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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.

[Fungus]

Ah, ok, that's a shame. Thanks Meph. I've scoured every resource I can find but there isn't very much information (even on the DFHack thread) but I thought I should post here first.

[Meph]

Ishar, the press wood in the screwpress works. Tested it.

whoever reported that half of his dwarves were highborn dwarves when he plays without castes: It was only the description showing up on every male dwarf. Not actual highborns, but only the description. Is fixed.

Just wrapping up everything for the next version atm.

[smakemupagus]

Meph, would you consider making bloodsteel a different color than regular steel?  Maybe:
4:7:0

Orcs use it for a lot of things special from regular steel, so it'd be nice to see stocks at a glance.

[Meph]

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD - 2g+ <<<

Masterwork DF V2g+
Super quick hotfix.

• Updated Therapist to 20.4 (splinterz fixed another bug)
• Bloodsteel is now red.
• Orc Manual Button no longer opens Kobolds manual and vice versa.

Masterwork DF V2g
SUPER IMPORTANT: Hotkeys. Press Ctrl+Q for Quicksave. Press Ctrl+F for Fortress Stats, showing you how much time each dwarf spends on each job.

IMPORTANT: (tl:dr; version) Harder mining has been changed, Rockwraiths are gone. Only a few metalwraiths remain. I hope more people will use this harder, but not so annoying option now. Kobolds are completely redone, its an entirely new mod. Aboveground plants only need one season to grow. Orc Fortress is a lot bigger. New building: Siegeworks. And bugfixes, a lot of them. Thats it.

NOTES: Special thanks to talvieno for his quick help on the creature generation update; Wannabehero for DeeperDwarvenDomestication mod, adding 10 awesome dwarvish pets; Smakemupagus for his continued work on Orc Fortress and the Kobold Caste System; everyone who reported bugs or inbalances and Falconne, for yet another one of this great UI improvements.

Orc Fortress

• Updated to v1.02
• Twice as big as before

Kobold Camp

• Complete Overhaul, everything new.
• Try it out, its very different from Dwarves and Orcs.

DFhack

• More custom plugins
• Happiness counter, Fort Statistics, unsuspend all constructions...

The happiness counter. Enabled by default, shows up in the lower-left corner of the screen. You can see how many dwarves are how happy. Great to avoid tantrums. The example show a fresh embark with 7 units total.


Utilities

• Updated Therapist to 20.3
• Updated Soundsense r40
• Added direct downloadlink for the Soundsense pack to the manual

GUI

• Fixed grazing button (fingers crossed)
• Added Heavy Siegeworks button
• Added direct links to all three manuals and a bugreport template
• Bacteria, Alchohol Vapors and Stench is no longer linked to "harmless smoke effects"

Manual

• Updated Manual
• New: Kobold Camp Manual

Bugfixes

• Effecient steel making back in
• Added missing "mill carmine" reaction
• Shadowleaf now inedible and only underground
• Dwarven lashers are no longer called halberdiers
• Golem upgrades now accept all clockwork parts
• Drow dont have 2 copies of golem hearts to sell
• Fixed Chitin and Shell upgrades
• Vomit is no longer blue (strange one that)
• Fixed pray for booze reaction
• Fixed animal armor recycling
• Fixed steel batch reaction, now needs iron as intended
• Fixed adjective of legendary twohanded weapons
• Fixed greater badgermen size
• Fixed/Removed "stone rain"
• Removed resurrection in good regions (unable to fix it)
• Fixed triple reagent in "loot ruins"
• Fixed caste descriptions showing up when playing without castes

Balancing

• Nightmares only appear in evil regions
• Removed rockwraiths from harder mining. Only metalwraiths remain
• Balrogs are rarer and Soggoths only appear in living rock
• Boozebelly cheese gives 20 instead of 10 booze.
• Aboveground plants only need 1 season to grow. (twice as fast then before)

New Features

• Heavy Siegeworks - Metal siege engines
• Oil sand and oil slate - Make mineral oil
• Fatty oil - Make oil from tallow
• Slag Update - 3 different ways to make concrete
• Milk poison - all creatures with poisons can be milked for it
• 9 new Alchemist reactions - Special booze with syndromes
• Pray for wool or cotton - great for moods

Full Changelog:

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Changelog - Masterwork DF V.2g
 - Added efficient steel making in crucible back in.
 - Increase "ferment boozebelly cheese" from 10 to 20 units of booze.
 - Added [PERMITTED_REACTION:MILL_CARMINE] to entity file. Allows dye to be made of cochineal insects.
 - Shadowleaf bush is now underground only and inedible, just as it should have been.
 - Removed ITEM_SHIELD_ROUND from dwarf_evil, since this item does not exist anymore.
 - Fixed grazing button showing YES even if set to NO
 - Fixed spelling error in GUI (instead of simple toys it said simply toys.)
 - Removed CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME:LASHER:halberdier(*):halberdiers(*)] from legion caste.
 - Golem Upgrades now accept all types of clockwork parts, not just those looted from automatons.
 - Kobolds can now butcher and eat sapient beings.
 - Drow no longer sell useless golem heart toys. (they had one entry under misc and one entry under toy)
 - Removed batch soap making reactions.
 - Fixed chitin and scale upgrades.
 - Fixed pray for booze reaction.
 - Dead/Butchered iron/steel-clad animals now leave a casts. These can be recycled for 2 bars, 1 chain, 1 mechanism.
 - Dead turrets leave a damaged turret. These can be recycled for 2 bars and 1 mechanisms.
 - Dead golems leave a damaged golem. These can be recycled for 5 bars and 2 mechanisms.
 - Sausages now need 2 units of meat and 1 vermin remain for 3 sausages. (no more free meat, and yes, they are disgusting)
 - Alcohol vapors, bacteria and stench is no longer linked to the "smoke effect button" (it had some untrue describtion, sorry)
 - Steel batch reaction fixed, the iron bars ingredient was missing.
 - Raised pig iron and steel batches from 6 to 12 bars.
 - Lowered bonestud value to 1.
 - Removed Rockwraiths
 - Metalwraiths only emerge from Cobaltite, Silver or Gold
 - Soggoths only appear in living stone
 - Balrogs are 50% rarer
 - Added oil sand and oil shale, black mineral oil bearing clusters.
 - Chemist can make mineral oil from oil shale and oil sand. 1 boulder = 1 unit of oil.
 - Chemist can make fatty oil from tallow. 3 tallow = 1 unit of oil.
 - Slagpit now needs 2 querns to be build.
 - Concrete from slag now has 3 reaction:
 - Concrete from slag = 2 blocks
 - Concrete from 2 slag and 1 ash = 8 blocks
 - Concrete from 4 slag and 1 lye = 20 blocks
 - All poison and venom bearing animals can be milked for poisons/venoms. Used for the Toxicist.
 - All above-ground plants grow in 1008 time units = 1 full season. (was 2 seasons, but plants sown in summer withered in winter, that was not intended)
 - legendary Twohanded weapons now have the proper adjective (legendary) instead of the old (superior). Copy past error on my part.
 - Alchemist has 9 new reactions. You can specifically extract gnomeblight and golden salve, and brew 7 kinds of drinks: the 5 elven plants and nether vine/nether creeper.
 - All 7 drinks have special syndromes.
 - Norrium brews warrior shots, bonus in strength and endurance
 - Insomnium brews into insomnia wine, adds no sleep
 - Silphium brews Sterility draught, adds sterile
 - Cure-all brews into disease resistance draught, gives max syndrome resistance
 - Philosophum brews into youth poiton, adds no_aging.
 - Nether vines brews into nether wine, gives no_fear
 - Nether creeper brews into nether grour, poisonous drinks. (for nobles or curious_beast_guzzler)
 - ALL THESE DRINKS AND PLANTS HAVE BEEN IN THE MOD BEFORE (I just thought that they are not used often, because it was too much micromanagement)
 - 2 new reactions for the shrine: Pray for wool and Pray for cotton. Similar to the silk reactions, this will give you a chance for moods that need yarn/fiber thread/cloth.
 - Removed ubiquitious from all creatures. For testing.
 - Fixed greater badgermen (fortress defense race) size. This time for all tileset versions.
 - Removed "stone rain" (which was actually a leftover from a test to see if I can rain magma)
 - Removed resurrection in good regions (because it leads to strange ingame behavior)
 - Removed alt-grass tiles from non-phoebus grasses (phoebus already had this)
 - Fixed triple reagent in looting ruins (expedition system, was a copy paste error)
 - Removed target verb from lifemancer healing (way, way less anouncement spam)
 - Fixed naming error in blast furnace batch zinc reaction (was called tin)
 - Added reaction to cut planks from fair wood
 - Nightmares (flying flaming horses) only spawn in EVIL regions.
 - Vomit is no longer blue with the default color setting. Back to good old green (no idea how that happened)
 - Added Heavy Siegeworks.
 - Make batches of metal ballista bolts (3). Moved from Ammo Caster.
 - Make metal ballista parts. Make metal catapult parts.
 - Attach slade to ammo (super heavy hit) or attach dynamite to ammo (chance for explosion on hit)
 - Added 10 new dwarven pets, thanks to Wannabehero and his deeperdwarvendomestication mod.
 - Fixed Noble dwarves description showing when played without castes. (was only the description though, no other changes)
 - Fixed naming of "paperstack tool". Was called stack ingame. Is now: Paper.

