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[Replica]

Spoiler: Lemon Stable Report 8 (click to show/hide)

Things keep going better and better.
But, it's not all sunshine, my stable is practically completely defenseless in case of ambushes, okay, so it isn't defenseless, but if they attack I can't fight them off until I actually decide to gear my units properly.
Right now Lemon is undergoing a significant technological boost both infantry weapons wise as well as the overall infrastructure and industry, lots of new workshops are built and new things are gradually tested.
We are still in that "in-between" phase where everything is a "work in progress".

Lapse:

The barracks are all kitted out with beds for the sleeping quarters, all except for ours seeing as we don't really need them and we are short on beds.
The soldiers actually use the beds when feeling sleepy, they leave training to sleep in the next room and return to training when they wake up, nice and effective.



Radiance Leafpoet, a farmer gets possessed by unknown forces.
She mutters something about Sweetie Belles, gems and salvage and takes over our Jewelry Workshop.
Slowly and in a zombie like motion she begins to collect all her strange materials before sitting down and painstakingly work on something really tiny, using a whole medium quality salvage pile as her working materials.

We finish constructing our MWT Prism Forge, and it looks incredibly interesting.
This forge appears to be the core of the end game weapons industry, just look at the list of reactions.
So we can now build chainsaw rifles, and power armor if we get ahold of matrixes.
We don't forge anything yet, but the chainsaw rifles may be worth looking into once my primary rifles squad is at a good enough skill to reliably use decent rifles.



More tables are placed in the meeting hall, there have been complaints about it still being under constructions and I've listened to our workforce, explaining that we were still short on chairs I ordered a large amount of tables to be placed in rows and gave the order to construct more tables and chairs.
Our masons are always busy with something it seems.

Our new kitchens are dug out, all food industries are moved downstairs, it's still rough, and the whole area needs smoothing, but at least we got all the necessities.
We only lack a few select specialty workshops to have a complete kitchen, and we need that completed kitchen.
Kitchens are like radscorpions, you can have a stinger with it's deadly poison or the sharp pincers that cut through pony flesh, but only together do you have a whole radscorpion.
In words that actually make sense this means that I want a full kitchen so I have everything prepared for the end game food industry, which is my favorite kind of industry.
We lack a Bakery, a Millstone and a Quern. Required components are requisitioned and in the meanwhile I tend to other matters.

Radiance finishes her mysterious construction, whatever sinister power possessed her has now left her body, this left her thirsty and craving for sugar.
She created Worshipdash, a gold quartz earring.
On the earring is a tiny image of a cowardly pegasus, the name makes it pretty obvious to figure out who it is.
Normally tarnishing the good image of the ministry mares would net you 10 years in solitary, but seeing as she was possessed by evil spirits we let her off with a warning.




The RobronCo machine shop is prepared, I will keep all the stray robots in one room while the workshop proper is in the other, the main room.
A special stockpile is built which allows only upgrade potions for robots. Robot upgrade potions are banned from the rest of the stable.
All that needs to actually get built and the robots need to me moved, so I move on elsewhere.



Checking our food supplies I notice that our supply of plants is not increasing at the rate I'd like, so I build more farms in the soil layer and plant a variety of crops for added variety.

The stable security squad's barracks is finalized, these ponies will be fully geared in security armor, riot shields and security batons only, but they will train 3 months as opposed to the other squads 2 before taking a month off. They are not much to look at at the moment, they don't even have the gear I want them to have, but in time they will become skilled warriors who balance armor, speed and the blunt force of the mace which P(ony)SI has proven can be quite lethal in combat.
While modifying schedules the schedules of the other squads are also modified so that there is at least one squad training per month so that we always have at least one squad geared up and ready for battle (with the nonexistant gear we dont have, but still, at least 1/3 squads will be carrying weapons in the time of an emergency).

