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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.

[moisesjns]

ok i replaced my entity_default with the one from the 1.9 download i created a new world. still a goblin. ill try reinstalling

Update ok i copied and pasted the download from 1.9 and replaced every file. i didint mod anything i just created a world. and im still playing as goblins.

[Srial]

@Meph: Ah, I've never tried the maps that come with Masterwork.  Maybe I'm just missing some stone that can be used as flux then, but looking at the list of flux stones on the wiki I can say for sure I've never seen any of those in my current fort and I've dug to the magma sea.  Maybe next time I generate a fort I'll try the included maps.

@Werdna - Yes, I've come to the same conclusion about warlocks, alas to late for a couple military commanders.  From now on, all marksdwarves for them.

I only ever used to get bleeding from smelters until recently.  I think this may be because normally I space our my smelters but for some silly reason when I made my magma arc smelters I put 2 right next to each other.  Twice now I've gotten notifications someone's died, and look and see lots and lots of smoke in that area coming from them.  I'm not sure if someone caught fire, or one ignited something in the other, or what, or I just had bad luck with the gases that come out of them.   I suppose this calls for science.

I'll try keeping my fort value low for a while.  It's a weird concept for me, but I'll give it a whirl.  It seems like I'd have to really reign in how fast I expand and build to start, but if it keeps me alive that's a bonus.

[DoX]

Hey, quick strange question. I just updated to 1.8.1, started a new fortress. Smaller region, but lots of Civs. All four trading civilizations were available on embark, and some stranglers have already tried to get to my fortress, so it's not a pathfinding issue. Yet I'm on my second year, spring, and no dwarf or elf traders have come. Where is everyone? Why are traders not coming?

Edit: Just confirming, there is a trade depot, it is accessible, I built a road, I cleared the trees around the boarder and the trade depot.

[Meph]

@dox: That might happen if the civs are more or less dead. It is rare though that you dont seem to have any active civs... usually they are rather resiliant, but then again you mentioned that you have a small world and many civs, so infighting can cause this. The balancing is up to you if you decide to meddle with the worldgens I can only say that the custom ones I made for the mod are balanced. Flobulon and LegendsViewer saw to that.

@srial: The "less minerals/less stone" options tend to mess up the standard worldgen. Warlocks are designed to be deadly in melee, but weak against archers. Should make people use both melee and ranged squads in fortress mode.

@moisesjns: Cant help you there then... could you send me the entity_default you currently use in a PM so I can have a look ? I just checked the one I have here for the mod, but that one is OK.

@all: even with no official update for mouse fortress, Therapist and dfhack I managed to hack together a working version. Mouse Fortress works 100%, Therapist works 100%, including Castes, and dfhack works, except 5 plugins, autolabor, digv, df2minecraft, dfusion. Trying to upload just now. 8% already, yeah... zzzz....

[DoX]

It's just never happened before, and no traders at all? Not even drow? Plus, I am getting migrants. If there's no dwarf civilization, where are they coming from?

[Geneoce]

Loving all the metals. So much variety!

I was just thinking that if maybe people are complaining that its too easy would an option for half or third percentage drops from metal ores make the game more difficult?

[Meph]

@dox: The first two migrant waves are hardcoded and will always appear. For the rest... dont know, sorry. The game and the worldgen has many quirks ^^

@geneoce: I cant mod the drop rates, not even the vanilla smelter rates from ore to bars. I can only balance my modded stuff on the things Today adds as a default.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

how's the upload going? I'm debating wether or not to start a game with the current version.

liking the the masterwork-package much. excellent stuff :thumbs:

[Meph]

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V 1.9.1 <<<

1.9:
 - Win, Mac and Linux Support
 - Updated to 34.08
 - Spiked and bladed minecarts
 - NO dfhack
 - Two new super-metals: Volcanic and Bifrost
 - Create volcanic items in the great magma forge
 - Work bifrost bars from dead frost giants
 - Gemworkshop splitted into Gemcutter and Gemforge
 - New grass, Evil and Good region design. Hope you like it.

1.9.1:
 - Updated to 34.09!
 - Includes a beta version of dfhack for 34.09
 - More coal.
 - Rebalancing of steel making and inorganic mats

Spoiler: Full Changelog (click to show/hide)

