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[Lycaeon]

What kind of raids Crazy Cow? Was it steel rangers or ordinary raiders/slavers?

As for that Khenal...whoops! Found a typo in the reactions for dismantling them...thanks for pointing that out! I'll have another hotfix for that shortly, with a couple of quick updates.

Green glass shards are automatically melted down at the kiln.

[Khenal]

Ah, alrighty.  I looked at the glass furnace and didn't see it.  Steel Rangers might be showing up earlier than expected still, had two Steel ranger thieves show up (with battle saddles).  Thankfully, they ran away like a thief should.  Will report later if they ambush me, heh.

[Pokon]

Ah, alrighty.  I looked at the glass furnace and didn't see it.  Steel Rangers might be showing up earlier than expected still, had two Steel ranger thieves show up (with battle saddles).  Thankfully, they ran away like a thief should.  Will report later if they ambush me, heh.

Steel Rangers takeing interest in your fort early is a feature. .

[Crazy Cow]

Blah. Slavers ambushed my pump operators, only two of which were military. They got carved apart by chainsaws before the rest showed up, but they were still outnumbered. Let's try this again, but with nothing but survival on my priorities list this time.
It's always been slavers, Lycaeon. I'm focusing too much on salvage and not enough on getting a decent military together ;p

[Lycaeon]

Version 0.85c is out with a small feature I had originally planned for the next update: Snipers.

Certain talented ponies now possess the keen sight to see far beyond their fellows, allowing them to reach out and touch enemies at long distances with ranged weapons. Whether they'll hit their targets or not is another matter.

Hint about the Steel Rangers: They'll begin to send scouts and ambushes once you reach 80 ponies or a large amount of created wealth. They're going to be rebalanced significantly as part of the next version but for now preparation is your friend.

[Indigo_Surprise]

I'm playing this smart. My first seven ponies were nothing but miners, masons, architects, and carpenters with nothing but a few turrets and stockpiles of food and drink. I decided the project would end when they ran out of supplies. I got extraordinarily lucky on reclamation when my wheelbarrow, splints, and crutches were antiques. So I pawned those off on the embark screen in exchange for.... 20 turrets, a full set of steel armor, and bukoos of seeds and food. I think everything will be fairly fine.

[Bacon Pants]

There's this snatcher just sitting outside my base labeled "friendly", and my fort fell to a constant barrage of foalsnatcher attack after foal snatcher attack (sometimes they would even overlap each other). How the hell do I get into good cahoots with this bastard before he ends my mere days-old fort?

[Replica]

Drown all your children, it's the only way to be sure.

[Crazy Cow]

Oh shit. A feral unicorn reaver just completely destroyed my security team; all three went at him, and in about five seconds all three were dead. Whatever the hell it was, I really don't think it was worth the small amount of salvage I got from the expedition.

[Lycaeon]

In vanilla DF, if you reclaim a fort that had enemy units on it when you abandoned, they'll be listed as friendly and be slightly buggy, though you can get rid of them using a militia kill order.

As for the reavers...they're rare, but I wasn't kidding when I wrote the description of the deathlands.

[Pokon]

Oh shit. A feral unicorn reaver just completely destroyed my security team; all three went at him, and in about five seconds all three were dead. Whatever the hell it was, I really don't think it was worth the small amount of salvage I got from the expedition.

Robots arn't too good against them either, as my two shattered Protectaponies would tell you. There even worse to deal with when you get a Pegasus.

Honestly, after a quick look into the RAW's, I dread a chance encounter with a Minotaur reaver. Sweet Celestia, Lycaeon, do you dislike viable forts?

[Lycaeon]

Are you guys all embarking in the deathlands or breaking into the caves too early?

Reavers really can't be handled in melee by anything other than a full steel-equipped squad. It's at range where they're weak...I always make a squad armed with combat/hunting rifles and steel ammunition and fortify them near my Stable entrance. The one minotaur reaver I had show up went down to an anti-machine round to the face.

[Crazy Cow]

I'm breaching the caverns too early ;p The siren song of good loot is too much to resist!

For anyone who's interested, I made some changes to the plant files. I changed the salvage tree colors to be a lot easier to identify at a glance: low salvage is brown, medium salvage is yellow, high salvage is green, terminals are red and vendors are blue. I also added ASCII tiles to all trees and removed the background color of shrubs.

[Lycaeon]

Nice! I'll look into incorporating some of those background color changes into the next version.

And there's going to be a lot more good loot in future updates.

Thanks for the input everyone!

