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0.9d Mod

**  This mod is my attempt to provide a near-vanilla experience while still changing enough to create a unique experience.  It adds redundant civs, redesigns the attribute range of civs, and hopes to make both fortress and adventure mod feels that much different.

Spoiler: New Creatures (click to show/hide)

** Merlocks - An intelligent entity-level creature that lives primarily in dry wastelands such as tundra, desserts, and mountains.  They are emotionally aloof, prone to envy, and, given their nature as predatory bonecarns, cruel in the eye of others.  Covered in a thin fuzzy down, the merlocks are blessed with tough, strong bodies and naturally inclined to use single-handed edged weapons.

** Caccodemon - A cavern dwelling creature that resembles a floating mouth with a single eye.  They slowly float around until the spot prey, which they attack with a bone spitting ability and huge teeth.  Quickly able to kill unskilled creatures, they tend to be overwhelmed by numbers, size, or sufficient skill.

** Mammoth - An elephant that has a thick fur and prefers the sub-arctic.

** Dionaea - A large carnivorous plant that slowly creeps across the ground.  Gifted with some intellect, it prefers using its tendrils to attack while relying upon its girth for protection.  Lives in savage and evil biomes.

** Tyrannus - A T-Rex analogue that is absolutely huge.  It uses its mass to ram targets and its tail as a counter-balance.  A semi-megabeast.

** IT - A ten-legged semimegabeast with 2 pincers.

Spoiler: New Items/Spells/Interactions (click to show/hide)

** A 'stiletto', a Thin long dagger for puncturing armor.  Better at stabbing than a dagger, probably useless for slashing.
** An elven war blowgun
** An elven maul.  Giant (wooden) hammer made to help those poor guys out.
** A 'micro-pick' for kobolds and assorted cave critters.
** A 'short-spear' for kobolds, and assorted friends.
** A headband.  As in a circlet, band of cloth, or other forehead accessory.  Can be metal, wont be incredibly protective.  But damn, you'll look good.
** A war pick.  sized like a miner's pick, swung like a warhammer.
** A 'fused plate'.  platemail made from crudely crafted plates of metal.  viable but heavy.  dwarve can have this, but probably wont.
** 'selbuvott'.  Mitten style wargloves, made with chainmail stitched into a leather or cloth.  Not as good as gauntlets, I'd wager.
** Mini and knee-length 'battle skirts'.  A skirt of plates and mail.  Will protect your bits.

**  A 'Terrify spell', that causes nausea.
**  A spell to make a target weaker to wooden weapons.
**  A 'Commune' that enables animals to speak.  Animals have limited interactions, even when granted this ability.
**  An 'enlargen animal' spell.  Adds bulk, strength, and fatigue to an animal for a small period of time.  Makes a dog fight like a bear!
**  An unused 'rage' spell for making critters stop fleeing.
**  An unused elven buff spell.
**  An unused necromancer spell.

Spoiler: Civ Additions/Changes (click to show/hide)

** Merlocks - Fond of bladed weapons and lighter armor, these bonecarns steal children into their arid and frozen hillocks to work as slave labor and/or food.  Envious of others and cruel by nature, merlocks are also physically stronger than a human.  In worldgen their wars are often successful and their homes almost never taken from them.  Usually willing to antagonize a new fortress in their territory.

** Humans - Divided into two versions of themselves.
    - 'Civilized' humans are loosely based on roman culture, and follow more the traditional ethics of the humans in DF more closely.  Their weapon access has been reduced.
    - 'Barbaric' humans are no less capable of building cities, but have looser ethics and more of the 'cruel' weapons.  They speak a different language than the civilized humans, and are somewhat more likely to be involved in wars.

** Elves - With the increased focus on animals, elves also gain access to a few gems and more expansion.  Their restrictions on violence are slightly removed.  Hopefully they will choose aggression more often.

** Dwarves - Given the ability to make great axes and daggers.  Some minor value changes.

** Goblins - Use more industry.  A second goblin civ will now use steel and attempt to create infrastructure.

** All major civs have a second version of themselves, even if it is just a copy of the first.  This is a test to see how civilizations can cross-interact, and a test of how it affects war and trade in fortress mode.

Spoiler: Farming Changes (click to show/hide)

** Most crops require 1.75 seasons to grow, and can exist on the farm for 3
** Some crops require less time, with the minimum time ~70% of a season
** Some crops can exist year-round, however require 2.5 seasons or more to grow
** Seed/crop values have changed, mostly to make individual seeds more expensive to reflect the difficulty or narrow window of time to grow.

** It is recommended you only plant during the first consecutive season available to each plant. immature plants will wither and die if planted too late!

Spoiler: old text (click to show/hide)

Aight, so I do like the idea of sticking with this long enough to release something.  I used modded raws back in 34, and Ive updated them to exist in the new version.  I also am revisiting them, so nows as good a time as any to try to generate some ideas or discussion.


