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Hello, my fellow forumites. I've never really posted on this sub-forum before, but I come with a dilemma.

I've noticed three small (started at around a size somewhat bigger than a pea, I think?) lumps that have formed on my scalp recently, particularly one that formed on where my neck meets my scalp, and two bumps on the top of my head that have popped and bled, leaving them kinda crusty feeling. Whenever I got a visual on any of them, they all looked red in appearance, and the rubbery one kind of itches when pressed down on gently. All 3 are on the left side of my head, if that helps anything.

A strange thing I've noticed is that they seem to grow and shrink with the amount of sleep I've gotten. I had some good sleep the past few nights and the bumps went and had gone down in size. However, last night was different because I had somewhat less sleep, and it feels like they grew back, even if just by a bit. If any of you have any medical degrees or any medical know-how in regards to this, I would greatly appreciate it.

By a miniature hidden world, I mean one consisting of absolutely tiny races (like gnomes 4 inches tall or the like) trying to survive in a world akin to ours... Just much bigger than the sapients who inhabit it. What races would deal in it, and what would their culture be like? What would we replace the trees with? What tools would tiny folk use? And what beasts that a human could handle could be dangerous to the small folk who inhabit this land?

Is there a utility that allows you to view the raws of generated creatures, like generated demons, forgotten beasts, or perhaps the new experiment beasts/humanoids made by necromancers or demons?

I'm simply curious on this topic. Say I wanted to make a Roman civ or other old civ in DF. What would be the best approximation of their ethics and values in Dwarf Fortress? I also ask this so that modders in the future who wish to recreate these civilizations can do to the best of their ability.

Civilizations from across the past I am curious about in particular:

• Romans
• Franks
• Ancient Greeks
• Anglo-Saxons
• Sengoku period Japan
• Holy Roman Empire
• Ottomans
• Ancient Scandinavians

Adds in six races from video games, with the majority half from Minecraft as of the time of writing, a couple critters, a metal and a gemstone. These civs are:

Villagers: Everyone's favorite bald traders from Minecraft. They arrive to trade in the winter, and have iron golems they can use against you, should you raid them. And hopefully, if I didn't screw up, you can buy the iron golems from them. They now have figured out the art of advanced smithing and have developed Testifium, a mystical alloy of iron and special emeralds, that the Villagers use for only weapons and ammunition. It's a little denser than iron, a bit more resistant to heat, and twice as sharp.

Illagers: The gray-skinned outcast villagers we all know and may hate. They may invade relatively well-off fortresses at any season, and they bring ravagers, their weird cow mounts, during raids. However, there is a chance peace may be achieved, in which they'll be your source for evil animals. Illagers also have an Evokerblood caste that summons in Vexes.

Piglins: Denizens of the Nether who were actually introduced a day ago or so, at the time of writing. They are early-game thieves who come about in summer and winter, who can also ambush and besiege the fortresses. They have Hoglins, one of their primary sources of food as pets.

Miis: Somewhat short and cheerful abstract humanoids who live practically anywhere. They come to early forts to trade in the summer and they bare many kinds of animals. In Adventure mode, they're the perfect size to wear both human-size (70k) and dwarf/goblin/elf-size (60k) armor.

Fighting Polygons: Human-sized crystalline warriors who once took many forms, but have now stabilized into their current form. They'll show up to well off forts to either trade or try and pick fights in winter. They learn the ways of melee combat, as well as unarmed combat skills, much faster than other races, so they make for excellent combat-oriented adventurers.

Pac-People: Round yellow people with large mouths. They'll show up to decently sized forts in the spring, bearing similar goods to humans, in case you'd prefer shipments of metals over elvish wooden goods. Nothing to quite write home about in adventure mode (yet.)

*EarthBound's Tenda, complete with tamed dinosaurs!
*The inferior counterparts to the Miis, the Xbox Avatars!   

*The little guys from Patapon, maybe?
*The Echidnas from Sonic? (Game-based, not Archie-based, and significantly more Knuckles Clan than Nocturnus Clan)

A simple grouping of 7 color schemes, 4 normalish, 3 bizarre and silly. Download them here!


Screenshots:

Normal:

*NEW*

Bizarre:

Okay, part of me wants to recreate the "green man" part of those sever humans I dreamed up here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173782.0.

However, the only idea I have is to make them a desert civ, based on the shawl they wore in my dream.

Is that a thing or nah?