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[Dwarf13]

Deon, will do.
What do you need from me - just a region folder and it's contetnts (deons genesis 3.24b Phoebus\data\save\region1) or smthg else?

TomiTapio, thanks, ill give it a try now. 

[asfghn]

I wish I could mod the Wild Hunt into the game .

ffffffffff, that would be AWESOME ;A; Maybe you could mod Wild Huntsman semi-megabeasts? (I, I haven't actually read the rest of the thread yet, since I had to comment right now on this awesome, so I don't know if it's been suggested already.)

Also, I like the new sylvan description! It's a lot more... immersive, I think is the word? Makes it feel a bit more 'folklorish' anyway, like you're reading a fairy tale instead of just a stat block. (Does that make any sense?) Anyway, I love all the little superstitions you stuck in. DF is a great framework for this kind of thing!

Also also, as promised: badly lit puppy eyes for Deon!

[TomiTapio]

I added Warlord's Bonfire Mod (June 2010)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58806.0
into my Genesis. Tested, forest fire started okay. ("b" "w" scroll down to Bonfire, build it, furnaceoperator can do a task inside the 1x1 bonfire workshop.)
Remember, natural ramps and dug channels stop fire from spreading. Probably traps and built rock floors too.

Here's my current raws for download.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8967397/Genesis_3.24b_Ironhand_Tomis_inclFaedog_BONFIRES.zip
and no, you cannot merge into existing world unless you're very skilled in reactions and materials jiggling.

[rainekage]

I added Warlord's Bonfire Mod (June 2010)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58806.0
into my Genesis. Tested, forest fire started okay. ("b" "w" scroll down to Bonfire, build it, furnaceoperator can do a task inside the 1x1 bonfire workshop.)
Remember, natural ramps and dug channels stop fire from spreading. Probably traps and built rock floors too.

Here's my current raws for download.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8967397/Genesis_3.24b_Ironhand_Tomis_inclFaedog_BONFIRES.zip
and no, you cannot merge into existing world unless you're very skilled in reactions and materials jiggling.

Hmm...  Okay, this is pretty awesome, but not sure how to usefully integrate it into traps. If there were a way to drop enemies into a burning pit, that would be amazing (Not quite as amazing as the "Burn enemies to death while they are drowning" trick, but still pretty good).

[TomiTapio]

Well... if you want some elaborate thing, have a series of three soil-layer rooms that grow grass, and four lever-floodgate doors. Let siegers in... lured by chained puppy... wait how would the dorf lighting the fire go there?
thinking...
So you have gobbos in Grassy Room A. Build a balcony and a bonfire on it. Light bonfire, deconstruct one floor section (via dorf or lever), bonfire and its hot item fall to the grassy room, flambé!

In short, drop the burning onto them. Cave grass should regrow in one season.

[asfghn]

and no, you cannot merge into existing world unless you're very skilled in reactions and materials jiggling.

dammit Tomi, stop making/implementing awesome stuff that is world-exclusive I have never been able to get a Genesis!fort past the three-year mark because of you!

That bonfire mod looks really cool though. *SIGH* 8<

[SirAaronIII]

All it does is make your foes die horrible deaths. They already do that.
Oh, and it cleans your junk up. But atom-smashers do that too.

[Hoooooooar]

i just installed this and i thought i was playing kings quest because of the music.

[Alarion]

i just installed this and i thought i was playing kings quest because of the music.

It's actually from Warcraft 2. :p I was confused until I realised the music had been changed in the files... but it still makes me associate quite oddly when I listen to it, not to mention that it's one long continuous 17-minute long track, so when you're testing stuff and keep restarting the game it can become kind of tiresome. But it's still cool

//A, at school (not) doing work...

[TomiTapio]

Made a quick fort, now that bonfire is in. Bloody sphalerite-only place. Pile of hunter noobs went to tap wild cave crocs on their noses.
Goblins won, twice. Should always prioritize weapontraps (ie. 90 wooden trapcomps in great mechanisms), unless plan to wall off for years of training.

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Rocktrussed, Idtilesh.
2x2 yes-bonfire fort. region13-scarcemetals 3sq mountain DM, 1 sq temp.freshswamp DM FS
take 6 rabbits, 4 cave crocs. 30 logs, 20 leather. 1 axe 2 picks 3 daggers. 5 copper bars. Name the Initial Seven's professions.

The mountainside is rhyolite, with few gems. Fair-sized swamp ponds, frozen still. Cork, yew, chestnut, aspen, ash, poplar, linden. Better make a yew&chestnut pile new carpenter!
a few wild goats.
Found caves 1 -10 to -15 and downward passage! Sphalerite.. CRAPBEARD!.
make home in -5's basalt and phyllite.

