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[Anzugud]

"Long ago, there were gleaming towers of chrome, concrete and crystal, inhabited by great men of true blood and true faith. Now, all that lies debased and fallen, the ruins picked over by the degenerate spawn of lesser people. We must do all we can to seize this day and return to that glory!"
- Thiwaz Firstspoken, Trueborn Priest of the Gods

Inspired by Gene Wolfe, Numenera, The Iron Dream, Gamma World and Caves of Qud (which was, in turn, inspired by Dwarf Fortress), this is a mod that I'm putting together.

The rough idea is that it is the far distant future. A cataclysm happened in the distant past that resulted in death and destruction on a massive level but now the world (and humanity) is moving on. Fortress players take the role of Vaulters, people who mostly live within sealed mountainhomes and have relatively advanced technology.

This would be a complete overhaul. Probably the only thing shared with default Dwarf Fortress will be some trees (and even then those particular trees will be hyper expensive).

Is there any interest in this?

[Anzugud]

Concepts

Spoiler: Reworked Economy (click to show/hide)

The economy will be reworked to push players to dive deeper and harder to gain what they need. Underground plants grow slowly but all the time and the amount of space you'll need to sustain them will be ever greater as your population grows. Breach the caverns and your farming facilities will (depending on RNG) start growing unhealthy mutagenic mushrooms that drop spores that make your Vaulters ill and worse.

Breaching those caverns will be necessary to allow for your Vaulters to advance along the tech tree, as they hold great wealth and resources that you can't access except through them and trade with the home Vaults. Build rebreathers for your farmers and the people you send into the caverns so that they can harvest with ease and full skinsuits to stop contact poisonous from causing them harm.

Grow plants on the surface (quicker and finishes in a season or two) and find yourself under siege by flying pests as well as military attacks. Build guns, turrets and robots to stop these threats from harming your civilisation.

Spoiler: Biomes (click to show/hide)

Good
Inhabited by truemen, those humans who lived rurally enough to be away from the largest radioactive blasts and who are technologically advanced (and crazily religious), Good areas are mostly untouched by the devastation of the rest of the world.

Normal
Populated by the many varied peoples of the post-apocalypse wastelands and filled with many riotous new creatures.

Evil
Ruined swathes of smoggy wasteland, filled with concrete and glass "trees".

Spoiler: Curses (click to show/hide)

Dominators - Looking much like any other Vaulter, these insidious creatures cause those they touch to come under their sway until eventually they attempt a violent uprising.
Memory-vampires - Consume the MEMORY of victims, leaving them staggered and dazed whilst boosting it's own. Look for those in your group who are the most productive.

[Asin]

Another apocalypse mod idea. Welcome to the club.

Not that that's a bad thing or anything. Just that there's a lotta apocalypse mods planned (such as mine for instance)