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[Pathos]

What Is Kobold Camp?
Kobold Camp is playing Dwarf Fortress as, you guessed it, kobolds. It was originally started as the brain child of a /tg/ thread ( archive link to the thread ). ( See, 4Chan does contribute positively sometimes! )

There's also a thread on these forums dedicated to the old version. The only real reason to read it is because it's bloody hilarious. Link here.

As a general thing, you build your camp above ground, as it'd be called Kobold Warren otherwise!

Why The Hell Would I Want To Play That?!
Despite the fact that kobbs are much weaker, much smaller and incapable of many more jobs than dwarves ( and trust me, this makes it a lot more difficult ), they're also adorable and it's really rewarding to raise a bunch of these weaklings into a decent camp. You will notice a great deal of difficulty due to lack of trading, lack of a lot of "essential" professions etc etc.

Okay, Then, What Now?
New version up as of 06/04! Go download it here: [Download Link]

Changelog

Spoiler: 0.3 ALPHA (click to show/hide)

• Gave kobbs more nobles, including military and religious ones.
• Allowed kobbs to do more interesting things during world gen, although that mainly amounts to them getting slaughtered in the hundreds.
• Due to popular demand, changed ITEM_THIEF in the kobold's entity file to BABYSNATCHER and gave the ITEM_THIEF tag to elves. This also means that goblins trade with kobbs.
• Integrated Deon's Dangerous Mining and Chariot's Botany and Angler Mods.
• Added the ability to make weapons from chert.
• Made goblins a bit more fecund.

Spoiler: 0.21 ALPHA (click to show/hide)

• Added a variety of weapons to the kobolds. All, except slings, are [CAN_STONE].
• Kobbs can make and use slings.

Spoiler: 0.2 ALPHA (click to show/hide)

• Added in fur, fur bedding and a workshop to make the bedding in, thanks to lofn.
• Added in a good chunk of nobles to kobbs in the civ file, thanks to Kaelem Gaen.

[spoiler=0.165 ALPHA]

• Added a toy to the kobold's toymaking, and changed their meals to be more... Fitting.

Spoiler: 0.16 ALPHA (click to show/hide)

• Added [INTELLIGENT] and [CAN_SPEAK] to kobolds in an attempt to alleviate them of butchering each other.
• Added "choppers", which are woodcutting devices you can make from stone.

Spoiler: 0.15 ALPHA (click to show/hide)

• Made kobolds civ and indiv controllable.
• Made kobolds more prolific in terms of children born, and age at which children grow up. Found the relevant size-increase. Can anyone point me to anything else that changes based on age?
• Added a bunch of jobs to the kobold's civ identity. ( Carpenter, bowyer, woodcutter, brewer, fisherman, fish cleaner, cook, bone setter, suturer, surgeon, trader, architect, hunter, leatherworker. )
• Added the ability to tan leather to the kobold's civ identity.
• Added shovels, to enable kobolds to mine.

NOTE on my Version Changes: A change in 0.0x is significant ( you should probably switch over ) , a change in 0.x0 is gamechanging and a change in 0.00x is not really worth changing to.

Contributors / Special Thanks
Kaelem Gaen - Contributed land owning and military nobles.
Lofn - Made fur and fur beds for the new version! Good stuff! Also made the idea for silver / lead poisoning due to mining.
Deon - Allowed me to steal silver / lead poisoning from his mod. Download his amazing mods here.
Chariot - Allowed me to integrate his amazing mods into this one. Download his wide variety of brilliant mods here.
Warlord255 - Provided the numbers on how to make weapon-able stones.

Additional Info
Well, this is the initial Kobold Camp release for DF2010 ( 0.31.01 ). Any requests for features / features that you've created that I should include?

More random stuff to be put in the better acquainted I get with the new tags.

Cutebolds = Awesome

[Volatar]

Why don't you include a description of what Kobold Camp is?

[Pathos]

Why don't you include a description of what Kobold Camp is?

