New Genesis (Volume I) - features

[ Dwarves ]
Worldgen:
- Expanded biome selection for settlement placement.
Items:
- Added more weapons from rebalanced CORE items to dwarven civ - great axe, halberd, dagger, morningstar, training dagger, training hammer, bow.
- Dwarves can wear new chain mittens.
- Forced the most important clothing pieces, so you don't end up as a civ without helmets or breastplates.
- Made coins progress in 1-10-100 value instead of 1-5-10.
Positions:
- Some entity positions can participate in espionage and partrolling (General, militia commander).
- Sheriffs and captains of the guard are chat-worthy and can be targets of kill quests.
- Expedition leader needs an office, a bedroom and a dining room.
- Mayor doesn't receive complaints (that goes to psychiatrist/shaman), needs no armor racks/weapon stands and a bit less flashy rooms.
- New positions - thoughtbearer/shaman/spirittalker, can be assigned to any dwarf to listen to complaints while mayor works.
- Minor nobles need basic offices too.
- Bookkeper becomes treasurer, grand treasurer and hoardmaster as the fortress population grows.

[ Humans - Dalesmen ]
- Latin words and names.
- Former "keepers" in Old Genesis
- Innate skill and trait adjustments.
- Grow up to full size at 17 instead of 12.
- New materials/tissues implemented.
Worldgen:
- Limited expansion areas (for more space for other future races such as nords).
- Hair and beards can be styled.
Items:
- Longbows.
- Halberds replace whip skill.
Positions:
- Custom medieval-style nobility including monarch.
- Dalesmen know how to forge wrought iron.

[ Humans - Nords ]
- Danish words and names.
- New human type "nord".
- They settle in cold and inhospitable regions.
- Round shields, dane axes, seaxes and bearded axes.
- Horned and masked helmets.

[ Elves - Sylvan ]
Creature:
- Renamed to Sylvan elf in expectations of other elf types being converted.
- Innate skill and trait adjustments.
- New materials/tissues implemented.
Worldgen:
- Limited expansion areas (for more space for other future races such as nords).
- Elves do not style their hair.
Items:
- Longbows.
- Limited armor selection, lighter dressed warriors.

[ Goblins and kobolds ]
- New crude weapons with worse balance: crude knives, clubs, crude spears, cleavers.

[ Materials ]
- Seeds can be cooked.
- Less sharp wood and stone.
- A bit tougher common skin to avoid bleeding during normal strangling.
- Cheese doesn't rot.
- Proper names for boiling/luqified materials of any kind.
- Multiple smaller Property and cost tweaks to existing materials.
- Multiple different tiers of leather: suede, fur, leather, hide, mythiskin, metalhide.
- Also added barkstrips as a leather type material to be processed from trees.
- Tannable chitin and scale.
- Three types of alcohol material: lousy, standard, fine, with various effects (worse to better). <- TODO to implement in PLANTS update
- Different types and qualities of wood.  <- TODO to implement in PLANTS update
- BREAD and CANDY materials  <- TODO to implement in PLANTS and COOKING update
- Mead has less negative effects.

[ Bodies ]
- Three part brain model (two hemispheres, stem) for most developed civilizations (humans, dwarves, elves, nords). Makes it possible to survive a bolt to a brain, as long as the stem is not destroyed.
- Fixed relative position of teeth in the mouth (vanilla has a bug).
- 4-armed and 6-armed humanoids by default have necks. Also added neckless body versions.
- Joints for various bodytypes besides humanoid (quadruped, legless, winged etc creatures).

[ Tissues ]
- Faster bleedout for deeper wounds.
- Internal organs and bone/spine damage cause more pain.
- Tougher skull bone but heavy bleeding once broken.
- Some healing properties to nail/hooves/horns for them to "regrow".
* The modifications to existing materials and tissues apply to all creatures
** The new materials and tissues will only be useful in new/modified creatures

[ Weapons ]
- All weapons have different preparation and recovery timers based on their size and balance. Now daggers could be useful, while huge weapons will take longer to swing.
- Small weapons are also good at multiattack, while large weapons are bad at multiattack (combining weapon swing with another attack).
- Melee punches/kicks in general are a bit weaker. Give your dwarves at least some daggers to kill that giant.
- *New* weapons: bladed chain, kryss, crude dagger, crude spear, club, dane axe, bearded axe, hand axe.
- Attack surface and penetration of weapons rebalanced to match material changes for most of weapons.
- Slap attack removed from many small sharp weapons where it interfered with normal combat (big weapons keep it).
- Pommel strike made weaker on smaller weapons.
- "Large Dagger" turned into a smaller "Dagger".
- "Short sword" is the next step in weapon slash area size (reduced from vanilla).
- *New* Skimitar weapon as the next step between short sword and long sword.
- "Long sword" slash area size reduced accordingly.
- Combat Whips are no longer a thing. Whip skill repurposed to Halberd skill.

