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 Bad Munki's Fortress Mode primer // Jothan's Adventure Mode gabbing // Modding & utilities // Mind-melting combat science CURRENT RELEASE: 0.44.04 Are the important bits updated yet for v0.44.04?
 What's the good news? Toady One posted:This is another bug fix release to start the new year. A few of the bad five-second freeze/lag problems caused by the new release have been fixed, and large beasts should move off the edge of the map again. Over in adventure mode, inappropriate creatures shouldn't yell 'identify yourself' and companions should participate in conflicts as they used to, and some other issues of reputation should be solved, especially among citizens of the starting town. A real big new update???? What's new what's new what's UP
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   Chances are, when someone says “Dwarf Fortress,” they’re talking about this mode. In fortress mode, you start off with a group of seven dwarves and some relatively meager supplies and attempt to create a successful, thriving fortress. There are many things that can hinder your progress, and many ways to deal with those threats. One example would be the typical raiders that attempt to steal your supplies. They can be dealt with in any number of ways, from simply walling yourself in, to maintaining a well-trained and well-equipped military, to automatic magma-cannon land-mines. The only limit is how you decide to work within the system. What follows is, believe it or not, a brief, fairly light-weight introduction to creating a fortress. The following is written somewhat as a guide, somewhat as a tutorial, and somewhat as an LP. It assumes you have little to no knowledge of DF. This is not intended as an all-inclusive walkthrough, but it should get you to the point of at least knowing how to get around in-game and get the basics of your fortress started. If you are new to DF, you will likely find yourself with more questions than when you started out, but that’s part of the goal here: to get you to the point where you can actually formulate questions that will help you progress in the game.  The first thing you’ll need to do is generate yourself a nice, fresh world to muck about in, so from the main screen, choose choose the create new world option and you’ll find yourself looking at the following:  For the most part, the default settings are fine. If you want a larger or smaller world, more or fewer civilizations, more or less mineral ore, feel free to tweak those settings. Be aware that the larger the world, and the longer the history, the longer it will take to generate, since DF literally simulates and tracks everything from the dawn of time to the moment you begin playing. Go ahead and generate your world, and once it’s done, you should see something like this:  Hit ‘enter’ to save the world and DF will do a bunch of arcane stuff and then dump you back to the title screen. However, this time you should see a new option: “Start Playing.” Select that option, and choose “Dwarf Fortress” (that’s fortress mode), and let’s get going! The first thing you need to do is to choose your embark location. Using the arrow keys, you can move around the world and examine various locations. The right-most map shows the most zoomed-out view, the middle map shows the local region, and the left-most map shows the most zoomed-in view. Pressing tab will cycle through showing neighboring civilization, parent civilizations, an elevation map, a steepness map, and then back to the original terrain map.  For now, let’s just ignore most of that and pick a spot that seems nice. Move about the world using the arrow keys until you find a spot that has qualities similar to the list on the right in the above screenshot (temperate, at least some trees, surroundings not sinister, haunted, or terrifying, and no aquifer listed in the soil layers.) A river can be nice but is not required. Really, for your first game, choosing the perfect embark site is not all that important, since there will be plenty of other things that cause you to lose. Still, there’s no reason to abuse yourself more than is necessary right off the bat. Once you’ve found your site, hit ‘e’ to continue. If you get a warning about aquifer, salt water, or other obstacles, consider choosing a different embark site. For the purpose of completing this guide, however, we won’t get as far as running into those issues, so if you’re having trouble finding a site, you can ignore those particular warnings. There are ways to deal with these issues, of course, but they’re probably better left for a later fortress. The next screen asks you if you want to prepare for the journey carefully, or if you want to simply play now. For your first fortress, “play now” is fine, and you should end up with the proper supplies. Selecting the other option lets you change your fortress name, your group name, the starting skills your dwarves will have, the exact supplies you begin with, and