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[Splint]

So, I've tried the default WorldGen at least 15 times, and the Adv. WorldGen at least three. Every time, it crashes during the history simulation. Do you have any ideas for a fix? I'm using Windows 7, if that helps at all.

Sometimes just making shorter world gen history will alleviate that (Like instead of 248 go with 200 or 190 or something.) I have the same problem when I make the world gen for too long with mods.

[dualblade211]

So, I've tried the default WorldGen at least 15 times, and the Adv. WorldGen at least three. Every time, it crashes during the history simulation. Do you have any ideas for a fix? I'm using Windows 7, if that helps at all.

Sometimes just making shorter world gen history will alleviate that (Like instead of 248 go with 200 or 190 or something.) I have the same problem when I make the world gen for too long with mods.

Hey. Thanks for the advice, but it didn't help. Setting it to 200 and 150 still didn't work. It ends up crashing around year 20.

[Splint]

That's incredibly strange. Might just have to suck it up and just operate on a short gen then I guess?

[dualblade211]

I suppose so. But a 5 year old world is just fine with me. It finally worked. Though I've no idea what caused the crashes.

[dualblade211]

Problem fixed. I just needed to make a Small world, and now my history can go as far back as it wants.

[Valikdu]

I've decided to release 2.1, finally.

This one has a rather large list of changes, although not as much as 2.0.

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New features of Dark Origins II

-The Crystal Empire faction (non-evil, playable)
Caste system:
-6 gem pony castes with body size equal to dwarves (60K) and special material templates (bones and other hard materials are replaced with crystals); grasping with magic body parts attached to both front hooves (not with mouth), every caste has a bonus for jewelcrafting
   -Ruby & Sapphire: strong crystal materials, extra strength, +20% skill progression for close combat, smithing and masonry (ruby) / woodworking (sapphire)
   -Emerald: less strong crystal materials, extra agility, +20% skill progression for ranger skills and engineering
   -Amber: least strong crystal materials, +20% skill progression for farming
   -Topaz: same materials, +20% skill progresssion with crafts
   -Amethyst: same materials, +20% skill progresssion with medicine and organization
-Rare demicorn caste: 130K size, grasping with 2 magic parts attached to the horn and with mouth, alicorn materials, all skills grow 30% faster (dodging 60% due to wings)


-All entities have new positions: assistant medic (appointed by the chief medic, can diagnose), scribe (appointed by the administrator, can account & manage) and mystic (appointed by the site leader, raises morale)


-New creatures:
   -Feral crystal ponies, including feral ruby, sapphire, emerald and "everyone else" creatures. There's normal, mutated (chitinous armor) and abomination (skinless) castes.
   -Crystal golems, with bodies consisting of living rock with a crystal substructure (same material as crystal pony bones). Damaging the crystal can disable the golem (pain), also they have Heart Crystals in the head and chest.
   -Crystal Beasts
      -"Crystal wolf" creature with several castes of varying size and threat, from a pony-sized stalker to an alicorn-sized Slayer with a crystal shell and scythe-limbs
      -"Crystal bug" (again, several varying castes)
      -Crystal Snatcher - a custom night creature
      -Crystal Mistress - an alicorn megabeast with spouse conversion
   -Fluffy Ponies are domestic creatures that mostly serve as a cheap source of yarn, non-tainted meat, bones and leather. They're small (7.5K) and multiply fast (litter size up to 8 ). You need two fluffy hides to create clothing (not armor, as it's so fragile which is broken by all); also, you can't shear them (they'd die due to lack of thermal regulation), so the yarn can only be taken after slaughtering. The rare alicorn caste is intelligent, grows to large size (65K) and can make good pets (even fighting pets), and actually can be shorn. "Runt" fluffies will die within a year and have to be butchered within that time.