I used two mod packages:  A farm/economy mod and a civ/critter/entity mod.  The former was lost and will be remade; the latter is alive and well.  Or at least mostly alive.  Wilder experiments like a mon that melts its arms to make zombies didnt make it.

The package currently adds a T-Rex, a mammoth,  a night critter based on the spider from IT, a critter modeled after Audrey II from little shop of horrors, a caccodemon from DooM, a civ of Merlocks, and mods to some old critters.
Armor is added in the form of tower shields for humans, 'fused plate' for elves, and weapons such as hacky blowguns for tribal civs/elves...

'Magic' is implimented in so far as goblins can cast a mild 'fear' spell and elves have access to a spell to increase the size of friendly animals for a time.  As well as curse opponents to roll lower and be weaker to wooden weapons.

Other small tweaks, but the larger ones are elves getting silver, dwarves getting access to great axes, and humans taking the LATIN language and the merlocks taking the human one.

[pisskop]

The ideas Im currently playing with are adding copypasted civs so that goblins can dow goblins and dwarves will try to cross trade with other dwarves.

The idea is going to add more 'clutter' to an already outdated UI, but also more life to the game/world.


My current vision of the civs:

- Dwarves are traditional and proud.  They mature slower than humans, at 18 years to adulthood.  They tend to fight over trade deals and insults.
- Humans are the 'diplomats'.  They use most weapons and most resources.  They will die somewhat earlier than the base game [lifespan=80] and show the greatest variation in their ethics and beliefs.
- Elves are less strong but more agile, relying upon their animals of war more.  They will live for long periods of time, and i want them to behave more aggressively than in the base game.
- Goblins are toned down into having some structure in their society.  Still crude and disdainful of order, they will do basic things like actually needing to eat and animal care.  An idea I have was to create a civ where they arent demon-spawned, though the idea that goblins are hellfiends brought to earth is appealing in its own way.  Goblins are build more infrastructure.
- Merlocks are meant to sub in for goblins are a secondary antagonist.  They typically fare great against all manners of worldgen warfare.  They are carnivorous, rude, guileful, and will kidnap children.  They prefer lighter slashing weapons and prefer tundra and desserts.  They live in mountain halls of their own, and prefer the underground.

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Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)

***Creatures***

Dwarf - +STR, -AGL, +TGH, ~END, ~RCP, ~DR, ~AA, ++FCS, +WLP, ~CRT, ~INT, +PAT, +MEM, ~LIN, ++SPA, ~MUS, ~KIN, ~EMP, ~SA
Human - AVERAGE
Goblin - ~STR, +AGL, +TGH, ~END, +RCP, ~DR, ~AA, -FCS, -WLP, -CRT, -INT, --PAT, -MEM, ~LIN, ~SPA, -MUS, ~KIN, ---EMP, ++SA
Elf - -STR, ++AGL, ~TGH, ~END, +RCP, +DR, +AA, +FCS, ++WLP, ++CRT, +INT, ~PAT, +++MEM, +LIN, ++SPA, ~MUS, +KIN, ++EMP, +SA
Merlock - +STR, ~AGL, +TGH, +END, ~RCP, ++DR, -AA, ~FCS, ~WLP, -CRT, ~INT, +PAT, ~MEM, -LIN, +SPA, ~MUS, -KIN, -EMP, -SA
Kobold - ~STR, ++AGL, ~TGH, +END, ~RCP, ~DR, -AA,  -FCS, -WLP, ~CRT, ++INT, ~PAT, ~MEM, -LIN, ~SPA, ~MUS, +KIN, +EMP, -SA
Reptile Man - ~STR, -AGL, +END, +TGH, ++RCP, ++DR, -AA, ++FCS, +WLP, ~CRT, -INT, ++PAT, +MEM, ~LIN, ~SPA, -MUS, ~KIN, --EMP, ~SA
Bat Man - -STR, ++AGL, -TGH, +END, ~RCP, ~DR, ~AA, ~FCS, ~WLP, +CRT, ~INT, ~PAT, ~MEM, +LIN, +SPA, +MUS, +KIN, ~EMP, ~SA
Serpent Man - ~STR, ~AGL, +TGH, +END, ~RCP, +DR, ~AA, +FCS, ~WLP, -CRT, ~INT, ++PAT, ~MEM, ~LIN, ~SPA, -MUS, ~KIN, -EMP, ~SA


