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Workshops and Industries

Version 0.95b beta has been released with numerous bugfixes and new features. Flow charts depicting the new and old industries will be added to the Workshops and Industries section in the coming days. The ASCII version has been delayed until tomorrow.

•   You can now research certain talismans, processing matrices, and spark batteries at the arcane/MAS research facilities.
     o   Requires blank data hologems, which can be produced from rough clear glass at the arcane/MAS gemcrafting stations.
     o   Produces a varying number of research data hologems.
•   Four research data hologems are required to turn a prismatic hologem (Made from diamond at the MAS gemcrafting facility) into a talisman design hologem.
     o   Performed at the arcane/MAS terminals.
•   Talisman design hologems are used at the arcane/MAS talisman forges to produce their talismans from varying combinations of arcane hologems.
•   This is another experimental system, so I will be collecting feedback to balance the gems required for future versions.
•   Fixed Unity and Talon mercenary invasion triggers. They should arrive and fight more consistently now.
•   Preparing a suit of power armor also produces a power armor calibration hologem allowing you to train a single pony to legendary armor user.
     o   Preferably the pony drinking the upgrade potion.
•   You can now repackage suits of power armor into boxes in case a power armor trained pony dies and you need to train a new pony for the suit.
     o   Unpacking it again for the training drink/calibration hologem will require new medical canisters.
     o   Scorpion power armor will also require new spark batteries.
•   Power armor manufacturing now also requires schematics in addition to the power armor processing matrices.
     o   Design notes may be obtained at the MWT prismatic forge by researching power armor boxes or broken power armor pieces for reduced yields.
•   Unicorn ponies can wear scorpion power armor.
•   Repairing frayed wiring, dismantling robot components, and building terminals have been moved to the electronics bench.
•   Firearms can be refurbished using chains/scrap parts and ammunition broken down for base components at the reloading bench.
•   Melee chain weapons can have their chains replaced at the workbench.
•   Refurbishing chain weapons requires steel or plasteel chains.
•   Scrap parts are no longer automatically processed into scrap metal.
•   Temporarily removed lasers from protectoponies while I try to figure out how to stop ponies from collecting errant laser bolts.
•   Opening ammo boxes now requires the mechanics skill, allowing quality levels.
•   The prismatic smelter now smelts specific ores.
•   Synthcola no longer considered an alcohol for the biofuel refinery.
•   Barrel cactuses now produce a wasteland water drink at the still.
     o   Water talisman fountains can produce an unlimited supply of this drink. (uses the brewing skill)
•   Spell targeting divided so that ponies will use weaker and stronger spells on the same targets.
•   Sensor modules can be manufactured at the RobronCo prismatic forge.
•   The bar and its reactions now use the brewing skill.
•   Bone BB pellets are now used to make bonemeal flux.
•   BB pellets have slightly improved penetration.
•   Bumped scrap smelting at the prismatic smelter to guarantee at least one iron bar.
•   Custom workshops have been sorted into categories, and workshops that exclusively use certain skills have those skills at the top of their reactions lists.
     o   Credits go to Meph for the concept.
•   Cyberdogs can gain skills but need to breathe.
•   Bumped clothesmaking to 60 for earth ponies, and removed intimidation boots from ponies in general.
•   Added woodcutting skill bonus to the scavenger talent.
•   Increased density of plasteel.
•   Removed radroaches and radrats from surface biomes, and radscorpions from subterranean caverns.
•   Increased yield of diamonds from the grinder for prismatic hologems.
•   Increased yield of gems from the grinder for basic hologems.
•   Power armor drink physical bonuses changed to static boosts.
•   Removed spark batteries from reactions that don’t deplete them.
•   Moved power armor repair to the armory.
•   Moved battle saddle crafting to the craftspony’s workshop.
•   Reduced the number of teeth belonging to generic creatures.
•   Perk system has been delayed until next version.

As always, enjoy the update and let me know if there are any issues!

I will be heavily occupied by work over the coming weeks, so future updates will arrive at a slower pace.

