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Title: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. It needs more !!SCIENCE!!
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on March 30, 2011, 06:20:42 pm

Aspectus Lolin .82.1 is packaged and uploaded. When in doubt there's github. (All greypages.org links removed from post. Other posts to follow. No one will ever see this... ah well.)
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Status: Bug Fixing. Feature Creeping... mostly Feature Creeping.
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Information:

• Adds Several races
• blends some mods with puree settings
• adds some zany
• and is generally a feature test.

I find it fun and enjoyable. You probably won't.
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The Races:

• The Lolin -
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  were a litter test originally. Currently they are my primary test species. They have natural skills set (14), majorly awesome stats (+++) and no beards. Their ethics are set to make them able to learn all the interpersonal skills. Additionally they can use whips and longswords and a few other human centric items. Also customized pantheon bits. Can Use all the Modded Items. Will send Caravans in Winter. Language English (Called Lolin)
• The Angels -
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  a flier test (still in progress... fliers still buggy in DF vanilla). They have natural skills set (14), majorly cheat stats(5000). Their ethics are set to make them able to learn all the interpersonal skills. Additionally I have culled many differences between individuals due to their eventual design aesthetic. They can use most weapons and Two Handed Swords -but no Whips. Also customized pantheon bits. Can Use all the Modded Items. Will send Caravans in Winter. Language Latin (Called Angel)
• Foocubi -
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  pet civ test (practically alpha). No natural skills set, majorly awesome stats (+++) and no beards. They still have Foocubi personalities, but without a need to eat or drink perhaps they'll get some work done :-) . Purchased Foocubi can be manipulated via Dwarf Therapist. Purchased Foocubi might not need marriage (like pets) to reproduce. Tests Ongoing. Will Send Caravans in Spring ... changed from Winter. Language English (language_English.txt)
• Dwarves. Are. Different -
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  but not as heavily different as the others. Removed some penalties to Surface embarks (Cave Adaption, Added Surface Farming "Surface Dwarves!?" I said they were different). No new naming Conventions. No new Spheres. Pet Use changes. Can Use all the Modded Items. Caravans in Autumn. Language Dwarven -yep no change there.
• Seputus - "The Buried".
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  {Creature Variation Test A} An Evil So-and-So race designed to use the Curious Altar to their Curious Gods to get anything they want... usually out of a wyrd white gold. Natural skills set at 2, majorly awesome stats (5K save for some that are 0) and no beards. They have what should be grumbly backstab your grandpa to climb over his corpse to greatness personalities. Expect to wait for a migrant wave before they'll get some work done :-) . They use Religious Leaders... Tests Ongoing. Will Send Caravans in Constantly of course their Civilization is pretty much at war with everyone. (No News on Gobbos but Kobolds raid them and Elves Ambush without doing anything besides exist to piss them off ). Language Latin (language_latin.txt). They TEMPORARILY have access to most every vanilla and Aspectus Lolin Mod Building. This is until they are ready for prime time and will be stripped down to just the Curious Altar and what mandatory buildings they need to survive world gen. Might end up with Multiple White Gold types to accomplish this and make them a menace.
• The Great Race of Yiff -
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  {Creature Variation Test B} Yes I went there. The Yiffians are a Kitsune (Oriental Fox Spirit) race in name and desc only until I feel like making their real ears and tails. They are a Good race designed to use the Song Altar to get anything they want within reason but are not religious nutjobs so fully understand the need for all the other buildings and jobs. Oddly they've made sungwood into some items that are just for decoration... ANYWAY... They have natural skills set (14), majorly cheat stats(5000). Their personalitiess are set to make them able to learn all the interpersonal skills (These might get tweaked) Additionally I have culled many differences between individuals due to their beauty. They can use most weapons, Two Handed Swords, Whips, etc. Also customized pantheon bits. Can Use all the Modded Items. Will send Caravans ... often. Language English (language_english.txt)
• The Fallen.
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  {Creature Variation Test C!} An Evil So and So Race Coalition of normal civ and mod civ members who have fallen in with evil and wickedness. There's still chaff in the creature file to give the creature variation something to do.
• The Downtrodden.
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   A Racial Coalition (once again) composed of (Roleplay: Those who have failed to create artifacts, but have somewhat recovered. Most civilized races end up treating them like pets, for they now -suddenly- lay eggs, and are milkable. It doesn't help that save for starting parties and gearing for hunting and war they do very little anymore. It is as if some power has decided to make them useful again...)(DF: In summary, Milkable, Egglaying, Pet tagged, Packanimal(weak) Dwarves, etc). They have a creature variation as well (file editted from the Fallen's)
• Mewli.
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  An all Female Feline Race... there are Mewli, Fun Mewli, Mewli Slaves, and Fun Mewli Slaves. 'Fun' castes are hermaphrodites. They can use the full range from Aspectus Lolin. They have their own stats, and their own personalities that Alluvian worked out. They trade every season.