so on. You can also save starting configurations if you create one you really like, and you can then choose that from the screen you’re currently at. You have arrived. After a journey from the Mountainhomes into the forbidding wilderness beyond, your harsh trek has finally ended. Your party of seven is to make an outpost for the glory of all of Monom Thum. There are almost no supplies left, but with stout labor comes sustenance. Whether by bolt, plow, or hook, provide for your dwarves. You are expecting a supply caravan before winter entombs you, but it is Spring now. Enough time to delve secure logings, ere the cougars get hungry. A new chapter of dwarven history begins here at this place, Uremerith, “Fatherlabors”. Strike the earth! Your introductory text will vary slightly depending on your generated world and starting location, but once you’re ready, press any key to continue. Congratulations, you are now playing DF! By default, the game starts unpaused, so the first thing you might want to do is mash the space bar to pause things and then have a look around. Let’s take a look at what we’ve got here:  Okay, that’s a lot to take in. On the left is your actual view into the world, on the right is the region map, and in the middle is a bit of menu to help get you started. I don’t really care so much about the overview map, so let’s hit tab a couple times and change what we see.  Okay, that’s better, I can see what’s going on now. Bear in mind you can maximize the window at any time and greatly increase your screen real estate. I’ll continue with itty bitty windows for now. So the first thing I notice is my wagon in the middle of the screen, surrounded by my hapless dwarves. It appears everything is white, and there are some mysterious b’s hanging off to the left. The down triangles are all ramps down to the next level, so I know those b’s must somehow be floating in the air over there. To look around and examine particular squares, hit ‘k’ as in loo’k’. Makes perfect sense, right? Better get used to it! Anyhow, I now have a yellow X cursor that I can move around with the arrow keys, and information about the selected square shows up on the right. Using that cursor, I discover that the reason everything is white is because it is covered in snow, that the d and the M next to my wagon are a dog and a mule respectively, and that the mysterious b’s off to the left comprise a wake of buzzards. We’ll just ignore them for now. They may attempt to pester us a bit later on but for the immediate future, they should just charge the wagon and then shy away when they get too close to any dwarves. The first thing to do is to get some mining going on. Since I seem to be on a hill top of some sort, I’ll move down a level (< and > move down and up respectively, but be aware that you have to hold shift when pressing those keys as , and . perform entirely different tasks.) Now that I can see the next level down, I’ll hit ‘d’ for designate, and then ‘d’ again to mine. Using the cursor and the enter key to start and end rectangles, I’ll mark out a small area to be dug out:  I then unpause the game and one of my dwarves will immediately run over and being digging out the area requested. I’ll just let him finish, and then we’ll move on.  Great, all done! Now, I was fortunate in that the ground I dug in to was all soil of some sort (sand, loam, clay, silt, etc.) instead of stone, so I can plant a farm directly on it. You can farm on stone, but doing so involves irrigation and is better left for later. With my new area ready to go, I’m going to build a small farm plot in one of those 2x2 rooms. We’ll need a bigger one later, but for now, it should do. To build a farm plot, first press ‘b’ for build and then ‘p’ for farm plot. Unlike designations, we set the area to be farmed by setting a size and then placing the rectangle. It starts off as a 1x1 farm, so hit ‘u’ to make it taller and ‘k’ to make it wider. Similarly, ‘m’ makes the area shorter and ‘h’ makes it narrower. Once I have the right size plot, I move the cursor into the room I want to farm and hit enter. Unpausing the game should lead to a dwarf running in and setting the area up for farming.  While he does that, let’s get some other work going. One thing we’ll need is a place for our dwarves to meet up. For that, we’ll need a table and some chairs. Normally, we’d make them out of a nice classy stone like microcline or an even classier metal like aluminum, but we haven’t even hit any stone yet, much less metal ore, so we’ll have to chop down a few trees and live like filthy elves. Moving the view back up to the wagon, we can see a few trees just begging to be cut down. Hit ‘d’ for designate and ‘t’ for trees, and then select an area containing a few of those nasty woodland foes. Someone should grab an axe and make logs of them in no time.  