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Okay, so I got curious about what the new limits for forts can be now, if there is any. Normally my computer can run a 5x5 Embark with 250 Strict Pop cap fine for a little while until I start getting advanced defense setups, well, setup.

Has anyone tested the Steam version with massive embark sizes, like a 10x10 with 200 Pop Cap? or even just going to the max 16x16 and seeing what happens? A person I know whose only ever played Steam DF told me that they did a 6x6 embark and is sitting at 100 dorfs just fine, so they're considering increasing it.

Edit: We also learned that you can have Multifloor Outside Housing now! They were able to build a 2 story house with a roof just fine, so that's exciting!

Hi all, so to clarify before I go into the specifics for this, this is a playthrough of the newly translated Amazing Cultivation Simulator game, in the theme of a DF Story/Communty Fort. What this means is that people can claim characters, make decisions and actions that affect the Sect, and if wanted even make their own entries as "written" by their character (which i'll attempt to reflect in the game as best I can.)

For those that don't know what this game is and to explain it for them, Amazing Cultivation Simulator is a game about Cultivating People, Items and Animals into, basically, Gods. They can get so strong that they throw galaxies and universes at each-other. It's a popular chinese mythology where if you consume Pills and Elixirs crafted with special materials, meditate and train your body you can become immortal and eventually ascend to become strong enough to create your own universes. The game itself, to explain it in simpler terms, plays similar to Rimworld in that you managed to escape from your Sect (a gathering of Cultivators that teach and train other, newer cultivators while building and maintaining an entire, almost city wide, population whilst also building their own cultivation). However those are where the similarities end, this game has so much content in it that it's ridiculous, if I tried to list it all here then this post would go on for far too long. For heaven's sake the Basic Guide has 94 pages and briefly only mentions quite a bit of other aspects of the game itself! I'd highly recommend checking out on steam or watching streams about it, as just the sheer amount of things you can do is ridiculous.

Now back onto the topic itself.

As a heads up, there's 2 major important notes for anyone looking to Claim a Character. The first is that not every character will become a cultivator. Inners (aka Cultivators of any kind) don't do manual labor, literally all they do is Cultivate. This means we need to have a standard amount of Outers for building, cooking, maintenance, and other kinds of important jobs. We can mitigate it a bit via 2 different kinds of miracles (should we find the laws for them), one that brings Vessels to life and another that brings Corpses to life, but they cannot do advanced manual labor (cooking, producing, etc), only Basic (cleaning, hauling, etc).

The second is that, yes, you can attack/fight each other, via 2 ways. The first is by building a Dojo and sending 2 inners to fight there, this is a non-lethal way of fighting but can only be done by Inners. The second is simpler but far more lethal, and that's by ordering inner or outer to attack another inner or outer in the sect. These fights are typically to the death, unless you get lucky and knock them unconscious before they get too many serious wounds or use a Hunting Bow (which cannot kill, only knock out). What this means is that if you want to attack someone, and you lose, you can't complain if your character winds up dead, especially in the case of Inners. If this goes to far I'll most likely outright outlaw the attacking of other disciples.

Moving on, I'll be using a few mods which I'll list here:

I won't be playing on Immortal Mode (this games version of Ironman, but with mutators to add new mechanics you have to be careful of) just in case anything happens or a major fuck up somewhere causes my computer to explode like the fourth of July or something similar. We'll also be on the default Plains map on Large size with no starting Fei or Lushu, but if we get destroyed and want to restart then we can change that later. We will have a unique Legacy enabled, which are unique landscape features with unique mechanics but can be very dangerous if not handled correctly. The one we have being the Illumitree, which spreads Spirit Soil around it over time but can block meridians and Qi if careless when around it for long periods of time, which means having someone with Panacea miracle or Spirit Powder will be required if we get unlucky and it spawns in a place where there will be lots of traffic.

I will be having the Guard period for Enemy Events set at 24 days. This means for the first 24 days we won't be getting attacked, giving us time to build and get a foundation going unless we get merked by the animals or accidentally stumble upon our maps Awakened Beast in the bottom right or left corner of our map and being careless about it (the game warns you when you're getting close to it).



