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[PlumpHelmetMan]

Lmao I guess I can, I've also started a dwarf fort in another more recent Highfantasy world of mine (which I've started recording the progress of in community games & stories *coughnotashamelessselfplugcough*). I might just hold onto a separate save of the current version for that one.

[VABritto]

Hey there Kiiranaux! I have downloaded a fresh install of Highfantasy to help on the bugfixes (on my own game I made my own little cosmetic differences just for rp purposes, like substituting instances of "royal" in Plains entity with "imperial" because the leader is an Emperor, that sort of thing).

So I'm writing as I see them ok? So sorry if it isn't that structured.

In ENTITY:PLAINS, [POSITION:hf_KING] has the tag [REQUIRES_POPULATION:140]. This will prevent the position from being generated. Removing it solves the problem.

In [ENTITY:RIVERS], all positions that are supposed to be appointed by [POSITION:VOICE] are actually with the tag [APPOINTED_BY:DRUID].

In [ENTITY:CUNNING], [POSITION:hf_KING] has the tag [REQUIRES_POPULATION:140]. [POSITION:MAYOR] doesn't have any tag for how it is selected so it will never generate. REQUIRES_POPULATION is not enough.

In [ENTITY:RELAXED], [POSITION:LEADER_HOBBIT] has the tag [EXPORTED_IN_LEGENDS]. This would make every mayor appear in the history file in the list of rulers. This should only be on those civ level leadership positions you'd consider the "rulers" of the country, because it is a list.

In [ENTITY:TOOTHY], [POSITION:LEADER_SAH] shouldn't have the tag [EXPORTED_IN_LEGENDS].

In [ENTITY:FALLEN], [POSITION:hf_KING] shouldn't have the tag [REQUIRES_POPULATION:140].

In [ENTITY:SLINKING], [POSITION:LEADER_NAGA] shouldn't [EXPORTED_IN_LEGENDS].

In [ENTITY:SNATCHING], position [POSITION:hordes_TRIBAL_CHIEFTAIN_GOBLIN] shouldn't have the tag [EXPORTED_IN_LEGENDS].

In [ENTITY:HISSING], it appears that the position [POSITION:LEADER_LIZ] is chosen by the Goblin position [APPOINTED_BY:hordes_START_POSITION]. I think you meant to have it be chosen by a Hissing start position, but you forgot to make it and used the goblin start position tag. Also it shouldn't have the tag [EXPORTED_IN_LEGENDS].

In [ENTITY:PLOTTING], [POSITION:LEADER_TECH] shouldn't have the tag [EXPORTED_IN_LEGENDS].

I hope this helps!

[kiiranaux]

Thank you so much, it was very generous of you to document these so thoroughly!
Also,this was the last info I needed to push out the just-finished update! So everyone can look for that Friday! (finishing up documentation)

EDIT: TONS of new documentation added to OP, post 2, and especially post 3.
Post 2 includes a changelog for the new update (v1.1.1 and v1.2.0)

[kiiranaux]

Version 1.2.01, the Creature Class Update, is live!



This version finishes the final balance pass of the mod by reviewing and completely integrating magic spells, weaknesses, and resistances from all areas of Highfantasy. Lineage creatures are clearly associated and resistant to their own lineage; elemental creatures follow elemental themes; and magical creatures battle it out with competing powers. When you are ready to check out this version, a fresh install is recommended. Future versions will mainly address major bugs.

A great deal of information has been added to the OP post #3 explaining all elements of the mod; additionally, a "lore" dive into the mod's magic system and its internal consistency is present on OP post #1.

Versions 1.1.1 and 1.2.0/1 were combined into a single release. Where 1.1.1 covers the above, 1.2.0 introduces the following major features:
-adds Cryomancy as a "limited" fort/adv magic school.
-adds the Pristinely Ungifted humans, Failed Hybrids, more elementals, scarab beetles, and khezu
-restores Frost (Ice) Giants from Spellcrafts as a tribal/population creature, and two Fiends from Tb_dnd in their hell versions only.
-restores a number of creatures and plants from SPL vanilla expanded v9.1 and earlier
-continues and concludes balancing of magical focus acquisition, and incorporates the Magestaff into magical research
-works around vanilla bugs related to monsters "hide"ing
-finishes rewriting all major descriptions to match the vanilla format "A... creature... that...."

"Big Cats and Lap Dogs," a standalone and completely vanilla file that introduces two more common_domestic creatures, forest cats* and lap dogs, which perform the functions of dogs and cats, respectively, in case you really prefer one species or the other. They are 100% vanilla and in their own file, creature_highfantasy_domestic, so can be used with pretty much any other mod.
*They're based on servals, but are a little bigger. Although known from the savanna, servals do in fact inhabit oak forests.

