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A hurling ball of flame descends rapidly upon the planet.


With a loud, heavy CLUNK it's plummet is suddenly stopped by the third floor of an abandoned castle, revealing an almost seamless oval hunk of metal.


A short while after the dust clears an aerial drone is spat out from the oval, and it begins running checks on it's immediate surroundings.

I'm considering joining this once my sprite sheet is complete enough. Whether or not i'll join this round or the next is up to you i guess.

So Dwarf Fortress broke this morning and I had to reinstall. I'd rather not do any further testing for the moment until I find out what happened.

I've never had DF outright break on me yet. Do let me know if the problem is related to the mod. Maybe checking the error log might bring some insight?

I only ever found any when being attacked by bogeymen, and they actually fought with the bogeymen and killed quite a few of them, and by the end of it they couldn't even stand up anymore. Not sure if that is what was intended.

Still working out the kinks with this.

I'll probably end up changing how and when they appear, although they should also act as nightcreatures.

They're not supposed to make the game easier, that's for sure.

So what role do snowbolds play in fortress mode?

Snowbolds will essentially be higher level Kobolds.

They currently should steal stuff from forts, and will eventually be much more fiercely armed, although attacking in small numbers.

Note that they aren't hostile to everything by default, so there should be a chance that they'll trade or send diplomats if they're not at war with your civ. A lot of this is just planned though, not necessarily working as of yet.

So I looked through the files for these creatures and they might be corrupted.

Now I'm not an expert modder, but I know that this is not supposed to be a thing:

I forgot i did that.

It's not corruption, i've simply left out the closing bracket on a few tokens to disable them temporarily. Like i said, the mod is extremely WIP, so there will be some odd-looking/unfinished-looking things in the files.

As far as i know the 'disabled' tokens shouldn't interfere with the creature at all. If it really bugs you i could go and remove them for the release versions but i don't see the point if they're not an issue.

This mod adds a few creatures (including a new civ) that i've personally wanted to see interact with the game world. None of them are complete, nor are all of them even started, however most are to a point where i can pretty happily just let them go for a while so i can do other things.

The first (and most complete) creature is the Arctic Kobold.
The Arctic Kobold, or Snowbold for short, was probably the reason i started doing this. They mostly set up primitive tribal hamlets around the colder regions of the world, sending out bands of hunters into the wilderness to hunt snowy owls or something. (Will probably add arctic creatures to actually give them something to hunt.)

The second most complete so far is the Rexagon.
The Rexagon is one of a few (upcoming)creatures of alien origin. You'd really prefer not angering one. (Please let me know if it's too aggressive, I want it to behave almost like a scared cat. Also, it does not show up in the arena menu. If you can help with this, let me know.)

The last creature for now is the Grim Apparition.
The Grim Apparition is essentially the Reaper. A being of immense power that wanders the night claiming souls. It is pretty unfinished, but it gets the point across. The bogeymen problem is still there, i'll get round to it eventually.

You can play as a member of each creature in adventure mode. The Snowbold and Rexagon may show up in your Fortress playthroughs as well.

If you want to try these out, just take the Creature, Entity and Language .txt files from each folder and put them in your DF 'raw > objects' folder. The files called 'snowbold' and 'death_claim' go in the 'data > speech' folder. It should allow custom things that creatures can say.


Leave as much feedback as you can. I want to work to a point where each creature is about as polished and feature complete as possible.
Also PS: I'm lazy so bare with me if i disappear sometimes.
Also PPS: I might take suggestions if i like the sound of them.

So this happened a while ago, but the thought didn't come to mind until recently.

I was adventuring around with my favorite adventurer, and since i had heard from my previous adventurer's lady (or lord i can't quite remember) that there was a wanted vampire located in a temple on the edge of a small hamlet.

I got there, found the supposed vampire, (who had apparently killed ninety people before this) and had a bit of a 'chat'.

He seemed rather nice.

The thing that urks me is that, while he was rather resilient to my proficient axe skills, (and the relentless crossbow-ing of my companion) he seemed to have been killed by drowning.

My companion had hit him with the butt of his crossbow a few times, eventually knocking him into the water, where he died. I can't remember if it specifically said that he had drowned, but i am certain that there was no decapitation involved or anything that you would expect to kill a vampire.

My question is; Was he falsely accused? I never called him out on being a night creature, so he very well may have been just an ordinary scholar who the townsfolk appear to think is a vampire. Can that happen?

He wasn't even labeled as a vampire in-game. Not even his body or blood said so. Nor did he attempt to bite or even retaliate besides the occasional panic'd swing when i tired (and failed multiple times) to pin him down.