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#1: Put the Alarm Siren in the Military Garrison, it fits and is one buildings less.

#1: Keep the Alarm Siren seperate, I want to have it near my other levers.

#2: I have traded with Gnomes, build Artificer and Weather Control Station.

#2: I have NOT traded with Gnomes, did not have the chance to build their buildings.

[zenerbufen]

In fortress mode pressing the (b)uild key will crash the game

This is a Dwarf Fortress bug. Change the zoom level, or turn off true type fonts.

How exactly would I go about turning off TrueType fonts? I was playing on normal zoom, replicated it multiple times and was able to play regular df.

i never notice mine crashing when in normal zoom...

Bug only effects Mac/Linux, with TrueType on, at normal zoom, in the build menu.

[Meph]

@greatwyrmgod: Concubines get children without being married, allowing for fast repopulation of the fortress.

@werdna: That is alright. I know it is not realistic, but it has a strategic gameplay value.

@tahujdt: I will SO test this, and if this is true, what I do suspect, then you are the greatest hero. This would explain so much, and I could finally offer a solution for this. It would probably affect any custom workshop in any mod. (?)

@AVE: Thanks. These are artefacts, the report is nice, I can actually see which ones I can delete. I hit the 1000 reactions-mark by now btw.

@Tsuchigumo550&Milkboy: Good ideas. I cant really apply poison to weapons though, only to ammo. Poison coating is more difficult, and require micromanagement by the actual player, dumping the content of a container on a weapon stockpile. I will think about it. And deadly food that is not edible, but edible_vermin is an excellent idea, but I sadly think that it would not work. But maybe I can do pesticides with clouds/vapors that only affect vermin.


FUTURE OF THE MOD:

SUMMARY OF THE CURRENT CHANGES:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Important changes

Ironhand tileset !
Alchemy. Find the philosophers stone, brew the elixir of life and create matter from nothing.
14 armored pets. Now in Iron or Steel, with healing interaction.
21 Golems. Sword, Hammer, Spear, with 7 different materials.
8 Plagues that ravage your fortress. Battle them with medical wards.
5 Secret guests can now be healed and/or unveiled with wards.
6 new religious reactions. Pray for silk, water or gems, and perform ceremonies for fortresswide stat boosts.
Cult of the Carp God, lovecraftian-style hidden enemy.
Better Brick Oven for Megaprojects, makes all possible colors now.
Thatchery, make furniture from plant wicker.
Automatons redone from scratch. New everything.
Includes the 10 best-rated stories from dfstories.com.
Includes LegendsViewer and PerfectWorld Utilities.
Many, many rebalances and bugfixes.
GUI allows Concubines, Bodyguards, Diseases and more to be toggled.
Illithids.

Important fixes/balancing

Shoes can be worn under boots, allowing fully clothed and armored dwarves.
Turret ammo should not be collected anymore.
Cafe fungus is now called rubble and has a neutral grey color.
Aggressive wildlife has the SAVAGE tag back. Calm areas are safe again.
Teeth number is max 2, avoiding a dozen teeth flying around, causing clutter.

It might be that the time of has been good for my modding skills, or it is just the sleep deprivation, but I feel like I am flying. Alchemy is done. Illithids are done. Pet Armory... done. Workshop overhaul... done. Here some pics:

MASSIVE LIST OF PICTURES

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, and if you did not notice: All the buildings guides for the new stuff... DONE.

So, here the changelog from yesterday:

 - Sacrifice Weapon/Armor reactions in Temple have three times more weapon/armor types as products then before
 - NEW: GOLEMS FORGE
 - Three golem kinds: Sword, Hammer and Spear.
   - Slightly more expensive, you need 4 mechanisms for the cast now, and 1 weapon of the chosen material
   - Since the boiling stone does not always work, the weapon is preserved 75% of the time
 - Golems can be upgraded with more strength, speed or AoE stun attacks using clockwork dropped by Automatons
 - Golem can be repaired using mechanisms. Lost limbs are lost however.
 - Golems lose oil (harmless) and hydraulical fluid. If too much hydraulical fluid is lost, the golem "bleeds" to death
 - Custom named body tissues, if piping/major pipes break the golem might bleed to death.
 - Added 3 inorganic materials back in: Rocksalt, Cinnabar and Realgar. Used for salt, mercury and arsenic
 - NEW: ALCHEMY LAB
 - Two new tools for dwarves: [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_PESTLE] & [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_MORTAR] for alchemy.
 - Find 6 ingredients: Cinnabar, Realgar, Rocksalt, Olivine, Potash, Silver
 - Refine those into: Mercury, Arsenic, Salt, Magnesium, Saltpeter, Truesilver
 - Make a philosophers stone from those. 10% success chance.
 - Distill the philosophers stone into the elixir of life, which regrowths limbs, fully heals and gives no_aging.
 - Use any metal to extract the metal-aether from it.
 - Use the philosophers stone and aether to make new metal. The philosopher stone is preserved.
 - This means if you have 1 bar of a specific metal, you can slowly make unlimited amounts.
 - Distill Tears of Armok into drinks that give constant! +10% speed, no_dizziness and no_exert.
 - NEW: PET ARMORY
 - You can now armor pets in iron or steel.
 - Armor casts are now made of 5 bars, 4 mechanisms, 4 chains and 2 daggers. Try to visualise it.
 - Ironclad pets can be bought at embark, steelclad pets you must create yourself.
 - Made the new buildings guides for all changes
 - Made building guide for Fish Farm. Was somehow missing before.
 - Made "conduct experiment (random item) easier. No fuel needed and one stone instead of 1 flux
 - 3 new Reactions for the Shrine: Pray for Water(for the injured), Pray for Riches (gems), Pray for Silk (for moods)
 - 3 new Reactions for the Temple: Perform Ceremony of Armoks Blessing, Courage and Wrath
   - All three function the same way as diseases and spread through the fortress. With positive effects.
   - Blessing gives minor boost to speed, strength, endurance and agility
   - Courage gives no_fear, no_pain and likesfighting
   - Wrath give no_emotion (sic!) stopping tantruming. Shows armoks wrath against his stupid underlings
   - Only one can be active at a given time
 - Raised time of positive effect from upgraded drinks. Now last 1 month.
 - Renamed creatures used for evil race version to: Chaos dwarf, elf fanatic, bandit (human), deep drow. This way you can identify them more easily. Otherwise still the same, modded the chaos dwarves slightly to remove the caste system.
 - Set Warlocks to OFF by default
 - Removed undead invaders, because vanilla offers undead invasion already
 - NEW: ILLITHIDS
 - A tentacle-faced spellcaster race that make your dwarves berserk. UNTESTED IN FORTRESS MODE, FEEDBACK MORE THEN WELCOME
 - Known from Genesis, but heavily modded, including custom sprites.
 - Illithids, unarmed/almost unarmored, should in the end replace undeads and warlock invaders. This is a test for them.
 - Added Illithid button to launcher.
 - Changed some toys to tools to give them proper tiles, instead of default "toy" tile
 - Illithids now drop brains upon death.


Yep, you heard me right, this was done in one day. All untested, but errorlog is clean, and the alchemy I did test, works fine. All creatures just tested in arena so far, work fine as well. I did restard the poll, since I finished the highest 3 voted topics and the golems from it, so have another vote if you like

NEXT PROJECT: Base industries upon invaders.

Goblins/Kobolds/Orcs are normal, nothing to see here, go along.
Illithids drop illithid brains, basis for some biological/magical stuff (?)
Automatons drop clockwork parts, basis for mechanical/constructs
Frost Giants drop ... dry ice, some kind of essence/aether (?) SUGGESTIONS WELCOME

That way fighting fortresses get access to better stuff, and cowards that lock themselves in wont be able to access it. Seems fair to me.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Slaves can be fixed, so they do eat and drink. Are you also saying you can't place them in coffins?

why cant we have an option that makes them explode,its a option so lol if you dont want that its just a few clicks away.

