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[Neri]

for which you need two anvils, for which you need a smelter. for which you need rock, ore, and coke. for which you need a pick.

[Arcvasti]

for which you need two anvils, for which you need a smelter. for which you need rock, ore, and coke. for which you need a pick.

I think you might be able to make anvils out of ethereal blocks at the stonecrafters. So you'd only need some souls[You don't even need hourglasses if its going to be temporary.] and a couple wood planks to make some anvils. I haven't checked if you can make anvils in the Warlock stonecrafter workshop, but thats worth looking into.

[mahrgell]

Stop discussing this! Don't think about it

That's what I get for having an ideas pile-up But I have to do Kobolds first... But really, I have it all already written down in my notes... ^^ Now I'm sad.

Oh yeah, and it is almost certainly possible to embark itemless.

[Jiamil]

About the mephits: One of my mephits gave birth to two mephit childs, one of them has been fire. This fire mephit child was pastured with it's mom at my entrance. A thief was spotted and soon the outside was burning, the child was using it's powers, but I never saw a grown up mephit use them.

[Arcvasti]

About the mephits: One of my mephits gave birth to two mephit childs, one of them has been fire. This fire mephit child was pastured with it's mom at my entrance. A thief was spotted and soon the outside was burning, the child was using it's powers, but I never saw a grown up mephit use them.

I'm thinking that the problem is due to something wonky in the script which spawns the mephits or something in that area.

[Hotawotwot]

Are Ghoul/Warlock children supposed to occur as migrants? Do either of them ever grow up or should I stage some elaborate accident for the poor things?

[Splint]

Are Ghoul/Warlock children supposed to occur as migrants? Do either of them ever grow up or should I stage some elaborate accident for the poor things?

They do happen from time to time. If I recall right they should "grow up" normally, but my lest memorable encounter with a warlock civ child was it trying to maul my mephites.

[drayath]

Warlock children do grow up, i have a couple in my present tower.

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Few more issues

Doc claims you can make candles at alchemist, this is not the case (made if craft shop)

Assemble a raiding kit: Does not use a specific skill.

Maga well: does not work (errupt and eruptiontrap). looks like the inorganics are incorrect, should look like: [SYN_CLASS:\COMMAND][SYN_CLASS:eruption][SYN_CLASS:magma][SYN_CLASS:\WORKER_ID][SYN_CLASS:2,2,0][SYN_CLASS:7]
Maga well: Blood of amork is not maga safe so will deconstructs on usage when the gem is destroyed.
Magma well: if inside a sealed room, the maga can appear inside walls and on the other side of them.

Alchemy lab: clean rust reactions, does not use the warlock acid (and that acid it does use cant be produced). Functions correctly if you set the reaction to use the AMMO:NONE:WARLOCK_ACID in the rust removeal reactions

Bags of dust get stored on any bag stockpile.
The use of gold dust in making ritual regents is a pain. Can't stockpile dusts, which makes it very hard to keep your gold dust to make the ingredients that need it and not use it for the ingredients (or transmuter) that take any metal dust.
Can't grind steel bars to dust, would be helpful for melted down enemy armor. (was helpful for me to make each metal in one category, e.g. copper=dust, steel=dust_major, silver/gold with no dust class so rare dusts are not used in place of lesser ones, same probably applies to a couple of the gems)


== MAJOR ==
Running from a folder on the desktop under windoes 7, many reactions (anything that runs a command) don't work unless you Run as Administrator dwarf fortress (inscriber skill learn, skeleton upgrade, prisioner interegation, ghoul conversion etc.). This probably wans highighting in the manual as it is really none-obvious, and just appears that the reactions are bugged as no errors are generated (i've just spent several hours trying to track do issues, before i though of trying it). note if running other tools like Dwarf Therapist will also need to Run it as Administrator or it will fail to connect to dwarf fortress.
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Seems there should be some penalty for ressurecting skelletons. (What about reduce one on the dread->steel->iron->bone scale with bone skelletons not being resable, give some incentive to spend some bars on skilled skelletons)

Starting to get quite a lot of crashes, rarly make 2 seasons without one. Can't pin it down to anything in particualar. Have them while pauses and doing soething in the ui, and when running and not touching keyboard or mouse.

