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uniforms should get some export/import and maybe a copy function, because its damn annoying if you set up a couple of armors (various weapons and stuff) have to leave your fort and start annew... maybe a couple of times

Ghosts are undead like zombies and skelletons except for three remarkable things:
those undeads are benign, meaning they wont attack, just scare the crap out of your civilians (bad thought: haunted by a ghost recently/lately)
they can float through any constructed thing (like constructed/nonnatural walls, floodgates and closed doors)
and as they are incorporal, also they can only be hurt with silver weapons, meaning on evil biome one should have a squad equiped with silver axes and stuff.
there is a chance that your own dwarfs come back as ghosts if they are to long not in a proper tomb and so on, giving the burial job a totally new experience

so you cant assign not anyone you like as militia commander/captain just a few... but how are those determined? its annoying you pick a random of the 7 starting dwarfs to start out as military, just to find out you cant use them

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simply that, what can i do? it works if i start with graphics:no but i am to used to the graphics of animals and stuff

A drinking barrel is build just like other furniture (tables, chairs and the like). Its just a plain barrel you select from the list.

After a Barrel is build it has 2 Options:
[r]oom: you can design a room from it, this will act as dining hall just like from tables
[a]dd mug: you can store up to 5 mugs on the barrel

dwarf will automatically refill the empty drinking barrels with aviable drinks from the food stockpile (food hauling for the occational dwarfs activated of course), the drink barrel will hold up to 5 drinks.

if the barrel is in a private dining hall, the owner dwarf(s if married) will get his drink from this barrel, restricted for other dwarfs
if in an meeting hall (public dining hall) any dwarf will go for it then thirsty
if no mug is present the barrel is not useable for other dwarfs in the moment, just like the drinking from the stockpile

the dwarf will take the mug and one drink, randomly approches a tile inside the (designated) room and start drinking, after he finishes he will haul the mug back to the barrel.

military dwarfs will automatically fill their waterskins at the barracks they are allowed to do any of the 4 options (sleep, train or store personal/military equip)


the same with the food cabinet: it uses the normal cabinet just instead of storing clothing its for storing prepared food (only!), can hold up to 5 prepared food
just it doesnt need the mugs it basicly acts like a local food storage


the basic idea behind this suggestion is to give mugs and goblets some use, while keeping your dwarfs from cluttering the food stockpile.
so you can make personal rooms filled with food without managing nasty stockpile infos, or getting the food stolen form a nearby hungry dwarf. drinking barrels and food cabinets a dwarf is allowed to use will have higher priority than the food stockpile, but he still will go for the stockpile if all barrels are occupied or empty.

EDIT: the qualiy/material of the goblets/mugs used will give the dwarfs happy thoughts. so a Granite mug will give maybe just +1 happiness, while a *<*platinium goblet*>* will give him quite a boost (up to +10?) artifact mugs/goblets will always give +15 ... also the stored mugs will count to a rooms value.

So i made a few minor mods, tested them so far and it looks good, but i would still like someone to test them if everything is working properly. So if someone cares to do so please help

http://dffd.wimbli.com/who.php?id=554

Creature Mods:
Giant Squirrel mod: adds a horse sized animal, its war and hunting trainable, also can act as mount and pack animal (for elves) most in temperate forests.
Bunny mod: adds bunny as vermin for most biomes and 3 hares (mountain hare in taiga/mountain, hare in any temperate and an evil carnivore that acts like cats, found in evil biomes).

Metal Mods:
Titanium Metal, with use of the already ingame ores of Ilmenite and Rutile in a complex reaction (needs lots of flux and coal, just like steel). Titanium is a little weaker than steel but lightweight.
Darklight Iron, basicly Uranium, using pitchblende and lead in the reaction, very heavy but not very strong, but still makes a good war hammer. also its glowing green ;p

Weapon Mod:
Thunderbluss Mod, adds a new building, the gunsmithy, requires mechanic job. You can make Bulletes out of blackpowder and specific metal (lead, steel, iron and copper). A Thunderbluss needs a Metal pipe section (out of steel, iron, copper, bronze or adamantine) a mechanism and wood. For blackpowder you need the alchemist job and a piece of each brimstone, saltpeter and coal. (if toady fixes this i will add blackpowder as actuall powder instead of bars)

Civ Mod:
Drows, nuff said, i would recommend if you interested in this civ you should really look at the download site :p but basicly dark skinned white haired evil elves quite fond of the underground.

edit:
I guess my thunderbluss mod will be of the interest for the most of you :p
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-2126-thunderblusstest

so i want to make some animal thats just like normal sized but incredible strong to even take it on with lets say giants. i dont want to use the body_size for the strength as this also influences the amount of bones/meat it will produce.