The military training room is also set up, the Virtual Reality sim and Armory are both moved downstairs and special stockpiles are made to increase effectiveness of training sessions down there.
Lycaeon is again assigned to train armor user at the Armory (which proceeds slowly) and our sniper training program is initiated with Motherworship as our first trainee.
His training proceeds well, it's not the fastest increase I've ever seen, but he has already gained one level in marksponyship and is on the good way to level 2 (starting at level 0).
I expect that at that rate the snipers will soon catch up to our rifleponies and be ready to hold their own ground from the walls.

A wastelander caravan arrives, they settle in our brand new trade depot who has already been vomited all over.
If I could collect all the vomit and sell it I wouldn't need prepared egg roasts.
We bring up our weapon bins and prepared food barrels and send Corai to trade.
I told Corai to trade for necessities, extra food, all of their wood and give them what they want.
And what does she do? She goes up to the trade leader, puts a hoof on his shoulder and says that she wants all of it.
The trade leader nods and asks what we were offering. Corai offers them a barbed steel wire, she basically demands all of their goods for a spool of pointy wire.
The leader is on the edge about it, but Corai manages to negotiate for a trade by convincing the trader that this is the only barbed steel wire of it's kind and that it is of a special design that only came in limited quantities before the war, she cuts them a "good deal" by only demanding half off all their goods, the trader falls for her charisma and agrees to the trade, which presumably puts him in a world of shit once he gets back to the shitty scrap pile they call home carrying a spool of steel wire.

An irradiated storm sweeps by engulfing 4 cats and one pony, all of which are too self important to listen to warning sirens and take cover.
The pony and the cats survive unscathed, but the cats all suffer from radiation sickness and leave long trails of vomit.
But not normal vomit, this is cat vomit, and if you own a cat (or have owned one at some point) you know how utterly disgusting it is.



We return to more important duties, we have better shit to do than clean up cat pukes.
So we still needed security batons for our maceponies, we got right on that and ordered 10 iron security batons.
Said and done, our maceponies now have security batons.

Our bone/shell stockpile in the soil layer is getting overstocked with shells.
Since shells are completely useless I built two craftsponyshops to begin processing all the shells into decorations.
Everything needs to have mutant fish shell attached to it.



Corai decides to be a silly filly and demands a single quiver to me made.
To muse her we raise a leather workshop and build a single quiver.
While we were at it we also began building backpacks for our militia.

With the RobronCo machine shop being fully constructed (or at least the first design of it) and all the neccesary components for a rocket turret available I giddily order somepony, anypony, to upgrade a turret to a rocket turret.
One of our two clerics, the mage Cloud Frog, answers the call.
One by one he carries all the components to the shop, once he gets the last component in, a box of rockets, I lock the door and let him get to it.
But as soon as I scroll away I get a job cancellation message saying that no boxes of rockets were available.
I shrug and try again. Nothing. Nothing. Didn't work. Nuhuh.
"No Replica, this isn't a box of rockets it's a box of... um... sprockets. Can't use that as ammo sir. Uh-uh."
I decide to settle for the next best thing and build a minigu- funny, now we no longer have the components to do that, oh well, I guess a flamethrower turret is cool too.
That works out perfectly and Cloud Frog builds a fancy flamethrower turret which we place by our perimeter entrance.

The final thing we do before ending the session is build the Bakery in our kitchen, very nice, now we can do absolutely nothing since we have neither dough materials or oil.
But it will be nice to have later once I have the ingredients.
I only wish we could build swords made of bread. How cool wouldn't it be to send your militia against a giant radscorpion armed with baguettes?
General:

What made the session end?
The flamethrower turret.
You were not joking when you said "be prepared for !!FUN!!", a giant radscorpion felt like it would be a cool idea to waltz into a walled area filled with ponies armed to the teeth and bristling with rifles to say hello.
The flamethrower turret fires at it, does *nothing* and sets the grass inside the perimeter on fire.
Our militia is sent to kill it and while the entire inner courtyard burns down they fight the scorpion in the flames.
When everypony on the surface died of severe third degree burns the scorpion just happily waltzed away.

With this lesson learned I rewinded and moved the turret back downstairs to hang out with his other unupgraded robot friends until I am done with the brahmin pastures and have enough time to pave the inner courtyard with stone.