Ability to learn a few spells early would make early warlock more intresing; My ideas

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Altar of Dark Magic

Allows learning a single spell from each basic sphere, these spells only cost (2?) souls (and a gem?) to learn. Aim is to to make them useful, with a focus on utility and warlock survivability


Necromancy

Grants 2 abilities when learnt

Skeleton Master: AOE, short range, short duration, short cooldown, only targets skelletons, +2000 recuperation, +500 toughness
   Bonus to skelletons if fighting alongside them. Recuperation bonus is high but if they die you can cheaply resurect them anyway, aim is to cut down on the injured but not dead skeletons.

Release Minion: Single Target, 3 range, short cooldown, only targets sleeping skelleton, kills target.
   Skeletons don't sleep normally, so only go unconsious for major (normally unrecovable) injuries. This will allow your necromancer to destroy skelletons slacking of in your hospital, and allow them to be resurected. There may be the occasional accidents on the battlefield, due to poisons/spells knocking the skelletons out but well there only skeletons they can be ressed.


Were

Breath of life: Gain +500 toughness, +500 recuperation, +500 disease resist. For 2 souls can already get +500 toughness in the soul sphion, The free extra improved recovery rates are the bonus.


Demonic

Deponic Pact: Cast once only, Summon additional 2 mephits. A distraction for attacks and once dead can be butchered to regain the 2 souls and some bones.


The other sphere




Air

Warlock staff slow spell. (remove from staff)


Earth

Wraithblade attack spell. (remove from wraithblade)


Water

Freeze: Short range (5), long cooldown, single target. Stuns enemy.
   Helps in either escaping or catching up with an enemy. If your minions are already fighting the enemy as the mage approaches they should get in shome free/head shots whill it is stunned.


Fire

Departing flame: short duration (~50), large cooldown, self target when fleeing. +500% speed.
   Aim is to give 10-20 squares movement at very high speed with a cooldown so you will only get to use it once per fight. Helps counteract the fact that early warlock are irriplacable and likly poorly armored.

[Hotawotwot]

With giant spiders and other creepy crawlies about, it'd be nice to have something to do with all that chitin and ichor.

[bennerman]

Does anyone know how to get more warlocks?

Can I add a reaction to a workshop? 2 is not enough to keep all my skeletons in line

[Splint]

At present no, unless something was changed in the most recent release. No trade with home = no migrants and warlocks can't trade.

[bennerman]

Well, there's a reaction create skeletons and ghouls, can't I maybe add a reaction to the portals? Sort of like pulling un-named disciples from other dimensions/forts?

[Splint]

Well, there's a reaction create skeletons and ghouls, can't I maybe add a reaction to the portals? Sort of like pulling un-named disciples from other dimensions/forts?

I thought that seemed fair too, it's just a matter of figuring out a suitable cost that makes it either painfully tedious or something that has the potential to backfire horribly and get you an irate demon or something instead.

[bennerman]

I have a great idea, actually. Lemme try modding it in first, and if I can't get it to work (I know somehow it can be done, it's just a question of my skill), I'll post my idea, and what I have, and see if anyone better than I can figure it out

Edit: ALSO! did you know that if you use dfusion's impregnate command on a female warlock, it gives birth to a ghoul?

The mental image of her birthing ghoul triplets is not pleasant

Edit 2: Whoever created this mod, it's awesome, and I love it. But it's called the "enter" key, and creature_warlock_civ.txt needs it

[Splint]

It seems the vast majority of entity files need that kind of cleanup really. Might've just not copied over from something else properly.