Full feature list:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Worked on v1.2.0 and v1.1.1 interchangeably, as 1.1.1 the "Creature Class Update" became 1.2.0 the "Final? Content Update"
v1.2.01
Bugs: fixed a bug where civs had stopped spawning because everyone was [FEMALE]
Bugs: dryads were missing a tag that stopped them from spawning
Bugs: as a side effect of the work from VABritto, finally squashed a longstanding bug causing some civs to generate vanilla lowercase leaders despite code suggesting otherwise
Files: deleted "descriptor_color_spellcrafts_civ" as it caused demon names that looked wrong, and we weren't using it anyway
Entities: multiple small changes to improve position name flavor (thanks VABritto for identifying many of them)
v1.2.0
Files: updated and copied OP Post 3, with all the guide info, into a PDF file to distribute with the mod
Additions: added Cryomancy as an "aborted" fort/adv magic school. Basically, your wizard is trying to learn necromancy, but discovers ice spells instead. (It doesn't have a unique focus; resonate two aether foci together.)
Additions: added the Pristinely Ungifted humans, another lineage, who are resistant to magic and also can't learn magic, explaining how humans in the mod story/setting are the only creatures with [OUTSIDER], always able to survive.
Additions: added Failed Hybrids, humanoid [GOOD] creatures that help finish telling the mod story/setting
Additions: added salt (water), energy (fire), steam (water+fire), smoke (fire+air), and dust (earth+air) elementals to round out the set.
Additions: added back Frost (Ice) Giants from Spellcrafts as a tribal/population creature, because Jotun are very iconic and we didn't have any substitute quite yet. They are another creature that can unlock sorcery, like dryads and carp.
Additions: added back two more tb_dnd_fiend s in their hell versions only.
Additions: added scarab beetles and their variations
Additions: added forest cats and lap dogs, which perform the functions of dogs and cats, respectively, in case you really prefer one species or the other. They are 100% vanilla and in their own file, creature_highfantasy_domestic, so it's basically a standalone mini-mod.
Additions: added Khezu ("Pale Wyvern"), which is acid-based (although also paralyze immune), rounding out the set of 5 non-standard elemental dragons to match the 5 standard elemental dragons. (Wyvern is poison based, and philia are r/w/b)
Additions: split skelk into skelk minions, which work as before but don't naturally spawn, and matriarchs, which naturally spawn and have difficulty 11, meaning they won't be assigned as quests in adventure mode. This is important because they suffer from the vanilla Enemy Invisibility bug.
Additions from SPL Vanilla Expanded, v9.1 or earlier:
   plant_surface_trees, because they are all [SAVAGE][GOOD]or[EVIL], except giant bamboo, and help identify those biomes
   plant_surface_shrubs: mostly just the real ones. Why not others? Balance, and the need to find specific plants for spellcrafts and adventurecraft things.
   plant_surface_grass: just chimegrass
   creature_fish_cavern_ex: added all these vermin and the grotto shark; skipped cap grabbers; added HF layer toggles to them
   creature_fish_surface_ex: added, except the mythical goldfish
   creature_birds_surface_ex: added, and standardized animalman sizes for armor
   creatures_invertibrates_surface_ex: added, although its files are split between here and the old version of the file... messy
   creatures_entities_ex: hill dogs (dwarves) and siege turtles (mer)
   materials: added black steel and white gold; gave them to any entities that can make steel.
   ported: - Nightwings have been rendered slow learners, allowing Dark Pit civs to potentially field them as minions like they might blizzard men, ogres, and trolls.
   ported: - One- and two-humped camels given innate discipline for when they're used as mounts.
   ported: - Bumblebees can now be hived, so you can get their products for units who like them.
   NOTES: SPL/ex has a lot of other creatures that we didn't use, but can be placed into Highfantasy pretty easily on your own. Will note this on the "compatibility" page of the OP.
Interactions: Increased cast timer of Invisibility to Once a week in fort mode, once an hour in adventure mode. This effects Oni, Stalkers, Skelk, Lesser Imps, faerie dragons, all 4 genie types, and all Shadow Lineage caste creatures; but...
Interactions: Removed Invisibility from Lesser Imps, Faerie Dragons, and Genies due to the above.
Interactions: the game-ending megabeast now has Cave-in Dust, usable a little less than once a day in fort mode.
Interactions: changed any reference to the old spellcrafts school names in the interactions of spell essences to the new school names. did not bother changing the names in the SYNDROMEs, only in the CE_CAN_DO_INTERACTIONs.
Interactions: added "slab recording" for shadowmancy secret because it's more fun, even if it seems like some super dark magic
Interactions: rewrote the code for polymorphy reactions so that in addition to keeping your gender when used on a humanoid creature, it will also now work by default on other creatures from dogs to dinosaurs to dragons. (The best part is that animalpeople are immune to polymorphy so i was able to skip adding m/f tags for all their constituent animals. Excelsior!)
Interactions:    easter egg: doppelgangers, when polymorphed, are often polymorphed to the wrong gender, due to ability to confuse the caster
Interactions: gave Cave Fish Men the magic to teach Temporary NoBreathing, a spellcrafts spell from the now-removed Furry Cave Shark creature.
