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This is how I play Dwarf Fortress!

I use pieces of it

I use it for modding examples

I don't, I was just curious

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[sgtalex86]

can i quote that 
(just downloaded if anything weird happens with mod ill let u know  )

[Mephansteras]

Fine by me if you quote stuff.

Enjoy the mod!

[Groveller]

Awesome it is. Or was - he got Sand Raider'd in the neck. I think he must've got the knife from a kobold he was fighting, like wrestled it from him, or maybe it got stuck in him or something.

[Impaler[WrG]]

I'm trying to modify some of the races in this mod (elves, silver Xelics) to accept items made of wood and or animal byproducts in trade but removing the "RESPECT_TREES" and "RESPECT_ANIMALS " Tokens doesn't seem to have any effect on them.  Is the wiki simply wrong about the effects produced by these tags?

[Mephansteras]

Go down to the Ethics section and change KILL_ANIMAL and KILL_PLANT to ACCEPTABLE

[Sorcerer]

Just a heads up, stone hand axes made from obsidian seem to be unusable atm. they each take up a full bin in my finished goods stockpile just saying "sharp blades". Tried forbidding my steel axes and my lumberjacks refused to work until i reclaimed them. soo.. no workie?

Edit:
er.. actually cancel that.. i think... i loaded my game up again and my soldiers rushed to the storage area to pick up their shiny new obsidian axes O_o thats... weird

[Mephansteras]

How odd. I know I've gotten my dwarves to use them in the past. I'll take a look at it.

[Nivim]

 I started as Frost Giant adventurer, yet did not get any Dire weapons. Instead, I got a normal sized zinc hatchet. The civilization file shows that Frost Giants do use Dire weapons, so why don't I get any?

[Mephansteras]

Wait...you got a Zinc hatchet? That shouldn't happen at all...

I'll try starting as a Frost Giant Adventurer a few times, see if I can figure out what might have caused it.

[Nivim]

 Hm, the zinc part might have been from a misplaced weapon tag somewhere...which is now fixed. But I still don't get any dire weapons, it's always the normal ones.

 Also, on the graphic sets; I am not annoyed by seeing letters for things (I use the sets to more quickly see what something is, it would take me a long time to memorize it otherwise), but I am annoyed when a Dyansauri is tiled as a chest. Walked into the half-blob half-dyansauri dark fortress and was amazed at a purple chest running full tilt at me. [l]ook dispelled the illusion, but it was still annoying. No, I don't know how to alter things like the graphic sets.

 Most of the civilizations have a high population of blobs and slimes...who immediately drop a whole load of objects they don't have body parts to wear the instant the area is loaded. How did the slimes join up with a civilization?

[Mephansteras]

Hmm. Never seen slimes as part of a Civ before. They should only show up in chasms and savage swamps. Nor have I ever seen them in the population breakdowns.

Do you have a weird install or something?

[Nivim]

I started with the Mayday version, then began piling every mod I wanted, one-by-one, manually. I made sure to match up and compare each file before pulling the things I wanted, however, I don't know why slimes would have trouble, considering they had their own file I didn't mess with. But there they are, mixed in with a number of the civilizations. I checked, and they have no civilization of their own, nor any tags that could have caused it. So I then looked into the civilization files of creatures that absorbed them, and still didn't find anything ab-normal. How are other civilizations normally absorbed by one another? Slaves? Stolen children? Is there any way a random slime could have been counted under the other civilization? (Then counted as a citizen, they even had jobs, but the ranger would have no hands to hold his crossbow and bolts, thus immediately losing them on load. There were many piles of class objects.)

[Mephansteras]

They really shouldn't be able to. They don't have any of the intelligence tags in my files. Without those, I can't see how they'd count as civilians.

[The13thRonin]

I use your mod for modding examples and I just wanted to say kudos on the good work. You don't seem to have any trouble finding converts for your mod!

More than I can say for mine at the moment  . You must share your secrets over a cold beer some time.

[Mephansteras]

Well, having the mod linked in your sig seems to help. Plus, I'll talk about it where appropriate (I try not to spam, of course).

You can also try doing a community fort with your mod. That can help raise awareness.

And I'm glad you've found it useful!