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@squamousmodsman.bsky.social
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I make Patreon-powered Dwarf Fortress total conversions focused on atmosphere, immersion, and emergent narrative that tell interesting stories. I also do other things. www.patreon.com/c/themodsmith longnightdf.neocities.org

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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A PC in power armor explores a ruined structure. The helmet has night vision systems that improve field of view without alerting others to their presence, unlike a flashlight or lantern. It's expensive, but worth it. Something i hope to do is making getting proper armor feel like a real reward.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
baffled and reeling from this encounter on the road
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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 · 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 · 22/09/2026
neurons activating
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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 · 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 · 11/09/2026
Hhhhheheheh
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
and how it would look in fortress mode
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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 · 02/09/2026
these are the same picture
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
the Midgley situation is insane
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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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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 · 20/08/2026
She did win
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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
example in action. In this shadowy area, covered in ruins, i hear something moving and don't know what it is. I might be able to hunt it, or it might be hunting me. With the limited information available, I have to make a call, and risk exposing myself to something dangerous.
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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
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
result of a hit btw
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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 · 06/08/2026
me core
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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 · 01/08/2026
introduce yourself with 4 mechs
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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
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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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
oiugyh vampire hunter D bloodlust
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
one of the first Long Night fanart pieces I ever got. Still have it saved. Much has changed but it still looks so good.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Even in the megastructures, there are pockets of life. Sufficiently wet environments can foster thick sheets and vine-like trees of moss, fighting for space with the nanite-printed infrastructure. But just because it is natural does not mean it is safe. Many posthumans have adapted to such places.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
plasma guns real
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
often thinking about this
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this Miyazaki interview reflects my principles. i often talk about how fucked up and evil i am making my mod but you must understand this comes from a place of regularly throwing myself into the torment nexus
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Bleak Faith Forsaken is my hardest recommend yet I will always recommend it. As a soulslike it is janky as hell. As an exploration of some really insane-looking levels it is immaculate. I will always shill Evil Building type games and this is a good one.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I like listening to orthodox hymn music as background sound while I work and its good stuff but every so often it autoplays to this certain specific video and I tab back to it and the fucking orthochad is staring intently into my soul. i dont need this. why is he here
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
psh whatever *cleaves you in twain with my ultra-dense flame-spewing halberd, blasting your remains backward to tumble across the floor*
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It is dark save for shafts of stark white light piercing through smoggy skies. A great tower with a sprawling top shields struts, spires, and catwalks from a blizzard of dust. The labyrinth's shelf overlooks a huge pipe snaking down into a rough sea, clogged by a colony of engineered flesh.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
what if you could make a quaint fishing village in the inside of a gigantic drainage pipe. what then
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So you know how fire imps in dwarf fortress have an innate "throw fireball" attack? Well if you replace it with a copy of iron and rename it "bullet" it is kind of like it shoots a bullet. But with DFhack I replaced that with a REAL bullet, like an adventurer shoots from a gun.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My beasts a year or so ago when we first took them in. "Oh I don't need two cats, I can just keep them for a bit until we find somewhere to house them". Cooked. Over before it even began.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Recommending this. Follows an extremely nasty pair of guys in fantasy medieval europe. Imagine Between Two Fires but without the warmth or humanity that endears you to that book's protagonists, or Simplicius Simplicissimus but retold by a guy who hates him. Yet I cannot stop reading their antics.
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Squamous @squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Devil's Hole pupfish is a tiny fish that lives in a single cave. It singlehandedly keeps the water table from being drained as that would render them extinct. I just think they're neat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_...
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