Interactions: gave Cave Swallow Men the magic to teach Temporary Extravision, like the above.
Entities: amphibian men are now a 3rd selection in the "level 2" cave civilizations. This balances that fact that adding cavern screechers to the "level 1" cave civs meant there were 5 options for level 1, and only 2 options for level 2; plus, amphibian men were feeling a bit lost in the mess of the rest of the caverns.
Entities: enabled reactions for studying polymorphy (basic), cryo magic (necromancy), crafting the pyro focus, and crafting an icestorm basin to magic entities
Entities: merfolk now properly exclude animal people from their amphibian pets
Entities: human guardsmen and such are called "imperial" rather than "royal" (thanks VABritto)
Entities: re-enabled Picks for goblins (they had an alternate pick, but...forget it). Their embark profile should work again.
Entities: re-enabled sky sharks as always pet for sahuagin. Unsure when this was disabled, presumably before 1.0.0. Also added grotto sharks from SPL. (Not always present, just pet)
Entities: Because they have unique weapon philosophies, Mer and Dark gnome (creature) profession names have been updated.
Entities: dark gnome civilization now have access to hatchets for treecutting. I wouldn't count on them for combat, though... stick to the golems for that.
   By the way, you can also use the conjuring circle to conjure an aether axe, even for elves, who otherwise still have no axes.
Creatures: All elementals are now /weak/ to aetherial magic and spell-iron but highly resistant to all other damage (1/5, was 3/5). They are also generally immune to elemental damage sources, although air works on air (shock/lightning does not).
Creatures: On the other hand, all genies are now highly /resistant/ to aetherial magic. They have the same elemental damage resistances as elementals.
Creatures: Fire genies are no longer resistant to dragonfire; that seemed a bit extreme.
Creatures: Dragons, Chimeras, and Drakes - Black and Green are half as common, so together they equal the ratio of one of the three other domains
Creatures: ported spellcrafts improvement to Feedling summoning of food (no longer requires nest box)
Creatures: ported spellcrafts improvement to minidwarves now produce coins, not bars; also, they are now creature_class:dwarf which effects nothing.
Creatures: nephilim difficulty (quest xp) increased from 3 to 6
Creatures: skelk (matriarchs) and oni now have difficulty: 11 to stop them being assigned as quests in adventure mode, since they Hide.
Creatures: sahuagins now swim innate, rather than learned; this was an oversight.
Creatures: Hybrids now join Lizal and others as not creature_class:general poison, giving a huge advantage against poisons.
Creatures: ZM5 Resolve Breakers (formerly named Resolution Breaker, Gemini - same thing) now have a psionic attack but are also now weak again lucid iron, just like other psi creatures
Creatures: Behirs moved to cavern layer 2; was 0-1
Creatures: Gnome golems are now /extremely/ weak to electricity, of the kind you might find breathed out of blue draconic things
Names/Descriptions: the three Dementia bosses are now unified by a naming convention, "hollow one" instead of "hollow" (1 word dementia creatures are minions).
   this also gave the opportunity to restore ZM5's chosen name to the "Dessicated (One)"; was "Assemblage" in 1.0.01
   Also confirmed that all three spawn in groups of just one... get it?
Names/Descriptions: Added descriptions to the thoughtless, sightless, and moldslaves that spawn NATURALLY to distinguish them from the summoned minions.
   In the case of moldslaves, also called them "aged" to fit goblin pet name standards, since they don't need to follow the Dementia/Eldritch naming conventions (thoughless/sightless do.)
Names/Descriptions: Crystal charger shrunk 10x and renamed to Carbuncle, which is not just a FF ip name but also a Chilean mythical creature.
Names/Descriptions: Restored the vanilla name to Green Devourers; note that devourer scorpions (aboveground) are something totally different
Names/Descriptions: Bulette is now land shark, removing an ip-based name. Behir is now lightning crawler. Things like basilisk are multimedia, but bulette is pretty dnd-specific. Plus, it matches sky sharks. Did you know we have sky sharks?
Names/Descriptions: Philia is now bipedal dragon, removing an ip-based name.
Names/Descriptions: Renamed goroistro to "agitator." Succubi are established fantasy creatures, as is now the balor (especially given the tolkien influence of this mod), and mariliths are from indian folklore.
Names/Descriptions: Meanwhile the underground versions of these and other demons had names changed to fit a "seven deadly sins" theme. Completed names/descriptions pass on tb_dnd_fiends.
Names/Descriptions: Ents renamed to simply Treefolk. What would you call it if a tree just up and hit you? ip-based name. (maybe we should just call them trees... hehe)
Names/Descriptions: Hybrids are renamed to chimeric hybrids, and had their color changed to be the same as necromancer failed experiments
Names/Descriptions: Eastern/Sky dragons renamed to guardian dragons... i've been looking for a new name for a while
Names/Descriptions: changed the display name for the miracle secret to channeler
Names/Descriptions: changed the secret-discovery names for nature and for shadows to differ slightly based on the sphere they were discovered through (animals/trees, birth/darkness)
Reactions: All item conjuring reactions now use TRAPPING instead of ALCHEMY, to match summoning reactions. Considering that the altar uses concentration and the bronze golem uses mechanics, this diversifies the use of skills in the fort magic system. It also makes sense given the clear purpose of the planar tome as of 1.0.0.