  Quote

  "Hey whatcha got now?" 'You were just here.' "We used everything." 'How!?' "You think *YOUR* nobles have mandates... Our queen just sold a scad of us off to buy *one* Artifact Jade Breastplate." '...' "It was that or broker the kingdom  "

==
Several Mods (Bay12 and Personal) are preinstalled:

• InternetKraken's Diverse Creatures.
• Foocubi - The Incubus/Succubus Race
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  (Heavily Toyed with to try to get around Intelligent Pet Race Babies and Children starving/dehydrating.)
• S.L.A.D.E. - Silliness and Levity Add Dwarven Enjoyment
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  (Heavily Toyed with as ... there doesn't seem to have been a whole lot of testing)(Downloaded March 17)
• Profit's Item Annihilation (Suite)
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  (Added only one change in from the thread about it)
• Cross Swords moddified in as Bolt Swords
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  , and Bolt Swords from some of the S.L.A.D.E. metals.
• Alluvian's Priesthood mod 1.2
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  (High Priest, Priests and Acolytes who Uphold Religion and are Work Exempt)
• Alluvian's Priesthood mod 2.0
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  (Emissary as Monarch, Friars as Expedition Leaders)(High Priest, Priests and Acolytes who Uphold Religion and are Work Exempt)(For The Seputus, & The Fallen)
• The Creation Forge
• The Emergency Mood Kit
• The Town in a Box
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  (Recently made more Reaction Bolt Swords... should keep people off the chopping block)
• The Emergency Feature Obliterator
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  (To destroy items made from anything in the mod... and well anything else. use with (CAUTION!) ;-) )
• The Great Race of Yiff & Song Altar. -
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  sungwood items ahoy. Needs some item usage testing... as a few things are just fine made from sungwood and other items (like slabs) have a use or 2 removed. TESTING
  *sungwood - a nice white wood for STUFF that's not cheap so might actually be worth selling *gasp* TESTING
• Seputus & Curious Altar -
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  white gold (wyrd_gold) items ahoy. Should have less issues than the Song Altar, just needs I suppose some Town in a Box items to make it a self sufficient hub for the evil sods. TESTING
  *wyrd_gold - a new metal that if it were up to me would be "Flax" or "Buff" colorwise but instead is practically wood colored. Can be worshipped into things. TESTING
• Altar of the Blood God
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  (One civie goes in, dies, you get Cotton Candy.) Added mostly to punish the Seputus. -*(A Finished Feature)*-
• Warlord's Bonfire Mod
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  (Lightly tweaked to keep trees from appearing on the map and setting fire to your face) Added mostly to punish the Seputus. -*(A Finished Feature)*-
• Thinking with Turrets -
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  Portal's Turrets and Cubes tweaked from Necro910's thread. Added to try to help test'em and to punish the Seputus. TESTING
• The Fallen
• The Downtrodden
• Trade Mods - Guild Rep, Diplomat, Caravans and Pack Animals.
• Urban Renewal -
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   Various impassable workshops as walls so building destroyers can viciously rearrange your environment. The Growth Denial buildings are still in TESTING.
• Alluvian's Mewli

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Single Creature 'Mods':

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• Prinny Trainee
• Queen Succubus
• Silkworm Mod - Not quite sure just how many micromods exist for this one.
• The Puffball - Just a minor test of a creature in testing here on the modding forum. TESTING... duh.
• The Herald of the End Times
• Failures & Epic Failures
• Pudding Golems
• Deadly Wamblers
• The Flame Bint and the Flame Grunt (converted spouse)
• Bronze Biggun - a BronzeColossus that's a tad more 'brittle'
• and some I forgot...

Wanna peek at the files without a Download:
Main Directory (https://github.com/EldrickWT/My-Crazy-Dwarf-Fortress-Mods) Often more Up To Date than the Download Links.

Download Links:
Download Link (DFMod) (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4086)
Download link (Rar of the Raw Directory Edition) (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4096)

Individual Parts:

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• EMK (building and reactions) DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4601)
• EFO (building and reactions) DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4602)
• Town in a Box (building and reactions) DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4603)
• Bolt Sword micro mod (item files, inorganic files, and the swordery) DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4604)
• Altar of the Blood God (building and reactions... even if there's a thread for it with 23261351 different implementations) DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4605)
• The Great Race of Yiff & Song Altar. DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4606)
• (The) Seputus & Curious Altar. DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4607)
• The Fallen & Creature Variation File. DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4608)
• The Downtrodden & Creature Variation File. DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4609)
• Warlord's Bonfire Mod (just a package) DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4610)
• Urban Renewal (buildings) DFFD Link to Zip File (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4615)

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CURRENT ISSUES:

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General:
UNIQUE_DEMON will soft fail in the "Raw Check Phase". In world gen Ear Worms and Heralds will spill out of the Circus. These should be your only two errors using either of the main packages.
Angels:

• Angels have FLIER so pathing can break. Emergency Ramps henshin yo. KNOWN DF ISSUE
• Angels have FLIER so trade is broken. KNOWN DF ISSUE
• Marriage. They will and they do, but you might have to wait a while for them to get friendly enough. etc etc. Perhaps they are Too busy working? HINT HINT
• You might have Super Moms. This is what I call it when a married lady cranks them out every time she can, and at the upper ranges.

