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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.

[Meph]

>>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V.2c <<<<

Materwork Dwarf Fortress V.2c
Notes: I turned Special Weather off by default. I turned Runesmith off by default, because the building has no reactions yet. I added transformation pause and recenter. This is optional, but will help in future once I introduce enemies that spawn inside your fortress. I also turned the Slagpit on by default. I want reports on this feature. If you dont like it, just turn it off for now. And please, please pretty please, if you change your tileset: First change the tileset, then your other settings. It will replace some parts, and might confuse the GUI. For example turning slagpit off, then switching to ironhand will remove the slagpit building, but copy the ironhand raws with the slag-producing ore back in. This is what broke the coarse-iron for ironhand/ascii players a while ago. Finally found out why. Just so you know. I also broke the 100 building mark, the 2000 reaction mark, and the 1000 creature mark. But most importantly: Masterwork Dwarf Fortress is one year old today. First playable version was done on the 01.01.12 and first release was two days later. Cant believe it has been one year. - Applied binary patch. Following bugs should be fixed:

• Long patrol duty thoughts accumulate from all squad orders, including training.
• Dwarven caravan brought silver crossbow, ITEMS_WEAPON_RANGED ignored in world gen.
• Vermin can only escape from artifact animal traps.
• Fish in aquariums interfere with vermin behavior checks.
• Military dwarves turn off all of their labors when becoming heroes.
• Diplomats don't bring bodyguards.
• Deconstructing walls teleport material to location.
• Weapon Racks do nothing.
• Marksdwarves won't use training bolts until combat bolts are used up.
• Hopital Zones do not respect clothing limits.

- New Utilities included:

• Isoworld.
• Quickfort.

- Html-Manual included.

• Links and readmes for all utilities.
• Lists all inorganic materials, plants and items.
• Lists all buildings and explanations on how to use them.
• Lists all known issues.
• Includes stories and wallpapers.

- New GUI options:

• Transformation Messages, under Misc Features. Stops the game when a creature transforms.
• Toxicist, under Workshops.
• Colosseum, under Workshops.
• Expedition Outfitter, under Workshops.
• Glassforge, under Furnaces.
• Slagpit, under Furnaces.
• Runsesmith, under Furnaces. Currently OFF, because the building is not used yet.

- New reactions:

• Added gem slab, hatchcover, grate, coffin and statue. Cages, Weaponrack, Armorstand and Floodgate.
• Added bone slab, hatchcover, grate, coffin and statue. Cages, Weaponrack, Armorstand and Floodgate.
• Added brass and zinc batch making to the blast furnace.

- Misc:

• Transformations now give a more prominent announcement.
• Ward of Armok and temple can now cure possessed dwarves (necromancers, bloodbeasts, werebeasts).
• All caste skills show a (*) behind the buffed skills. Now you can identify usefull castes and fitting skills ingame.
• Chidlbirth, arrival of fog/mist and claiming/starting of work by a moody dwarf no longer pause the game.
• Fantastic creatures like Sweatman, Gingerbreadman and so on are 10 times rarer.
• Removed low boots, renamed high boots to boots.
• Timberyard no longer needs wood to be made.
• All dwarves that had a disease are immune to it. Each dwarf will only be sick for one month max.
• Apostle of Armok has a new tile, more fitting for a Priest.
• Praying now creates prayer. This boils away harmlessly, but increases your dwarves skill (formerly no skill increase from praying).
• Furnaces and Forges might need some increased building mats. Mostly the blast furnace.

- All civs are reduced to one metal. Except dwarves and taiga-orcs of course.

• Humans: Rose gold. (and sterling silver for tooly/toys).
• Elves: Mithril.
• Drow: Bloodsteel.
• Warlocks: Ironbone.
• Goblins: Rusty Iron.
• Orcs: Rusty Steel.
• Automatons: Brass.
• Frost Giants: Wolfram.
• All cave civs have a mix of rusty iron and rusty steel.

