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[bhamv]

It does look like a civ leader indeed.  He's the leader of the Lone Dragon, a violet xelic civilization.  Here's a screenshot.

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Ignore the dying in heat thing at the end, that was me using HEATDAM_POINT:1 to get rid of him.

[Mephansteras]

Hmmm. So you get an unannounced State Visit. That's pretty funny, actually.

[bhamv]

Oh it was announced.  It had its own announcement screen and everything.  I was ready to send out a welcoming committee that just happened to comprise twenty legendary axedwarves. 

[Lewis Meriwether]

Just got it and embarking as we speak. Looking forward to it.
I'll let you know if anything interesting happens, soon.
*Fingers crossed*

[Mephansteras]

Good luck! And watch out for the Dyansauri, they can siege pretty early.

[bhamv]

I have a question regarding some of the new plants.  They probably also apply to regular Civ Forge, but since I'm playing Unleashed at the moment I thought I'd play it safe and ask here.

Some of the plants can't be planted.  Off the top of my head, this includes cotton, pepper, rime berries, crow berries etc.  I can get the seeds from traders, but the option to grow them never shows up for any season.  I can also buy the plants from traders and request them from the liaison, no problem.

There are other plants that work fine, such as the three new summer berries, slime molds, etc.  Is this behavior intended, or is something not working right?

[Mephansteras]

It's intended. Those plants require specific biomes to work. Specifically Tropical grasslands/shrublands for the warm weather plants (like cotton) or tundra for the arctic plants (like crowberries).

[Lewis Meriwether]

Took me a couple world generations to find one I liked.
I love Nivocite.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, it's useful and a color that is both not eye-jarring and underused. Which is odd, since it's a more realistic rock color to me.

[Lewis Meriwether]

Yeah I love it. My entire fortress is a nice blue.
Sort of clashes with the yellow sand at the front but I'm fixing that... xD

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Silver Xelics by early summer of first year***. I like them a lot, in despite of their giant insectness. I very much enjoy that they appear as walking chestdrawers in mayday tileset.

[Lewis Meriwether]

Does trading anything wood to silver xelics make them angry? I got a negative trade message from them and they up and left when I tried trading wood bins with bone shell and rock crafts. I'm not sure if it was because they were offended or just didn't like the deal.

[Mephansteras]

Wood shouldn't bother them, but life will. So bone and shell tick them off.

Which is odd, since they bring leather and meat. But I guess they're just more 'humane' about it or something.

[Lewis Meriwether]

Well now their message makes more sense*, paraphrased: "it used to be a living thing and now it is nothing but a trinket/bauble for your dwarves!!! (We're leaving now!)"
It was a surprise to see the cabinets leave so suddenly. I'm anxiously awaiting their return assuming they do (don't tell me).
Yeah well, Elves have a double standard with wood so no society is perfect apparently.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah. I wonder if in some future version of DF I'll be able to actually code in reasons for stuff like this. Like the Silver Xelics actually asking animals for permission or something before eating them. Which would be kind of cool.

[Lewis Meriwether]

It would be cool to see elves weaving, singing, strand extracting from the wood nymph workshop or however its agreed they do to get wood from a tree. Silver Xelics are probably pretty zealous about balance in nature and see how dwarfs use animal products as wasteful. That could also explain why Violet Xelics exist and are so war-like, being dissenters and fighting for a pro-Xelican world with disregard to the Silver Xelics way of life. They would both have to be at war with eachother all the time though, I feel like. I don't know who decides this though.