That would be Meph's department, are you saying you want slaves strapped with explosives?

the SPAGETI monsters are comming!(says the king)

why cant we have SPAGETI monsters in the masterwork mod (says link)

1because there i3s no reason to stop th3em from doing s7o.

Food monsters? Sounds like something DF would randomly generate
and 1337, doesn't he/she do alot of YTP using zelda stuff? Lol

@GreatWyrmGold
Concubines are my guess a female caste of dwarf that doen't need marriage to breed, so tired of only having married couples give children. Get a few of these baby spawners

Then Ninja'd by Meph

[GreatWyrmGold]

So, concubines give birth to dwarves? Is that right?

Also, new technical issue with the GUI: It can't find a version of runtime to open "this application." Erm...I really have no clue what's going on.

[Morwaul]

Hmmm, maybe Meph has been replaced by one of his Golems?  Obviously he is a machine!

Awesome work Meph, thanks for doing all this for us.

[Meph]

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V 1.8 <<<

• Ironhand tileset !
• Evil Races - Evil Doppelgangers of Dwarves, Elves, Humans and Drow to fight
• Alchemy. Find the philosophers stone, brew the elixir of life and create matter from nothing.
• 14 armored pets. Now in Iron or Steel, with healing interaction.
• 21 Golems. Sword, Hammer, Spear, with 7 different materials.
• 8 Plagues that ravage your fortress. Battle them with medical wards.
• 6 new religious reactions. Pray for silk, water or gems, and perform ceremonies for fortresswide stat boosts.
• Cult of the Carp God, lovecraftian-style hidden enemy.
• Better Brick Oven for Megaprojects, makes all possible colors now.
• Thatchery, make furniture from plant wicker.
• Automatons redone from scratch. New everything.
• Undead Invaders replaced with Illithid Spellcaster Race
• Includes the 10 best-rated stories from dfstories.com.
• Includes LegendsViewer and PerfectWorld Utilities.
• GUI allows Concubines, Bodyguards, Diseases and more to be toggled.
• Many, many rebalances and bugfixes.

Special Thanks
To cc and his thatchery idea. Also thanks at deon for his brilliant illithids, although I did butcher the raws for them a bit.

Notes
This Version is untested. I thought about doing a long testrun, but I think I go back this time to the old way of releasing it and having hundrets of testers who can give me feedback and point me in the right direction, while I work on the next features. I hope this is ok for you. I am mostly interested on the balancing, how Illithids and Golems, and the Alchemy system will work out. Same goes for diseases and the Cult of the Carp God. Have fun. Feedback is, as always, appreciated.

Full Changelog:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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######    PATCH 1.8         ######
##################################