Done!

[roqi]

I believe that we need leaders, monarchs, etc. Could call him a Shaman, perhaps?
In my copy, I'm gonna make biting the primary attack method, as it seems more appriopiate for Cutebolds. Speaking of Cutebolds - needs graphics ported.

Also, I keep getting this at worldgen:
No controllable entity definitions available
What do?

[Meanmelter]

My Kobbies will be staying underground FOREVER! fuck sunlight. They will more than Likely die by some angry ant Civilization, only ran into one that was VERY happy with my 'works'

[Ampersand]

With the new options we have for custom buildings and reactions, and caste types, I think Kobold Camp ought to be throughly expanded upon. Mostly for flavor , but there are a lot of uses for these things that could make it more Kobold Campish.

[Pathos]

New version up!

With the new options we have for custom buildings and reactions, and caste types, I think Kobold Camp ought to be throughly expanded upon. Mostly for flavor , but there are a lot of uses for these things that could make it more Kobold Campish.

I can't make head or tails on the caste system, but I agree entirely on this.

A few of my ideas for the future:
- A big version of the kobolds for monarchs, maybe gender neutral and unbreedable. It depends if this is possible or not.
- A fur / leather bed maker's shop, using the new custom workshops. Shouldn't be too difficult.
- Working out the individual nobles and seeing how to use them. My ideas are to use shamans as priests ( should we have gods or use [POWERS]? ), mayors as Chieftains and the big bad boys as the aforementioned leaders.

Also, I keep getting this at worldgen:
No controllable entity definitions available
What do?

I just increased how fast kobbs breed, I don't know whether it'll help or not. Let me fire up a world.

P.S. Most of this stuff isn't really tested. Please to god inform me of bugs.

[Pathos]

Hmm.. I've just had a problem of my kobolds just standing around not doing anything ( although, I've heard that some dwarves do that, too ).

I just realised there's a lack of woodcutting tools open to kobbs, so I've thrown in choppers from the old version.

But, what has me stumped is the fact that, under labours, there's no way to get labours other to butcher the kobb. I am confused.

[roqi]

A few of my ideas for the future:
- A big version of the kobolds for monarchs, maybe gender neutral and unbreedable. It depends if this is possible or not.
- A fur / leather bed maker's shop, using the new custom workshops. Shouldn't be too difficult.
- Working out the individual nobles and seeing how to use them. My ideas are to use shamans as priests ( should we have gods or use [POWERS]? ), mayors as Chieftains and the big bad boys as the aforementioned leaders.

We are also going to need various new tools, weapons, armor, etc. made in custom workshops. Let me know if I could help with anything.
I'm gonna try and tackle the leather beds, now.

[Pathos]

We are also going to need various new tools, weapons, armor, etc. made in custom workshops. Let me know if I could help with anything.
I'm gonna try and tackle the leather beds, now.

I'll try and piece together bone armour in the current version, though.

New version uploaded, too. This one doesn't have butcherable kobbs.

[Squeegy]

Remember, people, kobbs can only dig through soil!

[Volatar]

This is rather cool looking. I think I might try it out soon.

[dbfuru]

I played Kobold Camp on the last version of DF and it was fun, there is definitely more room for improvement with DF 2010. I'll wait until this develops a bit more though before I download and I am also still checking out the new features of Dwarf Fortress.

[Kaelem Gaen]

Huh and I thought I'd have to wait longer, I'll update my Langauge thing in a bit.  I wonder if he added more symbols and words though.

-ponders-

EDIT:   Oh also, since we now have custom workshops and custom "other" reactions think we can see the return of the leather beds?
It looks like you could even set it to use/train the "Leatherworking" skill.

I saw that was already though of, I'm screwing around with reactions right now to see if I can make the bed and bed workshop.

[magikarcher]

My biggest beef with it is that it is impossible to build so many workshops, because the kobolds lack SO MANY skills. I mean seriously, they don't even have masonry?