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Yeah its so easy to add it. Just copy the format of 'tail', and add the new body part to the Dwarves.

I'm not entirely sure if it can be severed though. My Aardvark Men seems to only get their tails fractured, never severed.

I modified the ironhand humanoid tileset and created custom Aardvark Men tiles. I have tested it and everything works as intended, except that corpses reverts back to the ASCII 'a' when the aardvark man dies. It should technically use the tile from AARDVARK_MAN 5:3 as the corpse tile right?

here's some relevant stuff:

[CREATURE_GRAPHICS:AARDVARK_MAN]
                    [DEFAULT:AARDVARK_MAN:5:3:ADD_COLOR:DEFAULT]
                    [STANDARD:AARDVARK_MAN:3:3:AS_IS:DEFAULT]
                    [BABY:AARDVARK_MAN:7:8:AS_IS:DEFAULT]
                    [CHILD:AARDVARK_MAN:7:8:AS_IS:DEFAULT]
                    [DRUNK:AARDVARK_MAN:3:3:AS_IS:DEFAULT]
                    [GHOST:AARDVARK_MAN:6:3:AS_IS:GHOST]

*Standard, and all the military tiles works as intended. Its just the corpse tile that never appears.

After arena-testing the various metals, I reinstated silver as weapons-grade. I instead removed copper.

I also found out that (silver, bronze, iron) Daggers, Maces and War Hammers are the only three reasonably balanced weapons capable of killing a steel armored dwarf.

A goblin spear master can stab an unconscious dwarf 100x in the head w/ an Iron Spear and it will never pulp through the steel helmet. A master hammerer smashing his bronze maul against steel helms will also pass out from exhaustion. So right now steel-armored dwarves can be considered immortal against any goblin not using these three weapons.

Another, and I think is a worthwhile workaround is to allow ALL metals as weapons-grade, and only let Daggers be usable by goblins. Even what I believe is the weakest metal for edged weapons, Lead, can pierce through steel helms at a reasonable rate (which is surprising).

I decided against making more metal weapons available because it might make goblin sieges weaker if they started using Zinc spears. On this note, I removed silver weapons as well. Copper would be the worst edge weapons now.

On the other hand, I re-added whips and scourges in my raws. FOR ELVES. Elves uses nothing but wooden whips. I hope it still pierces steel.

EDIT: I tested wooden whips. It doesn't pierce steel. Copper whips/scourges still pierce steel like butter though.

I had around 20 steel clad dwarves hitting each other with wooden whips passing out from exhaustion. I finally added a dwarf armed with a trifle pewter large dagger and he killed all 20 of them. It deflected a lot but it occasionally pierced steel helms.

Speaking of weapons, I also forgot to mention that I remove [WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_WHIP] and *[WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SCOURGE] from both humans and goblins in the entity raw.

I think you can also just remove them from the weapon raw.

Finally, I add [ITEMS_WEAPON] to platinum and gold, for some very heavy hitting warhammers and maces.

Will doing this to all metals lead to overpowered weapons? I really like the idea, but I really want to keep Steel and Iron as the 2nd and 3rd best materials for weapons and armor.

arent animal populations fixed in the current release?  or is that just fishes

I mod animal populations not just for fish, but for everything. I just want biomes and caverns to never run out of Yetis, or Molemarians, and etc. They tend to go extinct really early.

ALSO: What do you guys think should be Giant Creatures' average age should be? Right now it is the same as the regular sized creatures. I plan to change it to be 5x the length of the regular size creatures, but it might be a little too large though.

I change four things:

1. Add natural discipline 1, to appropriate creatures (so caravan pack animals don't run away from goblin teeth anymore).
2. Remove flier tags from everything, just until the bug is still active.
3. Add healing rate 1000 to dwarf cartilage and nails, just until the bug is still active.
4. Change animal populations to 950-990, so animals don't get extinct so quickly.

I was wondering what other changes are worthwhile, or are just personal preferences?

I also actually want to remove climbing just to fix the bugged cavern creatures that cannot come down. Unfortunately, removing natural climbing doesnt seem to remove climbing ability. Its not as bad as the flier bug so I think I'll just leave it.