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Total Members Voted: 84

[RawChaos]

Question. is there anyway to play as a itarin?

[Knight Otu]

Not "officially" at the moment. You'd need to add either [OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE] to their creature entry or [INDIV_CONTROLLABE] to their entity entry that has entity positions. I've so far shied away from making them playable due to the navigability of their sites.

[Xeldrakka]

So, I have returned to this mod with the intent of playing it in fort mode while I take a breather from my own stuff. Maybe it's been too bloody long or maybe I didn't get the hang of it the first time.. not sure.. but I am having some difficulty planting Frozenflame bushes. I started a new fort with a dozen of the seeds on hand so I could get the brushels produced early. Unfortunately they don't seem to be in the list of crops I can plant outside, and I am playing a civ with both indoor and outdoor crops.

Surely I am missing something.

[Knight Otu]

Frozenfire bushes are underground plants, so they can't be planted outside.

[Xeldrakka]

I'll take my dunce cap and leave, lmao. Thanks for the info.

[Knight Otu]

No need for a dunce cap - it could have just as well been a bug, so any report is appreciated.

[Asin]

Otu, you got any plans for later versions of Direforged?

[Knight Otu]

I do, but I haven't quite set them in motion yet (partially because my "new" (hand-me-down, rather) computer isn't quite as good at DFing as I hoped it might be, hampering testing).

[Knight Otu]

This is a quick update to the Direforged raws to make them conform to 0.44.02 standards. Of note, it removes STRANGE_MOODS from the shyhak and adds it to the carmine fey for the time being (likely to become an gui option), and it removes the decorative workshops from the entity files in favor of the new display furniture.

[DoktaYut]

Been enjoying this mod again, specifically with a Shyhak fortress that seems to be doing quite well (while the dwarven one got Werebeast'd and I quit right then). Still, a couple of questions
One, I imagine the Shyhak being rather fragile is intended, due to the general frailty of anything without an inner skeleton in this game and to compensate for having four arms? Because the chitin doesn't quite protect that much, and even Atlases can get their limbs splatted by unskilled punches sometimes. But then again: Multiple arms. Just having two shields makes a soldier quite hard to hit.
And two, Shyhak can't launch expeditions as far as I know, and I believe it's because a subqueen is needed for that (and I don't have one, because no queen caste members have deigned visit). I'd probably point at the [RESPONSIBILITY:MILITARY_GOALS] tag in that regard; is this intended (Shyhak'ur do seem like the sort) or not?

[Knight Otu]

I'll look into the frailty of the shyhak. They shouldn't be too weak in combat - at least against unskilled punches. Expeditions being impossible to launch is not intended, and a side effect of this being a quick update. I missed that the responsibility may be the culprit (it's possible that Toady mentioned this at some point, but I don't remember for certain). That'll be fixed in the next version, though I can't yet say when that'll come.

[DoktaYut]

And another minor thing, that's probably a part of the whole "Sentients with [buildingdestroyer]" problem, I might suggest looking into fachan with that in mind. In my latest fort I've had my share of obvious fachan spies passing themselves as peddlers and such but wrecking everything in sight (I've rebuilt that trade depot like ten times) even while pretending to be friendly. Sure, I didn't really need another excuse to toss them off a bridge or lynch them, but I imagine it wasn't quite intended.

[Knight Otu]

Yeah, that's not good. I'll try to make time to upload an update that removes building destroyer from the fachan and adds the military goals responsibility for shyhak'ur soon.

[GoblinCookie]

And another minor thing, that's probably a part of the whole "Sentients with [buildingdestroyer]" problem, I might suggest looking into fachan with that in mind. In my latest fort I've had my share of obvious fachan spies passing themselves as peddlers and such but wrecking everything in sight (I've rebuilt that trade depot like ten times) even while pretending to be friendly. Sure, I didn't really need another excuse to toss them off a bridge or lynch them, but I imagine it wasn't quite intended.

Ah that little bug.   

[Knight Otu]

A new small update - beyond the shyhak military goal and the de-building destroyering of the fachan, there is the beginning of entity-specific creature use. The ekodu, as fiendlings, get a variety of lesser fiends such as the oshkras that were already in the mod (the shadow lions), the fire imps and stranglers from vanilla, and one new creature (the gaurath, a five-legged bearlike creature with huge antlers).