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I've been meaning to post some positive feedback on a few mods I've played and found really interesting and as I'm going through my list I realized you've made most of them! I started with long shore but I guess I'll consolidate posts here.

After the End is great. The cronenburg metal body horror slash gigerpunk setting is novel to me and I think the removal of metals is fascinating! The lore document and in depth race profiles really helped me get into it. All guns will have mouths and bite at the will of the holder is one of the better patch note changes I've ever read. Again I really love the biome changes like in the Long Shore. They help with immersion considerably.

The posthuman dark age of Dying Earth is also a dope settting. The Exosuits and bioframes really shake things up.

Fallen Frontier is also fantastic. Steampunk wild west gundam apocalypse is objectively awesome.

I couldn't get Steam and Steel to generate a world. It kept giving me an error about placing crops for civs that I would try and tell it to ignore but it wouldn't and would keep rejecting worlds. The setting seems dynamite. I'm big into the jingoistic victorian vibe and the old literature references really fit.

Realm of the Gods: I didn't play this one either but I'm interested to see where it goes.

Overall I'm amazed by all your hard work here and worldbuilding. It's a bummer 44.12 is an awkward version with all the stress issues. I sincerely hope you update these mods when the new version comes around. I think more people will be exposed to them then. DF seems to be in a low tide right now with the wait for the update/stress problems. Anyway, serious pat on the back for all your modding efforts!

Hey just wanted to pop in and say I like this modpack a lot. It's great. I appreciate your hard work!

First off I gotta say great job Deon. I was planning on holding off on this version till all the bugs got sorted out but I made the mistake of taking a quick look at the modding forum and read the thread. Now I'm playing it, and it's pretty awesome. I especially like all the custom workshops, mostly the less useful flavor ones. I've got a couple questions though.

1. The Crematorium: Awesome for flavor and a fix for what I understand was/is a bug with corpses not going away. I put mine into use for the first time when a large rat ran into a stockpile and started guzzling booze. After some dwarves wrassled it to death I burned its corpse along with some vermin a cat killed. No worries worked fine. I set it to repeat burn all corpses and forgot about it. Now some ghouls came along and after they got wrassled to death (finally got weapons made so no more wrassling from now on) I found I couldn't burn them in the crematorium. When I go to add a task there's just nothing there. It's blank. No possible tasks at the crematorium. I deconstructed it and built a new one in the same spot but the same issue persists. Nothing I can do at the crematorium. Any idea what's going on here?

2. About the custom workshops. Some of them are more obvious how to use like the awesome anatomical theatre (no more skill decay, sweet) but I'm not sure how to use some of the others. Like the Rockball court. I add a play rockball task but nobody seems to want to get in on the rockball action. What labor do I need to enable for them to use it? I'm not sure what labor one would turn on to use the training dummies, library, obstacle course, swimming pool or regular theatre either.

3. Just started a fort late night yesterday and you've already got a new version up! Would this one require a new world or would I just need to overwrite the files in my current installation?

Thanks in advance and again, great work! I just gotta state the custom workshops are awesome. I mean a swimming pool now? It makes so much sense yet I never would have thought of it. No more stationing military guys in locked water traps and filling them to the right water level then waiting for them to get hungry/thirsty/sleepy then draining the chamber then letting them out then doing it all over again.

I've heard this could be done many times and I'm finally going to try it out myself. There's only one real embark tile that separates an isolated landmass from the rest of my world. This embark tile is mostly ocean with a small beach that embark anywhere allowed me to embark on to start this bridge. I made the embark location 2x16, as small as I can have it vertically and horizontally reaching from one side of the location to the other. I've got a vague idea how to accomplish this continent bridge but I'm not positive if I'm doing it right.

My plan is to construct a series of floor tiles 5 tiles wide leading to the edge of the map and then repeat on the adjacent embark tile and connect it to land. Is this really all it takes? Also I'm planning on building the bridge one z level above the beach to avoid waves splashing all over it. Would this cause any problems? Would my overall plan work?

Thanks in advance.

Huh, I never knew what those were about, the z99's and such. Well it's always good to learn. So my beach is at z99; I'll need to somehow raise the water to z100? I'll try that out. Thanks!

Hey all. For a change of pace I decided to build near an ocean and use the Dig Deeper mod. I looked up the perils of ocean dwelling on the wiki and found the bit about desalinization. I watched the little video and was pretty sure I had it down. So I set up mine but when I pumped some water into the reservoir and checked it with "I" it said it was still salty. I understand that if its clean water it'll have a 1 in the water source category with zones. Mine was 0, meaning still salty. What exactly did I do wrong?

 

It goes in descending order. I'm getting my water from a channel next to the ocean. It's not clear right now because of the current wave so I marked where the channel is with a white X. I also marked where rough obsidian block floors were with white filled circles. Because those also aren't visible. I was planning on building a well above my clean water so my dwarves could use it without a negative thought. The future well spot is marked with a yellow O. The green lines show the path of the water as it travels through Z levels.

So what went wrong? My only guess is that the exposed channel where I was gonna put my well somehow polluted it. But according to the wiki, only contact with natural walls, natural floors, other salt water or an aquifer can re-salt water. I don't see how the water came into contact with any of those things! If someone could show me where I screwed up I'd really appreciate it.

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