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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]

A solution would be watchtowers, pets on chains and constant patrolling. Buy a couple of decoys and landmines, and put them out in the countryside.

Good news everyone. Magic wands and rune spell ammo work in Fortress mode, and the users learn the druid skill from it. AND:

[mglarev]

Ah, nice Dwarf Therapist patch 
Dwarfette.

My fortress is in the second year, not much time to get decoys. Will see if I can get them set up before they start to hate me.

[zach123b]

i got a little excited reading that you're thinking about adding classes like rpg games into this, aside from straight warrior/archer
why not add something like nightshades (rogue) that used the shadows to fight/escape, saw someone made an interaction that made your guy vanish
or a utility user like a batman minus the muscles to disrupt the enemy? push spells/blinding powder/other disables
maybe specialized archers like snipers that can teleport to get away or use a weapon like quincys from bleach from there life energy(but no ill effects)
or a monk that fights bare handed (or staff) with aoe and stun-like kind of skills
i feel dwarfs lack some speed elements

i feel magics shouldn't be to complicated.. (imagines the dwarfs from snow white casting spells to take down that witch)
magma sounds dwarfy as... UncleCern suggested
why not make it so dwarfs can only use certain magics like magma, stone and death stuff.  elves having nature, transform and water.  then humans having holy, fire, and lightning.  maybe goblins get death, transform and fire? and so on for the other races
maybe have something like blueprints but incantations or books to be traded for use but that might take a bit..
~end excitement rush~

[Meph]

Only roguelike ability in Df is ambush/sneak and that is done only be hunters, and very badly so. Melee and ranged I can do. Small system for now, 2 sides, black and white.

The big question for me now is this:

Do I upload the new version now, or do I finish the 2 mages first ? Dfhack is updated, font is fixed, bugs are fixed, therapist patch works, gui is finished and manual is kind of updated.

[slay_mithos]

If you think the mages might take less than a week, then take your time on the mages, else it would be good to have the new version vithout them.

That being said, my current fortress is about to crumble, so I am ready any time.

[zach123b]

upload with mages and let us be guinea pigs
but i'd advise keep the older version up or without mages for the less inclined
having a button that removes mages would work nicely as well

[Nighthawk]

Are Landmines supposed to walk around like animals? Because mine are. (Heh, "mine")

I now have a "Stray Acid Landmine (Tame)" and a "Stray Frag Landmine (Tame)".

[Meph]

No way to make landmines immobile. Same for turrets. Pasture them in a 1x1 pasture, and then they are still.

About the mages:
Buildings are finished.
Melee weapons (one good against the undead civ, one good against orcs/goblins) are done
Ranged weapons are done
Holy ammo is done, transformes the hit creature for a short time in a harmless hamster
Unholy ammo is done, target becomes crazed
Reactions for the 4 transformations are done, they are currently for free, need to add reagents
4 Creatures (Demonbound=unholy melee, Necromancer=unholy ranged, Paladin=holy melee, healer=holy ranged) are set up, but the special abilities are missing. Thats all.

Better names are welcome as well. Holy fighter, holy spellcaster, unholy fighter, unholy spellcaster.

[Ranik]

A solution would be watchtowers, pets on chains and constant patrolling. Buy a couple of decoys and landmines, and put them out in the countryside.

Good news everyone. Magic wands and rune spell ammo work in Fortress mode, and the users learn the druid skill from it. AND:

OH THANK GOD. :Worships whoever fixed it:

[Seraphyx]

I'd upload it without the new magic stuff first just so you can have more time to refine it a bit. If you upload right now as it is chances are a lot of people are going to report bugs you're probably aware of or are in the process of fixing.

But up to you.

The new magic stuff seems really complex but I like the idea behind it if you can give players decent control over what the mages do.

I like the idea of splitting them into good and evil. Maybe have only a few elements that encompass certain ideas. For example ice would be debuffs/crowd control, freezing an area to slow enemies down + some damage, slow their attack speed (if possible), lower their dodging ability temporarily. Earth could be poisons (make them throw up and all sorts of fun stuff), add some damage over time effects if possible (maybe inflict bleeding to make that happen?). Basically evil would be the higher damage mages, good would be the lesser damage but they would help your own dwarves by buffing them in certain ways (speed, faster regeneration of wounds if possible, more pain resistance, etc...).

Just an idea ;p

[MiamiBryce]

I was wondering what everyone thought of the trading races having [EQUIPMENT_IMPROVEMENTS] (it means they decorate objects).  Personally, I'm annoyed by something who's base value is 50 being priced at 6000 because it's been masterfully decorated with slademantium or some such thing. Is it just me?

Thanks

[bombzero]

If they don't have equipment improvements, you lose other minor flavor features, such as their civ symbol on their chestplates etc etc.

[Meph]

It makes trading harder, so it is a good thing.

I noticed that my dark church, which is partly built from bodyparts, does emit a miasma odor. I wonder if the built in bodyparts do rot away after some time. Otherwise nice, unintended effect. The building itself reeks of evil. (EDIT: Yep, they rot away and the building crumbles. Sad. Liked the need for bodyparts.) Replaced it with bones. The church is now build with slade, bones, skull totems and candles.

Transformations and magic ammo work fine in fortress mode. Will now start with the interactions, and test them in arena. Also nerfed the secret castes, they are 30% rarer now.

EDIT: Ok, everything is set up. Now for the interactions...

[bombzero]

so we might have a new version very soon?

[Meph]

Yep. I will now recline and give my laptop some fresh power, and wont be online. Actually thats good, cant spend time writing here, and work more