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[Phenoix12]

From the looks of it, it shouldn't mess up the current version, it should technically run without a hitch.
With the new fruits I Have come to realize that most of my plants and plant processes are obsolete, and I need to find time to rework that at least, I have a couple of chill days at work next week that may have to suffice.

So I guess this means you're planning on removing the apple tree building since it's been rendered obsolete by the advent of apple (and other fruit) trees that produce apples (and other fruits) that can be picked in the core game.
Though there still isn’t a way in game to plant your own orchards yet… I think. But that’ll probably come when it comes. (Possibly not for a long time but whatever)

[Maklak]

From patch notes for version 0.40.24:

Stopped certain situations where you could be stuck in the air above certain tiles.

Well, this one is a win for this mod. Hopefully.

[Royal Flush]

From the looks of it, it shouldn't mess up the current version, it should technically run without a hitch.
With the new fruits I Have come to realize that most of my plants and plant processes are obsolete, and I need to find time to rework that at least, I have a couple of chill days at work next week that may have to suffice.

So I guess this means you're planning on removing the apple tree building since it's been rendered obsolete by the advent of apple (and other fruit) trees that produce apples (and other fruits) that can be picked in the core game.
Though there still isn’t a way in game to plant your own orchards yet… I think. But that’ll probably come when it comes. (Possibly not for a long time but whatever)

Honestly, I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to give us apple orchards. Just make raw apples part of the 'build' requirement. Or mod apples themselves to be plantable and have apple 'trees' growing in farm plots. We could still make apple stuff work, it just needs finagled a little bit. You can make the 'trees' take a long time to mature(a year?) and have their yield be really high. ...I'm honestly not sure how much of this can be modded; I know grow time can, but I dunno if yeild can... I'm sure there's a way to make an apple orchard work out with the current modding abilities.

From patch notes for version 0.40.24:

Stopped certain situations where you could be stuck in the air above certain tiles.

Well, this one is a win for this mod. Hopefully.

I saw this and I cheered internally. As a temporary fix to that problem, I've actually clipped the entities' wings by removing the [FLIER] tag, and just gave them their flight speed as move speed. So they're still faster than non-fliers, but they don't get stuck up trees or straight up in mid air. I lost my alicorn weaponsmith because she decided 'midair' was where she should stay until she dehydrated and fell out of the sky. There was no reason for her to even be up there because I'd chopped down all the trees several seasons ago :|

[Telgin]

Has anyone confirmed that this means that cutting down trees won't leave pegasi stranded in the air anymore?  It certainly looks like that's what Toady meant, but I also remember there being something about buildings being stranded in the air, so I'm not sure if units got fixed too.

I sure hope so.  That's definitely my #1 gripe right now.

[Sorcerer]

I think I commented out the apple buildings in the latest version.
With the new fruit and harvesting the system could use a major rewrite, i just don't know when I'll find the time.
Hopefully we'll see less hovering Pegasi with this, it's a shame they still fly-path through trees and leave items in the branches, tho come to think of it, it might be because flying is faster than walking... hmmm that bears testing.

[Hetairos]

So I know this might be a bit odd but... Well. I'm trying to cause a tantrum spiral. Small problem. I can't. I know ponies are friendship, love, and harmony... But...

Well when you're hanging out over the corpses of starved companions rotting in the dining hall, and you're in the mason's shop making coffins for all the dead while standing on top the prior mason assigned to the task that is rotting away beneath you... And you're just unhappy, not freaking out. Well, I think some tuning needs done somewhere.

But seriously the mental image of a gloss-eyed unicorn carefully shaving down stone with horn magic while a dead earth pony is draped half-inside a mostly finished coffin.... Only in Dwarf Fortress, man.

I believe even vanilla dwarves are less prone to devolving into tantrum spirals now.

[Phenoix12]

With the new fruit and harvesting the system could use a major rewrite, i just don't know when I'll find the time.

