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#1: Put the Alarm Siren in the Military Garrison, it fits and is one buildings less.

#1: Keep the Alarm Siren seperate, I want to have it near my other levers.

#2: I have traded with Gnomes, build Artificer and Weather Control Station.

#2: I have NOT traded with Gnomes, did not have the chance to build their buildings.

[BigD145]

also, are you including the latest versions of falconne's construction helper and search plugins? they're absolutely fantastic =D

These plugins are now in one bundle, so updating is a bit easier if you're doing it yourself (for Windows at least), which you probably should since the update schedule between falconne and meph are different. http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7248

[arclance]

also, are you including the latest versions of falconne's construction helper and search plugins? they're absolutely fantastic =D

These plugins are now in one bundle, so updating is a bit easier if you're doing it yourself, which you probably should since the update schedule between falconne and meph are different. http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7248

I have to build the plugins myself for the Linux version, I will try to keep them as up to date as I have time for.
The version of the plugins is listed in the Linux instructions in the Manual.

The search plugin will be updated to the version released today when the next couple of bug fixes are released for Dwarf Therapist.

[mensrea]

Meph: could not think of anything new to put in, per pole. Everything seems complete in those regards.

Regarding races though, it would be nice if the clanky steam powered automatons didnt have the ability to ambush, and perhaps came with slightly bigger armies during siege. As it is, my rifledwarves mow these guys down as fast as they pop up. They never even get a chance to take a shot. Maybe even an extra tier or two of them would help, like a clockwork golems or juggarnauts.

On the topic of rifles, is there anyway to make them more difficult to build and give them the ability to shoot further? Can heat damage be added to bullets and cannonballs? Maybe via a syndrome that has the same effect as causing burns?

[Torrasque666]

In response to the new poll I would prefer more graphic guides for the industry, such as what exactly goes in to making some of these new items and the skill necessary.

[Meph]

Damn it, I wrote a long answer for everyone, then the forum had some timeout problem-something and its all gone.

In short: All is noted, humans have steel, tin ore increase sounds reasonable, animal materials got a heavy buff with specific shell/chitin/scale upgrade, remember that drakes can be sheared for unlimited scales, you dont need to butcher them, metalworking-guide and/or industry-guide is noted, although it will be horrible to keep updated once I change something. Ambush removed from automatons, which will result in bigger sieges already, heat damage cant be added to bullets, not like this. Shooting further also wont work, is limited by the dwarven view-range. Natural snipers have a higher view range btw, falconnes plugins will be updated, so will the therapist. And the new creatures are absolutely beautiful, all fantastic monsters with very well done descriptions, 70 above ground, 130 in the caverns, 11 megabeasts, all with sprites.

@Godlysockpuppet: A dining room is not a critical area.
@Fairin: Not everyone likes flat volcano embarks and goes straight for adamantine. People actually do evil-glacier stuff and things like that. If you like easy, play the starters world.

And last point: I got an answer from Talvieno about his random creature script. I integrated it into the GUI, so you can make 10-1000 procedually generated cretures for each world you do. Ascii tiles, not sprites, but still... this is huge. They even form civs... so you might get invaded by "onendurine": A tiny, brown-eyed quadruped with large eyes to penetrate the darkness and two long eyestalks. It likes to gnaw on old bones and is very intelligent.. with a random assortement of armor and weapons. Or any other mix of creature parts you can think of.

AND THANKS @ SAYKE. Got the pngs.

[Godlysockpuppet]

@Godlysockpuppet: A dining room is not a critical area.

Hehe I often make my entire fort based around the dining area so to me it is Especially when the most epic battles take place there. (It's usually right at my entrance) Beer and blood anyone?

[sayke]

@meph - am working on the rest of the sprites real quick here. do you want to email me the new ones so i can get crackin' on those?

also, with respect to worldgen settings - i would urge you to include a relatively standard medium-large one that's big enough for all the non-fortress-defense civs to coexist in simultaneously, along with a necrotower or two, without getting in gnarly fights or wiping each other out!

i've made one for myself but i'm still fine-tuning it... i like to have a warm woodland 5x4 embark with a stream, that's flat except for one corner, which should be on a higher z-level.  a few soil layers, marble about 15z down, and a magmapipe somewhere on the map if possible, are also nice =D with my worldgen settings i can pretty reliably find that!

[kamikazi1231]

Thank you for removing automaton ambush. It never felt right that those clunkers could sneak up. I look forward to meeting them on the field and sending them to whatever hell Armok has ready for them. I think the idea of automaton juggernauts is a good idea as well. Possibly even flying mount "airships" to really make my walled fortress fear the clanking army over the horizon.

[firons2]

You just hear faint clunking at night in the statue garden... Faint squeaking of a wheel... A strange noise... Bang bang bang!

[Meph]

People always had problems with it, so I fixed it:


One colony of silkmoths gives 3 coocoons, every 2 weeks. These can be boiled in the kitchen to extract the silk, gives 2 units of silk for each cocoon. That means 1 hive = 48 units of silk each year.

[Puddingkuchen]

• I found some relics and I am now the proud owner of a ≡volcanic chopping axe≡ and a +runic volcanic pick+
• The War Elephants came to my fortress with crossbows and swords but dropped them as soon as they entered the map
• I made a legendary lasher with the Creature research study and it showed as Legendary Halberdier
• turning transformation messages off still gives you the box but doesn't pause

[Firehawk45]

Damnit, now i will have to learn how to properly use beekeepers.... worse, i will have to let those beekeeper-immigrants live "shivers"

What kind of stuff can you mod in this way? Everything or is it limited? As in, can i have a hive full of slaves producing ore?

[slay_mithos]

1 hive could fully cloth multiple dwarves, that's kind of good, but the number could be cut to 2 cocoons every other week, that would lower the number of stuff produced as a whole, while remaining a good source of silk.

I say that because silk remains a quality product, and you can already make cloth out of underground and aboveground plants, so having an easy way to mass produce it is a little destructive to the industry.

Well, that said, I do abuse the steel trees, so talking about balance might not be good coming from me.

[A Dwarf]

Is there a way to turn off the Carp god stuff? They keep immigrating to me in the first waves and poop all this brown stuff everywhere

[Tally]

but at least it's worth 120k at least everything nasty will come knocking on the door now.

FixedThatForYou

Hey, speaking of. GOBLIN AMBUSH! Managed to kill about 8 or 9 of my dwarves, partly because I was too lazy to burrow everyone. Sent my military, as poorly equipped as they were by lack of armor, to meet them at the gates and drove them off.

I'll have to wall off my treefarms, I think.

Edit: Also my dwarves have decided that butchering and eating the fallen goblins is okay. Guys, help me, I think I'm running an elven fortress.