Foocubi:

• Foocubi will burst forth with their attacks at nigh on any provocation. Sure it's not dragonfire, and it is short duration but... not fully tested (high rate of mobility loss that's not trivial or temporary in parent civs that aren't immune... not sure if it is the Foocubi or not... you've been warned).
• Due to issues with parenting outside their actual civilization, they've had eating and drinking zapped. Also they tended to prefer external water sources anyway... which is a mess on some embarks.
• Pop ratio removed from the ladies. Put it back if you're so inclined. Of course I've also made the ladies just as trainable...
• They seem to go nuts for parent civ members who adore some aspect of their species. You have been warned.
• They have 'Den Mother' issues. This is where a male and or a female will just be ULTRA POPULAR and everyone will gravitate to them. This can happen nearly instantly... sometimes right after "Seeking Infant".
• CIV SIDE: As they are a [Pet] Civ... they might not want your orders from within game (Hi Runesmith! Hi Dwarf Therapist!), and they don't have the page right before "Thoughts". So Mandates? What mandates. Room need? What room need.
• CIV SIDE: I've not removed the [PET] tag after embark for testing purposes. It should fix a few issues (Seeing Demands/Mandates/Thoughts)
• CIV SIDE: Marriage. They will and they do, AND you might get wedding cascades...

Lolin:

• Marriage. They will and they do, but you might have to wait a while for them to get friendly enough. etc etc. Perhaps they are Too busy working? HINT HINT
• You might have Super Moms. This is what I call it when a married lady cranks them out every time she can, and at the upper ranges.

Seputus:

• They are a religious Civ. Thus they are missing 90% of the nobles... and don't need them per se. Plan accordingly.
• You might have Super Moms. This is what I call it when a married lady cranks them out every time she can, and at the upper ranges.

Fallen:

• They are a religious Civ. Thus they are missing 90% of the nobles... and don't need them per se. Plan accordingly.
• You might have Super Moms. This is what I call it when a married lady cranks them out every time she can, and at the upper ranges. Don't be surprised about a Human and an Elf having a Goblin kid.

Downtrodden:

• As they have pack numbers you may not want to even think of copying an entity and putting them into it. They are also pets. This has some of its own eccentricities.
• You might have Super Moms. This is what I call it when a lady cranks them out every time she can, and at the upper ranges. Don't be surprised about a Human and an Elf having a Goblin kid. ASSUMING THEY SIT STILL UNTIL THEY HATCH

Trade Mods:

• Dwarves Don't Need Diplomats -already exist- so do not add. Elves USED to have Diplomats and thus re-add the "Appointed by Druid" bit to entity_default.txt
• Guild Representatives are NOT NEEDED for the civ you're planning to play. In fact things get weird! Which list is the one the tradesmen will obey? The Outpost Liason or the Guild Representative?
• Shouldn't try to add to the Animal Peoples as they are layer linked -thus in little camps IN the ground- and likely not able to reach you in any event.

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Some Thoughts:

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I've not tested every single thing from all the cobbled together mods.
The Mad Scientist Workshop is mostly untested.
Grand Cheeseworks is mostly untested however Delicious Succubus Cheese Thrones! Whee!
Haven't spent the time to test changes to the Mixery, or the Imaginarium.
As mentioned elsewhere the S.L.A.D.E. gems all show up fine... but then they're mostly from Wasteland...
I've added male and female and neutral bits[/] to many species, but not all of them. There are many missed intentionally or not "No yeti buttcheeks all over the place!" for example. I mostly hit creature standard, the dragons, and I made sure to hunt down the tigermen too. There are now *2* male bits... one without a grasp and one with. Some species still have a grasp. just look for those body tags.
Added wings to Angels, and I think I finished adding them to Fairies and Pixies.
Derpicorns -flaming or not- have ungodly hitpoints the blasted Nurgle followers. I've not zapped them from the files. They still come out of the woodwork in droves. Remember Flaming Derps have dragonfire...
I've not modded Badgers. I want to. BADLY. But then Runesmith has the Nuke button. There's DFHack for that at the moment.
The Downtrodden have a trade capacity. It's untested. They will be used as beast of burden.
As sometimes things fall off when doing major mod work I've included my "nfo" files so you can make sure things are A-OK. Mostly the entity_*.permissions.nfo would need to be checked.
NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER seems to be another way to gain immediate hostility, besides UTTERANCES.
All the *breakable parts in the biggun body file will snap off with work. Yes something can kick a biggun's head off due to the DIGIT tag on the humanoid_breakable head declaration. You can also kick off the lower body... Flame Bint vs Bronze Biggun if you wanna see for yourself.

I've resisted combining half of everything into the Town in a Box. Or the EMK... AND resisted putting everything in it's own building.

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: goukaryuujin on March 30, 2011, 10:41:33 pm

If you think your a cheater, try making an ore that takes 50000000 to melt and is better than bluestone. And all i have to do is hunt for it for about half an hour. :P

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on March 31, 2011, 10:15:58 am

Quote from: goukaryuujin on March 30, 2011, 10:41:33 pm

If you think your a cheater, try making an ore that takes 50000000 to melt and is better than bluestone. And all i have to do is hunt for it for about half an hour. :P

Well I've 'felt' the gaze down the old nose reading over reactions that were free before, so I'm just flagging it ahead of time. Of course the fact I am having fun with it set this way means I'm not dwarfy enough in some way. That or it's just the 'still using my toy hammer and mini-forge' feeling. Not sure which.

So I see I've had two downloads. Nice that DFFD tracks such. Hopefully they enjoy my trainwreck.

"Trainwreck?" Yeah. Until it matches my likely unattainable vision it's a trainwreck.

