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[the1337doofus]

Unretired my most badass adventurer, to have him go retrieve the slab from one of my dead necromancers. On his way there, he, along with his extremely wounded party of 9, were ambushed by goblins, mostly archers. In the ensuing chaos, he lost hold of his iron spear, which had claimed about 57 lives, 3 of them titans. So, instead of being sensible and picking it up, he started beating heads in with one of his trophies, a large crystal glass gem. He continued this until he had killed the entirety of the goblin party, which had also slaughtered all of his friends. And he also left one alive, albeit groinless.

[Sharpoint]

Just survived the invasion of legionnaire dwarfs and stonemancers (masterwork) in my civ's capital. Should make for an interesting story of trying to reclaim the town and stop further invasion.

[Tawa]

Decided to become a necromancer and destroy the world. Step in the door and someone notices me. Torn apart by zombies.

Always, always become a vampire before doing that.

[kuudou]

Picked up a quiver of Superior Iron Bolts and have been throwing them at stuff.

Turns out you can train archery AND throwing at the same time this way. They level at the same rate too.

[Mr Space Cat]

Just strangled a random named giant lion with my modded in hobbit lasher after lashing it enough with my bronze whip so that it passed out from pain. Trying to lash its skull in proved fruitless after multiple swings which shattered the skull, so I just settled for slowly choking it to death and raising some wrestling skill.

Currently on my merry way to the hobbit capitol to see if they have any clothing that isn't large for them. So far all hobbit peasants I've seen in hamlets are completely naked. I think I got something wrong in the entity file. Or maybe clothing in hamlets are just sized for humans and above. I dunno. Errybody's completely nekkers except for the soldiers in their armor. That's odd.

Hobbits have access to steel though, so that's working as I hoped it would. After I search the capitol it's on to the next named giant lion! Let the giant lion taming commence!

[Tawa]

Your hobbits have steel.

SHOW ME WHERE TO ADD THE ENTITY TOKEN, POR FAVOR.

I'm sick and tired of using iron in the middle ages, where they actually did use steel extensively, beard or not.

EDIT: Never mind, found the reaction thing with steel dorfs have but humans don't.

[smjjames]

Thad Bunchsnuggled, after being resurrected by Armok because his death was not heroic (in dorf standards that is) Is now at his first serious quest to kill Some gobo leader in a camp.

So far he's winning the battle reasonably well. Still unscratched, but it's the beginning of the battle so there is more to come.

How do you resurrect yourself using DFhack?

[Grombardrim]

I used to use a command called healunit (I can't remember where I found it though, sorry), that literally regenerates you completely in an instant.  As if you were brand-new.

I stopped using it when it proved unsuccessful in saving my Elven Serrated-Disc-user (I would regenerate her, she would pass out from exhaustion, and wake up with her head caved in by a hostile spearman.  Rinse and repeat)

[kuudou]

Retired my Jedi in vanilla DF. Now playing Imperial Hammerman in Masterwork DF.

Here's a few question to those who are familiar with Masterwork Adventure Mode:

-I haven't come across any hunger/thirsty statuses so far. Is that disabled by default? My character does get sleepy though.

-It seems like the humans start with Steel weaponry and armor. Does that mean Steel is fairly low-tier? Also does this mean I can find higher-tier materials?

[Mr Space Cat]

Spoiler: Masterwork stuff (click to show/hide)

From my own experience, I think humans don't have a hunger/thirst clock. I mostly play dwarves, so I can't guarantee I'm totally right.

Steel is really common, and shows up for both dwarf fortresses and human fortresses. Dwarves seem to be the only one with any kind of boots or gauntlets, though, but that may vary depending on the version of Masterwork. V4F humans don't have gauntlets or boots in their entity file, so they won't make that armor. You can fix this by copying the items from dwarves' entity in "entity_default.txt" if you want, but that'd take a world regen for changes to take effect. Or,just loot dwarven fortresses/tombs/cities whenever you need to get a full set of armor. size difference between humans and dwarves have been negated, but elves are still smaller than humans.

There is some better material types, like mithril for edged weapons. Mithril blunt weapons would be like a foam bat, and elves tend to wear mithril root armor and may wield mithril root weapons. Both are just wood tier, despite "mithril" in the name. Bloodsteel is, as far as I know, better than steel, and can be found in drow fortresses. They tend to make more exotic armors that might conflict with your equipment, like being unable to wear "bloodsteel spiked mail shirts" under your steel breastplate or "bloodsteel spiked plate". Meteoric iron may or may not be better than steel, I dunno exactly. It's heavier than steel though.

You can still find lots of different metal armors and weapons in warehouses too, so long as the owning civ could make the items in world gen. So if you want to find a silver hammer or something, you could look there. Steel is still pretty great for anything by itself. Various leather tiers such as hardened leather, shellplate, or scaleplate can be worn as standard tier clothing, which can make for useful padding under everything else. Scaleplate is bronze tier, if I recall correctly.

[Tawa]

I was poking around in the speech raws the other night. You can change how people talk; I modded in "hitter-with-pointy-things" and subsequently a Minotaur told me he was the "hitter-with-pointy-things" of some guy in his kill announcement. I was trying to get bandit lords to greet me with "My name is <BANIDTNAME>! You killed my father! Prepare to die!", whether or not I actually killed their father. Then I found out what happens if you ask a snatcher in Adventure Mode about their profession:

"I rescue lost children and bring them back to <SITENAME>."

