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Walkthrough, okay:

1. Go into your Dwarf Fortress folder.
2. Go into the "data" folder within the Dwarf Fortress folder.
3. Go into the "init" folder within the data folder.
4. Double click the "init.txt" within the init folder.
5. Search "FPS"
6. Set FPS to a higher limit by changing the number under "FPS_CAP" to something higher than 100.

How exactly did you manage to capture the forgotten beast?

By the looks of it, it appears to involve a bridge to trap them after they try to kill the nearest pathable creature, I.E, a bait puppy.

Since the bridge is controlled by a lever...

I just stated a troll fort. So, trolls need the honk birds to get metals and stone? I'm sure that will cause a very different playing style. I think building everything aboveground is a nice change, though. I'll just need to remember to gen worlds with more above-ground z-levels.

How good are the four metals, compared to the vanilla metals? And is armormetal supposed to be so cheap? On embark, it's only 10 points.

You don't need to remove the civ_controllable tag from dwarves to play as trolls. While embarking, if you go to the "Your Civilization" screen, you can switch between Dwarven and Trollian civs.

About that last part: I know, I just think the honk-birds are a bit OP if you can also mine, considering the effectiveness of the metals.

And that brings us to the second part.

Sharpmetal is a bit better than steel in sharpness.
Heavymetal is equal to silver.
Shinymetal is basically purple gold.
Armormetal is as good as steel when used as armor.

This basically makes the metals the most effective in their given category (other than bluemetal) available. However, they are extremely time-consuming to make (or FPS consuming, if you want a huge amount of honk-birds).

I'm going to include balance changes after feedback. No, armormetal should not be that cheap. I'll fix that. Also, I should make a "cheapmetal": equal to copper, but you can make pretty much anything with it. Mainly for embark purposes, of course. After all, you don't really want your starting axes costing 1260 embark points each.

I thought I was posting this in general discussion when I posted it, actually, but this is just as applicable

It happens on adventurer AND the embark.

The zip file I linked contains the save.

Bump for major release:

0.8 is out. In it, trolls are fully playable. Workshops that only work on certain trolls to come.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13790475/crashyregion.zip

This world crashes whenever I attempt to play adv. in ~the bottom 2/3 of the map or I attempt to move my embark cursor. I'm posting the link to see if anyone else has a similar problem.

Quote from: Putnam on July 26, 2011, 08:02:10 pm

More importantly, though, my noble problem still stands. On embark, I have a duke, a count, a baron, AND an expedition leader. The duke, baron and count all act as they should, mandating, etc., but they're there on embark.

So what's the problem?

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[POSITION:[b]TROLL_DUKE[/b]] Duke is fancy blueblood slang. Let's say that!
[POSITION:[b]TROLL_COUNT[/b]]
[REPLACED_BY:[b]DUKE[/b]]
[POSITION:[b]TROLL_BARON[/b]]
[REPLACED_BY:[b]COUNT[/b]]


Bolded part of the problem. Are you using the same LAND_HOLDER values as the dwarves do?
Ed: Or rather, pretend-bolded.

Quote from: Putnam on July 26, 2011, 08:02:10 pm

Could the ALLOWED_CLASS tags be causing it?

Don't think so, but I should note that ALLOWED_CLASS, as well as the GENDER tags, do not currently work quite as intended.

 Alright, that worked, and I'm aware that the ALLOWED_CLASS tags don't work anymore, I'm just including them in case they will later.

Also, how would I implement the butcher_special tag? It seems complex >_>

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