Of course, we need a way to do something useful with those freshly cut logs, so let’s build a carpenter’s workshop. Similar to the farm, we start off hitting ‘b’ for build, and this time press ‘w’ for workshop and then ‘c’ for carpenter’s workshop. You’ll get a cursor showing the outline of the workshop you’re going to build. Be aware when placing buildings in closed spaces that dark X’s will not be passable, while light X’s will be. It is quite possible to trap dwarves in their own workshops if you’re not careful! In this case, I’m just going to build it out in the open.  Once the workshop is where you want it, hit enter, and a materials screen will come up. All we have available is wood, so I’ll just hit enter to use wood, and then hit escape a couple times to back out of the menus. Momentarily, a dwarf runs over and constructs my workshop. Next up, we have to actually order the construction of some furniture. I’m going to start with a table, two chairs, and a couple beds to start things off. To do that, we must first view the building by pressing ‘q’ and moving the cursor close enough to the workshop to highlight it. Once highlighted, press ‘a’ to add a new order. Using the +-/* keys, move about the list of possible orders until “wooden chair” is highlighted and hit enter. Alternately, just hit ‘c’ for chair. Not all orders have shortcuts, but learning the common ones is incredibly handy. “Construct wooden chair” now shows up on the workshop’s orders. Adding the rest of the furniture in a similar fashion, we should have the following:  While those orders are being fulfilled, let’s head back downstairs and get that farm running properly. Using the ‘q’ cursor again, highlight the farm (if it’s not built yet, let the game run for a bit until it is, and then continue.) Farm crops are chosen by season. Currently, we’re in spring, so hit ‘a’ to bring up the spring menu, and use the +/- keys to highlight plump helmets, and hit enter. While we’re at it, let’s just choose plump helmets for all the other seasons, too. ‘b’, ‘c’, and ‘d’ will select the summer, fall, and winter seasons respectively. For each of those, choose plump helmets. Hit escape to back out of the menu and let the game run for a while. Moving around the map while the game is running, you should see a dwarf working the fields and another working at the carpenter’s shop. Once the carpenter is done, we need to place the furniture he’s built. To do so, press ‘b’ for build again, and then ‘t’ for table. A cursor will appear showing where you will place the table. I’ll put mine against the wall in the large room at the end of the hall. Press enter, and then enter again to select the table you wish to actually use. Then hit ‘c’ for chair, and repeat the process. Once more for the second chair, and then ‘b’ a couple times for the beds, which I will put in the room between the farm and the dining area. Escape to back out of the menus (and unpause if needed) and your dwarves should jump into action, installing the new furniture right away.  Great! We just have a few things left to do before we can call this a proper fortress. The first is to make that meager dining area a proper meeting hall. To do that, use the ‘q’ cursor to select the table we had built a minute ago. Press ‘r’ to make it a dining room, and use the +/- keys to change the size of the area. I want mine to fill the whole room, so I’ll just leave it as-is:  Press enter to confirm, and then ‘h’ to set the room as a meeting area. Now when dwarves are eating or have nothing to do, they will come here to hang out, instead of loitering about your shoddy old wagon. Okay, just a couple more things to do: booze and the military. For the first, we need a still. And for that, we’re going to need more building supplies. Chop down a couple more trees, and then, similar to the carpenter’s workshop, ‘b’, ‘w’, and then ‘l’ for “still.” I’ll put my still right outside the entrance. It would be much better to have it inside, but that’ll just have to wait until there’s space.  There it is, right outside the cave. Oh, and the snow melted! How nice, we can see the grasses and shrubs that were hiding beneath it. Once the still is constructed, highlight it with the ‘q’ cursor and add a new task (‘a’, remember?) We want to ‘b’rew a drink, so select that. If you get an alert that you need a food storage item, don’t worry: that just means you have no empty barrels or pots. Depending on what you have available, wooden barrels can be made at the carpenter’s shop, and stone pots can be made at a craft workshop (perhaps now would be a good time to take a look at all the workshop options available in the ‘b’, ‘w’ menu?) The last thing we need is a functioning military. To get that started, let’s first make a barracks. We’ll need some sort of focal point to base the barracks off of, so let’s just order up a wooden armor stand at the carpenter’s shop. Remember the ‘q’ cursor? Use it to add an order to “construct wooden ‘a’rmor stand” and once the stand is complete, ‘b’uild the ‘a’rmor stand in the empty room nearest the cave entrance.  