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[Eric Blank]

Thanks.

The world I've gt generating now looks very promising. All traits accounted for. Hopefully it doesn't self-destruct.

Well, hopefully no game-breaking bugs exist within it, because it is rather interesting. There is a grand total of 50 towers according to the sites and pops file, and I've found and tagged 49 of them. As usual, they're concentrated in the south, but they are represented throughout the world, including two on the big island and one in the north-eastern corner (human civs) Still no humans or dwarves in the north-western corner. Necromancer tower formation demands !!SCIENCE!! because the normal range is 11-20, and a very few with huge quantities like this between 30 and now 50.

Haven't tested this one yet but I'm hoping for the best because it took an hour to generate.

And no, necromancer towers haven't been the most important parameter thus far. Keeping the glaciers in the south and the northern sea good are. About 50% of worlds get aborted for having the arctic in the north and about 75% of the remainder get aborted for having an evil northern sea. On top of that, I've thrown away 8-10 worlds to update the raws. Towers do add quite a bit though, so I also threw out 5-10 that had less than 15, or were distributed very poorly, and intentionally set human and dwarven civs to have DEATH as a common sphere in their pantheons in the hopes of generating more necromancers. That raised it from an average of 1-6 after setting dwarf and human lifespans to 3000-4000, but still; not all civs generate necromancers. More !!SCIENCE!! needed for what exactly causes it.

So, now that I'm out of blatantly obvious fixes and have something interesting, I could upload it and we can test for less-obvious problems.

Ok, try this:

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5755

It gave me a nemesis unit load error the first time I tried to start an adventurer, but the problem seemed to correct itself as it didn't happen again.

[Spish]

^ I got a nemesis error in the last world too. It was right after I went on a were-civet rampage, saved and reloaded, and crashed after a few steps. I was able to crush it by simply traveling away from the site and coming back (sleeping probably would've also worked), so it's hardly a serious problem.

Anyway, good stuff. I was a bit worried there weren't any undead mountains at first, but The Silent Wall (or should I say Silent Hill, if it only had a lake valley) in the southeast fills that quota. The only other problem is that there aren't many interesting civilization names, but that's not a big deal. Now there seems to be a necromancer tower in every major region of the world, very convenient.

Wasn't giving humans and dwarves 4000 year lifespans a bit excessive? We could've just as easily settled for 1000, or even 600.

[Eric Blank]

Eh, I suppose. I thought it was a good idea, though...

Any other errors? I haven't gotten the chance to mess with it much.

[Spish]

Other than the error where you retire an adventurer and it crashes 100% of the time when scrolling down to him on the "Choose Your Adventurer" list (which means we definately can NOT be having retired adventurers in the save, at least until whatever's causing it is fixed), I think we're good.

[Kassil]

Anyway, good stuff. I was a bit worried there weren't any undead mountains at first, but The Silent Wall (or should I say Silent Hill, if it only had a lake valley) in the southeast fills that quota.

Is there a river or aquifer near it? I haven't had the chance to look, yet - if there is, one of us could take it upon ourselves to /make/ a lake in the area.

[Tidal]

Speaking of making a lake, are programs like DFHack allowed for things like that?

[Eric Blank]

Perhaps, if we discuss it before your turn comes up. I see nothing wrong with using it outdoors in areas with a lack of ponds/rivers to source artificial lakes from.

So do we agree that the save will thus far be stable enough for use, ignoring the adventurer problem?

[Spish]

I mean a huge, natural lake valley; not a cheap, artificial pond
Not that I was planning on doing anything involving lakes with my turn, anyways

Now we're just waiting for PoinDexterity or someone to begin.

[Eric Blank]

I wonder if Poindexter knows the slew of bugs have finally been slain. I'll PM him just in case

[DS]

So... 35.05?

[Eric Blank]

Do I have to? :c

The RAW changes were all entirely post-generation implementable, besides a lot of creatures getting the [BENIGN] tag, which only affects biome placement, so not necessarily important in any way.

I'll upload the new raws and whoever gets the first turn can paste them into the save.

[Poindexterity]

Do I have to? :c

The RAW changes were all entirely post-generation implementable, besides a lot of creatures getting the [BENIGN] tag, which only affects biome placement, so not necessarily important in any way.

I'll upload the new raws and whoever gets the first turn can paste them into the save.

that'll be me, and if you'd be so kind as to include directions so i can do that, eh?

[Spish]

I'm guessing you just paste the 0.34.05 b_detail_plan_default.txt over the one in our save's raws. I could be wrong though.

Edit: Yup, that's the ticket. Now I can continue my Kobold/Zombie Apocalypse fortress

[Eric Blank]

There were a few other little things to update, like horseshoe crabs, but yes; just copy body_default.txt over from the 34.05 raws into the raw folder in the save. I'll just paste the rest of the new raws for those here in this post...

Search for ' red panda' in the file of the spoiler'd name and replace the first two lines of their entry with this.

Spoiler: creature_large_temperate.txt (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

[CREATURE:RED PANDA]
[DESCRIPTION:A small tree-dwelling mammal with distinctive color.  It rears up on its hind legs when cornered.  It uses its front paws like hands.]


Search for giant desert scorpion in creature_savage_tropical.txt and replace "insect" in their description tag with "arachnid"

Search in this file for 'mule' and look for the line like the one in this spoiler just below the child definition and replace it with this one.

Spoiler: creature_domestic.txt (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

[CREATURE_TILE:'M'][COLOR:7:0:0]


Do the same for 'muskox' in this file. It's at the top of the file, luckily.

Spoiler: creature_large_tundra.txt (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

[CREATURE_TILE:'M'][COLOR:6:0:0]


search in this file for 'horse' and add this anywhere below the creature tile statement.

Spoiler: creature_ocean_new (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

[AMPHIBIOUS][UNDERSWIM]


And that should be everything. Only other change the changelog mentions is adding [AMPHIBIOUS] to crabs, which they already have. No idea what's up with that...


And thanks Spish for all the help bugtesting and suggestions. Saved me a lot of time when I was testing for other issues.

[Di]

So, the turns have actually began now?
Do not forget about outlining borders everywhere and slab every last one ghost in a fort.