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[Khenal]

So much want.  Maybe I'll be able to handle bots better than a real militia

[Kel the Oblivious]

Right, so, I settled in an Untamed Wilds region, things are going good...

And then I get "So and SO stops Blah, interrupted by Hacker"

Hackers are the nickname for my sawponies.

I check the unit list, and there, with an Opposed to Life tag, is one of my hacker ponies. Manage to kill it, no problems. But I am very confused, because there is no way he could have been exposed to Radiation to become a ghoul (What I assume this means)

A few month later, my Baton Boss did the same thing, and managed to kill a couple ponies along the way, again with no exposure to radiation.

What the hell is happening in my fortress?!

[Lycaeon]

Did one or both ponies by any chance get bitten by rabid raiders?

[Replica]

So much want.  Maybe I'll be able to handle bots better than a real militia

ALL the wants.
With this new update I'll become the true king of Sprite-Bots, no longer will I be limited by my practical use of embark points and trade caravans!
There will be Sprite-Bots for EVERYPONY, I WILL HAVE SWARMS OF SPRITE-BOTS PATROLING THE WASTELAND!!
LET NO BLACK RADSCORPION GO UNCHASED, NO STEEL RANGER HEAD UNPUSHED!

Well so my newyears was pretty forgetfull.
When the memory came back I discovered that my USB was in an old shoe, my wallet in the refrigerator and that I had scribbled a silly amount of complete garbage.
Among the doodles though I found 4 somewhat interesting bits which I recovered, colored and fixed to some degree (except for the 1st picture which is left as it was).

Spoiler: Some defenition of "Art" (click to show/hide)

By the way, we have all been accepted to the Everfree over at that forum.
Looks pretty dead and was seriously overhyped, but it's alright.
It's like we missed some kind of awesome party and showed up right at the end of it when everyone are about to wobble home and call cabs.
BUT, they should be cool enough to let us host whatever strange community game we want, so go for it.
Threads made there should be pretty safe to be linked here, considering that you need access to the Everfree to see the threads there, so Microcline wont randomly stumble across the Everfree against his will on his OCD "click-everything-I-see" trips around the forums and get salty about it.

[Splint]

Jealousy of your arts. I has it.

And the part about the no head unpushed was priceless.

[Indigo_Surprise]

All of that art is priceless.

[Kel the Oblivious]

Rabid... Raiders 

Well, that would explain it. Thanks.

[P(ony)SI]

Awesome art, especially the first and second pictures.
Replica for pony president!

[Corai]

Replica. I believe what I said to Splint sums up my opinion on what you said.

Corai: WHY REPLICA.
Corai: WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS.
Corai: RAIDERS DON'T DESERVE THE HORROR THAT IS THE SPRITE BOT'S POLKA!
Corai: EVEN RAIDERS DON'T DESERVE THAT!

Oh, and the art. It is amazing.

Replica for pony president!

I agree! Replica for president!

And rabid raiders? I've never seen those before. Are they wild animals or part of the actual raiders?

[P(ony)SI]

And rabid raiders? I've never seen those before. Are they wild animals or part of the actual raiders?

"Rabid" raiders are marauders, raider ponies that have this in their description:

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This one appears especially crazed, with yellow sclera and bloody spittle foaming out from its mouth.They also feel no fear and pain and are [CRAZED].

[Lycaeon]

Update: Feather and Flame

Finale of the Ministry of Wartime Technology

In the days of pre-war Equestria, before the land was consumed by balefire, Manehattan ponies living near the main RobronCo manufacturing plant talked about chickens. Specifically, the chickens that were being shipped in by the truckload from all over Equestria, on wagons big and small, all of which headed into the depths of the towering facility that was the symbol of the RobronCo business empire, before leaving empty. For a time, the subject of the missing chickens was the talk of Manehattan, but since nopony, or at least, nopony who talked, could access the plant, interest gradually waned. Little did they know that RobronCo's CEO, Mr. House, before he founded the company that would become the largest and most profitable enterprise in Equestria, discovered that the eccentric habits of chickens, when mapped onto a grid, were perfect for calibrating the arcano-behavioral pathways of the processing matrices that would form the core of each and every RobronCo robot. Though even he was unsure of why the processing matrices responded so extraordinarily to random patterns of clucks, pecks, and scratching, he wasted no time in capitalizing on this discovery. Of course, he made sure to keep a close partnership with Stable-Tec, the discoverer and main producer of the processing talisman technology, despite his dislike for Scootaloo, Stable-Tec's vice-president.

One little known fact: RobronCo also became Equestria's largest producer of feather pillows shortly before the Last Day.

