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[TomiTapio]

The settlement at Tailpage, in the caverns, suffered terrible monster attacks in it first years.

Overview of homebase on level -12 (4x3 embark)

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Guiding spirit's notes:

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-- Häntäsivu, Tailpage, region16
4x3, badlands, 1sq temp.shrubland.
start with 4 mastiff 5 rabbits, muskox, donkey.
make 3 picks 2 axes.

grab some outdoor trees and plants.
find caves at -10. make home there.
summer. giant olm attacks. kill it. manager got a dent. can't catch outdoors jaguar.
a whopping two migrants. fisher and peasant-lowsoldier.

surprise cave croc! fisher dead splat. lost two others too!!!
tantrum and rabbit-kicking.
smith went berserk! kills all mastiffs. 4 of us left.
cave bear. 1 sane dwarf left.

autumn.
four ghouls sighted.
make copper armor for one.
migrants!
MANY died to NINE ghouls.
3 sane dw left. then madwoman dies of thirst.
home caravan. stay in the caves.
again a cave bear. lost one dw.
winter.
one mummy and two dragon raptors are heard.

mid-spring migrants!! 14 of them, we are 16 now!
two mummies. lost one dwarf.
..
hammerdwarf suffocated.
Year 2 summer.
disband squad to get woodcutting going.
walls and cagetraps, in home cavern chokepoints.
year 2 autumn. make two farms on cavern's mud.
130 fps, 4x3 embark, 14 citizens, 0+3 animals, 3 cavern layers (1 opened and base there). 25k wealth. 370 stones.
home caravan.
Year 2 winter.
a dread troll! it didn't fall for our traps the first time, but second time yes

over 17 migrants! we 32.
carpenter mood: a fungiwood casket.
found much magnetite up on -6.
Year 3 summer.
find caves 2. on -20 to -23. kimberlite and gems.
115 fps, 4x3 embark, 32 citizens, 0+11 animals, 3 cavern layers (2 opened). 66k wealth. 1600 stones.
carpenter died of ghoul.
mid-summr migrants. we 39.
hunt monitor lizards. lost one soldier.

A FB comes! towering serpent with webs. everyone to home area!
it swims about on -13.
Victory. a recruit lost a testicle. Elite Aita lost a hand.
autumn.

[Deon]

Thank you for the entertaining stories, TomiTapio .

Anyway, after some testing all dragons get [NOEXERT].

[Medicine Man]

I have a question, will ents do thing other than topple wooden workshops?

[Deon]

What do you mean?

P.S. Okay, be a bit more patient please. Red steel is in, and I renamed crucible steel to "black steel". This way it's shorter for display and also it quite works as a name.

P.P.S. Also, now silver, sterling silver, black bronze and gold can be used to make weapons and armor. Why not. Gold armor may be not good but it's beautiful . It works  for ceremonies and nobles.

[Osdeath]

I have a couple of questions if I may, I just seized 3 bars of spell wood off of the elves, (because it sounded cool, and they're elves, they don't need anything valuable), how useful is it? and I've been chopping down ironwood trees, i notice the sylvan elves can make it into weapons and armour, but can i do anything useful with it, other than make beds with it?

[omglazers]

Immediately my party of 7 was slaughtered by a horde of zombie penguins.

DF has the amazing ability to produce the absurd and then, briefly afterwards, break it's record.

[Miko19]

Deon, can you tell me how to make certain metals to have them possible to craft weps + armor from them? You know, selling masterful platinum breastplates seems like a good idea, or givin' 'em to mah commanders I like RP'ing in DF

[LordShotGun]

I kinda miss the old material stuff. The old way you could tell which metals were better (and change them) then others just by looking in right txt file and changing one number.

So in what order are your metals now? Whats better then steel in your mod and by how much? Will more and even better yet harder to obtain metals be invented and included?

[TomiTapio]

Deon, can you tell me how to make certain metals to have them possible to craft weps + armor from them? You know, selling masterful platinum breastplates seems like a good idea, or givin' 'em to mah commanders I like RP'ing in DF

Put [ITEMS_WEAPON][ITEMS_WEAPON_RANGED][ITEMS_AMMO][ITEMS_DIGGER][ITEMS_ARMOR]
in the the desired metal, eg. inorganic_metal.txt's [INORGANIC:BISMUTH_BRONZE].
I got sterling silver and brass armors, because they're better than leather!

ps. skeletal rabbits = The Horror, due to high speed (shouldn't be able to hunt them by running)
pps. I renamed leather to lth and toughleather to hide. Treatedchitin to tchitin.
I got Drunian hide on order from the moutainhomes.
And allowed desertscorpions and some snakes to live in the caverns (depth 1).
And Helmet Snake was missing [LARGE_ROAMING].

[Miko19]

Thanks, Tomi! Goblins, behold my Platinum Hammers! He, he, he...

[TomiTapio]

more notes (not stories) from the caves of Tailpage... so non-Genesis-players can see the awesomeness.

