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ALoE - A Little of Everything:

This is a personal mod list of mine that is now a collection. Some things added:
  • Additional wild creatures and tweaked animal textures
  • Changed world textures/colors - hills, ramps, reduced fog, cave moss, grasses, and more!
  • Industry changes - Burnable items, Mead values, More Mushrooms, Royal honey, Stone beds, etc!
  • More military and job icons
  • More music - Simon Swerwer
  • New civilizations - Gnolls* , Halflings, and Kobolds
  • UI changes - QWERTY keyboard improvements & Audible Alerts
  • Varied resource gathering methods - All Year Underground Farming, Peat/Bog Iron, and Topple's Quarries
  • World lore tweaks - Cultural values and Additional world names

Feel free to comment what else you would like to see (or remove)!

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


Credit for the branding & background image:
Prior branding image created from Sean Sevestre's "Escort":

Sean Sevestre ArtStation [www.artstation.com]

New Branding & Background, Arne Niklas Jansson's "I", and "TwoGods" from:
Android Arts - Dwarf Fortress [www.androidarts.com]
Android Arts [androidarts.com]

*Archie's Gnoll Adventure update is the most up to date file so far.
Items (47)
Cooler World Names
Created by DPh Kraken
Increases the variety of generated names for the world and locations. Adds 103 roots to MYTHIC and 31 roots to NAME_REGION for approximately 10,000 new world name combinations. The region name produces a variety of tones, some epic, some grim, some a littl...
Intro's Kobold Civ
Created by Introdile
Adds kobolds as a playable civ! These kobolds are based on vanilla kobolds, but heavily modified to be more dragon-y! They're given scales, tails, horns, increasing their size, and giving them a bunch of new graphics! They're also very gay and sometimes ag...
Grind bones and shells into flux (and more)
Created by niemst
Grind Bones and Shells into Flux TL;DR Create flux from bones and shells, and more. Introduction This mod was created to give some use to bones and shells. After reviewing the flux stone list, I discovered that bones and shells could be used to create flux...
Base Resources
Created by niemst
Base Resources TL;DR Technical mod adds REACTION_CLASS to vanilla items to allow for more efficient modding Check my other mods Introduction I got tired of adding REACTION_CLASS to vanilla items in many of my mods, so I decided to make a mod for it. With t...
Colors of the Earth
Created by DPh Kraken
A dye and textile focused mod, adding new mineral sources and rebalancing plant dyes. Stones: - Added a number of inorganic dyes produced by milling economic stones - Lead bars can be converted into minium (4 gems each), used for crystal glass. Inspired by...
Shaped Shoes/Boots
Created by Dawnmist
Allows military dwarves to change into armored boots when equipping their uniforms by adding the SHAPED tag to shoes/boots. This mod implements the recommended work-around to allow military dwarves to change footwear when equipping armor that is specified ...
Horned Cave Beetle
Created by Toss Thrown
A round, omnivorous beetle slightly larger than a horse. Most notable features of the horned cave beetle are that they have a blue carapace, red eyes, and lovely brown beards. The males have a long horn at the front of their bodies. Rare male beetles will ...
Topples' Halflings
Created by Topples
Halfling Civilization A playable civilization consisting of a society of halflings. What are halflings? About half the size of a human. They are a considerably weak race with higher than normal social capabilities. They tend to lack the great ambitions tha...
Topples' Quarry
Created by Topples
Quarries This mod adds quarries that were included in the halfling mod to both dwarf and human entities. Quarries are an alternative way of obtaining stone, ore, and gems that is not meant to supplant standard mining. Obtaining these materials from quarrie...
Flowing Water
Created by Poss
Animates water so you can see it flowing. Helps identify risky water, shows directions for machinery and helps adventurers find water that is safe to drink It matches the water simulation's direction of flow. The game actually already does this animation u...
Just put it on the floor
Created by niemst
Just Put It On The Floor TL;DR This mod allows you to create 0 value display cases - that can be interpreted as markers, allowing you to put items on them - like they would be on the floor without the need for other furniture. Earliest compatible version 1...
Burn goods and furniture
Created by niemst