50000000 to melt. Wow. Thankfully that's Degrees Urist else the atmosphere would ignite  :o

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Alkhemia on March 31, 2011, 11:25:56 am

 ??? What do I do with this thing it in a .dfmod format?

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Deon on March 31, 2011, 12:20:41 pm

Quote from: Alkhemia on March 31, 2011, 11:25:56 am

??? What do I do with this thing it in a .dfmod format?

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=74828.0

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on March 31, 2011, 12:47:28 pm

Which reminds me I need to get on the ball and get zip or rar version built... and update the wiki pastes again  :o

*doing his best to not tweak anything for a few days... for that very reason* *contemplates zip or rar (favors rar) while fixing the pastes* *reconsiders*

Rar it is... pasting  :'(

Download link (Rar of the Raw Directory Edition) http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4096 (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4096)

*goes to edit first post*

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on April 01, 2011, 05:27:45 pm

Fresh Post so I don't just cover all the lands in spoiler tags.

Ahem

So those of you goofing with this thing will notice some issues with tissues in the errorlog (and many may just fix them themselves).

Thus. Update incoming. I decidedly want this file name bug behind me.

UPDATE: The delay is testing stuff.

UPDATE2: The current delay was trying to fix the Wild Foocubi Civ I tossed together. Made them intelligent -also to try to fix the baby issues that remain even if set to really low numbers -.- (worse with the civ itself... like a year to childhood suddenly popped up... not in my raws :/ ) but left pet status on. So... the War Foocubi were workable in Therapist... I'd made them Adopts Owner... which lead to some Civies just being ultra popular. Noticed Girls only popped up from breeding with twins and triplets. WTF?

Continuing the WTF... oh boy...

Can't see the Building Requirements for Nobles... or assign work animals (Had real animals... Octopre and Delicate cats (still waiting for something to stab one... I should probably figure out how to mess with arena mode @.@... or make them trainable for war)) probably due the the pet flag sending you straight to the status/description screen. Speaking of Which... You can train Foocubi for war... but ... not... their animals? Octopre ready for war training... NOPE. Nothing to train(, lol!). Not seeing anyone coming with them in cages either... but cheese and milk barrels? yep.

Merchants get LOST. Foocubi merchants make it to the Depot. Trade just fine... and then try to leave... pathing all over the place but never ever reaching the edge. If you use Runesmith to off them... their guards -who likely were adopted/have adopted someone- just stick around... with their blasted @ startling one occasionally into thinking someone went stark raving mad.

Slightly more useful than the Angels and their "There's the depot! Let's fly on over!" And usually breaking their ability to trade... assuming they don't just path over the nearest bit of water and cause the animals to make a run for the wall, turn about, and then uselessly hang out by the Depot.

Slightly Less WTF. The Foocubi marry just fine. Yes even amid the massive "I adopt myself, and you babe. *wink*" oddness. And of course pregnancies abound... and likely because I was in control... have to test @.@ THEY LOOKED FOR THEIR INFANTS AND TOOK CARE OF THEM. Personal Silliness Aside... that was awesome to see... until it lasted a blinking year. Not in my raws buddy :/

Odd Cool thing. Since you can't pasture them anyway (Not allowed when your civ is also pet apparently) you get these FUNCTIONAL hordes moving about. Functional you ask? Well Hauling is fast. I've seen (but I could be insane) a lumberjack chop down a tree and one of their entourage take the lumber away.

Back to WTF. Took a Possession to get the Diplomat to leave. He'd moved in like the previously mentioned guards.


So yeah some odd bugs to iron out. Angels would likely fix with their flier status revoked. More convolutedly... ROOFED HALLWAYS TO THE DEPOT 20 long... or longer. At about 20 they fly ahead -.-; Problem. Wouldn't stop them losing their animals on the way due attacks THEY can fly away from. Another Solution... Flying Yaks? Which might just get stuck somewhere. :/ Like an Angel on a Rooftop without stairs...

Removing Pet status might fix my weird Foocubi civ (mine as the others put the Demon back in Arch Hardyplank, sex demon Incubus, but I am probably certifiable. `-`v) re-enabling finer controls. Might also have to give them other Cake Batter immune pets... Contact Poisons that stun... everywhere like a bad porn `-`;;

The Lolin are fairly bugfree... except for the fact I've never seen a Marriage (okay neither have the angels...)... Of course I've not seen a tantrum spiral either (ditto for the angels).

The Queen... yeah... still DOES_NOT_EXIST until I can find away to spawn ONE and only ONE on the entire planet with a name of my choosing. Her progeny I know are a million patches away... and those patches would likely be hacks. Not sure she's being worshiped... Hopefully she is... but without her on the map anywhere....... Legends mode might show something if I could navigate it right.

On a whim I made the Ear Worm... gonna have to plop that into the Arena... not sure it's tried to escape The Circus, even though it should have a Ticket (Unique_Demon) from the Ticket Booth(Candy Store, etc). Of course the ticket might not work (seems like it might not be read by the raw parser).


I need to stop meddling and upload stuff that works :/ Which is part of the plan for tomorrow `-`v

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on April 06, 2011, 04:45:59 am

To highlight one part...

