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[Arcvasti]

Does anyone still have any interest in this mod? its a shame to let it just be forgotton.

I still do. Have neither the time nor the skill to take up the mantle of the Equimodder, but I'm still interested in it.


@Splint:

I'm pretty certain Snail555 and UnicodingUnicorn are the same person.

[bluemovie]

Im still interested. All this things, stuff and ideas. Oh, that's super-cool
If only we can have version on actual Df version, once..

[c0mplex]

I used to love playing this mod a while back and would like to see it get new content again. Unfortunately, I do not have the modding experience with DF to really do anything constructive with it.

[Multi]

Hi all, so im a long time lurker and was sad to notice that this mod was dead. However i actually want to continue this mod myself starting from Pinkie Pie is Watching and following that theme. Unfortunately i have no idea how to mod. However i AM willing to learn, so if someone is willing to teach me or at least point me to a guide, id happily begin working on this as soon as possible!

Thanks!
-Multi

[cesarjunior233]

How to download And , have adventure mode ?

[Enemy post]

How to download And , have adventure mode ?

Here's the link to the download. The OP's links are to the old version of DFFD.

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=7117

[cesarjunior233]

How to download And , have adventure mode ?

Here's the link to the download. The OP's links are to the old version of DFFD.

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=7117

Thanks

[thefriendlyhacker]

I have been working on something for a while.  I am finally happy enough to throw it out to the world in it's currently unfinished, but nonetheless very playable state.

Behold, and enjoy.

Ministry of Morale stuff, radiation effects, and anything else depending on non-combat interactions* going off is still more or less broken, but everything *should* work.  However, testing a mod this size is time consuming with the amount of iterations it goes through, so let me know if anything else is broken/confusing/nonsensical etc.  Also, feel free to ask questions - I have been fiddling around with this for so long that I find it hard to even remember how some things used to work before, so there might be major changes I have flat out forgotten about.

Major changes that you should probably know about

Spoiler: spoilered for length (click to show/hide)

• Ponies have natural skill according to cutie mark now.  It doesn't show up in embark properly, so be aware that any pony with a cutie mark will be rocking around competent in a skill their cutie mark relates strongly to
• A lot of minor items/reactions have been rolled together or removed for simplicity.  No braiding frayed wires together or assembling robot motors, for example.  Toolboxes aren't a thing either, now
• Salvage "trees" are now more clearly distinguishable.  Yellow is low, blue/cyan is medium, green/purple is high, gray is vendors, dark red is destroyed terminals, light red is disabled terminals.  This may be subject to change later - tell me what you think of the current color scheme
• combat and security armor are now both normally forgeable.  Combat armor is far heavier, but provides superior coverage.  Security is light enough that inexperienced ponies can walk around in it without crippling their mobility.  Power armor is still as annoying to find as always.  Plasteel is now called Aetherite, Stellarite is a heavier/weaker equivalent, and they both can be alloyed out of star metal and some normal metals you can get from salvage
• Because of AI interaction usage changes, robots and the like do not shoot at wildlife.  This includes ghouls.  In general, don't expect non-citizens to do much against non-invaders. AFAIK nothing I can do about that.
• If you want a slightly cheesy way of making wildlife less of a threat, put a tavern assigned meeting zone at the entrance to your stable.  Having a Steel Ranger artifact hunter lounging around is the difference between 2 dead ponies and 5 dead ghouls
• Injectors, pipbucks etc now go in the armor slots.  This is a workaround for ponies equipping 4 pipbucks at once.
• Flier breaks visitors and sieges, so it is now gone from griffons and unity alicorns.  Annoying, but I have never seen an embark without it being littered with hovering immobile visitors or stuck sieges. 
• Likewise, building destroyer visitors would break everything in a fort, so demo rangers/griffons and unity have lockpicker, and some civs may rock up with building destroying siege bots (the latter is untested, tell me how squads of door breaching Mr Macintoshes go!)
• Spellcasting reactions have had a huge amount of minor adjustments, and now use the vanilla paper system.  Combat casting no longer uses the [enemy] tag system (didn't play well with mercs) and just gets used on creatures the pony is attacking.  Also now apprentices can cast adept spells of their school, and adepts master spells.  Check their description, it now says if/what they can cast, and all casters get alchemy/arcane researcher as an inherent skills.  Oh, and I added a couple of conjuration spells for completeness.  This is all getting overhauled at a later date, btw.
• A lot of minor buildings were removed along with their reactions for being broken and clashing thematically with the tavern update
• The prismatic smelter does spark battery charging.  Oh, and it can make magma directly below it by melting rocks.  What !!fun!!.  Use the pony resources center to unlock magma forges.  Likewise, the water talisman pump actually creates water without any fuss.  I would recommend giving at least a z-level between where the water/magma spawns and any reservoir you are using.
• Robots no longer require chickens, and civilian grade ones are mostly aluminum.  You may want to make battle saddles instead with those pulse lasers and plasma casters, though.
• Cyber surgery, hydra administration, slave rehab, cyberdog conversion etc works in a 5 tile radius around the workshop on the same z level, as determined by the corresponding dfhack command in onLoad.init
• Pro tip for the start of your embark - get your stuff inside ASAP.  If a glowing ghoul rocks up to your wagon, you will very quickly find yourself without food or seeds.  I speak from experience here - learn from my pain. Fortunately, glowing ghouls are less of a threat than they used to be - they are still a highly dangerous annoyance that will cost you ponies, but not an autolose for melee soldiers.