Toady will probably include a way to make orchards in the future so really you probably can just ignore that stuff. Also as I figured out, one could make pseudo orchards by cordoning off an area with a fence (the fence there just to protect my gatherers from any nasty ground based creatures who would want to eat them so it’s optional) with fruit trees  in it and chopping down and/or killing the saplings of any non-fruit tree to allow more space for the fruit bearing ones to grow.  Throw some paths, a building to store the fruit, a still, and BAM! Cider production facility... or I guess you could just have your ponies bake them into pies instead.

Hopefully we'll see less hovering Pegasi with this, it's a shame they still fly-path through trees and leave items in the branches, tho come to think of it, it might be because flying is faster than walking... hmmm that bears testing.

Yah, that does get annoying...  Until Toady fixes flight pathing or something that probably won't go away.  Way to prevent it is to manually remove the "hauling" job from all pegasi to stop them from picking stuff up and loosing them in the trees.

[fourpotatoes]

Back in the original pony-mod thread, Vandala posted some alternate SPEECH texts for ponies so that bandits & monsters could boast properly about killing them. Shortly thereafter I had a fell mood, claimed a text editor, grabbed his files & expanded them greatly, but then I let them sit for three years instead of posting them. I just dusted them off & did a touch of updating, and they seem to still work in 0.40. I can't trigger them in the arena, but they're happening in adventure mode.

To use them, put these files into data/speech, then patch the various creatures to use these instead of e.g. [SPEECH:dwarf.txt]. I have some gender- and caste-specific speech files, but I haven't tested to see if SPEECH_FEMALE, SPEECH_MALE and CASTE_SPEECH work and the patch here doesn't apply them.

Spoiler: pony.txt (click to show/hide)

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who sang [PRO_POS] last song as I crushed [PRO_POS] bones
who should have bucked more trees before the fight
whose laughter and giggles no longer annoy me
who ran from me like a frightened foal
whose cutie mark now adorns my dress
whose cutie mark has been added to my collection
whose flank was as blank as a foal's
whose flank was as blank as the day [PRO_SUB] was born
who never discovered [PRO_POS] special talent
who finally got [PRO_POS] cutie mark for screaming in agony
whom I made into cupcakes
with whom I had SO MUCH FUN
who was much tougher than you, you big baby
whose number came up
who sobbed pitiably as I removed [PRO_POS] cutie marks
whom I made into glue
who was fit only for glue
who was unfit even for glue
whose hooves and hide made the glue for a cheap violin
who waited submissively as I fastened the bridle of death
who followed submissively as I led [PRO_OBJ] to [PRO_POS] fate
who ate death from my hand like a good little pony
whom I saddled and rode
who drew my chariot until [PRO_SUB] fell from exhaustion
who was too weak to pull my chariot
whose belief in friendship I shattered
who fancied [PRO_REF] worthy of my friendship
who was unworthy of my friendship
who sought my friendship, only to be rejected in death
who accepted my friendship before I put [PRO_OBJ] out of [PRO_REF] misery
who lost my friendship forever
who lost my friendship FOREVER
who lies forgotten by [PRO_POS] friends
whose friends laughed at [PRO_OBJ] behind [PRO_POS] back
whose friendship could not stand before my hatred
whose so-called friends abandoned [PRO_OBJ]
who had no friends
whom I sent to Celestia
whom I sent to Luna
who received the mercy of a quick death after I broke [PRO_POS] leg
who received my mercy after [PRO_SUB] broke [PRO_POS] leg
who begged for the bolt-gun of my mercy
whose cutie mark symbolized [PRO_POS] failure
whose cutie mark was an obvious fake
whose cutie mark ran red with [PRO_POS] blood
whose cutie mark depicted an unnatural act
who was hindered by the hobbles of my hatred
who froze in the blizzard of my wrath
who should have stayed in the stable
who should have bolted when I offered [PRO_OBJ] the chance
who shied away from my rage
whom I rode off the cliff of my displeasure
whose mane was an embarrassing color
whose mane fell off
whom I branded with the mark of my hatred
who cried as I heated the branding-iron
a carthorse who fancied [PRO_REF] a warhorse
the kind of pony nopony should remember
whose life I wrapped up in record time
who needed to be about twenty percent stronger
who needed to be about twenty percent faster
who needed about twenty percent more blood
who was not cool enough to become my pet
for whom I was the worst possible thing
who wore a paper bag to conceal [PRO_POS] frightening appearance
who tried to hide from me in a bale of hay
who was a one-trick pony
who watched uncomprehending as I ended [PRO_POS] life
who died still asking for cookies and punch
who proved to be two midgets in a pony costume