Quote from: Eldrick Tobin on April 01, 2011, 05:27:45 pm

On a whim I made the Ear Worm... gonna have to plop that into the Arena... not sure it's tried to escape The Circus, even though it should have a Ticket (Unique_Demon) from the Ticket Booth(Candy Store, etc). Of course the ticket might not work (seems like it might not be read by the raw parser).

Had trouble with one of InternetKraken's Earth Golems. Flew around and spewed various attacks just fine... not so fine once both had major injuries. To make sure the Golem could die I dropped magma on it... heat took it out quickly... Earworm flew out of the way.

Spawned some Angels. They managed to take it out at Great Cost. Only one survivor. Unscathed but the only survivor. I felt silly and in a zone so... Still set to independent I dropped in several Lolin Lolis. They were Immediately Charged by the Angel and Dispatched. I forgot to check but I think she was still unscathed.

Prinny Trainees are a tad bugged... get their butts kicked fine... people die who fight them... but 'n/a' spam. At least it was fatal to attack.
Same for Delicate Cats... 'n/a' and got themselves thrashed... one who fought it also died.


:/ More to fix

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on April 27, 2011, 04:53:43 pm

Files Updated at DFFD. I'm calling this version .65

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod.
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on April 29, 2011, 01:06:31 am

.75 Up.
*Fixed many tissue issues due to misplaced declarations. Glad I didn't mod MORE things male and female.
*Found where I'd hid my earworm file so that's in there again now. Ignore its errorlog.txt entries... the main parser can't touch Unique Demon. But the World Save knows exactly what to do.... spam history with reincarnating Earworms, that seem to ATTRACT giants dragons and sundry, who come to and succeed in killing them, after they slip into a civilization. Then world Gen hits the "Spawn another Ear Worm" button.
*Added 'Scrounging' to the Wirery... even with deep soil you might not see ANY copper wiring. So yeah a cheat reaction to make some.
*Mayors still tend to set themselves up as High Priest -or Vice Versa. So far this one Noble is driving added items to the EMK, and Town in a Box. Oddest personal item preferences.

To reiterate: One Day there will be Mewli "What's a Mewli?" Guess.

Other items:

Some additional Prase. High Prase for example. Let the groaning ensue.

In the If I could file:

Fans. Not windmills. Squires, Followers... etc. "You play adventure mode?" No no no. Entities who come onto the map and mooch. "Curious..." No no no. A Fan Human would arrive with others -like say how beavers/camels/migrants/etc arrive in groups, and then move in. They would of course instantly ingratiate themselves to the most popular of your civilization... [Adopts_Owner] "Wait just a sec..." Yes they would count as pets... "No no no... it would be so easy to sell them!" That too. "Sell the Elven Fans to the elves." Sure why not `-`

"Wait!" ? "This is a terrible Idea!" Oh? "You'd mod cats to do the same thing!" It would never be test worthy. "Eh?" I only get frakking badgers...

Anyway I just thought "Interrupted by Fanboy" would be tee hee worthy! Or How about a Siege of people who LIKE YOU... while the Gobbos are Invading ``

"Stop fighting those gobbos in my wild strawberry patch!" Exactly. "You need sleep." But I had this idea days ago... why are you running?

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. Some Insights...
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on May 04, 2011, 01:37:27 pm

Well when I crank it out the next version will probably have a number .8

Then I think I'll just stay in .8x.yy.zz until bugs I can't control are fixed. (like [FLIER]).

currently for .8 I plan to have the Song Temple as ironed out as I can. What's the Song Temple? It makes Sungwood. What's Sungwood? The Angel's new material. I've mentioned wanting their own special material. A white wood sounds kinda appropriate. CURRENTLY you can make some improbable/illogical/doesn'tquitework things with it... all AT the temple. Why a free reaction cheat building? Because I wanna make a race that ONLY uses it to make stuff. Just haven't hammered out the race yet.

I tossed together a creature that's more of an idea bookmark - Warbeards. A Creature Variation on dwarves with adamantine tissues. I'll be testing those today too... provided the power remains on while workers do things for the owners of the house.

I'm trying really hard to not break the mod intro fragments -some part of my mind now wants to disassemble the legos so parts can more easily be released. Why I have no idea. Here's one of my new features test procedures. Ready?

Add Feature to Mod Folder ON OTHER MACHINE.
UltraCompare Folder Mode MOD folder and RAW Folder.
UltraCompare Folder Mode RAW folder and REGION-RAW Folder. Repeat for any other recent forts I think can benefit.
dfworldtinker <region> sync

Test.

Adding on the bundling...

DFMM. Uninstall mod. Delete Mod. Add Mod from Folder. Name Mod. Install Mod.
UltraCompare Folder Mode RAW folder and REGION-RAW Folder for inconsistencies (mostly of formatting. Add new formatting to MOD Folder if needed. Repeat DFMM step if needed.)
Rar up RAW Folder.
Zip Up dfmod file.
Upload Files to their DFFD pages.

So with all that. Why oh why do I feel the need to break it back up? To add complexity until I quit working on it in frustration? I'm certainly adding features before everything is 100%


And so there you have it. Insights.

Back to testing. At least my macros for building work... and with the pre-release of dfautodump actually able to be furnished this decade ~.~v

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. Now also in nibble sized chunks...
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on May 11, 2011, 03:26:19 pm

.81 should be up within 24 hours. Need a break from modding.