Use the ‘q’ cursor to highlight the stand, ‘r’ to make it a barracks, and shrink the area down to just fit the available space. With that done, we’re now ready to venture into the military screen. Hit escape to back out of any menus you may be in, and then press ‘m’ to bring up the military window.  Okay, this is a little different, but we can handle it. First, ‘c’reate a squad. We’ll pick the default “metal armor” uniform. What this really means is that dwarves will attempt to wear the best armor up to and including metal, such as copper, iron, and steel. Press enter, and you will now have the option to assign specific dwarves to this particular squad. Now, you need to be a little careful in that you don’t want to give your woodcutter or miner 24/7 military duty, or they won’t get anything else done and your fort will grind to a halt. I haven’t bothered to actually check the labor assignments of any particular dwarves yet, so I’m just going to pick a couple that look otherwise useless at this point, in my case, a jeweler and a fisher. Just use the arrow keys to highlight the dwarves you want, and hit enter to move them to the squad.  With that out of the way, let’s take a quick look at the schedule. We won’t change anything right now, but it’s good to know that it’s there and how to examine it. Press ‘s’ to change to the schedule view.  From this view, we can see all the various squads and what months have which activities assigned to them. It looks like our guys are set to train all year round, and we’ll just leave it at that. They can certainly use the practice. Hit escape until you’re out of the military screen. The last thing we need to do for our little squad is to give them a place to train. We’ve already set up a barracks but we need to tell them that’s where they should be training. Using the ‘q’ cursor again, highlight the armor stand we built earlier. Our new squad should show up in the list there, along with a number of different activities that can be performed at that location. Press ‘t’ to order the selected squad to train there.  Once unpaused, your two-dwarf squad should make their way to the barracks and begin training, likely via “individual combat drill.” Later on, once you have more dwarves in the militia and they are more highly skilled, group training activities will occur. With all that accomplished, we are almost done here. While this fortress would technically survive, we need to address one more topic: stockpiles. Let’s just go ahead and set one up to store seeds from the farm. From the main screen, press ‘p’ for pile. A menu appears with a number of pre-defined stockpile settings. Those are, in general, fine for most of what you need to do. We’re going to jump straight into custom stockpiles, however, since it’s immediately useful in this case. With the stockpile menu up, select ‘c’ustom stockpile, then press ‘t’ to change the stockpile’s setting.  Initially, nothing should be enabled, but if any categories are, move the cursor to that group and ‘d’isable it. Next, move to the “food” category and ‘e’nable it. We don’t want all that crap, though! So ‘b’lock all to leave the category enabled but nothing specifically allowed. Next, move the cursor to the second column and down to “seeds.” ‘p’ermit seeds.  Escape out to the previous window. Now move your cursor to that last empty room, the one across from the bedroom. Press enter in one corner, and then move the cursor to the opposite corner and press enter again to designate the entire room. Congratulations, you now have a seed stockpile!  And with that, this fortress is complete! It’s not very impressive, though. And that’s where you come in: it’s your job to take this fortress to the next level and make it thrive. You may feel you are still often at a loss, but hopefully now you at least have the basic idea down and are perhaps formulating some actual questions to ask.  ‘u’ shows the unit list, which shows your dwarves, pets, invaders, wild animals, and the deceased, as well as what everyone is doing. ‘z’ will bring up the stocks screen, which allows you to see how much food, drink, and other supplies you have available, as well as a number of other handy functions. You may notice that a lot of values have a ? mark next to them, which brings us to... ‘n’ will display the nobles screen, which allows you to assign dwarves to certain positions such as sheriff, manager, broker, and bookkeeper. That last one is important for maintaining an accurate count of your current supplies. This screen also allows you to see what various nobles require in order to accomplish their jobs. Example: the bookkeeper needs an office (a room designated from a chair and assigned to that dwarf) in order to update the stockpile records. Stone is by far your most plentiful resource. As such, stone pots are incredibly useful for storing food and booze. You make stone pots at a craft workshop. ‘v’ is similar to the ‘q’ cursor except it shows creature info instead of displaying information about buildings. By using this cursor, you can set the labor preferences