Spoiler: pony_buffalo.txt (click to show/hide)

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whose hide should fetch a fine price
whose hide is now my cloak
whose horns I ground to powder
whom I left to rot after eating [PRO_POS] tongue
whom I drove off the cliff of death
who stampeded into the jaws of death
whom I sent to join [PRO_POS] ancestors


Spoiler: pony_changeling.txt (click to show/hide)

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who never found love
who was tossed aside by the shield of my might
whom I crushed like the bug [PRO_SUB] was
who did a very poor impression of a warrior
who's now doing a very convincing impression of a corpse


Spoiler: pony_dogs.txt (click to show/hide)

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who whined as I struck the final blow
who wagged [PRO_POS] tail as I lined up the killing blow
who played fetch with [PRO_POS] own severed leg
who couldn't tell rubies from rhinestones
who greedily grasped the gem of death
who died like the dog [PRO_SUB] was
whose coat was matted and mangy
who rolled over and died when I kicked [PRO_OBJ]


Spoiler: pony_female.txt (click to show/hide)

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a foal who fancied [PRO_REF] a mare
a filly who fancied [PRO_REF] a mare
who failed the test of marehood


Spoiler: pony_griffon.txt (click to show/hide)

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whom I plucked like a turkey


Spoiler: pony_lion.txt (click to show/hide)

I don't remember why I chose this:

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who lies unatoned and forgotten


Spoiler: pony_male.txt (click to show/hide)

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whom I gelded
who became a gelding ere [PRO_POS] life was over
who failed the test of stallionhood


Spoiler: pony_pegasus.txt (click to show/hide)

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who should have stayed in the clouds when the real pegasi came down to fight
whose wings now adorn my dress
who sang [PRO_POS] last song as I ripped off [PRO_POS] wings
who didn't know why it's called a hacksaw either
who sobbed as I tickled [PRO_OBJ] with [PRO_POS] own severed wing
who laughed as I tickled [PRO_OBJ] with [PRO_POS] own severed wing
whose wings were pinned under the boulder of [PRO_POS] ineptitude
whose wings were pinned under the boulder of my rage
whose wings I clipped
whose wings I broke
whose wings were never mistaken for pretty
whose wings proved fake
whose blustering boasts were busted by the whirlwind of my wrath
whose gentle breezes could not stand before the hurricane of my hatred
who never learned to fly
who finally learned to fly when I hurled [PRO_POS] corpse at [PRO_POS] friends
who's now coloring in pony heaven
now the fastest hat in Equestria


Spoiler: pony_royal.txt (click to show/hide)

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whom I banished to the sun
whom I banished to the moon


Spoiler: pony_unicorn.txt (click to show/hide)

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whose horn will be put to good use
whose horn is now mine
whose horn now hangs from my necklace
whose powdered horn has increased my potency
who sang [PRO_POS] last song as I snapped [PRO_POS] horn
whom I gored with [PRO_POS] own horn
who sobbed at the sight of [PRO_POS] severed horn
whose horn was small and undeveloped
whose talent was clearly not magic
who never learned the magic of friendship
whose horn proved fake
whose horn sparked fitfully as [PRO_SUB] tried to fight
who was too fancy to face the cruel reality of the world
whose hooves I dirtied with [PRO_POS] stinking entrails


