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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

putting on my niche interest hat and presenting to you this take on Dr Faustus by composer Alfred Schnittke which I like quite a lot youtu.be/EsqGQLs0gB0

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Alfred Schnittke - Faust Cantata [Eng. Captions]

YouTube video by Interplanar Echoes

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finished procgen plants. The hardest part was actually choosing the color/tile combinations which seems easily but there's no right answer, you gotta mix and match a palette that looks nice, its like fashion. Here's the results. Lichen, fungi, and a stalk of living metal in a little clearing.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Insanely excited for the DF magic release but its also so intimidating. My workload is going to double. That's why I'm powering through on the Long Night (in its beta branch) because I gotta get all my ducks in a row before The Big One hits. Ideas I've kept on the backburner for years are happening.

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Kruggsmash @kruggsmash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Long Night stuff #animation

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quite fond of this small hidden pool. Could be delicious fish in there. Could be a whole entire ghoul. You don't know. If it is the latter though, it would know you're there.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

down into the decayed sectors. Metal superstructure so eroded and corroded it almost looks like natural rock. Domes aren't doming yet but you can see the shape of them in that circle at the bottom. i'll get there.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

what people fail to realize about Jack Vance's The Dying Earth series is that he writes comedies, actually.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A wretched little beast clawed at my shield so its wired-in personal defense turret snapped to face it and bored a hole in its brain.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

because i must keep melee combat relevant

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tragic that I am an ASCII purist because I keep getting all these cool women with anime PFPs and no mutual friends or servers in my discord DMs asking me to download their art portfolios and hire them. Smh,... the price of fame ig

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the cool thing about dwarf fortress poisons working on the same logic as mood altering effects and vision-based witchery is that by combining all of this I can make cognitohazardous phenomena real.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hothouse is a novel where humanity has become small and green 2 thousand million years in the future, earth has ceased orbiting and a gigantic banyan tree covers the world. Plants are animals and bugs are huge. People know like 20 words total. I recommend it.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

something is loudly scream-bleating and rummaging outside my window which could mean nothing

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

what if i procedurally generated every plant. What's the harm. I need to if I want my new textile system to work. No problems ever with procgen every plant. Surely not. Quick in and out adventure.

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💙Lunarose💜 @moon-and-rose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Getting used to Dwarf Fortress ASCII more than a decade ago did something virtuous to my brain and I think more people should experience it, yet it's rather hard to justify.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am plotting I am up to schemes and activities

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The thing they dont tell you about worldbuilding is that the hardest part is actually coming up with believable culinary plants that don't immediately ape existing ones while still giving people an idea of what they look or taste like.

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Kruggsmash @kruggsmash.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Short Forts: The Power of Bone Today, we're having a look at that oh-so-forgettable material that lies within us all- Bone! What will happen when dwarves fight wars with bone? When they trade with bone? Well, we'll find out soon- no bones about it! #dwarffortress youtu.be/nnEyRwFY50M?...

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Short Forts: The Power of Bone

YouTube video by Kruggsmash

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Did my first karaoke, im officially a well adjusted human being

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

more people should play scrungly little ttrpgs and video games on itch.io so many of them are free and good. Just search by genre and let your heart be your guide

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Deep in the weeds. Theoretically there is a way to implement dynamic multi-species civilizations in Dwarf Fortress but I'm hitting a barrier at the very end. I still think it might be possible but there's very little documentation. Working on other stuff too but this is a fun side project.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Went down a rabbit hole, shared last names will be a thing next update, at least for historical figures. Matrilineal for the Long Night, because its practical. Except for engineered organisms. Then you get your creator's last name.

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greaver @clownsaint.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

TRENCH DOGS is out on youtube! It's a feel good story, in a way

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think it is genuinely insane how moddable Dwarf Fortress is. I have made it into a scifi megastructure with modern gunplay and functional power armor. Imagine if you wanted to simulate the fantasy 1700s with musket lines blasting demons. Very doable. More people should try it.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of my long-term desires is to fully realize haunted houses in dwarf fortress. I want a derelict building in a village to have an abysmal presence that a psychically sensitive character can sense and avoid but john normal walks in and ends up flensed by The Scary Getter. I can do this I know it.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Still working, just deep in the weeds of bugtesting. Want to get procgen armors out soonish. (linked image is not final for chestplates, just a sample).

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My cat's iconic behavior is that if she wants to be held and I'm busy she wheezes and honks in a really concerning way. I have never seen another animal do this.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I couldn't capture it in action but something neat happened. As I was wandering, a pair of horrible horse-sized feral posthumans leapt into view. Instead of killing me, they killed something nearer to them, then fled with the corpses, like real predators. Would be a harrowing experience. Near miss.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

With my changes to light in the latest update (on DFFD beta for now), you can see how any place lit by the sun is visible, but places overshadowed by hanging structures remain obscured. You can see a beam of light far away, but not the dark between it and you. Could be anything in there.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Flashlights and sensible light physics will be in the next update. If a tile is lit, you can see, it, even if you are in a dark place. Light sources will illuminate areas in front or around you. Posthuman entities have nightvision, but if you play a normal human, these will be important.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Currently working on procedurally generated descriptions for armor so every civ has a bespoke array of cool power armor. I must admit I am loving taking a break from coding to go back to prose but good lord making the whole flowchart work right with all its style conditionals makes my head hurt.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Please enjoy this commissioned art by HÆLÏCK/Ocean37. I think it reflects the surreal high technology-horror aesthetic of the Long Night quite well! If you like what you see here, consider checking out the mod, but bear in mind there is a huge difference between the steam release and the DFFD beta.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Trapped myself in an inescapable hole in Big Walk, my own personal 127 Hours, they needed a search party to find me.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

a particle beam can punch through multiple enemies. NPCs will reposition to avoid targeting their allies in the beam's path. The player is under no such restriction. Ignore the particle clusters lodging in wounds and being pulled out, that's a WIP lol.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

firing a beam cannon at some big amoebas. Tragically I missed the shot but you can see the cool animations plus how reloading works. Unlike vanilla, I can move and reload at the same time, though I stayed in place for this one.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Scenic picture from a walk where it suddenly rained on me (ignore the phantasmal apparition)

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good manga that only updates once every thousand years. Don't let the cool power armor fool you this is actually about insanely thorough geopolitics drama in a Strangereal-type world. I mean they do blow each other up in cool power armor fights a lot but still.

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

found a new obscure bug in dwarf fortress no one else would ever have to deal with award

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I too am tired of tabbing back to my website to remember what all my stupid abbreviations mean. No more (soon).

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A long time ago I toyed with making armor have names like this, but there is no description mechanic for armor, so you had no idea what it meant. But with DFhack, I can append the description directly to the armor item, and with the new Lua, I can procgen it per civ. We armored core/gundam now.

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