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Saruman

Bhall

Father Sky

[CheatingChicken]

Warlock traders really are massive trolls.

"Hey, we want to trade with you. Did you order all your refuse pile to be reanimated?"

[smakemupagus]

I think over the weekend i will go through the final couple things on my to do list

* convert to use domestic animals to avoid weird side effects of USE ANY PET
     * But, add some orcish/taiga pets: Direwolf (w/h), Sabercat(w/h), Auroch(pack), Mammoth(wild), Archaeopteryx (h)
* put some more stuff at Arcane Forge to make it useful even if you don't also have Ancient Foundry
* Add another rare source of Orichalcum (platinum coins transaction maybe?), since it will no longer come from trade caravans in future
(... lol, whenever i write these things down I think of more ... )
* Maybe a special for the Goblin Stonecutter -- he's the one Ghetto building that doesn't have anything that really jumps out for me
     * Special battering trap?  Batch/colored bricks?  Put the stone anvil back req dwarven tools?
* Maybe add another use for Elven tools, it's only used for Fletching at this point.  Although, enchanted arrows are pretty boss mode.
     * wood from saplings?  mithril mail at Damasc?

P.S.  can anyone point me to an example on how to add sprites for animals and particularly how to handle their young/hunting/war variants?  otherwise i'll just look up how Meph did the Drakes and hope I can figure it out from there.

Anyone have other ideas/requests, now would be a good time

In the mean while here is a tiny update. 

Mostly buffs to common spells based on arena testing, Still untested in Fort mode.  Possibly Overpowered when you can spam it on multiple targets but at this point I'd rather it be a little OP and have to dial it back .. goal is to give Druids and Sorcs tools to help counter long [SIEGE] style attacks, but not be able to just crush a whole group instantly.

0.36b
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* greatly lengthened time effect of suffocate, previous time was too short to cause any permanent damage
* somewhat lengthened time of effect of sapstrength, previous time was only a few ticks
* greatly upgrades bloodcurse, confirmed fatal to pandas (takes quite some time though!)
* somewhat increased time of effect of pain
   * added IT_MANUAL_INPUT so pain can properly target in arena/adventure
* balance: slightly decrease mats reqt for silver clubs and iron chainwhips at factory
   * gives another option for mass production besides copper daggers, esp for raiders
* a bit of additions to manual

[smakemupagus]

Any interesting ideas about what to do with a Deep Drow Great Clanmother?  Looks like she was babysnatched, and grew up to become the leader of our civ.  I think I can only pasture her in the throne room.  Not so different from a normal king I guess. 

After years of no luck with the magma source, immediately after I finally finished breaching the aquifer the old fashioned way, I get something like 3 magma source blueprints over the next 5 raids. 

p.s.  Looks like netherwood tankers aren't magma proof after all.  Sorry 'bout that ^^

[smakemupagus]

Version 0.40 is now posted.  The first thing you might notice is that Orcs are now a Domestic Pets civ, so no more really long list filled with cheap or strange animals.  However I put in a few Orky animals to play around with.

* [CREATURE:DIRE_WOLF_ORC][DESCRIPTION:A ferocious orc-sized canine, bred in large packs for hunting and war.]

* [CREATURE:SHAGGY_MUMAK][DESCRIPTION:A huge shaggy mammal with a trunk and six long tusks, legend has it these beasts were used as terrifying assault weapons by orcish armies in the forgotten past.]

* [CREATURE:STEPPE_AUROCHS][DESCRIPTION:A primitive bovine nearly hunted to extinction in many human territories.  They are favored by orcish ranchers for their large size and wild temperment.]

* [CREATURE:ARCTIC_CONDOR][DESCRIPTION:A large raptor that nests in icy crags, attracted to the carrion and vermin that accompany orcish settlements. They are domesticated and trained for the hunt by orcish outriders.]

* [CREATURE:TIAGA_SABRECAT][DESCRIPTION:A huge feline hunter with enormous eyeteeth, native to the boreal forests. They are often the favored pets of orcish warchiefs.]



There are a lots of other changes that are a bit more subtle.  I tried to give a boost to workshops that I thought were a bit less than par, buffed most types of magic & moved the tedious work of talisman collection to the Totem pole where peasants can do it.  And finally pay attention to some polish issues like: trying to get all the workshops unique build hot keys, and standardizing the materials of tools in a way that might help stockpile organization.  (i.e. all Meadhall codex are steel, all magic codex are silver, all elven toolkits are mithril, etc., so you can use Materials settings to distinguish your Tools stockpiles).  So far I only debugged worldgen/startup issues and haven't run test forts, so as usual with a big update, apologies in advance for any typo bugs and etc.

There are some new pre made embarks in the download too, if you like grab them and paste in the data/init/embark_profiles file.

