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Remove "What has science done?!", replace it with:
 Fantastic Dwarf Fortress: a mod that aims to remove micromanagement while still managing to add features. Aims to have an easier early game but a harder end-game.

That message sounds like it came from a killbot but I have done the task.

Was wondering if we could get a separate section that covers mods that either BARELY change, or refine, the main game, or even simplify the main game.. LNP, Perdaxis (maybe, can't exactly remember), the one Deon made/is making as a modder starting base, Accelerated DF, things like those..

I'm looking for a purified DF experience, kinda like what Deon did with removing redundant animals and such, but I'm not sure which one is "the best" as there are five zillion mods and some of them have fallen back multiple pages into the forums, and some are not easily identifiable without researching every one (not that I'm asking you to research every one for me, but, you know )

Just a suggestion :>

LOL no, I have not played any of these mods really, if the authors tell me they want a mod somewhere, I usually put it there, if the community says they want a mod somewhere, sometimes I will put it there, but honestly I do not know what most of them do well enough to go that granular.   You can feel free to ask though and someone who has played them could possibly tell you.

On that note, by unanimous consent I would like to replace the original Lazy noob pack with the updated lazy noob pack, also I would like to replace Dwarf therapist with splinters version as the prime versions of these helper tools that are linked because the originals are kinda unmaintained as far as I can tell.   

Any opposition to this idea?  ( 6/25/2013 )

Quote from: profit on May 01, 2013, 01:38:25 pm

Quote from: thistleknot on April 27, 2013, 10:42:43 pm

I'm still a newb with modding, but I think at 3 weeks I've done a good job of merging two mods together (accelerated mod and civilization forge plus a few items from masterwork and some of my own changes).  I'd like to add it to the list as CivMWForge

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=125119.msg4177533#msg4177533

If you have permission to do such things like the mod merge I will gladly add this mod (I am sure the authors will give it, but I just like to make sure =)

I guess no approval then huh?

I know that thistleknot has both mine and Mepheanstars approval.

That's good enough for me.    This has been here long enough if anyone disapproved, they could have spoken up by now =)

Added 5/29/2013

Utility question:  does anyone know of a dfhack plugin or utility which can automate tree farming? 

What I'm after is a way to designate an area for tree-cutting each month without user input, to allow for a longer fortress timespan without any user input (auto-plant gathering would be a nice bonus).  My goal is to generate a young world, build and set up by the year 10, and then leave the fort running for so long that there is nothing else left alive in the world. 

There are a fair few tools that can help keep the fortress running relatively normally (eg autolabor, autobutcher, workflow), but all of these require raw materials from somewhere.  I've worked out how to automate indefinite production of items made of green glass, metals, and fire clay, but I need a zero-input source of wood if I want to avoid the gain-from-smelt trick with metals (for bins, armor, etc.)  I know metal is more dwarfy, but I want an immortal fortress with as little cheating as possible - and I have this image of totally insane dwarves waiting in the dark for the world to die, even willing to emulate elves if it means they can outlive every other race and  flood the world with lava at the end of time...

Sadly nothing like this seems to exist (please prove me wrong!) - surely someone has created a tool for such a trivial task?

You would not want to use such a thing.  All tree products, that I can think of, end up as permanent products which get used forever.    Idealy, you want only things being actively used to be produced.   You want Auto labor to produce: Clothing, food, drink. These are all produced automatically from a farm plot.  And everything else should be manually assigned.   With clothing food and drink there is no reason a fortress can not survive indefinitely as long as it is sealed in.  (Although I usually have a mushroom farm underground to produce wood as I need it for expansion, it is only cut rarely if ever after the fortress reaches maximum size. )

If you MUST go down this road, may I recommend a mod to allow you to plant tree's and have them automatically harvested then turned into wood at a lumber mill.   I personally really like Masterwork Dwarf Fortress -> http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=125633.msg4214336#msg4214336 

Also training rooms/library mods would probably be good to keep skills from rusting.

I'm still a newb with modding, but I think at 3 weeks I've done a good job of merging two mods together (accelerated mod and civilization forge plus a few items from masterwork and some of my own changes).  I'd like to add it to the list as CivMWForge

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=125119.msg4177533#msg4177533

If you have permission to do such things like the mod merge I will gladly add this mod (I am sure the authors will give it, but I just like to make sure =)

Xangi's Fear the Night is missing from the list. Its a quite extensive mod that adds many kinds of custom vampires, werebeasts, disturbances, curses, necromancers, nightcreatures... I was just looking for the link and was surprised that it is not in the list.

Fear the Night

Added 5/1/2013

Just wanted to let the OP know that in my search for a way to change the number of dwarves i embark with i discovered that 10-15-20-30 Embark size is now obsolete.

Alright, removed it.   (Side note, this is another reason I require links to forum posts and not a file... Pain in the butt to send them a PM on the forum.)

Kinda wondering. Are workshop-raw only mods that didn't seem to have updated for 34.01 compatible with 34.11?

Yes, but only if you merge the entity files.