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After some time away, I'm so happy to return and find you are still here helping people find/make excellent worlds!

I'll make no requests of you today - only leave a thank you.  You make this game even better.  Time to download the latest and pick one that you've already identified for someone else.

Thank you for updating this mod.  It is my favorite.  Downloading!

Enjoying 42.05 so far.  I just granted 2 petitions for a Goblin and a Human wanting to be soldiers in my military.
Sounded like a good idea until I realized something.  I can't make human sized armor.

Fortunately, my fort is in the range of 2 towers providing a steady supply of large clothing to equip for now. I generally have a policy of making all armor and weapons used to defend my fort.  This fort has a stupid amount of flux - I melt down any armor or edged weapon that is not made of steel and anything iron gets upgraded.  I got lucky receiving with a migrant that was almost a legendary armor smith so my drunken defenders love putting on their armor.  No love for my female human in the squad.

Since we've never been able to allow humans to move in, I'm guessing that we don't have a way to say make a large helm vs make a helm.  But this is DF and even after playing this game for years you find out you missed something you should have known.  Is there a way change the size of the requested wearable in the game.

Assuming there is not a way to do this >  Do we need to add the ability to do this if we are now able to grant residence/citizenship of other races in the fort?  What happens if you have a human gain citizenship the fort and then make that human an armorsmith?  What size armor will be created?

When I try to generate worlds I'm getting this error in the log:
*** Error(s) found in the file "raw/objects/creature_fortdefense.txt"
Unrecognized Personality Facet Token: STRESS_PROPENSITY
I looking at the template files now but so far I've not figured out why this is happening.

I had a quick question for the map masters.
As you get all these requests - do you use any extra tools to search out the worlds after you  generate them? I get that experience provides you an idea of what values to start with and tweak, but that doesn't make it easier to compare all the possible places once you have your world.

I'm going to give in and make my own request soon, but I should probably fail a few more times first.

Since I've tried MW I answer the question posed by Meph - but I'll leave the mod philosophy arguments to you guys.  These goblins aren't going take their magma bath without some 'help'.

I tried to play MW.  I made the mistake of enabling every option I could enable to start my first game.  Too much stuff to start.  Then my drunk minions caused an event in game that wasn't MW's fault and I ragequit.  I haven't been able to force myself to go back yet... maybe someday.

However, MW exposed me to some mods I'd never seen before; I started to hunt some of those down and add them into vanilla and to PeridexisErrant's pack (I tried MF before PeridexisErrant started doing that for us).  My favorite is the Fortress Defense Mod.  I learned a lot about what I could do to modify the game to my liking.  I started trying several new utilities and mods because MF was just too much for me but had really cool things in it I could go back and look at.  I realize other people have felt the opposite is true, but that's my personal experience.

It also convinced me to finally try out the other tilesets.  Didn't make me change, but I tried out a bunch of them.

I think that when I'm ready to give it another go I need to spend time figuring out what I really want to use along why or why not, and more than likely use it for research on what other mods I need to try out.  I've found that so far I've been happiest using some utilities and only a couple of interesting mods.  There were just too many things to try all at once.

Sweet!  Thank you for starting the thread for the new version.  I'll have to try out this first world.

I wanted to mention that a while back I asked a question in the previous thread about finding worlds where you started at war with the elves.  While I never found the answer on how to gen that, I found a better answer after I discovered that war with the elves gets annoying because elves are weak and they don't provide things that you can melt down into better equipment.

My solution - I started taking seeds from larger worlds, removed the history and creature seeds, and then genned the world with the fortress defense mod enabled.  This lets you gen a world with up to 18 additional hostile races willing to destroy you. Some are trap avoid and other are not.  It's very easy to add in - I hope it gets updated for the new version quickly.

Anyway, when people ask for extra extra extra goblins and a double helping of war - that's a good suggestion.  You do need a larger world to support all the races who want you dead, but it brings a steady supply of sieges directly to your house.

I know this isn't important, just fun to talk about.

In my first 0.40.01 embark - a Yeti got a hold my dogs and cats.  I now need more.
A willow tree was responsible for the first dwarf death.  That's right - A willow tree.

How about you?