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Randomly, you won't be able to make certain clothing items depending on the fashions of your civ. I've not been able to make dresses in lots of cases, one Faerie fort liked chauses (sic?) but not socks, and my current bunch won't make high boots.

How do you change the text files?

Trying a game on an untamed wilds forest with flint (to test the swords) and Rysiths' Orcs loaded, because I'm a complete idiot.

Putting the dwarves to [Progress_trigger_trade] and nothing else makes them turn up on schedule.  So, really, that's it. That's this mod done. The problem before was that I was exceeding the [progress_trigger_trade] too early with platinum goblets and such.

Fat chance here. I've found no platinum. Just Lignite, Magnetite (ok, there might be platinum in that. I've been busy) endless bauxite (useless stuff) and cassiterite. The latter, with my changes to bronze, would be a really good thing if we could find copper.

No Butiniumous coal (the black magma) so far. That sucks.

We got off to a slow start, thanks to my unwillingness to start metalworking before we had coal and to my insistance on channeling around a quite broad area before we started real work. I've haven't  had such shameful trdae values for a while. Then again, I've been thinking : ORCS!!!!.

 We had our first siege on autumn of the second year (oh yeah, I changed the Orc campaigning season to summer+autumn, to get the Faerie caravan). Seven Maulers and eight wrestlers. It was all over quite quickly. I'm pretty sure sure the dwarven caravan guards did most of the work, but my surviving military got four kills. Not counting kills from my weapon traps (flint greatswords and green glass serrated disks) and the girl who died.

 Cana whatshername, Elite Wrestler with a flint longsword, was struck down. Her sacrifice will be remembered.

 My armourer has a broken arm and a kill. I mobilised my miners and woodcutters as a reserve. Of course they charged...I'm still waiting for her to be picked up.

 OK, corridor of death will work but I need to stop (EDIT: START!) laying traps near the FAR end. Even set to "hold position" they run out and engage beyond the trap lines.

 3 kills from 3 bow-armed Faerie with fairly small practice indicate that maybe Orcs aren't as arrow-proof as advertised. MORE BOWS! MORE TRAPS! MORE FLINT LONGSWORDS! MORE IRON CHAIN MAIL!

 Morgoth shall get the bill, if we survive.

I generated two worlds with these guys, in using my in-progress Faerie mod.

(Ironworking, non-cannibal, wetland dwelling, dark-fortress-liking, road-building, cougar-training Elves (Faerie) as the controllable civ, better bronze factors, sharpenable flint, jet that's actually valuable...just a few tweaks here and there).

The first world they either didn't survive world-gen or were cut off from everyone else. They didn't appear as neighbours and legends had few mentions of them, and then mostly of humans attacking and defeating them.

The second world they smashed a few Elven Tree Cities (HEY! That's our job!) and got stuck in a hundred years-plus conflict with a Faerie civ. Both sides eventually had one of their fortresses captured only to retake it shortly afterwards.

In other news, I've modded flint to be sharpenable. And my Faerie can make greatswords.

Oddly, all the spanish accounts I've read yet of the mesoamerican weapons that the obsidian swords are based off speak of flint swords rather than obsidian. And apparently they were more effective than the steel weapons the conquisidors had. Which really, really surprised me.

Apparently, they also made them out of Chalcedony. I don't know if it's possible to do that, but it could lead to some badass jewelers.

Actually I'm inclined to agree with him. Not really about the magma, but certainly about the stupid, useless rock layers that contain it.

OK, on further checking flint might actually be that good.  I found a page of quotations from Spanish soldiers who fought the Mesoamericans and they not only keep mentioning how nasty the swords are, they consistantly say "flint" rather than obsidian.

Oh well, the idea of a pack of fair folk with flint zweihanders is an interesting one.