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So I take that as no changes.  Thank you!

Milo, do you happen to know of any documentation other than the GitHub site for learning more about dfhack and scripting with it?  As I mentioned in the other topic, I wouldn't mind learning how to do more extensive work with it.

Thanks Putnam.

I'm currently working on a project to make a renaissance aged technology group.  Its really amazing because in some parts of the world, at this time, people are using stone tools in rural areas, while in others, people have waterwheel powered tilt hammers for ore breaking.  Building a workshop is actually not all that hard, copy an existing workshop and learn what each of the functions do, then tweak it based on what you have learned.  This is what I did when I was working on an economy mod to create a more organized, player-controlled economy.  The building I made was a counting table, and I copied most of the information from the quern before modifying it as I saw fit.

Now, the reactions are a bit different, and don't get confused into thinking that interactions and reactions are the same thing.  It seems that interaction tokens mainly detail what specific parameters about how or when things happen and who or what they should happen to.  I'm not quite clear on this as I haven't delved into interactions, I'm still doin research before modding any more.  Reactions are specific and player controlled, more or less.  Reactions require a location for them to occur, ingredients, and usually products.  You can put a great deal of technological structure here by saying that this building has to be built with these products, then this building has to be built the products that the previous building had.

Of course, there is always the chance that the caravan will bring you the tools you need to progress.

Now here is the way that you can use blueprints.

1. buildings require blueprints to be made.
2. each item interaction requires a blueprint to be made.

The first one just means that you add the blueprint to the building materials, but it also means that it can't be used again.
The second one means that you can use the blueprint multiple times, but if your dwarves move it around a lot, this may cause unwated hauling jobs.  It also means that you could duplicate this blueprint and give yourself a reason to start a scroll industry.

I'm still trying to figure out if I can set the parameters so that only people of a certain skill can craft a specific set of items.  Such as only a fluid engineer can craft a pump.

Putnam, I have a question to go on with this, even though the divine materials are hardcoded, using the raw template you provided, are we able to create other divine materials that would be generated in the same layer above the circus?

There is a ready to use script or plugin for spoiling food, unfortunately it also spoils non-perishables...  Was planning to look into it later on.

I also know that even though the caste system is no longer implemented, it is readily accessible and I was under the impression that a lot of people use it for various mods.  I know for a fact that DFMW does.

So Grimlocke, I was looking into your raws for the buildings for your mod, I was trying to figure out the name of the trip hammer for awhile now and wanted to thank you for giving me that info. 

I also wanted to ask the people that I'm going to draw from and are going to help with this right now if its cool if we remove magma from our fuel sources where it wouldn't apply though.  Even modern day geothermal magma chambers only reach a temp of 900 Celsius max while others barely make 500.  These temperatures are not hot enough for everything and I feel like they are a bit cheaty because it allows for players to give up wood production.  following this guide http://www.blksmth.com/heat_colors.htm the finishing and regular forges could use the geothermal heat for preparing metals for work as well as melting borax and silver, but it wouldn't be enough to smelt with otherwise and it seems like a bad design as the air over magma is not necessarily the correct chemical composition.  There is a power module in dfhack that we could use magma for the trip hammer, but I'm kind of just throwing ideas around and was wanting some feedback?

I was thinking that the best method to go about this is to begin by laying out what additions should be included in the pack and create an industry layout so that the processes can be reviewed before any actual modding work needs to be done.  I really wanted to implement a system where weapons were unique in themselves by allowing for multiple materials to exist within the weapon but I know now that the source code limits us from doing this.

Before any tweaks to the game mechanics for balance, I want to tweak the game for aesthetic and learning.

I would love for people to learn how port wine is made, rather than just the simple put ingredients here and out comes the wine.  I don't intend for this to be a quick modding experience either, I'll be working on it here and there when I have time but since most of it is studying the processes of medieval industries, it will be time consuming and work/school are going to have to come first.  Don't get to large of hopes up for a year or so.