Changelog

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 

•   RobronCo Assembly Line
     o   Requires a power talisman, a RobronCo terminal, wiring, blocks, and mechanisms to build.
     o   Produces upgraded robots such as the minigun protectapony, robobrain, and cyberdog.
     o   Common components used for robot assembly.
          •   Robot processing matrix: scavenged from crates or copied at arcane research facilities.
          •   AI hologem: scavenged from crates
          •   Robot chassis: manufactured
          •   Robot motors: scavenged from crates or manufactured
          •   Sensor module: scavenged
          •   Coiled wiring: scavenged or manufactured
          •   Spark batteries: scavenged
          •   Steel plating (Aluminum for Nurse Redhearts)
          •   Steel bar
          •   Rough clear glass
          •   Barrel: for the upgrade potion
     o   Different robots will use different combinations of these components.
     o   Produces robot assembly drinks which transform the indicated creature to the robot when drunk by a nearby pony.
          •   The majority use chickens for calibration.
          •   Cyberdog and robobrain augmentation potions use dogs and untrained slave ponies, respectively.
     o   Note that this is an experimental system and will be tweaked in future versions after feedback is taken into account. More robots will also be added.

     o   RobronCo Prismatic Forge:
          •   Manufactures robot chassises (steel), motors (bronze), and steel plating.
          •   Chassises for Hooves-class robots, cyberdogs, and robobrains require schematics.
     o   Robot processing matrices can be copied at the arcane and MAS research facilities using basic and advanced hologems from the gemcrafting stations.
     o   Robot motors and sensor modules are scattered among salvage and can be dismantled at the workbench for scrap parts.
     o   Robot corpses will drop various robot components.

•   Talon Mercenaries
Though the Griffon Kingdom remained neutral for the duration of the war, griffons by the hundreds streamed into Equestria, eager for fights that had become scarce in their home mountains. Working as mercenaries for both sides and often operating far from the metropolitan centers, many survived when the balefire bombs fell. In the present, these griffon companies have made a name for themselves as some of the finest fighters in the Equestrian Wasteland, and will gladly take up the squabbles of those factions willing to pay in plenty of cold, hard, caps.

•   Wild robots will now spawn properly.
•   Bones and vermin can now be grinded into bonemeal (a flux for steel) at the grinder.
     o   Credits go to Meph.
•   Steel ranger armor nerfed to become vulnerable to armor piercing ammunition and steel chain/kinetic weapons.
•   Steel ranger trigger experimentally changed to trade wealth of 30k.
     o   While this is very small, it should be more easily avoided than the produced wealth trigger by trading at low levels. Their population trigger remains.
•   Only earth ponies can receive power armor upgrades.
•   Melee weapon training hologem added.
•   Bronze added as a workable metal for all non-armor prismatic forge products.
     o   Upright spikes added as a product.
     o   (100) BB pellets can now be forged from a bronze bar.
•   Anti-machine rifles from crates are packed in cases, allowing skilled mechanics to restore them to pristine condition.
•   Training reactions now produce inert clouds and no longer require spark batteries.
•   Terminals require two charged spark batteries to build.
•   Armor training simplified.
•   Increased yield of gems from rock grinding.
•   Root processing removed from celery, carrots, and radishes.
•   Silver and copper no longer considered weapons/armor-grade metals.
•   Plasteel bars revamped to a raw-material type toy that can be stockpiled.
•   Barbed wire nerfed to decrease its value.
•   Black radscorpions renamed to large radscorpions.
•   Bakery revamp postponed to next version.
•   An oversight preventing plasteel chains from being used to make chain weapons has been fixed.
•   Reduced severity of nausea from radiation poisoning.
•   Removed some unused plant drinks.
•   Removed rocket launcher from armored protectapony
•   Schematics and spell matrices stockpile categories split.
•   Ponies will still try to stockpile errant laser bolts. No progress on a fix yet.
•   Numerous minor bugfixes.
•   Updated the upgrade potion guide in the first post.
•   ASCII version will be released tomorrow.

As always, I greatly appreciate feedback on any issues encountered as well as suggestions for improvements. I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and hope you all enjoy the new update! 

Credits for the robobrain image go to Darksorrow666!

[P(ony)SI]

YES!

I'll love you forever when you make the ASCII version.

[Graknorke]

I shall be back tomorrow.
But before then, could someone explain how to store salvage crates and the other things prefixed with (tool), (toy) and whatever the others are; in a stockpile? I can't seem to find the stockpile selection where they fit.

[Corai]

Am I the only one who finds it agonizing to read the description? It's so odd. Am I the only one having this problem?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sorry about the crop fail.

[Graknorke]

Am I the only one who finds it agonizing to read the description? It's so odd. Am I the only one having this problem?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sorry about the crop fail.

I don't see that. It's all formatted fine for me.