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[Amostubal]

@Dookmiester, I'm glad your enjoying it,  I've been running through games just to see the names that are produced.  I'm enjoying the project, and I really like coming across some of the strange ones.  The out list is mostly targets that don't fit the games time frame (in otherwords modern sciences, tech, etc that doesn't fit the period), really I'm probably going to cut it by 30% to 50% in the end or the really good words wont float to the top.  Spellings probably wont be fixed for the next edition or 2,  I'm correcting the ones I spot while editing down the file, but I'm not focusing on it,v the main focus is to spot the bad words and reduce the file size.

[Dookmiester]

Nearly faced dehydrated again thanks to screw-you-pump not working and having to be reassembled.

11 migrants joined us and I put their noses to the grindstone.
Milking the sneks. Coating blowdarts. 2 full time mechanics building and setting up traps. 3 Wood Splitting Blocks set to work nonstop.
Got one eel bold fishing happily next to the water intake!

Due to my absent mindedness I forgot to check the caravans for leather. Bought animals but not leather. /sigh
Decided to have my two military dudes risk it for the brisket.

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No one got hurt thankfully. Boars didn't enrage and instead split off in 4 different directions during the assault. One ran straight into camp and set everyone off. Poor swine got overwhelmed. Even our leading lady the Rat Queen got a few hacks with her hatchet in. BACON TIME!

Very first masterpiece! Oh um.. wait a minute.

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Silk. I bet that was what he wanted. Too bad I don't got none. Not sure how to make a spider farm and my internet went on the fritz for 10+ hours.

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Oh god here we go again.

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Second caravan arrived to this creepy pasta.

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Succubus have been busy since last caravan. On our 3rd caravan now.

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For peat's sake. Was entire trading session down the drain.

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(Got besieged by flying sea rats/gulls.)

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There were like 6+ more of them but thankfully they flew off.

In other news our legendary bone carver totally earned that. Her shell crafts are what is making us bank.

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Bone shrine best shrine! (Simple bones option would be dandy btw my ocd hurts.)

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Sorry Lion-O but I don't trust you to leave my bolds alone when they go out to fetch wood for the wood fort.

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Lions got their revenge on the second go.

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It begins. (May actually take a break/move on to try another fort setup. Getting burned out. Lack of anvils being craftable. Actually looked into the reactions. Quickly figured out how to add a 3 bonemold bar recipe to craft an anvil.)

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Lastest view of Ratnest.
Surface

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Below ground Levels 1 → 5

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Stats

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[gabix]

Just wanted to show my nice rock salt tomb, created by the humans of Skirtrise





ups, just saw that the hatch cover on top is useless, they can get in through the stairs in the level below... I should just destroy those stairs... hmmm

[Srip121]

That's really cool!

[Amostubal]

  and here's the coolest mechanic I have ever had....

[jimboo]

War Elephant invaders ignored the courtyard walls by jumping down from a mountainside without ramps.  That was unexpected --

[rosareven]

I underestimated my steel-equipped squad, who just promptly crushed a siege of undead elves without a single scratch. And this is my first successful squad ever. Well done my great dwarves, I'm so proud of you all.

[Dunamisdeos]

I underestimated my steel-equipped squad, who just promptly crushed a siege of undead elves without a single scratch. And this is my first successful squad ever. Well done my great dwarves, I'm so proud of you all.

That means they are ready to fight web-empowered monsters go get em champ

[Amostubal]

I think they come just to drop their anchor babies and stay forever...

[heydude6]

Spoiler: I did it! (click to show/hide)

If you're wondering why that's important, then let me tell you a story. For a long time, boulder crabs were bugged. They weren't capable of reproducing. Every time the female layed eggs, she would lay boulders instead that would never hatch.

3 years ago I created a bugfix that would make it so the males would lay those non-hatching boulders while the females would lay normal eggs. Meph was impressed with my work and integrated it with the mod. But there was a problem...

You see, I didn't test it properly and what ended up happening was that the females did lay proper eggs, but they would never hatch. Eventually players complained and I assume Meph removed my fix. I'm not sure, I might not be remembering this properly.