My init/announcements.txt has (D_D for fort mode announcing! UCR is i guess combat report)
[COMBAT_EVENT_PROPELLED_AWAY:A_D:D_D:UCR]
[COMBAT_EVENT_KNOCKED_OUT:A_D:UCR]
[COMBAT_EVENT_STUNNED:A_D:D_D:UCR]
[COMBAT_EVENT_WINDED:A_D:D_D:UCR]
[COMBAT_EVENT_NAUSEATED:A_D:D_D:UCR]
so...

Too bad Toady hasn't enabled announcing the DEATH of hostiles!!

F-Beasts and first foreign caravans...

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A FB comes! towering serpent with webs. everyone to home area!
it swims about on -13.
Victory. a recruit lost a testicle. Elite Aita lost a hand.
autumn.
..
ghoul attack.
glassmaker fey mod: fail.
idling, dump stones, make practice road segments.
build floor next to bridge. it doesn't stick to bridge but keeps collapsing! a bigger cave-in happens! someone goes for a swim.
glassmaker went insane and died of stray buzzards.
home caravan.
cave crocodile's bones become dozens of elite crossbows.

FB lobster with deadly dust comes!!    (huh, function squad-a-Kill-List!)
Linna elite wrestler dead. FB kicked her in kidney through greaves.
Aita the one-hand elite died. some loser soldier are training, ignoring orders! (command MOVE instead of KILL)
recruit bled out. FB finally dead. sword-lass dead.
34 of us left.

tame a bugbat.
Luola the master survivor slew this Beast also. He's a content and agile aspid.
dig small rooms for the elites.
miners reach caves 3 (on -29) and magma pool and magma sea (-38 to -41).
put a Fine weapon trap on caves 3's stairwell.

ooh a sylvan caravan! first foreigners. Bah they brought very little. Stupid elves.
oops haven't unloaded home caravan's animal cages.
a crow stole one plumphelmet.
dig a little bit of damamntine. adamantine. stockpile it in dining hall.

Year 4 spring.
make magma smelters.
Nine migrants! maybe get some soldiers. we 53.
a magma man lost two hands to a black bronze battle axe.

FB stegosaurid comes! Three tails and breathes fire! (on -31)
it swims past the cave's walls.
Sora(gravel) the hammerdwarf is a mighty and very agile Icer but he is flimsy.
Buzzards steal FB meat.
mining a path to the FB fails, it is too scary. and it's behind us, from the water.
Easy victory!

a fool herbalist will haul the saurid 100 steps...
FB noseless pig comes! nasty secretions. (on -20)
elite bronze sword only shatters its skin. marksdwarf's bronze sword tears many of its muscles.
Sora the hammermaster leaves a looong trail of blood... he dies. diagnosis: breaking ribcage tore an artery. also, funny blisters on his chest.
Sora gets the artifact fungiwood casket.
Luostari and Hiili also bleed out.
Costly victory, 3 dead!

buzzards steal more meat form the depot.
four in the hospital.
duskie & orc caravans.
Luola the master survivor gets a mason mood: a tetrahedrite coffin, 29k.
a large werewolf ambush!
(image of announcements, sick/lungdamage/pain-faint)
bone carver dead. four weres left. they flee.
six in hospital.

[Ladde]

The settlement at Tailpage, in the caverns, suffered terrible monster attacks in it first years.

Overview of homebase on level -12 (4x3 embark)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Guiding spirit's notes:

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-- Häntäsivu, Tailpage, region16
4x3, badlands, 1sq temp.shrubland.
start with 4 mastiff 5 rabbits, muskox, donkey.
make 3 picks 2 axes.

grab some outdoor trees and plants.
find caves at -10. make home there.
summer. giant olm attacks. kill it. manager got a dent. can't catch outdoors jaguar.
a whopping two migrants. fisher and peasant-lowsoldier.

surprise cave croc! fisher dead splat. lost two others too!!!
tantrum and rabbit-kicking.
smith went berserk! kills all mastiffs. 4 of us left.
cave bear. 1 sane dwarf left.

autumn.
four ghouls sighted.
make copper armor for one.
migrants!
MANY died to NINE ghouls.
3 sane dw left. then madwoman dies of thirst.
home caravan. stay in the caves.
again a cave bear. lost one dw.
winter.
one mummy and two dragon raptors are heard.

mid-spring migrants!! 14 of them, we are 16 now!
two mummies. lost one dwarf.
..
hammerdwarf suffocated.
Year 2 summer.
disband squad to get woodcutting going.
walls and cagetraps, in home cavern chokepoints.
year 2 autumn. make two farms on cavern's mud.
130 fps, 4x3 embark, 14 citizens, 0+3 animals, 3 cavern layers (1 opened and base there). 25k wealth. 370 stones.
home caravan.
Year 2 winter.
a dread troll! it didn't fall for our traps the first time, but second time yes

over 17 migrants! we 32.
carpenter mood: a fungiwood casket.
found much magnetite up on -6.
Year 3 summer.
find caves 2. on -20 to -23. kimberlite and gems.
115 fps, 4x3 embark, 32 citizens, 0+11 animals, 3 cavern layers (2 opened). 66k wealth. 1600 stones.
carpenter died of ghoul.
mid-summr migrants. we 39.
hunt monitor lizards. lost one soldier.

