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[JediaKyrol]

It'd been mostly been put on hold waiting for the new DF release...But Deon is always working on something

[NoobKid]

Can it be installed into 40.14 anyway?

[JediaKyrol]

oh yeah, you can swap the raw folder in...and with a few minor tweaks you can "harvest" scrap off of scrap piles too.  I changed mutfruit and a few others to a real tree for myself...but dunno what Deon'll do officially.

[NoobKid]

I just want this mod for adventure mode. Don't really play dwarf mode that much. Anyway, editing the parts of the RAWs that only affect AM should be easier, right?

[Deon]

It'd been mostly been put on hold waiting for the new DF release...But Deon is always working on something

Unfortunately right now I am just "working", due to the falling rouble exchange rate (in relation to euro) and quickly rising prices . Living in Russia is not the easiest thing when you have a family, there are international sanctions and you work in international company, heh, but I'll manage.

Right now I am considering to dedicate one of my weekends to update it, so I am very sorry for the long lack of updates, I will see what I can do.

[Kazymir]

I loved the previous version, and await a full release with baited breath.

[Deon]

Thanks to New Year I got some free days and now I am considering to return to DF modding.
I am a bit burned out on the old projects, however it should not be too hard to update the mods to the new version if someone really wised to.

I am thinking of a Wasteland-type mod which instead is focused on the Fall, an event which threw a world of basic fantasy races into another dimension which introduced Taint into the world, which has an effect on living creatures similar to FEV/radiation in Fallout.

I've just started to work on this mod, so there's almost nothing done, just concept drafts, items and production chains in my notepad, but I will slowly update this google doc with details which are already in and are in 100% finished state.
As you can guess, there's almost nothing:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vCM1cik-CXD4Rwi55YCcQMYRoZAiYTUnj49U5V0tSpc

Do you guys think that the players which like fallout/wasteland may enjoy this type of mod? It will make it much easier to explain demons/necromancers/magic and tie it all together.
Right now it's quite difficult and feels unnatural to cut out big parts of DF2014 (such as necromancers, secrets, demons, vaults with HFS) just to stay close to canon of post-apocalyptic fiction.

Also the fact that the game is so focused on melee weapons and ranged weapons cannot be very different and are hard to fight with... It would make more sense to have dwarves (called Vaulters) in top hats and mechanized armor fighting with halberds to fend off the menace of elves (now ghouls) in rags with clubs and spears, with a random sniper in the back in ratskin suit using his musket to pick off ranged attackers while being covered by an assassin with double hand-crossbows and with a monocle of true sight...

I want to make it so you start as a barely surviving nation with basic tools and weapons (but remembering the great culture, thus tea, coffee, bowler hats, fancy suits and walking canes are a must), then collect the scraps of the old world and trade for secrets, then uncover and reverse engineer stuff to get to the old technology level (guns, bombs, mechanized armor, steam weaponry), and eventually learn to utilize the new dimension-related things, like portals to call outworld creatures, taint substances to introduce mutations to your own people etc.

P.S. Probably I loved Arcanum too much... And Fallen London, it's an amazing browser game .

[PTTG??]

I'm all for a fantasy apocolypse as you describe. I think the main concept that I enjoy from Wasteland is the complex economy. Somehow, charging power cells and building tube computers from scrap kept my interest.

Hmmm, you could change Savagery or Good/Evil into Mana Level.... I'm excited!

[Deon]

Actually I plan to keep "Good" as "normal" region, so it would house the most fierce of survived animals and semimegabeasts of DF world; normal would be crawling with tainted (aka mutated) creatures and "evil" is a place of Lovecraftian and Stephen King "Black Tower" style outworldish horror.

[Ruludos]

That sounds like an incredible concept, Deon. Radiation in the Fallout universe was treated like magic anyway, so I doubt the feel would change much. The unfortunate reality of DF modding (which you doubtlessly undetstand) is that you're constrained by the system, but the idea of steampunk gentlemen living in DF's dark world makes me smile a bit.

[Putnam]

Oh, yes, constrained, but the constraints aren't too tight in most cases.

Except creature placement, dammit.

[Baffler]

The idea of steampunk gentlemen living in DF's dark world makes me smile a bit.

+1, watching with great anticipation.

[Deon]

The idea of steampunk gentlemen living in DF's dark world makes me smile a bit.

+1, watching with great anticipation.

Well, my dev. plan is here, so if you have something to contribute please go ahead, I really appreciate any kind of interest.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=147222.0

[Meph]

I had to laugh when I saw that.

Meph: Hey, I'm going to restart that big mod, nanana, wörkwörkwörk, first test release, second test release, nananana... crap, I've got no idea what I'm doing and in what order. Mh, what is Deon doing over at his post-apoc mod?

Deon: I have this 7-page document that describes my ideas before I start modding, clearly sorted with background lore.

 

[Deon]

That's not just document, that's what is actually IN the mod already. I have a lot of drafts . To be precise a full notebook of pictures, schemes and drafts and some ideas here and there in my work books from the job .