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Hey guys, not much time right now, but:

The guns are all broken in the current release. I copied it from a gunmod, with the consent of the owner, but it seems that everything is a bit wrong. I fixed all of those already, and added a bayonet option. Anyway, I have done a ton of work, archeology is set up, a solution for people who like to built with colorful stone.. and more. I will try to upload everything shortly. I am in an internetcafe, waiting for the bus, so maybe this evening, or tomorrow evening...  I fixed and rebalanced a total of 35 bugs, found all of them in my testfort

And no, 0.8 to 0.9 is not safe compatible.

About the zombies: You have to cut of the head. No arrows, no hammers, no golem, no mines, all that wont work. But really, if you dont like them, just turn them off, it is just one click in the GUI

About the hydraulic fuild: All it does is paralyze for 5 secs. BUT in V.0.9 dwarves should be immune to it. If it continues to be a harrasment, I can take it out, it is not an important feature.

About creepers: Are nerfed, as in:weaker in the new version V.0.9 And again, you can just turn them off if you like.

See you later then, have fun

@lamphare: not possible in the tooltip, but what do you mean with OS settings ? Using a bigger font type I guess ? I know that ON OFF is cut of, if the text is too long, but here in Standart-Windows everything is shown. Which one are too long/dont show in your version ?

EDIT: BTW: The next version has WAGONS Traders bring wagons again, thanks to quietust and narhiril

(Sure everyone can post.I try to dwarf everyone I wrote this before I got to the internet cafe, so I will dwarf you next post. But you can add to the story in the meantime, sure )

It was shivering cold. Snow storms ravaged the land, and every drop of rain that could have been collected into a reservoir, instead fell down as snow. If this was late summer, how would we survive the winter?

These and other, darker, throughts went through the mind of Meph, while he stood at exactly the place where their wagon had arrived.

- "Here we will lay the foundation of the Wall."

A quiet, not very enthusiastic cheering could be heard. The dwarves did not like going out, and the construction of their megaproject should begin far outside the fortress, with it's warming magma.

- "Listen up. Two important things I wanted to tell you, besides the start of the Wall. First of all, we got reeinforcements. Another group arrived and will be set to work. One of them did bring a curious device from the mountainholmes, he called it a fire mine. We will position if outside the main entrance. The second point is about the caravan. It should arrive within the month, so we need to built a trade depot. I selected a sight in the second wall, above the magma. We will need to support it with constructions, so it does not accidently collapse into the volcano."

While he was speaking, a lone figure approached the group. First, no one noticed, and it was almost upon them, when Tod screamed:

-"BLIZZARD MAN, RUN FOR COVER"

The dwarves scattered, the speach forgotten, and again, Tod alone, went to face the beast, carrying the blessed sword of armok into battle. It did not last long, and the red glow disappeared from the eyes, and the icycle teeth snapped harmlessly... since the blizzard man's cut-off head was lying in the snow.


-" We need more soldiers, you cant always do everything alone..." 

-"Well. It seems that I can, so far" said Tod with a smirk. "But I know what you mean, I will check the new migrants for useful men."

In the end he selected just one, who showed adequate combat skills in the training. With no proper equipment, he was discouraged however. This was ill planned, since the scared workers did know a way to get what they thought he needed. Fearing for their savety, they took a frightened newcomer, carried them to the volcano and sacrificed him upon Armoks temple. Meph could do little to stop the mob, and watched helplessly. Not knowing if it was good or bad, in the end the new recruit was carrying his own steel sword, somewhat to sure of himself.

-" Ready for some action ? I heard the caravan is approaching, and we need to clear they way. Some workers said they saw a pack of dire wolves near the Wall." asked Tod.

- "Sure as hell, lets get them"

The fight was short. Tod went first and easily killed one, two, then three dire wolves. The last one he kept alive for the recruit, who in turn got bitten, lost his courage and fled. Tod was watching him, barely paying attention to the last remaining wolf, shaking his head. "Stupid boy, and for such a great champion they threw one of use into the volcano. Madness..." and killed the last wolf, before returning to the fortress.

Sure enough the caravan arrived soon after that. Meph managed to talk to the liason, ordering supplies for next year, and bought a couple of raw ingredients for food and drink, all the logs they offered and two lightweight steel greaves for the militia. Hopefully they can afford a good turret next year.

