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[Murphy]

NULF stands for Nemesis Unit Load Failure. Why the mod is called so is explained below, in the fifth spoiler.
Download link: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1383

LIST OF FEATURES

Clothing and armor overhaul:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Most clothing has been removed from the game, to get rid of all clothing-related clutter. Cloth armor introduced so having a legendary clothier might still be a good idea. It consists of a quilted armor coat (covers most of the body), thick gloves, boots and a skullcap. Leather thick gloves, boots and skullcap, along with leather armor and leggings, form the full leather armor set.
Note that it is much easier to train a legendary clothier than leatherworker, and a full cloth armor consists of only 4 items, as opposed to 5 for leather. However, it has one major drawback: it wears off eventually and has to be replaced.

Goblin-related changes:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Trolls and beak dogs now live in evil mountains. Please note that to have goblins bring them, you'll need these goblins to have a fortress in sinister mountains. Haunted or terrifying WILL NOT WORK since civs do not settle in areas with high savagery, nor take resources from there. You'll have to run several worldgens to get this, but I provide you with worldgen parameters that are tested for goblins having beak dogs already (40d11).
Remember, if you want to get sieged by mounted goblins, please DO NOT tweak the entity_default to have more than one goblin civ. Because it is unlikely that all of them will have access to beak dogs and trolls, and there's a chance you'll be sieged by the one without them. And since, naturally, anything that can go wrong will go wrong... well, you get it.
Goblins no longer use metal armor, instead they wear a single-item hide armor, which  covers most of the body. It is made of leather, but is twice as good as ordinary leather armor. Dwarves consider hide armor barbaric, so they will not make it. Along with the removal of ordinary clothing, it all means less iron and less free money from selling unusable goblin garb.

Other changes:

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Included the famous cat bug fix (the one about "too injured" announcements).
Kobolds are now much faster (speed 700). Doesn't help them much, but at least it makes sense.
Flint and chert made sharpenable. You can make stone axes and stone-tip spears as well as swords now.
Giant cave spiders now have 8 eyes.
Gave savage tropical beasts AMBUSHPREDATOR and removed MEANDERER. Now they should target your dwarves deliberately and be invisible until spotted. Not yet tested if it works. Also, they are still very rare to encounter.
Changed START_GROUP_NUMBER to 150 for all civs. Now there will be 200-tigermen forest retreats for vicious adventurers to attack (if you do not run the worldgen for too long). To prevent them from wiping out all semimegabeast populations, gave the latter all CURIOUSBEAST-whatever tags.
Made separate creature_standard files for worldgen and play. Worldgen megabeasts have size of 1000 and cluster number of 6-12.  Increased cluster_number for semimegabeasts as well. You're now guaranteed to have plenty to play with.
I think I was able to achieve balance in a small (65x65) world with 16 civs (see parameters at the end of this file), but you'll have to edit the entity files (at the very least, MAX_STARTING_CIV_NUMBER) to have a chance to generate a larger one, also be ready for the Age of Death.

New races replacing the boring vanilla ones:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Drakelings (replace humans): A race of lizard people living in cities. They do not trade, and this is intentional (see Explanation about trading, below). They are fierce warriors, dutiful to their kind. Drakelings excel at marksmanship and spearfighting, and they can use their powerful tails and stunning bite attacks in battle. None of them wear armor (except shields) as this opposes their beliefs. The only armor you can potentially get as a drakeling adventurer is trophy hide armor from tigermen.
Tigermen (replace elves): Cannibalistic, warlike, non-playable race. They are as fast and skilled in archery as elves, but much tougher and immune to traps. Tigermen may come to raid your fortress, steal babies and otherwise wreak havoc, but not as early as goblins and kobolds. You won't see them at all if your population isn't very high. Their purpose is to provide you with some more late-game challenge and serve as enemies for adventurers who feel like avoiding flying arrows.
These two races are based on Lizardmen mod by Poil and parts of Primative civs mod by Mephansteras. There are some items from there too.

Explanation about trading:

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Why did I make the two new civs non-trading? Because the whole point of making this mod in the first place was avoiding the dreaded nemesis unit load failure, the ultimate enemy of my adventurers.
I figured that the error message only pops out when I try to enter a settlement of a race that had some non-aggressive interaction with one of my fortresses in dwarf mode. So I was still able to play adventurers, but not buy food and ammo or take quests. With this in mind, drakelings and tigermen were created so I could trade or fight with them in adventure mode. That's also why only one dwarven civ is allowed in worldgen.

[Daywalkah]

Lizardmen mod by Poil and parts of Primative civs mod by Mephansteras.

You did ask them both permission to use their mods right? And if you did, you should post it in this thread here.

[Murphy]

You did ask them both permission to use their mods right?

My post was initially meant for "Random mods you've done" thread, so no. In this case, I believe, it is fair enough to simply credit the authors. Why I later decided this to be a new topic is only because I believed it was important to tell about the way to circumvent the nemesis bug.
As for "getting rid of gobbos", I did not do that.

[Daywalkah]

Fair enough. For some wierd reason I got it into my head that you got rid of goblins, I'm crazy. I would download this mod, but I've never had the "NULF" error.

[Rafal99]

From what I heard NULF error is caused by moving/copying/deleting your savegames while DF is running. So don't do this and you won't get that error.
Also there is a fix if you have an older save without that error.

I had this error only once, and imho no point of removing several elements of the game to get rid of something that rare.

[mission0]

From what I heard NULF error is caused by moving/copying/deleting your savegames while DF is running. So don't do this and you won't get that error.
Also there is a fix if you have an older save without that error.

I had this error only once, and imho no point of removing several elements of the game to get rid of something that rare.

also occurs if you force close df.

[Rafal99]

also occurs if you force close df.

No it does not. Another myth. I always force-close DF (by killing process).

[Murphy]

I do get the bug every time I play DF without modding. No force closing and no fiddling with savegames (well, yearly auto-save is on, but nothing more). All I have to do is start a fortress and play for 9-10 years, then abandon, create an adventurer and try to enter some friendly city, and then bam! Nemesis Unit Load Failed!

The bug does not occur if I play for a short duration, and I presume this has something to do with diplomacy, as elven towns seem to be affected not every time (elves rarely send diplomats).

Should go post this in bugs section then.

P.S. As for removing features - sure, the mod's purpose was to cure the bug by doing that, but also to offer replacement. Otherwise it would not be worth posting.