Burn Goods and Furniture TL;DR This mod allows you to burn various wooden and similar goods, including furniture and leftovers, to produce ash. Please see my other mods: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3157869674 Introduction Initial...
Deon's Menagerie - Deep rothe
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Warning: Any mod adding new creatures requires a new world to be generated, otherwise they will not spawn (since they were not generated as a part of a world's population). Creature description A squat sheep-like four-legged...
Industry - Peat and Bog iron
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Warning: Any mod adding new materials requires a new world to be generated, otherwise they will not spawn (since they were not generated as a part of a world's geology). This mod makes vanilla peat (+ 2 new types of peat) in...
Color Reference
Created by DPh Kraken
Adds a bunch of colored materials in different forms to be used as a modding reference or pixel-art aid. Each possible in-game color is represented as metal, textile/dye, wood, and stone. You can spawn and preview these items in the arena, at the clothier ...
Variable Values & Dwarven Animism
Created by DPh Kraken
The default civilizations now have variations in their cultural preferences and religion structure. Features For all civilizations except kobolds, values that were initially neutral will now vary from -30 to 30, the same variance humans have for cultural v...
Deon's Menagerie - Moss Tortoise
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Warning: Any mod adding new creatures requires a new world to be generated, otherwise they will not spawn (since they were not generated as a part of a world's population). Creature description A cavern-dwelling tortoise wit...
Deon's Menagerie - Gargoyle
Created by Deon ☣
https://i.imgur.com/R4GtvHi.png Warning: Any mod adding new creatures requires a new world to be generated, otherwise they will not spawn (since they were not generated as a part of a world's population). Creature description A white-gray animated marble m...
Unicorn Tweaks
Edits unicorns to be a bit less horselike. New sprite, slightly smaller size. Load after Vanilla Creatures and before Vanilla Creature Graphics....
Metal plate floor
This mod replaces vanilla metal floor texture with metal plate. Who would want diagonal wood-like looking bars on the floor when you could have a BIG and SHINY metal plate anyway? Also replaces metal ramp texture. Compatible with any other mod that don't r...
More Mushrooms All Seasons
Removes the seasonal requirements, allowing you to grow the new mushrooms year-round. *Note - Due to current limitations, the special Cavern 3 plant is available at embark. Nothing I can do about this right now, so just ignore it if you want the challenge ...
Painted Dogs
Created by Generic Hyena #2
A small mod that adds painted dogs (lycaon pictus) also known as African wild dogs, African hunting dogs, and painted wolves. African wild dogs are: - large diurnal carnivore predators, that form tight social packs - are liked for their large ears, distinc...
Maned Wolves
Created by Generic Hyena #2
A small mod that adds maned wolves (Chrysocyon Brachyurus). Maned wolves inhabit any grasslands, shrublands and savannas, hunt vermin, are solitary creatures, and fairly rare. They are enjoyed for their long legs, their unique bark, and their distinctive m...
Additional Hyenas
Created by Generic Hyena #2
A small mod that adds striped-, brown hyenas and aardwolves. Aardwolves (proteles cristata) are: - liked for their long sticky tongues, and small size - benign meandering vermin eating exotic pets - encountered in tropical savannas, grasslands and shrublan...
Audible Alerts
Created by Trainzack
Makes most alerts trigger a sound. This is really helpful if you, like me, keep missing important alerts. Installation Instructions When creating a world, select this mod from the mod menu. This mod should be loaded after the vanilla mods. Uninstallation I...
Ergonomic Hotkeys (QWERTY)
Created by Trainzack
Ergonomic Hotkeys (QWERTY) Version 1.6 This mod replaces the game's default hotkeys with a set of hotkeys designed to be easily accessed with the left hand alone. The hotkeys also closely mirror the layout of the buttons on screen for easy memorization. Yo...
Simon Swerwer Soundtrack
Created by Hippiecab
Adds soundtrack by Simon Swerwer. Music and images provided by Simon Swerwer at his website . Music files have been exported to Ogg Vorbis from FLAC-files, having the best possible quality. The volume has been normalized to match the vanilla music. The qua...
Silk Eggs
Created by keg