Spoiler: pony_zebra.txt (click to show/hide)

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whose stripes are now black and crimson
whose rhymes were wholly unsatisfactory


Spoiler: patch for raws (click to show/hide)

Hopefully copying & pasting won't mangle this too badly:

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diff -u -r ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_buffalo.txt raw/objects/creature_pony_buffalo.txt
--- ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_buffalo.txt 2014-07-22 19:10:20.000000000 -0600
+++ raw/objects/creature_pony_buffalo.txt       2015-01-05 23:47:34.738665240 -0700
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
        [TRANCES]
        [CANOPENDOORS]
        [EQUIPS]
+       [SPEECH:pony_buffalo.txt]
        [CANNOT_CLIMB]
        [PREFSTRING:ancient traditions]
        [PREFSTRING:majestic stampedes]
@@ -188,4 +189,4 @@
                        [TLCM_NOUN:skin:SINGULAR]
                [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
                        [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1]
-                               [TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
\ No newline at end of file
+                               [TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
diff -u -r ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_changeling.txt raw/objects/creature_pony_changeling.txt
--- ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_changeling.txt      2014-07-12 08:48:48.000000000 -0600
+++ raw/objects/creature_pony_changeling.txt    2015-01-05 23:47:51.202896014 -0700
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
        [PROFESSION_NAME:MACEMAN:changeling maceman:changeling macemen]
        [PROFESSION_NAME:PIKEMAN:changeling pikeman:changeling pikemen]
        [PROFESSION_NAME:BOWMAN:changeling bowman:changeling bowmen]
-       [SPEECH:dwarf.txt]
+       [SPEECH:pony_changeling.txt]
        [HOMEOTHERM:10067]
        [SWIMS_LEARNED]
        [MANNERISM_NOSE:nose]
@@ -254,4 +254,4 @@
                [APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_QUADRUPED_GAITS:900:657:438:219:1900:2900] 40 kph
                [APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_CLIMBING_GAITS:5951:5419:4898:1463:6944:8233] 6 kph
                [APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_CRAWLING_GAITS:2990:2257:1525:731:4300:6100] 12 kph
-               [APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_FLYING_GAITS:900:375:250:125:1900:2900] 70 kph
\ No newline at end of file
+               [APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:STANDARD_FLYING_GAITS:900:375:250:125:1900:2900] 70 kph
diff -u -r ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_diamond_dog.txt raw/objects/creature_pony_diamond_dog.txt
--- ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_diamond_dog.txt     2014-07-11 20:59:50.000000000 -0600
+++ raw/objects/creature_pony_diamond_dog.txt   2015-01-05 23:49:23.392187816 -0700
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
        [BONECARN]
        [CANOPENDOORS]
        [EQUIPS]
+       [SPEECH:pony_dogs.txt]
        [NOCTURNAL]
 
        [BABY:1]
diff -u -r ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_griffon.txt raw/objects/creature_pony_griffon.txt
--- ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_griffon.txt 2014-07-22 19:10:10.000000000 -0600
+++ raw/objects/creature_pony_griffon.txt       2015-01-05 23:49:46.900517130 -0700
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
        [INTELLIGENT]
        [CANOPENDOORS]
        [EQUIPS]
+       [SPEECH:pony_griffon.txt]
        [DESCRIPTION:Part eagle, part lion - all awesome!]
        [PREFSTRING:tight-knit prides]
        [PREFSTRING:lovely plumage]
@@ -129,4 +130,4 @@
                                [TLCM_NOUN:feathers:PLURAL]
                [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
                        [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1]
-                               [TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
\ No newline at end of file
+                               [TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
diff -u -r ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_pony.txt raw/objects/creature_pony_pony.txt
--- ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_pony.txt    2014-08-07 21:09:54.000000000 -0600
+++ raw/objects/creature_pony_pony.txt  2015-01-05 23:46:27.049716266 -0700
@@ -3173,7 +3173,7 @@
                [GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:pony foal:pony foals]
                [DIURNAL]
                [EQUIPS]
-               [SPEECH:dwarf.txt]
+               [SPEECH:pony.txt]
                [HOMEOTHERM:10067]
                [SWIMS_LEARNED]
 
