from 1 boulder, or 4 ornamental bricks from 2 boulders.
 - Crucible can now "cold hammer" metals with 1 ore for 2 bars. 50% as effecient as the smelter reaction with fuel.
 - 6 new reactions for the Arc Furnace: Cold hammer" metals. 1 ore for 2 bars. 50% as effecient as the normal reaction.
 - Blast furnace now makes batches of 12 bars, instead of 6, using 3 ore for it.
 - All fuel/coke producing reactions are untouched, because of logic. If everything makes 4 times as much bars, then you need 4 times less coal to make the same amount of bars. And since coal drops only 25% of the times now, this is balanced automatically.
 - Removed "research magic tomes" from tech lab and splitted it into two.
 - Added 3 new reactions to tech lab: Recreate dwarven rune/grimoire of death/tome of life. 9% sucess chance.
 - Thatchery now makes 4 blocks instead of 1.
 - Changed "distill tears of armok" to "extract water from a tear of armok" which fills a bucket with water, but preserves the tear of armok.
 - 6 new reactions for the transmutation chamber. Transmute the adv. metals.
   - 2 wolfram for titanium and back, 2 mithril to slade and back, 2 cobalt to chrome and back.
 - Rebalanced Craftsdwarf, Stonecutter and Rockforge. You need either less boulders, or get more products.
 - Boneyard now makes 4 blocks from 1 stack of bones.
 - Added [HEATDAM_POINT:NONE] to magmamancer. They were fireimmune_super, but just to make sure...
 - Edited the Automaton entity... hopefully they bring weapons next time.
 - Fixed all the 255 tiled creatures that were invisible in ASCII mode.
 - Updated the Manual
 - Removed the buildings section from the manual, and instead linked to the building guides, they are better then text.
 - All buildings guides updated.
 - Upped layer permit of plate greaves
 - Fixed Parchement/Parchment naming error
 - Updated Mouse Fortress and Dwarf Therapist to df 34.08
 - Added speared and bladed minecarts
 - Sorted the entity_default into catergories. Much nicer to read.
 - Added [DO_NOT_CLEAN_GLOB] to slade and copper, so that turret ammo is certainly not collected anymore.
 - Added new building: Great Magma Forge
    - Makes Obsidian and Slade
    - Creates Weapons and Armor from volcanic. A new material, composed of steel, obsidian and slade.
    - Volcanic is half as good as adamantine and makes triple damage against Frost Giants.
 - Frost Giants now drop a "bifrost" boulder upon death. This can be made into a bifrost bar in the Creature Research Lab.
 - Bifrost is almost (80%) as good as adamantine.
 - Slade Metal is now (20%) as good as adamantine.
 - Iridium is now (60%) as good as adamantine
 - Splitted gemworkshop into gemcutter and gemforge.
 - Gemcutter needs 3 cut gems to be build and makes furniture and tools.
 - Gemforge needs 3 large gems to be build and makes weapons/armors/decorations.

Special Thanks
Zenerbufen for his fast linux and mac updates. And the idea of the html-based manual.

[Meph]

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V 1.9.2 <<<

 - Updated to 34.10
 - Full dfhack this time
 - New Therapist feature, Role Tab. Replaces Dwarven Guidance Counselor.
 - Bifrost making rebalanced.
 - Blast Furnace steel making rebalanced
 - Minor bugfixes.

Spoiler: Full Changelog (click to show/hide)

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 - Removed fire_safe tag from pipes needed for the great magma forge
 - Added 2 new reactions to pet armory: recycle broken iron/steel armor. For "armored dog iron" that is left after butchering.
 - Updated Jolly Bastion Set to 34.10
 - Updated Dwarf Therapist to 34.10
 - Updated DF to 34.10
 - Updated Mouse Fortress to 34.10
 - Updated dfhack to 34.10
 - Maybe(?) fixed illithids crashing worldgen. This time I redid the creature file, last time was entity file.
    - If this does not work, there will be an illithid exodus in the raws. >
 - Maybe(?) fixed the magma-bringing traders. Really sorry for that one.
 - Added sprites for evil dwarves, elves, humans and drow. (carbon copy of normal race sprites for now)
 - Modified bladed/speared minecarts, can no longer be made of wood, only metal now. Need 5 bars to be made.
 - Added bladed/speared tracktraps, same as the minecarts, but no container capacity. Only need 1 bar to be made.
   - You can put these on automated/powered tracks and have invaders run through them. Fun.
 - Raised values of alchemical ingredients (mercury, truesilver and so on)
 - Magma-safe block reaction now produces 4 blocks, as intended, not just one.
 - Changed tooltip and text on "Secret" button. Is now "Secret !FUN!" and warns that it makes the game harder.
 - Rebalanced steel making in the blast furnace. Instead of iron+flux+coal=steel it is now:
   - Make batch of 6 pig iron bars, iron+flux.
   - Make batch of 6 steel bars, pig iron+flux+coke.
 - Removed false "compress slade" from stonecutter. Now only to be done in Great Magma Forge.
 - Changed Bifrost setup. First of all fixed traders/caravans having bifrost items and bars.
 - You can now select up to 6 differetn bifrost reactions. Weapon, Ranged weapon, two-handed weapon, armor, shield or ammo.
 - The dwarf will take bifrost boulders and create a random item of the chosen type. Can be a dagger, can be a runic warhammer. Can be a crossbow, can be a mechanized javelin thrower. Can be a pair of high boots, can be a platemail armor.
 - Updated Soundsense

[SAFry]

what? is the challenge now to get to 5 years before you change the version? 

OK, this time for real!

[Meph]

Not my fault that Today updates every 3 days... ^^