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All you would have to do is set cavern layers to a lower number, though IIRC that can cause issues with HFS and stuff like that.

My adventurer with multiple megabeast kills got ripped up by a pack of giant dingoes.

How would one go about adding the grown tag to items? Is it even possible without dfhack?

Quote from: BlackFlyme on August 16, 2014, 01:11:45 pm

I do wonder if it is possible to make 'grown' items though. I know that the NPC elves can bring them in caravans, but I don't know if the player themselves can make them or not through modding.

That might be a problem, since it could lead to a bug with elven caravans refusing your own trade goods, since they only accept grown wood.  Might need DFHack to set all wooden items from the retreat as grown, though not sure, how one would go about that (changeitem?)

I don't really like the idea of elves knowing metalworking.  I suppose, it could be unlocked through tech-trees (starting with trade with dwarves possibly?) but it doesn't really go with the civ's flavour for me.  I would be more inclined for them to make things like Ironbark in Masterwork style - singing trees to produce metal-like wood, leaves, blossoms... (which I actually have in my mod!) which could be used for weapons and armour.  This shouldn't be as easy as dwarves making regular weapons; it would be slower to make, like wood from heartwood.

That last part was actually part of the plan. As for grown items, do they actually show up as grown, i.e. you can trade them back to the elves? I'm waiting for 40.x to get a stable version so I don't know if that's changed. I had log generation rather than crafting from nothing for a couple reasons. One, I'm lazy. Modding in a custom workshop that makes logs from nothing is far, far easier than making custom replacements for the carpentry, metalsmith's, and craftsman's shop that allow you to make wooden items for free.

Yeah, I was thinking of making a burning wood thing, then I realized that it would sort of annihilate everything in the fort by virtue of the fort being, well, wooden, or be basically useless. At the moment I'm trying to stick pretty close to vanilla, so I probably won't add in anything too outlandish yet. The goal right now is to make the elves as they exist in Dwarf Fortress playable as a fully fleshed-out race while leaving vanilla largely intact; later, I might add another package, so to speak, that includes a bunch of elfy stuff that would affect gameplay as dwarves to a greater degree.
 Thanks for your input, though, I'm not trying to shoot your suggestions down or anything. I'll probably start my work from a fresh set of raws soon.

Then this seems like a suitable time to do some minor modding. It's not cheating if it has no practical value whatsoever.

Dwarves will bury caravan guards, right? Will they bury non-hostile elves that die? I know you can memorialize pretty much anything with a name (and wagons); that could be an alternative to piling coffins at the entrance.

I forget, are wood slabs a thing?