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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.

[Atramedes]

I do not know if this has been covered yet, but under what category is bonemeal? Its under stocks as a stone but I am unable to isolate it in the stockpile menu.

[Iax]

I have an issue with gypsum. I can not make it to the powder at klin, I have bags and gypsum availible, gypsum turned on and off in economic stone menu. Can't make this damn thing working.

Not just you,  I cant make plaster either at the kiln.

[Meph]

I did not change anything on the plaster/gypsum. But I remember that orthopedic casts where broken in Vanilla (?) Just make splints instead.

Bonemeal is a stone, dont know if you can restrict it in the stockpile. It needs to be a stone, other wise the vanilla reaction in the smelter will not accept it.

Endless sleep of mages: Ah... forgot that NOSTUN creatures will sleep forever. Removed it, should be fine in the next version.

Megabeasts: I will set the option to OFF be default then for the next release, till I figure out what it is. I think IT (from corrosion) had a similar problem since 34 ?

[Meph]

>>>NEW DOWNLOAD<<<

Main features:

• Drow survive easier
• More magic
• Fixed landmine and turret movement. (thanks narhiril)
• Lowered occurence of turrets with migrants by 85%
• Added new way of booze making: Bloodwine from bodyparts
• Added new way of booze making: Milking boozebelly goats
• Generic fluids, ichor, blood, milk and pus!
• Generic silk (silk, rare silk, soul silk (hell-only))
• Finished the magic system with 9 units, 6 ammos and 6 weapons
• Added edible materials from mining, living rock and cave fungus
• Added more reasons to explore the caverns, special trees. Glass spikes and living shields
• Added more danger to the caverns, special harmfull trees. Glass splitters and fire
• Tears of Armok, 1*1 aquifers gems, as nice surprises in the metamorphic layer
• Fixed blueprints and magic books. All a lot more expensive and harder to get
• More realistic fighting system. Hugos bone structures and orkels brain tissues
• Added ASCII, ASCII+, Jolly Bastion and Matrix Tilesets
• Fixed/Rebalanced about 100 smaller issues. At least it feels like it.

Full changelog (beware, long list)

