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[rephikul]

A mod designed to increase FPS and difficulty of DF while staying as true to the spirit of vanilla DF as possible. Unlike most mods which add things; IM mostly touch up old things to make them more unique instead. It used to be small, but it's quite a different beast now. English is not my natural language so aside from the usual help with bug hunting I'd also appreciate if I'm advised on how to make my package more informative and understandable. Have fun and report bugs. Give feedback if you can, especially if you dont like the mod.

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Details on 0.23 changes
Details on 0.22 changes

=== Installation Note ===
+ The current version (0.23) is technically compatible with saves from 0.22 and up, but it's your best interest to play it on new worlds.
+ Other mods which modify vanilla raws are likely not compatible with this one. Notable exception being Phoebus tileset, Ironhand tileset & Mayday tileset
+ Since 0.18 the Fotress defense mod has been built into this mod. All hail darkfragrance.


=== Features ===

Spoiler: Elf is also controllable (click to show/hide)

Pros:
+ High racial combat skills
+ Can mass produce arrows
+ Simple nobles
+ At peace with wildlife
+ Require no booze
+ Get no cave adaptation
+ More pet access
+ Know their way in the forest (duh...)
+ Can spawn more wood at the altar: 5 inorganic objects + 1 logs = 2 logs

Cons:
+ Do not have access to engineering, masonry, smithy
+ Cannot make melee weapons, wooden armors or quivers on site
+ Cannot make picks or axes
+ Get light food poisoning from eating meat but should also eat their enemies.

Spoiler: More dangerous wildlife (click to show/hide)

Many vanilla creatures couldnt survive the harsh universe presented in IM and has gone extinct. Those remaining, as anyone could guess, are extremely dangerous. Vicious, organized and backed with deadly techniques and evolution; even once peaceful beings such as deers could pose a serious threat when ticked off by an inexperienced dwarf.

Hardened shell
Many wild creatures possess tougher skins, fangs and claws, especially megabeasts. Most megabeasts now also come with their own equipment on top of that. Do note that this doesnt translate well into leather product's quality.

Picky meatshield war pets
Many combat-oriented pets now demand extra for their loyalty, which mean some of them are exotic, eat (meat), drink (booze), sleep or any combination of those. The description of these creatures are changed to reflect these new attributes.

Generic syndromes
Many new syndromes are created and associated with strong physical attacks or characteristics covering multiple creatures. They can affect everything, even the same creature!!
+ Blunt trauma aka shockwave: Cause short stun. Since they need to penetrate skin for the trauma to kick in, it's a minor syndrome. Given as injection to creatures with strong blunt attacks for their size i.e. horse, elephant or white sharks. Mega beasts receive them as a pointblank aoe, which mean they can easily knock multiple dwarves off their toes at the same time in melee.
+ Laceration aka tear: Cause long term minor pain. A kind of passive resistance syndrome associated with clawing from lesser creatures such as cats. Crundles are especially good with this.
+ Puncture: Cause organ impair function. Given to some horned creatures such as elephants, swordfish and minotaur. Sound awesome, but the attack need to at least bruise said organ to impair it, which it usually does without puncturing anyway.
+ Rabies: Exactly what it say on the can. A very dangerous syndrome, manifest about a week after infection and slowly kill the target during the next week. Infect via bites of small to average rodents, canines and primates. Note that many food thieves are rabies carriers.
+ Rupture: Cause extra heavy bleeding. Very strong biters (crocodiles, white sharks) will cause this.

Better sieges
+ Fortress Defense mod included
+ Goblins and Elves are now large sized and get all the inheritent advantage it gives
+ Goblins siege sooner
+ Goblins and kobolds send thieves sooner
+ Elves are now excellent warriors, especially against dwarven weaponry. This should compensate for their inferior wooden equipments.
+ Adjustments have been made to walk around a vanilla DF bug which prevents creatures to spawn will full armors. As a result, enemies are alot harder to kill.
+ And if nothing work, thow in fortress defend mod.

