Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[IndigoFenix]

This mod adds a new dimension to the game: making the gods get up off their lazy bums and do something.

You build an altar in fortress mode, consecrate it to a god worshiped by your civilization, and then pray or sacrifice items to improve your merit and increase the belief level of your citizens.  When your merit and belief is high enough, the god may intervene on your behalf.  Every sphere will have a different effect on gameplay, so choose your idols with care.  A god of metals may increase your smelting efficiency, while a god of agriculture may increase crop yields, a god of chaos may cause your enemies to fight among themselves, and a volcano god is likely to be a lot of !!fun!!

It's still pretty experimental right now.  Not all gods have a logical effect, but many do.

To install it, place the building_pantheon and reaction_pantheon files into the raw folder, copy and paste entity_pantheon_clip into your entity file, and place pantheon.lua into the dfhack scripts folder.  The script must be running in order to work.

0.1 alpha: The altar building, consecration, prayer, and sacrifice reactions are active.  Some spheres are active.  If nothing else, all deities can smite enemies by slamming them into the ground.

Download Link

Spoiler: Existing effects (click to show/hide)

CAVERNS: Drops rocks on underground enemies.
MOUNTAINS: Drops rocks on underground enemies.
MINERALS: Occasionally duplicates boulders.  Improves quality of stone items.  Drops rocks on underground enemies.
METALS: Occasionally duplicates metal bars produced in reactions.  Improves quality of metal items.
FIRE: Enemies may suffer burn damage or spontaneous combustion.  Beware of wildfires.
SUN: Same as FIRE, but only aboveground.
VOLCANOS: Magma eruptions on enemies!
WIND: Propels enemies at random.
STORMS: Propels enemies at random, causes rainstorms.
CHAOS: Enemies may go berserk.
WAR: Enemies may go berserk.  Also improves weapon and armor quality.
MISERY: Enemies may become melancholy.  They will move slower and not attack.
TORTURE: Smites enemies with intense pain, vomiting, dizziness, etc.
STRENGTH: Gradually increases strength of citizens.
DANCE: Gradually increases kinesthetic sense of citizens.
HAPPINESS: Randomly removes bad thoughts.
REVELRY: Randomly removes bad thoughts.
HEALING: Randomly heals all of a citizen's wounds.
TREES: Increases tree growth, occasionally duplicates logs, improves quality of wood items.
PLANTS: Increases shrub growth.
JEWELS: Occasionally duplicates gems, may improve quality of large gems.
BEAUTY: Increases quality of finished goods.
CRAFTS: Increases quality of finished goods.
LABOR: Increases quality of finished goods.
CREATION: Increases quality of finished goods, may decrease pregnancy time.
ART: Increases quality of finished goods.
PAINTING: Increases quality of finished goods.
FORTRESSES: Occasionally duplicates blocks, increases quality of armor.
MUSIC: Increases quality of instruments.
SONG: Increases quality of instruments.
ANIMALS: Randomly tames wild animals.
NATURE: Increases tree and plant growth, randomly tames wild animals.
RAIN: Increases tree and plant growth, makes rain more frequently, water eruption attacks on enemies.
BIRTH: Decrease pregnancy time.
CHILDREN: Decrease pregnancy time.
FERTILITY: Decrease pregnancy time.
FAMILY: Decrease pregnancy time.
WATER: Water eruption attack on enemies.
BOUNDARIES: Water eruption attack on enemies.
COASTS: Water eruption attack on enemies.
OCEANS: Water eruption attack on enemies.
LAKES: Water eruption attack on enemies.
RIVERS: Water eruption attack on enemies.

Any unlisted spheres can attack enemies by slamming them into the ground.

[Putnam]

df.sphere_type[num] is what you want for finding sphere strings based on numbers. For example, df.sphere_type[2] is ART.

Information found here by ctrl+f "sphere", with this line:

Code: [Select]

<enum base-type='int16_t' type-name='sphere_type'/>
meaning that there's an enum of sphere types which can be accessed with df.sphere_type. df.sphere_type['ART'] will come up with 2 as well.

[IndigoFenix]

Excellent.

[Meph]

If you want people to make suggestions about different spheres, I would suggest posting a list of all spheres first.

[Putnam]

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Sphere

[Meph]

That list is longer than I remembered. How many effects per sphere are you planning to do?


I would single out the ones used in the dwarven entity file first, as a testrun. No need to work on spheres not used by civs that the player will never play.

You can also rename spheres with the string dump patcher from insolor. In case there are some you really dont want or really do want to add.

[Putnam]

Dwarves use other spheres, they just prefer those ones.

EDIT: Also, I would not rename spheres. That'd be like changing [MEGABEAST] to [NASTY_THING]. No real point to it, breaks compatibility with other things.

[Maul_Junior]

.....after glancing through the list I am very interested to see what you do with the Lust sphere.

heh.

[Warmist]

Long ago i started an idea like this. Unfortunately laziness happened, so salvage what you want: my ideas

[IndigoFenix]

Long ago i started an idea like this. Unfortunately laziness happened, so salvage what you want: my ideas

Using statues and figurines for something could be interesting.  Everything works through abstract persistent variables though, so no need to affect the actual god's historical figure.  There is a sliding scale for a god's "realness" based on how many believers there are in a fort and how often they are worshiped.  Belief for a given unit is an integer value between 1 and 100, raising this by one every time they do a service could allow you to increase overall belief in a particular deity.  Creating new, 'fake' gods is possible, but for now you'll need at least one citizen believing in a god already before it can be worshiped (this also means that the effects of prayer will be greatly affected by your civ's associated religion spheres).

That list is longer than I remembered. How many effects per sphere are you planning to do?

Several - there should be at least one 'good' effect and one 'bad' effect, and some effects based on specific situations such as invasions.  But, there will be a lot of overlapping.  Spheres with 'friend' relationships will be very similar for the most part.

.....after glancing through the list I am very interested to see what you do with the Lust sphere.

Interestingly, LUST is only associated with DEPRAVITY, which itself is only notable as being one of the spheres opposed to LAWS (the others being CHAOS, MURDER and THEFT), suggesting that in DF at least, LUST is basically a sphere related to illegal activities.  Now what effects could come from that...?  No idea!

[Warmist]

Not sure if you noticed the second page in the doc. It's a start to sphere effect brainstorming...

[IndigoFenix]

Not sure if you noticed the second page in the doc. It's a start to sphere effect brainstorming...

I saw it.  It's a good start.

[Meph]

How is it going?

[IndigoFenix]

Oh, I nearly forgot about this one!  Too many projects going on - I haven't done anything on this for a while.  I have the framework but none of the actual effects.  So, uh, hiatus until further notice?

[Meph]

Oh, I nearly forgot about this one!  Too many projects going on - I haven't done anything on this for a while.  I have the framework but none of the actual effects.  So, uh, hiatus until further notice?

I had a hunch, which was the reason to slightly prod this thread with a stick. "Its not moving, maybe its dead..." *touch