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Industry - Black Lung

I wanted to make lignite and bituminous coal more interesting. Right now they can be easily replaced by woodburning, so instead I introduced a risk factor and more reward.


This mod introduces dangerous materials - lignite dust and bituminous coal dust.
To make the material not stand out, they are still called "lignite" and "bituminous coal".

Traders do not bring these materials (because they contain the tag [SPECIAL]), but embark allows to pick them.
Because of that, I have given them a "poison/danger" icon so you don't pick them instead of real lignite/bituminous coal:



Lignite/coal dust (that looks like normal stone and appears in clusters inside of lignite/bituminous coal), when mined and inhaled, introduces "black lung" syndrome.

Lignite has weaker effects, bituminous coal has stronger effects.

At first it causes shortness of breath and chronic cough. In later stages it causes lung necrosis and dysfunction, arthritis and dizziness. In most severe cases it can even cause suffocation.

To make the mining of lignite/bituminous coal still worth it, reactions to turn them into coke were doubled in output.

The original idea of black lung was brought up back in 2010 by Lofn on Bay12games forums. This mod implements the same idea, but a bit differently. For example, the syndromes are not as deadly, all of them are resistable, so using miners with high disease resistance produces better results


If you like the mod, you will make me happy if you rate it and share it with your friends. And remember, Losing is Fun!




The mod is compatible with anything as long as you play the dwarves (MOUNTAIN entity) and do not remove original lignite/bituminous coal.

It should go after vanilla files in the load order, as it patches vanilla entities and reactions.