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[D_E]

Ok, I've finally uploaded the next WIP version.  Pets still don't work, but I think I've fixed the worst reaction problems.  I've also marked dangerous rxns with a *P*, for psychic pollution.  Because the first thing I did last time was gas one of my own workers   .

Some reactions added at the other temples.  There seems to be a problem with the bars of latent fire.  The idea is for you to use a stockpile to lay a line of 'em and they'd catch each other on fire once you ignited them.  But they don't seem to catch each other on fire.  dfprobe says the temperature in the next space is hot enough (at least, temp1 is.  temp2 is still at ambient.  not sure what that means).  Not sure what's wrong.

I've set the illithid nobles to use some of the rarer castes, in an attempt to guarantee their arrival as a reward for climbing the noble ladder.  I'm curious if it will work.  There is a free wealth generating reaction at the alter of the god-brain, which will allow you to quickly generate the wealth required to attract the nobles.

I'll post more sometime tomorrow about what all the reactions are supposed to do, and about what's supposed to show up with each level of noble, but it's almost 2am now.

[ProZocK]

Sleep is for the weak!
I jest, I jest
 

[animandan]

About to try playing as the Illithid ^_^.  I have one questing though - This will work if I put the save into a Genisis mod folder correct?  Or do I need to download the base Illithid mod and then do some crazy frankenstein stuff to get it to work with Genisis?

Edit: And yes, I see you have sort of answered this already, but I'm still a bit confused as to where exactly this is supposed to go, as I've never used a premade world before.  I put the save in a Genisis save folder, but none of the Genisis civs were there so I'm not sure if I did it correctly.

[ProZocK]

I just downloaded a fresh install of the genesis mod and put all the stuff into my save folder, it worked wonderfully, didnt have to do anything else. The civilizations from genesis are not supposed to be there I think.

[animandan]

Aww, well that's unfortunate.  Guess I'm going to have to learn some more about modding if I want to make it work, and to get the illithid graphics in Genisis to work with the civ too.

[D_E]

Hey animandan,

The illithid mod is currently WIP (work in progress), but once I get everything working in vanilla dwarf fortress I plan to do a merge with the Genesis mod.  There are a couple of frankenstein steps involved in doing that:  in particular the brain-based reactions require that intelligent creatures use a different tissue for their brain than animals do.

[D_E]

I'll post more sometime tomorrow about what all the reactions are supposed to do, and about what's supposed to show up with each level of noble, but it's almost 2am now.

Noble Levels:

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Level 1:  Illithid Outpost
outpost overseer:  outpost mind or elder brain
outpost second:  outpost mind or elder brain
outpost guard:  3 war slave (basic)
champion:  hero slave (3rd level)
tax collector:  outpost mind or elder brain
hammerer:  master or archmaster
dungeon master:  archmaster mindflayer

Level 2:  Illithid City
city overseer:  elder brain
city second:  elder brain
city councilors:  3 master or archmaster illithids
city guards:  3 war slaves, 3 adventurer slaves

Level 3:  Illithid Deephold
deephold overseer:  elder brain
deephold second:  elder brain
deephold councilor:  6 master illithids
deephold guards:  3 war slaves, 3 adventurer slaves, 3 hero slaves

Monarch: 
master overseer:  elder brain
overseer second:  elder brain
general:  slave general
astrologer:  void master mindflayer
high priest:  grigori illithid

Unfortunately, no one really knows how to get nobles.  Lots of money, roads, and lots of different types of jobs (stonecraft, metalcraft, gemcraft, woodcraft) being done the same year are supposed to help.  Requirements listed in the mod are 20, then 30, then 40 pop, several thousand coins of exports, and several tens of thousands of coins of wealth created.  Unfortunately, it looks like nobles are mainly internal appointees now, so this may not work at all .  The ones associated with the monarch may still, though?



Reactions:

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Reactions marked with a *P* create psychic pollution, which can stop the hearts of slave casts.  Use the workshop profile (Shift P) and burrow system to keep slaves away from workshops where these reactions are being used.

Library:
   use boxes of crystallized knowledge to improve the skills of your illithids.  Use workshop profile (SHIFT P) to assign workers for most of these reactions.

Altar of the god brain
   free wealth (debug rxn):  way too many bottles of sapience and some gems.  gems are reagents of different rxns
   employ spatial warp:  Your illithids can gather food from the safety of the tower.

Altar of the Black Mother
   make axe:  make an axe from a bar of metal
   invoke aberrant entity, mother stone:  create a mother stone to create more of a given type of stone.
   feed mother stone:  feed the nearest mother stone a bottle of sapience, causing it to give birth to a stone of its type.
   
Altar of the Burrowing Worm
   invoke aberrant entity, poison:  dispose of stone debris.  small chance of creating a bar of boil-able inhaled poison.
   invoke bilestone:  dispose of stone debris.  small chance of creating a casket of bilestone.
   invoke bilestone, black diamonds:  guaranteed creation of 3 bilestone caskets.

Altar of the violet flame
   invoke aberrant entity, consecrate alter:  expend 3 rubies, 1 red diamond, or 1 star sapphire to create an altar to the violet flame (item).
   invoke latent fire:  give 1 wood log to receive 1 bar of latent fire

shrine to the violet flame, construction requires an altar to the violet flame (item)
   invoke ignition fire:  give 1 wood and 1 bottle of sapience to create a bonfire.  Supposed to allow you to ignite 'fuses' made of latent fire stockpiles, which are in turn hot enough to boil the poisons obtained from the burrowing worm.  In practice, the bars of latent fire don't seem to ignite each other, even though they are hot enough.  Bit of a problem.

Altar of the enclosing sky
   invoke aberant entity (hyperaccelerator):  requires 3 star sapphires, some lapis lazuli and a ton of sapience.  Creates a telekinetic hyperaccellerator; a weapon composed of psychically levitated rings.  This weapon is too large to be wielded by basic flayers, requiring master flayers or better, and is heavy enough to slow the wielder to a crawl.  However, this weapon is powerful enough to dismember anything it hits, including megabeasts and HFS.  Not too useful against many small enemies.
   invoke rod:  ammo for the above.  Requires 3 of any purple gem, and a lot of sapience.

Smelter
   open brain jar:  extract a preserved brain from a brain jar (trade good)
   use casket of bilestone (cutting, stabbing, or blunt):  make 100 units of specified ammo from a bilestone casket.
   employ mother stone (animal caretaking):  try to coax the nearest mother stone into spawning a stone of its type.  Free reaction.


Butcher
   you can butcher intelligent creatures.

Kitchen:
   extract sapience (butchery):  Extract bottles of sapience from brain jars, brains, or corpses (brains and corpses handled by generic "extract sapience from sapient brain" reaction.
   distill brain drink (brewing):  Create an alcoholic drink from the brain of a sapient creature.