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 - Fixed landmine movement
 - Fixed turret movement
 - Fixed rope reed rope reaction.
 - Made secrets rarer
 - Zombie bites should only transform bitten dwarves now.
 - Gave picks back to automatons, they should have access to materials now
 - Removed pyromancer caste from warlocks. Did burn down their own invasion force.
 - Fixed swamp whiskey brewing
 - Fixed leftover ink on scriptorium
 - Removed the three "rip item" reactions
 - Raised the value for blood slightly
 - Added reaction to extract blood from animal parts and corpses
 - Added reaction to brew bloodwine, from blood
 - Added soap to tradegoods/embark.
 - Generic fluids, ichor, blood, milk and pus! (troll still blue, warlock still purple, insects still white)
   This only changed the names. No more "pool of stoguslop bodskins blood". Now only: pool of blood.
   I left "race blood" in, so people can see the difference between "dwarf blood" and "goblin blood"
 - Generic silk!. Only three types now:
   - Silk. Standart.
   - Rare Silk. Found in deeper caverns, twice the value.
   - Soul webs/silk. Found only in hell. worth a lot.
 - Renamed hair to wool. (wool thread, wool robe and so on)
 - Fixed boiling iridium (value was so high, it was registered as negative)
 - Added boozebelly goat. Milk it, make cheese, ferment the cheese to booze. Second alternate way of alcohol making.
 - Added custom boozebelly goat sprite.
 - Fixed 6 outdated/wrong tooltips in the GUI
 - Finished 3 more building guides, magma-safe workshop, crematorium and stone grinder. 19 done in total.
 - Fixed slow learning for female mages
 - Fixed bone stud reaction accepting bone items as well
 - Slade bars are now stockpiled correctly
 - Slade bars can now be used to make weapons and armor in the forge
 - Fixed warlock necromancers. They can now really raise the dead.
 - Added reacion to boil eggs in the kitchen. Takes 1 egg, makes 1 boiled egg, now edible.
 - Nerfed reactions in the stonecutter a bit. Mostly changed boulder for blocks.
 - Lowered value of rocktip and gemtip ammo
 - Lowered netherwood value by 30%
 - Changed graphic of Magma Metallurgist
 - Slighty changed the needed ingredients for alloys
 - Removed all direct ore-to-alloy reactions. Now only bar-to-alloy left.
 - Finished 6 more buildings guides
   Arf Furnace, Magma Arc Furnace, Metallurgist, Magma Metallurgist, Blast Furnace, Magma Blast Furnace
 - Added new Blast Furnace graphics.
 - Changed Build materials for Blast Furnace. Instead of 1 Iron bar, now needs 3 Steel bars.
 - Added hugos ABS - Adv. Bone System. Much fun was had that day.
 - Added gem scarabs. Vermin that appear in 3rd cavern only, drop gemstone upon death.
 - Fixed stockpiling for books/pages/covers and special tradegoods
 - Fixed ink reaction (again, empty tag was missing)
 - Fixed leather reaction (again, exotic leather had its own reaction class)
 - Cleaned up forge screen (strange metal appearing where they shouldnt)
 - Renamed some stuff in the GUI and the reactions to fit the new names of trapcomps and buildings
 - Changed a lot of wording and castes of the antmen civ. Should look much nicer now.
 - Added "prepare fossil" reaction (which cuts fossils in the archologist automatically)
 - Made all fossil reactions automatic
 - Removed heart/sapwood reactions. Now you have to choose between either fairwood OR 2 scrapwood.
 - Renamed a lot of things in the reaction_masterwork.txt for better wording
 - Fixed pekyts. They now really give tough hide when butchered. They also grow up faster and are slightly cheaper.
 - Rebalanced and improved all 5 elven warbeasts. They also should now appear always in the tradescreen.
 - Magma hounds no longer set everything on fire by just being there. (now one caste can do firebreath, the other fireball)
 - Renamed pan pipe to pan flute
 - Added anvil reaction to smelter. Take 5 bars, form an anvil.
 - Fixed 2handed sword reaction in adventure mode
 - Fixed the last remaining hotkey problems for buildings (some letters were used twice)
 - Sawdust is now brown, as intended, and not black/gray
 - Added bullets to human civ. (stupid, they had guns but no ammo)
 - Changed paper for books slightly. (easier)
 - Raised value of slade (vanilla slade has a value of 1. Is now 100.)
 - Added 2 shapeshifting reaction to holy/unholy building. Lasts 10 days.
 - Angel of Vengeance is a winged human being that can fight well and throw thunder and artic wind. (spellbook ftw)
 - The Unnamed One is a horned human(?) being that is the biggest overkill ever, fighting sieges all alone.
 - The catch with the Unnamed One: 50% chance to be hostile. Dont bargain with demons
 - Added 3rd and last magic building. The Hall of the Mountain King. Dwarven Magic.
 - Finished the magic system, V0.1 (a lot of balancing ahead)

