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[i2amroy]

So with all of the new version stuff coming out, I figured that I should upload my personal modded version just for anybody out there who needs something to play while all of us rewrite our own versions. So I give to you, the Ultimate Fortress Mod! This mod contains tons of new civilizations, creatures, megabeasts, stone, wood, and other stuff.

Most of this is my own, but there are small things that are based on or taken from other people's mods. Basically if you have released a mod on this forum there is probably at least one thing in here based on that. If you see a part of this that is based on something of yours that you would like removed, please feel free to contact me at state exactly what it is that is the offender that way I may remove it.

Creds to
- Impaler for his metal mod
- Great Cthulhu for his project to add values to the raws

Download Here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1782

Instructions

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1) Delete everything in your data/objects folder
2) Delete your old raw/objects folder
3) Extract the new objects folder into your raw folder
4) Delete your old data/speech folder
5) Extract the new speech folder into your data folder

Civilizations

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* = Types; () = controllable
- 3 Dwarven
    *Normal Dwarves (adv/civ)
    *Druegar: Dark Dwarves (adv)
    *Knurla: Stone men that turn into stone on death (adv)
- 6 Elven
    *Wild Elves: The cannibals we know all and love
    *Forest Elves: Druidic forests creatures (adv)
    *Night Elves: City elves that live in the forest (adv)
    *Sun Elves: Human-like elves (adv)
    *Grey Elves: Reclusive magic users
    *Drow: dark, Smith elves (adv)
- 16 Human
    *Humans: Normal old humans (adv)
    *Alchemists: Insane chemists
    *Bandits: Sword/Axe wielding thieves
    *Empire: Powerful Human civ, good traders (adv)
    *Gamblers: Card and dice weapon wielders
    *Knights: Great fighter civilization
    *Mayan: Blowgun and sling using natives
    *Mechanists: Advanced mechanics, powerful guns
    *Oriental: Chinese/Japanese/Asian civ (adv)
    *Pirates: Seagoing thieves, like axes
    *Raiders: Arab desert thieves
    *Rebels: Weak human civ
    *Saracens: Advanced Arab desert civilization (adv)
    *Vikings: Axe-wielding thunderbolt throwing civ
    *Good Zealots: Fanatic priests
    *Bad Zealots: More fanatic priests
- 5 Adventure
    *Bangaa: Giant lizardmen, like to use fists (adv)
    *Gria: Flying dragonwomen (adv)
    *Nu Mou: Dog-like mages (adv)
    *Seeq: Fat, greedy thieves (adv)
    *Viera: Rabbitwomen, live in forests, like rapiers (adv)
- 4 Angel/Seraph
    *Angels: Extremely powerful civilization (adv)
    *Fallen Angels: Evil angels (adv)
    *Seraphs: Sterile, ultimate angels, almost unkillable
    *Fallen Seraphs: Evil seraphs
- 2 Wizard
    *Wizards: Powerful magic users (adv)
    *Sorceresses: Female Magic users (adv)
- 2 Goblin
    *Goblins: Evil green creatures
    *Hobgoblins: More advanced and honorific orange goblins (adv)
- 7 Laguz
    *Cat Laguz: Fast cat people (adv)
    *Tiger Laguz: Slower but stronger cat people (adv)
    *Lion Laguz: Extremely strong but slow cat people (adv)
    *Wolf Laguz: Desert-living wolf people (adv)
    *Hawk Laguz: Flying hawk people (adv)
    *Crow Laguz: Flying crow people thieves (adv)
    *Heron Laguz: Flying heron singers, very peaceful
- 1 Aracnathid: Centaur-spiders (adv)
- 2 Mercenary
    *Good: Powerful humanoid fighters (adv)
    *Evil: Powerful humanoid fighters (adv)
- 4 Undead
    *Ghouls: Undead beasts, paralyzing venom in their claws (adv)
    *Zombies: Slow, strong zombie humans
    *Skeletons: Animated, sterile skeletons
    *Vampires: Bloodsucking vampires (adv)
- 1 Orc: Powerful green men (adv)
- 6 Inhuman
    *Cacturns: Cactus-men, live in deserts
    *Carnifern: Intelligent venus flytraps
    *Dust bunnies: Weak creatures that explode when hit
    *Ice Men: Evil arctic men made of ice
    *Snow Men: Playful arctic men made of snow
    *Rocks: Giant carnivorous boulders
- 3 Creature
    *Sparra: Warlike giant sparrows
    *Furrets: Long-bodied animal thieves
    *Dark Furrets: Black-furred, red-eyed, Furrets
- 1 Pentaped: Savage 5-legged creature
- 1 Hellspawn: Winged arctic demons
- 1 Musician: Feathered lizard, peaceful musicians
- 2 Kobold
    *Kobold: Basic kobolds
    *Vreal: 6 fingered, purple kobolds
- 1 Insect Human: Giant insect men
- 1 Dryad: Tree loving, women
- 1 Cardon: Reclusive Cyborg race
- 1 Ancient: Super weapon, sterile, babysnatchers