for specific dwarves, so that you can choose your miner and woodcutter and crafter carefully and specifically. However, this is an incredibly cumbersome way to control dwarf labors, and you should instead be using Dwarf Therapist, which comes with the Lazy Newb Pack, and is also available for OS X. scamtank fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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  It's a big, big world full of murder out there. Our very own Jothan has taken it on himself to open this Pandora's Box and explain some. #1 Getting Started: Character creation, interface basics, talking and traveling  #2 Things/People/Stuff to Do/Kill/In General: Sneaking, jumping and other movement, UI worries, finding friends and tasks to do, tactical hippo-wrestling, the reason why we don't go near towers  #3 Powergaming Strangling birds for 
scamtank fucked around with this message at 08:43 on May 11, 2015 |
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Modding & Utilities What is this Lazy Newb Pack thing? It’s a very conservative mod compilation. It’s built around a simple launcher GUI that brings most easily automated or finicky tasks like tileset installation, init tweaking and external utility launching only a click or two away. It also comes with a bundle of utilities to ease some of the most popular gripes like labor management.  Not so daunting anymore, is it? After the original developer left the source code open and hosed off, a few people have picked up development, most visibly a bloke named Peridexis. Now it comes with a recent version of the essential DFHack suite with additional UI scripts, a custom version of the game executable augmented with community bugfixes, nearly a dozen different tilesets and an even wider array of useful utilities, all kept admirably up to date. It’s a boon even if you find no use for most of the extra toys and whirlygigs. The exact contents of the Windows pack can be found here, in the mod's own Bay12 thread. The other versions have links at http://lazynewbpack.com/. What is Masterwork? People keep mentioning mushroom people and black plagues and warlocks. It’s another mod compilation, but that description doesn’t really do it justice.  Look at all this poo poo. It’s an unholy mashup of dozens of different mods from different authors with different priorities, woven together with a nifty selector app that tailors the raws prior to starting up the game. There’s completely new playable races with customized gameplay, new workshops, weapons, creatures, civilizations, concepts, dynamite arrows and so on and so on. The sheer gravity of this thing has coaxed many useful DFHack innovations from the community, including weapon coating and runic enchantments, projectiles that perform interactions like explosions or dragonfire on impact, buildings that do their thing by activating DFHack scripts in the background and others. It’s quickly turned into the most popular total conversion so far despite the schizophrenic game balance, bugs and other difficulties that arise from building something of this scope from something so rickety. See the Masterwork subforum for download links. Notable utilities and their sources All of these come with the Lazy Newb Pack these days. Fancy that. DFHack is a cornerstone of the game these days, be it for cheats or fixes or patching the .exe on the fly. There is no executable component - install it properly so that the necessary .dll files get overwritten and you get a console window when you start Dwarf Fortress. Writing plugins and scripts requires command of actual grown-up coding in C, Ruby or Lua, but they can go much farther than anything the raws can do. Spawn items, liquids or solid rock walls? Check. A workshop that puts venom from a vial onto a weapon and won’t wash off? Check. Actual transformations? Check. New interface screens? Check. Fixed military training and armory behavior? Check and check. The only drawback is that major version changes completely break compatibility until the new memory addresses have been remapped by volunteers, which can take weeks. Falconne’s UI plugins are basically magic. Place them amongst the other DFHack scripts, set them to a keybind and press the combination to call an all-new interface screen in the game. Most of them have been integrated with the basic DFHack suite already, but he constantly comes up with new ones and updates the old. Dwarf Therapist is familiar to many. This is an external program that takes over the terrible labor management interface in the game itself. Load game, start DT, click Connect and marvel at the data flowing in. You can easily see everyone’s assigned labors, skill levels, professional suitability as calculated by their physical and mental attributes and more. SoundSense is a clever program that listens in real time to gamelog.txt and then blarts out noises according to the announcements. Season-appropriate music, too! logarithm posted:SoundSense's music selection gets repetitive