Specific syndromes
Some creatures are given mild specific syndromes: giant bat's screech, devourer digestive acid, sea serpent share snake bite with helmet snake, stingray's stab also annoying and giant frogs (formerly toad) secret toxin on its skin like cave blob. Hydra got 7 powerful syndromes, each for one head.

A few creatures with special niches added
Gotta find 'em all!!

Shortened fate
Dwarves is a dying race. Every once in a while, one of them is cursed with a strange hump on their back. Not only these dwarves are handicapped both physically and mentally, they are also very short lived, most wont live to see the age of 10. Knowing this, they are also the most determined of the dwarves but their time is too short, and there isnt much they can do about it.

Moreover, all dwarves are lazier, slower, more hot headed but very friendly.

Spoiler: Balanced activities (click to show/hide)

Wouldnt it fun if you can easily get everything and anything in the game with little effort or planning? How about giant piles of goods that never get used? Wouldnt that a bit redundant? IM aims to encourage trading and more balance between industries in a risk vs reward way. This'd present the players with more choices, even on things they have usually taken as granted.

Equipment overhauled
+ Equipments now consume multiple bars to make.
+ Removal of civilian clothing managements due to clothing claiming issues. Every wearable equipments are now considered armors and shouldn't ever wear off over time.
+ Remaining pieces tweaked. You can either wear alot of cheap gears, or a few good gears
+ Crossbows & traps nerfed to balance with melee weapons.
+ Whips slightly nerfed
+ Bows are greatly increased in size and power. Arrows are also very expensive to make.
+ Generally, 2h beats 1h+shield, ranged beats 2h and 1h+shield beats ranged.

Economy improved
+ No more booze cooking.
+ Meat require cooking. Organs can only be consumed by pets and fat is not simply not edible
+ Meat value reduced over the board
+ Trap components require bars relative to their value.
+ A trade-heavy reagent has been added for brewing: moldy stones. Brewing no longer produce seeds. Moldy stone can also be prayed for, but it's much cheaper buying them.
+ Cooking and farming can no longer be trained.
+ Plants overhauled as below:

+ Herbalism yield twice as much as stated values.

Nobles overhauled
+ sheriff and captain of the guard removed. Exp leaders now enforce law and can lead a squad.
+ Dwarves generally hate every single nobles
+ 1 mandate nobles: military captains, champions & broker
+ 5 mandate nobles: Military leader
+ Vanilla nobles (who are all useless) no longer issue mandates. Instead, they think up many more demands.

Skills nerfed
+ Not all jobs can be trained to legendary. Most gathering/intermediate jobs can no longer be trained. See here for details.
+ Skills which produce quality products (mining, weaponsmith etc) get rusty easier.
+ Social skills except appraisal never change. Appraisal improve much more slowly.
+ Unarmed combat skills except wrestling improve very very slowly.

Metal overhauled
Adamantine can no longer be found naturally. Dwarves now dig up special slades instead.
+ At kiln using gem setting , 1 slade stone + 5 value 60 gems (+ fuel) = 1 adamantine stone
+ Adamantine cannot be made into armors
+ Slade cannot be made into weapons or clothings.

Iron now can only be found in igneous-ex and flux can only be found in sedimentary.
At kiln: Flux stone + 5 bags -> 5 pouches of flux
At kiln: Flux block + 2 bags -> 2 pouches of flux
At smelter: hematite -> iron
At smelter: Iron + pouch of flux + fuel -> steel

Edged weaponries changes:
+ Silver: 80% as effective as in vanilla
+ Bronze & steel: 120% as effective as in vanilla

Training overhauled
Increased student skill for all dwarves. This should help with demonstrations.
Training spears removed.
'D'anger Room workshop train all skills and wrestling.
Training require training gears and fat to grease the device. Rotten fat also work.
Note: due to current bugs with item stacks, training doesnt work properly.

Sticks and sheets are made at the smelter
3 copper/gold bars -> 25 training gears
1 bronze/steel bars -> 50 training gears

Training choice summary:
Live combat: Fast xp, dangerous, profitable (from corpse)
Training workshops: Moderate xp, safe, expensive
Barrack practice: Slow xp, safe, free

Altar
The altar is an ultility "workshop" which can be constructed using anything, including artifact and boost room value. It also contain specialized activities to help the fort in a pinch. As of now, only one is available:
1 bag of moldy stones = 1 bar of gold + 1 bag.

