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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.

[Lockesly L`Crit]

What skill does the music use, and how does the cleaning song work?

I'm guessing, and don't quote me on this, that it cleans up the LIQUID_GLOB stuff left by turrets and other natural attacks, and blood smears. Could be wrong, though. Without any word from Meph, all of it is speculation.

[Meph]

Word from Meph: Cleaning song works like this: You got 20 bloodsmeared military dwarves hanging around your dining hall ? Their inventory is covered in blood, mud and vomit ? No problem, play a perfect tune and all are clean. Works like the cat cleaning interaction.

More Info about music:
There are 3 instruments for each race, makes 12 total. There are 12 songs. You need 1 instrument and the music stage for it. One dwarf will play a song, using the Coordination skill. The reaction produces a boiling stone that affects the dwarf, and he can do an interaction for a short time. This interaction targets any dwarf within earshot (25 tiles, line of sight) and applies the effect. Only one effect can be active at the same time, so you can make your dwarves faster OR stronger OR give them no fear... and so on. Only exception is the bonerattle, it will wake any dead in the area, as friendly corpses, but your civilians will still flee. Dont know if anyone can find a use for it, but I like the idea regardless.

About the Evil races: Their are done. Optional of course. You can play with dwarf sieges now, or only evil elves. Or only good elves. Or good and evil elves. However you like.

Another big change is skill essence fractures. I often read in this thread that people liked killing megabeasts because of the essence. Well... about 10% of all invaders, and higher percentage for automatons and frost giants will leave a "skill essence fracture" now. Combine 3 of those, get a skill essence. Speaking of Frost Giants: They have a new creature, I finally balanced them. Golems as well. Works well in Arena, but untested in Fortress Mode. And I made new sprites for them as well,



Someone asked about a pet guide as well, so here you go. Warning, big image:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The other new sprites:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Frost Giants have a full set
Spirithunter
Otter Man
MoleDog
Salamander/Gila Monster/Gecko Man
Gingerbread Man
Leaf Man
Hair Man
Hedgehog/Porcupine Man
Sauropod & Child
Griffon
Sloth Bear Man
Flying Squirrel Man
Flying Squirrel
Wren Man
Peregrine Falcon Man
Nautilus Man
Sperm Whale Man
Narwhal Man
Orca Man
Blood Spider
Forest Spider
Dragon Engine
Tapir/Giant Tapir & Child
Terrorbird & Child
Lich
Snow Leopard/Giant Snow Leopard & Child
Giant Cougar & Child
White Tiger/Giant White Tiger & Child
Echidna Man

Full Changelog:

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 - Stable warpstone leads to mutation, 200% strength, agility and endurance. (weak warpstone to fever/sickness, unstable to death)
 - Armok's metal. A rare gem that can be smelted in the smelter. Give one bar of every vanilla metal. (no candy though)
 - Blessing of Armok. A rare gem that makes the miner that mines it super fast, for 2 weeks.
 - Musical Stage, with 12 songs.
    - Speed (+25%)
   - Courage (nofear, noexert)
   - Battle (+15% strength, agility endurance)
   - No Food/Drink (no food, no drink)
   - No Sleep (no sleep, no stun, no paralyze)
   - Sleep (fall asleep immediatly)
   - Clean (all blood/ichor/vomit/mud etc is cleaned)
   - Horror (vomiting for a short time, after that immune to nausea, dizziness and fever)
   - Fighting (likes fighting)
   - Dance of the Dead (all corpses come to life)
   - Controlling (calmes berserking dwarves, slows and give noemotions)
   - Luck (250% more luck) <= what exactly does this do ?
 - All of them last for 1 month, except clean and raise dead (immediatly)
 - Only one song can be active on each dwarf, they dont stack.
 - GUI changes: Removed Wheelbarrows, they are obsolete with the next DF version
 - Removed wheelbarrow button
 - Added 4 new balancing buttons: Evil Dwarves, Evil Elves, Evil Humans and Evil Drow.
    - These add a hostile copy of the normal civs as you knwo them. Nice challange
 - Added Storage Unit Button, enables special Tradegoods
 - Added Music Stage button, enables 12 different songs
 - Linkes Raw Mithril to Silver and Galena, is now found near those veins.
 - Reworked pets, hopefully drow have nicer pets now, elves bring all warbeasts... (UNTESTED)
 - Fixed Turret/Landmine button, should be able to turn them off now.
 - Lowered life of dwarves to [MAXAGE:90:110]
 - Made all padded armor clothing SOFT instead of HARD. This means they have wear, but also count as clothing, against bad thoughts of being naked (UNTESTED)
 - Added runecloak, a full body chainmail that can be worn over the armor. Can be made of any metal.
 - Added 3 more weather types. For desert, glacier and evil regions. Rare, if occur, please report.
   - The three types are: dragonfire, writhing black mass and blizzard
 - New Frost Giant sprites. Profession specific
 - New Frost Giant creature, now way more balanced
 - New items for frost giants, they now bring weapons and armor.
 - Added 25 new sprites for still missing creatures.
 - About 10% of all sentient beings now drop a "skill essence fracture"
 - Combine 3 Essence Fractures to one Skill Essence in the Creatures Research Lab.
 - Updated Ascii Version

Oh, and I linked Mithril to Galena and native Silver veins. Just follow the veins to find this rare mineral easier. And the "Blessing of Armok" Gems are real awesome, the dwarves that mine them are super fast for 1 month. I think I mentioned this, but it works amazingly in Fortress mode. I only have problem assigning the proper Pets to all the races, since the new pet-system fro today messes everything up and I dont know how to solve it yet.

