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[catoblepas]

Dangerous Wilds V 0.85

Dangerous Wilds is a mod primarily aimed at making Dwarf Fortress more challenging, but also on expanding upon the existing content as much as possible. The following are just a few of the changes:

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New Civilizations to fight and trade with:
There are 21 entities in dangerous wilds, most of which are hostile, a few of which are not. Three of them are playable: Dwarves (easy mode), Dark Elves (medium mode), and Rock-Kobolds (hard mode). Each civilization has it's own way of laying siege to your castle; high elves will shoot you with arrows from the sky while riding pegusi, while hobgoblins might ride in on wargs. Other new civilizations contain soldiers immune to fire, or that can breathe underwater, or inflict poisonous bites. To survive this onslaught, one must plan and defend their fortresses carefully...bringing me to the next point.

New weapons, traps, and armor:
The weapon system has been streamlined. No longer will you have to melt down or sell pikes bows because your dwarves cannot equip them. All weapons have been grouped into the existing weapon categories available in fortress mode. As for armor, that too has been expanded and streamlined, with leather, chain and plate armor for each body part, many of which can be worn overlapping. Lastly, great diversity has been added to the list of available weapons, armor, and trap components. If you thought giant corkscrews were bad, wait until your enemy tries to run down a corridor lined with organ-removing augers and giant chisels.

New Metals, minerals, plants, and trees:
Dangerous Wilds adds a slew of new alloys to the game, both fantastical and real. Ceramic, tumbaga, white copper, stainless steel, mithril and osmium are just a few of the many additions.
For plants and trees, you will notice that many new varieties of both have been added, hopefully this will make cooking more fun, now that more options are available to your dwarves, like garlic and tumeric. The same holds true for the trees, here specifically you will find that I have added many real life varieties of trees. if you ever bemoaned the fact that you couldn't make hickory cabinets, or that there was no distinction between the varieties of oak, fear not, for changes have been made to change that!

new monsters/fauna:
Here is where the 'dangerous' part of the mod comes into play. While i have added many helpful new species of animal to domesticate, like copper golems, giant wamblers, stilt spiders, silkworms, falcons, and chickens; the wilds are now filled with many more times that amount of fearsome foes, from smaller threats like redcaps and gulons, to moderately fearsome creatures like fire spiders ,hammerhead shark-men, and mammothmen, to wildlife with the capacity to truly endanger your fortress, such as hot drakes, giant bumblebees and wyverns. Adding to this threat are new megabeasts such as the ourobourous, lindwurm, and winged blight. Be careful out there.

The download links (v 0.85):

Dwarves as controllable faction:
http://www.filefront.com/14037213/Dangerous%20Wilds%20V%200.85A.zip

Dark Elves as controllable faction:
http://www.filefront.com/14037217/Dangerous%20Wilds%20V%200.85B.zip

Rock-Kobolds as controllable faction:
http://www.filefront.com/14037227/Dangerous%20Wilds%20V%200.85C.zip

feedback is always appreciated, for I am always looking for new ways to improve and update my mod.

Feel free to use parts of my mod in your own constructions, you don't have to ask me, although it makes me happy when I am credited!

Thanks to:
Maker of the bronze mod, the mod that makes all stones economic, the Mega Toy Mod (v.3), and of course, Toady and Threetoe for this wonderful game!

[PTTG??]

Crowmen? Redcaps? This is awesome!

Yeah, please share 'em!

[woose1]

...How can we share input if there is no mod?
However, I do like how you added more creatures and entities, without actually breaking the game.

If you are planning to share it with us, then please put it all into a file for all us lazy folk. 

[catoblepas]

Sure, I'd post my whole objects file, but I'm not sure how to do that aside from copy-pasting the text from every single file in it.

[catoblepas]

Total list of weapons in the mod (so far):
Swords:

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slender krises
broad saexes
kukris
short swords
rapiers
saw-edged short swords
two-handed swords
saw-edged two-handed swords
serpentine two-handed swords
needle-toothed two-handed swords
two-handed falxes
long swords
sun-runed long swords
moon-runed long swords
bastard swords
saw-edged long swords
serpentine long swords
leaf-bladed long swords
hook-swords
scimitars
saw-edged scimitars
sabers

Special swords (appear only as artifacts):
fork-bladed scimitars
fork-bladed longswords
woven (metal name) strand long swords
woven (metal name) strand short swords

To be added later:
katanas
gladiuses
wakizashis
pugios

Axes:

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hatchets
khopeshes
battle axes
straight-edged battle axes
saw-edged battle axes
great axes
fan-bladed great axes

Special axes (appear only as artifacts):
cold-forged great axes
woven (metal name) strand khopeshes

