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What's the optimal size of farm plot per citizen? Ideally the goal is to create enough crops to keep everyone fed and drunk, but not overproduce and flood all stockpiles with tens of thousands of prepared meals, as usually seems to happen.

Is there someway to see a concise list of changes made to creature tokens over the years? I'd like to update some old mods (circa 2014) but wouldn't really know where to start. Anything I should look out for?

Question, since I can't seem to be able to extract the .rar (probably an issue on my end): How do you handle things like subspecies, or groups of related monsters? For instance, Great Jaggi, Jaggia, and Jaggi are all different forms of the same species; do you treat them as different castes of the same creature, or separate creatures? The former would ensure they appear in groups, as in the games.

No-one is going to download a mod with no info on what it does / contains.

Actually now's the perfect time, so that when mythgen comes out we can look back and laugh at how completely off the mark we were.

Try giving both castes extremely short lifespans perhaps? I wonder if it's possible to make cretures die of old age before reaching adulthood. Would be useful outside of hacky world-genning for modelling an axolotl's life cycle!

Having played Endless Legend quite a lot recently, I've been impressed by the relative uniqueness of the available races:

• Wild Walkers: something like a cross between an elf and a twi'lek, they can shapeshift into animals and summon giant tree people;
• Broken Lords: once human, now empty suits of armour that survive by sucking out the lifeforc of other beings;
• Vaulters: Humans who've hid in high-tech vaults for centuries and have lost most understanding of the tech they use - space marines with crossbows and axes (perfect as a playable race in a conversion mod....)
• Necrophages: insectoid hive-mind that converts enemies' biomatter into more of their own;
• Ardent Mages: fucked up humans with telekinetic abilities and little clothing or armour;
• Cultists: really creepy ...statue? people? some pretty crazy body plans anyway.
• Roving Clans: Humans that travel in great caravans and cities on the backs of giant beetles - not so easily translateable to DF for sure...
  
  • Drakken: Dragon people! interesting in that they're primarily focussed on diplomacy.
    
  There's also a bunch of minor factions which i'm not gonna list individually but can be seen [ur=http://endless-legend.wikia.com/wiki/Minor_Factionsl]here[/url]. Highlights include two-headed gnolls, enormous spider/mantid centaurs, crystal golems...
  
  My point is, I'm not saying anyone should copy these exactly, though you could if you wanted to; I just think the units are worth a look at as tehy have some interesting and varied designs - perhaps one or more will inspire you!
  
  (damn, now I really want to make an endlesslegend total conversion.... hmmm.....)
  
  Unrelated idea: Amoeba people - basically your typical indestructable blob, though possibly with some pseudopods to hold tools etc with.

Sergarr, have you tested that? DOes it work? Because if so, that is an extremely useful trick to have - I recall several people struggling with that issue a while ago.

Badger Storm, are you sure you don't have any other mods running? Because from the looks of things, the issue lies not with the bongo but with DFHack. Maybe it's out of date?