 - DFHACK
 - Updated falconnes plugins
 - Added 2 new plugins: dwarfmonitor.plug.dll and resume.plug.dll
 - dwarfmonitor.plug.dll shows what each dwarf is doing on average, for example 50% idle, 25% mason, 15%sleep, 10% eat/drink. (CTRL+F ingame)
 - resume.plug.dll marks all suspended constructions/buildings with a red X, and enabled "unsuspend all".
 - Happiness counter on the lower bar.

 - UTILITIES
 - Updated Talvienos Creature Generator
 - Now with random megabeasts.
 - Updated Therapist to 20.3
 - Updated Soundsense and added a download link to the soundpack (200mb) to the manual.

 - ORCS
 - Updated Orc Fortress to 1.2
 - Twice as big as before.
 - Tons of stuff, see the included manual.

 - KOBOLDS
 - complete Overhaul.
 - Tons of stuff, see the included manual.

 - GUI
 - Added Heavy Siegeworks button
 - Added shortcuts to the manual, orc manual and kobold manual
 - Added a note that changing playable races need a new worldgen. Many people did not know that.
 - Added a bugreport option.
 - Fixed grazing button (fingers crossed)

[Panopticon]

Meph you are both a scholar and a gentleman, starting a new fort now.

[Deon]

Dwarven lashers are no longer called halberdiers

Where did that come from?

[jaxy15]

The "orc manual" button pops up the kobold manual and the "kobold manual" button pops up the orc manual. Might wanna do something about that.

[sandi Mexicola]

Thanks so much!  I love your mod!   

[Meph]

Thank you

@smake: Yep, can be done. Is done, and is being uploaded.
@deon: That came from a long forgotten line of code, from 1,3 years ago when I copied your castes to make the Legion dwarf. They had custom profession names, including the halberdier, which no one noticed till just now.
@jaxy15: Well, neither orcs nor kobolds nor me can read all that well. Is fixed, I am doing a second upload atm.

I also added some more links to the frontpage. A link to each releasepost, so people can find the entire changelog for everything, and new links to Orc Fort, Orc Tutorial Fort, Kobold Camp and the upcoming Kobold Tutorial Camp.

[Nokao]

Oh shit ... I nearly just ended up my fort and you update the mod !?   I hate you
I love your mod, I will write a short list of the best things and some suggestion when I'll loose this fort

By now, I start to make some suggestion. First of all, the "carp god" quest was nice in the end
Also all the workshops add-ons, but I only tryed 50% by now. FPS improvement is great, but I'm greedy and I always want more.
I was searching for a particular embark (pre-built castle to conquer, with 1 or 2 rivers, possibly 2-3 zlevels higher) and I found it. But to do that I had to play in a 6x3 embark and the FPS start to hate me again.

Apart from that, I honestly have to say that actual MasterWork flaws are all Vanilla-related.

For example (hope that Toady One will read someday):

• if I were him, I would update the Justice system with a modern "quest system" with "widgets" for modders like you to interact with. I felt this problem in the "carp god" quest, it was very nice but informations about that was too fragmented
• because of a too simple taming / animal training system, the fact you added many animals for trading made the game too simple for me. For example, I was very lucky and I had a legendary cook very early (maybe for a strange mood) and I was able to sell luxury food to buy dragons & magma hounds very early, but the "un-cage" and "tame+use+assign animal to person" part should be simpler (menus) and skill-related (no good tamer? no party). In the end, this is a fantasy game, so I would like to see more "skill requirements-related behaviours". Like some evolutions in the game that give you more workshop/buildings (like when you see lava for the first time) or blueprints like you did (great idea)
• as a player, I dream about a DF menu (expecially build menu) revamping. The actual menu is clearly the consequence of many game add-ons, but some items (like tractor bench, etc) should be added in sub-menus, and handling menus for modders should be possibile for new developements of the game

Honestly, I think that MasterWork should be inserted into Dwarf Fortress default package and that Toady One should work with you or, at least talk with you about future releases.

