Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress

Cooler World Names
14 Comments
DPh Kraken  [author] 15 Aug, 2024 @ 8:59am 
No symbols have been removed, so I've marked it compatible.
annaflyte 15 Aug, 2024 @ 5:36am 
Thanks for the update. Is it safe to update language mods like this mid save?
cringeybabey 20 Jun, 2024 @ 4:35am 
@Amelio the "feminist dream" is equal wages, not enslaving a bunch of dorks like you.
Ole Hockey Thighs 8 Sep, 2023 @ 1:12pm 
I'm still getting the SHRUB and SPHERE error.
DemonicSquid 6 Jul, 2023 @ 12:12pm 
Man is just shorthand in that context for human, it is not gender specific and never has been.
Amelio 3 Jul, 2023 @ 1:53pm 
cool didn't know it, assumed some differences in vanilla for characters, but lol "the age of women" come to mind something like matriarchy society with males as literal slaves, the femminist dream
[+DG+] Sir_Castic 2 Jul, 2023 @ 10:30pm 
How dare you accuse me of trolling?
DPh Kraken  [author] 2 Jul, 2023 @ 9:11pm 
They appear to be trolling, but I'll answer legitimately. I did add [S_WORD:MAN] and not [S_WORD:WOMAN] to MYTHIC, reflecting the poetic use of "man" to refer to the entire species (and likely also to their dwarven, elven, and even goblin kin).
Using "woman" in the same context generally sounds weirder, and even the game's language files are built on that assumption. "The Age of Woman" is not supported by vanilla procedural grammar, while "The Age of Man" is.
As for gendered character names, that's something that's not in the base game and there's no tokens to tell the game to. The original Urist was a lady dwarf, but like all names they're culturally gender-neutral.
Amelio 2 Jul, 2023 @ 5:03pm 
no women / male specific names with this mod?
[+DG+] Sir_Castic 20 Jun, 2023 @ 2:52pm 
women aren't real (women don't exist) with this mod
DPh Kraken  [author] 13 Apr, 2023 @ 3:25pm 
That's an error on my part! SHRUB and SPHERE aren't part of language_words, but I never really checked that. Since I don't want to add new words to the dictionary, I'll just remove them for the next release.
dimm_ddr 13 Apr, 2023 @ 2:22am 
I have the game crashed on the world generation with those errors:
*** Error(s) finalizing the symbol NAME_GRASSLAND
Unrecognized word token: SHRUB
*** Error(s) finalizing the symbol NAME_REGION
Unrecognized word token: SPHERE

From my investigation it looks like you need to add those words (and maybe some others too) into the language_words.txt file somehow. I have no idea how to mod this without editing the vanilla file though. My guess is that you need to either create a file with all the definitions for words that missing from the vanilla dictionary, or even add them all into the same file where you define new words for symbols. Something like this, for example:
[WORD:SHRUB]
[NOUN:shrub:shrubs]
[FRONT_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING]
[REAR_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING]
[THE_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING]
[THE_NOUN_SING]
[REAR_COMPOUND_NOUN_PLUR]
[THE_NOUN_PLUR]
[OF_NOUN_PLUR]
DPh Kraken  [author] 4 Apr, 2023 @ 8:05pm 
Glad to hear your enthusiasm. I was inspired to make this mod after extensively testing modded Legends mode and getting a bit bored at the world names just starting to feel samey.
snerd 4 Apr, 2023 @ 5:41pm 
Thank you for this! I always wanted more variety in world names. Great work!