-Reworked plants. Grow duration in general has been increased.
   New list of plants:
   -Several extremely valueable "surface special" plants (replacing the valley herb) that can only be gathered, not farmed: alicorn's tears (alcohol & extract), poison joke (extract), death thistle (extract)
   -Surface
      -Rope reed (growdur 500, V2 alcohol, V2 thread))
      -Crystal berry (grows for a whole season; V10 alcohol or special use)
      -Chromatic vine (grows for 3 seasons; V10 thread with high resilience, V10 leaf, V10 alcohol, V50 extract, special use)
      -Moon stalk (growdur 700, V3 leaf with a 2-month sterility syndrome, V3 alcohol with a 4-month sterility syndrome
      -Whip vine (growdur 600, V3 alcohol, V25 mill)
      -Cloud berry (growdur 400, V1 raw, V1 alcohol)
      -Twilight berry (growdur 600, V2 raw, V2 alcohol)
      -Sky bulb (growdur 750, V2 raw, V20 dye, V3 alcohol, V25 extract)
      -Midnight berry (growdur 850, V3 raw, V25 dye, V4 alcohol)
      -Weld (growdur 750, V25 dye, V20 extract)
      -Dirt root (growdur 300, V10 dye)
      -Blue madder (growdur 700, V25 dye)
      -Dyer's friend onion (growdur 700, V2 cooked, V25 dye)
      -Black hand leaf (growdur 700, V25 dye)
      -Wisdom bush (growdur 700, V25 dye, V8 leaf)
      -Sparkle root (growdur 700, V25 dye)
      -Tank scale (growdur 700, V25 dye)
   -Underground
      -Changed special plant growdurs (green cap 1250, silver cap 3500, obsidian cap 5000)
      -Catalyst (growdur 666, special)
      -Changeling fern (lvl 1-3, special, growdur 4000)
      -Brown cap (lvl 1-2, growdur 400, V1 raw)
      -Dimple cup (lvl 1-2, growdur 500, V20 dye)
      -Blue lichen (lvl 1-2, growdur 550, V2 cooked, V2 alcohol, V10 dye)
      -White lichen (lvl 1-2, growdur 500, V2 cooked, V2 thread)
      -Cave wheat (lvl 1-2, growdur 600, V2 alcohol, V2 flour)
      -Sweet pod (lvl 1-2, growdur 750, V3 alcohol, V15 powder, V20 extract)
      -Solar cap (lvl 1-3, growdur 800, special, V3 cooked, V5 oil/soap, V5 leaf)
      -Angel hair & blood worms (lvl 1-3, growdur 1000, any season, V2 leaf)
      -Cave strawberry (lvl 2-3, growdur 850, V3 raw, V5 alcohol, V35 syrup)
      -Fire livhen (lvl3, growdur 3000, V5 cooked, V10 alcohol, V100 powder)
      -Bone bush (lvl 3, growdur 1680, V4 alcohol, V50 powder)
      -Corpse tongue (lvl 3, growdur 1050, V3 raw, V6 alcohol)
      -Skull frond (lvl 3, growdur 1750, V5 alcohol, V65 extract)


-New hiveable insect: twilight moth
      -Yields a 'cocoons' tool on harvesting, processed into a thread item (V3) and a food item (V2) at the tanner's shop


-Buildings & Reactions
      -Tanner: can boil twilight moth cocoons, process 2 fluffy hides into 1 useable
      -NEW: Magic Loom (needs a rainbow bar)
         -Enchants bolts of cloth, unsing silver and gold
         -Common silk and fiber cloth is turned into silver or gold silk/fiber
         -Yarn is turned into "tanned hide"-type item, with greater resilience
         -Twilight silk needs catalyst caps for the reaction and can use platinum as well; produces high-value cloth
         -Chromatic vine cloth is turned into the highest-valued Gemcloth, very high resilience
      -Crystal Forge is renamed as Advanced Crystal Forge
      -Organic refinery can create a floral quartz stone from crystal berries and catalyst
      -NEW: Crystal Forge (needs 2 dull rainbow bars)
         -Processes golem flesh into boulders and their heart crystals into rough gems
         -Processes golem and crystal-pony crystals (butchered as globs) into "crystal shard" tools, different for crystal beasts and ponies
         -Can shatter a crystal shard into rough gems
         -Can create bars of "force crystal" wepon-grade material from crystal shards (density same as steel, cutting slightly worse than Dark Iron)
         -Can enhance floral gems (first enhancement needs a fungal garnet, second needs a dull rainbow bar, all need catalyst)
         -Can make furniture from gems and changeling fern pulp.
      -Craftspony: Making wax crafts produces figurines only; can make cloth backpacks and quivers
      -NEW: Advanced Distillery (needs barrels and pipes)
         -Moved the mead reactions here from the still
         -Can brew 20 composite drinks using combinations of plants (or plant extracts/mills)

[upd] Just updated the readme googledoc, too.

[Iceblaster]

Yay... also where you mention flufflepuff ponies, I would suggest putting a space between the 8 and the )

[Khaos]

Okay...it feels like either I somehow managed to mess up the entire installation in some way, or I'm missing something.
Okay, I've gotten my hands on plenty of "(Creature) spectral nervous tissue". It's in a refuse stockpile literally next door to my extractor.
I have both metal (iron) and wooden buckets available and empty.
My Spectra Extractor still claims that I don't have the needed resources.

I did not mess around with the raws or anything like that. I am playing the mod as downloaded.
I'm going to try redownloading the mod, but I want to make sure I'm not doing something deserving of ennoblement right now.

[Valikdu]

The liquid containers you need are actually jugs, not buckets.

[Khaos]

Ah, now THAT'S something I didn't realize. I'd tried barrels too, but apparently I didn't try the ONE thing that I needed to have in stock.
Thanks a bunch.

[Valikdu]

Update: I've added in the latest DFHack version, with the growth bug fixing script. It's kind of important.

It doesn't require starting a new game.

[metgyre]

Playing as the crystal ponies.  Not even a year in, and it's crashing on me.  I don't know what is happening.  I load my autumn save, and watch the ponies all do the same thing everytime.  they drop things in the stockpiles, and then it crashes.  I've never seen the game even crash while running aside from map gen before.  Want me to send you the save file so you can check it out?  I feel it has to be something with the mod.

[Valikdu]

I've tested this version on three distinct forts (about 20 years in sum). I think that there's probably nothing specific to it (like a reaction or a creature) that would crash the game.
Well, you could upload it onto Wimbli or something, but I'm really not sure I can help with something like this.

[Gentlefish]

Hey, look what I found.

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I... Just picked up the mod so I won't play here yet, but I think this is pretty darn rad. It's year 1050.

[Iceblaster]

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You sir have found the best site ever. Year round sieges and or BIG FUCKING SIEGES.