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Hey, this is my first submission (though not my first mod), a very minor creature mod.
Not particularly based on anything, just a weird idea that came to me while reading the DF from Scratch thread.
It's a fungal-based creature resembling a bovine, whose edible body parts can cause strange effects. Some are completely harmful, others provide temporary bonuses followed by a period of harmful side-effects.
Some examples:
Eating the pancreas gives true sight, letting dwarves see even if their eyes have been damaged. Unfortunately, due to being able to see the world as it truly is causes insanity and bleeding from the brain and what remains of the eyes after a while.
Eating the spleen gives temperance, causing dwarves to not require sustenance for a period of time. This eventually causes nausea and vomiting blood.
The brain causes mind rot, which is basically insanity mixed with brain bleeding and necrosis. You really don't want to eat it.
The liver gives delusions of strength, causing dwarves to not feel pain, fear, be unable to be stunned and go into fights first. Its followed by a period of nausea.
There's more, but you'll have to look through the raw to see the rest. Basically, you have to be more aware of what you let your dwarves eat, and deciding if the temporary advantages are worth the disadvantages.
Unless you want to take a 80+ person fort and force everyone to drink the proverbial kool-aid. That's totally fine.
Anyway, give opinions, criticism, whatever. Sorry if the raw is a bit messy but I'm still trying to exactly figure out a lot of the in-and-outs of modding. I have a lot more creature mods I'll be uploading later once I get the raws sorted.

Bar fights? Oh man, i'll have to make atleast one adventurer whose entire career is travelling to cities and picking fights with people in bars to find the strongest warriors.

I'm having a few strange issues with new "secret" type interactions I've made, hoping someone.
First off, creatures with the knowledge interaction active rarely, if ever seem to migrate to towers, despite not aging just like necromancers.
Second, as a result, slabs made by gods are often stored in hamlets or towns, which to my knowledge makes them impossible to find. Sometimes they're also "lost" as a result of duels, etc., which I don't recall ever seeing happen with necromancer slabs.
Books containing the new secrets also rarely, if ever show up, so I'm not sure wheter it's part of the above problems or just me being really unlucky in worldgen.

Has anyone had similar experiences with knowledge interactions?

Huh, I missed that one as well.
I bet looking for that one dwarf will be like a DF version of Where's Waldo.
Still, kind of eerie. I wonder what happened there that left only one person alive.

Awesome bit of history. Kind of weird how a giant dingo would become the enemy of an entire civ, seems more like a very local foe. I know this kinda thing happens all the time in the game, but it's still strange.
Funny how a random dwarf bandit is suddenly becoming some sort of bigger antagonist. I think that's what you call "ascended extra".

"I attacked me."
I have this image in my head of Evhol being a particularly inbred redneck, and that this sort of statement is par for the course for her.
Really liking this so far, awesome way to interpret all the hiccups the game currently has.

Not that funny, but "Practicecavern" and "Bravecave" could give a newbie adventurer the wrong idea about their difficulty levels.

Heh, those really do sound like low level dungeons from some stereotypical RPG.
On the opposite site of that, I recently found a lair called "Certaindie". Very encouraging.