Reactions: The fort and adv mode reactions "attempt to create a fireball basin, fail, but have 1% chance to succeed in making a pyromancy focus" are now MUCH more player friendly by preserving reagents and discarding the milk bulb (but not the bar of ash).
Reactions: Added a reaction to adv mode which, like the failed fireball basin, attempts to transmute stone to metal but has a 4% chance to succeed in creating a light yellow diamond. (Still requires a grimoire, so not a solution to the scarcity problem).
Reactions: The fort mode reaction "exchange - aether salts" has been renamed "exchange - exotic items" and is much, much less generous now.
Reactions: moved generic disease resist + cleaning back to general from divine school
Reactions: moved unused generic earth spell to polymorphy
Reactions: pushed basins (aka, tower defense devices) back even farther in the tech tree; creating a basin now requires the consumption of a focus but is now back to 100% success (was 85)
Materials: made a bunch of changes to ensure that you can always train alchemy in the fort even if not playing with cheats and therefore unable to enable the alchemy skill manually
   the Magestaff now trains the Alchemy skill, which is important because it's not easy to enable alchemy and migrants don't necessarily arrive with it.
   the magestaff is now created through specific reactions only, at the wizard workshop, using ENCRUSTGEM and a rough gem. This also helps rebalance it as an "elite" weapon like guns.
   changed the spellcrafts building requirements to take any rough gem, not just diamonds, so that the building itself can be constructed early on...
   updated the BUILDLABOR of the conjurer's circle to TRAPPER, from ALCHEMIST, to match its reactions; the enchanting table to MECHANICS for the same reason
   ...but re-added the diamond requirement on the grimoire itself in fort mode (like in adv mode) to keep magic far back in the tech tree
   charges for the magestaff are now created through specific reactions only, at the wizard workshop, using CUTGEM and a rough gem. Gems have more uses that ever!
   these charges are always* made of aether, so aether-resistant creatures are even resistant to the spell attack of the magestaff.
   In addition to training alchemy, this addresses the fact that the Magestaff was the last remaining weapon not balanced against Sver's weapon combat values.
   *gnome "magitek" boost - dark gnomes (and angels) can still craft magestaffs and charges out of any material, and can embark with them
   for other entities, removed the magestaff and bolts as cultural weapons so they can't be made out of anything.
   Created the reactions "..STAFF" and "...SPELLBOLTS" which were defined in entities, but did not exist; added them in fort and adv mode
Materials: *drumroll please* ... crafting spellbolts now has a 1% chance to produce a faint yellow diamond, fixing the scarcity problem.
Materials: the grimoire and the spellstaff both require aether salt to create, which means little since it's free to scavenge for.
Materials: Slightly adjusted material values of foci to rise with difficulty of obtaining. You can now start ADV mode with a planar tome.
Materials: All foci can now be made from hard, soft, or metal components (for starting as a flavorful adventure mode wizard)
Materials: Removed aether-metal anvils, for balance purposes, because every civ was able to embark with them. Not every civ having access to iron/steel anvils is a core part of the DF vanilla experience.
Materials: The focus reward for killing an aetherial has been upgraded to a planar tome.
Materials: All aboveground elementals now drop an aether focus as the reward for killing them; that's a LOT of options
Materials: In a pinch, you can now make blunt attacks with a grimoire (FFXIV-style).
Materials: made cold iron effective against demon vermin
Materials: made iron (regular) effective against fey and feytouched creatures
Materials: lowered drakes' item values from 7 to 3, since chimeras are only a 4x
Bugs: Duplicate creatures - deleted EX coconut crabs and spider crabs, and VVV version of centipedes. There's... not really rhyme or reason to it.
Bugs: Duplicate plants - deleted VVV cloudberry, since adventurecraft already fleshes out the vanilla cloudberry plant
Bugs: great dragon, drake, chimera, philia - added "no heatdam" to materials to hoepfully stop red dragons from spontaneously melting
Bugs: fixed some remaining bugs with entity positions leaders. Many thanks to VABritto who documented the needed changes thoroughly.
Bugs: fixed a bug that stopped succubi from SENSE-ing potential mates, then corrected that same line of code where I had copied it to Lamias
Bugs: fixed multiple Spellcrafts bugs related to CE_SENSE_CREATURE_CLASS using "START" as the class improperly
Bugs: fixed errors preventing the inclusion of lorises; they're back.
Bugs: fixed a bug causing the dementia indoctrination spell to be un-usable
Bugs: death-dropping of foci was actually broken on most creatures because of the vanilla bug preventing butchering of sentients. Fixed them to dissappear into smoke and leave the focus behind, except for the chimeras and hollow.
Code Cleanup: Annihilator's calling interaction moved from ZM5 to HF text file
Code Cleanup: Removed unused ZM5 lurks below/cavern revamp minions from the raws. There was nothing to spawn them anyway. Keep this in mind if manually adding back in other lurks below / cavern revamp creatures.
Code Cleanup: Removed unused ZM5 file "inorganic_cavern_revamp_zm5"
Code Cleanup: Split off all the real-world animals from creature_highfantasy into creature_highfantasy_animals