 - Added Ironhand tileset!
 - 8 Plagues. Might arrive with migrants, might randomly break out.
 - All plagues last for rougly 1 season, than slowly subside... you can battle them however, using the apothecarius.
   - Hulk, 5% go berserk, rest gets stronger/faster.
   - Death, 10% die, rest feels sickly.
   - Vomiting, 100% get sick, vomit.
   - Sleep, 100% get tired, will fall asleep randomly.
   - No Sleep, 100% get no_sleep, but feel drowsy and dizzy.
   - Blind, 100% turn blind.
   - Plague, 100% get fever and cough blood.
   - Sterile, 100% get sterile, !!! lasts forever !!!
 - Changed slave stone template to stone vapor template. (bugfix)
 - Removed animal trainer jobs from FD races, hopefully no more super warbeasts in sieges.
 - Nerfed Bloodbeast strength and syndrome
 - Added some GOOD/EVIL tags back in.
 - All building destroying units (those that path to your fortress) have the SAVAGE tag now. Calm areas are secure, no more ogres raiding you there.
 - Raised population limit for all dwarf chocolate creatures
 - Nerfed amount of spells sorcerers, shamans and liches can do.
 - Fixed adamantine golem cast reaction
 - Added [PERMITTED_REACTION:CRAZY] for tech lab back in. TEST IT OUT, you wont regret it.
   - This reaction allows the creation of a random item from a rather random selection of items.
 - New colors for the brick oven, can now produce all possible colors
 - Added "ornamental" bricks. These need 2 boulders for 2 bricks, but are worth more then normal bricks. All colors. For people who dislike the low value of normal bricks. Again, the brick oven is unbalanced and mostly for megaprojects.
 - Added reaction to craftsdwarf: make bed from silver, gold, or bone. All need 1 cloth as well, to keep it balanced.
 - Added "make bedroll" to craftsdwarf. A bed made from 5 pieces of cloth.
 - Removed religious nobles, no more templars, priests, archpriests or prophets, since the nobles go fixed by today.
 - Preacher is still there to meet tantruming dwarves, same function as psychatrist.
 - Added philosopher noble (does nothing, not even work) for people who liked them in df40
 - Added Overseer noble, for people playing succession games.
 - Screw Press reaction "log to paper" only accepts rough wood now, no more steeloak/crystal trees/ironbark.
 - Added "scrapwood to paper" to screw press
 - Added "scrapwood to ash" to crematorium
 - Added 6% chance for an idirium bar to each blast furnace reaction.
 - Made frost giants butcherable, to get rid of the bodyparts they leave.
 - Removed Buildings Guides for Guildhall and Wheelbarrows. These buildings are not included anymore.
 - Lowered range of slade/bullet turrets a bit, and gave them solid instead of liquid globs.
 - Living rock is now rarer and not sedimentary anymore. It also gives 10 instead of 1 meat in the kitchen
 - Cave fungus is now called rubble and looks more neutral
 - You can still find small cluster of cave fungus in the earth, these leave solid fungus that can be made into cheese.
 - Added the Thatchery. You can make wicker bales from 5 kinds of plants. Then make furniture and crafts from wicker.
 - Raised cost of lye for batch soap reactions from 1 to 5.
 - Added wards. Immobile pets you can equip in the apothecarius and immunize your dwarves against plagues.
 - You can also make blessed wards in the Altar of Armok. These cleanse possessed (secret) dwarves.
 - Added the cult of the carp god, a new secret threat. Armoks Wards help to unveil them.
 - The cult will leave signs before they act, so prepare for them, before your fortress gets overrun. You have over 1 season for this.
 - Changed layers in worldgen from 25:25:25:25 to 20:10:10:10, to avoid maps with more then 200 zlvls...
 - Added 10 short stories from a collection I found online. Some you might know, Tholtig Cryptbrain by darkflragrance for example.
 - Shoes can now be worn under boots, allowing for fully clothed AND fully armored dwarves
 - Added a glacier world to the embark profiles
 - Fixed dwarves collecting ammo from turrets (at least I think so, I tested with turrets in fortress mode and an "accept all" stockpile, they did not touch the used ammo)
 - Slighty modifiactions in the stone occurences
 - Massive GUI changes
   - Armory Button
   - Weaponry Button
   - Thatchery Button
   - Diseases Button
   - Disabling gunsmith also removes gun blueprints and tradegoods
   - Disabling magic also removes magic books and tradegoods
   - Evil version of standard races moved to creatures tab (for space reasons)
   - Buildings section ordered alphabetically
   - Scriptorium, the 4 library sections and the Garden/Fountain moved into one
   - New Training System button combining the above
   - Concubines are now optional, and by default OFF
   - New balancing feature: Enable or Disable bodyguards for traders/caravans.
   - New utility: Perfect World is now included
   - New Utility: Legends Viewer is now included
   - (I decided on those two since they only add 2mb in total)

