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[dennislp3]

I would say wait til you get a good grip and idea of the basics of DF first (although its not necessary). its essentially regular DF with more depth and added things to only complicate it more...something you should steer clear of til you know what you are doing IMHO.

[Mechlin]

Hey guys. Is this mod playable for newcomers in Fortress Mode? Im playing since 2 weeks now and wonder if this mod makes the Game a lot harder or not with the new seemingly agressive races like Werewolves.

Sure!
And you will have a great deal of FUN, believe me  ;)

[Zifnab]

It doesn't make the game harder, just different.  A lot more depth, so harder to learn.  A lot more potential enemies, so it could be harder to survive if you embark near hostile civs.  But there are a lot more trading partners coming at alot more times of the year, which helps with the difficulty at least the first few years ingame.

[Stuebi]

Well a bit more challenge wont hurt. In the classic mode i started to WAIT for an actual attack to come, thats how bored i was. Started a Fort near Werewolves now, i want to look how good i understood the basics and if im able to hold of a early attack. Also a bit of challenge will probably spice my experience a bit up.


One question tough, is it normal that the ice in a Temprate Area doesnt melt in summer? I prefer underground farms, because they are easier to defend, also in my nigh infinite wisdom i seem to forgot picking above ground seeds in embark screen. Im Doomed to face the Werewolves with almost Starved Dwarfs i guess?

[Delta_02_Cat]

Well a bit more challenge wont hurt. In the classic mode i started to WAIT for an actual attack to come, thats how bored i was. Started a Fort near Werewolves now, i want to look how good i understood the basics and if im able to hold of a early attack. Also a bit of challenge will probably spice my experience a bit up.

That's exactly what I thought, the unmodded game was a bit too easy. I installed this mod a few days after i first played Dwarf Fortress and it wasn't that hard.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

One question tough, is it normal that the ice in a Temprate Area doesnt melt in summer? I prefer underground farms, because they are easier to defend, also in my nigh infinite wisdom i seem to forgot picking above ground seeds in embark screen. Im Doomed to face the Werewolves with almost Starved Dwarfs i guess?

Is tempature off?

[Stuebi]

Well if it is, i dont know 0o Never saw a option to set it off or on.

[TomiTapio]

It's in init/d_init.txt  as [TEMPERATURE:YES]

I recommend autosave, as DF may crash.
[AUTOSAVE:SEASONAL]
[AUTOBACKUP:YES] --does litter the disk with lots of tiny files

and if too many kids in the fort, [BABY_CHILD_CAP:3:8] (3 kids max but let kids be 8% of population before reach 3 kids.)

[Torgan]

Well a bit more challenge wont hurt. In the classic mode i started to WAIT for an actual attack to come, thats how bored i was. Started a Fort near Werewolves now, i want to look how good i understood the basics and if im able to hold of a early attack. Also a bit of challenge will probably spice my experience a bit up.


One question tough, is it normal that the ice in a Temprate Area doesnt melt in summer? I prefer underground farms, because they are easier to defend, also in my nigh infinite wisdom i seem to forgot picking above ground seeds in embark screen. Im Doomed to face the Werewolves with almost Starved Dwarfs i guess?

Unless you're reclaiming a lost fort then cavern floors are always covered in mud, you could build farms on that, or dig out a room and flood that using an underground lake.

[Zifnab]

Just choose a group of "less desirable" dwarves and make them do nothing but plant gathering. You could even set up a system where the gatherers are locked outside or forbidden to come inside and dump some of their gathered plants into a pit accessable from the inside.  Then if the werewolves come, at least your elite dwarves are in a position to defend the fort.

[Flaede]

I never embark with seeds. I just get them from processing plants. For booze. You get a lot from a small area. It only really takes 1 dwarf with no starting Herbalist to level up and feed the starting 7.

[Deon]

Okay, I should've done it earlier. I am reuploading 3.18e with init tweaks to turn the temperature back on. Too many confusion comes from that .

[Stuebi]

I never embark with seeds. I just get them from processing plants. For booze. You get a lot from a small area. It only really takes 1 dwarf with no starting Herbalist to level up and feed the starting 7.

So i only get seeds from Plant gathering if i Process the Plants in a Farmers Workshop?

And the Cave idea, thats good and fine, only problem is that you can search Hours without finding a Cave underground. The only real option is to use reveal. I mean, just as an example, imagine a Cave being on level 108, i start on Level 140. If i dont know that theres a Cave i have to dig around in all 32 levels below my Fort until i finally find that cave. its a bit hardcore isnt it?

Well, my Dwarfs will die of thirst soon if im not getting the Farms to work, in the future i will only embark in warm Sites, it pisses me off allways landing in a Cold zone if i choose a Temprate Area.  Damn ice!

[Flaede]

I never embark with seeds. I just get them from processing plants. For booze. You get a lot from a small area. It only really takes 1 dwarf with no starting Herbalist to level up and feed the starting 7.

So i only get seeds from Plant gathering if i Process the Plants in a Farmers Workshop?

Or mill them. Or turn them into booze at the still. It's (usually) only cooking them that wont get you seeds.

And the Cave idea, thats good and fine, only problem is that you can search Hours without finding a Cave underground. The only real option is to use reveal. I mean, just as an example, imagine a Cave being on level 108, i start on Level 140. If i dont know that theres a Cave i have to dig around in all 32 levels below my Fort until i finally find that cave. its a bit hardcore isnt it?

I have never* very rarely missed all 3 cave layers. Sometimes they're pretty deep, but if you dig one staircase straight down it's not very often you wont find a cavern before you hit magma.

*the exact center of a 2x2 or 4x4 world tile map will be inbetween the corners of the world tiles, which is more likely to have the large pillars and whatnot that cause you to miss a cavern. Very rarely you miss all 3.

[dennislp3]

there any chance farming output will be nerfed? this mod adds a boatload of great crops...but with the overproduction rates of crops they can hardly be used in full....would just need to lower cluster size (default 5 unless this mod changes that) to like 3 (so legendary farmers still matter) and increase the grow duration....