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So… what we’re dealing with is a band of traveling monastery builders?

A band of 7 monastery builders by any chance? Prone to self extinguishing bouts of tantrum spirals? Maybe not just one band, many singular bands...

Me lying in bed on holiday wondering how many file ids can be identified by web scraping for dffd links+targeted Google search while not having the tools to hand to actually attempt this...

I know you've said there won't be save game backward compatibility in the Steam release from previous versions, but will the various world gen seeds still produce the same worlds, terrain, civs, etc?

I've been thinking about mods in terms of source control, e.g. git. Essentially the same issues apply as for applying two or more patches (changes) from separate branches (mods) back to the develop/master branch (vanilla), each of which may overlap in several areas of code (raws). Even git is only so good, too much overlap and it gives up and returns the merge conflict back to the user to fix. This is a problem for which a complete solution didn't exist yet.

So yeah, loading mods in order isn't quite sufficient, although maybe having some kind of priority for resolving conflicts would be helpful, and having several stages for applying parts of mods would be helpful in standardising what changes can be applied, e.g. add new objects, delete existing objects, apply blanket changes to sets of objects...

Ah the Roundworld series, subdivided as it is into several themes. The necromancer who can't raise the dead because the biggest secret of life and death squeezed out all the other spells, who is followed around by a chest of the finest craftdwarfship decorated with animated feet of its defeated foes. The city watch, including the sheriff who marries a dragon trainer, a dwarf who thinks he's a human who is actually the king, a dwarf who cross dresses as an elf, and a troll hammerer. The three female necromancers, one of whom ai'nt dead and can defeat any enemy by staring at them and making them feel sorry, one who dreams of raising a family and that dream was realised many many times, and has a cat with more kills than any other entity, and one who accidentally became Queen after marrying a performer who turned out to be the King's son. But the best is a one off story about a dwarf prophet and his pet tortoise.

All dwarf children should be sent down to work the mines.