Silk creatures now lay eggs in nest boxes, which can be hatched or eaten as normal. Weavers can take these eggs and convert them into 10 thread a piece automatically at a farmers workshop. The following animals will lay silk eggs: -giant cave spider -giant...
Bourbon's Dark Floors
Created by Bourbon
Removes blue tone from numerous rough or smoothed stone floors and ramps....
Stone Beds
Created by Kurumukis
This mod enables the construction of stone beds at a stonecrafting workshop for dwarven civilisations. I've always found it goes against my idea of dwarves that they are limited to only sleeping on wooden beds. Being that they spend most of their lives ins...
Transparent (Glass) Floors
Created by Replica
Makes glass floors more transparent! Had a thonk about graphics and the vanilla glass floors being slightly transparent and realized the game is fine with you using transparent png's on the sprites and tiles themselves. So I figured, why not make the glass...
Ketaros Stones Variations
Created by Ketaros
This mod adds a massive variation to one of the most important aspect of the game, the stones! Minerals and ores now will have variations to the physical look of all the stones in the game, keeping the same color style. https://i.imgur.com/oxYddPx.png http...
DLE - All Year Underground Farming
Created by MeowMeowPunch
Vanilla Change - All Year Underground Farming This mod is part of the Dwarven Life Expanded series. Make the six vanilla underground crops growable all year round. This mod does the exact same thing as the excellent mod "Underground Farming All Seasons" by...
Royal Mead Reaction
Created by MikeM
Adds a reaction to make mead while consuming both honey and royal jelly....
Gender Name Colors
Created by bunnybun420fml
Colors the names of most creatures according to their gender if they have one. It *shouldn't* mess anything up if it loads before any other mod, but it applies a creature variation to every creature in the game, so. Best practice is probably to have it loa...
Lightly Detailed Grass
Created by Echophenomena
This mod adds new grass textures for the different types of grass that appear in the game (but which previously all used the same texture). This mod is heavily inspired by Poss' Detailed Landscapes mod, but with a greater focus on subtlety. It uses a restr...
Useful Kiln
Created by Anmer
The kiln, like in real life, can fit multiple items for glazing and produce multiple bricks at a time. It is still possible to use the old reactions in the Kiln for single items, but the new ones save fuel and time. New Reactions: make clay bricks (4) glaz...
Shaped Gloves
Created by Dawnmist
Allows military dwarves to change into armored gauntlets despite wearing gloves or mittens. Please note: I had originally misunderstood one of the complex clothing combination rules. I've updated this mod as a result of being informed about how that rule w...
Cuter Cavern Moss
Created by wombat_tree
Changes the colours of the cavern moss so that the first layer in particular isn't a horrible vomit yellow....
Additional Races: Gnolls
Created by SEEU
https://i.imgur.com/0dFMX4S.png https://i.imgur.com/cXEm8O9.png The Gnoll are a civilization of hyena-like humanoids who roam the tropical savannahs and grasslands in search of murder and plunder. They are innately hostile to most others and like stealing ...
Squad & Burrow Icons
Created by CaZsm
This small mod adds additional, more informative custom symbols to the military squad screen and the burrows screen. Icons are in the same style as the default tileset. No dependencies, load in any order. Includes symbols: - Archer - Sword - Hammer - Spear...
Rounded hills
Created by Poss
Makes hill corners less sharp and more natural Version 1.6 now includes support for all vanilla surfaces and compatibility for custom tilesets like Detailed Landscapes ...
Beekeeping Buff
Created by Haethei
Makes the Beekeeping industry a little more lucrative by increasing the value of wax, honey, and mead. Edits both honeybee materials AND bumblebee materials, even though you can't use bumblebee items in-game, it would work well with any other mods that all...
See-Through Smoothing Designations w/ Priority
Created by aanthony3
This replaces the smoothing and engraving designation graphic with something that's easier to see through and still allows the priority numbers to be visible. It is based on the original See-Through Smoothing Designations mod by Trainzack. How to Install T...
Work Detail Icons
Created by Trainzack
A set of 8 icons lovingly stolen from the base game that replace the I II III IV V VI VII VIII symbols that designate custom work details. It's a bit fiddly to select the one you want, but even if you aren't choosy these are helpful. Thanks to Wookieguy fo...
Reduced Z-Level Fog
Created by Munashe
Thins out the z-level fog....