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I started off with a usual team of Dwarves, but both of my Miners have extra skills.

I had them set as Miner / Armorsmith and Miner / Weaponsmith.  The Armorsmith is also an Accomplished Carpenter and Wood Crafter.  The Weaponsmith is also an Accomplished Gem Cutter and Setter.  I didn't set their skills this way, nor are any of my other starting dwarves changed.

My game is not modded at all.  This is a Reclaim fort though, would that be the cause?  Or is it just a wonderful bug?

I am playing an unmodded DF, current version.

The last 3 sites I have chosen, all 3x3 or 4x4, I have dug down into the magma sea, but there is never any Adamantine.  The magma sea just dips down into a solid layer of semi molten rock, and ends.

After this happened the third time, I went and used DFhack's reveal, and indeed hell is down there, but I just have no way of getting into it.

In the previous version, there was supposed to be at least 1 Adamantine pipe into hell on every embark, did this change?

So I have been using the version before this last release, since Toady has been releasing bug fixes.  But I decided to go ahead and download it, and mess around for a bit with the new features in evil biomes.

Fort 1 - Attempt a normal embark.  Everything dies within 2 minutes.

Well now, I figured I'd need to either have a military, or do something ridiculous.  I went for the ridiculous option.  I modded Giant Cave Spiders to be common pets on embark.

I embark again, this time with an army of 3 War Dogs (Was going to chain them up by my Depot, but I never even got that far with them) and 8 Giant Cave Spiders.  I pause as soon as the game starts, there's only one Eagle Corpse flying around.  I figure that this won't be too bad.  I set out digging underground to put my Depot and fort entrance down there.

And then it happens.

A swarm of dead Moth Men and Women fly at my Dwarves.  My spiders being spraying web everywhere, and MURDERING the corpses (is that possible?).  But one of them had gotten to my War Dog.  It turned on the spiders, who struck it down instantly.  They returned to the wagon.  Then the corpses started rising back up again.  And I was like "Well I forgot this could happen."

My spiders run at the corpse parts again, striking them all down.  My dead war dog's body parts chase my Woodcutter around for a bit.

Now I'm trying to rush to get everything from my Wagon indoors, so I can seal myself off to the zombies.  It's not working so well though.  Near the fort entrance are DOZENS of corpses (38 right now) and body parts waiting to reanimate, my one dog is somehow still alive (and not undead) despite having a crushed head and throat cause of a Mothman Chiten that came alive and attacked him.

Here's a pic.  Keep in mind this is less than 5 minutes into the fort.  Less than 13 days of in game time.


Beneath all that delicious GCS silk web are dozens of corpses.

Oh great, now a couple of Giant Porcupine corpses just showed up.  Only solution now is to wall myself in and breach HFS.

I am looking for a mod that does not change DF's mechanics at all, but simply introduces new hostile creature civs.

I remember like a year and a half ago I had an Orc mod for DF, they were basically stronger goblins that would siege you starting the very first summer.

I miss that type of military challenge to keep me entertained.

Any good ones around?

Or can someone point me towards a quick tutorial towards turning regular creatures into a civ?  I'd like a Whale civ, I think.

I'm looking for a spot like this, seems impossible to find though.

A Joyous Wilds biome, no aquifer. 
Temperate or Warm climate, decent amount of trees and plants.
Access to all the standard civs for trading and war purposes.
It would be awesome if it had Flux, Shallow AND Deep metals, but it's not required.  I'd take just one source of metal.

It sounds simple enough but I've been playing with the world gen parameters for nearly 2 hours, and even trying to use Perfect Embark and I can't generate a site like this. 

Or, some tips of world gen editing or using PE would help.  I've increased the desired amount of good subregions, lowered the amount for evil ones.  I lessened the amount of oceans and mountains so I get more land that could suit my needs, but no luck still.

So I wanted to embark somewhere with a cave.  I find a nice location without an aquifer, and I set out.

As soon as the fort starts, FIRE.  EVERYWHERE.  There was a dragon living in the cave, and he happened to be standing right where my dwarves parked their wagon.  Luckily, my dwarves run and scatter, and the dragon turns to fight my pet dogs.  The odd part is this.  One of my dogs apparently bit the dragon in half somehow.  It died mysteriously, split in half, but the combat logs don't tell how it died.  It just shows pages of it being bit by my dogs and nothing happening, and then all of a sudden it's just cut in two.

Well anyway, after it died I explored the cave.  At the very bottom of the cave, it opens right into the first underground cavern.  It's a nifty little setup.

Some pics.

The ground level.  The cave is underneath a little hill of obsidian, I think it looks cool.

The wide open underground cavern, not fully explored yet though.

So the Dwarven Liason arrives, missing a leg.  Thankfully, he's SUPERDWARVENLY TOUGH, so he's able to hop about on the one leg pretty good.  He jumps a few spaces, passes out for about half a second, then jumps again, and repeats.

He makes it about halfway to my fort by the time I'm trading.  I lose track of him to designate stockpiles for everything I just bought, and then I get tons of "interrupted by raccoon" messages.

So I look, and behold, a NAMED raccoon is chasing my Dwarves.  So I think uh oh, which one of my Dwarves is dead already...  But they're all there.

So I look for Stumpy the Liason.

He's scattered all around about 5 different tiles.  Chunks everywhere...  His corpse further along, he still tried to make it to my fort while being ripped apart.

The odd part about all this is that after the raccoon killed the liason, it seemingly charged right through the only entrance to my fort, which is a 5x10 bridge, and started harassing my Dwarves.

Once an animal gets a taste of Dwarven flesh, does it become more aggressive?

Also, I hate not being able to specify what the Dwarves should trade me :|