[Pokon]

A quick thing I wipped up. There like goats, but...special. I just call them the Brayherd.

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[CREATURE:littlehorn]
[DESCRIPTION:The angery decendent's of goats who fled up the hills and vallys to survive the end of the world. Dispite appering like a old-world goat, they are anything but, and will attempt to attack any creature's that get in there way. That mean's ponies in general, stables dwellers in pratice.]
[NAME:littlehorn:littlehorn:littlehorn]
[CASTE_NAME:littlehorn:littlehorn:little horn]
[GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:littlehorn kid:littlehorn kids]
[CREATURE_TILE:'g'][COLOR:6:0:1]

[PREFSTRING:bloody horns and hooves]
[PREFSTRING:determination]
[LARGE_ROAMING]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:35:50]
[CLUSTER_NUMBER:10:25]
[GRASSTRAMPLE:0][PRONE_TO_RAGE:10]
[BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
[BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]
[BIOME:ANY_SHRUBLAND]
[BIOME:ANY_SAVANNA]
        [MEANDERER][LIKES_FIGHTING]
[NOFEAR][NATURAL_SKILL:SITUATIONAL_AWARENESS:9] Ninja goats.
[NATURAL_SKILL:BITE:5]
   
[NATURAL_SKILL:MELEE_COMBAT:6]
[NATURAL_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE:3]
[NATURAL_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE:4]
[BODY:QUADRUPED_HOOF:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:2HEAD_HORN:MOUTH:TONGUE:GENERIC_TEETH:RIBCAGE]
[NATURAL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:HOOF:HOOF_TEMPLATE]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:HORN:HORN_TEMPLATE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
[SELECT_TISSUE:HAIR]
[INSULATION:200]
[USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:HOOF:HOOF_TEMPLATE]
[USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:HORN:HORN_TEMPLATE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:BODY_HAIR_TISSUE_LAYERS:HAIR]
[SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:HEART:BY_CATEGORY:HEART]
[PLUS_TISSUE_LAYER:SKIN:BY_CATEGORY:THROAT]
[TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES]

[SELECT_MATERIAL:HAIR]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:wool]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:wool]
[YARN]

[SELECT_TISSUE:HAIR]
[TISSUE_NAME:wool:NP]

[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_HEAD_POSITIONS]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_RIBCAGE_POSITIONS]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SINEW:SINEW_TEMPLATE]
[TENDONS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
[LIGAMENTS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
[HAS_NERVES]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD:LIQUID]
[CREATURE_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
[GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS]
[GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:PUS:PUS_TEMPLATE]
[PUS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:PUS:LIQUID]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:5000]
[BODY_SIZE:1:0:10000]
[BODY_SIZE:2:0:200000]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
[MAXAGE:20:30]
[ATTACK:KICK:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HOOF_FRONT]
[ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:kick:kicks]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK:KICK:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HOOF_REAR]
[ATTACK_SKILL:STANCE_STRIKE]
[ATTACK_VERB:kick:kicks]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
[ATTACK_FLAG_WITH]
[ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:TOOTH]
[ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
[ATTACK_VERB:bite:bites]
[ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
[ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
[ATTACK_PRIORITY:SECOND]
[ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH]
[CHILD:1]
[DIURNAL]
[HOMEOTHERM:10067]
[SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
[MUNDANE]
[CASTE:FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
[CASTE:MALE]
[MALE]
[SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:HAIR]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1:BROWN:1:WHITE:1:GRAY:1:LIGHT_BROWN:1:DARK_BROWN:1:AUBURN:1:CHESTNUT:1:SLATE_GRAY:1:CREAM:1:CINNAMON:1:BUFF:1:BEIGE:1:CHOCOLATE:1:CHARCOAL:1:ASH_GRAY:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:hair:SINGULAR]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SKIN]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BROWN:1:BURNT_UMBER:1:CINNAMON:1:COPPER:1:DARK_BROWN:1:DARK_PEACH:1:DARK_TAN:1:ECRU:1:PALE_BROWN:1:PALE_CHESTNUT:1:PALE_PINK:1:PEACH:1:PINK:1:RAW_UMBER:1:SEPIA:1:TAN:1:TAUPE_PALE:1:TAUPE_SANDY:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:skin:SINGULAR]
[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:BLACK:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]


Good fun, realy. Fine pratice for physical fighters. Dispite there scary numbers, anything with metal can make quick work with them. Regular ponies.....get gored and mauled in creative ways, but what in the wasteland does not do that to ponies?