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Okay, so there's something in the entity files that's crashing the game during worldgen.. I've had to recreate the entity files from scratch, but the game still crashes when finalizing entities. I'm going to wait until the next bugfix release to see if that solves it. Otherwise I don't really know what could be causing this.

Edit: okay, so I can generate a world now, but it involved resetting ponies buffalo and griffins to "default" entities, so now I just have to tweak their values and such back..
I played around in a world for a bit, and changelings had more or less taken over the world already, they owned all the sites, but i could still play as ponies, griffons or zebra, that all worshiped changeling gods of submission and thralldom, good times

Whoops, looks like I forgot about the missus' office xmas party, and the day was spent on alcohol, badly karaoked christmas, dance dance revolution and pool.
I should be able to get something up before the weekend starts in earnest tho

hahah no worries, the update was obviously intended to follow the DF update.

Judging from the raw changes document there shouldn't need to be a lot of work to make the mod playable in 42.1 just need to add some tags here and there.

Now that I have at least some people's attention tho... Pegasi and Griffins (and changeling soldiers) do we keep them as fliers or not? I can make them super fast across the ground until an eventual update to the fortress mode flier pathing is adressed (now that there's actual vanilla fort mode concerns for fliers, perhaps this will be looked upon) as it is now, they are best used for fighting, hauling and weather factory, but hauling is a bit of a hassle since they keep flying into the trees. but flying is definitely an advantage for sallying across walls or quickly repositioning fighters.

What do you think? it is possible to work around the flying bugs, but it may be easier for new people if they are just fast on the ground.

I primarily focused on Ponies, as I wanted something a little more than regular DF but with ponies.

Here's the rundown
Fully realized cutie mark system with skill bonuses.
I tried to give each of the tribes "system" which was developed to some extent

Unicorns
 - Research/Knowledge system, grind for research points to unlock buildings
 - Crystal growing/craft
Pegasus
 - Weather factory.
Earth Ponies
- Baking (NYI)
- Rock Farm

I also added some items to help overground construction, sawmill for more logs and thatch from hay.

I was planning on expanding the research and magic system using dfhack and material imparted syndromes, but it was a bit of a handful and I was pretty tired after work so I never got around to it.
My notes also has an elaborate system for the elements of harmony again using syndromes, it led the same fate.

I could look into using something like a mod manager or something to allow some different options, the biggest problem is making sure all changes are implemented across all alternate files.
it shouldn't be too difficult to add an option to return meat and leather if someone wants to play griffons. and I also need to add an option for single caste ponies for adventure mode (there are something like 333 castes for each tribe atm due to caste dupication for cutie marks)

Wow, that IS a relic of longtime past, it was supposed to be a part of the Earth pony research tree but it was not possible to make a plant with seeds that also do not grow in the wild, alas!
The fact that Toady dumped a few hundred plants on us just as I was doing it didn't exactly help either

 I know there's a ton of strange bugs, DF is notoriously difficult to debug especially when time constrained, which i have been for the last couple of years it seems. Well I've FINALLY managed to set aside some time per week for personal projects, and as soon as the new version is out I'll plot in working on bugfixing and updating to the new version.

I can't promise much in the way of new features initially, I'll probably add some more creatures and ideas from the new season but i do have several pages of development ideas I'll look into implementing.

It's nice to see that there's still activity in this thread even after my shoddy update and reply schedule btw

So far the only issue with updating to a new version of DF is making sure all the new tags are in place.
As I'm sure Toady doesn't want to rewrite every single creature again, most of his additions are built with the current raw system in mind, tags are only added where needed. The WORST that would happen, from my experience, is that without the correct tags, there might not be any poetry or the like, i doubt anything will outright break.