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They already *can* reproduce.

This piqued my interest. So do some of the FBs (and Titans) have sexed castes, similar to Clowns? Either way they shouldn't reproduce when encountering one another due to being part of different species. If they were not each one-of-a-kind it would be a different story.

+1 to the suggestion anyhow. It feels like something that would fit in all settings where FB:s are considered aberrant monstrosities by nature. After all, isn't two strange monstrosities breeding and giving birth to other strange monstrosities extremely myth-like (e.g. Echidna + Typhon => Cerberus, The Lemernean Hydra etc.).

Considering gods (or primordial pseudo-gods) often have a part in this (both Echidna and Typhon are of divine descent, Loki, Zeus of course) I feel like this would be fit for some part of the mythgen development. This even if the body rewrite (allowing partial transformation, true half-breeds) has not been done yet; far from all of these are physically similar to their parents.

I'm surprised I can't seem to find another older thread like this.

Necro'd for the sake of the subject coming up again.

Some other trees with economical saps would be the myrrh and bdellium (fake myrrh) trees, whose saps are used for incense and and perfume.
Perfume would be practical as soon as the undead start concealing themselves (next version), so having a few ways to produce it would be handy.

+1 on the general idea, and some of the underground trees having useful saps.

Quote from: FantasticDorf on September 14, 2019, 07:25:14 am

Quote from: squamous on September 14, 2019, 06:05:59 am

Will it be possible for adventurers or armies to travel across mountains in the near future? Right now they can isolate huge portions of the map from each other, so I was wondering how it would affect things like criminal conspiracies and new traveling agents like exiled religions/player-sent minions. Will they be able to move across the world or just their local region?

I have no idea how palatable the solutions could be but you could fly (innately, or with a mount, to which flying raids might be a big deal versus players who isolate themselves on islands but still draw the jealous eyes of the world.) or you could go through the mountain in a subterreanean way.

Depends how Toady will seek to address this but the terrain re-write might make the pathing more preferable and completely suspend mountains as a no go zone. Alternatively people might be able to start fortresses below ground in the future where being inside the depths of a mountain could be preferable (maybe not in the mouth or lava of a volcano by accident)

I remember asking a bit on this sometime last year or so, the notion was that mountains being no-go zones are kind of a placeholder at the moment, as you'll notice that mountain biomes often have quite a lot of foraging options, and are nowhere near insurmountable as the terrain shifts only very mildly, and the biomes don't span far enough distances in the current iteration to make even adventure-mode scale travel unable to sustain off their own pack-food.

Non-player adventurers in adventurer mode easily scale mountains though. I had this problem the other day when I was stalking some performers traveling to the big city, and I had to exit fast travel as soon as the mountains appeared in our path, not to lose them by going around.

I wonder why felsite was replaced. Especially since it is still the name of an in-game month.

Quote from: DerMeister on September 05, 2019, 09:59:41 am

Or palanrasit can have [LITTER_FROM_SIZE], when litter of babies will be larger in larger creatures.

This guy just necro'd his own post.

I think necroing a suggestion post like this is okay, as long as you add something new to it. After all, necroing suggestion posts is generally preferred over starting nearly identical new ones. It would be another case if it had been a simple "bump".

Mind control could actually be more simple to implement due to recent changes in the relationship code. Each relationship has a several variables, each for a different aspect (love-hate, trust, loyalty, fear, respect).
Just forcing one or more of these to set values should do for some kind of mind control, as long as the change sets in swiftly; if the creatures don't check their relationship values often enough a fierce warrior might just slay the vampire queen and then, during the subsequent off-load, realize they were supposed to be enthralled by her.

Or http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=172697.0 for a more recent thread.

Thanks for the answers