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Direforged Original


Direforged Original

Direforged Original is a mod that aims to add a great variety of all objects to Dwarf Fortress. The current release for Dwarf Fortress version 0.47.0X+ contains:
* A new fortress-playable race, activated through an options file
* New industries - cut logs into planks in the sawmill, or seek magical aid the Halls of Light and Flame or the Alchemist's Lab; new reactions for the kitchen, the still, and the smelter; and usable scale and chitin.
* Decorative workshops - have statues or pedestals hold your artifacts in your rooms.
* New items - your dwarves can now wield the ball and chain, get skewered with tridents, or put sharp fans into weapon traps. Direforged adds a total of 8 weapons, 7 pieces of armor, and 3 trap components for all races, along with new toys and tools.
* Fifteen new crops and their products - brew starberry wine, extract ocular essence from eyestalk colonies, and smoke coalhollows into coal tubes. Beyond that you'll find eleven new trees and a new underground grass.
* New inorganic materials - two ores with their metals, two alloys, and flarestone - be careful when digging it, but it is a good fuel. And then there's magic light...
* Five major new civilizations, many with their own languages - meet and trade with the Golden Folk, the wurad, and the reptilian encar, protect your fortress against the hobgoblins and the fey of the carmine court. Not to forget the lyroakas and the Deep Evils...
* Create many objects in adventure mode thanks to Lofn's Wanderer's Friend mod, from backpacks to your own weapons.
* Cast magic spells as an adventurer, if you can find or make an arcane rod. Spells of light, fire, nature, and water await!
* About 33 new beasts, 9 new vermin, and 20 megabeasts, semimegabeasts, and night creatures threaten or help your fortress and adventurer - the domestic shellok provides shells and eggs, the oshkras and frost wyverns freeze with their breath, and the dew spider webs provide alcohol. The gods keep the secrets of slaughterwar undeath and vermancy for those they deem worthy, and curse others to roam about as a wendigo. Nine more creatures exist only as fanciful art images... for now.

The mod comes with a manual detailing all of the new contents. No third party utilities are required to run the mod.

Not sure what you mean Otu; my turn looks fine.

I mean who your great warrior is. I would presume you'd choose the Green Knight - he's almost tailor-made for that role, but as I said, I don't want to assume - it's your choice.

Also, do i have to provide equipment for my Great Warrior or does he just automatically have awesome stuff?

He automatically has the best equipment your technology has to offer, including bows. You can choose not to have him get heavier armor if his speed is more important to you.

Also; if i make some leather armor, spears and shields this turn, can i also train some soldiers to be ready for next turn, or do i have to train them next turn and have them ready by the turn after?

You can train soldiers and create their equipment in the same turn. You can also upgrade the equipment of the soldiers later, though they may need to train with new weapons or heavier armor.

How do I find other player characters' cities?

Simply explore into the right direction, and hope they're not too far away.

Neruz, I have some iron, I'll spot you a thousand iron weapons if you want.

A thousand weapons is a heavy bit of labor. A normal military unit consists of 100 people.

The turn is up. As always, feel free to yell any errors at me.

I think I know Neruz's choice already, but I didn't want to assume there.

Regarding the Excess Labor Pool, it's simply a pool where the fractions of a labor point (and food requirements) are stored that the population would generate from never being a clean multiple of 1000. You'll automatically gain the labor point and need to provide an extra food once the pool fills up.

Turn in a few hours, in someone still wants to add flavor to their posts. Some bookkeeping notes in advance:

Neruz, you started the turn with 3 wood, produced 2 wood, and used 2 wood, so you're at 3 wood still, not 2. Also, you're working a hunted tile, but you don't seem to take that into account. That would add 1 food or 1 leather to your stockpile, and since the leather won't rot, I'll assume that one.

Haika, you started the turn with 2 wood, produced 2 wood, and used 3 wood, so you're at 1 wood, not 2. Also, the pasture doesn't reduce the food production unconditionally, only when you use it to produce an animal. That means you'll have more food in your granary.

Evilcherry, I noticed that I shouldn't have removed the 0.2 clothes in your last turn. The 1 food "waste" was actually sufficient to increase the morale without the clothes (remember that excess food eaten counts as luxury).

Huh. So that's how cold breaths work. One might be tempted to call it obvious, if it weren't for the existence of the MAT_FIXED_TEMP tag.

You can try this tag: [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:STRENGTH:450:950:1150:1250:1350:1550:2250]. That's the tag for the strength distribution of dwarves (which is above-averge). You can theoretically increase the numbers to up to 5000.

Creature damage greatly depends on the creature's size, and the relative size of the attacking parts (in this case, the teeth). Crawlers are vastly larger than cats, and thus cause far greater damage. The contact percentage and penetration percentage also apply to the damage calculations.