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[Smitehappy]

Oh, and I can't decide should I name humans or not. Let them be "humans" or name them "nippons", "nords" and such?

I'd prefer it, it's only a easy change to the [NAME] token and it would go a long way to cut down on the confusion of finding out what civ a human is from.

[Deon]

It was cool to have various "humans" in fortress mode but it's too confusing when you play adventure mode. Any suggestions for desert people race?

[Smitehappy]

It was cool to have various "humans" in fortress mode but it's too confusing when you play adventure mode. Any suggestions for desert people race?

Hmmm, well I'm probally wrong on this but most middle eastern cultures relied heavily on blades so maybe focus on mainly edged weapons. As for clothing I think a quick google on Middle Eastern culture would give you alot of ideas. Getting a good balance in the entity file so they mainly stay in the desert biome without frying will be a tad difficult but I'm sure it won't take long to get it right. As for the name, just pick a middle east nation or you can just call them zareth which is the dwarf name for desert.

http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/

[Deon]

Actually they have swords and poleaxes/spears mainly, as it should be. Spears were used quite often because they were better than swords in mass combats. Just check the 1st post ))). Other weapons like maces or hammers have just a single/rare item to allow appearance of hammermen/macemen, however their main arsenal consists of the bladed weapons.

[Smitehappy]

Meh, maybe make the desert civ build mainly with glass since sand should be in abundance. Glass weapons, buildings, etc. Though I suppose it's pretty far-fetched.

[Deon]

It's not possible to make civs to make items from anything but metal/wood/leather/cloth.

[Deon]

Here're the sprites for norse I'm working on. Any ideas for unique maces?

[Deon]

It looks like this thread draws not too much attention (well, it doesn't have a lot to offer) so I post new creatures I've added for the next release. I need to draw tiles for them though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Magma dwellers:
Burning Noble Incarnations
Flame Offsprings
Firey Hornets
Oblivion Burners
Steel Serpents
Children Of The Melting One

Feline semi-/megabeasts:
Running Beasts
Primal Cat
Primal Cat Children

Slime/jelly-like mosters:
Jelly Swimmers
Jelatinous Cubes
Slime Crushers From The Ever-changing Realm
Brood Of The Devouring Avatar

Deserts/badlands (ghosts):
Sand Wraiths
Profane Shadows
Legendary Ghost Spawns
Terror Ghosts From The Eternal Plane

Caves  (undead):
Twisted Cleavers
Glowing corpses

Caves (demonic beings):
Demonic gibberers
Ensnaring ghasts
Changing Ones
Time Shamblers
Memory Rippers

Mountain:
Aerial cats
Storm Beings
Terror Ravens
Celestial Slayers

River/lake:
Deep Serpents
Shore drowners

Evil areas:
Metal Scorpions
Nerve Spiders

[Fleeb]

Mjöllnir.

Well, it's a hammer not a mace, but would fit.

[Deon]

The problem is that it's a name not a type of a weapon . It's basically a war hammer.

[Smitehappy]

Any ideas for unique maces?

Not every faction needs each type of weapon. The norse were very found of the shield wall tactic,the primary weapon in the formation is a spear; even a sword is secondary. Compared to the other secondary weapon, the one handed axe, a mace would have all of the disadvantages (unbalanced) but none of the advantages (a cutting edge).

[Fleeb]

Oh, sorry, thought you were looking for unique individual weapons, not weapon types 

Dunno about maces, but nordic axes would be like a bearded axe (could come in one or two handed varieties). Seax would work for a short sword/ big knife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seax

Don't know what maces would really fit with a nordic theme. I've always stereotyped that sort with hammers and axes. And spears of course. Maybe stay simple and just give them spiked or flanged or studded maces. Or flails... they could be made with the mace skill.

[LegoLord]

I just took a look at this now.  I don't think I'll download it (at the moment) but it looks pretty cool. 
About the fire and ice weapons, I put those in the LEGO mod and I haven't heard complaints, so I don't think that you should need to remove those.  I know what's wrong with the hammer picks, too.  Mining is hardcoded.  It doesn't work like other weapon skills, because miners are set to unarmed combat.  Adding the weapon tag confuses that.  It works perfectly as the weapon, but the miners won't equip it because they aren't set to use that kind of weapon.

[Deon]

Thank you, Legolord, I've fixed the hammerpick. Also, about nords, I'm going to give them some of the finnish weapons you could see in the Unreal World roguelike. And spears are definitely good, everyone from japan to greece used them in mass fights . Sadly we can't use combat formations in DF yet.

[Deon]

OK, I've managed to setup biome settings and clothing layering for norse to live in tundra, taiga and seldom on glacier, but I'm going to give them damblock of 1. Well, at first people living in such climate should be tough. But also they have a GREAT natural problem with polar bears. These evil monsters ambush cities quite often. Right now I've started as an adventurer and a polar bear got an iron bolt in his brain and still managed to shred the crossbowman into pieces and tear both fisherman's arms off before bleeding to death. Also he died with my right hand in his mouth .