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I think an easy way is to make it like a cabinet, but with a much smaller solid storage size as to only hold maybe 4-5 pieces of armor. I’m assuming that the cabinet is set to only hold clothes when I say this, so I’m assuming that the capability can also be used here. Still assuming.

Maybe “I last saw him/her at “blah blah name of tavern” or “in the northern part of town”

Kind of like “Urist McUristDwarfyUristMan worships Urist McDwarfyImmortalGuy the god of RANDOM_SPHERE.”

They would idolize and would be more likely to join them on adventures, and would also show in their thoughts/prefrences and relations screen.

Stuff like where local markets, leaders, specific people are so they’re easier to find.

Eg.

I ask for where the market is, Urist McGlassmaker “up 49 z-levels and right outside.” Or for humans, “walk west for a bit and find it.”

Quote from: ShinyandKittens on October 18, 2017, 09:54:49 pm

This would just be a way that your mods (phoenixes, perhaps) can exist in a world which was generated before you made that mod.

A few more things should also happen for this stuff

- Everything can start to have prefrences for a creature
- Creatures should only materialize in biomes that support them (eg oceans for new fish)
- Materials  can be used by forgotten beasts (and similar, including a possible “portal monster”)
- Monsters coming from portals should wield items made from new stuff
- A tag that makes materials come only from portals like this.

For me, it would be portals spewing out !!FUN!! draconians.

For me, it would be lolcatman civilizations and phoenixes. And poison dart frogs and poison gas and numbing poison. Lots of poison.

This would just be a way that your mods (phoenixes, perhaps) can exist in a world which was generated before you made that mod.

A few more things should also happen for this stuff

- Everything can start to have prefrences for a creature
- Creatures should only materialize in biomes that support them (eg oceans for new fish)
- Materials  can be used by forgotten beasts (and similar, including a possible “portal monster”)
- Monsters coming from portals should wield items made from new stuff
- A tag that makes materials come only from portals like this.

1. There should be buoyancy, which is as simple as liquids and solids being pushed up if their density is lower than a liquid they’re in. For example, water has a density of 1000 (1g/cm3, exactly real life), and wood has a density of 600. Wood will float up as much as it can.

2. There should be lumosity, which affects both how much a creature glows in adventure mode but can also add a glow to materials like fire. Maybe support for torches to increase light vision for non-Dwarves

3. There should be some ability to recolor walls and furniture without mining and building them with certain materials.

1. Will we be getting an overhaul of the calendar, with procedurally generated per-word calendar systems? By this I mean two things - both the mechanics of time passage themself(for example worlds where seasons last several years, perhaps even decades, like ASOIAF, among the more mundane options) and the recording of the passage of time by sapient beings(e.g. a different number of months in a year, the division of time into "eras"(like in the TES universe), an explanation of when year 1 starts(where applicable), etc.)
2. How will spellbooks work? They're a staple of high fantasy and they'll obviously be included, but I see some problems with how to make them both fun and having them make sense. More specifically:

a) How will the generator handle the writing of spellbooks? Obviously this would require mages experimenting during worldgen and then writing their discoveries down, but how specifically are they going to experiment? A human might be able to see potentially interesting venues of further investigation, but how would a computer handle this?
b) Are spellbooks planned to be the one-spell-per-book variety, or the all-encompassing tomes with a bunch of spells contained? The first would be more fun(since it would require more exploration and learning new spells would be more rewarding) but would make far less sense(why, exactly, would a 2 step spell require an entire book about it?) while the second would be the other way around.
c) What would prevent worldgen mages from cluttering the world with 3000 books about the exact same spell?
d) What would prevent worldgen mages from simply discovering every spell there is on older worlds?
e) What would prevent spellbooks going around the world in massive numbers and making everyone a mage over time? If my character can read, what prevents me from simply learning a spell even if I'm not a mage(excluding spells that have prerequests, such as a bloodline or a faith in a god)?
f) Will there be spellbooks less about practical spells and more about interesting experiments that could further one's deeper understanding of the magic system?

Hope that isn't too much.

Answer to (c): likely a spell book cap, in which you can no longer make any more of a certain type