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My only complaint is that when you look at thier inventory, aside from the military ones, it shows nothing, Id been TOLD that thier sole piece of inventory was supposed to be "Leather Loincloth"

Good to hear.

I'm not sure about the loincloth thing. I've only bothered to check in adventurer mode, but most of them had some sort of loincloth/thong on.

It might be due to the fact that clothing is drawn from a pool of choices, and having only 1 choice causes the possibility of nothing at all!

Are the historical uber-goblins using bows or crossbows?  At least in Fortress mode, it always seemed that the goblins brought more ranged weaponry than Rysith's orcs...

Bows aren't deadly in worldgen, as far as I know.

Worldgen uses very simple combat formulas, and something with the goblin's behavior allows them to live for thousands of years and chip away towards a massive kill count.

After creating a couple of thousand year old worlds, it's surprising to me that goblins seem to be the most effective killers in history.

There's usually a couple of goblins that were born during the first century, but have yet to die. As a result of their occasional raid participation, they've racked up well over a hundred kills. One of my record holders was a goblin who had lived 1030 or so years and had over 500 total kills.

I've tried to make uber orcs with massive amounts of damblock and size, but they've never been as successful as vanilla goblins.

What am I doing wrong?

From the to do thread.

Although I like to watch the Countdown decrease, it has ceased to be a motivator for me and has even been a hindrance at times.  Instead, here is the list of remaining items for the next release.  I'll be coloring/modifying this post as work progresses.  The list is more or less fixed, though there might be minor changes, omissions and additions as I go along.

Keep in mind that this is the list of remaining items as of the original posting, not the total list of changes for the next version.

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Creature Raw Update (last changed Aug 3)

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• Subterranean Creatures
• Standard Creatures

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I think it'd be a good idea to wait until the next version, just in case you'll end up doing what Toady already did.

Quote from: Ieb on August 03, 2009, 01:59:45 am

It worked, there were a lot of megabeasts, but playing, I soon found out that there were no civilizations left anywhere. Just a horrible amount of megabeasts that held the world at bay from advancing.

Yes, well, that's what happens when you let hundreds of city destroying monsters into a world. 

That said, is there a way to ensure that more megabeasts survive worldgen without basically causing the extinction of the dwarven/human race? Most of the other threads I've read about this end in epic genocide with only the modded megabeasts left standing.

Here's a theory. I don't guarantee anything though.

If there's a civ of dwarves that live on very remote regions of the world (Tundra, etc.), and are able to expand very quickly, while staying away from war, they should be able to expand faster than the megabeasts could kill them.

They wouldn't be capable of world domination, as they can only live in tundras.

Think that'd work?

I really liked the simplifying of the gems' colors.

Great idea imo, this game is somewhat needlessly complicated in terms of minerals.

Have you considered removing the (economic) stone that don't have any uses?

Cultists (Human civs worshipping Old Ones)

A quick suggestion.

You could remove the current demons (replaced with proper lovecraft entities), and add the [POWER] tag to these Old Ones. Then set the humans to worship them. (ANY_APPROPRIATE_POWER)