[zach123b]

that looks amazing and awe inspiring, now if mine carts would come out..

my suggestion to get the pets to the right race would be a caste that secreted a magic rock that transforms that caste into the pet
just make the caste have a short maxage so it can't visit your fort and less problems

thank you for the creature guide!

only dislike is the blood goat/blood wine but i'll just ignore it
oh and flaming skulls

last fort: had 200ish logs cut outside for coal/traps, flaming skulls burnt all but 8 due to rain, cage traps of wooden mechanisms burn T.T, then slaughtered 5 of my 22 dwarfs (pop_cap:8 ) and 2 horses, the skulls keep there distance but the corners in my fort let my dwarfs get to close..almost had a rage quit but a hauler was staring at the moon and i wanted to watch... i did good that fort imo, no one had anything above dabbling in social skills
one breath of fire is pretty much insta-kill on civilians, from what i witnessed : /

[Meph]

>>> NEW DOWNLOAD V 1.7.2 <<<

• Music Stage - Play up to 12 different songs to boost your dwarves
• Evil Races - Evil Doppelgangers of Dwarves, Elves, Humans and Drow to fight
• Magic Gems - Search for Armoks Metal and the Blessing of Armok deep underground
• New Frost Giants - Rebalanced and with new sprites
• Skill Essence Fractures - Kill invaders for skill essences, get a free legendary skill
• Magic Elven Potions - Buy up to 5 different special plants from elves
• New Bird Button - Remove up to 100 bird types, to have more ground-enemies to fight
• Pet Guide - Short graphical guide on all pets you can aquire
• Minor fixes, as always.

Special Thanks
To Naryar for his demons. I included them from the very start, but always thought they were deons... And thanks at Lycaeon for the idea I based the music system on.


Full Changelog:

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######    PATCH 1.7.2       ######
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 - Fixed batch reaction for gold furniture, now takes ore/boulder as planned.
 - Added silver and bone furniture set reactions.
 - Made other batch furniture reaction accept only non-economic stone.
 - Same for fishpond, tech research and magma-safe workshop, non-economic only.
 - Added new tradegood: silk clothing and 5 special plants (elf only)
   - Insomnium gives NO_SLEEP for several months.
   - Philosophum gives NO_AGING for ever.
   - Norrium gives NO_PAIN, NO_FEAR and a boost to strength for a short time.
   - Cure-All gives 25% disease resistance for a few months.
   - Siplhium gives STERILE for ever.
 - You can order these at elven caravans and brew drinks from these plants.
 - Moved all "open crates" reaction to the storage unit building.
 - Added burn scrapwood to charcoal to smelter and a batch version to the blast furnace.
 - Removed giant rat, giant olm, large rat, giant mole, cave croc and giant cave swallow from embark selection.
 - Added 5 special plants to drow tradegoods, only flavor. (same plants can be found in 3rd cavern)
 - Added crates of muskets, rifles, flintlocks, pistols, small bullets and large bullets to humans tradegoods.
 - Lowered frequency and penetrate power of optional vermin
 - Fixed siegeenginer/seigeoperate learning reaction in the library. Thanks smakemupagus for spotting this.
 - Added missing [ITEMS_WEAPON][ITEMS_WEAPON_RANGED][ITEMS_AMMO][ITEMS_DIGGER][ITEMS_ARMOR] to Iridium
 - Nerfed Giant Hornets (smaller bodysize and smaller cluster numbers)
 - Moved trapavoid from goblins to orcs
 - Lowered frequency of fire-breathing skulls (was 20%, is now 5%)
 - Gave different caste colors to antmen.
 - Lowered number and occurence of bog crawlers (TESTING)
 - Added bodyguards to elven caravans (TESTING)
 - Added different wagon animals and pets to elves and drow (TESTING)
 - Changed design of 3rd cavern.
 - More changes in the inorganic files
 - Stable warpstone leads to mutation, 200% strength, agility and endurance. (weak warpstone to fever/sickness, unstable to death)
 - Armok's metal. A rare gem that can be smelted in the smelter. Give one bar of every vanilla metal. (no candy though)
 - Blessing of Armok. A rare gem that makes the miner that mines it super fast, for 2 weeks.
 - Musical Stage, with 12 songs.
    - Speed (+25%)
   - Courage (nofear, noexert)
   - Battle (+15% strength, agility endurance)
   - No Food/Drink (no food, no drink)
   - No Sleep (no sleep, no stun, no paralyze)
   - Sleep (fall asleep immediatly)
   - Clean (all blood/ichor/vomit/mud etc is cleaned)
   - Horror (vomiting for a short time, after that immune to nausea, dizziness and fever)
   - Fighting (likes fighting)
   - Dance of the Dead (all corpses come to life)
   - Controlling (calmes berserking dwarves, slows and give noemotions)
   - Luck (250% more luck) <= what exactly does this do ?
 - All of them last for 1 month, except clean and raise dead (immediatly)
 - Only one song can be active on each dwarf, they dont stack.
 - GUI changes: Removed Wheelbarrows, they are obsolete with the next DF version
 - Removed wheelbarrow button
 - Added 4 new balancing buttons: Evil Dwarves, Evil Elves, Evil Humans and Evil Drow.
    - These add a hostile copy of the normal civs as you knwo them. Nice challange
 - Added Storage Unit Button, enables special Tradegoods
 - Added Music Stage button, enables 12 different songs
 - Linkes Raw Mithril to Silver and Galena, is now found near those veins.
 - Reworked pets, hopefully drow have nicer pets now, elves bring all warbeasts... (UNTESTED)
 - Fixed Turret/Landmine button, should be able to turn them off now.
 - Lowered life of dwarves to [MAXAGE:90:110]
 - Made all padded armor clothing SOFT instead of HARD. This means they have wear, but also count as clothing, against bad thoughts of being naked (UNTESTED)
 - Added runecloak, a full body chainmail that can be worn over the armor. Can be made of any metal.
 - Added 3 more weather types. For desert, glacier and evil regions. Rare, if occur, please report.
   - The three types are: dragonfire, writhing black mass and blizzard
 - New Frost Giant sprites. Profession specific
 - New Frost Giant creature, now way more balanced
 - New items for frost giants, they now bring weapons and armor.
 - Added 25 new sprites for still missing creatures.
 - About 10% of all sentient beings now drop a "skill essence fracture"
 - Combine 3 Essence Fractures to one Skill Essence in the Creatures Research Lab.
 - Updated Ascii Version