A FB comes! towering serpent with webs. everyone to home area!
it swims about on -13.
Victory. a recruit lost a testicle. Elite Aita lost a hand.
autumn.

How did you survive building in the caverns like that?
I've always wanted to do something like that, but never really tried. In fear of the many horrors that lurks!

[TomiTapio]

How did you survive building in the caverns like that?
I've always wanted to do something like that, but never really tried. In fear of the many horrors that lurks!

Guess what, a fortress that dies in combat is more fun than one that dies of low FPS (30-50 is too slow for me). Unless you like megaprojects and shiny perfect mansions.

I was just luck that one dwarf survived without going insane. The cave croc and following berserk dwarf and cave bear really whittled them down. Sucks to have no chain mails early on! (And I've made bones and skin bleed more in my worlds.)

Of course one could try "panic room" and a corridor of ten cave traps protecting it, as no cave beasts have trapavoid, except one or two. When trouble, everyone to panic room burrow, and wait for the hostiles to leave or get trapped.

Perhaps I should make a flying beast for (my worlds') caves, pretend it Climbs The Walls. Spider-Man!
(Ding! made a Crawlnera, a smaller Manera.)

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[CREATURE:CRAWLNERA] --by TomiTapio, based on Manera
   [ARENA_RESTRICTED]
   [DESCRIPTION:A (smaller than dog) creature that crawls on the cavern walls, reaching places other beasts cant. Its body is a beastly head and it has four arms for moving.]
   [NAME:crawlnera:crawlneras:crawlnera]
   [CASTE_NAME:crawlnera:crawlneras:crawlnera]
   [CREATURE_TILE:'c'][COLOR:7:0:1]
   [NATURAL]
   [FLIER] --goes on walls and ceilings!
   [SPEED:850]
   
   [LARGE_ROAMING][FREQUENCY:20]
   [LARGE_PREDATOR]
   [AMBUSHPREDATOR]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:2:10]
   [CLUSTER_NUMBER:1:5]
   [BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM]
   [UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:1:2]
   
   [PREFSTRING:long arms]
   [BODY:BODY_HEAD:4ARMS_STANCE:2EYES:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:SPINE:BRAIN:SKULL:MOUTH:5FINGERS:GENERIC_TEETH_WITH_LARGE_EYE_TEETH:FACIAL_FEATURES]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:TOUGHSTANDARD_MATERIALS]
      [REMOVE_MATERIAL:HAIR]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
      [REMOVE_TISSUE:HAIR]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:NAIL:NAIL_TEMPLATE]
      [USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:NAIL:NAIL_TEMPLATE]
      [TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:FINGER:NAIL:FRONT]
      [SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:HEART:BY_CATEGORY:HEART]
         [TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES]
      [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_HEAD_POSITIONS]
      [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:HUMANOID_RIBCAGE_POSITIONS]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SINEW:SINEW_TEMPLATE]
      [TENDONS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
      [LIGAMENTS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
      [HAS_NERVES]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:BLOOD:BLOOD_TEMPLATE]
      [BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:BLOOD:LIQUID]
      [CREATURE_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
      [GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS]
      [GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:PUS:PUS_TEMPLATE]
      [PUS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:PUS:LIQUID]
   [BODY_SIZE:0:0:1000]
   [BODY_SIZE:1:0:18000]
   [BODY_SIZE:2:0:25000]
   [MAXAGE:4:20]
   [ATTACK:BITE:CHILD_BODYPART_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:HEAD:BY_CATEGORY:TOOTH]
      [ATTACK_SKILL:BITE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:bite:bites]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
      --ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH
   [ATTACK:SCRATCH:CHILD_TISSUE_LAYER_GROUP:BY_TYPE:GRASP:BY_CATEGORY:FINGER:NAIL]
      [ATTACK_SKILL:GRASP_STRIKE]
      [ATTACK_VERB:scratch:scratches]
      [ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC:100]
      [ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE]
      [ATTACK_PRIORITY:MAIN]
   [CHILD:1]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10050]
   [SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
   [CASTE:FEMALE]
      [FEMALE]
   [CASTE:MALE]
      [MALE]

don't try it, it'll probably crash your worlds.

[Jaxicat]

I just started playing the Genesis Mod and so far I'm really enjoying it.  Keep up the good work!

[Deon]

Wait, Jaxi! Noooo!

Please wait around 30 min. I will release 3.1. It's a MAJOR bug fix. I think I squished most of the bugs, new and long-term too.