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The curse of the garbled engravings strikes again! Ardentdikes had a weird engravings room too.

Poor Udib has choked on smoke lately. First time I notice that unhappy thought. :u

Urist McBadass death in Moltenchannels would well deserve to be the first fanart of the fort.

She arrived to the fortress with +500 kills, went out the arching bridge of the castle fortress (it's a low 1z wall with four 3z round towers in the corners), across the bridge over the magma moat, fenced off a goblin siege, only to find necromancers arrived right after the goblins. The other dwarves tried to rescue her, but they had to retreat and she was killed by a zombie.

If you can write the right creature variations, they can be generated with this script (naming bugs aside).

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Creature_variation_token

Heh. Reptilian Fire Imps melt their scaly skin right away. Ouch!

All right! Uploaded to github! A few beasts still turn out buggy (often beast-animal-men I think), but it's useable.

Holy magma crabs, I spent way too much time wondering why my creatures were crashing, till I learned DF was loading the chimeras before the creatures it needed to COPY_TAGS_FROM.

Renaming the chimera file to creatures_zchimeras_wl.txt has worked (except for arachnid chimeras, there's something wrong with them ).



A couple more tests and I'll wrap it up for uploading.

Ok, new milestone achieved. Chimera products show up on the embark screen, though they are scarce even after generating hundreds of them. I'm suspecting many may be discarded as broken.

The new code is generating fine. I think have to flesh a bit the variations, then test it in-game.


Sample of variations: