I probably won't be able to work on this for a while, but I can report some old news I forgot about in the past: Seiggrain's farming and stuff!
That mod adds mostly metals of various kinds, including diamondium that was extensively used in Dungeonevened. I had been tinkering with the mod since the I had lost the save, and even before that if you count my struggles to fix some bugs that might not have been there in the first place. I've rebalanced bulk smelting reactions so that we eon't miss on gold when smelting diamondite, changed some alloying reactions to follow the law of equivalent exchange, renamed spartan metal to hoplite bronze because no spartans in DF.
More integration patches! Spear mint and black mint were renamed to cave mint and shadow mint respectively because the actual plants don't grow underground, and their drinks were made into tea as they should be.
Sugar can be made into candy, and that includes sugars from various mods: crystal cane sugar candy, cave sugar beet candy, cane sugar candy, etc.
Painter's roses can be turned into rose water and perfume. It's mainly a dye plant, but it's a rose still.
Oil can be turned into perfumes in most cases.
Flour can be baked into bread: cave barley bread is now a staple food for slaves in drow towns.
All good seeds can be used in the wonderworker workshop reactions, including otherwise useless seeds from good trees added by some mods.
I change interaction targets and syndrome immunities as I go, using my system to decide what should and should not work on what. That way creatures from various mods can use their abilities to their fullest, or sometimes fail ro freeze a monster made of ice for example. ZM5 uses WATER_ELEMENTAL for cold immunity while I use the old COLDIMMUNE. In my clasification WATER_ELEMENTAL is a subclass of ELEMENTAL which is a subclass of OUTSIDER.
Drow ethics also needed rethinking. For LCM 2 I planned to make rhem good guys. They are still good guys, but not very good. Slavery is very much acceptable, many lesser crimes go unpunished, while more heinous ones are punished with death. Eating sentients is shunned rather than outright forbidden. It's supposed to reflect the influx of "deep drows" into Dungeonevened after grand matriarch Yetine Shadycarries moved in. Values and personality changed slightly to make them less obviously evil and more alien. They should still side with dwarves.
I fell in love with cavvekans - the bat-faced dogs of drows. I could imagine one running along a herd of rothe, clicking and whistling, imitating the calls of the underdark bovines. In the test fort I'll breed a plenty of them just ro have them around. Hunting and war will be left to Speleoraptors that are better for this anyway.
Two young drow girls were meeting behind the building of the Dungeonevened Royal Academy. As the students of this prestigious school, they had only the drowkind's good in mind while holding this important discussion, surely.
"Ena, have you gone completely bonkers?" the older girl asked her young friend. "You can barely hold a conversation with anyone other than me, and yet you want to be a student council president?"
"Rithesa, you don't understand! The student council does nothing at all, especially in middle school! It's free points that I can just grab like that using my family name and my mother's fame as the city's founder. I just need your help with the campaign," Ena explained her plan to Rithesa. It was based on a selfish desire for gratification without effort, but Rithesa knew that Ena would not find anything wrong with that even if she was called out.
"Why exactly should I help you?" Rithesa chose a different mean of defense, one unbecoming of the heiress to house Profanepoisons, "What's in it for me? Since I'm in high school, you can't offer me a position on the council."
"I've got some crystal cane candy that we can eat while discussing the campaign over some shadow mint tea after school."
"You think you can bribe me with candy and tea? I was sure you thought higher of me. I'm in."