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[Agent_Irons]

I had a look at updating it by hand, and it seems...daunting? I don't have any idea what I'm doing though, so that doesn't help at all. Adding prepare:recover tags and gaits into the creature files is probably most of what you have to do? But there are also creature_variations that add punches and kicks now, so maybe it would be better to use those? I don't really know how to do that, though I am going to try after seeing if anything changed in Broken Arrow and using a tanning tweak I found to get more leather from bigger creatures.

[Agent_Irons]

I tried to update the dinosaurs. Conclusions: Not even remotely good enough at modding to even attempt an update for this.

White tigermen have moved, armor mechanics have changed, projectile physics have been totally reworked, there are gaits and morale and climbing and jumping. It's a big job, especially since the whole point of FD is to give interesting challenges.

So. Cheerleading division reporting for duty: darkflagrance! You can do it, yes you can! We like your mod on its own and as part of Masterwork! It's one of my must-haves!

But if you really don't want to or don't feel up to it, that's okay too.

[Putnam]

Morale, climbing and jumping aren't really too necessary to update. Gaits and attack prepare and recover times should be about it.

[Agent_Irons]

FD creatures have always been about testing your defenses in ways goblins don't. Steel weapons, berserkers, fliers, frogmen.

Not to mention the fact that discipline has a huge effect on the difficulty of repelling a siege now, where it didn't before. Legendary climbers will just go right over your walls, and the new entity behaviors will make having all these things in a living world of reasonable age so that you can have real history kind of tricky. FD is pretty inventive.

[Vherid]

As putnam said updating the raws really shouldn't be that big a deal other then adding a few lines in some places. I might take a look myself.

[SalmonGod]

Has anybody tried updating this yet?

[Legionaries]

I really like this mod.  I think it makes the game much more fun for me. 
I hope you don't have too much difficulty updating it to the new version - I plan to play the raws off of it once it is working.

This was the very first mod I ever installed - and is still my favorite.

[Aquathug]

Definitely my favorite and the only mod I use. I'm holding off playing .40 until this is updated

[SalmonGod]

Alright, this is definitely the most I've looked into any creature modding, but I read up on the relevant tokens carefully before messing with them.  If anyone has any further suggestions or finds any problems, I'll see about tending to them.  This is completely untested at the moment.

Now I'm going to throw this on top of Modest Accelerated Mash and see what happens

Download Link:  Fortress Defense 2014

Spoiler: Changelog (click to show/hide)

-Removed speed tags and implemented gaits.
-Switched all the body types over to the 2014 necked versions.
-Gave every creature's natural attacks prepare and recover times.
-Gave every creature a natural discipline skill, and removed all NOFEAR tokens.
-Gave the snakemen CANNOT_JUMP and a couple other such individual adjustments I can't remember right now, but they're things that seemed similarly appropriate.

I didn't put a ton of thought into the values used.  I just did what sort of made sense on the fly. 
For gaits, I just copied values straight from the notes/gaits file, because I couldn't find any reference detailing what each individual value in the string represented.
For the attack prepare/recover times, I just went with the standard 3:3 for everything but kicks that most humanoid creatures have, with some minor variations that seemed appropriate.
For discipline values, I gave higher values according to the level of militarization or ferocity/hatred in the race's culture.  Wilder, more opportunistic creatures received lower values.

The only files modified were creature_fdbonus, creature_fdchallenge, and creature_fortdefense.  As far as I'm aware, these adjustments to the creature raws were all that was needed to make compatible with .40

[Agent_Irons]

Thanks mate. Watch out, the ferric elves have a couple personality traits that are out of date. Also there are some START_GROUP_NUMBER tokens that are different now? That's what the errorlog is complaining about, at least. Worldgen seems to work, so. BABY STEPS, MAN.

[SalmonGod]

I had actually never noticed the error log before... thanks for the pointers.  I'll have a look at them.

Edit:

-Removed or updated some defunct personality and entity tokens.  Nothing shows up in the error log now.
-Also removed the minimod that was previously packaged with the archive, since I imagine it also needs some updating, but doesn't seem worth the effort.  There are other mods already released for .40 that aim to clean up and optimize the game without removing content.  You'd be better off applying Fortress Defense to one of those.

Download Link:  Fortress Defense 2014 r2

I'm wondering what aspects of the personality/ethics systems were updated in .40 that FD isn't taking advantage of now.  I'll probably be looking into that soon.

[Agent_Irons]

The whole dwarf soul/mind got overhauled in a big way, so the more intelligent foes probably need their minds updated too. I have no idea what the details of that are like.

[samanato]

You might also want to mod in discipline skills for civ races (and some other things like megabeasts) until morale is hopefully fixed.  It also helps invaders not run away at the first attack.

[Agent_Irons]

You might also want to mod in discipline skills for civ races (and some other things like megabeasts) until morale is hopefully fixed.  It also helps invaders not run away at the first attack.

He did that, according to the changelog. Well. To the FD races and things, anyway. Tweaking the vanilla raws is something I do a lot, but it's a personal preference thing and therefore probably appropriate to leave up to the user.

(I put [SHELL] on chitin and scale, and [HORN] on nails. sometimes I put [pearl] on feather, but mostly they're just useless. Anesthetize the bones down to 30 and sensitize the organs up by 10-15 points each. )

[SalmonGod]

Yeah, I added natural discipline skills.  I also noticed afterwards that raising Bravery as a racial personality trait has a similar effect, but I don't know right now exactly how the two methods compare.

I was on vacation last week, and back to the grind today.  So updating the personalities/ethics of the FD races is definitely something I want to do, but I can't say when I'll get around to it.  I'll admit upfront that I'm wildly inconsistent when it comes to making progress on personal projects as long as I'm working a full time job and dealing with my family every day.