This is our first Disciple and our prospective first initial Cultivator. Alongside this you can slightly see that I took the Sword Legacy, which lets us start with the Seven Slaughtering Sword Advanced Law at the start. I figured it'd be best since we get the other 5 basic laws later on, so taking a starting basic law is redundant. You can also see I made sure that they have a slightly decent Stat match up, with high Qi Sense and Battle, which are good stats for a Seven Slaughtering Sword practitioner (Qi helps with Max Qi, which is really important for Breakthroughs and Gold Core Quality. Battle is just important in general for anyone you're considering for anything combat related, and Seven Slaughtering Sword is heavily combat focused.)

(Images will be Spoilered purely due to how big they are size wise.)


Our second disciple which will most likely just be a dedicated outer for a long while for the labor they can do, due to their decent all rounded stats for general production based and outer jobs, with passions in the one's they're lacking. They're also made as a good potential Cultivation Crafter, due to their passion and decent stat in Magic Crafting, meaning if we can get a Law focused on Artifact Crafting or Alchemy they'd be a great pick for it. Alongside just in general being a good fighter.


Finally our last Outer. They're bad as an outer overall, which is fine because they'd be a decent second Seven Slaughtering practictioner, or a True Sun (one of the 5 Basic Laws we unlock later) Practitioner, as that Law is for Spellcasters and she has high Magic and Battle, though the low Qi Sense means her Qi to spend on spells went be too high, we can refine it over time later if need be, or use some unique rebirth items or even just rarer manuals/laws (like Heaven Stealing, which has a skill to up Qi Sense by 2 (and an additional 5 if they practice that law itself) if we find it) and materials, including random gen manuals if we're lucky, to increase her Qi Sense overall.




Alright, for now that'll be it. Sooner or later I'll go ahead and begin the first post to get the story started. I'll be claiming the first Disciple that will also turn into our first Cultivator, Dou Daishuang, though I'll probably change their name later. I'll be making a couple empty posts after this so that i can put important information like the current sects Roster (since you can have at max 36 people in your sect at the highest Size (at 2000 rep), and any sent to Agencies don't count towards your max count since they're effectively banished aside from giving you regular resources), alongside logging each update and keeping a counter for Alive/Dead/Injured/Banished/Agencied disciples.

Feel free to claim the other 2 if you want! I'll note it down once I make the roster post!

So I'm trying to use Item Syndrome Reborn script to be able to apply Syndromes to items, but i'm having some difficulty, If anyone could help me figure this out, that'd be great. Item Syndrome Reborns creator said its supposed to be future proof, hopefully that holds out.


So basically, to test to see if it works, I created a material with a syndrome and script specific Syn_Class tags, created an armor that uses that material and reactions to basically create it for free. The reactions work fine, but I don't know if the script itself doesn't or if i'm messing up somewhere raws wise.

Here's the code/raws

So as a long time standing fan of RWBY ever since I saw the first trailer, I really badly want to make a RWBY mod for DF.

Currently the idea is that there are 3 "Base" civilized Races, Human, Faunas and Grimmborn (If you know of Court Al'Aran or Malboudes works, you know what this is. Ill explain in their section), which are then split up into Sub-Civs.

Alongside this I'd be replacing various Creatures, Enemies, Bogeymen, Werecreatures, Titans, Semimegabeasts, Megabeasts and possibly Forgotten Beasts with Grimm variants.

The Human Civs would be:

-Atlesian: More resistant to Cold temperatures, Able to make different grades of Atlesian Steel (Lightweight and cheap, but not sharp or durable in any regard), Learn Mental skills (leadership, bartering, etc) faster, smarter, alongside other benefits I can think of.

Vacuoian: More resistant to Hot temperatures, able to make different grades of Vacuoian Steel (Lightweight and Durable, not cheap or easy to make), able to turn different Desert based plants and animals into Food and Drink, more durable, learn Physical skills faster (Mining, Woodcutting, etc) etc.

Mistralian: neutral to Cold or Hot weather, can make different grades of Mistralian Steel (Sharper and more durable, not cheap or easy to make), learns Combat skills faster (Armor wearing, swordsmanship, etc), physically stronger, etc.

Valean: Neutral to Cold or hot weather, can make different grades of Valean Steel (Sharp and Lightweight, but not durable or easy to make), learns all skills faster (but not to the extent of the others), natural leaders, etc.


