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[Putnam]

This is super dead, sorry.

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Automaton Fortress is a mod the lets the player play as the Automatons, a robotic race. The Automatons survive off of fuel that is refined from a plant called castor. They do not eat or sleep (eating will be added once I get it working correctly). Automatons can be hard to kill, but they can be killed. Original by Daywalkah, all by him unless noted in the RAWs. Original topic here.

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Castes

Copper- Copper Automatons are the weakest and slowest learning of Automatons. They are the most common caste.

Brass- Brass Automatons are average in just about everything. They can build other Automatons.

Steel- Steel Automatons are the rarest of Automatons. They are the second strongest, toughest, and most intelligent of Automatons.

Diamond- Diamond Automatons are superior to all Automatons. Fear them, worship them, appease them.


Plants

Castor- This is the plant from which oil is refined.

Creatures

Rovers - Basic creature that Automatons get their fuel from. They can also take care of vermin! 3 castes.

Things to do:

White:Not started

Yellow:Partially done

Teal:Done. Pending release

Red:Suspended

-leader can only be a diamond automaton (can't designate specific caste for leader)

Please suggest more ideas for the mod. Comments and suggestions are appreciated!

The modding of this mod is open to everyone. Just download and put your name under what you added, such as 'by insertnamehere' under the creature name. Then just send what you added to me and i will add it. If i am not sure if it should be added, i will start a poll and the community will decide. If it has no tag of who made it, it is either vanilla or by daywalkah. Let's make this mod great!

3.0 changelog
Added the rovers, which have 3 castes: vermin rovers (think cat), fuel rovers (butcher them along with the included workshop for automaton food!) and factory rovers, which can make others.

Changed diamond automatons to using a material based on the real properties of diamond instead of the in-game clear diamond material, which was a generic gem.

Added a few materials, a building, and a reaction to get the fuel rover to work.

Added the first two parts of my "modules" portion of the mod: the tree-cutting module and the digging module.

[Pokon]

Huh, rovers are funny things. Might steal a bit from Wasteland and see if I can make less "domestic" metal creature. Fireballers are always fun, right?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Are these automations simple creations? or so they have gears and whatnot? And do those gears when damaged hinder the automanton? Do they heal wounds?

I'm just a huge fan of complex inorganic critters is all

[Glitch(TMG)]

Now this looks -really- interesting, I do love my robots 

One thing though. If I try it, I'm probably going to mod all references to 'diamond' to be 'titanium' instead.

Leader caste should so be titanium. I mean, come on. Platium or diamond? Nah, titanium is where it's at! 

[Putnam]

Titanium isn't as strong as steel, though.

If diamond had metallic bonds as part of it's structure, it would be stronger.

[Glitch(TMG)]

Titanium isn't as strong as steel, though.

In the game, or in real life? I just looked titanium up on wikipdia, and I read mention that when properly alloyed, titanium is as strong or stonger than steal but almost half the weight...

[Putnam]

Titanium isn't as strong as steel, though.

In the game, or in real life? I just looked titanium up on wikipdia, and I read mention that when properly alloyed, titanium is as strong or stonger than steal but almost half the weight...

Titanium isn't in the vanilla game, but here's my personal take on it (based on RL values):

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[INORGANIC:TITANIUM]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:METAL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:titanium]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:molten titanium]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:boiling titanium]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:0:7:1]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:20]
[SPEC_HEAT:520]
[MELTING_POINT:13002]
[BOILING_POINT:15917]
[SOLID_DENSITY:4507]
[LIQUID_DENSITY:4110]
[MOLAR_MASS:47687]
[IMPACT_YIELD:298246]
[IMPACT_FRACTURE:596491]
[IMPACT_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:206]
[COMPRESSIVE_YIELD:298246]
[COMPRESSIVE_FRACTURE:596491]
[COMPRESSIVE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:206]
[TENSILE_YIELD:85213]
[TENSILE_FRACTURE:170426]
[TENSILE_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:40]
[TORSION_YIELD:85213]
[TORSION_FRACTURE:170426]
[TORSION_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:101]
[SHEAR_YIELD:85213]
[SHEAR_FRACTURE:170426]
[SHEAR_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:101]
[BENDING_YIELD:85213]
[BENDING_FRACTURE:170426]
[BENDING_STRAIN_AT_YIELD:40]
[MAX_EDGE:10000]

[Glitch(TMG)]

I'm still somewhat new to the game, so I can't make sense of all that, but if those values you gave it make it not as good as steel in-game, then one or the other is incorrect. Titanium is supposed to be better than steel. 

[Putnam]

I'm still somewhat new to the game, so I can't make sense of all that, but if those values you gave it make it not as good as steel in-game, then one or the other is incorrect. Titanium is supposed to be better than steel. 

It's supposed to be "as strong as some steels, but lighter".

The steel in DF is some pretty good stuff.

[Glitch(TMG)]

It's supposed to be "as strong as some steels, but lighter".

The steel in DF is some pretty good stuff.

And those titanium values you made don't fit that criteria? Not trying to be sarcastic, I honestly don't know.

[Putnam]

I think they do fit the criteria of being better than some low-grade steel, yes.

[Darvi]

Titanium is Candy lite.

Which is ironic 'cause candy is lighter.

[Glitch(TMG)]

Huh. Well then, need a new metal that's in between steel and 'cotton candy', I thought that would be titanium, but apparently not.

Or make the leader caste actually adamantine. It's just odd to me how they are a gem instead of a metal...

[Putnam]

Huh. Well then, need a new metal that's in between steel and 'cotton candy', I thought that would be titanium, but apparently not.

Or make the leader caste actually adamantine. It's just odd to me how they are a gem instead of a metal...

Well, it's not actually a gem, it's a metal with the same name and physical properties of a gem.

A gem that happens to be strong as hell.

Seriously, the diamond is way above steel in power in this mod. Not as good as addy, but still very strong.

[Darvi]

Fun fact: while diamonds are top of Mohs scale (and are hence difficult to scratch) , they are also fucking fragile.