This is wrong on so many levels. SO MANY LEVELS. Think: they kidnap dwarven children when they're too young to remember, bring them back to a fortress, and naturalize them to pretend to be goblins. And they tell people that what they do is "rescue lost children".

If those idiots ever show their face at a fort, I'm going to abandon immediately and make an outsider to come talk with him.

ANYWAY

I also modded in broadswords by copying 2-handers, cranking down the size, and decrementing all their slash values and increasing the stab values, making them basically smaller, slightly blunter 2-handers. Genius. Sadly, I have yet to find one.

Also, does anyone know how to add new kinds of jewelry? I wanted to add monocles, so that I could have an EPIC WARRIOR who has a STEEL TOP HAT and a CAT BONE MONOCLE.

[BlackFlyme]

"I rescue lost children and bring them back to <SITENAME>."

To be entirely fair, have you seen what some overseers do to their citizens?

I also modded in broadswords by copying 2-handers, cranking down the size, and decrementing all their slash values and increasing the stab values, making them basically smaller, slightly blunter 2-handers. Genius. Sadly, I have yet to find one.

Have you remembered to give the weapon to any of the civilizations? It's a common mistake.

Also, does anyone know how to add new kinds of jewelry? I wanted to add monocles, so that I could have an EPIC WARRIOR who has a STEEL TOP HAT and a CAT BONE MONOCLE.

You can't, sadly. But you can mod them in as hats.

[Tawa]

-snip-

I also modded in broadswords by copying 2-handers, cranking down the size, and decrementing all their slash values and increasing the stab values, making them basically smaller, slightly blunter 2-handers. Genius. Sadly, I have yet to find one.

Have you remembered to give the weapon to any of the civilizations? It's a common mistake.

D'oh!

Also, does anyone know how to add new kinds of jewelry? I wanted to add monocles, so that I could have an EPIC WARRIOR who has a STEEL TOP HAT and a CAT BONE MONOCLE.

You can't, sadly. But you can mod them in as hats.
Darn. Ah well.

Genning worlds trying to get one in "the twilight age" in order to bring it down to the age of death by killing all civilization leaders in the world, I found an ocean named "The Aquamarine Sea". Also, one time I got "the Third Age of Goblins". Kept that one for kicks.

On a side note, would it be possible to create a weapon that's always on fire? I had the random inclination to look up "lightsaber" on Wikipedia and immediately decided to try to mod it in.

[kuudou]

Spoiler: Masterwork stuff (click to show/hide)

From my own experience, I think humans don't have a hunger/thirst clock. I mostly play dwarves, so I can't guarantee I'm totally right.

Steel is really common, and shows up for both dwarf fortresses and human fortresses. Dwarves seem to be the only one with any kind of boots or gauntlets, though, but that may vary depending on the version of Masterwork. V4F humans don't have gauntlets or boots in their entity file, so they won't make that armor. You can fix this by copying the items from dwarves' entity in "entity_default.txt" if you want, but that'd take a world regen for changes to take effect. Or,just loot dwarven fortresses/tombs/cities whenever you need to get a full set of armor. size difference between humans and dwarves have been negated, but elves are still smaller than humans.

There is some better material types, like mithril for edged weapons. Mithril blunt weapons would be like a foam bat, and elves tend to wear mithril root armor and may wield mithril root weapons. Both are just wood tier, despite "mithril" in the name. Bloodsteel is, as far as I know, better than steel, and can be found in drow fortresses. They tend to make more exotic armors that might conflict with your equipment, like being unable to wear "bloodsteel spiked mail shirts" under your steel breastplate or "bloodsteel spiked plate". Meteoric iron may or may not be better than steel, I dunno exactly. It's heavier than steel though.

You can still find lots of different metal armors and weapons in warehouses too, so long as the owning civ could make the items in world gen. So if you want to find a silver hammer or something, you could look there. Steel is still pretty great for anything by itself. Various leather tiers such as hardened leather, shellplate, or scaleplate can be worn as standard tier clothing, which can make for useful padding under everything else. Scaleplate is bronze tier, if I recall correctly.

This is helpful. Thank you.

And you're absolutely right about the boots and gauntlets thing. I had to wander around for a while to get some chain boots in a Human Civ. And I've yet to find gauntlets of any kind.

One interesting thing I did find though, is that dungeons in human cities have some weird mythical beings. I just killed some, and they were dropping Legendary-tier weaponry (Superior Wolfram Zweihander) and some Bifrost bars.

I did a little digging on the wiki, and as it turns out both Bifrost and Wolfram are very high tier ores. It's a shame though, as I think even with the extended crafting/forging that this mod provides I don't think you can forge actual weapons. I can, however, melt down the Wolfram into Wolfram bars I believe.

[the1337doofus]

"I rescue lost children and bring them back to <SITENAME>."

This is wrong on so many levels. SO MANY LEVELS. Think: they kidnap dwarven children when they're too young to remember, bring them back to a fortress, and naturalize them to pretend to be goblins. And they tell people that what they do is "rescue lost children".

Considering what most dwarven fortresses are like, is that really such a bad thing? At least then they aren't exposed to dogs for 12 years. Or used as meat shields. Or exposed to any of the other horrible, demented things the DF community uses children for.