 - Changed purify water to barrel instead of bucket.
 - Added edible cave fungus cheese reaction. Some cave fungus might leave a stone now. Quite rare though.
 - Added aquifer bombs. Little gemstone cluster with the aquifer tag.
 - Rebalanced occurence of the 5 new metals a bit.
 - 5 more building guides finished. Engineer, Timberyard and the 3 magic buildings. 29 done.
 - Added orkels Brain System. Brains are now "inner brain and outer brain" and people will survive head injuries more often.
 - Added SanDiegos Tissue Overhaul. Parts of it. Biggest changes: Shell, Scale and Chitin is tougher, internal organs bleed more, hurt more, but also heal faster, and in general a bit more blood everywhere. Hope testing proves this to be a good decision.
 - Made MountainKing a lot more fun. Unkillable and throws everything he hits away. A lot. Can take frost giant siege alone.
 - Updated to newest Phoebus Version.
 - Added Ascii
 - Added Ascii+ done by vherid with custom color scheme
 - Added Matrix, with custom color scheme
 - Added Jolly Bastion, with custom color scheme. Press F12 to disable Truetype if playing with this tileset.
 - Added automatic tileset chaning to the GUI. Tested, works.
 - Changed layer permit of platemail. Should be able to wear padded shirts underneath now.
 - Nerfed barbed wire. Now 1:2:3 hits for the different versions, instead of 3:3:3
 - Fixed all the wording for material emissions. Now refer to the proper attacks, each creature has custom text.
 - Replaced all [SOFT] tags with [HARD] even in the new optional clothing, to stop rot.
 - Nerfed turret occurence (they are one creature now, instead of 7, this means only 15% as many turrets will arrive)
 - Acid and Warpstone vapor is green now, as it should be.
 - Removed steeloak_metal and ironbark_metal. Now produce steel and iron instead.
 - Raised value of plants and seeds every so slightly. 1 point. (no spamming seeds at embark)
 - Added [DEFAULT_SITE_TYPE:CITY] [BUILDS_OUTDOOR_TOMBS] [BUILDS_OUTDOOR_FORTIFICATIONS] to all friendly civs. For adv. mode.
 - Added reaction to kitchen: butcher living rock, 1 meat
 - Added reaction to timberyard: butcher living tree, 3 meat
 - Added reaction to timberyard: break crystal tree, 3 rough crystal glass and 1 crystal glass pike
 - Added splintering glass tree to 2nd cavern. You fell them, you get hit by glass. (light syndrome)
 - Added living tree to 3rd cavern. Red wood, or meat from butchering them.
 - Added living rock to living rock. About 2-5% of it leaves a solid rock now.
 - Added firewood to 3rd cavern. You fell it, it starts a fire.
 - Changed blueprints and books. Now are really expensive to trade for. (2000-5000 for blueprints)
 - Renamed books: Scoll of Fire, Grimoire of Death and Tome of Life. Dwarven, drow and human tradegood.

 - Added SethCreids Speech extension mod, for adventure mode.
 - Gave natural combat skills to drow. Might help them survive world gen. Also made them like cities.
 - Nerfed frost giants a little bit, but not much. Thinner tissues mostly.
 - Added vermin to 3rd cavern that lays eggs in people. Egg hatch, dwarf transformes. Think of facehuggers.
 - Added more gun types to humans, now that the test was sucessful. they use guns and ammo.
 - Added custom profession names for warlocks, goblins, elves and humans
 - Added custom named nobles for goblins and humans (TEST)
 - Added two more reaction to the transmutation chamber:[PERMITTED_REACTION:TRANSMUTE_PIG_IRON_TIN] [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRANSMUTE_TIN_PIG_IRON]
 - Gave drow some more pets to sell (TEST)
 - Added the dictionary project. This means all generated names will be grammatically correct.
 - MAJOR CHANGE: Higher Frequency for fantastic creatures, to balance out the new "mundane" creatures.
 - Splitted bonemeal reaction into 2. One takes only bones, one takes only remains.
 - The bone bonemeal reaction takes 5 bones now, and makes 5 bonemeal. (this way stacks are not wasted completely)
 - Added 2 new landmines, hellfire and dryice. You can buy these, or upgrade fire/ice landmines.
 - The upgrades are done in the Engineers Workshops, since traps and mines are somewhat related. This is a test.
 - Added "excavate stone" reaction to Archologist. Takes 10 worthless stones, searches them for items.
 - Might yield earthenware/stoneware crafts, or if lucky (10%) an obisidian sword/spear.
 - Fixed typo in the lameller armor raw
 - Nerfed fros giants some more.
 - Gave warbeasts that lacked that tag children
 - Removed the shaped tag from chainmail. can now be layered.
 - Updated mouse fortress
 - Added 4 more ascii tilesets in a seperate folder.