These are Stable ponies, most of whom have spent much of their lives in (relatively) safe environments insulated from the horrors of the wasteland. Not all of their talents are going to be useful, and there will be some that overlap to an extent.

The G.O.A.T. has positions for "waste management specialist" and "hairdresser", after all.

> Fallout: Equestria Pony Skill Rates (as of v0.95)
Many thanks for this Replica...I've posted it up on the first page under pony skill rates. I've added you and Maklak to the credits section for your contributions to the mod.

> I think it's weird that many castes have wordsmith skill differences, it's not used for anything as far as I can tell.
Flavor, mostly, though some of the skills like poetry are used by the scriptorium.

> Nurse Redhearts
On Maklak's recommendation they'll be left as indefinite use. However, I'll increase the amount of drugs needed to initially make one once drug manufacturing is available.

> What's planned after the robot arc? Ministry of Peace? Combat drugs would be nice, but I can live without them.
The 2nd post on the first page has the features in progress for January/February. Creature expansion will come first, followed by the crop revamp and the drug system, then finally the Everfree forest as the finale for the Ministry of Peace arc.

> Would it be okay if I list of cutie marks which are capable of casting spells, as well as being immune to other spells?
I think Replica's working on that for the unicorn castes, and there's also the image under the Arcane Sciences in Workshops and Industries.

> I'll also go ahead and post which spells can't be cast against specific ANTIMAGIC castes.
The ANTIMAGIC tags are more fuzzy, as are the spells they are resistant towards (There are spells cast by your ponies and unique spells cast by enemies like the Unity), and so are likely to be edited more often.

Thanks everyone! This mod wouldn't be where it is today without your support.

That feral ghoul reaver... It's easy to forget at times that every unfortunate migrant pulled down by a ghoul is a living, breathing pony, and that the last thing she sees is a rotting, snarling face tearing into her flesh.

Love the update Replica!

> Maybe put... the building codes for the buildings?
The building codes are subject to change, so the flowcharts won't have them for now.

> I was thinking about either upgrading the Mr Hoof I have flying around to either a Mr Macintosh or Nurse Redheart.
All indications are that it works. You set up the Stable-Tec terminal in your hospital next to the wounded, pasture the Nurse Redheart nearby, and run the designate healing reaction.

> I haven't noticed a way to make new batteries from gems, though.
Batteries are considered a basic talisman and so you'll be able to reverse engineer them as well.

> It might be both easier to make and to read, if instead you had a series of flowcharts for each industry.
That is exactly what I'm intending. The one above has all the industries in one image, but the front page version, when posted, will have chapters containing modules like this:

That way adding new industries like drugs and medicine will simply be a matter of another flowchart image.

> Should I expect any to ghoulify or are they just going to bleed and stink for the rest of their lives?
Ghoulification isn't common and only takes place with severe radiation poisoning. If they aren't ghouls by the time they reach your hospital then you're safe (Apart from the whole bleeding and necrosis thing ).

> No, you see I want to salvage the flux converter for a personal mod and I want all ponies to be able to use it and survive.
In that case, all you need to do is remove one or both boulder products. ARCANA3_CONJURATION is the one that kills the earth ponies, while ARCANA_DRAIN puts unicorns to sleep.

Though I disagree with Maklak's argument of the concept, I do see his point about caste skill rates being weighted more highly than attributes and traits. Over the course of a fortress's lifetime, most dwarves, barring the rarity of strange moods, will reach legendary through sheer effort, repeating dozens of reactions to produce goods in order to gain enough experience. This is the most time-consuming portion of training a dwarf to legendary, and it is to this portion that skill rates have the highest contribution, and so should be duly considered when assigning unskilled dwarves belonging to a caste-system with differing skill rates.

Of course, attributes, traits, and preferences have significant roles as well, and so must also be weighted (Especially as the majority of DF games played have no differing skill rates). As such, perhaps an option to weigh/not weigh skill rates would serve as a compromise?

In the end, it is your effort splinterz, and so it is entirely up to you how you want Dwarf Therapist to work. Regardless of what happens, I will greatly appreciate the end result. Thank you!