Splinter bits of the mod will be available some time after that. Special features will of course not be available in the splinter versions (Extra body parts, SLADE items...) so I don't go insane ^-^v

Update: Bumping the thread would be wasteful... However "Creature Variation Test B" also a failure. While "Landing Lights" would be "keen" on the Yiffians... having whole other sets of eyes... BZZZT. Also I had so much in their entry that it might as well have been a fully featured critter anyway -.-;

So A failed because I didn't know -at all- what I was doing. B failed because I don't really want to build a full CV properly... not one with natural skills and all those "add_tag:" bits. Maybe later. not right this sec.


In Odd news: The Buried have finally noticed I gave them "Friars" so they can utilize Diplomacy... meer seconds after I gave them BACK Expedition Leaders. They are making fun of me -.-; Now while the Friar does everything... I forgot to attach a squad to them. So currently no military at all. However due to simultaneous Thinking with Turrets testing... woe be to anything attacking them. Why's that? Turrets are made of balsa you say... well they breed like vermin when given a nestbox. [CLUTCH_SIZE:50:100] Your problem would be placing them for maximum coverage... and remembering to take the nest box away. Tempted to rename 'broken' Slabs "pet stones" or "herd stones" as man did the little buggers like that I put a sculpture garden in the Turret Paddock. Hiding in the corner they were dropped in... until the stones showed up, then they were SLOWLY milling about. Also keeps them from WANTING to leave the area.

Protip?

Oh and be thankful I'm testing and not Zerging the upload button. Forgot all the items METAL things can be made into. White gold (wyrd gold) currently is a mirror of the sungwood list. There are holes because of this  -.-;

UPDATE Update: Still testing, Yes I broke off for Terraria for a while, HOWEVER that .81 should happen SOON. Like this week. I just wanna expand the mini mod offerings to even my flavors of Foocubi and what not so if one were a nutter they could indeed paste it all into the same directory structure and recreate Aspectus Lolin.

Currently the minimod status is a bit weird. Most of it tests fine, but with some pieces blended too well into the "Main Trunk" I'm basically maintaining two versions. That should only really be the case with the Entities and Critters that need Foocubi bits to be 'all set' not buildings. I'm debating (as I mention above) a Bolt Sword Workshop, and of all things an EFO mini version just for AL. The EFO can blast to dust everything in DF, but I currenlty have a version in the main trunk that also has specifics for everything from the Town and the EMK. I could put them IN the town and the EMK however some are from pieces that might not be part and parcel of a given Town in a Box or EMK minimod.

I should put the priesthood changes for the Seputus into their own post... in the morning. I'm already 2 hours past when I was planning to hit the sack just because I needed to rebuild the differences between Total Vanilla, and 'My' Vanilla. zzz

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. Now also in nibble sized chunks...
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on June 02, 2011, 07:29:29 pm

Rar of Rars and dfmod file soon to upload. Minimods are currently unwanted evil stepchildren of Forgotten Beasts and can wait. I feel like I'm in a NOC that's lost AC, but has not yet somehow reached 120 Fahrenheit yet. So... you even get some not quite tested junk too. Aren't you excited?

You shouldn't be. Maybe in 5 hours I'll test... it's vegetation infront of a dvd or two time. Zargh.


Update: Attempting to test... if the world'll finish gen'ing with my odd parameter file :/

And of course .81 is up. Been up ^-^

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. Now also in nibble sized chunks...
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on June 02, 2011, 11:06:32 pm

Some errors spotted.

-the railgun and rails files have OBJECT:WEAPON not OBJECT:ITEM
-The Changesto the Angels and the Herald of the End Times had me botch their wing colors... I put feather in their thinking it was what I should use. Returned them to 'skin'. No brains left to figure out what I should have done there.
-Pixie and Fairy dragons... all this time I didn't know I'd not given/removed THEIR EYES @.@ so of course they couldn't have iridescent eyes -.-;

And of course the two 'what;'s a unique demon token?' from object testing. IF only some of the other errors were so easy to stomp `-`;

If requested I can put up changes ASAP otherwise I plan to wait until I can crank out the minis. I have them all in folders They're ultracompared almost daily at this point. But I still have to test some parts of Urban Renewal... probably with the Damned Innsmouthers... so I can get some more religion testing in `-`v

Update: So while I did manage to clean the error log so deceptively easy... the mostly untested -it's been tested just undesired results- for Urban Renewal is a pain in all 4 rectums!

UR has 2 Components. The Most broken is little more than an area denial at this stage. 1,5,10,15, or 32 square 'workshops' to keep things from growing... also I'd thought to perhaps furrow the terrain. Yeah right. Just growth denial. How pathetic when I'd hoped for more. Easier to designate a stockpile -.-; I did plan on them being solid at one point... but BLOCK tokens lead us to part 2.

Temporary Walls. For those individuals who lament walls being untargetable by building destroyers. Knowing it would hate all over me I only have 1x1 and 32x1 sections. With the ability to build them from north south east or west... the thought being you could MAKE SURE something walled off AND YOUR WORKER WAS ON THE CORRECT SIDE.

1x1 Build East and Built North are properly BLOCK tagged. West and South are not. I hate how rows and columns are done. I hate the order the BLOCK tag works in. And boy were the Work locations OFF for the 32 bit walls. And boy were the BLOCK tags off -.-; I mentioned hating the row and column stuff right? and hating block tags? Oh okay -.-;


Peculiarity... the Seputus never achieve High Priests in world gen. So they just have worship lists -no friars nothing, just deities.

