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Wowsa, I generated a vanilla world with a giant haunted mountain range. Here's the first place I embarked to:




Oh, and the chasm opens to the surface:



That's a bunch of zombie mole dogs coming for me.

I'll put the seed up to this world on the wiki. In addition to the haunted mountains, there are haunted deserts with magma, haunted glaciers, serene glaciers, and lots of other cool things. I haven't gone through the history to look for undead megabeast, but I'm guessing there will be some.

Good thing I brought a hammer dwarf.

Hey everyone,

First post here - I love the game!  

Based on a discussion some other people were having about the relative difficulty of sieges, I made a few quick mods and I thought I would share them in case others were interested.  Replace the Goblin and Beak Dog entries in the creature_standard with these. Here they are:

code:

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[CREATURE:GOBLIN]
   [NAME:nilbog:nilbogs:nilbog]
   [TILE:'n'][COLOR:7:0:0]
   [GLOWTILE:'"'][GLOWCOLOR:4:0:1]
   [GENPOWER:2]
   [BUTCHERABLE_NONSTANDARD][EVIL]
   [INTELLIGENT][LIKES_FIGHTING]
   [BONECARN]
   [CANOPENDOORS]
   [PREFSTRING:backwards ways]
   [BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP :punch :punches:1:2:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
   [ATTACK:SECOND:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:2:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
   [CHILD:12][BABY:1][MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
   [SIZE:6]
   [FAT:2]
   [EQUIPS]
   [NOCTURNAL]
   [NOFEAR]
   [FIREIMMUNE_SUPER]
   [TRAPAVOID]
   [BUILDINGDESTROYER:2]
   [AMPHIBIOUS][UNDERSWIM]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10067]
   [LAYERING:10]  

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code:

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[CREATURE:BEAK_DOG]
   [ADD_VERSION:1097]
   [NAME:kaeb god:kaeb gods:kaeb god]
   [TILE:'K'][COLOR:4:0:0]
   [MODVALUE:2]
   [LARGE_ROAMING][FREQUENCY:25]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:10:20]
   [CLUSTER_NUMBER:3:7]
   [LARGE_PREDATOR][EVIL][MOUNT][MEANDERER]
   [PETVALUE:50]
   [GRASSTRAMPLE:0]
   [BONECARN]
   [PREFSTRING:grickles and dracks]
   [PREFSTRING:mirrored wings]
   [PREFSTRING:large kaebs]
   [BODY:HUMANOID:2WINGS:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:MOUTH]
   [BODYGLOSS:PAW:CLAW_HAND]
   [SIZE:7]
   [MAXAGE:10:20]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
   [CHILD:1][CHILDNAME:kaeb god pup:kaeb god pups]
   [FAT:1]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
   [BIOME_MARSH_TEMPERATE_FRESHWATER]
   [BIOME_MARSH_TEMPERATE_SALTWATER]
   [BIOME_MARSH_TROPICAL_FRESHWATER]
   [BIOME_MARSH_TROPICAL_SALTWATER]
   [NOFEAR]
   [FIREIMMUNE_SUPER]
   [TRAPAVOID]
   [AMPHIBIOUS]
   [FLIER]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10067]

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Nilbogs are just like Goblins, but they can breathe water, avoid traps, feel no fear, are immune to fire, and they can destroy buildings. Kaeb Gods are just like Beak Dogs, but they do all of the above, they can't destroy buildings, and they fly.

Obviously this is meant to make sieges harder. A nilbog siege can be very scary. A nilbog mace lord once swam up a water filled channel into my underground forest, then went from there to my dwarf apartments and killed a few dozen civilians. My last fortress died when a nilbog destroyed a floodgate and everyone drowned. So be prepared. Nilbogs are no joke. I have not fought Kaeb Gods yet, but they can even get over the chasm and the magma, so good luck hiding.

This shouldn't affect adventure mode much - they aren't any stronger, just have some immunities to damage that PCs can't really cause in Adventure mode anyways, although they are fearless.

Hope you enjoy.