Otherwise aside from this there is not much to report currently, things progress as usual.

Notable that I am too lazy to explain.

[Indigo_Surprise]

Replica, the random entry is entry 1 of Pine.

And Maklak, my copying from my notepad derped pretty hard. I did not feel like organizing it back into paragraphs. I'll take care of that naow.

Also I'm going to try and see if my former pony forum will take us in for political asylum. Then we can make all the jokes we want without being overt. Like we were doing here till the community watch guy started hassling us.

By the by, in the novel when slavers burned slaves' cutie marks off, did that remove their special talent as well or is it just a physical change?

[Maklak]

So far EQD and EQG haven't answered, but the mod got linked here: http://fallout-equestria.com/media/tag/Dwarf%20Fortress It is a rather obscure place, so don't expect a wave of new players.

> We finish constructing our MWT Prism Forge, and it looks incredibly interesting.
I don't really see a point to most of furniture reactions, but these look useful:
* Steel / Plasteel Chain (For chainsaws, rippers and chainsaw / ripper rifles. It will make them better than steel.)
* All kinds of ranged weapons.
* Large Serrated Plasteel Disk --- too bad that creatures you'd want to use it against all have TRAP_AVOID to not get caught in cages.
* All kinds of armours. I'm not sure if I like that combat armour comes in sets. I'd rather have barding, helmet and boots separately.
* All kinds of ammunition.
* Upgrade weapons.
* Steel pipe sections and corkscrews for magma-safe pumps.
A steel cage is OK for RP of keeping strong creatures caged, but I've never seen anyone using steel furniture.

What I would like to see:
* Forge 2 stacks of 50 pellets from weapon grade metal
* Forge 2 stacks of 50 AP pellets from steel
* Forge bronze mechanism
* Plasteel Combat Armour. (But you probably want to keep the bars for scorpion power armours, though)
* Plasteel Power Armour, but it would be OP.


> The soldiers actually use the beds when feeling sleepy, they leave training to sleep in the next room and return to training when they wake up, nice and effective.
Not only that, they also got chests and armour stands to store things in. All it lacks is small stockpiles for drinks and prepared meals and an ammo stockpile at the shooting range
Personally I just set up a weapon rack, make a room, tell them to train there and that's it. If I get too many messages about soldiers colliding, I give them a bigger room. But I like your setup better.

> So we can now build chainsaw rifles
I want one for my pony. Preferably exceptional and plasteel, but for now the *steel chainsaw* will do and there are much more pressing matters, like good weapons and security armour for every soldier. With good strength and agility, full security set of armour doesn't slow the soldiers much, even without armour user.

> Kitchens are like radscorpions, you can have a stinger with it's deadly poison or the sharp pincers that cut through pony flesh, but only together do you have a whole radscorpion. [...]
Lol. I'm curious about the bakery. In 1.71 for 31.25 we didn't even manage to get it to work. Overall with my approach to cooking, a bakery is not something I would want for my stable, but I'd like to see what you'll do with it.

> A wastelander caravan arrives, they settle in our brand new trade depot who has already been vomited all over.
I thought the green stuff was ghoul blood.

I like your explanation of buying stuff for barbed wire. Coral is a talented trader indeed.

> Everything needs to have mutant fish shell attached to it.
Hehe. I normally just atom-smash this stuff along with skulls. For arms and armour the value system takes care of upgrades. When decorations come into play a *<-bronze security helmet->* can be worth more than a =steel security helmet= and I don't want that.

> But as soon as I scroll away I get a job cancellation message saying that no boxes of rockets were available.
Yeah, I've run into something like this more than once. It usually settles down after a while and often has something to do with needed items being inside bins that are carried around.

> I only wish we could build swords made of bread. How cool wouldn't it be to send your militia against a giant radscorpion armed with baguettes?
Before they finally manage to kill it, their skill gains would be even better than with wooden weapons

> The flamethrower turret.
Pretty much the same thing happened to me, but the fire was outside. The burning grass was deadly, but the flames from the turret weren't. Was your turret on the same z-level as the scorpion? Did if fire more than once?
I'm surprised it turned that way for you. Normal turrets next to the flaming one, should be able to scare the scorpion away.