v1.1.1
Code Cleanup: Note! even though most Creature Classes from mods are underused, never remove them; simply add the right one and mix compatibility as needed. You never know when someone will suddenly decide to make "creature_class:beetle" matter...
Code Cleanup: NON-FUNCTIONAL creature class additions:
   3 spelldivine creatures are now ccCelestial
   gorgons are now cchumanoid and ccMONSTROUS_HUMANOID
   5 creatures in SPELL_ACHWURM are now ccOUTSIDER, as are 2 in SPELL_EXTRADIMENSIONAL
   ice and vacuum elementals are no longer ccSPELL_FEY
   lizardmen are now ccLIZARD
   unicorn and pegasus are now ccGOOD
   chimeric hybrids, failed hybrids, and chimeras are now ccHYBRID. griffons already were.
   nymphs are now ccWATER_ELEMENTAL like neriads, oriads
   golems are now ccMECHANICAL_ZM   ccCONSTRUCT
   ZM5 border of hell vermin (3) got ccDEMON_PET and ccFIEND; hell hounds got ccDEMONIC_ZM; soul wisps got ccDEMON_PET
Code Additions: FUNCTIONAL creature class additions:
   3 spelldivine creatures are now ccHOLYIMMUNE and 2 others are now ccFIEND
   the underworld versions of tb_dnd_fiend s and cr hell vermin are ccTURNIMMUNE, this stops them from being hurt by antievil bolt; they are "stronger" because they've been in hell. Explains why antievil bolt doesn't work on vanilla demons.
   siege weapins and gnome golems and many spellcrafts creatures are ccNORAISE
   carbuncles, like ungifted humans, are ccMAGIC_IMMUNE
   resolve breakers are now ccPSYIMMUNE
   gargoyles are no longer ccELEMENTAL, but keep earth advantages
   lorises and lemurs are now ccMONKEY
   toads, skales, and skelk are now ccAMPHIBIAN
   vacuum (spellcrafts air) elementals are now ccINCORPOREAL, like tb_dnd ones
   water and air (tb_dnd) elementals are now ccINORGANIC, like spellcrafts ones
   faerie dragons are no longer ccMONSTER
   dryads (spellcrafts) are now ccNATURE_ZM, ccFEY, and ccSPELL_PLANTSHROOM, and ccHUMANOID for good measure
   mushroom men (spell), cactus men (HF), treefolk, walking gingko, and tanglethorn are now ccNATURE_ZM and ccSPELL_PLANTSHROOM
   ZM5 cavern plant creatures are now ccSPELL_PLANTSHROOM; they and cavern mold creatures are also ccNATURE_ZM
   VVV creatures with ccCARNIVORE_MAMMAL are now also ccLIKES_MEAT
   air beast (spell) is ccINORGANIC, ccAIR_ELEMENTAL, and ccGAS, but not incorporeal; they are also the new only ccAIR_IMMUNE.
   water elemental things are now both ccCOLDIMMUNE ccCOLD_IMMUNE
   air elemental things are now both ccSHOCKIMMUNE ccLIGHTNING_IMMUNE
   fire elemental things are now both ccFIREIMMUNE and have MAGMAVISION (earth elemental things were already ccPETRIFYIMMUNE)
   fey things are no longer ccGENERAL_POISON, are ccACIDIMMUNE
   planetouched creatures are now straight up immune to a school of magic
      "tieflings" to pyromancy (although taking a rock of magma to the face still hurts)
      "aasimar" to divine magic and lightning
      "feytouched" to polymorphy, acid, and poison (but still GENERAL_POISON)
      "shadowtouched" to dementia magic, but not to the full dark magic of the eldritch creatures
      "genasi" to ALL aetherial magic PLUS the elemental magic school they are associated with
      "drow" are resistant to aetherial magic but not immune
     ---Interactions and/or Inorganics:
   ghoul poison (tb dnd) now also does not effect [SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS:GOLEM][SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS:INORGANIC][SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS:MECHANICAL_ZM]
   ZM5 petrifying gas now does not effect ccPETRIFY_IMMUNE
   spell_aetherial_sense_auras can also properly sense poison-dragon things, which would otherwise have been overlooked. It's possible poison dragons are immune to some other reactions they shouldn't be; will watch this over time.
   many materials in many inorganic_spellcrafts: added magic_immune and aether_immune (and 2 shadow_immune) as necessary
   many interactions in interaction_spellcrafts_sch_d: added ccpoly_immune as immune for poly reactions
   antievil bolts are no longer effective against eldritch creatures nor shadowtouched lineages, but do now hit spellcrafts undead
   noraise as an immunity class to: shadow raise, all spellcraft reanimations, eldritch/mold raise from cavern revamp/lurksbelow
   other additions of sensible resisting classes to the interactions themselves, generally such that holy can't hit holy, etc
      dementia wizard school is considered "weak" eldritch magic; shadow can block shadow but can't block dementia
     ---Entirely New:
   new class:    [SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS:SHADOW_IMMUNE]   specific to dementia magic
      creatures: dark dweller, shadow lineages
      spells: dementia spells
   new class:    [SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS:POLY_IMMUNE]      specific to polymorph magic
      creatures: dryad, nymph, oread, neriad, pixie, faerie, will o' wisp, faerie dragon; animalpeople CVs; underground animal people; carp men
      spells: polymorphy spells
   new class:    [SYN_IMMUNE_CLASS:HORROR_IMMUNE]   specific to eldritch attacks
      creatures: NONE (cannot add a creature class via syndrom
      spells: Annihilator dust, burning pain, sightless transformation, thoughtless infection, others

