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[omglazers]

By the way, since I found masonry to be stupid hard to train up unless you are willing to waste a ton of time building blocks or furniture which is even MORE clutter, I added the following reaction to reaction_training

[REACTION:LIBRARY_STUDY_MASONRY]
   [NAME:read fortress blueprints]
   [BUILDING:LIBRARY:CUSTOM_A]
   [SKILL:MASONRY]

Im not sure if there is a way to control the gain of XP gained from reactions like this, or from others. I know it may gain a bit fast [haven't tried it yet] but this is a far more elegant solution than building blocks nonstop which only serves to drive me insane.

Edit:

Also decided to add in mechanics

[REACTION:LIBRARY_STUDY_MECHANICS]
   [NAME:read 'popular dwarf mechanics']
   [BUILDING:LIBRARY:CUSTOM_H]
   [SKILL:MECHANICS]   

[TomiTapio]

By the way, since I found masonry to be stupid hard to train up unless you are willing to waste a ton of time building blocks or furniture which is even MORE clutter, I added the following reaction to reaction_training.
Also decided to add in mechanics

One way to keep the peasants happy busy is to make loads of blocks (instead of dumping stones), then building floors nearby, to make the place look nicer and to get rid of the stones.
I see no need to train the mechanics skill, except to get better quality mechanisms for weapon traps.

[omglazers]

[I see no need to train the mechanics skill, except to get better quality mechanisms for weapon traps.

This matters a lot! If you use a lot of weapon traps rather than cage ones, like I do.

Also, traps and mechanical stuff is built faster.

As for making blocks, I know everyone says that but sometimes I just want to assign a dwarf to learn nothing but how to be a mason, and building blocks is a tedious and slow process, especially if they end up using a bunch of stone I didn't intend for them to use.

[Tarran]

Deon, I just caught a mistake in the PICKED_TILE of Quarry bushes: The picked tile is ("), which leads to it being completely blank (at least, in the ASCII version). I'm 100% sure that that's the problem, since when I changed it to "34" it wasn't blank anymore.

EDIT: Apparently, the problem still persists for unharvested quarry bush shrubs (but the change in tiles fixed the harvested ones). I'll see if I can figure out the problem.

EDIT2: Found out why, SHRUB_TILE and DEAD_SHRUB_TILE also use the broken (") as their tiles.

[omglazers]

Heh, it feels like Genesis is practically a community mod at this point

Its nice to feel like a part of something as ambitious as this is

[Deon]

I will add both reactions. Library becomes one of the most important buildings now, hehe.

And I don't always like to build tons of blocks or mechanisms. Blocks in the end make a lot of clutter (although less than stone so it's a bit better), but the main problem is mechanisms, because they take furniture piles and flood the space.

[TomiTapio]

Heh, it feels like Genesis is practically a community mod at this point
Its nice to feel like a part of something as ambitious as this is

It's the best mod around, having the spirit of the vanilla, but more races, plants, and creatures.

I'm having a "private branch" of Genesis, where the races are slightly different and just yesterday
enabled silver ammo, brass armor, nickel "silver" and billon ammo, sterling silver armor and weapons (they may be decorative, but a great help versus wildlife).
And made gold appear in small clusters, not veins. Little things like that. And added Demon Cat based on Forest Cat, but different. Disabled mittens and socks from my dwarf civs, for less clutter.

I've set higher requirements for non-dwarf caravan arrival, in current fort got orc & sylvan & duskie caravans as late as year 3 spring. (got fame for the outpost by slaying a Balor; its lowerbody flew off too easily.)

[LizardKing]

I had a Salamander and a Lizardfolk Witch stumble into some cage traps I left out in the open, and thought rather than killing them I'd see if I could let them wander tame around my fortress. Rather then editing the raws I just used runesmith to make them tame and not an invader. While they're both happilycontently wandering around the meeting hall, the salamander appears to be thirsty and not drinking anything. The witch is fine. There's tons of booze and a little pool nearby set as a water source. Any idea why the silly bugger isn't drinking?

[Deon]

Add NO_DRINK to it, non-entity creatures cannot drink in fortress mode yet.

[LizardKing]

Add NO_DRINK to it, non-entity creatures cannot drink in fortress mode yet.

Ah I see. I already did that, but at least I know why now =]

[Morrigi]

I just downloaded this mod and tested some stuff in the arena. My lost adventurers and the human they were fighting melted, and I keep getting messages that skin is being chipped, shattered, and generally acting like it's rigid half the time. What can I do to fix this?