That's a lot of iron bars. You must have smelted all your scrap at the prismatic smelter. Why don't you make steel? No flux stone? With this kind of iron and charcoal, you should be able to equip the military just fine.


> And Maklak, my copying from my notepad derped pretty hard. I did not feel like organizing it back into paragraphs. I'll take care of that naow.
Notepad was my best guess. When you use notepad, save it to a file. Close the file. Then open it again. Then copy and paste. You don't run into the error with spaces between the lines that way.

> Also I'm going to try and see if my former pony forum will take us in for political asylum. Then we can make all the jokes we want without being overt. Like we were doing here till the community watch guy started hassling us.
I'm not that keen on sexual jokes. I can take some, but "all the jokes we want" is probably too much for me.
There was a pony forum that sort of splintered from bay12, but I forgot the link.

> By the by, in the novel when slavers burned slaves' cutie marks off, did that remove their special talent as well or is it just a physical change?
No idea how it works in the novel, but Master Red Eye said, it removes the compulsion to do things related to one's special talent. Kinda useful if a pony wants to blend in with a more-or-less civilised society and her CM is a severed head on a spear or something. http://askredeye.tumblr.com/tagged/cm

[Indigo_Surprise]

>I'm not that keen on sexual jokes. I can take some, but "all the jokes we want" is probably too much for me.
There was a pony forum that sort of splintered from bay12, but I forgot the link.

Now I didn't say all the jokes we wanted, I said similar to those we were already doing.

>No idea how it works in the novel, but Master Red Eye said, it removes the compulsion to do things related to one's special talent. Kinda useful if a pony wants to blend in with a more-or-less civilised society and her CM is a severed head on a spear or something. http://askredeye.tumblr.com/tagged/cm

Excellent... Page Twinkletan's descent into madness can proceed as planned.

[Lycaeon]

Welp, back from my trip!

Replica: Curious to see you haven't started engraving the bedrooms...then again, the labor is needed elsewhere. It's always a pain to engrave a large fortress.

And while it's jarring to have modded in an Overmare that gets elected...I didn't want to stray too far from the base mayoral position. Is that ok with everyone?

>Kitchens are like radscorpions, you can have a stinger with it's deadly poison or the sharp pincers that cut through pony flesh, but only together do you have a whole radscorpion.
 

The rocket turret upgrade requires 2 rocket boxes, and the workshop reactions are notorious for becoming available when only a fraction of the components are immediately nearby (With the remainder in stockpile limbo, as Maklak mentioned).

Where are you getting the mutant fish shell? It seems to be an excessive amount if you need to start putting it on everything.

I made giant radscorpions and other major enemies [FIREIMMUNE], otherwise they'd just be melted down in an instant by flamethrower turrets.

What year are you currently in? It's lucky that you made it all the way to a prismatic forge without at least one ambush.

Maklak: Being on the FoE site is well and good. EqD seemed somewhat prestigious for a mod that's only in beta. Thanks.

I'll add in the bronze mechanism, though I intended the prismatic forge to only work with steel and plasteel. No BB's, and the various armors are pre-determined in terms of their materials.

I nearly forgot about the bakery. It was the one building I didn't test, and now that I look back on it, its reactions seem rather excessive. I'll probably simplify them to a few or one type of bread along with the crop revamp.

Time to get cracking on the next update! I'll be removing copper as a weapons metal as well (Everything in Fallout was at the very least iron), so expect enemy civilizations to get boosted by this.

[Indigo_Surprise]

While we could slink into my friend's forum and hide out in the OOC section, I could make us a forum where we won't get harassed. No report is complete without shipping jokes.

[Crazy Cow]

I'm fine staying here, but if we move I'll follow.
In other news, everyone and his grandmother seems to be doing these things, so why not me?