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. Now also in nibble sized chunks...
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on June 04, 2011, 04:14:15 am

Parts I'm fixing/working on:
Aluuvian's Religion Mod 2.0's Monarch is currently "Emissary" and the spouse is the Legate Consort... still by Heir, and still the High Priest.

Urban Renewal is fixed. All hail Workshop Draw. Now you can build 32x1 'walls', seal yourself in/off and a troll comes along and smashes it... or any building destroyer. Or maybe your painstakingly lain out 1x1 'walls'. Testing the area denial buildings still.

base lined all baby and child time periods(180 days and 1 year respectively)... hopefully the numbers are "high enough" to be listened to by df -as in not just "minimum one year as baby and one year as child"

And of course I'm working on the .81.1 release with all this testing.

MORE UPDATES:
As no one uses this I hadn't a clue I botched the hell out of bodies. I knew I couldn't just use:
[Body:Humanoid:Neutral..]
[Caste:Female]
     [Female]
     [Body:Female]
...

and Adding via CV seemed to indicate a static state -couldn't assign an attack as the part didn't exist.

So! I'd been accidentally doubling bodies while simply wanting to cover my buns lest I add a caste (say noble specific) but forget to give it a body. I had no idea why people were covered messily in clothing, and why the combat logs seemed REALLY SPECIFIC. Perhaps I should get a DNA sample and clone my own testers.

Too bad I can't do that WITH DF Raws. Then I could set their raw modding skill levels at like 20...

That's it for this Post Update. With all the changes I guess I should say the next uploads should be called .82.2 after all version numbers DO matter Mozilla  >:(

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. It's UN-Dwarfy!
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on June 19, 2011, 05:48:15 pm

Finally made a straight up web copy of the folder I do all the work for this mod in (for those who do not want to wait for the mini mods to get they're individual time in the sun.)

https://github.com/EldrickWT/My-Crazy-Dwarf-Fortress-Mods/tree/master/split%20out%20mods (https://github.com/EldrickWT/My-Crazy-Dwarf-Fortress-Mods/tree/master/split%20out%20mods)

(editted: changed greypages link to github link)

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. It's UN-Dwarfy!
Post by: The13thRonin on June 19, 2011, 07:13:39 pm

Not to be rude but I think maybe you should think about editing your last post instead of posting on top of yourself all the time. You've just posted 11 straight times in a row... With messages like:

Quote

Files Updated at DFFD. I'm calling this version .65

Also again, not meaning to be rude and I can't speak for anyone else but I find your 'stream of consciousness' manner of writing is quite confusing and hard to follow ???. When I look at the opening post I just see an explosion of information and it's hard to take it all in. Maybe try shooting for quality of information over quantity, break it up with some headings and subheadings or something.

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. It's UN-Dwarfy!
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on June 19, 2011, 10:26:04 pm

I only bump when it is something new. I do a mess of editing normally. However I can't see who is or isn't following the thread -or I might just PM the handful of them.

I will take your feelings somewhat into consideration, but I'm really not looking to learn a new table format to make sure things are as I plan them.

As for proper separations it's a bit difficult at present due to the fact I did not reserve several posts.


Not to be rude, but anything to say about the mod collection itself? Else this could have been a PM.

Title: Re: Behold the unimpressive Aspectus Lolin mod. It needs more !!SCIENCE!!
Post by: Eldrick Tobin on July 08, 2011, 02:58:11 am

0.82.1 is up. Huzzah. The Mini Mods bits went up earlier and thankfully save for some formatting typos do not need to be re-uploaded. Double Huzzah.

"Why a new reply? Bumping?"

Nope. I know few keep track of the thread.

Edit Edit: Decided myself on the Flame Bint issue... Traveler, Tease, Slease. Also less -I hope- cultural issues.

So... I'm currently testing "Real Spiders of Flavor":

\raw\objects\creature flavor spiders.txt
Toxic Spider, Flame Spider, Ice Spider, Flesh Spider, Copper Spider, Iron Spider, Steel Spider, Adamantine Spider, Lhigatine Spider, V Gneiss Spider, Santaclase Spider, Microcline Spider, H Prase Spider, Slade Spider, Salade Spider, Wyrd Gold Spider, Sungwood Spider, Oak Spider, Giant Toxic Spider, Giant Flame Spider, Giant Ice Spider, Giant Flesh Spider, Giant Copper Spider, Giant Iron Spider, Giant Steel Spider, Giant Adamantine Spider, Giant Lhigatine Spider, Giant V Gneiss Spider, Giant Santaclase Spider, Giant Microcline Spider, Giant H Prase Spider, Giant Slade Spider, Giant Salade Spider, Giant Wyrd Gold Spider, Giant Sungwood Spider, Giant Oak Spider

V_GNEISS is Very Nice -From S.L.A.D.E.
SANTACLASE -From S.L.A.D.E.
H_PRASE is High Prase -Inspired by S.L.A.D.E.
Slade Spider is here thanks to the help of Sphalerite 0.31. MODDERS WORKSHOP (NEWCOMERS WELCOME!) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=53740.msg2446986#msg2446986)
Salade is here just because it's like Slade but Sillier. -From S.L.A.D.E.
base sizes are:
      [BODY_SIZE:0:0:5000]
      [BODY_SIZE:1:0:10000]
      [BODY_SIZE:2:0:20000]
CV:Giant Spider increases size by 2000%

Wish me luck in my testing. So tests complete! Yay Sphalerite! 2 Adamantine Spiders bit and pushed each other for 8 game days in the arena before one fell to the other. Huzzah! Next step -if I take it- is to add to the CV_Giant Spider to remove or adjust the smaller spider's toxin so Giants have their own immunity list and little spiders get mauled by the larger ones.

