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Ok. I have been spaming some parts of the forum mod with random brainfarts.

My latest vision, since moding is a big task. Is to make stuff simpler by decreasing the amount of data you need to get your head around. Then use the bare bone version to start adding more stuff from the bottom up.

Currently I have cut it down so dwarves are almost the only creatures in the world, not counting forgotten beasts.

The Dwarves will be turned into a "CivCreature"

Weapons into a "Weapon"
All Gems have been changed to one "Gem".
All Stones will turn into one "Stone"
All Ores into one "Ore"
All Trees into one "Tree"

Well you get the idea.
I will then use this resulting, uterly totaly boring mod to learn to add new creatures and items.
I'll be writing up step by step tutorials for myself, (maybe others) and provide links to the empty version and where the changes where made.

I am still in the progress of cleaning up data.

Is it just me that have a problem of keeping track of the names of body parts and all other stuff that is not currently in focus in the current file i have open. Specialy when you need to search for said name if it really exists...

Maybe I am just slow. To help myself I am working on writing up a program in C# that parse the object folder and extract all body part names into a list, later to be extended to contain more detailed data. Like hirarchical view of the bodyparts and their containts bps etc.

I am considering extending this to be a pregame validator that will give me a warning and file row.

But I am wondering is something like this already out there?

People was talking a lot about making rapture before.

My take on it would be trying to make a "big daddy", a special bigger dwarf that can work under water, and a more slender nobel race that can't. The problem is that you can't build anything on space that have more than 1 unit of water. Is there a way around this?

The idea would be to build the entire fort under water, and later pump out the interiour.

I was thinking about klingon bloodwine. Is there is a way to make meat cookable?

So i havent worked so much with water as i would want to, but guess my suprise when i pull the lever of my home made waterfall and i see the actual river slowly draining, from the edge of my screen towards the intake. This was a river. At the edge of the screen it fell too level 1, then it kind of sloped slowly uppwards untill it got back to 7. My dwarves could actualy build ramps on oposit sides and walk between the diffrent sides...

Didn't realise the game could do that. I was sure the drain refilled itself from each tile that was marked river.

Hade a undergound water reservoir connected to a above ground lake connected to a channel. When i started my water fall (connected to the reservoir with the channel to he lake blocked) all my dwarves desided to swim trough the passage way to the lake climb up and gather there without apperently the possibility to get back. I also hade five kittens and two dwarves who decided to play at the edge of the water fall.

Is this common?
I thought it was quite fun to see.