Wastelander: People that survive living in the expansive Grimm Wastes. Learn all Survival skills faster (Foraging, Farming, Butchery, Swordsmanship, etc), can turn certain wasteland specific plants and animals into Food and drink, physically stronger and more durable, etc.


Bandit: Survives by raiding weaker targets around them. Learns Combat skills faster, baby snatchers, etc.


The Faunas civs will be Tribes seperated via Genus, but are all friendly with eachother. All Faunus have Nightvision.

Feline Tribe: Tigers, Cats, Lions, Pumas, etc. Has a chance of having feline Ears, a Tail, or Claws, agile, natural hunters, etc.

Canine Tribe: Wolves or Dogs (can't think of more that are canines, feel free to suggest). Has a chance of having canine Ears, a Tail or Claws, fast and durable, loyal, learns quickly, etc.

Amphibian Tribe: Frog, Poisonous Frog, Salamander, Axolotl, Toad, Poisonous Toad, Newt, etc. Has a chance of having Slimey Skin, webbed hands/feet or long tongue. Can possess a natural Poison/Toxin, fast and agile, whimsical, etc.

Arachnid Tribe: Spider or Scorpion (of various types). Has a chance of having Poison Fangs (if spider), Stinger (if scorpion) or Multiple Eyes. Can possess natural web spinner, flexible and quick, natural hunters.

Avian Tribe: Eagle, Hawk, Dove, Crow, Seagull, etc. Has a chance of having Wings (allowing Flight), Feathers in hair, or clawed feet. Quick and smart, natural scouts.

Reptillian Tribe:

Bovine Tribe:

Ursine Tribe:

Piscine (Fish/Aquatic) Tribe:

Vulpine Tribe:

Serpentine Tribe:

Murine (Rodent) Tribe:

Equine Tribe:

The Grimmborn Civs are split into 3 different types of Grimmborn.

Awakened: Human/Faunus + Grimm hybrids, taking on the traits of their Human/Faunas side but with pale skin, red eyes, horns and a grimmified feature (a large, powerful arm, tentacles, boned legs that are faster, etc).

Abomination: Human/Faunus + Grimm hybrids, but didn't adapt correctly, causing them to mutate into a Human/Faunus-grimm abomination, but still retains their sentience.

Perfected: Human/Faunus + Grimm hybrids that look like any other Human/Faunus, but can turn into their Hybrid form at will. Stronger then both Awakened and Abominations, and have a chance of having aura/can have their aura unlocked.



I'll edit in relevant information once I get home but I do have a few questions to get this going.

For Aura, is it possible to give civs a natural armor that, once depleted, can regenerate/be restored via Auric Booster?

Also is it possible to have Civs to have a chance to have Semblance as a Natural ability, with the semblances detailed in another file? (So that I don't have to make 100s of castes with different semblances)

Is it possible to have Aura be a chance to be possessed? Or have it be "awakened" via a custom building/workshop?

Is it possible to have Transform on Weapons, to simulate Mechashifting? Or have Melee weapons also have Ranged capability? (If not then this will be placed in Great War era, before Mechashifting was a thing, but guns were around)

I have a few more questions but these are the more important ones I need answered right now.

I figure for a game like Dwarf Fortress, steeped in the fantasy setting as it is, Half-Breeds and the capability to make them would be something highly regarded. I'd love to find some Half-Treehuggers, some Half-Dwarves, some Half-orcs, that kinda thing. Though i imagine you'd have to also add a [BREED_COMPATIBILITY:<civ here>] tag, otherwise you'd have people making half-breeds with anything, and i mean anything, and I think i can speak for all of us that we don't want to see any half-sheep half-humans walking around (cause only a human would do such a depraved thing).

I plan to do a stream today for Dwarf Fortress, but i don't know which DF i should do, as i have several different DF's installed on my computer, but each have different Overhaul Mods on them. Please help me decide which, as i have no idea which i want to do. I'll provide a link to the stream here when i start it as well.

I could not find a help thread to help me so i'm just going to ask here in the GD thread.

If i wanted to start a DF themed Aurora 4x Let's Play that's played like a Community Fort  (AkA people choosing things to be named after them, taking over characters, and telling me what to do as a council), where would i post it? In the DF appropriate thread, the Let's Play thread, or the Forum Games and Roleplaying thread? I plan to call it Urist McSpaceman, as it'd be, like i said, DF themed.