Spoiler: Cradleworth, Year One (click to show/hide)

With a weary sigh, Olive slipped out of the wagon's harness. Their little party had finally found a worthy place to stop; just up ahead were a few run-down pre-war buildings, behind them a river would provide fresh water, and to her right a hill rose above the scraggly trees. It was a good place to stay.
Olive found herself hard-pressed to care.
As her little ponies spread out, exploring their new home, Olive leaned against the comforting firmness of the supply wagon. Wheat poked playfully at one of the cage vines, laughing as the plant bobbed under his touch. Jade ran off into the run-down shacks, the hounds following and yapping playfully. Deer calmly surveyed their surroundings, no doubt thinking about defenses and sniping positions. Everypony seemed carefree and happy; none of them seemed to realize the gravity of the situation, how hard the months to come would be for all of them.
How had Celestia done it? Day after day, she had shined for her ponies, a bright beacon of hope for all of Equestria to look up to. Olive had only a hooffull of ponies, a little cult that was barely a drop in the population of their old Stabe... and she still struggled. She tried to put on a smile for those she led in worship of the Sisters, tried to support them when they fell and be happy for them when they succeeded. For the most part she succeeded; their little family was small, but they were happy, even after being cast out for their beliefs. The stinging words of the other Stable dwellers had fallen on deaf ears and pious minds; Olive seemed to be the only pony that had been hurt by their barbs.
But in the darkness, when nopony was around to see her... Olive found herself empty. Her faith in Celestia, her duty to her family... none of those things drove her or mattered anymore. Olive didn't know when she had become this hollow shell, when her cutie mark stopped meaning anything and when she started going through the motions instead of living. It had been in that lifeless Stable, though, and one of the few emotions she truly felt was relief at being free of its walls.
A cry broke her brooding; Bird had shoved Courtesy into a pool, and the two bucks (colts, really) were splashing and flinging mud. Olive smiled at their innocence, thinking back to the antics the two would get up to in the Stable.
Maybe this is what we needed, she thought to herself. Maybe the colors and life of the Wasteland would help bring her out of the depression that had been with her for years. Either way, her ponies needed her.
"Deer!" she called out, standing up. The sniper looked up from his musings, giving her his full attention. "Tell me what's going on inside that big head of yours."
"Well, we'll need to set a perimeter," he begun, sweeping a hoof off in the general direction of the Wasteland proper. "A moat would be the least resource-intensive option, and we have the tools we need with us. We can set up one around these buildings here and invest some time into repairing them."
"I was thinking the same," the cult leader said with a nod. "Get those two fools out of that pond and get them working on it." Deer nodded, snapped off a quick salute and went to organize their first line of defense.
As Olive trotted off to take a look at their new home herself, she felt her spirits rise a bit. She wasn't an immortal alicorn by any means, but with the help of Celestia above maybe she could carve out a home here. Offering a murmured prayer to the heavens, the cult leader set about putting together her new home.

Spoiler: Screenshots (click to show/hide)

It's going to be an above-ground fortress with a popcap of thirty. Wish me luck, eh?

[Replica]

Replica, the random entry is entry 1 of Pine.

Copy.

Also I'm going to try and see if my former pony forum will take us in for political asylum. Then we can make all the jokes we want without being overt. Like we were doing here till the community watch guy started hassling us.

While we could slink into my friend's forum and hide out in the OOC section, I could make us a forum where we won't get harassed. No report is complete without shipping jokes.

Appreciate it, but it just wouldn't be the same.
It wouldn't be funny to mess with Crazy Cow if he and the others weren't there to be all skittish about it, and plus, I'd rather not make separate stable reports on different forums, I am short on time as it is.
Just face it, we had a good run, it was fun while it lasted, but didn't work out and it is just time to let it go.

