How long do they live?

Done! Released it as "Dark Elves Redux" and credited you accordingly :)

@Endali Thanks for doing this! This mod is pretty much a must for me :)

Hiya - just a heads up, I'm working on a an overhaul of your mod seeing as there haven't been any updates for a while. I'm updating it to work with portraits and fixing some things - of course if I choose to release it on the Workshop I will credit you appropriately, hope that is ok

Elves that are tolerable neighbors? Thanks!

Hey, any plans on releasing an update? It's been a while

@Dúnadan Not elf-related, it's a major issue for all intelligent creatures in the current version of DF

I've been enjoying the shit out of this mod. Had a fun start with a civ of dark elves with only one fort who's holdings got taken over by a legion of orcs (from another mod.) My expedition leader was chosen as the new queen fairly early on and she's been Matron Mothering it up since then. I hope you continue working on this, it's a real gem. I'd love to see some pet spiders and more names be added in the future.

Question for anyone able to answer: How do you fulfill their Need for romance and to be with family? None of my elves ever really seem to get together. I'm new to Dwarf Fortress still so I'm likely missing something obvious. Thanks!

Hello, I am still planning on doing an update I will have a month off of work here soon and that is when I plan on having it finished. I will be sure to look into adding more names.

Will there be an update? Since so far I noticed that there are not a lot of dark elf names. At 200 elves in a fortress you have a LOT of repetitions and it makes it hard to differentiate them

I'm curious as to how the update they're working on will impact the mod. Will we be seeing dark elf babies and children too around the time the update drops?

@video game enjoyer I am glad you had fun with it! I will definitely refine the mod and I had already planned on replacing the dogs and cats with spiders. I just have a lot going on right now but once I get a chance I will definitely add spiders as for religion and government I have taken a few notes on what they could look like but I have not decided yet, I was leaning on making the Dark Elves very similar to D&D Drow without changing their play style too much from the base game dwarves. I mainly do not want the rest of the world's population to hate Dark Elves.

Played a successful fortress and had a bunch of fun little stories about militia captains getting smashed drinking wine until they were cross-eyed and then shooting at ogres from our castle battlements and somehow still hitting them in the head. The dark elven national pastime of stripping surfacers who get caught in our traps nude and dropping them into a pit we'd systematically filled with every spider we could catch was great fun. We brutally ambushed and killed some elf traders who showed up to try to sell us some flowers (the nerve!) and ever since then our expedition leader/mayor/baroness "never feels discouraged."

Not sure if you're going to expand or refine this mod any more than what you have already but I think if you changed how the government titles worked and maybe made a bit more of a governmental focus on religion it'd make it even better. Oh, trainable war spiders! It needs to happen.

Great mod!

Can they wear large stuff?

I'm having an issue where I see no guests, trying to narrow it down. Do your races send guests like poets and monster hunters?

Cool mod, though there is a minor issue in at least some of the unique items having weird embark screen costs. The glowberry for instance cost 5 points, while a similar plumped helmet would have cost 1.

Hey, Love the mod, one small issue though, Boar Tails can be made into slurry but that slurry cannot be pressed into paper at the screw press

Very cool mod I love dark elves. Although, I also have some other mods active and now all of my dark elves are gnolls for some reason when I load my save lol Not the mods fault but I figure I should make others aware that there are compatibility issues

Spent some hours using this mod and I gotta say it is a must have for me. There are some minor references here and there (like in the embark messaging) that still say "dwarves" but functionally it adds a standalone race that you can choose to either play as or just live next to with your dwarfy civ.

I think the mod description could use a little more detail as to specific features of the dark elves so people trying the mod have a better idea of what to expect, but for anyone who might be on the fence, check it out, it's solid.... and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves !

Got myself only 200 elfs in last sity, now i have 7 smarty-kungfu elders who love sit in library, and occasional aspirans for ditrty work. All take turns in hand to hand kombat, no weapons and mersinaries, no metal armor exept greaves, no tavern, no walls, only one dinning hole, dormitory, field-temple, some workshops... 18 elfs by far, and looks like migrants has ended. Wish them luck!

First off, love the mod. I did have a question though. Does the scimitar count as a weapon too or just toy? Anyway thanks for the awesome mod!

Is anyone else getting some funky results after a reload with additional races? Naga, Ratfolk and Gnolls? I started in a perfect location with Dark Elves and after a reload it was suddenly Gnolls lol

depends on situation of world gen, as what i know, they are not enemies to any possible race from the start.

If you don't play as them, are they hostile? to either dwarves or elves?

All 3 of them that survived, were alive till the end of my journey, and they became like killing machines, ( i saw one of them killed troll one o one, like in few shots on luck, but anyway scary).
So glory to them. In the end my fortress became capital.
Because citizens were bloody monsters all 200 of them were soldiers 60% legend skill on main weapon all other something like more profi. so i didnt care, because first squad specially with three dragon slayers and one legendary warrior that came with queen. Were even more than monsters...
So basically i will recommend for anybody who love killing machine in skin of cute elf.
Journey ended, because i accomplished everything possible, world was on 5 year on embark, journey ends like 21 year something month (whatever).
Thank you author

So, cool race.
Played like for 15 years. And main fun, i just start training military, got like 50 full iron armor set dudes with random weapons and shield.
It was 3-4 years from embark and we got dragon, and i was like, nah i will just suicide all my shinny man into it, just to see the real man fight and we survived) 40 of them were sacrificed in order to cut the distance between underground fortress entrance and dragon. 5 other died by being turned into bloody hell mess on the floor, that i didnt clean till the end of my journey. 1 more died right after dragon. And the last one died in the hospital.

@minicats make sure when your creating the world to turn the mod on at the bottom left and then when you are in fortress mode select choose origin civilization and you should find the dark elves on the list. If not they may have just been killed off during world generation and you could need to make a new world.

How to choose them? I added the mod into the mod list in game but my starting party are still dwarves.

@Maligerent
I use a few race mods and mods that let you make extra bits, and it is only the Dwarfs that can use those type of mods, As far as i know you would need to add permissions to the race mod to use them, and also the extra building bits mods would have to have the new race added to it,

They don't seem to have access to mods like Stoneworkers Expanded, though I'm not entirely sure if that is the result of this mod or SE and other mods specifically only affecting dwarves.

@Honey Butcher 15 years

Hello,
how many years till adulthood ?

They have the living preferences similar to that of a dwarf. I created them to play like dwarves, look like elves, behave similar to goblins and be able to create everything humans can.

Do they prefer being above or below ground?

Did you make this sow you can kill more elf,s ?

Be Dwarf,
"I do not see a difference elf are elf, hate them all the same."
But good on ya for making it.

This is a wonderful mod. Though i have noticed that they don't seem to have access to cloth cloaks for some reason.

Yippee!

The mod generates with a bunch of errors in ERRORLOG.TXT.
You may want to look into this to make it more stable.

I will look into it shortly.

Any way you can make compatibility with New Genesis (Volume II)?

@lumberingtroll
it seems that it makes YOU become the elves. they also have their own flavor text for their thoughts which was really cool.

Great mod, testing for few days. No problems, good race. Thank you Author.

is this mod blasphamous? I think this mod is blasphamous

are these player only, or non-player as well?

love this, hope to see more soon!

Now just let them build / craft with bones and skin and you have the Alfar from Markus Heitz "The Dwarves" Series

Do they have the same ethics as dwarves?

Are they "underdark" style dark elves that build underground?

The sprite you made is wonderful! The Dark Elves look really evil. I was thinking about adding a dark elf, so I can use this mode! Thank you!