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[mageprince]

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[Prats]

Magic: There is an advanced, very complicated magic system in place. I wont touch the subject here, see the building section for the Wizards School and the Altars of Magic.

Building Section

You can create arcane dwarves here and all magical reagents. For all info on the magic system, please go to the "Magic" section of the manual

Where is the Magic section? I remember in older versions were picture guides of Magic system (What auras,spells do mages have) So where I can find more info?   

[Meph]

Magic: There is an advanced, very complicated magic system in place. I wont touch the subject here, see the building section for the Wizards School and the Altars of Magic.

Building Section

You can create arcane dwarves here and all magical reagents. For all info on the magic system, please go to the "Magic" section of the manual

Where is the Magic section? I remember in older versions were picture guides of Magic system (What auras,spells do mages have) So where I can find more info?   

my mistake... i forgot to port it. I will add it back with the next update, but if you download an older version you can still use the magic page from it... it hasnt changed.

[kalinth]

First post here, really enjoying this mod so far but I've hit a small snag and i'm not sure if it is a bug or if perhaps I've done something wrong. Seeing as the snag I've hit relates specifically to !!FUN!! stuff, it shall all be under a spoiler tag! This is all version 6.0, have not updated to 6.1 since it only added hermit mode and I wasn't particularly worried at not being able to try that out yet and I didn't see any bug fixes in it's patch notes!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The bug(s) I am experiencing seems related specifically to the HFS that is supposed to periodically happen. The first of which being that my Armok's Ward seem to be... potatoes and about as useful as a horde of cheese making immigrants in a fort without so much as a purring maggot. I know of the carp god and his cult leader, I know that son of a gun generally visits your fort relatively early on, however when I started having warning signs show up in my fort, my Armok's ward that sat in my dining room did nothing but look wardy. It never revealed who the leader was, despite be flat out cancelling all labor and having everyone in the dining room (moving the ward periodically with pastures) Finally after no success with that I checked caste tags with Therapist and confirmed not only was there a cultist leader, he was a vampire and was sitting in my dining hall right next to the ward. I continued to move the ward around with him and even went so far as to lock him in his room with it, never did it reveal him though. I chalked it up to a small bug, perhaps his vampire status prevented detection or something, and proceeded to draft the little cultist into the military and explore the caverns beneath my fort where he soon died to a forgotten beast that showed soon there after, not before he transformed one of my other dwarfs though. Now I will say I read somewhere that wards purchased from caravan traders are not the 'right' type of ward and honestly I can't recall if this ward was one of those supposed fakes or not. I do know I butchered that ward and later on sacrificed a dwarf for a ward from the Temple, which has sat patiently for it's chance to shine. Fast forward to right now, I have two high priestesses of armok in my fort and a ward currently sitting on top of a vampire and another dwarf currently marked with the caste tag "Secret2 Ws" in therapist (i'm assuming warlock spy as I've already got a 'dark magic' warning.) Been running therapist looking for another chance to test whether the wards are working or not and they seem to again be potatoes in disguise. Am I having a misconception as to how the high priests and wards work? Or is this a potential bug that has come up. If so is there anything I can do to possibly fix it.

Another thing I'm all but certain was a bug or directly related to why my wards aren't working was my discovery of a marker and it being the herald of a necromorph issue. The only thing it seemed to herald was paranoia as the marker seemed to be nothing more than a red potato, much like the ward I had in my base. It sat in my stockpile for a few years game time without a single necromorph showing, even when I had a dwarf die alone in a empty corridor and immediately had it sealed for fear of him rising into a murder machine. The ogre that slew the dwarf also never changed after he was promptly put down and stuck in a corpse room that was also sealed off. The marker was later on removed via a sacrifice at the temple but not until after I was fairly convinced it wasn't working as intended.

I've really enjoyed the spin this whole mod puts on DF and am hoping that the reasons these items have not worked is because I derped somewhere, either in my world creation (not a preset world, was freshly generated on 6.0) or because I have turned something off on accident (Fear the night is on, Diseases are off) Everything else aside from starting dwarves and points is default as near as I can tell.

[Meph]

Did you have corpses around when the marker was found? It only reanimates stuff directly after being found.