Anyway, I made a new fix and as seen in the screenshot above it works wonderfully. Turns out, the problem was that the egg size was too large and since the length of incubation is directly proportional to the size of the egg, it just took an unreasonable amount of time to hatch. I managed to reduce it from 36 to 8, and now the eggs hatch in a single season (this could probably be made to be a little longer tbh).

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If you guys feel like adding my fix yourselves, just do this. Go to the dwarf fortress folder, then go to the raw folder, then go to the objects folder, and then open a text file named creature_domestic_DDD

Look for this passage of text inside:

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[CASTE:FEMALE]
[CASTE_NAME:female boulder crab:female boulder crabs:boulder crab]
[FEMALE]
[LAYS_EGGS]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL:SOLID]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE:LIQUID]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK:LIQUID]
[LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:LIMESTONE]
[LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:MARBLE]
[LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:DOLOMITE]
[EGG_SIZE:37]
[CLUTCH_SIZE:1:2]
[CASTE:MALE]
[CASTE_NAME:boulder crab:boulder crabs:boulder crab]
[MALE]
And replace it with this:

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[CASTE:FEMALE]
[CASTE_NAME:female boulder crab:female boulder crabs:boulder crab]
[FEMALE]
[LAYS_EGGS]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL:SOLID]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE:LIQUID]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK:LIQUID]
[EGG_SIZE:14]
[CLUTCH_SIZE:2:3]
[CASTE:MALE]
[CASTE_NAME:boulder crab:boulder crabs:boulder crab]
[MALE]
[LAYS_EGGS]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL:SOLID]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE:LIQUID]
[EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK:LIQUID]
[LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:LIMESTONE]
[LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:MARBLE]
[LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:INORGANIC:DOLOMITE]
[EGG_SIZE:14]
[CLUTCH_SIZE:2:3
I would recommend changing the egg size of both the male and female to 14 though (that's the egg size of dewbeetles), that way you won't experience the OPness of eggs hatching within a season.

Anyway, if you guys try the above bugfix and find that it works, maybe post about it. That way, Meph might implement this into his next update.

EDIT: I've changed egg size from 4 to 14 so you don't have to manually do it yourselves anymore

[Amostubal]

interesting I just thought the dang things dropped rocks more often than eggs....  poor things sitting on rocks, thinking they was eggs.

[rosareven]

Thank you heydude6. You're doing Armok's work. I'll try it in my next session.

[Amostubal]

I think genies need a similar fix... so we can get baby genies...

[Dunkelzahn]

Okay, while not dwarves persay, they are humans. Everything is good so far, got a small farm going, a log cabin for everyone to hide inside, and a bunch of workshops.

Got a mine going down for stone so I can build magma forges (right next to a volcano). Not making anything to complex, just a simple mine shaft.

Oh hey a awakened andesite!... What the fuck do I do with it?

Oh god now there's a wyrm.

[c0mplex]

Started a fort with a good supply of iron, close proximity to a safe river, and even started in an easily defendable spot. The only problem with the fort is that for some reason, "something" keeps collapsing on the surface rather close to my starting position. So every ten-twenty minutes or so, there is a collapse on the surface that kicks up a lot of dust. It actually killed my starting miners like five minutes into the game when I was trying to carve up the surrounding area to prevent giant animals and the like from just wandering into my outpost.

Something similar is occurring deep underground as well, so I get a collapse alert several times an hour, but at least the underground ones are deep enough to not be a deadly threat to my dwarves. All I can say is that this location is cursed so I plan to wall off the area sometime.

Also after getting my second major migration wave, I recruited two dwarves into my militia to join my lonely starting soldier. For some reason, one of these new recruits was nowhere near the fortress, and got into a fight with an allosaurus. With no weapon, armor, or much training, she got thrashed. To my surprise, though, she kept fighting, even after the allosaurus left her alone. By the time the other militia dwarves arrived to help, she was exhausted and feebly pushing on the allosaurus that somehow hadn't killed her yet. So, chances are she'll be fine so long as the doctor doesn't kill her.