***Description***

Dwarf - Shorter, stockier, bearded, drinky, works hard, shuns non-conformity, gifted with craft, Life is slower to progress
Human - Access to almost everything, slightly worse raw stats than everything else, life moves fast, dips into everything
Goblin - Rule by the strong onto the weak, use smaller weapons, focus on crueler arts, have acute sense of social standing, some magic, Do not eat but do use meat ind
Elf - focus on their agility willpower, ranged weapons, socially gifted, near perfect memory, gifted with nature magic, no farm but use some basic metals
Merlock - High physical stats, Slow development of mental stats, Societal focus on slaves and meat ind, use underground farms
Kobold - Very basic crafting, Little metalworking, high intuition, thief
Cave Men - Tribal Focus, race bonuses


***Entity Locations***

Dwarf - Mountains, Hills, shrubland
Human - Shrubland, Lakes, Rivers, Forests
Goblin - ANY, Swamp
Elf - Forest, Swamp, Lakes
Merlock - Tundra, Mountain, Desert


***Weapons***

Dwarf - Non 'exotic', non-'cruel' heavy
Human - All, minus whips
Goblin - Non-heavy
Elf - Light, Wood + Silver
Merlock - Cutting, Non-complex
Kobold - Light, cheap


***Armor***

Dwarf - Non-Exotic
Human - All
Goblin - Non-Heaviest
Elf - Light, Wooden, Fancy
Merlock - Lighter
Kobold - Lightest

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HOLY SHAT its PK himself, man I play a lot of cdda (especially lately) and every time with PKs rebalancing. Idk why you stopped devving it but I just wanted to say thanks for your work sir.

[pisskop]

HOLY SHAT its PK himself, man I play a lot of cdda (especially lately) and every time with PKs rebalancing. Idk why you stopped devving it but I just wanted to say thanks for your work sir.

Hey, Thanks!  I loved making that, though its honestly in need of a huge under-the-hood revision if anyone ever went to actually mod it further.

[pisskop]

So the new version, 47.xx, now checks for duplicate entity and creature tags instead of overwritting.  When I sat down to gen a world I got one full of sentient cave crocodiles and giant bats.  Ive fixed that.

Ive changed how goblins and merlocks spawn, and added a 'less crude' goblin entity that now uses steel, attempts to have infrastructure, and worships gods.

[pisskop]

So not doing this 'intensely', but it isnt 'dead'.

Here is a sheet of revised biome expansion paths/

Spoiler: settlement tendencies (click to show/hide)

   DWARF 1

   [EXCLUSIVE_START_BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
   
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_TEMPERATE_FOREST]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:FOREST_TAIGA]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_SAVANNA]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_SHRUBLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:DESERT_BADLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:DESERT_ROCK]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:TUNDRA]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:GLACIER]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM]

   [BIOME_SUPPORT:MOUNTAIN:5]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_DESERT:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SHRUBLAND:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SAVANNA:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_GRASSLAND:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:GLACIER:1]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:TUNDRA:1]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:1]
   
   
   ELF 1
   
   [START_BIOME:ANY_FOREST]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_TROPICAL_MARSH]

   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_FOREST]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_WETLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_LAKE]
   
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:5]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_WETLAND:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAKE:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_GRASSLAND:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_OCEAN:2]
   
   
   HUMAN 1
   
   [START_BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_SAVANNA]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_SHRUBLAND]

   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_SAVANNA]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_SHRUBLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_TEMPERATE_FOREST]
   
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_OCEAN:5]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_GRASSLAND:5]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SAVANNA:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SHRUBLAND:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAKE:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_DESERT:1]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_WETLAND:1]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:TUNDRA:1]
   

   GOBLIN 1

   [START_BIOME:ANY_DESERT]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_WETLAND]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_TUNDRA]
   [START_BIOME:ANY_FOREST]
   
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ALL_LAND]
   
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_WETLAND:5]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_DESERT:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:TUNDRA:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:MOUNTAIN:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SHRUBLAND:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_GRASSLAND:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SAVANNA:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:GLACIER:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:1]
   
   
   KOBOLD 1
   
   [START_BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
   [START_BIOME:NOT_FREEZING]
   
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:NOT_FREEZING]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
   
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAND:3]
   
   
   MERLOCK 1

   [START_BIOME:ANY_WETLAND]
   [START_BIOME:TUNDRA]
   [START_BIOME:MOUNTAIN]

   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_WETLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:TUNDRA]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_FOREST]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_RIVER]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:ANY_LAKE]
   [SETTLEMENT_BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM]
   
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_WETLAND:5]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_LAKE:4]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:TUNDRA:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:MOUNTAIN:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_RIVER:3]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_OCEAN:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_FOREST:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_GRASSLAND:2]
   [BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SHRUBLAND:1]

- start_biome dictates where they can spawn; where their capital city will be.

- settlement biome determines where they will make new settlements.  All start biomes seem to be automatically added as settlement biomes, so me adding them is technically redundant in many case.

