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Just had an idle thought while considering my -rather extensive- collection of music suited to playing DF. Is it technically feasible to add support for playlist files like .m3u or .pls? That would certainly cut down the amount of typing involved in adding songs.

Okay, quick status update everyone. The bad news is that development and testing have been heavily delayed due to technical problems:

The good news is, I'm pretty sure cartridge production works now. I've also tinkered with the weapon and ammunition numbers so that lethality should be historically accurate to the late Renaissance or Early Modern period; guns are highly effective, but not to the point where they've displaced crossbows or armour entirely. Lastly, the readme file is now much more comprehensive and contains detailed instructions, something that's been lacking for a while.

To that end, here's the barely-tested but hopefully working V0.9 RC2.

You want to avoid dwarves getting attached to low quality weaponry, if possible.  Not that its a huge deal for a crossbow, but when your legendary sworddwarf gets attached to the obsidian sword, its not going to end well.

Quality isn't as big a deal as you might think. According to the wiki, masterwork only gives a 2x bonus over no-quality, which isn't really noticeable except versus some forgotten beasts.

Ceramic, no. It shatters from a stern look if it's thin enough to be sharp, and those are mostly very modern ceramics anyway. Old world ceramics would nearly always be lower quality (silt impurities for instance) and need to be tempered with grog or shells or similar which makes any kind of edge totally impossible, and simply aren't composed of the same exotic materials.

Ceramic musket balls might be possible though. They're on my to-do list for BPFA.

A year old is about the point at which you should think about giving it a good clean, actually. But with a laptop, I think you'd be better off taking it to a repair shop unless you feel like dealing with delicate parts, ridiculous numbers of screws and a non-zero chance of breaking something.

* I don't use clever tricks like swapping picks and axes for ore and charcoal to scrounge extra embark points.

* I avoid maps with easily accessible magma.

* I try really hard to keep everyone alive, regardless of usefulness.

* I don't use Therapist, DFhack or any other third-party utility.

* I actually don't mind if I have twenty or more dwarves idling in the dining room.

* Further to the above, I build lots of statue gardens and use the display case mod to make them into art galleries.

Aha! I actually increased the projectile contact area when SHOOT_MAXVEL and SHOOT_FORCE buffs didn't help, that might be part of it. Increasing bullet mass is worth looking into as well.

And I already have reactions for making bullets out of copper; in fact, I have reactions set up for making them out of any metal. I'm doing most of my calibration tests with lead because it's the material most often used in real life, and therefore makes a reasonable baseline.

Eh, it doesn't much matter. I'm actually somewhat glad the ATTACK_PREP_ETC stat in item_ammo doesn't affect rate of fire, because then I'd have to have a separate type of ammunition for each firearm.