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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]

Anyone mind telling me how in the hell I access the pre-genned maps?

Thanks in advance .

use advanced world gen

[BigD145]

Anyone mind telling me how in the hell I access the pre-genned maps?

Thanks in advance .

use advanced world gen

There are people that still don't use advanced world gen?!

[Scruffy]

Any news on when can we expect an updated version of the alpha?

[Playergamer]

Has anyone else test the warpstone landmines in the arena? I had one completely surrounded by dwarves wearing full armor and wielding tower shields. It's confirmed, warpstone gas kills armored soldiers just as easily as unarmored dwarves. Those mines are horrifying. In my next fort, i'm thinking of building a gassing chamber into my defences. All it would require is a closed room, and at least 1 warpstone mine.

[Tirion]

Just an idea... is it possible to give descriptions to items? It'd make a lot of things easier, like deciding wether or not a weapon is better for my adventurer than the one he already has. Going to the raws and trying to get comparable data, then to the wiki to try and make sense of it, kind of breaks immersion. And minds.

[thistleknot]

what's the status of this mod, last update I saw to the front page was in October...

spoke with Meph via facebook, and thought he was on this, said he hasn't touched it in a while

[Nokao]

Hi !

I'm trying Gaia world, and I have some pre-embark questions for you.
I generated 3 times the world, and I activated in the launcher all creatures and races.

• There is always a huge % of badgerman civilizations and great badgerman around, is this because there are a lot of forests in Gaia ? Or I was just unlucky ?
• Using the embark finder I noticed that Flux Stone is totally missing in the world, is this a choice ? Is it not needed in the long-run game ?
• What about aquifiers ? Are them (like the rest of the world) designed by you? So are they "well placed" ? Or should I remove them ? In my first game I played with aquifiers and I managed to play fine ... but I'm tempted to remove them in the Gaia game.
• If I embark near a tower (friendly), how can I interact with the people there? It happened to me to embark in a friendly badger civilization, they are very well armed so I could use their equipment killing them after the embark ... but what will this provoke ? war ?

[slay_mithos]

@thistleknot: No news from Meph, and he seems to be on a travel right now.

@Nakao:
* Badgerman civs: No idea, I always play on gaia too, and had no trouble with civs like that, just elves or human civs not always present/surviving.
* Flux stone in the finder is a vanilla problem that was introduced in January with the "new" DF, nothing mods can do about it.
* Aquifer are not modded, so they are the same troubles as in vanilla. I simply disable them entirely anyway because they cause much trouble in early game and I am not good enough to have time to spare on this before the first attacks.
* Vanilla too, friendlies will remain like that no matter what you do, and you can't interract with them apart from killing them. They will react to sieges and the like, so either protect them, or let them take care/die when sieges appears.

[Nokao]

Ok so I'll try to play in a map with friendly civilizations,
Seems useful for their equip and help in defence,
Plus their towers can be used to make archers fortifications.

As a crazy test I could also make a fortress outdoors, up z-levels making floors around of their tower with under-the-sun farm plots and living dorms.

Did anyone try that ?

[LostLover]

What type of stockpiles need for bone stud?Oo
Help plz
...and what do Magic Nature?Oo

[kaos78414]

I'm relatively new to Masterwork and DF in general, but I've been having loads of fun so far. Anyhow, I've a few questions about the launcher options (particularly how they effect other areas of the mod)

If I disable any of the following: Craftsdwarf changes, Boneyard, Gem Workshop, Rockforge, Stonecutter, Archaeology, and Creature Lab, will I be cutting myself off from any of the other features of the mod? Specifically, I want to make sure I have access to the Magic workshops and Alchemy workshops in the late game.

Also, which of the workshops do you guys find unnecessary and/or make things a little too easy in the early game? I want to make sure before I start my next world that I'm not going to be giving myself any early advantages. Basically I just want to know how balanced some of the features are. It seems to me that Magic and Alchemy are late-game enough that once you get to them they are not going to be too overpowered. Is the Training System portion of the mod balanced enough in your opinion?

[Noin]

Is the Training System portion of the mod balanced enough in your opinion?

IMO it's pretty useless. You need to spend loads of logs and ash bars just to give one of your dwarves +300 expirience in just one skill...

Also, which of the workshops do you guys find unnecessary and/or make things a little too easy in the early game?

basically, all the new workshops are just a little "extra". they are definitely not requiered to survive, just to make game a bit more diverse.

I want to make sure before I start my next world that I'm not going to be giving myself any early advantages.

You can leave all these options on, but also add all the hostile civs, and. if you feel especially suicidal, also turn the options "harder farming", "harder smithing" etc on. In this case, believe me, you will need everything these building can produce.
Ah, almost forgot. If you don't want to get any early advantages, you can always embark on a glacier

[kaos78414]

Ah, then I was thinking of going in with this selection of settings:

Races - Invaders: All on, Cave Races: All on, Friendly Races: All on, Fortress Defense and Creeper: off
Creatures - Everything on except the Evil races
Materials - Simple options: all off, Add: all on
Buildings - No: Archaeology, Boneyard, Creature Lab, Gem Workshop, Stonecutter, Rockforge, Storage unit. Everything else on
Misc Features - No extra craftsdwarf reactions (stone instruments? that kind of thing just bothers me), No no corpses, no concubines, everything else on, including balancing features

The main question I have now, is without those buildings enabled, am I missing out on anything major? And without the Boneyard, is there no way to obtain the Church of Dark Depths?

EDIT: Screw it. I decided I'll just go with all buildings enabled, and reenable the craftsdwarf changes. I'll just put my fort's fate in the hands of the mod creator. I'm sure he knows what he's doing as far as balance is concerned. All of you have played longer then I have anyhow :p

Anyway, thanks for the help.

[Nokao]

I'm starting now a new game with MW DF

In a "suicidal mission" I discovered that is actually possible with the embark anywhere script to embark and conquer a small castle with a military embark profile,
and then go there again (abandon fortress first) with the workers embark profile to start to build the fortress with some actual good defence (the walls) against the first sieges.

Before "having lot of fun" I found some "Tears of Armok" on the last z-levels ... I readed they are an infinite water source, how do I use them ? ? ?
I could easily make a waterfall up in my castle's tower with that, maybe also in early game (if I actually find it and survive, next time...).

In your manual there is a small mistake: settings -> creatures -> Drake is repeated 2 times,
please do a HTML version because with this damn windows help files I can't increase font size.

[Putnam]

Tears of Armok are just aquifers. Mine next to them and you'll get infinite water.