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 - Updated to DF 34.08
 
 - Modded grass, evil grass and good grass for more flavor.
 - Doubled/quadrupled amount of gunpowder made in the ammo mint.
 - Archeologist need 5 stones, instead of 10 for excavation.
 - Arc Furnace now makes 4 bars from one bag of ore-powder.
 - Brick Oven now makes 4 bricks from 1 boulder, or 4 ornamental bricks from 2 boulders.
 - Crucible can now "cold hammer" metals with 1 ore for 2 bars. 50% as effecient as the smelter reaction with fuel.
 - 6 new reactions for the Arc Furnace: Cold hammer" metals. 1 ore for 2 bars. 50% as effecient as the normal reaction.
 - Blast furnace now makes batches of 12 bars, instead of 6, using 3 ore for it.
 - All fuel/coke producing reactions are untouched, because of logic. If everything makes 4 times as much bars, then you need 4 times less coal to make the same amount of bars. And since coal drops only 25% of the times now, this is balanced automatically.
 - Removed "research magic tomes" from tech lab and splitted it into two.
 - Added 3 new reactions to tech lab: Recreate dwarven rune/grimoire of death/tome of life. 9% sucess chance.
 - Thatchery now makes 4 blocks instead of 1.
 - Changed "distill tears of armok" to "extract water from a tear of armok" which fills a bucket with water, but preserves the tear of armok.
 - 6 new reactions for the transmutation chamber. Transmute the adv. metals.
   - 2 wolfram for titanium and back, 2 mithril to slade and back, 2 cobalt to chrome and back.
 - Rebalanced Craftsdwarf, Stonecutter and Rockforge. You need either less boulders, or get more products.
 - Boneyard now makes 4 blocks from 1 stack of bones.
 - Added [HEATDAM_POINT:NONE] to magmamancer. They were fireimmune_super, but just to make sure...
 - Edited the Automaton entity... hopefully they bring weapons next time.
 - Fixed all the 255 tiled creatures that were invisible in ASCII mode.
 - Updated the Manual
 - Removed the buildings section from the manual, and instead linked to the building guides, they are better then text.
 - All buildings guides updated.
 - Upped layer permit of plate greaves
 - Fixed Parchement/Parchment naming error
 - Updated Mouse Fortress and Dwarf Therapist to df 34.08
 - Added speared and bladed minecarts
 - Sorted the entity_default into catergories. Much nicer to read.
 - Added [DO_NOT_CLEAN_GLOB] to slade and copper, so that turret ammo is certainly not collected anymore.
 - Added new building: Great Magma Forge
    - Makes Obsidian and Slade
    - Creates Weapons and Armor from volcanic. A new material, composed of steel, obsidian and slade.
    - Volcanic is half as good as adamantine and makes triple damage against Frost Giants.
 - Frost Giants now drop a "bifrost" boulder upon death. This can be made into a bifrost bar in the Creature Research Lab.
 - Bifrost is almost (80%) as good as adamantine.
 - Slade Metal is now (20%) as good as adamantine.
 - Iridium is now (60%) as good as adamantine
 - Splitted gemworkshop into gemcutter and gemforge.
 - Gemcutter needs 3 cut gems to be build and makes furniture and tools.
 - Gemforge needs 3 large gems to be build and makes weapons/armors/decorations.

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######    PATCH 1.9.1       ######
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 - Updated to 34.09!
 - Bituminous coal give 9 bars now, lignite 5 bars.
 - Compact peat gives twice as many bars now, Anthracite gives 12 bars. Overkill anyone ?
 - Blast furnace now makes batches of 15(lignite) 27(biuminous) 12(peat) and 36(anthracite) coke.
 - Updated Building Guides
 - Tetrahide no longer ore of iron and rarer.
 - Hematite now only ore of iron and more common.
 - Disease bearing dwarves popratio lowered from 45 to 8. 6 times more rare now.
 - Compat peat now appears in clay in small clusters.
 - Antracite now appears in granite as veins, and in all other rock layers as small clusters.
 - Harder Smelting is roughly 3 times less aggresive now. 3 times less accidents.
 - Crucible Steel making has been nerfed.
 - Added silver bars as a last ingredient to "volcanic"
   - Just imagine it. A metal made of steel, silver, obsidian and slade. How it must look.
 - Removed the "cheat/test" hickup in the still. Sorry for that.
 - Updated phoebus to 34.09 with new track tiles.
 - Added a patched version of Mouse Fortress, dfhack and Therapist
    - All these are done by me and are unofficial. You are warned

Special Thanks
Zenerbufen for his fast linux and mac updates. And the idea of the html-based manual.

EDIT: crazy_ivan80: Question answered ?

[Werdna]

I'll try keeping my fort value low for a while.  It's a weird concept for me, but I'll give it a whirl.  It seems like I'd have to really reign in how fast I expand and build to start, but if it keeps me alive that's a bonus.

Don't worry about expansion, in fact you want to be building like crazy for defense.  Worry about goods as they are what ramp your value the most.  Particularly the new welded-metal goods like titanium and chromite.  Your first artifact will often be worth more than your entire fort layout, particularly if it gets made out of iridium, so I forbid the first iridium wafers early on.  Basically the only thing valuable that I produce early on are armor and weapons to kit my squads.  I use Prepared Meals to buy what I need from caravans (usually mithril, decoys, and mastiffs), as Prepared Meals are more useful overall than goblets.  An early Legendary Cook keeps the fort quite happy!

When I'm ready, I crank up fort value all at once by mass-producing welded titanium/chromite goblets, and start buying out caravans which by now are carrying the goods I've requested (particularly the expensive turrets).  Sieges take awhile to arrive once triggered, so usually I have a year of peace and super-caravans to stockpile goodies from before the real fun begins.

The main reason to drag things out like this is to give your squads a chance to become extremely well-trained and equipped before the sieges come (I don't use danger rooms or weapon traps as they make it too easy IMHO), plus having nasty kill zones set up where you can control everything that happens.  Survivability goes up by a ton. 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

EDIT: crazy_ivan80: Question answered ?

and how

*off to download*

[SAFry]

Ahh, Friday, time to play test!

Download 1.9, sort out my advanced world parameters how I like 'em, do my prepare carefully for embark. Ok, ready to rock and... everybody has insomnia fever. Right from the embark.

Oh well, 1.9.1 is ready, lets do that instead.

[DoX]

It's spring, time for the third migration wave and the "fortress attracted no migrants" despite the rise in space and value. I think you're right. The friendly civilizations have been overtaken. Such a shame.

Anyway, thanks for the help, and I absolutely love this mod. Great work. I only have one request.

Back when I was on vanilla with mayday graphics, my favorite thing was the smooth/engraved floors were so drastically different in colour. Engraved floors were bright, to nearly white, allowing me to make patterns in the floors. It'd be great if the engraved stone in the Phoebus pack had a brighter variant, like the water.

Edit: an example of what I'm talking about http://i48.tinypic.com/2dw7n76.jpg

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Edit: an example of what I'm talking about http://i48.tinypic.com/2dw7n76.jpg

Glorious

[moisesjns]

well 1.91 fixed my goblin problem. thank you for the amazing mod. i dont post a lot only when i need help or have questions.