Kitchen
The kitchen contain new reactions to gamble for random ores:
1 mining kit = 1 pick + 1 bone helm + 1 leather armor + 1 trouser + 1 bag
Mining the kitchen sink requires a mining kit (25% chance of breaking) a log to construct additional supports and can yield a combination of these items: marble (15%), bauxite (15%), kimberlite (10%), obsidian (10%), coal (10%), lignite (10%), native copper (5%), malachite (5%), cassiterite (5%), bismuthinite(3%), hermatite (3%), morion (5%), rose quartz (3%) and prase opal (1%)

Spoiler: A more streamlined, but no less diverse system (click to show/hide)

+ Removal of physical stat decay and addition of nerve regeneration because physical stat decay ways too fast.
+ Pets no longer require dungeon master to be tamed as he almost never come. A few more pet training options.

Less for more
There are many types in the games that are functionally identical barring name. Stratergic removal of most these duplicates noticeably improve FPS. Thus, a great deal of less interesting gems, metals, alloys, stones, soils, crafts, plants, grasses, creatures, vermins and body parts have been removed. They wont be missed. As a side effect, the game seem to gain some FPS with less object types to be tracked.

Tallow removed. All reactions which supposedly use tallow now use fat directly.
Pig iron removed. Iron can be smelted into steel directly.

Generic stones now even more generic
Build your fort in your favourite color, wherever you want it
Stone transmuting reactions added to the kiln
The associated reaction is very simple, 20 non-economic stones + 1 bin -> 1 bin with 10 blocks of choice inside
bright yellow: gypsum
dark yellow: sandstone, schist
dark red: bauxite
bright blue: chromite
dark blue: kimberlite
cyan: microcline
dark green: olivine
light gray: marble, gabbro, gneiss, granite, shale
dark gray : basalt
white : rock salt

Gem blocks can be made at the kiln: cut gem + non-economic block -> gem block

Insta-grown megabeasts
Just so no one have to do 1000 year history to get mature dragons.

Spoiler: Improved usability (click to show/hide)

There are many common issues which DF has been facing due to bugs or lack of attention. Much of these could be overcome by some tricky little adjustment. Hopefully these included changes will make a more pleasant playing experience for everyone involved:

+ Ores are automatically smelted. This option can be toggled at 'o'ption -> 'w'orkshop -> 'S'melter.
+ Some experimental reactions for adventurer to get their stater gears.
+ Removed grass trample for most creatures.
+ UI improvements via more friendly naming convention & sorted lists.
+ Reactions to mill and brew specific plants.
+ Compatibility made with all 3 major tilesets: Phoebus, Ironhand and Mayday.

Less FPS-killing features
+ Removal of miasma from conventional rots due to FPS implication. Does not cover zombies.

Spoiler: Challenges (click to show/hide)

I sometimes have certain things I want to test but dont have the time to. If you can complete any of the challenges, a creature will be created based on you and you can decide a meal for my cat. Multiple people can win the same challenge if submissions are within 24 hours of the first challenge winner unless stated otherwise.

Common rules
 + Use Intensifying Mod
 + Enemies must have a path to your dwarves
 + No walk of doom. Maybe 2-3 tiles on your (non-raised) bridge but that's it.
 + Minimum traps. Each path has a handful at most. Weapon traps can only have one weapon. Trap kills, including cage's, do not count.
 + No weird exploits. Use your common sense to judge.
 + 2x2 embarks

Current challenges
 + Pacify hell by preventing demons from ever spawn again.
 + Produce a surplus of 100k power using windmills.

Previous challenges
 + Survive until year 3 or kill at least 10 white tigermen, whichever come sooner. Completed by slowpoke and darkflagrance.

Spoiler: Honorable mentions (click to show/hide)

Toady for the game
Darkflagrance for his Fortress Defense Mod
Beefmo for his elf graphics
Savolainen5 this fella alone rekindled my interest and brought me back. If you like my mod, send him gifts.