[VABritto]

Reporting bug: In [ENTITY:PLAINS], [POSITION:hf_LORD] should have the tags [APPOINTED_BY:hf_START] [SUCCESSION:BY_POSITION:hf_HEIR]

[kiiranaux]

Hotfix'd! Thanks for catching that early, before the weekend download rush! haha

[VABritto]

Hotfix'd! Thanks for catching that early, before the weekend download rush! haha

Glad to help! This will be fun! As always I did some personal modifications for RP purposes (I sent you a message with them in case you find them interesting), but will mostly be playing mod-vanilla, because your mod is pretty much how I always wanted to play DF lol

[VABritto]

I am RPing that the Imperial Legate writes an annual report given to the Imperial Emissary when he visits. As such, I am writing a log of sort with things that were done. Here is what I have so far:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yearly Legationary Report for the Outpost of Feywreath.

In the 46th year of the reign of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Inbew of the House of Huram,

Granite. Feywreath was founded. I Tesgenatha Izroshkofi, Legate of His Imperial Majesty, have been tasked with overseeing the settling of this new colony and give proper support and council to whoever the Faywreathians decide to rule over them as Lord. As of now, however, there is little talk of Lordship. The initial settlers are 7, including myself. Messrs. Ulek Lesec, Ujozom Wumolcescu and Cobsit Olourwawko, as well as Mmes. Last Uzustrubgano, Heg Ejatihurultisnastha and Matug Pocwut. The first order of business was to build a simple hall for shelter and to store food, as well as to start building barrels to properly store everything we need. We have brought with us two lions, two rhinoseros and two waterbuffalos, each a couple, as well as three sheep, three turkeys, three pigs and a cat. Feywreath Castle will be set on top of a steap cliff facing south to the valley below in the Depressed Lowland. Up North we have a small river. We are three days travel from the nearest settlement of our people, the Hamlet of Pertinenceplaited. Our closest human neighbours are under the jurisdiction of the vile and thieving Emperor Acsutdusha of the House of Hashestrok, over a day's travel from here. Closer still are many Goblin settlements that surround the countryside. For now we do not have any contact with them, but I am weary of not having any walls set up for our defense. I have talked to the settlers and they too seem worried at our current state. We plan on building walls as soon as possible around this high hill. I have taken upon myself the task of the village carpenter, making all the wooden furnature and utilities that Faywreath needs. Mrs. Last is digging a channel to the river and we intend to make an artificial well fed by said channel. I am building wooden mechanisms to control the floodgates that will keep the water under control.

Slate. Mmes. Heg and Matug were attacked by an alligator and were seriously wounded. Mrs. Heg would have probably been killed if one of our lions didn't rescue her and dispatched the monster. This land is full of ferocious creatures, we have even spotted giant ants wandering about. The faster that we create the wall and have a Lord to organize the defenses, the better.

Legate Tesgenatha was killed by an alligator in the end of the month of Slate. I, Ulek Lesec, take his charge as temporary Imperial Legate. When the Emissary arrive I will speak to him of who will substitute Mr. Tesgenatha. Most of our folk are wounded, for a great band of alligators poured through the lands attacking everyone in its wake. My main job has been to gather the wounded and tend to them, although my situation is precarious. The only ones that are in any shape to help me are Mr. Cobsit, who's responsibility is to forage for food, and Mrs. Last, who is still working on our well.

Hematite. As determined by the Imperial Emissary, I will resume now officially the functions of Legate Tesgenatha. I have given him the report made by myself and my predecessor. From Hematite onward I will continue writing the report to be given next year this month.

Malachite. Five migrants have arrived. The elderly Mr. Ismu Omaramsod and his son Horun Hurcata, together with Horun's wife Budungamarop Ethridomongub, as well as Mmes. Konom Mushcarospocpuki and Rolsu Eshrelist. This brings our population up to 11 souls. I have welcomed them to our outpost and have assigned them functions. We will need all the hands we can get. After a while I sat with them and asked them of their history. Mr. Ismu is a man of venerable age, having been born 86 winters ago. He is of a warrior disposition and does not seem to care much for intellectual conversation. His son Horun shows more of an interest in that sort of thing and has more refined manners. Father and son seem very different from one another, from mannerisms, worldview and even eye color (Ismu has tawny colored eyes while Horun's are blue), but both seem to equally have an air of coldness to them that is hard to explain. Mr. Ismu went on to say that he used to be the Sergeant of Heapclonks before migrating here, confirming my first impression of him. There he met Legate Bonena Odoocon, Horun's mother. He did not talk much about her, it seems their relationship didn't go much further. Horun himself has also seen combat, having fought in the glorious assault on Infidelityedges, that devilish goblin fort having being pillaged by him and other soldiers. His wife Budungamarop is of noble blood, having been the heiress to the lordship of the hamlet of Latitudinalcelery. She gave up her inheritance to marry Mr. Horun and come to Feywreath. Mrs. Konom had a hard life, having been enslaved by the Goblins and having to resort to criminal activities to survive at times. She is not one to talk much, but the little she did say seemed dark. I did not press her further on the matter. She seems to be a friend of Mrs. Budungamarop, having come from the same hamlet. Mrs. Rolsu has previously been a Legate for the hamlet of Skillgallstone and has chosen to come to Feywreath to help in the colonization efforts.

