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[Lycaeon]

What happens is that the worker pony gives itself an interaction that it will use when attacking, in the same way as the ability to use pipbuck modifications and spells are added. Each pony can only acquire one battle saddle reaction, but their actual body and attributes don't change.

So something like this:

[Lycaeon]

Oops, double post.

[Indigo_Surprise]

Now I'm really torn...  I had my favorite soldier turn up in my new fort.

[Replica]

Ah, so it doesn't change, but adds to the original caste.

Well, neat-o, that clears up any concern I had about giving battlesaddles to important ponies.
It would have been pretty bad if soldier ponies had to sacrifice their bonus in military skills for miniguns and flamethrowers.

Now for the actual testing of it, this next week is going to be fun, I am kind of expecting (and hoping) that the flamethrower saddle turns out to be something as horrifically unstable and dangerous as the Masterwork Fire Wizards that burn down the entire map and kill their own forces, I loved those guys.

[Pokon]

....Now, to create a town in which every pony is equipt with flamethrowers.

[Lycaeon]

I'm not going to spoil my own Stables that had flamethrower squads...just...

Make sure they're carrying a shield...and pray that there's nothing flammable around when they're fighting.

Oh the other hoof...minigunners tend to stand still when they're shooting, so I put mine behind fortifications flanking my Stable's killing hall.

[Pokon]

I wonder if we can have ghouls who can spew radioactive fire?


....

Thats viable, right? Boiling radioactive substances?

Oh the other hoof...minigunners tend to stand still when they're shooting, so I put mine behind fortifications flanking my Stable's killing hall.

On that note, will the Steel Ranger's get "normal" miniguns, considering that it's one of there default weapons and invader's do not usualy come with "syndromes"?

[Lycaeon]

Enemy civilizations won't get their own battle saddles until later, but yes, expect Steel Rangers and Slavers to eventually carry modified versions of miniguns and flamethrowers.

[Khenal]

Just noticed something in the prismatic smelter: it can't melt a metal object.  I have to use a normal/magma smelter to do that.

[Pokon]

....I just had a raider rip out a ponies teeth with there magic. The mental image...

Sweet Celestia.

[Lycaeon]

Unfortunately, item melting is hardcoded and so can't be added to custom buildings.

[Khenal]

Ah, ok.  It's not too hard to have a smelter going, and a normal forge also.  The prismatic smelter got me spoiled, but it'll handle lignite/coal to fuel the conventional stuff.  Time for another embark for me.  I need to learn to get at least some military going earlier rather than later, heh.

[Bacon Pants]

Just a question from a complete noob here, is it possible for Adventurer mode to be played on this? Because every time I try to load it all up two weird things happen to me:
1) I can only choose to be a snapping turtle-man or a forgotten beast
And 2) It crashes just after I create my character and it begins to load everything
Just curious, really. Thanks.

[Lycaeon]

I haven't really worked on adventure mode yet...the sheer number of pony castes is probably why it's crashing. I'll move adventuring over to the wastelanders for the next version.

[Bacon Pants]

Thanks. I'll be eagerly awaiting for when I can finally roam the wastes like Pip, only to be brutally murdered in a gruesome-yet-surprisingly-standard fashion.