- biome support is more complex.
    there is an invisible 'aura' that expands out from the capital over time for each civ.  This controls the rate of that spread, in ratio form.  So a number like '10' is largely relative.  Think of every civ having a hypothetical spread of 100 tiles per year.  Every civ will have that no matter if they have a '3', '5', or '10'; those are just weights that smaller numbers are compared against.  A civ with 10 in wetlands and 4 in mountains will spread their aura out 2.5 faster through wetlands than mountains.
    this aura affects diplomacy and trade range.  it also affects how far they will travel to declare wars and raze settlements.  A settlement that is not within their aura will not be kept, but razed.  I am unsure what else it affects and what else affects a civ's preference to take over a settlement instead of destroy it.

[pisskop]

The big changes here:

dwarves can go to badlands and are less willing to spam hillocks far and wide
elves like marshes, and can potentially spread off of an island
goblins are more fond of mountains, tundra, and marshes, and less of shrubland/savanna/grasslands.  Though they should still be plenty active everywhere.
kobolds have explicit mountain support.
merlocks have shifted towards wet environs and away from drier ones.  Though how a tundra isnt a dry one is . . . debatable?

[pisskop]

Added some new armors and tweaked the entity raws some more.

New items are primarily for some flavor, although they should all be viable in their own right.

A 'selbuvott', or a glove made with a mail interwoven into it.  Probably not as protective as a gauntlet, but does not cover the lower arms.

A 'headband'.  For anyone who thinks helmets are for mooks.  Can be made of metal, wont be all the protective since it covers the forehead and little else.

Mini war skirts and knee-length war skirts.  Bushido samuri style skirts made of plate/mail/studds.  Not tested much, but should prove as viable as greaves.

'War picks'.  A pickaxe with an edged attack and expected to roughly equal the war hammer in function.  Except I dont honestly know how it will do when made of adamantine.  Probably well enough, since it is an edged piercing weapon.

[pisskop]

Rethought the elven weapons.

I tested the new 'longbow' in arena, and facepalmed when I realized that my 2 competent human archers spent all 100 arrows without much more than a sick tummy.  At least they savagely beat each other after instead of pillow fight.

I did get a single headshot with the competent archers.  It didnt crack the skull but the target was stunned . . . . . . . . .  literally like pillow fighting.



Ive upgraded the satyrs of good regions into a full fledged civ.  They are savage and a little cruel.  They use metals and mine, live in hamlets, and are supposed to align with elves.  They use tree cap diplomacy, and themselves restrict much of their woody activities.  Though they do use some.

They fall as weaker than humans, from the worldgen info.  They are somewhat vengeful, very independent, and randy as all hell.  Competing with the elves for land is . . . something I hadnt considered, and they do it well, often outnumbering the elves in sheer number of sites.  Though often enough not in total numbers.  Probably due to being at war more or dying before a elf is even in their prime.  Either way.  They live in forests, mountains, and shrublands.  I have decided to leave the foul blendec alone for now, idc what i would do with them tbh.  Maybe a curse on satyr?
Satyr have a very rare caste called 'pan'.  Pan is just a talented fifer, and decent talker/dancer.  They have some nominal dodge bonuses as well.

More biome tweaks, trying to find niches for each civ.  The nice thing about the vanilla game is that each civ has a place, a purpose, and a style.  I feel like the merlocks had that same feel, but satyrs will only benefit from new mechanics.

[pisskop]

What I want to do is make an elven based material that can help them rival the rest of the civilized world.


My thoughts were:

-   Giving them silver or a fictional metal, through a custom reaction.  Didnt work because they respect the wood_armor and wood_weapon tags, which force them to use wood rather than allow them to use wood.
-   The same goes for giving them a creature that can create said material, with the caveat that elves dont use butcher products either by default.
-    Making a plant with properties to suit my needs.  Trees will drop the logs, which elves would use (not that they chop, but they obtain their wood based on the logs that would drop if cut) and could be used.  However I would have to make it universally available, and other civs would be able to use it too, as crafts or wheelbarrows or what have you.
-    Making it like adamantine, in that the  logs are an intermediary good and then require further processing to obtain its most useful form.  However elves wont use that in their weapons either.

A solution could be to magic elves or it could be to remove the requirement that elves use wood for their army and instead use a mix of mining/animal crafting that only they can access.



Todays modding is complete; I contemplated a tree, and ultimately decided against it.  maybe a gizzard stone or something they can hyper-process?  better magics?  I dont want elves to be like jrpg wiazards.  I dont want any mana-based casters in my game.


Ive genned several larger worlds today as well, in the background.  with different population limits and lengths.  Will compare how my new changes did to the old ones, and what my computer can reasonably handle.  Yesterday I mixxed up [historical figure population limit] and [site limit] for the world, resulting in 1500 significant leaders leading their civs to create 30,000 sites.  Was bonkers.