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A very small edit that changes the names of a few items to make them less generic. Completely aesthetic, doesn't change the game mechanics unless you have a modded material template file

Download: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13520

Changes:
stone blocks - cobblestone(s) (may change to bricks)
metal blocks - plate(s)
wood blocks - plank(s)
generic meat - steak(s)

if you have any suggestions for other things that could be renamed let me know

New release!

links on initial posts updated

I’ve been thinking of the different ways the proposed transfer of workshops to zones (much like hospitals). I think this was mentioned in a podcast or future of the fortress.

[Item Placement]
Instead of just a “kitchen” you would designate a kitchen zone, then fill it with the appropriate items (I’d say a table or two, a bin, and a vat/barrel at bare minimum). You could possible add twice the amount of items and this would allow two dwarves to work in the zone instead of just one. There should also be a “free space” counter that works similarly to a taverns “dance floor”. The larger the free space, the more items it could hold before getting cluttered.


This next one may complicate things a bit but I think it would be a nice touch; when dwarves need to do a certain task, they use different items place on the zone. Say they’re cooking a meal, they use the table for meats/vegi, then they move over to the barrel if there is also powders/liquids in the reaction. Or for smithing a sword, they could start by standing near the coals/furnace (heating the metal) then move over to the anvil (shaping) then over to a vat/barrel of water (cooling) and then to a millstone (just for flavor) to sharpen the blade. These stages could be specified in the raws with a token to tell the dwarf what item they should be adjacent to like:
[STAGE:1:ITEM:ITEM_TOOL_BARREL]


[Tool use and Durability]
Tools such as the Boning knife, or carving fork aren’t really used, with the exception of angry citizens in adv mode. I want these to be implemented in fort mode as required reagents in reactions. For a kitchen, you would need slicing/boning/butcher knives when cooking meat, slicing when cooking vegi, and ladles when cooking with liquids (unsure about powders). Forges could require an anvil, tongs, a hammer, a firesafe barrel (for the hot coals) another barrel of any material (for the water) and perhaps a bellows or bin for the ingots. With tools implemented the hospital could also use a cleaver, bone saw, sewing needles, or mallet (for reshaping bones when broken or for diagnosis) the tools required could be specified in the raws as needed (i.e. only needing a ladle when liquids are being cooked/ if cooking a roast, you should need a carving fork)


As of right now, things such as pickaxes are indestructible (unless used in combat) no matter what material it’s made from. A copper pixaxe would probably break within the year, while a steel one might last for over a decade or more. This would incentivize using high quality materials and good smithies when making what would be normally unchanged by quality or material. I’d personally like it if tools slowly wore away (the time this takes could be calculated via item properties) including things like anvils and chains (causing mechanical malfunction if using poorly made items or with soft/brittle materials)


I know some of you are thinking “but if I use a steel knife, it shouldn’t break from cutting meat”
True, but even the hardest knives chip or dull overtime. If you’re using well made tools, they will need to be replaced far less often. Things with perfect values like adamantine or modded metals would last nearly forever.


I’d love to hear your suggestions or ways this could be reasonable implemented

This mod removes almost all fantasy aspects from DF. Replacing all civs with unique medieval era countries. (the game also is a bit faster with so many less creatures to load)

Download: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13227

The following have been removed:
-fantasy animals
-fantasy plants
-fantasy metals
-animal people
-"giant" versions of animas (excluding a few irl ones like the giant tortoise)
--(Demons, FB, Boogeys, Curses, werepeople, vampirism, necromancy, and evil/good biomes are removed via a preset in advanced world parameters, please use it!)

The following have been added:
-new food types
-new dialog when talking to npcs
-several medieval countries
-replaced Kobolds with troglodytes
-my own custom ASCII (cherrywood)
-a few other secrets for you to find

Planned features:
-more civs
-historically accurate arms and armor
-realistic smithing and metallurgy
-irl plants to fill caves

known issues:
-caves are a bit monotonous and lack variety in plants and animals.
-civs need to be more fleshed out and differentiated (coming soon)
-many less beast quests (will be made up for with more bandit and fetch quests)

This is only the first version so let me know about any issues/suggestions

This is a work in progress pack. The 16x ascii tiles are finished but the graphical tiles are not. I’m leaving the overrides out of this pack for now but they will be added in the future along with a wide selection of mod support.

Download (self install): http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13272
Download (prepackaged): http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13273

Sneak peak:

0.1- initial release
0.2- Added AA
      fixed misaligned tile
      changed existing sprites
Please let me know if there are any errors in current or future releases.

something similar can be achieved in the testing arena already, you would just have to edit the arena.txt to  resemble a fortress with your features (stockpiles and bridges wouldn't be possible without DFhack)

you would have to place everything manually but it would still work. maybe edits could be made to the existing object arena to allow fort style control
 

Say a dwarf gets in a bar scrap with a solider, who happens to have iron gauntlets. The soldiers hits could potentially hit much harder than just a bare fist. This could apply as well to boots, increasing kicking damage. The opposite could also occur if they happen to be wearing some silk gloves or something, softening the blow.

As for a way to process this. Maybe the punch can be calculated as if the attack is made of the metal that the armor is, instead of an organic limb. so a steel gauntlet would be like getting hit with a steel fist.

One last idea is perhaps gauntlets or boots could be refined to be given an edge (like rocks in adv mode) so that instead of dealing blunt dmg, they deal minor piercing and cutting damage. [ex. Spiked gauntlet, knuckle dusters, steel toe boot, spiked boot, etc]

THis would be quite nice. Perhaps the armory is guarded by chained creatures or traps beneath the loot tile. Or better yet, bars close behind you when the artifact/loot is taken, and you need to put an item equal to or heavier than the object that was displayed.

 Everything else seems very well thought out.