[smakemupagus]

New version up [0.41], small changes other than the manual.

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0.41
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* remove At Peace With Wildlife from Arctic Condors
* LAND_HOLDER is now a hereditary position more like the Dwarven nobility
   * Each tier of LAND_HOLDER can establish an office of a different (optional) champion
* slightly reduced capacity for demands/mandates of mid level nobles
* lots of work on the manual
* typo wrong name text in CHAIR_BATCH_ORC
* typo, looted fairyfire should be silver material like other mojos
* text, burn trees to "charcoal" not coke

[tahujdt]

smake, just wanted to say that all of us are still watching and loving this mod, it's just that when Meph incorporated it into MWDF2, we don't need to come here to constantly update.

[smakemupagus]

Cool, glad you are enjoying it and thanks for saying so

p.s. The buffs to magic spells in the latest couple versions, in part it goes back to your and other players reports a while ago, that Bloodcurse and Pain weren't strong enough to noticeably cripple an enemy.  In my 0.41 fort I had a Sorcerer picking flying giant war bats out of the sky with Pain and it was pretty awesome   Of course he ran too far forward and I ended up accidentally crushing him with a bridge. 

[Meph]

Yeah, about 1/3 of the players ticked "playing orcs" on my bigger poll

But for some reason all reports to go my thread, even if I state that people should please post here... you know how it is ^^

[smakemupagus]

I am going to go ahead and call this latest version "1.00".  I won't say it's perfectly bug free or balanced of course, but it has to become "v1" some time!  Hope you enjoy.

I wrote some embark scenarios during the super bowl power outage.  They are really geared towards giving newer players some hints about features in the mod, but I had fun writing them, and looking forward to trying them too with the bonus challenges   They appear in the Manual along with the code for corresponding embark profiles.

Vale of Tears

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His name was once legend among your clan - Aguur'thashum, the Black Arrow.  He came up through the ranks as a line grunt in a resistance warband protecting the last of the Orcish Druids' Places of Power.  When the deep forests were finally lost to the elves, he lead a battered and rag-tag group in a desperate battle for survival, leaving only ash in their wake.  Ultimately, he found himself hunting alone in the darkest corners of the elder kingdoms, striking at Elven princelings with single arrows fletched with ravens' plumes.  Now the Black Arrow is a shadow of his former self, blind with age and crippled with old scars, and forgotten by many of the young warchiefs vying for favor.  He has cashed in all his remaining favors with the Clan Council to outfit one final expedition and counts on you to see it through.  The time for subtlety, for knives in the dark, has passed.

    * Goals:  Embark with the "Forest Clan" profile in a region with both Elves and Elven Bandits.  Initiate war with both.  Build a camp with at least 3 Elven Labor Cells and 1 Goblin Sawmill.  Build an above ground temple exclusively from wood and embellished with mithril, large enough for a Stone Circle and 3 totem poles, and housing.  House in the temple at least 3 Druids, plus their assistant Dreamwalkers and any other worthy acolytes you see fit.
    * Tips:  Use the Raiders Drydock to get Elven laborers and Goblin migrants.  A Druidic codex can be either crafted or obtained on a raid; then use it at the Stone Circle to enlighten your Dreamwalkers.
    * Bonus 1:  Burn, melt, butcher, or destroy any items looted from elvish invaders or stolen from traders (using Raiders' plunder is fair game). 
    * Bonus 2:  Capture a Treesinger's Pagoda and ensnare the ancient spirits of the forest to give fairwood and mithril as tribute for the temple.

The Old Ways

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When the enemy marched on the Great Clanholding, your kin held the pass at Bitter Narrows for hours.  The entire council of elders escaped, and you held the ford.  The other supposed "warlords" escaped, and still your folk alone held the ford.  In the end your father sent you away with an oath to safeguard the clan in his stead.  He fell fighting back to back with his brothers, after exacting a terrible toll from the human vanguard.  A near escape and a long bitter winter followed, but of course, you endured.  Yesterday, a clan liaison arrived to announce that due to your greatly diminished numbers, your clan-holding was being dissolved.  Your kin are to disperse into the towns.  You are to report for training as a shieldbearer second-class in support of a new professional pike-and-musket battalion, modeled after some human tactical nonsense.  Today, the liaison woke up at sunrise, confused and alone in his fine silken tent.  You, your tribe, and your herds were visible only as a cloud of dust on the horizon.