This should make it a lot easier to guess the strength of an army. It also adds a definite refining step to goblinite and orcinite, as well as allow allied races to bring more useful tradegoods.Full Changelog 2c:

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Changelog Masterwork Dwarf Fortress V.2c
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runesmith off
special weather off
transformation msg on
slagpit on

Added all available binary patches:
Long patrol duty thoughts accumulate from all squad orders, including training
Dwarven caravan brought silver crossbow, ITEMS_WEAPON_RANGED ignored in world gen
Vermin can only escape from artifact animal traps
Fish in aquariums interfere with vermin behavior checks
Military dwarves turn off all of their labors when becoming heroes
Diplomats don't bring bodyguards
Deconstructing walls teleport material to location
Weapon Racks do nothing
Marksdwarves won't use training bolts until combat bolts are used up
Hopital Zones do not respect clothing limits

Removed wooden mechanism/quern/millstone reactions from craftsdwarf.
New buildings: toxicist, runesmith, glassforge, collosseum, expedition outfitter, expedition starting point, slag pit
Made all new buildings optional in GUI
Added runesmith blueprint research to research study
Added sending expeditions, diplomats, spies, caravans and bards.
Added gem slab, hatchcover, grate, coffin and statue. Cages, Weaponrack, Armorstand and Floodgate.
Added bone slab, hatchcover, grate, coffin and statue. Cages, Weaponrack, Armorstand and Floodgate.
Corrected description of spear golems. They claimed to have hammers, these silly things.
Increased mineral scarcity from 100-200 to 600 in the adv. worlgen (vanilla is 2500)
Added glassforge reactions. Same as gemforge, now for clear/crystal/green glass.
Added magma glassforge, and fuel needed for glassforge.
This means you can make glass weapons, armor and ammo.
Fixed magma crucible reactions
Fixed giant ant bodies
Balanced several buildmats, buildlabors and reaction skills.
Fixed meteor hammers. Now way more fitting combat stats.
Deleted cave turtle vermin pets and silkworm vermin pets
removed evil tag from phantom spiders, get those for your silkfarms.
fixed double entry of plategreaves in stockpiles
deleted 2 types of human armors, to trim down the amount of types.
fixed "bug12 please report this" at embark extract selection. (was broodmother secretion for the slave transformation.)
Goblins should only bring rusty iron
Orcs should only bring rusty steel
Added a harmless boiling stone to all religious reactions. The reason is that they rarely produce anything, and therefore dont level up the skills of the user. now a stone is created,

and dwarves get more "Apostel of Armok" skill.
Added brass and zinc batch making to the blast furnace.
Added slag to custom reactions and metal ore
Removed pure metals. Pure gold, pure platinum, and so forth.
Removed slade crate from drow traders... slade metal doesnt exist anymore
Fishing poles and nets wont be used up that fast now. only 5% chance of loosing them.
All caste skills show a (*) behind the buffed skills. Now you can identify usefull castes and fitting skills ingame.
Nerfed Legionnaires strength, toughness and recuperation a little, but added natural fighting skills for this. (to make them more obvious among migrants)
Dining room sets make now 4 chairs and 4 tables. No more decorative statues in addition.
Custom beds no longer need cloth.
Rockforge needs an anvil. This way you need to make the stonecutter first.
Removed low boots.
Renamed high boots to boots.
The Ward of Armok can now cure (that means SAFE) possessed dwarves. Warlock spies, Necromancers, Werewolves and Bloodbeasts. ONLY BEFORE THE TRANSFORMATION.
New tile for Apostle of Armok. Looks like a priest now, not a doctor.
All diseases only affect each dwarf for one month max. That means each dwarf can only be infected once. After this he has a natural protection. The original disease carrier can