after a while, so here's a custom sound pack I made with songs from Gemclod and Bronzestabbed. You can even use it alongside the normal sound pack without any issues, at least going by 30 minutes of testing. There are packs for both of those LPs, but the one for Gemclod probably doesn't work anymore and the one for Bronzestabbed seems to only have the 6 first songs of the LP. What looks to have changed between 0.40 and 0.42 raws b_detail_plan_default The STANDARD_MATERIALS bunch is joined by [ADD_MATERIAL:PARCHMENT:PARCHMENT_TEMPLATE]. No other changes. c_variation_default Add [CV_NEW_TAG:LOCAL_POPS_CONTROLLABLE] and [CV_NEW_TAG:LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES] to beastman variations (ANIMAL_PERSON, ANIMAL_PERSON_LEGLESS). Giant animals are further modified with [CV_REMOVE_TAG:PET_EXOTIC] and [CV_REMOVE_TAG:MOUNT_EXOTIC]. creature_domestic Modify cows to produce a specially named parchment with: code:Mountain gnomes and dark gnomes need to react to alcohol. Add [SYNDROME_DILUTION_FACTOR:INEBRIATION:500] to both. creature_next_underground Gorlaks and plump helmet men also have the [LOCAL_POPS_CONTROLLABLE] and [LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES] tags. creature_standard Dwarves get new [STRANGE_MOODS] and [SYNDROME_DILUTION_FACTOR:INEBRIATION:150] tags. Humans also get [OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE] and beak dogs are now [COMMON_DOMESTIC]. entity_default All instances of [CIV_CONTROLLABLE] are replaced by [SITE_CONTROLLABLE]. [INDIV_CONTROLLABLE] and [ADVENTURE_TIER:x] tags of any kind are replaced by just [ALL_MAIN_POPS_CONTROLLABLE]. All [INSTRUMENT:x] availability tags are removed. Added new cultural value, KNOWLEDGE, to all civilizations. (dwarves +15, goblins -15, others 0) Humans are now much more randomized. The 30+ lines of cultural values are replaced by a single [VARIABLE_VALUE:ALL:-30:30] tag. Scholars are mixed with a [SET_SCHOLARS_ON_VALUES_AND_JOBS] tag. Dwarves produce all kinds of scholars: code:Dwarves perform all creative arts: code:The library and temple builders (dwarves, elves, humans, goblins) use the suitable naming conventions: code:code:code:code:Earthenware, stoneware and porcelain all get new [IS_CERAMIC] tags. The definitions for quicklime and milk of lime are tacked on to the bottom. inorganic_stone_layer Limestone, chalk and marble (but not dolomite!) belong to the new CALCIUM_CARBONATE reaction class. inorganic_stone_mineral Calcite is also added to the CALCIUM_CARBONATE reaction class. item_instrument GONE. Totally deleted. item_tool Added definitions for the new tools - scroll rollers, book bindings, scrolls, quires and bookcases. language_DWARF/ELF/GOBLIN/HUMAN Added 22 new words to each vocabulary (human excerpt shown): code:Add two new symbol classes and distribute new words into the old ones: code:SYMBOL:NATURE gets BIRTH, LEAP, JUMP and DIVE. SYMBOL:EVIL gets BETRAY. SYMBOL:NEGATOR gets CRACK, SHATTER, BETRAY and TREASON. SYMBOL:VIOLENT gets CRACK and SHATTER. SYMBOL:UGLY gets SQUAT. SYMBOL:NEW gets START, BEGIN and BIRTH. SYMBOL:ARTIFICE gets VAULT PLACE and TREASURY. SYMBOL:MYSTERY gets VAULT PLACE. SYMBOL:NEGATIVE gets BETRAY, TREASON and SQUAT. SYMBOL:AQUATIC gets DIVE. SYMBOL:PROTECT gets VAULT PLACE. SYMBOL:THOUGHT gets LEARN, WISDOM, KNOW, KNOWLEDGE and REASON. SYMBOL:WILD gets SHATTER and LEAP. SYMBOL:NAME_CAVE gets CRACK. SYMBOL:DANCE gets FESTIVAL. SYMBOL:FESTIVAL also gets FESTIVAL. SYMBOL:FAMILY gets BIRTH. SYMBOL:GAMES again gets FESTIVAL. SYMBOL:TRUTH gets WISDOM, KNOW, KNOWLEDGE and REASON. SYMBOL:WEALTH gets VAULT PLACE and TREASURY. language_words Define the 22 new words listed above. No other changes. material_template_default SKIN_TEMPLATE is modified with [MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:PARCHMENT_MAT:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:PARCHMENT]. Added the new PARCHMENT_TEMPLATE. PLANT_ALCOHOL_TEMPLATE and CREATURE_ALCOHOL_TEMPLATE are saddled with the new inebriation syndrome: code:Flax, jute, hemp, cotton, ramie, kenaf and papyrus sedge get the tags required for paper production. Papyrus uniquely gets the straightforward PAPER_PLANT class: code:code:code:Pig tail and rope reed also get paper slurry production/definition tags like shown above. reaction_other Added new reactions for making quicklime, milk of lime, parchment, scrolls, quires, papyrus, plant slurry, proper paper and binding books. creature_desert_new/large_ocean/large_riverlake/large_temperate/large_tropical/next_underground/other/reptiles/riverlakepool_new/small_ocean/small_riverlake/standard/subterranean/temperate_new/tropical_new Creatures that gain or lose their skin-related stuff with specific exceptions need to account for parchment, too. Tack on [REMOVE_MATERIAL:PARCHMENT] to every instance of leather getting removed: code:code:scamtank fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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Song-specific credits are in the ID3v2 artist tags.