Creature Changes

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- Large amounts of new vermin
- Tons of new wildlife
- Lots of new ambush creatures
- Many new fantastical creatures (Chimera, Phoenix, Unicorn, .etc)
- Several types of Dragons
- Many new (Semi)Megabeasts
- (Semi)Megabeasts are harder
- Hydra's don't die if they lose just one head
- Wild automatons (created by the Mechanists?)
- Dangerous elementals
- More realistic bodies (breakable limbs for all, breakable necks, .etc)
- More HFS creatures

Plant Changes

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- Many new plants
- Much longer growing times (several seasons)
- All underground plants except cave bees plantable year round
- Plants with above and below ground versions take almost 2x longer to grow underground
- New alcohols/extracts
- New volcano only plant that allows glass making
- Rare flowers that takes years to grow but have expensive extracts

Wood Changes

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- A few new types of tree
- New rare wood that can be processed into a small amount of steel
- Crystalized Maple Syrup can be processed out of maple wood

Stone Changes

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- Several new types of stone
- Lots of new ores
- Several new gems
- Added boiling/melting points for many types of stone (more magma safe)
- In-game tiles allow quick identification of stone value/uses
- All stones are economic
- Lava safe listed on economic stone screen
- Gas pockets in metamorphic stone (will kill [freeze] dwarves if they don't get out fast)
- Shimmerstone, a weak ANY_USE non-deep stone
- Rock/Sea salt, stones that can be packed in the smelter into edible salt blocks
- Dried Peat, findable in peat, can be transformed into fuel

Metal Changes

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- Incorporated most of Impaler's Metal Mod
- Tempered Crystal, strong metal that is made of rock crystal
- Ice can be tempered or enchanted
    *Tempered: Metal that melts at room temp
    *Enchanted: Metal that is stronger and melts at slightly above room temp but has a chance of hurting the forger when created
- More realistic damage values
- No more 'ore' reactions

Item Changes

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- Thousands of new toys
- Large amount of new instruments
- Weapons that will train civilian skills
- Lots of new weapons/armor/shields
- Magic weapons for some races
- Legendary weapons that are only dropped by chests, which are rare creatures
- Many new trap components
- Many races have something that only they can trade/make
- Underclothing/lots of new clothing

Speech Changes

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- Loads of new taunts
- More race/gender specific gloats
- Much more varied conversations responses

Other Changes

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- Anvil making reactions
- Colored Glass, which is created with clear glass and glass coloring
- Glass coloring, a new plant that grows in deserts
- Metal Wagons, which can carry more
- Lots of new engravings

[Deon]

It looks like a lot of fun. Like what I've made with humans in DF Genesis mod, just for all possible types of races .

Too bad I am finishing my Wasteland mod so I don't have a lot of time to play the fortress mode (I don't have a lot of time to play at all now...) but I will definitely look at this from the adventurous side of view. Thanks!

[Deon]

OK, some feedback: I think Mayans would be more happy to have something more than slings and loincloths . At least some basic swords or hammers . It looks like a discrimination.

Also, pirates need a Cutlass as a weapon! And a blunderbuss would be cool too! and an eyepatch as a head clothing!

[i2amroy]

Ok, version 1.1 released. Now pirates have cutlasses, blunderbusses, and eyepatches. The Mayans ended up getting short swords, whips, and daggers.

[Deon]

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OK, while it's hard to playtest that huge mod, you should look into your errorlog.txt from time to time. Or it means that you forgot to include your creature_standard.txt .

Anyway, in creature_standard.txt there's a bunch of critters with 2HEAD_HORN, while you've changed it to HEAD_2HORN in the body file and for all other critters.