    * Goals:  Embark with the "Steppe Clan" profile.  Equip at least 15 soldiers with gear from the traditional Jaguar, Falcon, or Dragon Warrior Societies.  Record 50 or more kills of Human or Dwarven troops in melee or with ranged attacks from Society wargear.  All snaga-caste orcs must live in a separate complex and are forbidden from melee combat, crafting, and metalworking. 
    * Tips:  Use the Tribal wargear, Fletcher, Damasc shop, and/or Forge to craft traditional weapons, and combine them into Society Wargear at the meadhall.   
    * Bonus 1:  Embark on an aquifer (you may adjust the embark to bring stone)
    * Bonus 2:  Since you are estranged from the central Clan Council, set the population cap to 80 or less.

Thunderguard

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Your clan traces its lineage back to the Orcish Sorcerer-kings of the deep.  When you were young, your great-uncle would unlock the old stockpiles to show you the mechanized crossbows, the automata, the black powder and strange runic weapons.  But your uncle was no sorcerer, nor even a mechanist, and the ancient weapons were rusted and decrepit after long decades of neglect.  In any case the stockpiles were lost to the Drow years ago in the Underdark wars.  Your clan is now diminished almost to a feral pack of animals, scavenging for scraps in the moonlight, hiding in caves from Human outriders from dawn to dusk.  You agree with your cousin, the chief, on a desperate mission: you will take a small team of picked Orcs, build a secret holding deep below the hills, and rebuild a devastating arsenal in relative safety.  Only once you have the strength to finally break your enemies will you reveal yourself to the surface world again.

    * Goals:  Embark with the "Mountain Clan" profile in a region without Human Bandit trade partners.  Delve directly to the 1st or 2nd cavern; anything built above the 1st cavern must be made of Factory-produced blocks, metal, or obsidian.  Equip at least 20 soldiers with gunpowder weapons including at least 5 Seawolf or Lifeguard Society arms kits.  Ultimately build an citadel and obelisk on the surface as a beacon for your scattered clan.
    * Tips:  Buy ammo at the Freelancers' Guild or craft it at the Goblin Tinkerer.  Gunpowder weapons are available at the Freelancer or Tinkerer; by raiding Humans and Merchants Guild, or by loot in ordinary combat.
    * Bonus 1:  Build an Altar of Storms and train 2 or more Sorcerers to support the Thunderguard.
    * Bonus 2:  Capture a Heavy Weapons Armory and destroy at least 10 enemies with cannons' Grenade ammo or steam-powered melee weapons.

Blood Price

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You are a favored privateer and bounty hunter of the Shadowbroker.  Or, you were, as recently as 12 hours ago.  Currently the Broker's second-best galleon lies broken on the strand, all the treasure in her hold lost to the depths, with only a drunken posse of goblinoid halfwits blinking at you for orders.  Already you are doing your best to hatch some schemes - the *Trinimac's Revenge* will never sail again, so you might as well start salvaging.  You suppose that the Broker can be reasonable, particularly if he never finds out what actually happened. 

    * Goals:  Embark with the "Shipwrecked Longboat" profile.  Build a pirate cove consisting of a waterfront villa, at least 2 raider's drydocks, 2 freelancer's guildhalls, and one of each type of caravanserai bazaar.  Cover your debt by acquiring at least 20,000 platinum coins, plus an additional 5000 for each elapsed game year.
    * Tips:  Use the Raider's docks to capture caravanserai blueprints; use the Common Bazaar and Shadowbroker's Bazaar to combine smaller currencies to gold and platinum.
    * Bonus 1:  As a known pirate, coins with your mark are practically worthless; you may not mint coins at the forge.
    * Bonus 2:  Rebuild the Shadowbroker's Galleon, a fortress suspended above the waves with housing for at least 7, galley, sickbay, barracks, captain's quarters, and a ballista.

[leafar]

these sound all awesome!
if only rl wouldnt take so much of my time...

[smakemupagus]

if only rl wouldnt take so much of my time...

I know!!  But, real life won't mind if you just play *one* little game of Orc Fortress, right?

[Meph]

I guess you dont plan on any more releases in the next time ?

And what is with the manual... somewhat updated?

[smakemupagus]

That's right, no big changes coming planned, if I catch some bugs of course I'll post a little update release.

The manual is mostly up to date, actually! 

[Meph]

Just looking through the newest version, to see what changed. One thing I noticed about the caravanserai... I had an idea about the design.

This is a caravanserai blueprint RL.

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  Your caravanserai-bazaars dont fit this, so I made this:



The left ones are the originals, the right ones the new design. If you want to use it I'll send you the raw, otherwise I scrap it. I just thought it would be nice to graphically combine the buildings that share the same function. Its a bit small, because of the border... maybe I should have made them 6x6 ^^

Edit: And it has no entry... D'oh!

[smakemupagus]

I started with borders kind of like that but then I figured, just leave the architectural part of it to be up to the player, especially since they might want to build in different places for storage, or not have to worry what is the "right" order to put them in or whatever.

Still.  Seeing how nice those look I might play with the design a little more