Steam engine for me is the most important piece of work (I know you didn't do it) but also that should be added in the original game, for future purposes. Think the use for that who created "The Almighty Dwarven Calculator " ... Toady should add gases (like steam) as a fluid and make them behave like that (with volume-pressure stuff).

However, MasterWork overall experience is great for all extra items/creatures that are added in the game, and I actually just have seen 20% because I'm only barricaded into my castle, scared to death.

[Deon]

Ah, I figured it could be that thing. How are kobolds coming, any new breathtaking ideas ? I guess there's no need to focus on elven tree submod until the next version comes out, so you can focus on orcs and kobolds.

I've replied to your frostbite thread, it's easy to make frostbite-killing enemies (but they are annoying, so restrict it to semi-/megabeasts).

[Meph]

@Nokao, I never spoke to Tarn, and I dont think he cares much about mods. Otherwise the game would be open-source and/or have full graphic support. I dont blame him, its his thing, he can do what he wants. He will definetly never work with anyone else on DF.

I'm only barricaded into my castle, scared to death.

Good.

@deon: Thanks, I will try to see what I can do with the white dragon. I did not plan it for enemies, but possibly mages/shamans in Kobold Camp, or as a weapon for the gnomes. The high-end tradepartner with hightech/steampunk stuff. "A dwarf equips a gnomish freezeray". Mh... now that I write it down, it looks too high tech. ^^ Other then that I want to improve the warlocks. So if I just make shades that have a killing-death touch freezing people to death, thats perfect. I give them no armor and a glass body, so every ranged shot shatters them. Forces people to use ranged units. I have shades with death touch lying around for just this, but freezing to death would be even nicer.

[Nokao]

@Meph:
Yes I know, and even if in the beginning I was very unhappy with that, because I totally fell in love with this game, I saw on the forums and in the changelogs that he works so much (full time) on this project, so yes, it's better like this than an open source game with thousands of not motivated people.
However yes, he should definitely look into your mod to understand how make the game better, or at least more moddable. I can't even imagine the effort you are putting into improving this game only working on text files.

Yes, I'm scared to death reading at your manual and it took me 30 hours of game just to clean, dig, and adapt to my needs a pre-build conquered castle.
Now I have only 40% of buildings built, I miss all the "heavy industry" and all workshops (except mason&carpenter) that have to do with non-organic material.
This is because I'm waiting to find lava, but anytime I try to go down I get sieged up.

Few hours ago I assisted to an epic battle between my animal trainers + magma hounds against a group of ice blizzard wizards. With my archers shooting from fortifications. Really beautiful.

However I see that good fort building really stops sieges, enemies from outside don't know what to do.
So I could consider my game go be already over? Or new problems will come up from the inside or below?

I was attacked also by a forgotten beast wyrm-dragon type, but he didn't fly inside the castle from upside. He just killed all previous siegers that was waiting, blocked outside my walls.

[Meph]

If the game was C++ only, I would never have started modding. I like the text files, it should just be more of them. And maybe a tiny if/else function for the reactions, that would be handy. Or adding new professions/labors/skills. But hey, it works like it is.

How your fort will end or not is quite random, thats the nice part. Might be safe, might be... not so very safe. Underground sieges happen, but not many things can completely wreck you from the inside of your fort. I have 5 nice ideas lying around for this, but havent gotten around to it. Really tricky some parts. And as long as you dont eat meat and drink mead from your legendary dining hall build on the floors of hell, your game is not over. Not by far. Have you been to the third cavern yet? Found any facehuggers?

[LordBaal]

Also, the game as it is, is still incomplete. In the future you might find that a good fortress design is not enough when the besiegers get the ability to climb, dug or even tear down walls.

Also, even when is possible achieve some stability on a fortress, eventually you will need more resources, more space or simply curiosity will make you dig deeper or make wacky things like trying to cast a obsidian tower from water and lava.