still infect migrants however.
Waterdragon are now [AMPHIBIOUS] instead of aquatic
Timberyard no longer needs wood to be build.
Orcs and Frost Giants are no longer trap-avoid.
Orc Scouts still are, so take care. Same for automaton steamrunners...
Dwarves now trade runesmith blueprints.
Drow and Humans no longer trade ammunition mint blueprints, since this building has been removed.
Fixed a handfull small things in the GUI. One link was directed to an offline site, 2 tooltips were outdated, 2 names slightly off... nothing major.
Removed Stop & Recenter at birth of citizen.
Removed Stop & Recenter at fog/mist in good/evil biomes.
Removed Stop & Recenter at "moody dwarf claims a workshop" and "moody dwarf starts a construction"
You will still get announcements about births, claimed workshops and started construction. Just no pause, and no camera focus on those events.
You will now get a pop-up box and pause/recenter on every transformation.  This change is optional, found in the GUI in the Misc Section. By default ON.
Added isoworld to the download
Added isoworld link to the utility section in the GUI.
Added isoworld section to the Manual
Added readmes for all utitilies. Found in the utility section.
All XYZ-man creatures (wax, sweat, beer, and so on) are 10 times rarer. They were a bit distracting at times.
Added 8 more metal types for colossi. 2 of these should only appear extremely seldom, and in the colosseum.
Added 21 creatures to be spawned into the colosseum.
Added glass buckets, bins, barrels, beds and cages.
Added bone and gem cages.
Items from the Rockforge and Gemforge no longer alienate the Elven Traders. (was using rocktip wood for the ammo, and some other items, due to stockpiling)
Added specific reaction to make shadowleaf/hide root/quarry bush oil. (these made oil before, but couldnt be selected one by one)
Added specific reactions to extract mithril and adamantine strands. (the vanilla reaction takes any metal that can be used, which are several in this mod)
Nerfed glass splinters a lot. woodcutter in the second caverns only bleed a little. nothing bad, more for flavor
Added Toxicist reactions. 6 poisons and imported animal venoms can be used on weapons, ammo or traps.
Removed mineral oil soap. for now, since no mineral oil exists.
Treant seed and spitting orchid seeds are a lot cheaper now.
Added Quickfort
Aded quickfort manual section

Reduced races to one metal each. This will allow better balancing of invasion, and trading.
Humans: Rose gold. (and sterling silver for tooly/toys)
Elves: Mithril
Drow: Bloodsteel
Warlocks: Ironbone
Goblins: Rusty Iron
Orcs: Rusty Steel
Automatons: Brass
Frost Giants: Wolfram
All cave civs have a mix of rusty iron and rusty steel
That should make elven and drow caravans guards a bit better, trading with them better, make goblins easier, orcs the same, warlocks easier, automatons same, frost giants

slower, but stronger. Goblinite/Orcinite will also always require the "remove rust" refining step.

[Fairin]

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

your link doesn't work

link on the first page does

initeditor reports a non registered problem. probably have to manually download / install for the button to work?

quickfort relies on autohotkey doesnt it?

[Meph]

Fixed link. Thanks. And check the included readme for everything Quickfort related. Initeditor works here, and on my netbook, so dont know what you are missing. Probably some .NET framework stuff. The init editor is not important anyway, most settings can be done on the first page of the settings exe... or you just open the init yourself

[Rose]

I think you might have listed the manual twice.

[Meph]

Yes I did. You see, the manual is very dear to me. The textbox in the forum gets small if you make such a long post as well

[DoX]

Meph, sweet Meph, why do you do this to me? I spend two days making an incredible fortress on your last update, and you give me a new one today!

Think of my free time Meph! But seriously, amazing work.

P.S. What will the runesmith eventually do? Make wards? Weave runes like the Weaponsmith? Something new? You know we love enchanted weapons and armor.

[Bloax]

?You mean all of this was done in a year?

[Riun]

Thanks for the update and happy first birthday - just started my new fort, will have a look at stuff.

Things i noticed: Standard embark is with battle picks/battle axes - dunno if that is moddable. In addition, picks cost now 36 embark points and not 44 anymore.

[Meph]

@dox: Runesmith will coat weapons, ammo and traps in runes. Every metal will be possible, and every metal will have a different effect. Weaponry and Armory will be changed, although I dont know exactly how yet. Otherwise the Runesmith would have been in this version already.

