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Right now I'm working on a mod that makes some of the monsters and magic stuff in the base game more common without making the world too chaotic, since I'm always a little frustrated by how all the cool stuff in the setting naturally depletes over time as you kill them off.

So far I have several weaker versions of the megabeasts that can show up as regular wildlife:
Wyverns (that shoot hot steam instead of fire, not instantly deadly but can melt flesh with prolonged exposure)
Demi Hydras (with 3 heads)
Demi rocs

They're all around the size of a horse, and show up in savage biomes. When I thought of how to add a tamable bronze colossus, I started putting together a golem crafting system, which is starting to spin off into its own mod. I made "demi" versions of the semi-megas too, except they're benign and can join civs during worldgen.

To see necromancers more often, I made the "mortal troll", which is just a troll that's opposed_to_life and can raise the dead. The idea being that it'll go around killing troglodytes or whatever and give you zombies to deal with. I also made "feral vampires" that can spread vampirism with a bite, but that doesn't seem to be working properly in worldgen for some reason. I might also make an old fashioned werewolf to round out the night creatures.

Does anyone know if the "shrine blessing" system can be modded, or point me to how it functions? Being able to use a system like that would be enormously helpful with a mod I'm developing.

It's in the scope of hardcoded procedural stuff. You might be able to make your own blessing interactions and get them to appear by reducing the number of generated blessings to 0 in advanced world gen, but I don't think you have much more control over it than that.

I got a winged blob made of fire recently. It turns out dwarves can't fight creatures that are constantly surrounded by fire.

You might have just witnessed the result of a particularly vicious drunken brawl. There's no real justice system, so I guess the people nearby can't do anything but spit on the killer.

Your adventurers do experience emotional stress but I don't think it currently has an effect on you. You might occasionally notice your guy has been crying a lot though.

The things npc's say about what they like are mostly based on their personalities and values, I think. You can't actually meet all your needs in adventure mode right now anyway, so if a Good Meal does require your favorite food then you'll have to find other activities to stay Focused.

you mentioned that one of these new intelligent undead was killed defending its tower from an attack by another necromancer. Does that mean that necromacers aren't always on the same side, and undead can be made to attack each other now?

Currently I think raised zombies will ignore anything that's also undead, so vampire adventurers can just stroll right into a tower unimpeded. If they're taking their group affiliation into account now, I imagine this will change.

Before the human Gadoc Beangoat became a vampire, she was a renowned athlete, winning yearly footraces and wrestling competitions almost every year. After becoming a vampire, she went on to continue wrestling for the next 20 years until she was chased out of town on suspicion of murder. After winning every wrestling competition and fleeing from her new home yet again, she became the head of a gang of bandits and remains so to this day, 100 years later. Though she never participated in another competition, I imagine she will carry her passion for wrestling in her unbeating heart for as long as she stalks the earth. Perhaps she became a vampire just to keep wrestling forever.

I think often there just isn't a lot to take screenshots of. Not a lot that isn't communicated just as easily through text, at least. Most of the things being worked on sound abstract or hard to capture visually. It'd be nice to see, but it's probably not worth the effort to show off every new line of dialogue or historical entry.