Neither size is currently casted to avoid making 'My Little Arachnid'. As that would require size tuning, syndrome tuning, and other things I'm trying to avoid. They're just supposed to be things to chase your civvies around not develop architecture and armor. :'( Why does my crazy friend think it's a good idea?

Edit: Why do my fellow modders think it's a good idea too @.@

In any event the MiniMod: MiniMod:Real Spiders of Flavor (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4696)

Edit: And Now The Same for Unicorpions. And I updated the spiders.

Uploaded (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4708) the Real Unicorpions of Flavor -includes Ferals.
Updated (http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4696) the Real Spiders of Flavor -includes Ferals.

Ferals are 'base' arachnids, black of hair chitin and eyes.

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No point in a Bump.

Anyfey I think I've narrowed down the trait breaking foocubi merchants and guild representatives. As they only have 6 personality traits defined, and I've seen something with SELF_DISCIPLINE at 0:5:15 succeed in doing their job... I must oddly enough stare at [PERSONALITY:ALTRUISM:X:Y:Z]. An odd thing to set one's sights on but with so few items to aim at that might curb behaviour in favor of hanging out with locals instead of one's duty... I have no other targets. Thus I have yanked it from some entries, and curbed the Z for others all the way to 80.

If anyone's reading and thinks I'm nuts... please prove me wrong. I'm not finding much on the bug tracker...

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Just editing -5 billion years later - to clarify what's going wrong with the merchants. [ADOPTS_OWNER]. They are wandering off after someone: thinking about them as an owner/trying to claim them as their owner. DFHack has shown adjustments to "relations.following" that almost constantly need to be cleared in order for trade to progress -worse for anyone needing to speak with the Expedition Leader/Mayer/Etc as any time their meeting pauses they're off to claim someone.

Adding this:
https://github.com/EldrickWT/My-Crazy-Dwarf-Fortress-Mods/blob/master/raw/objects/c_variation_pet_civ.txt
and enabling/disabling it to allow for embark purchases has been my response.

In other news... long since had things updated for 34.11 BUT! When it's been a year and I'm mostly talking to myself, why bump the thread? For this one alone "Last Edit: August 04, 2011, 11:40:32 pm"

Happy testing.

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Some more additions have crept into the AL folders over on github. A Hardsuit (Bubblegum Crisis/Accel World) Inspired RACE... Yay Androids (http://eldricktobin.tumblr.com/post/49009814942/yay-androids),
Fire Lizards... ancient (by now) versions of DFHack Scripts... "copious" notes.

Can't wait to update things for the next DF.

If I'm just gonna talk to myself maybe I should just blab on tumblr (http://eldricktobin.tumblr.com)... I should sig that...

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Most recent Raws -> https://github.com/EldrickWT/My-Crazy-Dwarf-Fortress-Mods/tree/master/raw.40.06/objects

The Split out mods will happen eventually.

I'm testing Functional Immortality. More necromancers... but oddly enough lots of 3000-5000 year olds all over the place. I do NOT wanna just say 100-30000 because violence is bad enough without people just keeling over because they'e gonna die on the 5th month of their 174th year.

New content. I mentioned the firelizards I hope. I think I covered androids. Well just about everyone and everything got it's romantic needs tweaked... as soon as I heard about that stuff. My S.L.A.D.E. stuff got updated to 40.06... I've stolen the Mixery for use with DIRECT beverage concoction. Not just the randomness of the still (or dfhacking the job to use SPECIFIC materials).

I might make a Lhigate fortress building to go with all the cheat creature vartiation I've recently cranked out.

Speaking of new creatures... Several Horned entities Based loosely on Soraka from League of Legends have cropped up. Feralhorns who have no civilization to speak of; Proudhorns who value romance and friendship and magic; and Vilehorns who Value Friendship just fine. It's beautiful tearing it apart. MWAHAHA

Also the Ibex Men tweak the Gardohn might have mentioned them. Can't recall. InternetKraken's Diverse creatures has also felt the touch of romance and the various sirens are all now properly spouse converters. Even with Hubby castes.

I'll probably remember more later. Probably when I have the sanity and energy to work on the various split out mods. Probably need to fiddle with git to make it do it for me next time. Already so much cruft all over the files since 40.01 popped up.

Talk at you later. Not that any pay attention to a 24625373635345`1425125`35345326326236.plumphelmet old thread.

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Updated everything -split out mods too- to 0.40.24 even have a new pregen world here:
EldrickWT's Crazy Dwarf Fortress and Mods - 40.24 (http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=10549)

And as always cherry picking happens here (https://github.com/EldrickWT/My-Crazy-Dwarf-Fortress-Mods).