Your hydra still has 7HEADNECKS, while you changed it to HYDRA_HEADNECKS in the body file.

Your sea serpent has FRONT_BODY_FLIPPERS and REAR_BODY_FLIPPERS while the body file has FLIPPERS_FRONT_BODY and FLIPPERS_REAR_BODY.

OK Ignore everything in the previous spoiler. I didn't read the installation instructions. At least you see that I playtest it .

Anyway, I will build my first fortress and see how I handle that many enemies... If I can .

P.S. Now, are the legendary weapons' stories just for fun? Because I've read some of them already . Or are the weapons somewhere in the game?

This is the time when I don't want to spoil myself fun and look into raws, I want to discover things in-game, and finally HFS will be HFS again.

[Deon]

Also it's weird that "sorceress" has both genders. Wouldn't it be better to call it [SPECNAME:MALE:sorcerer:sorcerers:sorcerer]; [SPECNAME:FEMALE:sorceress:sorceresses:sorceress]? And why do they look like chains?

[i2amroy]

The reason that they have both genders is because in my original goal I wanted the sorceresses to be an all-female entity. However, I also wanted them to be able to grow in world gen and not just be a sterile civilization. This left me with the choices to either not have an all female entity and just have some weird cross-dressers, or to just pretend that everyone was female, give them all female clothes, and change the name of their children to apprentice. At the moment there is also one other civ that had this happen to it, the Dryads. I have considered doing something else, but at the moment that is just the way it turned out.

As to the legendary weapons, the stories are just for flavor, but the weapons can actually exist in-game. They are dropped by a rare animal called a chest that can appear anywhere around the world. If a chest is found and killed, it has about a 14.8% chance of dropping a rare weapon, a 52.2% chance of dropping a normal weapon of various quality, and a 30% chance to drop something else, with about a 3% chance of being a mimic.

As to why they look like chains, that just might be a graphic tileset if you are using one. If you are not, I can assure you that it was simply that I was starting to run out of different tiles for my different civilizations. And the sorceress civilization happens to use the in-game tile for a chain just the same as humans use the $ tile which is the in-game tile for coins.

[Deon]

Do you need a graphic set for this? I can make one as I play. I had to replace most races with other symbols because my character set makes some of them to look weird .

Also, sandworms for some reason stand on one place and totally ignore my adventurer... I cannot find the reason for this right now.

P.S. Automatic mantisses and bats totally replaced wolves (by frequency), this may need some adjustment (although nice statues are a good trading item .

P.P.S. Sorceress do not use any furniture for some reason (and no doors).

[Untelligent]

Do the sandworms have STANCE on any part of their body?

[Deon]

They do not lay on the ground.

[Untelligent]

Typo found at the beginning of creature_standard_demons: [OBJECT:CREATUE]


I checked out the sandworms, their body raws look alright and I don't see any temperature troubles or potential organ failures. Dunno.

[i2amroy]

Fixed version up.

1) Removed [LARGE_PREDATOR] tag from both automatons and elementals. This causes them to no longer attack everything nearby, but it is a small price to pay for increased adventure mod attack variety.
2) Fixed found typo and one other I stumbled across.

As for the Sandworms, I think that it had something to do with the [LARGE_ROAMING] tag, or possibly [MEANDERER]. Anyway, I couldn't find one after a half an hour so if the problem still happens tell me.

For the sorceresses it might be that they worship a megabeast. I have found through personal experience that sometime civilizations will lose all their furniture if they worship a building destroyer. I don't know why it happens, I just know that it does.

@Deon: A tileset would be awesome. I haven't had much experience with them myself, but anything that would help the player tell the many races apart would be great.

[Deon]

Also too many creatures use the same adjectives (i.e. goblins for goblins and hobgoblins).

I've got caravans from both and both times it said "goblin caravan has arrived". I've fixed it on my end if you don't mind, and I start to work on graphic set. "Vanilla" creatures all have graphics, and I've got full profession tileset for hobgoblins and common tiles for wizards and sorceresses (normal, apprentice, merchant, noble/liaison).

[Cariyaga]

I'm currently using the Mayday version. Will the tileset be closer to that or standard?

[Deon]

This one has no tileset, you can use it with any tileset you want, including Mike Mayday's.

Craeture graphics are in the work, I can send you what's done so far (includes some new animals and races I've encountered during first 2 years and all main races).