So I haven't really played 0.40.xx except for a quick try when it was new, and was wondering what raw mods people are still doing to fix little quirks of the game.
Things that I used to change the raws for, that seem to be fixed by Toady in various stages of 0.40 are:
- Turtles and tortoises should appear now; I used to add [LARGE_PREDATOR] to them iirc
- Both egg-layers and non-egg-layers (they were fixed separately) can now breed even if they don't have a baby/child state listed; I used to add this for some creatures, e.g. GCS
- Large grazers won't starve to death anymore?
- Toady fixed material values for obsidian
- Someone mentioned alphabetizing stones in the raws, I don't think I ever did it, but it seems Toady did in 0.40.15
Then of course there's some other stuff I occasionally added to the raws that was decidedly not just bugfixes, like more stones available for stone tools, and the stone tools&weapons themselves: axes, pickaxes and maces iirc. I think I also added some sharpness/edge tag to more stone types, so stuff other than obsidian could be used for this. But probably best to ignore those for now.
Things that I think are not yet fixed:
- All animals just giving one skin and thus one leather when butchered? I used to do the leather-is-globs edit to fix/get around this.
- Scales, chitin, feather still aren't really usable? I think the Modest Mod fixes this, and I used to do some stuff for this, e.g. add [PEARL] to feather or something, and enable tanning scales into leather somehow.
- Can larger dwarves (62500+?) now wield 2h weapons like halberds, great axes and 2h swords correctly? The bug was that the "can I wield this" check checked average size for the race, even though size of the individual would make more sense, and that's what the "can I wield this in 1 hand instead of 2" check looked for. The workaround was to reduce the "can wield" size to 60000 i.e. average dwarf size.
tl;dr: Toady has fixed a bunch of stuff during 0.40 that used to require raw modding to work around it, if you wanted e.g. to breed GCS. What raw mods do you feel are still necessary?