I suggested to the settlers that Mr. Ismu be made Lord over Feywreath, mainly because of his military experience and the fact he has an Heir already present and living with us. Given how badly we need protection in these parts, nobody argued against it. And so I confirm with my Imperial Authority that in the 46th year of the reign of Inbew, in mid Malachite, the Feywreathians have chosen Ismu Omaramsod and his House for the Lordship of this Outpost. His first order of business was to prioritize the construction of the reservoir for our well and nominated Mrs. Rolsu as outpost Physician to tend to the wounded. He also ordered the burial of Legate Tesgenatha, who we haven't been able to bury all this time because of lack of manpower.

Galena. As the well is going fast underway, Lord Ismu ordered the construction of a smithy and mandated the production of gauntlets. Legate Tesgenatha was finally buried, I took care of the matter myself.

Limestone. The well was inaugurated. It is divided into three parts. A deep hole was dug in the ground on Feywreath Hill, until it got under ground level to the river. Then a tunnel was dug through all the way to the river. A floodgate was placed on the mouth of the river-side tunnel entrance, to control exactly when water can enter the tunnel. Another floodgate was placed on the midsection for safety. Finally a third floodgate was placed near the entrance to the well. Before the well's entrance's floodgate and the mid-tunnel floodgate we constructed two large reservoirs, each with floodgates attached to them so as to store a good amount of water in case we ever need to keep the river entrance closed. After the reservoir was filled to the brim, its floodgates were closed. With the tunnel itself full, we closed the river entrance. Lord Ismu wishes that it is only open when we actually need to replenish our water supply, preventing any strange creature to enter through the river tunnel. The Lord then ordered us to remove all access we can to the hill top, and build two great gates as the only entrances. All trees near the hill are to be chopped off and a road built around it to prevent new trees from growing anytime soon.

[VABritto]

Reported Bug: When I go to the military screen there is a "Lord" squad for some reason. When I click 'c' on top of it (the option does not appear, I just tried it), the game crashed. Not sure why. I tried it twice and it happened both times, so it is reproducible. How-To: Appoint a Lord > Go to Military Screen > Go to the squad named "Lord" > Press 'c'

[kiiranaux]

I am writing a log of sorts with things that were done

This is so cool! I also love doing things like this. Excited to see more of your writing.
"Legate Tesgenatha was killed by an alligator in the end of the month of Slate. I, Ulek Lesec, take his charge as temporary Imperial Legate." 

Lord squad bug

I'll start looking into this. It's interesting that the lord is given a squad; one is not created in the code. It's possible there is another tag that causes the position to automatically generate a squad. Anyway, in the meantime, advise not to use the lord squad, and it's not intended anyway!

[Chbost]

Hello! Love the mod and playing as the Nagas
I have come across what I believe to be some bugs. Nagas are unable to make the Harpoon Guns, this due to the harpoon guns requiring STEEL stocks, while producing "STEEL STOCKS" it can only be made out of wood, checking for example the Details allows for setting the materials as wooden materials, this makes Nagas unable to assemble the harpoon guns since the stock that comes out is a "Cedar Stock" rather than a steel stock.

This can be due to in the raws? (I am not a raw wizard)
[REACTION:STEEL_STOCK]
   [NAME:make steel stock]
   [BUILDING:GUN_FORGE:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [BUILDING:GUN_MAGMA:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [REAGENT:log:1:WOOD:NONE:NONE:NONE]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_STOCK_L:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:log:NONE]
   [SKILL:FORGE_WEAPON]
   [FUEL]
   [CATEGORY:STOCK]


It is set as LOG here whilst the reaction

[REACTION:MAKE_HARPOON_GUN]
   [NAME:make steel harpoon gun]
   [BUILDING:WORK_BENCH:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [REAGENT:lock:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_SPRINGLOCK_L:METAL:STEEL]
   [REAGENT:stock:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_STOCK_L:METAL:STEEL]
   [REAGENT:barrel:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_BARREL_L:METAL:STEEL]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_AIRGUN:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:barrel:NONE]
   [SKILL:FORGE_WEAPON]
   [CATEGORY:SPRINGS]

I think this calls for a metal stock?

Nagas are also unable to produce the Harpoon ammo. As they do not appear to have the reaction to make it available to them in the entity files. I think they need the following reaction [PERMITTED_REACTION:HARPOON]

Also Nagas appear to be unable to produce many of the coral crafts and weapons available to the MER in the reaction_highfantasy file. Their only permitted reactions regarding coral stuff/relating to the aquitects workshop is

-SI-   [PERMITTED_REACTION:FLOTSAM]
-SI-   [PERMITTED_REACTION:JETSAM]
-SI-   [PERMITTED_REACTION:naga_CORAL_BLOCKS]

This may be what you intended, that the Mer have access to the coral crafts/furniture/weapons and not the Naga, but since the Naga has the Aquitects workshop aswell it could be an interesting idea to include even the Naga in accessing those reactions.