Spears:

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spears
tridents
glaives
barbed spears
boar spears
quarterstaves
pikes
halberds

Maces:

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maces
flanged maces
morningstars
kanabos
roundheads

to be added later:
flails

Hammers:

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mallets
warhammers

to be added later:
hammer staves

Ranged Weapons (all use marksman skill):

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crossbows (use bolts and barbed bolts)
bladed crossbows (use bolts and barbed bolts)
wrist crossbows (use darts and barbed darts)
sling staves (use shots and runed shots)
arbalests (use shots and runed shots)
arquebuses (use bullets)
bows (use arrows, barbed arrows, and bodkin arrows)
longbows (use arrows, barbed arrows, and bodkin arrows)

Trap Components:

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giant axe blades
enormous corkscrews
spiked balls
large, serrated disks,
jagged, hooked chains
menacing spikes
giant chisels
giant pistons
giant, spiked mandibles
menacing pairs of scissors

to be added later:
enormous mechanical arms
rotating bladed fans
spike-covered doors

that's it, until I come up with more ideas or someone suggests something.

[woose1]

Sure, I'd post my whole objects file, but I'm not sure how to do that aside from copy-pasting the text from every single file in it.

Go to filefront.

Or, failing that, post every single text from every single file and get somebody else to put it up on filefront.

[catoblepas]

New Plants and trees:

Trees:

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Real trees:
mesquite
mountain pine
sugar pine
red fir
white fir
yew
black oak
white oak
methuselah

Other trees:
gnome-tongue (mushroom)
iron-cap (mushroom)

Plants:

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Real plants:
sugar cane
green seaweed
potatoes
ginger
garlic
asparagus
turmeric
hazel

Other plants:
ghost radishes
staghorn coral
golden fern
mirthberry
salt bulb
rust vine
chisel fern
spidermoss
foxtail cotton
shroudweed(seaweed)
bone reed
umbraberry
bloodcap
cavern bloat
honey morel
dwarven truffles

New Metals/stones/gems:

Metals:

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Spider Iron: Alloy of copper and iron: ancient alchemists used to think it was one of the steps to synthesize gold. requires one copper and one iron
Meteoric Iron: I got this from the bronze mod. Stronger than normal iron (whose strength has been reduced). requires one iron and one nickel.
Rubber: A Rather weak 'metal'. made from one rubber tree log and one charcoal, which will produce 3 bars of rubber. Adding the 'bone reed' plant to the reaction will produce 3 bars of a slightly better rubber.
Cuppronickel, AKA white copper: requires 3 copper and one nickel. this alloy used to be used before the introduction of bronze.
Yellow Brass: 1 zinc, 2 copper
White brass: 2 zinc, 1 copper
Red brass: 1 zinc, 2 tin, 6 copper
Bronze: 2 copper, 1 tin. The weakest of the bronzes
Tin Bronze: 1 copper, 1 tin, stronger than normal bronze.
Aluminum Bronze: 1 aluminum, 2 copper. The strongest bronze, as strong as meteoric iron.
Kansa, AKA 'bell metal': 3 copper, 1 tin. The weakest of the bronzes.
Manganese: Useful for making manganese billon, besides that, not much.
Manganese Billon: 1 manganese, 4 silver, 5 copper. Slightly less valuable than normal billon.
Refined Uristlam: a semi-magical metal that is useful in the production of heat-resistant alloys. It comes in strand form, so it takes 3 times the normal amount  to make an object.
Blue lead: I like to make my sarcophagi out of lead and pewter. Personal preference, I guess. But currently those materials don't make very expensive resting places, so I added this as a more expensive alternative. requires 1 voidstone, 3 lead bars, and 3 uristlam wafers, yielding a total of 4 blue lead bars. (3 wafers=1 bar's worth of material)
False galvorn: looks like galvorn, kinda. valuble, but not nearly as valuble or useful as the other forms of galvorn. requires 1 voidstone, 6 uristlam wafers, and 1 silver bar, yielding 3 false galvorn bars.
Zagithosod: Produced by the refinement of fossilized demon bones. Some of the vile essence of the previous owners of the bones still lingers on in the bones, making it useful in the production of several 'evil' metals.
Chromite: useful for making stainless steel and for making really shiny statues.
Stainless steel: The weakest steel, it will probably be more useful once corrosion has been added. requires 3 nickel bars, 3 chromite bars, 3 iron bars, 3 pig iron, 3 flux stones, and 3 coal yields 10 bars, instead of 12 because of a typo.
Shadowsteel: The second most powerful steel alloy. requires 1 iron, 1 pig iron, 1 flux, 1 coal, and 1 zagithosod, producing 3 bars.
Dwarven Steel: The most powerful tradeable steel, requires 1 iron, 1 pig iron, 1 flux, 1 coal, 3 uristlam wafers, and 1 refined voidstone bar,m producing 3 bars of dwarven steel.
Umbral brass: 'Evil' orchalcum, requires 2 copper, 2 zinc, 3 mithril wafers, 2 voidstone, and 1 zagithosod. Produces 6 bars. Very strong.
Shedimral: mithril tainted by the addition of zagithosod. Requires 3 mithril wafers, 2 voidstone, and 1 zagithosod. Yields 6 wafers.
Purple Gold: 3 gold, 1 aluminum.
White Gold: 3 gold, 1 nickel
Green Gold: 3 gold, 1 silver
Tumbaga: 1 gold, 3 copper
Galvorn (spoilers!!): 3 voidstone, 6 adamantine wafers, 3 mithril wafers, 1 coal produce 2 galvorn bars and one dross galvorn bar. Stronger than adamantine.
Royal Galvorn(spoilers!!): The strongest metal in the game. Quite difficult to make. Requires 2 voidstone, 6 adamantine wafers, 1 coal, and one osmium bar.
Osmium (spoilers!!): onnly obtainable by melting down the masterwork osmium statues that are dropped by ancient golemns, a form of HFS.
Dross galvorn(spoilers): weakest galvorn alloy (stronger than false galvorn), a byproduct of galvorn production.
Orchalcum: made form 2 copper, 1 voidstone, 2 zinc, and 3 mithril wafers. Yields 5 orchalcum bars.
Mithril Steel: The strongest steel alloy. Requires 1 iron, 1 pig iron, 1 flux, 1 coal, 1 voidstone, and 3 mithril wafers.
Patterned steel: stronger than normal steel and stainless steel, weaker than dwarven steel. requires 1 iron, 1 pig iron, 1 flux, 1 coal, and 1 uncut green glass gem.
Gelidus: Enchanted Ice. requires 3 ice, and one voidstone, yielding 3 bars. Careful, it melts at the same temperature as Ice.
Refined Voidstone: An essential ingredient to the production of any of the magical alloys, it is refined from raw voidstone.
Fell-Iron: Made from 2 iron, 1 voidstone, and 1 zagithosod, yields 3 bars. equal to stainless steel in strength, but there are better applications for your voidstone and zagithosod.

