Utterly Mad

I downloaded Dark Ages II. The most recent release of that mod actually contains zero mod. Just LNP and texture packs. The file available for download does not contain the mod it claims to contain.

Also about Dark Ages II, I find it absolutely fascinating that you can extract gem stones in adventure mode, but once you have them you can't actually do anything with them because you can't seem to cut them. The guns it adds are weaker than crossbows and yet they require more time and materials to create. All animals appear to have been changed to be "great," whatever that means. I can turn on ALL labors on a dwarf and seal them in a room with a woodshop, but they will never make the wood masks I have queued. The stone forge requires a "slicing knife" to be built.

I like that it doesn't add stupid fantastic metals though. Most of the large mods add shit like red and blue steel, "vulcanite," *madeupwordinite,* etc etc etc. Honestly, I hate made up metals. Dwarf fortresses randomly generated metals are great because they don't have ridiculous names or explanations as to how they exist. They just do and you can't produce them yourself. There's something both mundane and special about them. If dwarf fortress had mithril, that would be fine. It's an established fantasy metal. Cobalt? No. Cobalt contains no significant source of metal and will poison you with arsenic fumes if you attempted it. It's only uses are in pigments and in alloys for increasing heat resistance. Alloys that are surpassed by using nickel instead. Orichalcum is alright, but orichalcum is already a part of vanilla dwarf fortress. It's called brass. Orichalcum = brass. It's one of the old words for brass.

Started with a silver axe as an adventurer. Silver is not as effective as a cutting weapon but at the same time if that's the kind of damage you can do as a novice axeman with a silver axe, I wonder what I can accomplish with a steel axe. Actually, I already know the answer to that. I made a fortress and instantly got bored of it, so I made adamantine weapons for an adventurer. An adventurers who then systematically went through the group of dwarves standing outside with an adamantine axe and then discovered that most of the dwarves inside the fort were already dead due to a forgotten beast sealed in the caves teleporting into the fort proper and butchering the residents inside while I butchered the ones outside. Cutting a dorfs feet off with and adamantine axe from behind and then systematically hacking him to pieces as he tries to crawl away.