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[Meph]

Hey guys,

Just a little selfpromotion going on. I got several people in my thread that posted stuff along the lines of: Why havent I heard of this ? Why did I find out about it just now ?

Point is: I wrote a program that can take tiny portions of my mod and remove or add them, just like you wish. This means you can, without any knowledge in modding, mod your own game with just a few clicks. I made over 110 settings, which enables over 5000 different combinations. The entire thing is a big package with all kinds of stuff in it and I am always eager to hear feedback.

If you like, have a go: Masterwork Dwarf Fortress

[10ebbor10]

Awesome. Might download this.

[Meph]

Just put up a little patch in my dropbox. Fixes some minor issues and adds one new features, booze made from blood. This way you can use goblin corpses to make bloodwine

[lifehole]

Any settings that heavily modify worldgen or adv mode? Because I don't play much fortress mode.

[Meph]

I added wanderers friend, but otherwise havent done much about Adv. Mode. Customized worldgens are included if you wish, standard ones are still there as well.

Quite frankly I never play Adv. Mode, but got some reports from players that there might be some problem with it in this mod, since it adds many races, and only humans have towns and give quests (is this correct?)

[lifehole]

I added wanderers friend, but otherwise havent done much about Adv. Mode. Customized worldgens are included if you wish, standard ones are still there as well.

Quite frankly I never play Adv. Mode, but got some reports from players that there might be some problem with it in this mod, since it adds many races, and only humans have towns and give quests (is this correct?)

Yes, that is correct. But it is a relatively easy stroll through the entity file(s) to change their default and liked sites to CITY, and for them to build fortifications and tombs on the map.

[Meph]

But wouldnt a, lets say, Spiderfiend filled Town be trouble ? Or are evil civs that are normaly hostile in Fortress mode friendly in Adv. Mode ?

[Geekkake]

Haven't met a friendly goblin yet.

Also, I'd like to jump in for a second with some praise for not only Masterwork itself, which is fantastic and really ambitious mod, but for the CONFIGURATOR as well, which has made my life so much easier. Plus, Meph's an awesome cat and works like crazy on it. You're doing yourself a grave disservice by not trying it out.

[KFK]

I got several people in my thread that posted stuff along the lines of: Why havent I heard of this ? Why did I find out about it just now ?

>_>^

Present.

[Meph]

-bump-

Making good progress on the next version. Will include Ascii, a Matrix Tileset and the new Jolly Bastion Tileset.

[Meph]

Sorry for the double post, but I finally managed to update it

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V 1.7 <<<

• Updated to 34.07
• All building guides finished
• +300 new creature sprites
• Fish Farms
• Better naming of bodyparts and another body overhaul
• Seth Creiyds Dwarf Chocolate Mod (major parts at least)
• Xangis Fear-the-Night Mod (slightly tweaked)
• Many minor tweaks to reactions for better balancing
• Many minor bugfixes

Notes:
I did remove a few features that do not work like intented, like the Guildhall, optional Clothing, the unfinished diseases and some transformations that might cause crashes (or not) I also did not do any test runs with this version. The reason for this is that I have not much RL time for modding currently. My next plan is to cycle 2000 km to Copan in Honduras, and that will take me 2-3 weeks. I made this update so you guys can have some fun and enjoy the bugfixes done by TodayOne, even if I did not finish all the planned features.

Special Thanks
This update has been heavily influenced by other modders, and I would like the thank arclance for the bloodwine idea, narhiril for the ongoing support and science about interactions, and of course Xangi and SethCreiyd for the big mods I was allowed to add. NW_Kohaku also deserves a mention here, since I based many of the new sprites on her (his?) work.