Tried to kill a scorpion, failed? Soldier got sens.nerve damage.
install three cage traps.
dig soilcave-reservoirs.
Summer 1. three migrants.
Autumn 1. two migrants.
trade. What, we have a sphalerite sword! (bug)
Winter 1.
Spring 2. Lows detail wall.
bah, accidentally caves1 has path to surface. Gotta place extra cages.
migrants to 33! Hurrah! One soldier, one hunter-soldier, we'll have lots of wild goats!
mood: opal figurine, 73k!
someseason 2.
again mountain grenlins.
make nine citizens novive hunters.

bonedoc-soldier-hunter died of wild cave croc, damn!
croc has killed loads who haul. we are 22. (it's sometimes crap to have no pause-on-death!)
there, with burrow & wall shut off the crapcave.

first keeper caravan. Expand hospital.
cheeser's mood: phyllite hatch cover, 8k
migrants to 37.

haul things from cave's  dorf corpses, see caves down to -27. Then wall off again.
appoint sheriff, and he kills.
"A x x! drive it away!" it fled. (my new creature)
put master statue in a nook of main corridor.
seems all carpenters are dead. Appoint noobs.
home caravan. orcs too. buy great items!
Winter 2.
mood: opal grate, 48k.
make minimal 3x3 bed arearooms.
seven good statues to diningroom...

a goblin siege! Our first! hunter died first. everybody indoors!
have ten decent and ten no-skills. Going to be a close fight, they have much better gear.
we get slaughtered!! 18 us. order more people to pick up arms. 6us.
still five swordgoblins... we are LOST! Useless cave crocs sitting in pasture!!
flayer ambush. 2 of us. one left, Solon Kadolam, with cobalt katana, has done 3 kills. right foot and ankle broken. quickheal tough steeler!

SHE IS VICTORIOUS!! Sole survivor, but the gobbos and flayer flee!!
great shield, talented in armor and dodging. She almost starves to death, unable to move, and much blood loss.
Migrants come! Legendary Heroine gets cared for.
weeks pass...

sylvans, gobbo siege. DAMN. Have one bludgeon-weapontrap.
gobs and flayers kill us.
bronze kettle hat abso-armok-lutely protects against a bronze bardiche. (33 pages of deflection)
end.

[asfghn]

Regarding the music, I actually have to replace both tracks (song_game.ogg and song_title.ogg) with the vanilla music. For whatever reason, the title music plays fine but the in-game music (the 10+ minute track) just... won't play. At all. I've checked the init files and it's not auto-muted, I've checked in the in-game options and it's not muted, my speakers and my computer's internal sound aren't muted (an easy check since, you know, the title music plays)... it's just no go.

Also Tomi, I'd appreciate it and love you forever if you could post some of your trap schematics. I love and constantly implement SirAaron's plan from many, many pages ago, but variety is the spice of life! And I am lousy at coming up with my own traps. :'C

[SandyDorf]

I have also restarted with 24b and still gotten the keeper crash. How do I upload a save for you? (Phob version)

[Daff]

Also Tomi, I'd appreciate it and love you forever if you could post some of your trap schematics. I love and constantly implement SirAaron's plan from many, many pages ago, but variety is the spice of life! And I am lousy at coming up with my own traps. :'C

I'm no Tomi, but...

Take a look at this wiki page: Trap design
The defense guide and other wiki pages that are mentioned in the beginning of that article are worth taking a look at too.

Should give you a nice understanding of what sort of things you can do and serve as inspiration.

Don't be afraid to try new stuff and always remember, there is no such thing as overkill.   

EDIT:

I have also restarted with 24b and still gotten the keeper crash. How do I upload a save for you? (Phob version)

Pack the region folder in your Dwarf Fortress/data/save folder into a .zip or .rar archive and upload it to the fileshare service of your choice and then just provide a link to the file
(DFFD is one dedicated to DF files and it's quick and easy to register there.)

[TomiTapio]

my speakers and my computer's internal sound aren't muted (an easy check since, you know, the title music plays)... it's just no go.
Also Tomi, I'd appreciate it and love you forever if you could post some of your trap schematics.

Probably a different version of the Ogg Vorbis codec. That means you lack some ogg audio codecs on your pc, or the inbuilt ogg codec (if there is one) in DF can't handle your file. (I have even encountered some "vo1+" and "vo3+" ogg rarities.)
(Random tip: for small AVI editing, try SolveigMM AVI Trimmer, http://www.solveigmm.com/en/products/avi-trimmer-mkv/ )

Hah, I don't have schematics, just make a 1-wide corridor, 20 long, at the start 3-5 weapontraps, then 4-6 cage traps, then 3-5 weapontraps, then 4-6 cage traps. That way those with great blocking or dodging skill get caged. Decent "=mechanisms=" for weapon traps, not the four lowest qualities. After embarking, order up 30-50 mechanisms to be made, they are decent trade goods also.

[utuki]

and no, you cannot merge into existing world unless you're very skilled in reactions and materials jiggling.

Yes you can using world tinker. I just synced it into my world no problem