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Dwarf Fortress => DF Modding => Topic started by: Rex Invictus on January 24, 2015, 04:32:51 am
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Just curious as to what mods people are using.
Feel free to post the reason you're using the mods, too.
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This is all going to change once Meph revamps Masterwork for the new version. I hope I won't be behind with The Fall as well :).
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My own because I AM THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY ON HOW THIS GAME OUGHT TO BE
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I don't play dwarf fortress all that much lately. The last things I played were masterwork, KingMurdoc's elf mode and my own modifications.
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Since .40.x came out, I've pretty much been riding on Vanilla, but I'm working on a fresh, new mod currently.
So that counts, I guess.
It's not in a generated-world playable state, but is arena-playable.
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I haven't been playing with mods as of .40 to help out with bug reporting, but I have started the arduous process of updating my own homebrew mod.
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how is fortbent more popular than modest mod (even if I'm one of the two who voted)
I also picked other because I play most of my own mods.
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I haven't been playing with mods as of .40 to help out with bug reporting, but I have started the arduous process of updating my own homebrew mod.
I am in much the same boat. I don't have a lot of time to play lately, and when I do have DF open it's to troubleshoot or improve my minor mod.
As the starter packs mod-manager abilities mature, we should see more players combining minor mods.
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This is all going to change once Meph revamps Masterwork for the new version. I hope I won't be behind with The Fall as well :).
The difference will be that you make a mod for people that like Fallout and DF, while I make a mod for people that like DF. My target audience, so to speak, is larger.
But TomiTaipos updated old Genesis for 40.x deserves some love. He should really make a new thread for it, because currently its hard to understand whats going on, if you are not familiar with it.
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This is all going to change once Meph revamps Masterwork for the new version. I hope I won't be behind with The Fall as well :).
The difference will be that you make a mod for people that like Fallout and DF, while I make a mod for people that like DF. My target audience, so to speak, is larger.
But TomiTaipos updated old Genesis for 40.x deserves some love. He should really make a new thread for it, because currently its hard to understand whats going on, if you are not familiar with it.
To be honest it has nothing to do with Fallout anymore. It's much closer to Genesis than everything, I just make it quite a lot more brutal and diverse.
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Apparently someone other than me voted for Nchardahrk. I'm impressed.
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This is all going to change once Meph revamps Masterwork for the new version. I hope I won't be behind with The Fall as well :).
The difference will be that you make a mod for people that like Fallout and DF, while I make a mod for people that like DF. My target audience, so to speak, is larger.
Well, no, seems more like you make a mod for people that like DF but haven't actually looked into what it is beyond fortress mode, so they think it's more of a strategy game than it actually is, then they complain whenever anything other than fortress mode is updated because they're under the opinion that the entire game is about fortress mode.
This, I will admit, is a large demographic. Annoyingly, horrifically large.
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This, I will admit, is a large demographic. Annoyingly, horrifically large.
Are you talking about that line you pass on your way to Legends Mode? I always wondered what that was for. :)
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My current RAWs folder is a Frankenstein mix of a few minor mods. I have Stal's armory, Button's plant fixes, and PHM: Overgrowth in there, plus a few tiny changes I made myself both to the base raws and to those mods. I'm working on my own thing with a sort of "DF: But in Space!" aesthetic. So far it only exists in a partially written (but very ambitious) planning document, but it's moving along at a steady pace.
I tend to sample other more major mods pretty widely.
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I use the "animals Storm likes and wants in her games" mod and the "making good regions less boring" mod. Basically I just add in a few critters, make some critters shearable and others trainable. I've run into a roadblock recently, because I had the perfect idea for a good wetlands monster but every time I try to add it this egregious bug pops up. Ugh.
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I have a few df folders
-my little fortress with humans and that mod that adds a lot of secrets such as geomancers and pyromancers (I forgot it's name)
-deon's wasteland mod, it felt kind of empty so I added some things
-genesis
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I use my own. Anything else isn't what I want.
That said, I have used other mods before, for community forts or to try them out.
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My own, exclusively. I don't even play that much, except for testing.
That would be Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom and whatever minor or major plugin I happen to be working on at the time.
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I use the mod "Button's Raws." ;)
The weird thing is that it usually has about a dozen downloads by the time I upload new ones? I'm really curious who else is downloading them, and if they're actually playing with them, or just looking.
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I am with IndigoFenix, so much time spent modding that I only ever play to test nowadays...
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I am with IndigoFenix, so much time spent modding that I only ever play to test nowadays...
+1 from me ;)
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I mostly just do 1 drink per plant (instead of 5), a reaction for automatic cheesemaking, some of the things from Deons adventurer mod and 'meat' leather. I like to play with only peasant dwarves and use larger numbers of workshops :).
I usually only play 1 fort per world delete it and then regen after I have tweaked something :D (those sheep with candy wool were pretty OP O0)
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Seems I'm not alone in spending time working on/playing my own raws. I find it a nice running project with all the related research.
I'm really curious who else is downloading them, and if they're actually playing with them, or just looking.
