Orc Fortress Rebalanced!

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This is a heavily updated copy of Smakemupagus' excellent Orc Fortress plug-in for Masterwork Dwarf Fortress. It's based upon Masterwork Dwarf Fortress - Studded With Patches, which in turn is based upon the latest stable release of Masterwork Dwarf Fortress.In "Studded With Patches" (SWP), you may need to enable orcs as a playable race in the settings GUI. It's recommended you download the SWP version if you want all the latest bugfixes.Dwarves and kobolds may be content to hide behind their traps and pets, but Taiga Orcs desire conquest over their foes!, provided they're deemed worthy.Ten scalps may be sewn into a standard of honour. No clan would build a caravanserai for merchants, or a meadhall for warriors, without first collecting trophies to display their victory in combat. Likewise, codexes are a matter of honour for the clan, and require scalps for their construction.. Likewise, rituals, ceremonies, and certain reactions also require spirit talismen to complete.It's usually safe to harass local farmers, and bullying kobolds and goblins, but others may not take kindly to you plundering them! Of course, with advances in your clan now dependent, you may want to provoke your enemies into an attack., and can no longer be purchased from the shadowbroker, nor obtained by raiding. It can still be manufactured if you've built the arcane forge (which requires two bars of orichalcum to build), although its manufacture now yields much less material, and requires a soul gem as part of the transformation., rather than at the bonecarver. The totem pole only requires a single totem and a log to construct.Your Sun & Stars Orrery now actually needs a view of the sun and stars.Embarks have been adjusted, merchants return coins in 500-unit stacks, corsairs have their own dagger+gun combo, the tribal crafter knows how to make boots and gloves, sorcerers are no longer as spammy, castes show up at embark, and more! This release also includes all the patches made to the gold (formally 'master') branch of Studded With Patches.This release not only comes with a manual overhaul, but also with the ability for you to make updates and changes to it! The manual is included in the download as you would expect, but it's also now athat anyone can edit. If you spot a mistake, you can fix it. If you find something missing, you can add it. Pleasewith your edits.The manual is automatically converted into the Orc Fortress manual included with Studded With Patches, so people can take advantage of your changes almost immediately!In case you want to see all the changes in detail, here are selected changelogs from the git repo. Less exciting changes (fixing typos, etc) have been omitted:Notable Masterwork Dwarf Fortress - Studded With Patches changes included in this release:While you're welcome to report bugs in this thread, I'm able to track them better if you report them on github . You can also view my bugtracker there to see what's being worked upon.Improved orcs don't stop here! Plans for milestone 2 are already underway. This includes a cleaner system for buffs, announcements on important events like blueprint unlocks and raids, better uses for tears and blood of armok, improved lighting with rendermax, and more.Contributors are amazing! Here are some ways you can help:Many thanks!~ T