[rephikul]

0.01 Changes
+ Fixed issues with stat decay which cause corrupted raw.
+ Fixed issues with shell which cause turtles to never be created.
+ Updated the custom creature to match its design.
+ Removed some more stone/item/soil.
+ Sorted stones and weapons.

It should be much more stable then the previous version, my condolence to the few people who tried it. The issue with toys and instruments remain but since (probably) no one make them anyway I'd leave it like that until artifacts are found to fail due to it.

[rephikul]

0.02 Change
+ Shorten temper of many creatures
+ Experimental tags on some creatures
+ Tweak on appearance of stones, gems, soils and trees to accommodate Phoebus graphics.
+ Reallocate some files and entries around to sort ingame entries
+ Now use .zip compression instead of .rar

Yay, 0.01 served 1 person. Let's see how long I can keep this going till people fed up with it.

The most noticeable change with this update is Phoebus support. Phoebus himself didnt respond to my request on his thread, but i went ahead and did what i can anyway. Look like i nailed most stuff so I released anyway.

The creature tweak is mostly to make wild animals less of a pushover. They'd be more likely to defend themselves instead of running away when attacked and actually hurt. Should makes more interesting hunts. There's no carps dragging dorfs into the river or anything like that, I swear.

Zombie miasma is absolutely ridiculous now thanks to the increased creature spawn. Especially around the upright spoiler, I got 4FPS right away on an otherwise 100FPS embark. Unfortunately it seem to be outside my power right now, zombies seem to have special tags to keep them smoking weed despite the fact that no creatures or tissues should ever produce miasma. Or maybe I am just suck with comprehending the raw.

Next I'd probably test on the extremities (toes, lips, eyebrows etc) to see if removing them improve FPS and/or alter combat results significantly.

[rephikul]

I just want to mention that I've figured out the last feature to be included in the next integration. Release will be imminent and it will not be compatible with 0.02 so to the 2 persons who tried 0.02 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE report any issues you noticed so they wont get carried over to the next.

In case you are going to, I already know that tempered columns are heavier then the bars they came from.

[rephikul]

0.03 Changes
+ Consolidate creature's anatomy. Random creatures not affected.
+ Many metal items now consume multiple bars to produce, appropriately to their size and/or value.
+ Fat and hair's isolation has been improved, compensating for the lack of clothing.
+ Merge tissue types of statistically identical organs.
+ Merge animal people into the vermin they base from.
+ Abaddon tweaked to discourage wrestler training on it.



The largest change in this version is consolidation of bodyparts. Let's look at your average dwarf:
30+ teeth -> jaw
28 ribs -> ribcage
upper/lower limbs, 8 total -> limb, 4 total
5-6 lower body innards -> intestine
Eye lids, eyelashes, cheeks, sideburns (8 total, could be more) -> uh?
20 Fingers & toes -> Your palm, nails grow from it.

On an average each creature now has 60-100 less objects to keep tracked of, multiplied by the 1-5 tissues layers normally associated with them. This should have !!SOME!! impact on FPS. If body parts generate miasma individually like they should, FPS should be even more noticable around undead creatures altho I however cant really nail on this one cause my fps is generally great anyway. Note to self: Test this. Alright, testing done. Embarked on a tigerman upright spoiler. 66 pages of undead tigermen merrily reduced my FPS to less then 1/s. However, each tigermen has only about half as many rotting body part listed in their description as I can recall in 0.02. Supposedly that mean half the miasma. on average.

Aside from FPS improvement the consolidation should also cause some changes in aimed combat. For once there are less ridiculous to worry about. like ! on fifth toe, left foot. Secondly, no more biting 6 people and latches on all of them at once. Teeth are now treated as one. Thirdly, scratching and biting should do more damage because the limbs these attacks come from are larger. I personally havent seen any improvement, however.



