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From what I can see with my to-do list, it seems to be mostly fleece and stockpile stuff now. I haven't really had time to do any extensive beta testing on all the features, since this version was MOSTLY just changing the caste stuff and doing some bug fixes from previous versions.
Thanks to everyone who's contributed to the bug pile btw, and sorry it's been a buggy mess.

Some of the items, like apples and research points, are not stockpiled on purpose, it'll just add a bunch of unnecessary labor hauling from the library to a stockpile to the archive to a stockpile, when you shouldn't need to have more than a few items in either building now (unless you save up a ton of research tomes) Getting the other items to stockpile is a slight issue, as there is no stockpile tag in the material system, but the stockpile data is added as a property of something else. There are a few tags that are a bit more generic and I could use them to add stockpiling for things like the fleece and crystal shards, but I need to look into that a bit more.

I am with family for the holidays, and my laptop is hardly usable for anything, which I guess might further my efforts toward fixing the bugs and maybe adding some features (changeling civ perhaps?) but I am not really working on my own schedule here as the family is gearing up towards the holidays, so we'll just have to see how much time I get and how much I have to play uncle.

Sudden realization.  Are you processing your sunflowers into seeds and petals? You can't make the oil from the unprocessed plant. The reason I'm asking is I Know I checked the feature and I haven't messed with it since so it's strange if it broke

ponies will actually leave offended if you do that

there are tons of plants, most are useful for different things, If you don't care about quality, and just want quick edible stuff, flowers and dandelions are quick, low value food, and dandelions even makes wine. Wheat has multiple uses and gives straw as a byproduct, which can be used in construction and crafts, but needs processing in a farmers workshop before you can use it. Outside that, you can grow turnips and carrots most of the year, potatoes grow all year but at the cost of a bit of quality.

The lower the quality the quicker the ponies will tire of them, note that ponies are not alcohol dependant and won't get any ill effects from drinking water instead of booze, so constructing several wells can often be quicker and more economic than making drinks, water also does not seem to have a quality, and as such, a bad thought associated with drinking it.

huh, could have sworn I had fixed those... Thanks for reminding me!

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3677116/DF/MLP/Research%20Hotfix.7z

The main zip has also been updated

yep, they dig and they CAN eat meat, but you can't tan hides and noone is particularly good at butchering, infact.. they're pretty bad.

I should probably point out: ponies don't have access to underground plants, they should still exist, but you have to get to the cavern layer and harvest them yourself, so complete underground isolation might be hard. Also: several of the ponies industries are based around surface plants.