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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.

[Morwaul]

Not sure if this is an issue or a new feature.  I cannot tame animals in 1.7.2.  There is no option for it on the Kennel.  My animal trainers are level 1 though so maybe this comes with a raised skill?  What is the easiest way to raise Animal Training?

Meph, would it be possible to get a "Beast Lord" or "Animal Savant" type caste?  The problem currently is that I never get a dwarf with more than a level 1 animal training skill.

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[Spray]

same problem as morwaul.

about 60 dwarfs, 3 with animal skills at legendary but the dungeonmaster noble doesnt show up.
theres a dragon, waitin to tamed :/

[Bodyless]

thats a vanilla feature. animals are not trained anymore at the kennels. looks for them in the anmial screen where you can mark them to be trained or assigned to a trainer.

[Srial]

Also very important is you need to create a zone 'i' for animal training.    I usually just overlap it on the grazing area so the trainer doesn't have to go far.

Once you have a zone for training, then just go into the animals screen (same screen you butcher from) and you can set them to be war or hunting trained.  You can set a specific trainer but usually I just send anyone.

[Spray]

Not training guize, Tame.

i have a dragon in a cage ,waitin to be tamed.

[Werdna]

I tend to find in freezing biomes that for some reason the flames dont hurt the dwarves if they are outside. Possibly because of Ice turning to water in the heat the dwarves are stood on then instantly being changed back to ice?

I'm not sure - 'coverings of snow' are not considered ice, they'd need to actually be standing on a real tile of ice, not ground, meaning a frozen river or lake before any of that could happen.  When I had my glacial wildfire, all the burned tiles still were covered in drifts of snow afterwards!  I just can't think of any examples in the game where breath weapons change based on indoors/outdoors or anything like that.

I suspect, and this is only a suspicion, that the flame breath of the skulls isn't itself very deadly, but its ability to start a wildfire *is*.  Just a few days ago this wildfire I mentioned BBQ'd six of my dwarves.  That said, I haven't faced flaming skulls yet - I get frozen skulls at my embark, and the few times my dwarves have been caught in their breath, they seem to have shrugged it off with little to no damage.  So I'm guessing in your glacial encounters with f-skulls, you simply got lucky and had no wildfire induced by their attack?

[Neyvn]

I have a request.
Make building Aboveground Only more enjoyable...

[Shishimaru]

Not training guize, Tame.

i have a dragon in a cage ,waitin to be tamed.

How to domesticate wild animals: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Animal_trainer#Domesticating_wild_animals

[Arbinire]

Which of the creature raws houses the flaming skulls?  I'd like to remove them or modify them a bit.  The little pests always seem to find a way to start forest fires whenever I'm doing something like punching through an aquifer.

edit: nevermind, found them

Can you share the changes you made or preferably point me in the direction to where I can modify them myself please? They are a nightmare, seem to be on every biome and are much more common in my experience to any other creature. On cold maps they arent so bad as there fire seems to do no damage but quite often they have been the death of my fort or a massive nuisance such as killing all my livestock, burning all the landscape and on the rare occasion set fire to my booze supply. Whenever they turn up... coffins are required.

I wouldn't mind them so much if they was a rare visitor, plus my hunters always go for them. 

Just had a abomination, was alot of fun! (Unsure if your work or native as I haven't played native that much)

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My military had been training with wooden weapons in the barracks while I was still setting up my metal industry, they were quite happy training until I spotted in the soundsense console that one of the soldiers had severed anothers head which I presumed could of been a training accident of some sort. However when I took a look at my barracks most of my military had been killed and the final soldier was about to fall, it turns out that one of the soldiers had turned into an abomination and was making short work of my dwarves... when not bashing there head in with a wooden shield he was biting them draining the blood and throwing them against the walls.

Luckily a caravan was still in my trade depot so I locked the abomination in the barracks while I bought some weapons with the intention of equiping the 7 founders of the fort to deal with the threat. Equiped with what little armor and weapons I could buy from the caravan and the war drakes I had trained up. The founders entered the barracks, one by one the founders fell hacking and slashing away at the abomination with little success a worker also joined the fight punching and biting the abomination. After the founders are died the abomination had now become named and slaughtered everyone else in my fort. Occasionally a dwarf would put up a decent fight or a dog would attack it... but they all would eventually die even though all the abominations body parts were severely injured.

It was great fun and was extremely unexpected! I am unsure how the soldier actually became an abomination though and the chances are that he was one of the recent migrants I had recieved.

I found them in the raw/objects folders, creature_masterwork.  They were right at the top.  I personally just deleted them entirely, and haven't seen any since, but to be fair I've only played up to the first year without them now.

[Werdna]

I have a request.
Make building Aboveground Only more enjoyable...

What do you find unenjoyable about it?  In a way, I think the Brick Oven covers what I think is the toughest part - fast building materials.  Building on the surface is inherently more vulnerable to animals and sieges, so pumping out quick structures early are a must.  If you have clay, a few Brick Ovens can generate blocks at a staggering rate.