I also added a link to the wiki directly from the GUI. The tileset changer works well, but I guess I might have overlooked a few tiles, since I still cant identify what looks right or wrong in ascii. On first glance it seems alright, but if some plants or materials look odd, just let me know. This can easily be fixed. Filesize went a bit up, but then again I needed duplicates of the raws for the tilesets.

[isitanos]

Just quoting this from the Mouse Fortress thread, I think you're gonna get bug reports about this pretty soon .

I was just looking through the new masterwork release and I found a small issue, the launcher opens mouse.exe instead of launch.exe, so just a heads up that could cause some problems.

[Meph]

Is fixed and will re-upload. Thanks for the heads up. (somehow there is always this one detail that goes wrong, almost like my own personal tradition by now)

[bombzero]

yeah i noticed that too 

looks nice, downloading.

[Meph]

Fix is uploaded. I did not chance the version number, since it is really just a minor thing and shouldnt affect the actual mod/game.

[bombzero]

yeah, changelog looks nice, so can i do padded shirt, chainmail, breastplate? or even better same thing but with platemail instead?

[Buffbot]

Woot, thanks for getting that up so quick, Meph.  Was just hitting some massive slowdown with a really old fort, was getting time for a new one.

I think I may have found the issue with the plaster reaction at the kiln not working.  The gypsum in the inorganic_mineral.txt was missing the [REACTION_CLASS:GYPSUM] token (as far as I can tell anyway).  So I just added this back in and the reaction at the kiln seems to be working fine for me now.

Of course, the easy alternative is just to use the apothecarius and bypass the kiln entirely as it appears to use the gypsum stones directly, while training your doctors slightly.

[sayke]

meph - am having an absolute ball with my 1.5.1 fortress =D built a nice wall and a bunch of ground defenses, with a nice walled-off safe area on a hill above my fortress for all my animals and above-ground farms... only to get attacked by tons of fliers!! i don't recall seeing that before. i staved em off when, after devastating my farms, they flew into my main fortress entrance and got chewed up by turrets, armored dogs, and my small militia. the moral of the story is that one must maintain a robust air defense system...! =)

a few things, though:

- i had

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a merchant guard spying out the production facilities. what great cover for an intelligence asset... =D if he'd flipped while he was around, i have no idea what that would have done for my relations with the mountainhomes, but i doubt it would have been good!

not sure if there's anything you can do about it, or even if its a bad thing, but i figured i should inform you that it's possible.

- the gypsum thing is a problem, and does seem to work fine for me in vanilla. no idea why it would be broken on masterwork - if you could take a look and see if you have any ideas, there would be a lot fewer questions down the line!

- .bmp sprite transparency seems to work fine - all you'd have to do is change all the sprite backgrounds to that pink color, and DF will render them transparently. have you have any luck talking to the phoebus folks about it?

- embarking with the ingredients for a blast furnace really is the way to go =D

- in the interest of ensuring that new dwarf fortresses get a chance to experience the diversity of enemies that masterwork has to offer, and after quite a bit of !!SCIENCE!! with the world generator, i think its quite possible to ensure that all civs are represented and have enough time to stabilize and expand an an ideal amount. the trick is to make sure they don't completely eradicate any other civ, or start at war with the dwarves very often.

i've found that if you sure there's one continent, on a medium world, without too much ocean, and ~75 years of history, all civs should be represented, and each civ should have several sites without getting on each others' toes too much. further, a mineral setting of 100-200 seems to work wonderfully to ensure that there's some of everything available for fortresses to play with. here's the settings i've found seem to work pretty well - you might want to include as an advanced worldgen template so people can get random, fast, clean worlds with everything in them. let me know if this sort of settings template jives with your experience:

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[WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:LITTILE_BIT_OF_EVERYTHING]
[DIM:129:129]
[EMBARK_POINTS:1600]
[END_YEAR:75]
[BEAST_END_YEAR:50:80]
[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
[ELEVATION:1:400:800:800]
[RAINFALL:0:100:101:101]
[TEMPERATURE:25:75:101:101]
[DRAINAGE:0:100:101:101]
[VOLCANISM:0:100:101:101]
[SAVAGERY:0:100:101:101]
[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:3:2:0:1:0:1]
[RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[MINERAL_SCARCITY:100]
[MEGABEAST_CAP:50]
[SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:50]
[TITAN_NUMBER:100]
[TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]
[DEMON_NUMBER:25]
[NIGHT_TROLL_NUMBER:25]
[BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:25]
[VAMPIRE_NUMBER:25]
[WEREBEAST_NUMBER:25]
[SECRET_NUMBER:52]
[REGIONAL_INTERACTION_NUMBER:22]
[DISTURBANCE_INTERACTION_NUMBER:22]
[EVIL_CLOUD_NUMBER:11]
[EVIL_RAIN_NUMBER:11]
[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:1:16:0]
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:1:16:0]
[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:1]
[PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:3]
[VOLCANO_MIN:1]
[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:0:0:0]
[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
[RIVER_MINS:5:5]
[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
[SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:85]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:15]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:20]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:50]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:15]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:25]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:15]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:15]]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:15]]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
[LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
[CAVE_MIN_SIZE:25]
[CAVE_MAX_SIZE:50]
[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:50]
[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:50]
[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:11]
[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:15000]
[SITE_CAP:1500]
[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
[ELEVATION_RANGES:0:0:0]
[RAIN_RANGES:0:0:0]
[DRAINAGE_RANGES:0:0:0]
[SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:0:0]
[VOLCANISM_RANGES:0:0:0]


UPDATE!! damn - whole new awesome version to mess around with!! =D sorry i didn't post this earlier, but its not really a big deal in any case. yay!!

[bombzero]

^ dwarves tend to be pretty badass in worldgen fights.

[bombzero]

Meph, about your 3rd cavern vermin/infestor. vermin can teleport anywhere, if custom vermin are on your fort is fucked after opening the 3rd cavern.

EDIT: i mean sorry to ruin your little mad scientist fun, but i feel that this is an issue.

[isitanos]

Meph, about your 3rd cavern vermin/infestor. vermin can teleport anywhere, if custom vermin are on your fort is fucked after opening the 3rd cavern.

Yeah, I saw that you sneaked that in (probably with a mad evil laugh). Oh God. Can't you make them non-hostile creatures instead, so that dwarves don't automatically flee them but you can still send in the military to get rid of them, and most of all so they don't teleport?


Unless you want to force us to use cats in industrial quantities all over the fortress.

[Meph]

Vermin infestors: Use Cats or frill lizards. Have fun with them, I thought weaponizing vermin is another way to make the game more random. I think its more fun if something is thrown in your face and you have to deal with it, instead of having the perfect defence. More frill lizards would be the way to go. I figured that a fortress that has reached lvl 3 cant have a big problem with those, considering how rare a bite is.

Armor layers and shapes have been modded a bit. Should work better now, hope I did not break anything.

The gypsum report is nice, thanks for that, I will fix it. But remember, splints have the exact same effect, and with stone splints from the stonecutter they are easy to get.

I also made a list of all the creatures without sprites (spawned EVERY creature the game has in the arena, the fight afterwards was epic. The survivors are one completely red blizzard man and a completely red obsidian colossus with 2 limbs missing. The Mountainking (i thought he would never die) actually burned to death at some point. After killing a lot of things while burning.

And I finished 4 more building guides, Metallurgist, Magma Metallurgist, Altar of Armok and Temple of Armok.