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With no documentation and Toady himself not really remembering what he did ten years ago, it falls on fools and maniacs to disassemble the memory and start looking for patterns on how the game works. The Bay12 savant UristDaVinci is to thank/blame of most of this, largely quoted verbatim.Breaches of physics posted:
The mechanisms of an attack posted:The wounds that creatures get from slashy/stabby/smashy weapons and body part attacks, as well as from ranged projectiles that were thrown/shot/fell/driven (minecarts), and even falling damage are all handled through a few common functions. Here is the best guess for the actual formula.  The "factors" bit is the element of chance. That multiplier varies from a minuscule 0...001% and up to 2x depending on all the other things we can imagine having an effect and more that don't. Mood, anger, skill, curses, nausea, personality, whatever you're thinking that might, all of it. scamtank fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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The silk robe soaking in puke can be found to the right, in a smoothed but non-engraved corridor, next to a wall.
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Oh hey, I see you used my header graphics. I still have the original PS doc with whatever font that was, if you want me to make matching new ones, let me know.
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Header graphic thief!
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Hello, I'm obligated to tell people to go and listen to DF Talk if they haven't.
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Remember, kids, LOSING IS FUN!
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Angela Christine posted:Header graphic thief! IT*S MY FIRST THRE¤AD GET OFF MY CASE Bad Munki posted:Oh hey, I see you used my header graphics. I still have the original PS doc with whatever font that was, if you want me to make matching new ones, let me know. If you could point me towards the font you used, I'd be a happy man. I'm going to tweak everything forever anyway, so I'd rather not have to bother you every time I wanted to do something different. scamtank fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 19:06
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That masterwork blurb is pretty out of date. There's a whole new GUI for setting the mod up, the number of playable races has swollen from 2 to 5 (!!) and there's all kinds of insane crap like automatic factory chains, programmable catapults and magma cannons.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:13
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Magma-Cannon land mines? Pfff! Trapdoors and a malevolent murder maze is more my style. Every raider that escapes wins a free party with the militia! 
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Mar 13, 2014 19:13
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So is the next version out yet?
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Mar 13, 2014 19:16
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Been playing this for years, and I still have never used the original tile set. Anyone else like that? Can we get an updated startup guide to tiles?
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Mar 13, 2014 19:16
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AXE COP posted:That masterwork blurb is pretty out of date. There's a whole new GUI for setting the mod up, the number of playable races has swollen from 2 to 5 (!!) and there's all kinds of insane crap like automatic factory chains, programmable catapults and magma cannons. MMmm, magma cannons. I want to shoot at some titans.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:18
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scamtank posted:IT*S MY FIRST THRE¤AD GET OFF MY CASE Looking at the PS doc, it's Myanmar MN and a black drop shadow in multiply blend mode, 30% opacity, 120° angle, 5px distance, 0% spread, 8px size. Actually, you know what, I just uploaded it to goondorfs. Just duplicate a layer and change the text and you'll have a perfectly matching header every time: http://goondorfs.net/OP_Headers.psd.zip
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Mar 13, 2014 19:19
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Vander posted:Been playing this for years, and I still have never used the original tile set. Anyone else like that? Can we get an updated startup guide to tiles? I love the default, but I have it as a 12x12 tileset. The wiki has a huge list of tilesets. I think Jolly is my favorite tileset outside of the default. Zesty fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 19:21
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Baloogan posted:So is the next version out yet? Of course not. Toady's finalizing the succession stuff right now, if memory serves.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:21
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scamtank posted:Of course not. Toady's finalizing the succession stuff right now, if memory serves. I think a lot of people are going to assume a new thread is because a new version is out, so you might want to headline this in the first post.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:33
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Leperflesh posted:I think a lot of people are going to assume a new thread is because a new version is out, so you might want to headline this in the first post. Yeah, why the new thread if there isn't a new version? You guys got me all excited. Is there a new ETA?
