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Fallen London with it's spin-off Sunless Sea have very non-standard fantasy world. Interesting creatures, interesting plants/fungi, interesting magic, materials, dishes, colors, drugs and other lore parts, that may be spoilers. As non-spoiler suggestion: mechanic of writing book by compile information from other books.

Plague Inc as example of how may be procedural generated diseases. They may be simple coded for spreading in worldgen sites, when fortress mode can have various types of infections. Coughing as symptom may have side effect of spreading diseases that have token [COUGH_SPREADING] or [AIR_SPREADING]. Various diseases may spread by contact with enemy's blood. Nox Eternis may be example of disease that create night creatures, Neurax - that turn creatures into villains and also creating cults of the disease, Necroa - disease that animate dead body after some time. I think, adding diseases as gods' curses may make them more curse-like.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream have idea about body-turning as torture or vengeance.

Half Life 1 about parasitic creatures (not only zombie, but also gonom), healing water using by civ, electric/sound/vermin attacks and other planes of reality. It's sequel only have interesting antlions and their pheromones.

I will add more when remember fifth game;s name.

If I understand right, DF currently have codes that can be used (with a little changes like renaming, resizing et cetera) for procedurally generate and then spawn some of planned night creature types.

Raising of ghosts by necromancer. Why they are not in current release?

Evil savage beasts, like hexapod capybaras. Their bodies can be generated the same ways as FBs and experiments in current game. They just created by evil regions, not by histfig. Evil carps shall be like this, but aquatic.

Grendels, aquatic trolls. They can just live in water, like oceans, lakes, rivers. They not need boats now. If bogeymans was added with not all features, swimming trolls can be added too.

Cursed seafarers. The same, as aquatic trolls. They can be water version of intelligent undead, spawned by region (not histfig). Before boats, they shall just swim.

Constructed creatures. They can be done like experiments, but needs some RCP bodyparts for grafted weapons and extra butcher objects for using this weapons by adventurer.

Animated furniture. For firstly adding, game needs only new itneraction type, based on undead animation, but that can animate furniture, not corpses. And also bodies for each furniture type. This may be regional interaction like in current regions that reanimate corpses. When you embark in that, you will fight with your own chairs!

Animated trees. A I know, modder LargeSnail made them by DFhack, so they needs a little coding for first arrival.

Stalkers. They needs a lot of coding. But if trying to make them fast, they can be done as replacement of Murderous Ghost and with poperties from Intelligent Undead, they spawn as ghosts do, but healed and with real bodies, respawning after each death.

We have cauldrons. But not only trolls will use them.

Get a cauldron. Build it up. Fill with water. Put meat, spices. Make campfire. After some time, ingredients become a tasty stew.

With grease or oil, you can make roast. With cppkable powder you can bake biscuits.

Also I suggest other possible transformation of materials via contact. Salt or sugar can dissolve in water, but also salt can turn ice into liquid water. Reactions that really is REACTIONS, not just handwork.

World of distilled !!FUN!!, with good savage evil mix and challenges.



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Rules:
1. Dwarf Therapist use is fully allowed
2. DFhack and exploit use justified if good reason.
3. Try to save trolls, they are your only source of wool and caravans don;t sell them. Don;t raid by squad with troll due to a bug.
4. One turn - one year. Or not more than one week of real time.
5. You can suggest small modding of creatures, if you lack some mechanics.

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Or simpler 'crossbreeding'. Creatures will have some tokens for hybrid producing.

Creature has multiple entries (like for attacks, materials et cetera). Firts token specialise creature, caste or class for possible breedings with (and create this type of hybrid). Then may be tokens for specify more creature properties (size range, creature tokens). Fynally is products of hybridisation, with each own chance to born.

So, horce can hybrid with donkey and produce male mul (higher chance, but they are sterille) or female mule. Then female mule can hybrid with horse (ad birth horse) or donkey (and give birht of donkey). Satyrs and generetad night trolls may hybrid with CAN_LEARN creatures and this sexual contact will produce 100% cance satyr or night troll.

Sorrry for erors, I need to sleep.

I want to make Stardew Valley mod, but I'm not expert in this game. So I need list of non-mundane creatures and plants for mod them all into DF.

Also will be interesting to add mayonnaise, but I don't test reactions with eggs.

I have very fun idea of bizarre world, that need some RAW changes for generate fantasiest embark.

Just:
1. Change all aboveground [GOOD] (unicorns, mermaids, pixies et cetera) and [SAVAGE] (yeti, sasquatch, acorn fly, all other, except giant or human animals) to [UBIQUITOUS].
2. Add [USE_EVIL_ANIMALS] to all civs (even elves). (optional - add [ANIMAL][ALWAYS_WAGON_PULLER])
3. Remove [GOOD] or [SAVAGE] from grasses, trees and crops too.
4. Change human civ into gorlak civ.
5. The funniest: remove all [MUNDANE] critters and plants!
6. Generate a world with only evil surroundings and single (but BIG) cavern layer.
7. Play and write about things, that your fortress miss. 

After one round, we will vote for creatures modding.

Current DF has mechanic that used for getting liquid creature extract in some time from some creatures. But this mechanic don't work with sentient creatures. How make syndrome that temporary make serpent men non-sentient for getting venom from them?