Personally, for me it is that hostile "flyers" seem to be much more common in recent versions of DF, so above-ground structures tend to need to be enclosed, and enclosing structures is a lot of work and material.  The end result is that I feel like instead of recreating a medieval castle, I'm recreating massive WW2 bunker complexes.

[Xen0n]

I know the "FPS only" version of this mod is still up for consideration, but was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of which raw modifications in this mod accomplish the leather / meat / fat / tallow / etc. type reductions?  I'm fumbling my way through using the old Dwarf Fortress Mod Manager, and want to see if I could include most of them in my game (leaving, for example, wood in the vanilla state).

[Morwaul]

Thanks for all the info on training animals.  I am now taming animals and reading my kill room.

[Meph]

Thanks for the massive report, I am just downloading the save and will check it out.

The flaming skulls seem to be a bit more powerful since clothing came back, because dwarves now actually catch fire and burn to death, instead of just getting burns. Might have to work a bit on that.

@Xen0n: That would be difficult, because those are massive changes in all raw files, more or less. I use dummy plants, trees and animals with a common name and redirect all other materials through them. Inorganics I reduce to a lower amount...

Oh, and since I saw the brick oven mentioned: It has way improved. Now you have 16 colors (all colors in the game) and the option to make a lot of low-value bricks, or a small amount of high-value ornamental bricks. For megaprojects or above ground fortresses. And if the flying animals bother people, you can turn 100 bird species OFF in the creatures tab, I know the problem they can cause.

I also modded a bit yesterday, somehow got carried away and stopped this morning at 0600, so here a little insight in what I did:

 - Possessed dwarves can now be cured
 - Cult of the carp god, think of them as "boss" versions of secret dwarves, Lovecraft style
 - 8 plagues that might hit your fortress, use medical wards to immunize your dwarves
 - Thatchery, work plants into wicker, wicker into furniture
 - Replaces cave fungus with neutral looking rubble
 - Many fixes and rebalances, including the too aggressive wildlife and collectable turret ammo.
 - Reworked brick oven, now with 3 times more reactions for megaprojects
 - New included glacier world
 - Updated GUI

Note: The Thatchery idea and basework came from cc in this thread. He kindly allowed me to use it in my mod.

Here 3 pictures, the map of the glacier world, some of the hints you might get about the cult infesting your fortress and the building guide for the thatchery. Note that the cult hints arrive slowly overtime and you have to find them. These ones I took from the arena, in fortress mode they will be not all at once.







EDIT: ah hell, might as well post the entire cangelog:

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 - 8 Plagues. Might arrive with migrants, might randomly break out.
 - All plagues last for rougly 1 season, than slowly subside... you can battle them however, using the apothecarius.
   - Hulk, 5% go berserk, rest gets stronger/faster.
   - Death, 10% die, rest feels sickly.
   - Vomiting, 100% get sick, vomit.
   - Sleep, 100% get tired, will fall asleep randomly.
   - No Sleep, 100% get no_sleep, but feel drowsy and dizzy.
   - Blind, 100% turn blind.
   - Plague, 100% get fever and cough blood.
   - Sterile, 100% get sterile, !!! lasts forever !!!
 - Changed slave stone template to stone vapor template. (bugfix)
 - Removed animal trainer jobs from FD races, hopefully no more super warbeasts in sieges.
 - Nerfed Bloodbeast strength and syndrome
 - Added some GOOD/EVIL tags back in.
 - All building destroying units (those that path to your fortress) have the SAVAGE tag now. Calm areas are secure, no more ogres raiding you there.
 - Raised population limit for all dwarf chocolate creatures
 - Nerfed amount of spells sorcerers, shamans and liches can do.
 - Fixed adamantine golem cast reaction
 - Added [PERMITTED_REACTION:CRAZY] for tech lab back in. TEST IT OUT, you wont regret it.
   - This reaction allows the creation of a random item from a rather random selection of items.
 - New colors for the brick oven, can now produce all possible colors
 - Added "ornamental" bricks. These need 2 boulders for 2 bricks, but are worth more then normal bricks. All colors. For people who dislike the low value of normal bricks. Again, the brick oven is unbalanced and mostly for megaprojects.
 - Added reaction to craftsdwarf: make bed from silver, gold, or bone. All need 1 cloth as well, to keep it balanced.
 - Added "make bedroll" to craftsdwarf. A bed made from 5 pieces of cloth.
 - Removed religious nobles, no more templars, priests, archpriests or prophets, since the nobles go fixed by today.
 - Preacher is still there to meet tantruming dwarves, same function as psychatrist.
 - Added philosopher noble (does nothing, not even work) for people who liked them in df40
 - Added Overseer noble, for people playing succession games.
 - Screw Press reaction "log to paper" only accepts rough wood now, no more steeloak/crystal trees/ironbark.
 - Added "scrapwood to paper" to screw press
 - Added "scrapwood to ash" to crematorium
 - Added 6% chance for an idirium bar to each blast furnace reaction.
 - Made frost giants butcherable, to get rid of the bodyparts they leave.
 - Removed Buildings Guides for Guildhall and Wheelbarrows. These buildings are not included anymore.
 - Lowered range of slade/bullet turrets a bit, and gave them solid instead of liquid globs.
 - Living rock is now rarer and not sedimentary anymore. It also gives 10 instead of 1 meat in the kitchen
 - Cave fungus is now called rubble and looks more neutral
 - You can still find small cluster of cave fungus in the earth, these leave solid fungus that can be made into cheese.
 - Added the Thatchery. You can make wicker bales from 5 kinds of plants. Then make furniture and crafts from wicker.
 - Raised cost of lye for batch soap reactions from 1 to 5.
 - Added wards. Immobile pets you can equip in the apothecarius and immunize your dwarves against plagues.
 - You can also make blessed wards in the Altar of Armok. These cleanse possessed (secret) dwarves.
 - Added the cult of the carp god, a new secret threat. Armoks Wards help to unveil them.
 - The cult will leave signs before they act, so prepare for them, before your fortress gets overrun. You have over 1 season for this.
 - Changed layers in worldgen from 25:25:25:25 to 20:10:10:10, to avoid maps with more then 200 zlvls...
 - Added 5 short stories from a collection I found online. Some you might know, Tholtig Cryptbrain by darkflragrance for example.
 - Shoes can now be worn under boots, allowing for fully clothed AND fully armored dwarves
 - Added a glacier world to the embark profiles
 - Fixed dwarves collecting ammo from turrets (at least I think so, I tested with turrets in fortress mode and an "accept all" stockpile, they did not touch the used ammo)
 - Slighty modifiactions in the stone occurences
 - Added bone breastplate to craftsman
 - Massive GUI changes
   - Armory Button
   - Weaponry Button
   - Thatchery Button
   - Diseases Button
   - Disabling gunsmith also removes gun blueprints and tradegoods
   - Disabling magic also removes magic books and tradegoods
   - Evil version of standard races moved to creatures tab (for space reasons)
   - Buildings section ordered alphabetically
   - Scriptorium, the 4 library sections and the Garden/Fountain moved into one
   - New Training System button combining the above

Please do note that this is just my private working version, NOT a new download yet. I wait for df34.08 or whatever Today will call his minecart version.

EDIT2: Just found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nil1O95CaLI a lets play of the mod... and I found stuff linking to somethingaweful and reddit. And even spanisch, french and polish sights. Seems that mod finds its way around, nice.

[sayke]

meph - that is awesome! =D am glad you're having a ball travelling, and am glad you're finding time to get a bit of modding in too! i've got a couple other suggestions based on the 5-year-old 1.7.2 fortress i've got running, though:

- why not make the creature biome restrictions optional? i actually quite like having them - it creates flavor, and lets me sort of pick what i want to be up against, and how much of it. random insane deadly wildlife is fine but shouldn't it be optional? after all, the careful specification of ecoregions and good/neutral/evil tags is one really neat aspect of dwarf fortress - it creates consistent, predictable aesthetic differences associated with different kinds of embark locations, and lets people take on various levels of challenge if they want. a GUI button to this effect would be another strong feature of masterwork!

- related to the above, fantastic powerful evil-seeming creatures, like the oft-decried flaming skulls/facehuggers/etc, could be associated with evil biomes, so people seeking the added challenge of taking them on would know what they were getting into. this gives people options, ya know?

that's all i've got for now - i'm having an absolute ball with masterwork, and it's still the only way i play DF =D absolutely all the best -

[Arbinire]

meph - that is awesome! =D am glad you're having a ball travelling, and am glad you're finding time to get a bit of modding in too! i've got a couple other suggestions based on the 5-year-old 1.7.2 fortress i've got running, though:

- why not make the creature biome restrictions optional? i actually quite like having them - it creates flavor, and lets me sort of pick what i want to be up against, and how much of it. random insane deadly wildlife is fine but shouldn't it be optional? after all, the careful specification of ecoregions and good/neutral/evil tags is one really neat aspect of dwarf fortress - it creates consistent, predictable aesthetic differences associated with different kinds of embark locations, and lets people take on various levels of challenge if they want. a GUI button to this effect would be another strong feature of masterwork!

- related to the above, fantastic powerful evil-seeming creatures, like the oft-decried flaming skulls/facehuggers/etc, could be associated with evil biomes, so people seeking the added challenge of taking them on would know what they were getting into. this gives people options, ya know?

that's all i've got for now - i'm having an absolute ball with masterwork, and it's still the only way i play DF =D absolutely all the best -

This, this, a thousand times this!