Well, tell me how it goes.  Good luck, and try not to get too many ponies killed.

*Interactions only ever trigger during combat regardless of usage hints, so any interaction that doesn't get utilized in combat is hopelessly broken.  However, a lot of stuff doesn't depend on non-combat interactions any more - the entire robotics industry and slavery, for example. 

[Garfink]

That is awesome, will try it tonight!  Any quirks or tips we should be aware of?

[thefriendlyhacker]

That is awesome, will try it tonight!  Any quirks or tips we should be aware of?

Aside from what I already mentioned, there is probably a couple more things I should bring up.

As per normal for Fallout Equestria, you might want a military pretty quickly, especially since now robots don't go after wildlife properly. When I mean quickly, I mean you can have 5 ghouls or several radgators blundering into your wagon in the first 3 minutes.  It happens.  Bring some security armor and weapons, and max out some ponies in military skills (remember to check for military cutie marks in the embark screen so you save points).  Since not many other skills are vital, I have started just bringing 2 miners, 1 woodcutter (all with appraisal for redundancy) and 4 mil ponies on my last coupe of embarks.

Oh, and you may not want worldgen to run for too long (I would not run it past 250, and even that is pushing it).  Stable dwellers and Slavers tend to not go very well in worldgen compared to armor plated shock troops, literal goddesses and highly trained, winged, clawed, chainsaw toting beefcakes.  Even with a short worldgen, having a dying stable civ at 100 isn't unheard of.  Don't turn up civ number either, that just gets you infinite worldgen rejects.

Beyond that, much of the old starting advice applies, so take a skim through the old guides and such.

EDIT: Oh, and there is an intermittent worldgen crash that I am completely clueless as to causes on.  I though it had gone away with the .10 update, but I just tried to gen another world and apparently it is back.  It doesn't happen most of the time, so just try again if it crashes (which will happen fairly quickly, about year 100 on a default sized world, or year 200 on a small world).

[thefriendlyhacker]

Version 0.40.1 is now on DFFD.  Mostly just bug fixes, tweaks and an FFID script for spell targeting.  Oh, and now orewood (which only shows up in Good surroundings) has a very low chance to drop star metal on smelting.  That should give a mild incentive to tolerate the complete lack of salvage in Good biomes.

The FFID script isn't a game changer on its own, but next on my list of things to do is an overhaul of the spell system.  With that, I can actually have buffing interactions that target fort allies only, or that can spread from enemy to enemy.  Mildly useful, to say the least.

[PenguinMuster]

Hi, just wanted to say awesome work updating this mod good on you!
However there seems to be a problem processing steel ranger corpses. Even though I have almost 30 of them I am unable to process any of them in the salvage yards. I do not have them forbidden and they are in my stockpiles, but they do not appear when I use the DFHack enhanced view as even being owned by me. I do not know what the problem could be, as I was able to deconstruct cyberdogs corpses very easily. Sorry in advance as this may just me being stupid.

Thank you,

Penguin.

[Arcvasti]

This is a known bug in vanilla DF where your citizens will refuse to use the corpses of sapient beings in any reactions, even if their ethics should allow them to. Its kind of a pain for modding stuff like this.

[thefriendlyhacker]

Hi, just wanted to say awesome work updating this mod good on you!
However there seems to be a problem processing steel ranger corpses. Even though I have almost 30 of them I am unable to process any of them in the salvage yards. I do not have them forbidden and they are in my stockpiles, but they do not appear when I use the DFHack enhanced view as even being owned by me. I do not know what the problem could be, as I was able to deconstruct cyberdogs corpses very easily. Sorry in advance as this may just me being stupid.

Thank you,

Penguin.

I assume this isn't the latest version?  If you are using 0.40.0, there is a serious bug caused by the mod extraction script I used that prevents dfhack scripts from executing on loading/starting a game.  Fixing it is pretty simple:

1. In the DF base directory, rename onload.init to something else (like onload2.init).  This is because (on windows 7 at least) renaming with only capitalization changes seems a bit buggy, and I don't know if it could cause problems.
2. Now, rename it to onLoad.init (note the capitalization).
3. Scripts should now be working properly.  Get your ponies to move the steel ranger corpses around.  Doesn't matter where, there is a script that clears the dead_dwarf flag on ranger corpses on pickup by anyone so just get them hauled somewhere.  This will make them dismantlable.
4. Dismantle those steel ranger corpses.  If any of them were friendly merc rangers, remember to make some engraved slabs since they don't drop normal entombable bodies for your ponies to stuff in a coffin.

This is a known bug in vanilla DF where your citizens will refuse to use the corpses of sapient beings in any reactions, even if their ethics should allow them to. Its kind of a pain for modding stuff like this.

Been there, done that, got utterly confused and though I broke the game somehow, eventually figured out what the hell was going on, wrote a short script for it, more or less fixed it (at least for ITEMCORPSE drops, can't remember if normal corpses work the same or not in terms of flags).

[PenguinMuster]

Did what you said now it works. Thank you for your help.