Deep inside the fortress, the volcano is being opened by Mitch, to allow the smiths to take up their work. The magma channel is filling slowly, even as the room is expanded to accomodate all the new buildings... although dangerous work Mitch never complained, even volunteered for it. Meph is oversseing the work on the wall, the foundation now streches from east to west, as far as the eye can see...

Tod goes on patrol, choosing to be alone, instead of babysitting the useless recruit. He does see another pack of icewolfs.

- "By armoks beard, cant you leave us alone ?" he says to himself, then runs down the hill to face them. This time, the wolves outnumber him 5 to 1. Which only makes him angrier. He draws his sword and shield, and time seemes to slow down. Like in trance he moves from one to the other, seperating paws from limbs, limbs from bodys, twisting and turning. The wolves had no change, only one of them managed to flee, injured. Crazed by pain he walks towards the landmine... and bites into it. A nearby caravan guard sees this and instead of wasting time trying to warn Tod, he draws his crossbow and shoots the wolf. Carefully he walks over and checks the mine. A scratched case, the fuse still intact.

- "No friendly fire today, you came close to death, commander of the gate"

- "What do you mean ? This little thing should hurt me?"

- "I have seen them in the orc war. The blow apart, metal fragments piercing lung and heart, the skin blistered, the eyes and ears bleeding. If I were you, I would show more respect for these little things" said the guard, with an uneasy smile on his face. "I should know, I was a soldier myself, till I got a shrapnel hit my knee. Now I work as a guard..." His smile froze, and he stared behind Tod.

- "Am I mad ? Is this a goblin ? Wearing golden armor ?"

Tostleenkis, the thief:


- " Ay. We had some trouble with thieves, but they never get into our fortress, so no worries. He'll be gone sson enough. Hope he doesnt collapse, a golden armor must be heavy. Poor little bugger."

Posting to say that the game continues, but I have no time for a post here today. More fighting and a rather exquisitly dressed goblin showed up

Furniture workshop:
* It's already possible to make glass grates normally at a glass furnace
* For the various types of beds, you should be requiring 10000 cloth, not 1

Stonecutter's Workshop
* Rocktip arrows/bolts won't work, because you failed to provide the item definitions. Same for rock axes.
* Cutting obsidian into gems won't work either, since there's no OBSIDIAN_CUT material.
* Crafting rock mechanisms at the grinder is pretty much exactly the same as making them at a mechanic's workshop, so why the extra reaction (aside from the "magma-safe" one which, as noted above, doesn't actually work)?

Both furniture workshop and stonecutter are one-for-one from genesis, although I think deon made an update about something concerning the stone arrows/bolts. I told you, that I am currently working on a new batch of buildings, and that the current system is not too good, with stuff spread out among too many different workshops.

This is bad news, I hate crashes. It is always hard to figure out what causes them. Send me the save, and I have a look. I personally only tested reclaiming once, so not much experience, sry.

My testfort is 3 months old now, following issues i did find (nothing serious though)

@nukularpower: Ok, is noted Although I never got a jobspam, they just go there and clean it. And "no clothes" and "standarized creature materials" are also non-optional. Do you have an alternative to decrease stone clutter ? I hate it when you have 10.000 stones lying around in the end, and mircocline seemed like the natural choice.

The difficulty in making it optional is, that it alters a existing stone, instead of adding a new one. I can work around that, but it's just twice the work.

@teh zip file: Of course it is normal. An absolutely indented feature, these fancy wagons... (thanks for the bugfind)

Fuel is fuel, no matter if it is lignite, bitoumious, anthrazite, peat, biofuel or wooden fuel... or magma

Migrants currently might bring golems, decoys, landmines or turrets. I found now way of turning it of, without removing the constructs from embark as well. Maybe next DF version.

btw, I started a community fort for this mod, just as a form a playtesting. Called the Wall.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=99586.0

He is right.

You need to remove the lines:
   [CV_REMOVE_TAG:PET]
   [CV_REMOVE_TAG:PET_EXOTIC]

This way giant creatures use the pet tags from the normal ones. Sry, I did not look it up, spoke out of memory.