The ward: There is a script issue about created creatures not using their interactions. I can fix it... wards bought at embark or from caravans should still work fine.

[kalinth]

Did you have corpses around when the marker was found? It only reanimates stuff directly after being found.

The ward: There is a script issue about created creatures not using their interactions. I can fix it... wards bought at embark or from caravans should still work fine.

Based on what I can remember of my fort and the state it was in at the time I don't believe there were any dwarf corpses around and odds are there weren't any non dwarf ones laying about. Don't recall having had a siege before I found it and I hadn't started culling my goat herd yet. If that is the case I apparently avoided a good time by sheer luck lol.

As for ward, The initial ward I had did come from a caravan/embark. It still acted like a dud. I am in the process of starting up a new fort now though and will grab some wards at embark and test the stuff again (this time on 6.1!)

[Kartag]

Looks like it is possible for runes on weapons to be washed away. Today, when I finally managed to clad my prized squad in volcanic armor and arm them with volcanic swords engraved with 14 different runes, I sent them out to fend off some wolves. On the first hit one wolf transformed into a "cloud of blood and gore", which showed up in units screen as "berserk". My dwarves kept hitting and slashing it, until it finally disappeared and left no corpse or any items whatsoever. I checked the weapons to see which rune caused such a transformation. Five out of ten swords were completely rune-less, the only thing covering them was vomit - not even blood. On three more swords 6-10 runes disappeared, but some were left. Is this intended? I don't like the thought that I have to re-engrave all weapons after every single kill.

[BoffoDorf]

It appears all things craftsdwarf related reactions mix scepter and scabbard....

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[REACTION:CRAFT_ROCK_SCEPTER]
   [NAME:craft rock scabbard]
[BUILDING:CRAFTSMAN:CUSTOM_ALT_S]
   [REAGENT:A:1:BOULDER:NONE:NONE:NONE][WORTHLESS_STONE_ONLY]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:SCEPTER:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:NONE]
   [SKILL:STONECRAFT]

Seems that when nobles ask for scabbards, they mean scepters. This leads to much head scratching if one does not use the manager or perhaps some workflow wizardry. Seems to me scabbards should be made from materials other than rock in the first place since historically wood, leather, cloth and metal was used.

[Gatallorsith]

Ok I've just started my first playthrough after planning my embark very carefully.

I took strawberry, prokble berry and fisher berry seeds to plant aboveground at the start. I prepare the farmplot where I see some grass and not on the snow just to be sure and what happens? The 3 seeds doesn't show up on the ui, I only see "kobold bulb" that I even don't have. 
Any idea on what could be wrong? In the manual it says "all terrains".

[Arcvasti]

Use DFhack to snuffle up a full grown plant of each of the seeds types. That has been known to help with problems like this. Just type "hackwish" and look for strawberry, fisher berry and prickle berry. Be careful not to snuffle straw/fisher/prickleberry JUICE instead, as that is a plant which shouldn't exist in its normal form.

[Gatallorsith]

Use DFhack to snuffle up a full grown plant of each of the seeds types. That has been known to help with problems like this. Just type "hackwish" and look for strawberry, fisher berry and prickle berry. Be careful not to snuffle straw/fisher/prickleberry JUICE instead, as that is a plant which shouldn't exist in its normal form.

Thanks, I'll try.
It's so demoralizing to find a bug after..like 5 seconds of play

[Gatallorsith]

Done that with all 3 plants, over the farmplot. Even tried to create another farmplot. Nothing changed.

I really don't know what to think. I'm not even in a wetland, and the only thing it shows is the kobold bulb.

[Gatallorsith]

Sorry for the 3 posts.
I tried on a different biome I had in the map and it worked. The biome I was in before was a mountain area. So it's not a bug, even if the kobold thing shouldn't show up so at least I've found something to fix 

From the wiki:

Farming of above ground crops is only possible on tiles that lie in a biome supporting their growth. Those are "land" biomes excluding the notoriously cold Glacier and Tundra, but also all Mountain biomes.

[LMeire]

In the future, I'd suggest an initial gather job, anything your herbalists find is guaranteed to be farmable in that biome if the plants/seeds you've brought are incompatible.

[Prats]

If I turn off "Researcher's Study", can I build researchable buildings at the beginning or all of them will be unavailable?