THIS HAS BEEN RESTARTED! Posts start page 3 and up!

First things first, Rules. First of all, this isn't a Succession fort. For this you will/can claim a character and choose their name, profession, and whatever else you think they need. Feel free to ask for info on any candidate/pony and i will provide it! (for example their full on description and other such things.) I strongly urge those of you (if you wish to, don't want to force you^^) who claim a character to post on this thread about the things that happen around the fort in your point of view! Also you can make your characters as crazy/weird/unique as you want, but no things like Daemon possessing's or earthponies being able to use magic! (If you can tell, this is inspired and created thanks to me reading through the posts of My Little Fortress. Glittlerglen. I found it very interesting and wanted to see what would happen with all the new things that have been added and with different ponies and personalities!)

The My Little Fortress Mod is not of my creation, here's the link to it: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=80240.0

Onto the world!

World: The Planet of Wind
Civilization: The Brave Sugar
Princess: Atrid Thebigest
General: Ushdish Babigest
Fort/City Name: Glosstrot
Starting Year 5

Official History(Created by the ever awesome Splint):

On the 23rd of Rain's End, Year 1021 of the Celestial Era, many nations that had known only perhaps the most minor of armed conflicts at best, found their seemingly unending peace shattered into a thousand pieces. Changeling hordes, lead by many new queens having deposed Queen Chrysalis as a weakling in a bloody coup, descended upon Equestria and it's northern neighbor the Crystal Empire. The attack was sudden, unexpected, and deadly. In a matter of days the changelings had laid siege to the Crystal Empire's capital city, and they were sweeping through northern Equestria frightfully quickly, driving hordes of refugees before them.

In a desperate move, the Royal Guard met three hives worth of the fell invaders at Chandler's Hill, hoping to knock the wind out of the attackers long enough to build a proper army. When the two sides clashed, thousands died. The details are largely unknown now, but the Royal Guard had bought much needed time for the rest of the country, and by the end of Flower's Bloom, a hastily raised army marched out of their muster point of the Condor's Peak lowlands to face the enemy. By this time, communications with Princess Cadence in the north had started to become increasingly sporadic and desperate in tone.

One the 2nd of Solarflare, the newly minted "Equestrian Guard" saw it's first test at Heartland Forest, and after a three day long fight, to the surprise of even the officers and guardsponies they claimed a stunning victory and inflicted absolutely horrendous casualties on the changeling horde under Queen Nightshade (who was found to be among the changeling dead.) Some estimates of Post-Canterlot historians place the changeling casualties to be almost triple the Equestrian Guard's. However, this spot of hope was not to last as a subsequent attack by two more hives, ones of then unprecedented size, lead by Queens Amantia and Cordys smashed the guard one month later at Dawnbreak Crossing, killing the Equestrian Army almost to the last. Among the dead was, to the detriment of Equestria, none other than Princess Luna herself. Reports from the few survivors all say the same, that she'd been struck down by Queen Cordys just before Luna could deliver a death blow to Queen Amantia.

The hordes then continued southward.

However by now, Equestria was well aware and adventurers, mercenaries (primarily from the Griffion Clanholds,) and local militias began to harass and stall them out, settlements bunkering down and forcing Amantia and Cordys to fight lengthy sieges and hunt down war camps to remove threats of attack from behind. However this did little to deter the forces under Queens Pax, Entoloma, and Russul, who massed their forces and pushed into the lowlands just north of Canterlot and began assembling other hives. The Equestria Guard mustered a second army to face this force, but like the one lead by Princess Luna, was completely demolished, drowned by the changelings' sheer numbers, and taking with it the whole of the famed Wonderbolts.

On the 25th of Dawn's Wake, the Siege of Canterlot had begun.

Unwilling to see their capital fall without making the invaders pay a hefty toll in blood, the city locked itself down and prepared for a long battle. Only two more changeling hordes, under Queens Inocybe and Boletus, but with them the hordes had encircled the city. However, throughout what would turn into a two year long slog for both sides, multiple smaller armies of Equestrian Militia periodically tore into the changelings, and while always repulsed with terrible casualties, they would come again. However at the two year mark, Cordys and Amantia arrived and with them came the hordes from the Crystal Empire, helmed by the Queens Agari, Leptoia, and Sarcos, confirming fears that Celestia had had for over a year.