Other reactions:

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Making petrified wood: 1 voidstone and 1 log (any kind) yields 1 petrified wood rock.
Making iron from ironcaps: Ironcaps are a rare mushroom that grows in savage biomes. One log yields 1 iron bar when burned at a smelter.

Notable rock changes:

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Jade: Jade has been split into nephrite and jadeite. Jadeite is a gem, and Nephrite is a stone. Nephrite is more useful because it can be made into sharp blades. More colors of each have also been added.
Chert/Flint: Are now both capable of being used for blade construction.
Snowflake Obsidian: rarer form of obsidian.
Pumice: New extrusive igneous rock. Not very dense at all.
Fulgurites & Tektites: New gems: Fulgurites are formed when lightning strikes sand, tektites are formed when a meteorite does the same. Because of this, they can be found in locations where other gems cannot (deserts/other soil areas)

[inaluct]

vermin: kakapo

how dare you

[woose1]

Right-o I'll try that, but first, I'll post descriptions of the new entities and Hidden Fun Stuff, so people will know what they are getting into if they try my mod and don't end up with something they vastly dislike.

It's free, so what would we have to complain about?

[PTTG??]

...Go to filefront...

I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL, NAVE!

There's a whole Dwarf Fortress File Depot for mods! None of that Filefront nonsense!

[Himmelhand]

At first glance, looks impressive!  I'd like to take a look at it once I get the time.

[EuchreJack]

Two comments:

First, you might want to edit the first post to at least give descriptions of everything there.

Second, why didn't you just upload your raw/objects file to Dwarf Fortress File Depot?  It's a lot easier for you and us than copy/paste.

link:http://dffd.wimbli.com/index.php

[catoblepas]

I'll follow up on your first suggestion as soon as I can, tomorrow, because I need some sleep, as to the other... Well I can't seem to upload more then one file at a time. there must be some trick to it, but I can't figure it out. I believe me, I'd rather have it all in one, tidy download, I'll work on that tomorrow and try to figure it out. Probably work on more descriptions too.

[Himmelhand]

Compile them all into a zip file perhaps?

[catoblepas]

keep on getting an error when I try to upload 'Failed to open temp_dir: ./tmp/'. Rather irritating. Guess I'll work on moving the descriptions to the first post for now.