I downloaded them recently to see how you did a few things after I noticed we've implemented a fair few similar. Also wanted to see your snails.
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Seems I'm not alone in spending time working on/playing my own raws. I find it a nice running project with all the related research.
I'm really curious who else is downloading them, and if they're actually playing with them, or just looking.
I downloaded them recently to see how you did a few things after I noticed we've implemented a fair few similar. Also wanted to see your snails.
What were your thoughts on the snails? :D
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I play fairly close to vanilla, but with a few minor modifications either of my own design or cherry-picked from other mods/forum posts. The most significant changes are:
Added cupronickel, a copper/nickel alloy. I originally copied this from the orichalcum mod, but later adjusted the reaction to make it and the material properties based on engineering data for a 70/30 cupronickel alloy.
Added maxage tag to elves and goblins.
Kobolds have a language and the associated language-related entries in their entity.
Added reactions to convert certain high-silica stones into sand at the millstone.
Added explicit orientation tags to dwarves and most domestic animals, to make non-breeding animals and non-marrying dwarves much rarer.
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What were your thoughts on the snails? :D
Very detailed and a definite improvement over the vanilla ones. Noticed you went with technical names for parts instead of more generic ones; I've been working on replacement antmen and still can't decide which way to go. Did you consider this and what swayed you? Quite like the new snails too, but am surprised none give a dye. Wasn't keen on snail cheese until I thought of purring maggots being another odd source of cheese.
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I've paused playing until major mods update, but LFR was my favorite till it disappeared. I've been debating restarting it/updating it to 4.2+, but... Time.
If somebody wants to collaborate I would.
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What were your thoughts on the snails? :D
Very detailed and a definite improvement over the vanilla ones. Noticed you went with technical names for parts instead of more generic ones; I've been working on replacement antmen and still can't decide which way to go. Did you consider this and what swayed you? Quite like the new snails too, but am surprised none give a dye. Wasn't keen on snail cheese until I thought of purring maggots being another odd source of cheese.
There aren't really generic names that work for snails. Like, what do you call a radula? It's not a tongue, it's not a tooth. Or an operculum - the only thing I can think of that would explain what that is would be a "tail shell," and that just sounds silly.
Which isn't to say I would necessarily have used "easier" words if they'd been appropriate - just that I didn't even see it as a decision.
In NonconsensualSurgery's original snail set there was one that was supposed to give dye, but I couldn't get it to work and eventually gave up on it. Thanks for reminding me about that - fixing up NC's snails was my first modding project, so I bet I could make it work now.
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I'm kind of amazed and pleased that my snails are still alive and producing cheese.
They're fairly accurate except operculums are almost exclusively a feature of marine snails while these are clearly terrestrial. The scythe operculums on the predatory version were inspired by fighting conchs.
EDIT for bugfixing:
I downloaded Button's raws to check them out. Adding [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:CHITIN:CHITIN_TEMPLATE] under [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS] to the snails in creature_snails stops cavern snail teeth from being made from default material and cleans up the error logs.
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Thanks for pointing that out NS! I think I introduced that error when I folded in material changes from Deon's adventurer mod a while ago, then took them out. (They just weren't my style.)
Also thanks for the use of your snails! I loove the opium snails - did you see I modded the cheese to have a chance to cause full-body numbness when eaten? It keeps the diagnosers from getting rusty ;).
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Also thanks for the use of your snails! I loove the opium snails - did you see I modded the cheese to have a chance to cause full-body numbness when eaten? It keeps the diagnosers from getting rusty ;).
Completely missed that. Very cool. Also regarding part names: makes sense.
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I use the dinosaur mod, the pleistocene mod, the Monster Hunter mod, and I've recently started trying out the Norse Fortress mod.
Basically, it's all a bunch of things to make the game more Fun. And because everyone loves dinosaurs.
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I use the dinosaur mod, the pleistocene mod, the Monster Hunter mod, and I've recently started trying out the Norse Fortress mod.
Basically, it's all a bunch of things to make the game more Fun. And because everyone loves dinosaurs.
Link? :o
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http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=123137.0 Dinosaurs, I know that the DFFD file says it's for .34.xx, it is actually for .40.xx
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139441.0 Monster Hunter
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=146373.0 Pleistocene (Ice Age type things)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=132308.0 Norse Fortress
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Yeah, Pleistocene mod is legit. :)
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Damn, the last time I asked this question, it was 1:1 vanilla:masterwork. Now its 3:2... I have to do more on the update. ^^
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W-what? Using mods? Why would I do such a thing?!
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W-what? Using mods? Why would I do such a thing?!
Some people just can't handle the intensity of Vanilla.
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i mostly play vanilla + mod it sometimes later on so it counts for other i guess ... to be honest i like more to mod and see then play the game :D
Last version i checked masterwork (despite the fact that i do not like the choice of the name) it is not bad at all, i just felt it too much change / some not in the way i like ... but still great work, as-well as the whole modding community.
If not for else, at least as examples they are a good thing to see what could be done. (i only wish if i wasn't that lazy to make my mods work completely :S )