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This is absolutely amazing. I would love to read more if you're still interested.

(I know this is a very old post but it's still fantastic, sorry if posting a year later bothers someone)

Shame, I was hoping someone would have modded it or that there might be something in dfhack that lets me rename spawned creatures but nothing jumped out at me when I was looking through the list of commands.

Came back to DF after a long break. Apparently now there are necromorphs. So... that happened. THANKS OBAMA!

I typically take fairly long breaks between my dwarf fortress cravings and due to that, don't keep up with updates and news.

Almost every time I come back and start reading the news, I have NO IDEA what it's actually talking about (apart from the obvious features mentioned in that one post) and usually have to read through the last 10+ posts to figure out what's actually going on and what's being changed.

I just have a simple suggestion to add, if possible, a small text button next to the title of the post that says what kind of changes these are or for what mode (ex: new mechanics - fortress mode, or just fortress mode/adventure mode).

It's not a huge deal, just a small personal annoyance for me. At first I thought the running and climbing was for fortress mode until I read several more posts below it to find out it's actually adventure mode changes (I think).

For people who keep up with updates and news day to day this is probably not an issue, and heck maybe I'm in a minority, I just know it's confusing when I come back from a break from DF. Being able to see at a quick glance what specifically the post is referring to or talking about would be great.

I actually managed to do a gaia map that retains its basic shape but randomizes rivers, volcanoes and savagery. Which is pretty cool. I can't post it here though since it apparently exceeds the 40k character limit lol.

I will answer everything in a while, just two thinks now:

High Boots cancel out shoes, and no socks exist...THATS it, what is making armored dwarves think they are naked. Thanks for that find.

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A similar change is to other creatures too, such as in creature_magical_ff.  In game too, you find there sure are a lot of savage, good, and evil, & mountain and ocean creatures running around no matter where you embark.  I bet this was some kind of debugging test, I doubt this made it to the live version on purpose.

As strange as it sounds, this is on purpose. I will restrict the creatures a bit, but I NEVER saw a forest imp, faun, sasqatch or similar crazyness in the game, only animals, not fantastic creatures. So all fantastic creatures got a ANY_LAND to make them appear more often. Thought people would appreciate acutally seeing the fancy creatures for once

I ran into a bunch of creatures I've never seen before and personally I thought it was awesome. I had no idea what was going on. It was pretty late into the game, a few years at least, when they started appearing.

It was definitely interesting and I like it. If you do revert it back to restricting them do you think we can get an option to turn that on and off? I love it and want it on, it gives more variety to things you encounter.

Not sure if this was just a random bug but the creature research lab wasn't detecting a platinum skill essence laying around. They weren't on the same z-level but if there's anything you can do to prevent this from happening it would be great.

Hate having to destroy and rebuild workshops and hoping it detects things properly, or destroying them again if it doesn't and trying to build them on another z-level.