With their sheer weight of numbers, the changelings engaged in one final massive assault and hurled themselves against the ponies' defenses on 3rd Frost's End. A week long bloodbath ensued as the ponies fought, as the griffons say, tooth and claw for every inch of ground. However even in the face of terrible casualties which were quickly soaring into the tens of thousands, and with wavering morale among the defenders, both sides fought on. On 11th Frost's End the Changlings were upon the castle gates.

And by sunset on the 12th, Princess Celestia, as well as all of her honor guard and according to some even the so-called element bearers, were dead. Canterlot was lost, in spite of the efforts of the greatest heroes of the country and even one of the most magically powerful entities in the world. But their loss was not in vain. Queens Agari, Amantia, Pax, and Russul were dead, and it was later learned that Queens Entoloma and Leptoia had died of injuries sustained in the final assault on the castle after all was said and done, and the combined might of the remaining queens' hordes was severely depleted, made worse when they decided to split to crush the much smaller and less well defended bastions of resistance left in the country.

While they succeeded in smashing what little was left of Equestria as a country in the next two years, it was clear even to them they they could not achieve a "Total Victory," as attempts to invade the Griffon Kingdoms, the zebra homeland of Punda Milla and Germaney had ended in disaster and sapped the horde's strength (though not without crippling all three of these other groups and they had still destroyed the Crystal ponies outright which made their vengeance at least partially complete.) They needed to consolidate what they had, and began to raise their dark fortresses over the ruins of Equestria's towns and cities. The ponies who'd survived began to rebuild on the fringes of their homeland, making due with what they could salvage from unoccupied ruins, abandoned settlements, and old battle sites.

It was decided by these survivors that the Celestial era of peace had ended, and so on the 1st of New Star following Canterlot's fall, The Virtus Era had begun, named for an entity found in the very oldest texts: The Era of Bravery. They would survive, and they would rebuild, but they knew that to do so they would have to be brave in the face of the inevitable conflicts to come.

(The date's and such are based off of this calendar http://superfortress78.deviantart.com/art/Equestrian-Calendar-Reference-Sheet-279314656 )


Plumcabbages Record, 1st Record

It had been 5 long years since the fall of Equestria. Luna and Celestia had died in battle against a major enemy of Changelings and other types of abomination pony. After they had lost, all other Civilizations fell, though not all of the ponies, pegasi, alicorns, and unicorns had fallen. After towns and cities were wiped out, the changeling army with its horrid pony creatures had begun searching the land, trying to find every last pony of every type. Fortunately they had spent so much time searching that they had begun to die off due to hunger, their obsession blinding them. After 2 years of searching they had given up because they had lost too many forces.

After their apparent failure the last of every type of pony had started groups and eventually created new towns and cities, although not as populated as we wished, it was a start. Everypony had restarted the year calendar over, so by the time new cities had started popping up it was year 3. The old gods and deities had died off, trying to hold back the changeling army and buy us time. Eventually all of them except 1 had died. That single god was Armok, the Blood God. When year 4 came around new gods and deities had appeared supporting everypony in our efforts to rebuild and bring everything back to how it once was. Though that process will take a while.

We are from a civilization called The Brave Sugar, our group is called The Sparkle of Teaching. We have come in order to colonize a new land, though it is farther away from our original home then we would like, we have brought as many seeds as we could carry, 2 cats, 2 dogs, and the weapons and tools necessary for our ponies to begin. I am the overseer Plumcabbage, and i want to lead the other 6 who have joined me and any others who join later on into an age where everything was back to the way it was, before the Changlings had attacked. The area they have sent us is relatively safe, the only immediate dangers being the wilderness itself and the warm heat.   It is the 15th of Granite, year 5, and we're going to make the best possible of what we have. We might even become one of the large cities if we're lucky, and gain independence! But for now that is just a dream.

World map (Warning, Big)

Embark Info

Sorry guy's seems there is always only 1 male among embark groups apparently!

Also to the owners of Triage Stitches and Salir, if you wish to give up your ponies the feel free ^^, i know their not there original genders i'm sorry :/.