Spoiler: Maklak (click to show/hide)

>I don't really see a point to most of furniture reactions, but these look useful:
* Steel / Plasteel Chain (For chainsaws, rippers and chainsaw / ripper rifles. It will make them better than steel.)
* All kinds of ranged weapons.
* Large Serrated Plasteel Disk --- too bad that creatures you'd want to use it against all have TRAP_AVOID to not get caught in cages.
* All kinds of armours. I'm not sure if I like that combat armour comes in sets. I'd rather have barding, helmet and boots separately.
* All kinds of ammunition.
* Upgrade weapons.
* Steel pipe sections and corkscrews for magma-safe pumps.
A steel cage is OK for RP of keeping strong creatures caged, but I've never seen anyone using steel furniture.

I think the plasteel/steel furniture is a nice touch, with all the steel and plasteel you recover from smelting and scavenging operations towards the end game you get the option to make furniture out of it, and seeing as steel furniture is worth practically as much as gold giving it to your best ponies (nobles, favorites, etc) they end up having their use after all.
In vanilla DF forts where I had a large excess of steel but little to no gold it wasn't unusual for me to make furniture out of it.

>Not only that, they also got chests and armour stands to store things in. All it lacks is small stockpiles for drinks and prepared meals and an ammo stockpile at the shooting range
Personally I just set up a weapon rack, make a room, tell them to train there and that's it. If I get too many messages about soldiers colliding, I give them a bigger room. But I like your setup better.

This is one of the few times where I have even bothered to run a setup like that, normally I do just like you do and just set up a single armor/weapons rack as the barracks and that's it.
This is a bit more of a test than actual experience, so I am interested in seeing how well it works in the long run and if it is worth doing again.

>I want one for my pony. Preferably exceptional and plasteel, but for now the *steel chainsaw* will do and there are much more pressing matters, like good weapons and security armour for every soldier. With good strength and agility, full security set of armour doesn't slow the soldiers much, even without armour user.

Maybe, eventually.
We'll see how well you guys progress with normal training once you get "busy".

>I thought the green stuff was ghoul blood.

It's funny, but I've only had a single ghoul show up at my fort, and that was in this last session when the wastelanders showed up.
It's body is laying in the ditch next to the trade depot, it only killed one of theirs and I didn't notice it until after I posted it.

>Hehe. I normally just atom-smash this stuff along with skulls. For arms and armour the value system takes care of upgrades. When decorations come into play a *<-bronze security helmet->* can be worth more than a =steel security helmet= and I don't want that.

Never say no to free stuff, especially now that value doesn't really matter.

> The flamethrower turret.
Pretty much the same thing happened to me, but the fire was outside. The burning grass was deadly, but the flames from the turret weren't. Was your turret on the same z-level as the scorpion? Did if fire more than once?
I'm surprised it turned that way for you. Normal turrets next to the flaming one, should be able to scare the scorpion away.

Same level, yes. Scorpion was unharmed by the fire.
It fired several times.

>That's a lot of iron bars. You must have smelted all your scrap at the prismatic smelter. Why don't you make steel? No flux stone? With this kind of iron and charcoal, you should be able to equip the military just fine.

No flux right now, I only got claystone to work with.
Might be flux down below, not sure, haven't bothered to check.

Spoiler: Lycaeon (click to show/hide)

>Replica: Curious to see you haven't started engraving the bedrooms...then again, the labor is needed elsewhere. It's always a pain to engrave a large fortress.

Low amount of labor force at the moment, a little over 1/3 of my stable are militaries, another 1/3 are specialists (farmers, mechanics, etc) and the rest are mostly haulers and such.
Everyone are pulling their own weight and the number of idlers tends to stay below 15 most of the time, the ponies I have responsible for smoothing and engraving are mostly busy crafting furniture at the moment, but once I get everything nice and furnished I'll begin to smooth things out.
Nopone should have to live in a cave like they do now, we aren't cave ponies you know, we are civilized ponies and the direct descendants from the greatest nation in the known world, rough claystone walls are unponylike.
We earth ponies don't really mind though, but you know, gotta keep the unicorns happy and all.

>And while it's jarring to have modded in an Overmare that gets elected...I didn't want to stray too far from the base mayoral position. Is that ok with everyone?

Not a huge deal, if I didn't want Corai to have been the overmare I'd just have replaced her with someone else, the option is there for that position, it's later on where it gets tricky when you end up with leaders you didn't even want.