diff -u -r ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_zebra.txt raw/objects/creature_pony_zebra.txt
--- ../mods/My Little Raws 2014 - 0.40.19/raw/objects/creature_pony_zebra.txt   2014-07-22 19:10:52.000000000 -0600
+++ raw/objects/creature_pony_zebra.txt 2015-01-05 23:50:07.908811391 -0700
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
        [PROFESSION_NAME:BOWMAN:bowzebra:bowzebras]
        [PROFESSION_NAME:MASTER_CROSSBOWMAN:Elite Markszebra:Elite Markszebras]
        [PROFESSION_NAME:MASTER_BOWMAN:Elite Bowzebra:Elite Bowzebras]
-       [SPEECH:dwarf.txt]
+       [SPEECH:pony_zebra.txt]
        [HOMEOTHERM:10067]
        [SWIMS_LEARNED]
 
@@ -332,4 +332,4 @@
                                        [TSU_NOUN:hair:SINGULAR]
        [SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
                [SELECT_MATERIAL:ALL]
-                       [MULTIPLY_VALUE:4]
\ No newline at end of file
+                       [MULTIPLY_VALUE:4]



[Jimexmore]

Are you gonna re add unicorns and maybe some spells?

[Sorcerer]

All four pony types are already in, there's an infancy of a spell system in the files somewhere, but that will also require a bit of work to fully flesh out. Due to time restraints unfortunately I'm only doing bugfixing in the mod at the moment.
The biggest problem with extensive DF modding is that it's fairly time intensive and it's very easy to break things if you don't concentrate on what you're doing. Result is that currently I just don't have time unfortunately.

Hopefully I'll be able to take some time to fix this stuff properly but as of yet such a time has eluded me, so no promises this time

[Shadow_Hornet]

I wonder if I could make the changelings possible to play as if I somehow got them to use the buildings and skills that the ponys use?

If that would work then I wonder how hard it would be for me to do. I never really did much modding of dwarf fortress before. If it could work then I think I would give it a shoot and see where I end up.

There is something about the changelings that makes me want to play as them, and also being attacked by ponys would be fun too.

[Sorcerer]

If you just want them to use the pony buildings you can just change the [CREATURE:PONY] in Entity_Pony.txt to [CREATURE:PONY_CHANGELING]

The changelings aren't really made for civ mode tho, they only eat meat and bones, only Queens and Breeders can have babbies and only drones have the [male] tag.
Also they lay eggs which I don't think works in civ mode, i think the'll just lay eggs and they never pop. you may want to change that in the Creature_Pony_Changeling.txt file.

[Telgin]

Egg laying does work in fort mode.  I've used it before with griffons.  It's a bit finicky, especially since even unmarried females will lay infertile eggs and sit on them forever if they aren't taken to the kitchen, but it does work.

All you need is a married couple and a nest box.  Forbid the eggs and wait.

[Shadow_Hornet]

The only eating meat and bones thing sounds like it could be a new kind of challenge for me to try. I normally would have large farms underground for food.

It's nice to know that the egg laying might work. Right now I'm not quite sure how I would go about changing it myself.

[Shadow_Hornet]

I went and set the Entity_Pony.txt to use changeling and set Entity_Pony_CHANGELING.txt to use pony. I think I will now have good  changelings and evil ponys coming to try and seal babys.

I also removed the immobile tag from the breeder changelings so I can move them around. Not sure how I would work with them with them being immobile. They could have been workable if I had some other way of moving them around.

I started my fort and now I will see what happens next.

By the way 6 of my starting 7 were all breeders and the last one was a drone.