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Victorian Mod
"Bugfixing and tea" edition
Hello! A few days ago, I talked with some people on the interwebs about turning DF into a Victorian Era (At first Napoleonic, but the mod evolved into a 19th century mod). A lot of people on /dfg/ like the idea, so I decided to work on it. At first I just did some basic modifications of the game by adding different kinds of sabres, swords and daggers, a musket, a rifle and a pistol. It was pretty cool, but it still wasn't good enough... So I decided to add clothing! 19th century clothing including tophats, coats, corsets, monocles (Dwarves needs to look fancy) and even ushankas and turbans (I know, turbans are already on the base game, I'm just stupid and added them from scratch instead of just copying it from vanilla dwarf fortress). It still wasn't 19th centuryish enough, so I added nations! At first I was thinking about adding different "human races" and naming them after countries (Frenchmen and Frenchwomen race, Englishman and Englishwomen race) but it wasn't that good of an idea... It didn't fit with DF... I, then, decided to just remake entity_default and changing the civilizations to fit real world early 19th century countries including: France (Goblins), England (Humans), Russia (Dwarves), Prussia (Ogres), Austria (Trolls), Greece (Kobolds) and the Ottoman Empire (Elves, you now got yet another reason to exterminate them), each of them having at least one custom weapon (Except maybe for France, who haves the same arms as England except for the Rifle, they have muskets instead, but they aren't playable and are Goblins so I doubt anyone will be mad). I "finished" my mod, but I knew there was stuff missing and probably a lot of bugs and unbalanced things, so I decided to upload it into Github to, not only make it easier for me to edit it, but also for anyone else interested. So far you can only play as Dwarves and Humans, but I'll add more if requested. Adventure mode is also available!
I also tried to make a custom tileset but it's awful.
TL;DR: I made a Victorian Era themed mod where you shoot things with muskets and rifles and you can play as humans or dwarves. You can dress as a gentlemen and shoot elves in the face in adventure mode too! The mod is also available on Github and I made a custom tileset but it's awful.
Links:Github:
Source Code in Github (Get the latest version here, it's for Linux, but you can still play it on a windows/MacOs version by dragging and dropping the raw and data folder into a vanilla copy of Dwarf Fortress)
Releases:
Github releasesInstallation instructions:Linux: Download, Extract and play
Windows/MacOS: Download, Extract and drag and drop the RAW and DATA Folders into your vanilla copy of Dwarf Fortress
FAQ:*Is this mod finished?IT'S FINISHED! HELL YEAH, just need some bugfixing and
tea balancing!
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Can you craft firearms and al that cool stuff?Yup! you can craft muskets, rifles and bullets!
*What nations do you currently have?Russians (Dwarves,playable)
English(Humans, playable too, might be unbalanced)
French(Goblins, not playable)
Ottomans(Elves, not playable, why would you want to play as them anyways)
Austrians(Trolls, not playable at all, nothing but a copy of the Goblins so far)
Prussians(Ogres, same as above)
*Is there anything special about the nations?They speak their real-life counterpart's language! Goblins speak in french, Humans in English, Austrians and Prussians in German!
*I don't like X can I change it/I'd like to see X in the mod, can I add it?Go ahead, be my guest!
*How much stuff have you added/removed?A crapload! I removed all above-ground giant animals and animal people, renamed trogs to "Wild Men" and turned them into benign above ground sub-humans, added Tripods from War of the Worlds, Wendigos, a few household spirits, ghouls, hell hounds, Leshys, Mad scientists and their creatures (Thanks to MaxTM and his awesome work and bugfixes), new plants and trees, renamed all above-ground plants that don't exist in real life to their real life counterparts, added new drinks, tea (Which is food and not a liquid because I don't want it to be alcoholic), canned food, a lot of new weapons (including entity-specific ones), new clothing that fits the period (tophat industry anyone?), removed all the creatures that don't really fit the period (dragons and such) and balanced some things caused by the addition of firearms, new buildings for making bullets and firearms, MaxTM's crazy Victorian-themed racial sprites, played around with jobnames, and all of this without the need of any 3rd party software (The copy of dfhack that comes included is optional, you are not forced to use it)!
And now, some dwarves killing elves as a demonstration!Thanks for reading! If anything breaks or you don't like something, feel free to shout at me and I'll try my best to fix it. This is mostly a learning project, but still an actual mod.