[ Armors ]
- *New* Added chain mittens.
- *New* helmets: masked helmets, horned helmets.
- *New* Plate mail, an upperbody armor that also protects shoulders and arms, available to dwarves and dalesmen.
- Mostly rebalancing in terms of how much clothing covers, to avoid impenetrable onion-wrapped clothing.
- Breastplace takes slightly less bars considering its size (6 from 9).
- Coat covers only 70% of body.
- Cape covers arms fully and protects lowerbody.
- Most of helmets have vulnerable parts. The best protection comes from masked helmets and full helmets.
- Shirts only protect upper arms and cover 60% of body.
- Cloaks do not protect arms but go down to sheens, coverage 60% from 100% and cost 3 instead of 5.
- Tunic covers 85% instead of 100%.
- Toga covers 80% instead of 100% and costs 4 instead of 5.
- Dress covers 70% instead of 100% and costs 4 instead of 5.
- Robe covers 60% instead of 100% and costs 5 instead of 6.

[ Megabeasts ]

- Three dragon types: frost wyrm (ice breath), dragon (fire breath) and wyvern (poison breath).
- Many megabeasts and semimegabeasts also govern DEATH domain, potentionally making them sources of necromancy.
- Bigger and scarier creatures such as dragons and hydras net better leather type (and are harder to kill accordingly).
- Trolls are now "dread trolls", appear starting caverns layer 2, are much tougher, can be butchered and net demonic leather (leather tier 4).
- Megabeasts are too large to fit into a cage or to be hurt by a weapon trap. Some bigger semimegabeasts also are not susceptible to traps.
- Megabeasts don't give into pain (they can still be knocked unconscious via other means).
- Because megabeasts and semimegabeasts are now harder, they come quite a lot later, to let your fort grow first.

[ Creatures ]
- Converted all creatures to the new leather/fur/suede/mythskin/metalhide system.
- Got rid of extra bloat from numerous animal-men and giant-animals. They are available as a separate download to patch in if needed.
- Bigger and scarier creatures such as dragons and hydras net better leather type (and are harder to kill accordingly).
- A lot of adjustments to population sizes to make embark areas populated by different creatures but not overpopulated.
- Rebalanced frequency to make various creatures appear in the same biome.
- A lot of small adjustment to creature gaits, petvalue, age etc.
- Useful pets are more expensive
- Pack animals can carry a bit less (no more 10 anvils on 1 cow), they have to use wagons for this.
- Some animals that were previous just pets (like sheep) can now be found in the wild.
- Most of creatures get odor and vocalization sounds (will be useful in Adventure mode only).
- one-humped and two-humped camels renamed to dromedary/camel.

[ Minerals and metals ]
- *Ironworks* Most of iron ore nets carbon-enriched "cast iron" in a furnace, and later should be worked into "wrought iron", a weapon-grade metal.
- More complex geology. Minerals that often coexist appear together more often, some of layer/sedimentary rocks can appear as veins in other minerals.
- Basic stone has low value, and specific stones that are made to have better cutting edge/beauty or look fancy cost more.
- Granite -> White, red and gray granite
- Diorite -> Diorite and black diorite
- Marble -> Gray marble, black marble, pink marble, pure marble
- Other mineral types added: Diabase, fluorspar, azurite, barite, biotite, flint, elvan, epidote, migmatite, ...
- Breccia, Pumice, Tuff : magma-safe.
- Semiprecious gems are more expensive than most common rocks, a bit more rare, but appear in new minerals (so more gem combinations can come up).
- Removed bismuth and alloys as something that is rare, inconsistent for the period and inconsequentual
- Galena has less pure metals in it.
- New ore-bearing minerals: goethite, meteorite, pentlandite, siderite.
- Soils: black bog, raised mire, swamp peat.
- Goethite is the "bog iron", low-iron mineral that can be found in swamp peat and bog.
- Peat is now a coal resource that can be found in peat swamp.
- Tetrahedrite no longer occurs in ALL STONE, instead where it should.
- New surface-level soil-level coal: peat, occurs in bog/mire/swamp soil.

[ Other ]
- Minor interface tweaks and other game file tweaks, i.e. to make pause button more visible.