Made an account just to say thank you for this cool mod (first post) And maybe help out some with a bug report.

-Best Wishes: Chbost

[kiiranaux]

Naga are unable to assemble STEEL stocks

You're completely correct, this is a bug. Luckily everyone can fix this without any damage to their worlds! Simply go into your raws in the SAVE file (must be the raws specific to your save!) and change the 2 lines

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[REACTION:STEEL_STOCK]
   [NAME:make steel stock]
   [BUILDING:GUN_FORGE:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [BUILDING:GUN_MAGMA:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [REAGENT:log:1:WOOD:NONE:NONE:NONE]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_STOCK_L:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:log:NONE]
   [SKILL:FORGE_WEAPON]
   [FUEL]
   [CATEGORY:STOCK]

to

[REACTION:STEEL_STOCK]
   [NAME:make steel stock]
   [BUILDING:GUN_FORGE:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [BUILDING:GUN_MAGMA:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [REAGENT:A:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:STEEL]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_STOCK_L:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:NONE]
   [SKILL:FORGE_WEAPON]
   [FUEL]
   [CATEGORY:STOCK]

Naga are missing the reaction to make harpoon ammo

Right again! To fix this one, you'll need to edit one of the generic reactions in your SAVE folder raws under reaction_modest_generic:

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Where it says
[REACTION:GENERIC_3]

Replace with
[REACTION:GENERIC_3]
   [NAME:make harpoon ammo]
   [BUILDING:BULLET_MINT:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [BUILDING:BULLET_MAGMA:CUSTOM_ALT_H]
   [REAGENT:metal:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:NONE]
   [PRODUCT:100:60:AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_HARPOON:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:metal:NONE][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:60]
   [FUEL]
   [SKILL:METALCRAFT]

Naga don't have access to coral craftsmaking

This one is intentional, to differentiate the civs, but just like other players, there's nothing stopping you from taking one of the other coral reactions you want to play with, and using it as GENERIC_1 or GENERIC_2. Please post here if you're having any trouble editing those reactions on the fly; there's no need for you to start a new world at this time

[Chbost]

Thank you for your quick reply!

The aformentioned fixes worked

Another problem i appear to be having is that the Forge Bayonet/Reforge Bayonet appears to be consuming the resources yet not producing the "blade" which leads me to think something might be wrong there? (Tried Steel bars + reforging copper weapons into bayonets, each time (tried 10 times in a row just be safe) reaction consumes charcoal + bar/weapon yet no output is being made) I belive i have looked at the raws and i cant find anything wrong with it under reaction_guns.


Another thing which might be a design choice or not just thought I would mention it. Played multiple Naga fortresses, the only producable "clothing" (Cloth/Silk/Yarn) is crude caps and loincloths, leading the nagas to have "Embarrasing thoughts about having the chest area uncovered" and eventually having multiple "felt humiliated dwelling upon having no shirt" which increases stress over long times. I have always put every civ member into the militia to forcewear leather crude lamellar armour to avoid this. Naga can produce tunics/all other cloting using FEATHER under clothiers shop but this is hard to come by, is this intentional?

Best Regards: Chbost

[VABritto]

This one is intentional, to differentiate the civs, but just like other players, there's nothing stopping you from taking one of the other coral reactions you want to play with, and using it as GENERIC_1 or GENERIC_2. Please post here if you're having any trouble editing those reactions on the fly; there's no need for you to start a new world at this time

This is one thing I love about DF. You can pretty much custom make your own experience the way you like it on the fly. It is the closest thing I've seen to this day to "playing make believe" in a video game.

[kiiranaux]

Forge Bayonet/Reforge Bayonet appears to be not producing the "blade"

I'm a bit stumped by this one! Are you sure the bayonets aren't being moved to a "tool" stockpile of some kind? They are tools like foci, stepladders, etc. We can do some more testing - I rebuilt Blackpowder from the ground up and I think you're the first to work on its systems.
Again, as a hotfix for your world,

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In reaction_guns,
 under REACTION:AIRGUN_BAYONET],
replace       [REAGENT:blade:1:TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_BAYONET:METAL:NONE]
with
   [REAGENT:metal:150:BAR:NO_SUBTYPE:METAL:NONE]

Played multiple Naga fortresses, the only producable "clothing" (Cloth/Silk/Yarn) is crude caps and loincloths, leading the nagas to have "Embarrasing thoughts about having the chest area uncovered" and eventually having multiple "felt humiliated dwelling upon having no shirt" which increases stress over long times. I have always put every civ member into the militia to forcewear leather crude lamellar armour to avoid this.

Ahhhhh, I think I finally know where the frostbite bug other people talked about is coming from. It's intentional but not working as intended. In the next release I'll give all the crude armor civs some kind of simple shirts and pants too. For now I recommend beating up some local GOOD guys, eh? Also I love your workaround, that does the trick too.

I love about DF. You can pretty much custom make your own experience

I could not agree more! Now, oops, I should take that, my master beekeeper is complaining that the Minidwarves are on strike again. Fort life goes on!