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Of course I am planning ceramic armor and blades, however I haven't found a good source of information about their production and did not think how to simplify it enough to fit in the game.

If you have any suggestions or knowledge about the matter, it would be awesome.

I'd have to see it first, but I'm leaning on too far. One reason is that embark would need coal and in general it's hard fo find a "jackpot" of resources.

The coal is pretty abundant, there's just one type of "coal" now and it's found in many places. You will also be able to scavenge for geological crates which bring coal among other minerals.

The plastics will be required in production of high-level alloys and almost any electronics. You will be able to scavenge for plastics but if you want a reliable supply and ability to make your own robots, you need to be either lucky with scavenging or establish your own production line.

I've just introduced paper and I am testing the research mechanism. I'm able to find pre-war books and holodisks; then a "scientist" (renamed alchemist) sits in his lab and studies those. They have a chance to break and a very low chance to net you research notes. The books are less reliable than holodisks in that regard, but they are more frequent.

I have a few maybe stupid ideas, let me know if you think it would be too complex.

Normal coal to coke reaction would stay, but produce small amounts of coke.

Then there would be a refinery which produces coke, coal tar and propane/ethane to barrels.

Coal tar could be turned into naphtalene which can be used in different ways.
Propane/ethane could be turned into propylene and ethylene in steam cracker units.

Then you could mix naphtalene (actually PTA ("purified terephthalic acid"), but I don't want to make another chem reaction here) and propylene/ethylene to get polyester and complex plastics. Basically with such technology natural coal would be a source of a lot of products including materials for clothing and items.

Do you think I am going too far or would it work?

Is there any way to write raws to the effect of having a creature throw globs of the randomly evil weather materials (e.g. foul slush) as an interaction? I'm trying to create a race that poses a different threat level each game - it could just give your dwarves blisters, or it could cause a skin-necrosis plague as dust spreads, or it could create thralls (uh-oh).
Aforementioned race would also have [MISCHEIVOUS], and otherwise behave very much like kobolds (smaller, frailer kobolds, but just as sneaky and TRAPAVOID-y), only attacking you if you let too many babies get stolen or items get pinched.

Just use INORGANIC:EVIL_CLOUD_1 etc, however it may bring weird results if you generate a world without evil clouds.

I haven't got any feedback for this mod lately, and that's usually what keeps me going despite of my RL job and family . Thanks for bringing it up, if there are other interested people please let me know and it will spark my interest to update and maintain it for sure. The main issue of many mods is that there are silent lurkers who enjoy the content but the modmaker thinks that nobody cares and stops releasing updates.

If you could share your findings regarding the worldgen for 0.40.x, it would help a lot.

I was thinking about going with my own tileset for the graphics version and Duerer's for ASCII.

This is what I have so far:

I am not really sure if people will accept italics in font though or not.

In that case, Lye Maker is fair game too. Or maybe stuff like trapping. As long as you don't make any vermin traps, you're good.

No supermutants in this mod?

Grunts are genetically engineered supersoldiers, I plan to redraw their tiles from the supermutants which I had before, but they are basically like supermuties.