Known Issues:
 - Manual not yet updated.
 - Drow/Elven Pet Trading might be off by a few creatures.

PS: @zach123: Flaming skulls are rarer now, instead of 20%, only 5% of the burning skulls can breath fire now. The clothing is the problem, armor holds fine against fire.

[Lockesly L`Crit]

Only exception is the bonerattle, it will wake any dead in the area, as friendly corpses, but your civilians will still flee. Dont know if anyone can find a use for it, but I like the idea regardless.

First line of defense against an invasion, like a Quantum Kitten Cage.

[Panopticon]

I don't know if anyone has covered this, but I was able to appoint my Steel Golem Militia Captain to the Baron position.

He shows as wanting the Baron's quarters but I am unable to assign them to him as he shows as a pet, also he just ended a mandate, I don't recall him issuing one but that might have been missed in error message spam. The thing is though it is impossible to see what mandates he has issued as viewing the position just brings you to the Golem description.

I have no idea if he is getting a bad thought from this or not, but nothing has shown up on the Justice screen.

Unrelated to the above problem, he was also turned to a Golem while tired, and now shows "tired" eternally on his wounds screen, though it hasn't seemed to bother him in combat or whatever.

[Milkbot]

Do  you think we could get bark scraps to be burnt into ash at the crematorium? Maybe 2 bark scraps to one bar of ash?

With few trees, all my scraplogs are going to charcoal as magma is proving tricky. But I need ash for farms so I don't starve, and also for some nice glass or soap.

[Seraphyx]

In the latest version temperature was turned off by default. Is that intentional? Seems kind of weird since I've seen it cause a lot of problems to other people when it was turned off.

[Zeebie]

I don't know if anyone has covered this, but I was able to appoint my Steel Golem Militia Captain to the Baron position.

I had this happen.  It actually works out fine, because golems don't have emotion, so they never get upset about not having rooms or getting mandates.

[dukea42]

Can't wait to setup a bonerattle stage on the other side of fortifications from the bottom of my enemy pit.  All survivors must now battle the dead for their lives!  (assuming it will all work like that?)

[Lockesly L`Crit]

Do  you think we could get bark scraps to be burnt into ash at the crematorium? Maybe 2 bark scraps to one bar of ash?

With few trees, all my scraplogs are going to charcoal as magma is proving tricky. But I need ash for farms so I don't starve, and also for some nice glass or soap.

Grab a cat and/or a hunter. Use the crematorium to cremate vermin and bodyparts. You'll get ash every time.

[Corai]

I have wild armored horses, is this intended?

[Geneoce]

I know its a simple fix but how does one go about making broodslaves golem-able?

[tahujdt]

Did you ever figure out what was making it so you couldn't order pets from the drow?

[zach123b]

i believe slaves cannot be golem or anything aside from slaves because they have gone through a transformation

same reason why meph took out guildhalls, couldn't be a dwarf of a guild then transform into a mage

1 transform per creature, slaves are already transformed

edit: just tried with concubines, doesn't work : /
looks like it targets specific dwarf castes