>The rocket turret upgrade requires 2 rocket boxes, and the workshop reactions are notorious for becoming available when only a fraction of the components are immediately nearby (With the remainder in stockpile limbo, as Maklak mentioned).

TWO rocket boxes?
That's strange. I have a single rocket box in the entire stable and the reaction still shows as doable.
Why isn't the reaction appearing as red if I can't do it, like it does for many of the other reactions?
Still, that just means that I'll have to scavenge some more, shouldn't be a problem considering the amount of surface scavenge.

>Where are you getting the mutant fish shell? It seems to be an excessive amount if you need to start putting it on everything.

Large portion of professional fisherponies coupled with the safety of the aquifier I have designated as a fishing area.
Others still fish in the small portion of the surface perimeter connected to the brook.
With no other labors aside from fishing (all hauling disabled for fisherponies) they fish 24/7, which has boosted my fish stocks considerably, and thus resulted in a disproportionate amount of shells.

>I made giant radscorpions and other major enemies [FIREIMMUNE], otherwise they'd just be melted down in an instant by flamethrower turrets.

What a shame, it lessens the usefulness of the flamethrower turrets by a lot when compared to minigun and rocket turrets (or I guess rocket turrets, I have never seen them in action).
I guess if that was the only workaround to prevent easy kills on that kind of creature then there is not much to do about it.

>What year are you currently in? It's lucky that you made it all the way to a prismatic forge without at least one ambush.

Year 3 I believe, I am pretty sure that I genned for 100 years and started at the beginning of year 101.
Latest report is registered at 10th Sandstone, 103.
Do keep in mind that my embark has an incredible amount of high quality salvage, on the surface, so I got some of the goodies very early on when compared to other stables.

>I nearly forgot about the bakery. It was the one building I didn't test, and now that I look back on it, its reactions seem rather excessive. I'll probably simplify them to a few or one type of bread along with the crop revamp.

D'aw.
But seriously though, could I request baguette swords? Just for laughs?

>Time to get cracking on the next update! I'll be removing copper as a weapons metal as well (Everything in Fallout was at the very least iron), so expect enemy civilizations to get boosted by this.

Or nerfed, copper is the best blunt material weapon aside from silver, and you are removing silver as well as a weapons material.
Most raiders I've met have been armed with blunt weapons.
But you go for it, it just means more iron for me and Maklak to go around.

[Lycaeon]

Good luck Crazy Cow! Let me know if the ASCII needs tweaking anywhere (If you're using the prototype version).

Replica:
>Why isn't the reaction appearing as red if I can't do it, like it does for many of the other reactions?
It may be that when there are duplicate components the reaction will only need one to become "available". This can be mitigated by having stockpiles specifically for components next to the workshops, so you can double check whether or not you have enough for large reactions.

>Which has boosted my fish stocks considerably, and thus resulted in a disproportionate amount of shells.
Radfish don't give shells...so it must be some other critter. Do you know it's name?

>Latest report is registered at 10th Sandstone, 103.
Well, you did have some raider scouts show up, so it's probably not a matter of inaccessible enemy civs or something.

>But seriously though, could I request baguette swords? Just for laughs?
Sure.

>Copper is the best blunt material weapon aside from silver, and you are removing silver as well as a weapons material.
Whoops...forgot about that. I'll leave it in as a weapons metal for now. I was more concerned with the armor anyway.

[Indigo_Surprise]

What I'm proposing is that we all pack up and move to a new forum. Which means mod discussion and reports would take place there instead of here. You wouldn't need to make stable reports on each forum since we'd all be over there. Crazy Cow is coming if we all do. All we need is the OK from everyone else. If the locals don't approve of you, you either band together and form a separate society, which we're unable to do, or you pack up and head for greener pastures.

Having to censor creativity due to watchful hawks is no way to have fun

[Replica]

>It may be that when there are duplicate components the reaction will only need one to become "available". This can be mitigated by having stockpiles specifically for components next to the workshops, so you can double check whether or not you have enough for large reactions.