The other major change with this version is the increase material use for production. Long timers is already familiar with it but I am not one, so this is even fresh for me. For once picks and axes now take 2 bars so right off the bat embark profile need to be changed. Second, serrated disks and spiked balls each take 8 bars and other traps need 4 bars, making them roughly as valuable as axes in term of bars. so no more 2 serrated disks buying whole caravan. Unfortunately, with this change, roast become king of trade. I've tried to nerf value of replenishable goods but there's no good way to do that; you either get no money for them, or goblins maraud in from first summer. Hopefully this will be addressed by Toady himself from next dwarf version.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Just wanted to say thanks, I love aimed attacks but hate opportunity strikes to the left pinky.

[rephikul]

I love aimed attacks but hate opportunity strikes to the left pinky.

Me too, it's much more meaningful to punch people's jaw off in one strike.

[Zaerosz]

I love aimed attacks but hate opportunity strikes to the left pinky.

Me too, it's much more meaningful awesome to punch people's jaw off in one strike.

[OmnipotentGrue]

I'm digging the fast world gens, although I'm not so sure about the lack of clothing. I'll play for a bit and see. High FPS is also very cool.

[rephikul]

I'm digging the fast world gens, although I'm not so sure about the lack of clothing. I'll play for a bit and see. High FPS is also very cool.

Default skin insulation is polar-bear-grade. Default fat insulation is twice as good. Until a FB with rapid rot drop by, even imported tropical animals should be fine running around in snowstorm. These are just in theory, anyway. There's always a chance of something hard coded messing it up. I dont have much experience in the glacier nor with temperature enabled so real game feedback is always appreciated.

[OmnipotentGrue]

Yeah, I noticed that skin/fat have been made stronger, although I'm just not sure I like the idea of a nudist fort  Quick question: If a dwarf was to wear clothes, would that be equivalent to wearing armour in vanilla DF, or have they been modded too?

Also, DF crashed in Fortress Mode, I think as it was trying to transition from Summer to Autumn. This has never happened to me before in vanilla DF (It could have always just been a one-off thing with my computer, but I thought I'd let you know just in case).

[rephikul]

Yeah, I noticed that skin/fat have been made stronger, although I'm just not sure I like the idea of a nudist fort  Quick question: If a dwarf was to wear clothes, would that be equivalent to wearing armour in vanilla DF, or have they been modded too?

Yes, everything wearable are amour now, just set all but miners/woodcutters in squads and you are good to go. As for the nudism comment, dorfs eventually get naked when their initial clothing wear away anyway so it doesnt change much in that regard.

Also, DF crashed in Fortress Mode, I think as it was trying to transition from Summer to Autumn. This has never happened to me before in vanilla DF (It could have always just been a one-off thing with my computer, but I thought I'd let you know just in case).

I have no problems getting new seasons or caravan so hopefully it's a fluke on your side. When you reload, did the game proceed normally? Were you about to make an artifact? Care to glance into errorlog.txt and gamelog.txt and see if anything abnormal show up at the bottom?

[OmnipotentGrue]

I checked gamelog and errorlog and nothing seems to be out of order, I suppose it was just my computer not wanting to cooperate. Unfortunately I lost that fort to the crash, so I can't really try and replicate it without trying to get to the same spot on another fort, but I'll be playing some more and see what I can come up with. Really liking it, though - nice job.

[rephikul]

0.04 Changes
+ Added an entry for toy, instrument and dye to satisfy hard-coded conflicts.
+ Fixed limonite color to red, matching all other iron ores.

My prediction was true, the game indeed assume at least one sample of each object type to exist in game. This is just a minor bug fix to resolve that. Saves in 0.03 can be safely injected with this new version, however it will still crash to the bug, effectively changing nothing. Only worlds created with 0.04 raw support production and preference to those items.

I dont like the idea of adding dimple cup back in the game so plump helmet can now be milled into purple plump helmet dye to cover dye requirement, making it the crown champion of all-purpose plant ever. Maybe I should make it a building-grade, magma-safe tree with spoiler strands to seal the deal too 

I suppose it was just my computer not wanting to cooperate.

No it was me being over optimistic about game features.

[SeriousConcentrate]

It hasn't crashed for me yet, though my errorlog is giving me this, ad infinitum:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Other than that, it's fun. I played a dwarf peasant and managed to kill a few night creatures before I got jumped from behind and dismembered.