Bay 12 Games Forum

What I have so far:

 - A working entity file with really bad ethics. They got their own language and nobles.
 - A working creature file with a base Warlock creature, skeletons and zombies.
 - Pets: Mephits (Imps) with minor magic spells.
 - Ability to embark with 1(!) demon, forgotten beast, nightcreature or titan. You might also convince a caravan to bring those for a hefty price. (Pet value 1000).

I tested spawning creatures, kinda works. Dfhack crashes the game at the moment of creation randomly, so I got to figure out why.
I also tested animated, glowing constructions and workshops, that works fine.

Baby steps.

I have etics for my creature mod, this is really bad, even for goblins. Creatures is simple - you can copy human and add from necromancer or zomby curse. Spells is not in dwarf fortress setting. Embarking with demon, FB, titan or bogeyman was invented by me, this work by animal definition in entity code: add to all creatures class "not generated", forbid this class for definition and add animals always present. For simplier way, you can forbid general poison class, but your warlocks will have more pets.

[INTELLIGENT] is the same as [CAN_LEARN]+[CAN_SPEAK], there isn't any difference. Utterances is only responsible for kobold names.
Still, you do have the unintelligent caste as the most common one and I also think that creatures with opposed to life get shoved into the "other" category in fort mode's unit list. So both could be the issue, really.

When inteligence, goblins not make items from this creature, when just can learn and can speak, goblins make. I test without opposed to life, remake civ and this work, embark with 5 pet caste, one from normal caste and one from intelligent.

I have some ideas before villains update.

First idea: breed by attack/interaction of transphorming syndrome. Human, goblin, elf and dwarf males have special class and can be mutate into satyr or blendec. Females of this species can mutate into harpy.

Second idea: two genders like two species. Male is satyr, female is driade, they have even two different descriptions.

Third idea for harpies: hidden castes and some transformations. Harpy specie have four castes: three female (called "buch","fem" and "dyke") and special male caste. Male caste does not exist. But by interaction "buch" can be temporary transformed into this male caste for impregnate another harpies. For work without marriage, hidden caste isn't intelligent.

Will this work? Have you another ideas?

Opposed to life creatures can be member of civ? When I embark as this civ, fortress was lost from start because no members and livestock.

Even if we can't get summons by reaction you can cheese it by giving a dwarf a summon interaction from like a syndrome and they'll use it in combat, presumably? Hopefully. Then you could pull like a gcs web milking rig to get dwarves into combat with a creature, summoning things while in combat.

Or maybe it will be triggerable from a greeting usage hint as well. That would be a breeze to work even in fort mode.

I wonder how or even if we can take advantage of the created abominations code.

Gotta come up with more ways to integrate this stuff... I was already changing the birth sphere secret, I've been able to confirm that intelligent people turned into animals will in fact bear children and the kids even know who their father is, even though their parents weren't in a relationship, but the new relationship code may still make it easier to do like a "love potion" or secret that changes personality traits making everyone more likely to form relationships that bear children "naturally" since marriage won't be strictly necessary anymore, but I did want to make a marriage sphere secret that actually encourages marriages, not just relationships or children.
The people pushing effect I want to use all over the place.
I can make so many demons and titans and shit.
Have to remove most of the reanimation effects from secrets or the whole world will be bathed in crazed towers and reanimated hordes and evil regions.

What else are we getting... It's like goblin christmas, but we don't have to kill any greenskins.

Summoning by greetings make way to harpy reproduce.

Bump

I will make beta version of my mod for new version. But alpha version probably will be for 44.12.