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Wait until your moody weaponsmiths start churning out Adamantine Crossbow artifacts, then lets see about the "YAY" -part 

At least adamantine crossbows are a nice status symbol. You know what sucks? Adamantine capes. Some dwarf wastes all this adamantine on an artifact only to reveal a tacky blue cape, presumably so he can run around pretending to be super dwarf.

How come the whales can easily fit themselves into the tiny corridors the dwarves make for themselves? 

For the same reason a bronze colossus can be held within a small wooden cage.

Without a doubt, horses and camels are the deadliest mundane animals. They combine the power of an elephant with deadly hooves, lightning speed, and a lust for murder. I had a skeletal camel assassinate 8 dwarves.

Oh yes, horses and their relatvies are quite deadly. I tried embarking on a horrifying desert once. 6 of the dwarves were killed in the first month by a marauding horde of skeletal camels. In Townbrush, one of the militia commanders died in a single hit when the insane merchant's camel kicked him in the head.

Giant Cave Spiders are still big, carp are still pretty deadly (Dodging is Fun!), and I'll have to say zombie whales.



I've never embarked on an evil biome (Might do it soon though), but whales are gargantuan beasts. Imagine that 200 ton thing running at you.

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From what I remember about Townbrush, a fort plagued by undead ocean monsters, whale zombies aren't actually that bad because they are so damn slow. Civilians can out run them and trained soldiers can kill them fairly quickly. However when they do manage to catch a stupid, slow dwarf, that dwarf tends to be crushed to death almost instantly. So you only need to worry about zombie whales if they end up camping inside your dining hall, waiting for ignorant dwarves to walk through the door.

OT: Bronze Colossus still pretty much obliterates everything, so they're the most obvious choice. As for the more mundane animals, alligators and their ilk are quit vicious and can easily kill a dwarf. Voracious cave crawlers tear through civilians like warm butter. Giant cave spiders get a guarnteed kill on everything they inject vemon into. So many animals, so many ways for them to kill you with ease. Pick your poison.

Quick question:

If I told you there was a race of people who lived exclusively in the desert, would you think they were elves? Or humans?

Humans.

To survive in a desert you need to be hardy and resourceful. Elves, with their pansy religions and silly morals, wouldn't be able to make it out there. Unless they find a way to utilize cactuses like trees, though I imagine cactus armor would be even more ineffective.

Try adding [YARN] to the raws for some random type of cloth that you happen to have.

I might as well try this. It sounds to simple to work, but I don't have any other options really.

You should probably be more specific about what you mean by "doesn't work". In Dwarf Fortress that could mean a million different things. If you haven't already try checking the error log to see what problems the creature has. I'd try looking at it myself but I'm not on a computer with DF right now.

By "it doesn't work", do you mean that they don't show up? You should add an [UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:1:3] tag to the creature.

Judging from the code it looks like it's supposed to be a domestic animal, in which case such a tag is not needed unless he wants it to appear in the wild.

there's a vanilla example, the cavern thingman civs, they're all only one entity, but there are antman civs, cave swallowman civs, etc.

Ah of course. So much for making a simply multi-race civ. I suppose it's still possible through the use of castes but those are a lot harder to work with for what I have in mind.