Full Changelog:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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#####   PATCH 1.7       ########
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 - Finished another 15 Building Guides
 - Changed many minor things in the reactions, mostly percentages.
 - Changed Armorplate reaction to only accept metal bars, instead of all bars.
 - Made new design for magma gunsmith, magma ammo mint, crucible and magma crucible.
 - Added [REACTION_CLASS:GYPSUM] back to gypsum. No idea why it was missing.
 - Added a lair and a sphere to all custom megabeasts, as well as changing the biome slightly.
 - Raised prices for broodmothers/broodlords
 - Added single reactions for armorplates
 - Made new design for magma gunsmith and magma ammo mint
 - Added vherids ascii fix for inorganic materials
 - Added Wizards and fitting reactions) from seth creiyds dwarf chocolate mod.
 - Added the more FF creatures also done by Seth Creiyd.
 - Added the Fear-the-night mod, v1.1 by xangi.
 - Added empty tag to all container building mats.
 - Fixed acrhpriest/archpriest typo
 - Fixed duplicate (G) hotkey for gemworkshop and guildhall
 - Added [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:METAL_TEMPLATE] to slademantine
 - Fixed purify-water-from-booze overflow
 - Made gem scarabs a real creature, no vermin anymore. Vermins leave no corpses, so itemcorpse did not work.
 - Changed meteor hammer properties, attacks did glance away (?)
 - Added custom reaction for different bayonets. Steel, Iron, Silver, Gold, Copper or Metal.
 - Bayonetted ranged weapons now take on the material of the used bayonet.
 - Example: Bone crossbow + steel bayonet = bayonetted steel crossbow.
 - Made stone decoys immobile
 - Added common domestic to scarecrows from FF. Serve as low-grade, cheap version of stone decoys.
 - Added is_stone back to the vaporizing stones if the setting is OFF. This way they appear in stockpiles again.
 - Renamed craftsman to craftsdwarf in GUI
 - Changed turret ammo from solid glob to liquid glob. Maybe (?) dwarves wont collect them.
 - I wanted to write: Added [CANOPENDOORS] to raptors, but they already can do that...
 - Added 'R' as character to raptors. (Formerly only blank space, therefore invisible)
 - Made all animal people variations mischievous
 - Added fish farm. Needs fish dissector skill, since all fish-skilled dwarves would go fishing instead.
 - Fixed the fish tile for creature_fish_masterwork.txt for ascii tileset
 - Fixed (?) some tiles in ascii... actually have no idea if I made it worse Mostly insects and birds.
 - Added new colors for fossil chests, bronze, silver and gold.
 - Added stable warpstone. Small cluster similar to unstable warpstone, but leave metal ore. Ore of Iridium.
 - Lowered value of shark tooth to 1, instead of 28.
 - Fixed tooth to leather
 - Gave metal template to the fossil materials, should be stockpiled correctly now
 - Finished another 8 building guides
 - Added sprites for approx. 250 creatures.
 - Updated to V34.06
 - Added 100 more sprites
 - Finished all building guides.
 - Rebalanced Steel Making in crucible
 - Removed vomit plague test disease (this was a triumph)
 - Nerfed skill levels for Fear the night creatures
 - Removed simple trading button
 - removed more clothing button
 - removed blueprint button
 - removed guildhall and guildhall button
 - Made Animal Persons rarer (Needs testing)
 - Removed interactions from drows (was causing problem with diplomats)
 - Change frequency of the new FF creatures
 - Raised value of boozebelly milk
 - Added shirt, pants, caps and shoes back in, all SOFT.
 - Changed cavern civs, hopefully they wont bring epic materials now
 - Removed two of the secrets. One might have caused crashes, the other loyalty cascades. (Confirm?)
 - Removed zombie bite transformations. Might have caused crashes. Replaced with berserk/opposed to life.
 - Fixed plaguebearer breath attack N/A
 - Adjusted all clutch number from the new df34. creatures and the new FF creatures
 - Removed all grazing from the new df34. creatures and the new FF creatures
 - Removed all grass trample from the new df34. creatures and the new FF creatures
 - Fixed rock cheese and living rock reactions (were broken when "less solid stones" was OFF)
 - Made steeloak slightly more expensive and takes 20% longer to grow now
 - Added is_stone to all vaporstones that werent stockpiled
 - Removed all display_names from transformations, they did confuse the Therapist
 - Fixed grazing of booze belly goats.
 - Made secrets turn a lot later. No more caravan guards/traders turning in one season.
 - Updated to 34.07
 - Updated dfhack, therapist and mouse fortress to 34.07
 - Updated Ascii version
 - Patched therapist for castes

[Meph]

>>> 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.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Shouldn't this be in Modding?

[Meph]

Yes, but I sometimes get this:

I got several people in my thread that posted stuff along the lines of: Why havent I heard of this ? Why did I find out about it just now ?

So I figured that some people read the general forum more, and a mod is also "general df". And I dont spam around, but keep it to this one thread. Hope that is excuseable.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Yeah, fair enough.