@bloax: 9 months. I took a 3 month break from modding. And the update was done in 5 days.

@riun: picks are cheaper, because picks are weaker. I cant mod the standard embark...

[Molay]

YES!

Thanks for the new version Meph Time to start the giant wicker doll and fill it with captives, then...

[BigD145]

I can't seem to roll a Glacier world. It restarts right after placing the last initial civilization. I only changed embark points in the default Glacier profile.

Windows 7 netbook

[dead]

sweet! great time to come back to DF! now i need to generate a volcano on flat surface with sand to make my glass empire.... and gratz on the 1 year anniversary may yours be filled with beard, booze, and GRUESOME DEATH!!!!

[Meph]

  arclance just wrote me, that I forgot to delete the last save. I did do a last test embark, to see if anything way broken. So, yeah, there is a save included, that serves no purpose at all.

Currently uploading a version without the save... is 4,5mb less. Otherwise no changes. I am such a genius.

[ImmortalBrain]

I checked the legendary reactions, they are not bugged. But a werescorpion doesnt give anything for it. So I have no idea whats going on in your fort. Could you send me a save ?

Couldn't post earlier, in case you still need my save:

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http://www.4shared.com/rar/71T_FXON/region2.html
This fortress is kinda messy i wanted to make a "prone to die" fort by ignoring military just to kill some time while i wait for the next version.

I can make 1 legendary skill right now and i can give you a 100% warranty that i did NOT kill a single megabeast. What is more, i can confirm killing werebeasts before and also getting a platinum skill essense in previous versions. Btw, i have some weird stuff happening with workshops - instead of canceling jobs i get em suspended without being able to unsuspend them, but i guess that it is a DFhack/my personal bug.

Also, i'd like to ask some questions 
1. Were broodmothers removed? If no, where can i get one?
2. Can dwarves wield bows? I'm asking because DF wiki clearly says "no", but Dwarf Therapist shows them as "can be wielded with two hands"
3. The same question applies to all those "Paladin Armor" and "Zweihanders", can they be worn/wielded by dwarves?
4. With the introduction of poisons i think i'll start using sharp weapons in order to try poisons out. Can anyone please give me a list of most "sharp" materials? i am kinda lost with all those gem/glass weapons?
5. How long should sleep and paralysis syndromes from poisons last? Are weapons coated permanently?

[Meph]

1. Broodmothers still in the game. Depending on world, dwarves, drow, or none.
2. Yes, bows can be used.
3. All the other stuff can be used as well. Zweihanders are even a normal dwarven weapon from the forge.
4. Manual - General Changes - Material Guides. Best one is of course candy, rest you see in the chart.
5. Paralyzis 50 ticks, slow 150ticks, greenskin bane 400 ticks with 150 for slow, 2000 ticks for sleep. voodood/horror are permanent.

Well, if you can make 1 skill, then you have 1 skill aether. Thats normal, from the werescorpion. I didnt knew for sure if I updated the fear the night creatures towards that point, but apparently I did. All is good.

Edit: Oh yes, previous polls:

Big Project: Expedition system did win, so here you have it. Second place was Colosseum, again, is included. Third one was the chaos civ in hell (big surprise for me). After that the toxicist and kobold camp addition. Kobold camp will be my next focus. Then I have a look at the civs.

Boots/Shields: 2/3 only make Kiteshields, but 1/3 makes all the others, so I kept them as they are. Only 2 people said that they use low boot occasionally so I did remove them.

Toys/Meat: Amazing 50/50 for standardize them, and keep them. Since I can do both (optional setting) I will do so. Next version will have it.

Metal/Plants: Current poll. Want to see what I have to change on the metal and farming industry, because I catch myself going straight for steel all the time, not using any other metals, and planting only plump helmets, pigtails and quarry bushes. Thats it. No above ground stuff, no detailed farming-planting rotations, just all-in, all-year. Thats boring, bad and too easy.