Okay, playing as toads, brought some Yoshi's and puffs along on embark.
I've noticed toads are very very limited in what they can do, I can't forge a pick even. I know you have an emphasis on toads trading for what they need, but you should give them a wee buff like the ability to make coke products and make bronze, no steel or more advanced materials though.
Also, you should make it so you can forge picks as a toad, being stuck with only wood as a building material is pretty slow going, at least being able to get some stone would make it easier to make them into blocks and start building above ground from there.
I expected to be able to smelt the malachite and casserite into some bronze, make that into a pick and start looking for gems for my jewlertoad to cut for trading.
I've always seen toads as being the most moderately advanced, well rounded, yet most peaceful race, with really poor fighting abilities, not a bunch of fellows who can't mine, smelt or take care of themselves.
Edit:
Okay, after butchering my cats, the yoshi's seem to be eating vermin.
Still pretty slow, just hit autumn, waiting for some trading partners to trade all these copper and tin crafts I made.
I've also noticed my yoshi's get thirsty and hungry. Thirst wasn't a problem, but I had set a water source zone, and set my options to zone drinking only so they would actually drink, now my problem is that they are hungry, I think I recall browsing the raws and seeing that they are vermin eaters, and I also have brought along cats, does this mean that they are going to starve? They haven't gone over to my food stockpiles to eat anything, so I'm getting worried.
A lot of boos are flying around, spotted two big boos as well, exciting, but my toads would be killed pretty easily if they tried to fight them.
I just traded a bunch of bone goods and copper spears and wooden training spears for basically everything the trader toads had, I also now just realized that there are no other civilizations near me, meaning I can't get picks, meaning I'm stuck above ground permanently.
Yoshis need to eat and drink alot, too much I'd say.
Oh and, StephanReiken, thats what I really liked about your mod as well.
Well, I've learned its not particularly fun to play as toads I've abandoned the fortress out of boredom, they need a lot of changing, because this is just boring having to wait for others to supply things that I need to get more materials and goods to get the goods to trade in the first place, and on top of this crippling handicap, they don't seem to be particularly good fighters either, resulting in an overly nerfed race that is completely dependent on wood, limiting where you can settle, cannot mine, cannot *really* make metal goods or alloys, is too dependent on other races and isn't really a viable choice when compared to other races to play as.
You did succeed in making a drastically different play style I suppose, but that doesn't mean its a fun one.
I personally feel that having the various playable races possess the same abilities on basic things such as mining, would make for a better overall mod.
Next, I'll try playing as the koopas.
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