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Mar 13, 2014 19:37
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The OP is too short for my liking. It doesn't even take up the entire first page! But seriously, great job on the post. Have fun rewriting it in a few weeks/months/years when the new update comes out.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:38
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It is a new thread of awesomeness. It glitters with spikes of wonder, and menaces with bands of kitten-flesh. Yay!Vander posted:Been playing this for years, and I still have never used the original tile set. Anyone else like that? Can we get an updated startup guide to tiles? Yeah, I'm with you. Personally, I'd have the Fortress post start with the LNP right off the bat, if only for easy tileset support and immediate Dwarf Therapist. Then again, what do I know? If I was sane, I probably wouldn't play DF in the first place 
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Mar 13, 2014 19:39
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So, did the old thread just grow too large? No big deal in any case. Regarding the new version, I think DF2010 came out on 1 April, so it wouldn't surprise me if that happened again.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:39
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Here's to another 25 months without an update! Cheers 
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Mar 13, 2014 19:42
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It was 25 months old today and Scamtank was ready to go. I've been neglecting the old thread long enough, so it was time to take it out behind the shed. Anyhow I think the last post in the old thread should be the new thread title, I think it sums everything up pretty succinctly and should help alleviate any confusion over the new thread.
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Leperflesh posted:I think a lot of people are going to assume a new thread is because a new version is out, so you might want to headline this in the first post. Yeah, I was going to make some flippant little text animation to answer that, but just a number works too. Baloogan posted:Yeah, why the new thread if there isn't a new version? You guys got me all excited. It's always two months in the making. We're on another pass of tying loose ends up, so I can pretty confidently say that something will happen before Christmas. scamtank fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 19:44
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scamtank posted:It's always two months in the making. We're on another pass of tying loose ends up, so I can pretty confidently say that something will happen before Christmas 2015. Given all of the stuff Toady has been doing in the new release it's not a big surprise if it ends up coming out next year.
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scamtank posted:It's always two months in the making. It's like 1984 in here.
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TildeATH posted:It's like 1984 in here. Bronzestabbed is always about a month away from being done.
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Bronzestabbed vs. DF Release: a race to Forever!
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Yay a new thread!
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This is a good thread! Here's a shot of the new Masterwork screen for you to use. http://imgur.com/WlXs6FP
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A new DF thread? A good day! You are missing a thread subtitle though. Shadowlz fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 21:59
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Fantastic OP, kudos on taking on this launch of the new thread.
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OW OW OW OW OW DEVLOGToady One posted:Looks like succession is done. As a final test, instead of just writing about it, I went ahead added a debug button that makes absolutely everybody interesting or otherwise individually tracked keel over. Only abstracted populations remained alive. The world was very quiet for a while, with no patrols or creatures moving around, because they were either dead or the person that would give the orders was dead, but by mid-morning they had reestablished leadership structures and I got to watch several people journey from site to site to place themselves in their new seats of power. We can add some extra confusion later, but I'm happy for this time that it works at all. There are some more conversation responses there as well, and so on.
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What will & won't building destroyers go through? trying to design defences with a drowning chamber.
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scamtank posted:OW OW OW OW OW DEVLOG Honestly I'm kind of disappointed nobody beat you to the first dev log of your new thread. 
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Pound_Coin posted:What will & won't building destroyers go through? trying to design defences with a drowning chamber. They can't destroy walls or things they can only access from below (like a forbidden hatch). There are also some weird quirks to diagonals that make them unable to destroy things based on placement.
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My latest Masterwork Short History world gen stopped in the middle of a Golden Age with Kobolds having the biggest and most cities covering the largest landmass. Dwarves are almost completely extinct and a group of Frost Giants is completely ridding the world of evil and is what triggered the Golden Age after the Age of Heroes. I don't even know anymore. E: And a female Drake slowly losing ground to the Kobolds lands advance. Rynoto fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Mar 14, 2014 |
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