[TomiTapio]

Some sieges at Muscletombs...
and wildlife:

(problem: lowerbody and cheek are protected by clothes, but testicles are not.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-- Lihashauta, Muscletombs, region10, 195 = 1
3x3, two kinds of tropical forest. maybe giant lions.
embark with random crew and megadoctor. Got two forest cats, two mastiffs and on monitor lizard from mountainhome.
giant jaguar visits. forest spiders too.
migrants, we are 12. one of them is a mace-hero! (lv 5 skills). she chokes some macaques for us.
late summer, reservoir done. elephants sighted.
8 migrants, lovely. one dagger-hero.
164 logs, way plenty!
home caravan. got one steel and one bronze bar, make 2 daggers!  raptors attack.
Year 1 winter.
find caves at -7. wall them off!
recruit more miners, make shiny steel picks.
hooray tetrahedrite!

Year 2 spring.
found caves 2.
mil-trainee died of thirst, what.
migrants. we are 41.
copper armors and weapons. have no adequate armorer.
Year 2 summer.
150 fps, 3x3 embark, 41 citizens, 3+15 animals, 3 cavern layers (2 opened). 63k wealth. 770 stones.
mood: mahogany crown, 3600.
7 migrants.
we 42 females 6 males.
stupid woodcrafter drowned from crow attack. pump the pool, dump items, make it a fun pool.

Year 2 autumn.
A FB, theropod. it can't fly to our mining levels.
elephant hunt. Forgehero mace-hurts it quite a bit.
jeweler mood: milk opal grate, 44400 coins!
2 more elephants, then woodcutting.
home caravan. hard bargain. cook gets thanks.
Year 2 winter.
have seven miners! we 57.
begin squad 2 of expendables.
bone carver's mood: elephant bone crown! 12k, no decorations.

A Balor comes! it must have smelled all the elephant blood. axe to lowerbody, win.
bushfire.
werewolf siege group! steel newbie died.
8 in the hospital. install silver traction benches. two soldier have lost an arm.

Year 3 spring (wet season)
two gob snatchers.
migrants.
forest spider. one trainee died.
only two in hospital.
have only 2 war dogs and one war monitor.
A FB: clear glass humanoid with poison gas.
a forest spider in the fancy rooms!
orc & sylvan & duskie caravans.... boy we are famous now! buy a hippo and a hercinia.
tame a macaque and f-spider.
..
child fey mood: macaque bone toy boat, 1200.
Year 3 summer.
what a FB got to our mining tunnels!! happy miner dead. war monitor holds it at bay for a while.
it was one careless mining square.
caves 3 at -23. out of wood. (-25 to -29 magma sea)
make magma smelters!

ezrakims. slay two f-spiders. keeper traders.
A Flayer mini-SIEGE, incl v-cave-crawler. on keepers' heels.
Victory. BOW-goblin ambush shows up. Lost one soldier. Let keeper bigshield-fellow bother them first.
Elephants and a bear.
Noooo Avain onehand, hero wrestler DROWNED!
(188 pile of balor meat cold soup: 40 000 coins. FB meat, FB meat, FB tallow, balor meat.)
9 in hospital.
trainee's crafting mood: limonite mug, 27k
two mastiffs have grown up.
..
good dwarf walled self in on outdoor wall top. bah. died.
orc and home caravans.
a were SIEGE on mounts!
one died, jabberer bit through heart.
bowgoblin ambush. were assault group in homebase! pile of war black bears too.
too many invaders all over the place! elite workers can be squad 3, they gain wrestling.
victory! 62 of us left. 18 in hospital!!

Year 3 winter.
FB mite, deadly blood. can't reach us.
tame 3 of the weres mounts.
two wild f-spiders in rooms! webbing in narrow passage is super effective! pike-hero died.
send squad to kill f-spider at outdoor carnage site. captain gets shaken about by the balls. and dies of paralysis venom later.

[oolon1]

Why on earth is marble pink?  This is going to completely ruin my plans for a white fortress.  If I change the color, will it take, or do I need to do worldgen again?

p.s. The mod is great so far except for the ridiculous amount of seeds in the default embark and pink marble.  Keep up the good work.

Edit:  Sorry, the walls are fine.  The door is pink and blue.  My mistake.

[omglazers]

Why on earth is marble pink?

Edit:  Sorry, the walls are fine.  The door is pink and blue.  My mistake.

Yes; this actually made me  a little bit on one fort.

[TomiTapio]

Why on earth is marble pink?  This is going to completely ruin my plans for a white fortress.  If I change the color, will it take, or do I need to do worldgen again?
Edit:  Sorry, the walls are fine.  The door is pink and blue.  My mistake.

Marble has in inorganic_stone_layer.txt
[INORGANIC:MARBLE]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:marble][DISPLAY_COLOR:7:5:0][TILE:137][REACTION_CLASS:FLUX]

that 7:5:0 is the color, 7 foreground, 5 background, 0 brightness modifier.
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Color  says 7 is light grey and 5 is magenta. 7:7:1 would be white on white shiny marble.
(I still have the previous 7:6:0)

No need to re-roll a world for colour or which-tile changes.