 - Added bone breastplate to craftsman
 - Nerfed Burning/Frozen skulls, no more firestarting. Frozen skulls only in cold areas, and smaller cluster number.
 - Raised number of needed essence fractures from 3 to 5.
 - New reaction for pet armory: Heal nearby pet, fully heals any pet stationed nearby.
 - Automatons got new graphics, new descriptions, replaced CS Gas with Steam (weaker) and no explosion upon death, but mechanisms. The are made of copper now instead of iron. Can also be butchered to get rid of bodyparts.
 - They also got caste specific colors, custom named attacks and bodyparts. Way more steampunky now, as I wanted them.
 - Made drow bloodsteel and demonbone materials a bit tougher.
 - Added reaction to stone grinder to grind boulders into sand. 3 boulder, 1 bag = 1 bag of sand
 - New reaction for magma factory: Improve ballista bold, needs 1 ballista ammo and 1 slade. Makes slade ballista ammo.
 - New designs for 6 buildings. Armory/weaponry/Magma Armory/Magma Weaponry/gemworkshop/Brewery
 - Added "brew drink" reaction to brewery. Same reaction as vanilla still, makes no sense that the bewery cant do this.
 - Moved bloodwine, fuel from alcohol and purify water from alcohol from still to brewery.
 - Nerfed tame dragons a tiny bit. Slower rate of firebreath mostly.
 - Made Sauropods war trainable
 - Lowered the number for all teeth to 2. No more "teeth-explosions" creating clutter.
 - Changes armoks metal to a gem, instead of an ore. Was being used in any ore-accepting reaction.
 - New reaction at transmutation chamber: Work Armoks Metal, gives a random selection of bars, usually around 10-ish.
 - Sacrifice Weapon/Armor reactions in Temple have three times more weapon/armor types as products then before
 - NEW: GOLEMS FORGE
 - Three golem kinds: Sword, Hammer and Spear.
   - Slightly more expensive, you need 4 mechanisms for the cast now, and 1 weapon of the chosen material
   - Since the boiling stone does not always work, the weapon is preserved 75% of the time
 - Golems can be upgraded with more strength, speed or AoE stun attacks using clockwork dropped by Automatons
 - Golem can be repaired using mechanisms. Lost limbs are lost however.
 - Golems lose oil (harmless) and hydraulical fluid. If too much hydraulical fluid is lost, the golem "bleeds" to death
 - Custom named body tissues, if piping/major pipes break the golem might bleed to death.
 - Added 3 inorganic materials back in: Rocksalt, Cinnabar and Realgar. Used for salt, mercury and arsenic
 - NEW: ALCHEMY LAB
 - Two new tools for dwarves: [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_PESTLE] & [TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_MORTAR] for alchemy.
 - Find 6 ingredients: Cinnabar, Realgar, Rocksalt, Olivine, Potash, Silver
 - Refine those into: Mercury, Arsenic, Salt, Magnesium, Saltpeter, Truesilver
 - Make a philosophers stone from those. 10% success chance.
 - Distill the philosophers stone into the elixir of life, which regrowths limbs, fully heals and gives no_aging.
 - Use any metal to extract the metal-aether from it.
 - Use the philosophers stone and aether to make new metal. The philosopher stone is preserved.
 - This means if you have 1 bar of a specific metal, you can slowly make unlimited amounts.
 - Distill Tears of Armok into drinks that give constant! +10% speed, no_dizziness and no_exert.
 - NEW: PET ARMORY
 - You can now armor pets in iron or steel.
 - Armor casts are now made of 5 bars, 4 mechanisms, 4 chains and 2 daggers. Try to visualise it.
 - Ironclad pets can be bought at embark, steelclad pets you must create yourself.
 - Made the new buildings guides for all changes
 - Made building guide for Fish Farm. Was somehow missing before.
 - Made "conduct experiment (random item) easier. No fuel needed and one stone instead of 1 flux
 - 3 new Reactions for the Shrine: Pray for Water(for the injured), Pray for Riches (gems), Pray for Silk (for moods)
 - 3 new Reactions for the Temple: Perform Ceremony of Armoks Blessing, Courage and Wrath
   - All three function the same way as diseases and spread through the fortress. With positive effects.
   - Blessing gives minor boost to speed, strength, endurance and agility
   - Courage gives no_fear, no_pain and likesfighting
   - Wrath give no_emotion (sic!) stopping tantruming. Shows armoks wrath against his stupid underlings
   - Only one can be active at a given time
 - Raised time of positive effect from upgraded drinks. Now last 1 month.
 - Renamed creatures used for evil race version to: Chaos dwarf, elf fanatic, bandit (human), deep drow. This way you can identify them more easily. Otherwise still the same, modded the chaos dwarves slightly to remove the caste system.
 - Set Warlocks to OFF by default
 - Removed undead invaders, because vanilla offers undead invasion already
 - NEW: ILLITHIDS
 - A tentacle-faced spellcaster race that make your dwarves berserk. UNTESTED IN FORTRESS MODE, FEEDBACK MORE THEN WELCOME
 - Known from Genesis, but heavily modded, including custom sprites.
 - Illithids, unarmed/almost unarmored, should in the end replace undeads and warlock invaders. This is a test for them.
 - Added Illithid button to launcher.
 - Changed some toys to tools to give them proper tiles, instead of default "toy" tile
 - Illithids now drop brains upon death.