I see, well, I do have a robot components stockpile planned out, there is a room that has been dug out that I made after screencapping the fort.
I feared that it would be something like that, oh wells, not a big deal to hang myself over.

>Radfish don't give shells...so it must be some other critter. Do you know it's name?

The name of this mysterious and elusive shell providing creature is "Mussels".
A "Mussel" is a strange underwater creature that lives inside an exoskeleton (the "shell"), it's pulpy fleshy mass is very delicious and can even be eaten raw and is a delicacy when cooked with 200 year old pasta in the warmer mediterranean regions of the wasteland.

>Well, you did have some raider scouts show up, so it's probably not a matter of inaccessible enemy civs or something.

I sure hope not, I embarked right in the middle of a massive continent filled with the worst scum, it would suck to have all this cool gear and nothing to use it against.

>>But seriously though, could I request baguette swords? Just for laughs?
>Sure.

YES!!

>>Copper is the best blunt material weapon aside from silver, and you are removing silver as well as a weapons material.
>Whoops...forgot about that. I'll leave it in as a weapons metal for now. I was more concerned with the armor anyway.

Hey, just saying, do whatever, we'll roll with it.
Removing copper may actually be better in the long run, because like you said, it would buff civs overall.

What I'm proposing is that we all pack up and move to a new forum. Which means mod discussion and reports would take place there instead of here. You wouldn't need to make stable reports on each forum since we'd all be over there. Crazy Cow is coming if we all do. All we need is the OK from everyone else. If the locals don't approve of you, you either band together and form a separate society, which we're unable to do, or you pack up and head for greener pastures.

Having to censor creativity due to watchful hawks is no way to have fun

But I like Bay 12. :c
If the involved users are interested then okay, I'll show up and swing by every now and then if it is such a big deal to people.
But my home is Bay 12, my stable reports stay where they are and my main presence remains next to Lycaeon and his thread.
I really like the non-joke related feedback I get from doing these, the talks with Maklak and Lycaeon about choices I've made are interesting and I am learning crap I should have known ages ago.

[Lycaeon]

What I'm proposing is that we all pack up and move to a new forum.

And wouldn't that just be what the hawks want?

A pony community fort here is far from impossible, and has been done very successfully numerous times before, as I'm sure you know. The DF forum rules don't prohibit ordinary shipping and creativity - we just need to keep in mind not to get carried away and we'll be fine.

I do appreciate that the option is available Indigo, however, I'll be keeping my operations here.

Edit: Same to below Crazy Cow, though I will open a mod thread there for posterity.

[Crazy Cow]

You know, guys, there's already a forum for us.
Back when the Pony Threads were struck down by the great Toady One, we fled into the wilderness and founded mylittleponyforum.infodiscussion.com. They're all Bay12 bronies over there, and we've even got an 18+ section for people who really like their mature stuff. We could make a thread there for the FO:E mod and get a few new players besides.
(We even have a Skype group if you like that sort of thing ;P)

[Indigo_Surprise]

You know, guys, there's already a forum for us.
Back when the Pony Threads were struck down by the great Toady One, we fled into the wilderness and founded mylittleponyforum.infodiscussion.com. They're all Bay12 bronies over there, and we've even got an 18+ section for people who really like their mature stuff. We could make a thread there for the FO:E mod and get a few new players besides.
(We even have a Skype group if you like that sort of thing ;P)

Works for Hulk.

I'll definitely be moving over there. Saves me from embarrassing everyone with a shoddy layout. Well not move-move. I'll still be here, though I only come here to watch this thread, Losing is !MAGIC! and to look at other mods. I've never even been to other parts of this forum besides the modding scene.

Also I don't subscribe to "If you do this then they win!" mentality. So long as both parties get what they want it's a win-win. For now I'm going to see if this other forum can handle me. I've been keeping my own stuff private, that's why I stopped updating Bottledlust.

Also I think another CO is going to have to take over Pine Outpost. More news at 11.

[Crazy Cow]

I'll see you there, eh? I'll put up an FO:E thread for us.