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For some reason my last three artifacts have engraved on them the following image:

On the item is an image of Kivish Plankrouts the dwarf in *material*. Kivish Plankrouts is traveling. The artwork relates to the flight of the dwarf Kivish Plankrouts into the Mountains of Satin in the early spring of 201.

A catapult? A hot-air balloon? Oh wait, those run out of fuel ( booze ) as soon as they get off the ground... Carried by a giant eagle? Giant drawbridge? Into the mountain... a dwarf missile...?

I'd love statues of random creatures and objects. Just a "statue" feels a little vague.

Imagine a statue of a named dragon, decorated with the dragons own bones and encusted with innumerable gems at the only entrance to your fortress. Eternal happyness for all my subjects!

Fish-scale-wine... the smell must be incredible... Let's just hope the dwarves have a sieve of some sort available... Scales are bad enough in food.

I wonder if coffee wine ( if the game featured coffee beans ) would give a temporary job speed boost at the expense of quality ( caffeine shakes ) or something...


Also, salt from drying up saltwater at an ashery/kitchen could be considered a non-edible cooking ingre... hold on... Salted meat and pickles...
Could this be a minimod...?
I wonder if Toady would hardcode salt causing thirst "injuries"?

Biscuits day and night. Biscuits summer and winter, spring and autumn... I'm sick of them!

So I decided to test some of my own "receipes" for variation, and it's actually way too easy to make new meals into the game. Keeps things a little more interesting, too. Just two types of food in each category is way more interesting.

So, here are some of my receipes. All you need to do is add one or more "receipe" to the item_food.txt in ( raw -> objects-folder ) and you get random meals from the kitchen. ( Meat on meat sandwiches. Yum. Also, salads are for weedy elves )


The receipes work as follows:

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_NAME_NAME] -Defines this item as food, with a one- or two-part name for the game to identify it
[NAME:name] -The name that will be use in-game ( This is a stack of 5 ingridient name )
[LEVEL:2] -Amount of ingridients ( 2 for Easy Meal, 3 for Fine Meal and 4 for Lavish Meal; these are used in the game )


I myself added the following receipes on a small receipe-mod for fun and in-game variation:

Easy Meals

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_SANDWICHES]
[NAME:sandwiches]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_SOUP]
[NAME:soup]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_JERKY]
[NAME:jerky]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_BUN]
[NAME:in a bun]
[LEVEL:2]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_SMOKED]
[NAME:smoked, following the old receipe]
[LEVEL:2]

Fine Meals

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_GRILL]
[NAME:grilled to perfection]
[LEVEL:3]

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_STEAK]
[NAME:steaks]
[LEVEL:3]

Lavish Meals

[ITEM_FOOD:ITEM_FOOD_ROAST]
[NAME:roast]
[LEVEL:4]


I've made a sample receipe list/minimod, that you can simply download or save into your raw -> objects folder to add some additional foods into the game.

Karpatius's Kitchen Mayhem Mod
http://nowhere.fi/dwarffortress/item_food.txt

What kind of receipes do you give your dwarfs?
And please offer me some feedback on the idea and functionality.

You can actually name your fortress "Innsmouth" in the game...

Bonus points for building wood-only cottages and trapping outsiders in an "inn" located in the town.

I so would like an artifact pedestal to show off artifacts in a museum.

Pedestal makes a museum room...? Now there's an idea.

Is there any other use for non-furniture artifacts than just fortress value, carrying it around and bashing enemies with a legendary heirloom that's a part of your races history?

A kitty leather coat from one kitty leather? Must be damn good insulation or stretching.

Deep One bones and skulls. The meat must taste rancid and the hides smell horrible, though...

Actually... maybe make Deep Ones into the game...?

d Deep One
D Dagon
H Mother Hydra
C Great Cthulhu ( automatic loss of fortress, basicly )

Wouldn't it be possible to give them "telepathic" ranged attacks?
Melancholy damage.   :roll:

[ June 13, 2008: Message edited by: Karpatius ]