Known Issues:
 - Manual not yet updated.
 - Illithids drop brains that are not used for anything... yet.

[zenerbufen]

So, concubines give birth to dwarves? Is that right?

Also, new technical issue with the GUI: It can't find a version of runtime to open "this application." Erm...I really have no clue what's going on.

And unfortunately, unless you provide us with EXACT error messages, and actually try the suggestions we give you and report back the effect we won't be able to help you with your problem. Sorry. The 'runtimes' that are required to 'initialize' the program are included in the microsoft .net runtime. Did you goto http://www.microsoft.com/net and download the runtimes? These files are not included by default in most versions of windows.

[Corai]

Just to bump this, I will post a mis-spelling.


On landmines, it saids "eplading."



THERE, I DID NOT BUMP, I SIMPLY BROUGHT A ISSUE TO THE TABLE.


I bumped.

[Tierre]

Just looked in the raws of elf trade super-pets. Those pets should be everywhere and pet-dragons should kill everything living..... How did you make them not kill everyone and to be only elf trainable?

[Vherid]

Hm this is looking interesting again now that it's progressed more. I'll have to try it out again.

The only thing that I can still think of off the top of my head that still irks me now though is the special combat logs. Making references to like al capone and such while playing dwarf fortress really really really kills that mood.

[Corai]

You need to throw in more ores of iron or bronze, or some way to make it. I simply CANNOT find anything but copper ores. Synthetic iron would be wonderful.....

[Arbinire]

thankee kindly Meph, downloading now, and excited to see the changes.

As to the voting though, the way you're churning things out, why even have us vote?  You'll end up having everything done by next week .

[Jeoshua]

Suggestions/Bugs:

The ever-present and ubiquitous creatures in every biome could be a switchable feature.
Standard Regex search-and-replace would be:

Code: [Select]

Find: \[POPULATION_NUMBER:30000:30000\]\[UBIQUITOUS\]([0-9]+?:[0-9]+?)\]
Replace: [POPULATION_NUMBER:\1]

Find: \[FREQUENCY:100\]([0-9]+?)\]
Replace: [FREQUENCY:\1]
To turn it back on, the code would be:

Code: [Select]

Find: \[POPULATION_NUMBER:([0-9]+?:[0-9]+?)\]
Replace: [POPULATION_NUMBER:30000:30000][UBIQUITOUS]\1]

Find: \[FREQUENCY:([0-9]+?)\]
Replace: [FREQUENCY:100]\1]

Creatures all have CREATURE_MAT:ANIMAL.  This disagrees with standard vanilla DF which uses LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT in nearly every circumstance and leads to more differences between the files than absolutely must be.  Plus, it generally doesn't add anything to the equation.

Regex search and replace (in all files except inorganic_masterwork.txt):

Code: [Select]

Find: CREATURE_MAT:ANIMAL:
Replace: LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:
This does not disable the exotic, rare, studded, and llamelar animal tissues (due to the extra ":"), and won't mess up the inorganics if you don't mess with that one file (might as well ignore every inorganic_*.txt file there).


Creepers are interesting, but should probably be off by default.  This isn't Minecraft, after all


Turning off Castes does not automatically disable the the Guildhall.  Without the Castes, it serves no function that I can tell.

[Corai]

Creepers are interesting, but should probably be off by default.  This isn't Minecraft, after all

Thatssssssss a nice fortress you got there.....would be a shame if something happened to it.......

[Jeoshua]

It is... and it would be