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Ooh, this thread is a great idea. I did some furbishing work on lions a while back that's just been sitting on my hard drive, but now I have just the place to show it off.

First, the description of their color at the end of the lion's raws where this:

...is replaced with this:


...since I think the whole "the hair is this color and the skin is this color" distinction is completely pointless in most furred creatures, it describes lions as just having "{color} fur".

Most of the work was put in lion people though, since I was miffed that they didn't have any manes to style, or any other humanoid descriptors for that matter. Here's the relevant half of the lion people raws, with the new sections in yellow.

Their manes are supposed to start growing in once they reach adulthood, getting longer and darker the longer they live. Randomly generated lionbois don't seem like they obey the rules, so the mechanism probably won't be seen outside a fortress where your lion people are raising families. C'est la vie, I guess.

There's one extra moving part this system needs, however. I didn't want my civilized lions shaving their heads as a fashion statement, but didn't want to deprive everything else of baldness, so all entities have an extra tissue style for how its members shape their MANE layers. Here's an excerpt from my entity raws, again with new stuff in yellow.

Stone swords are less swords and more those Aztec razor clubs, they are made from wood and stone. Did you watch long enough to see if they grabbed the stone too?

I checked the string dump to be sure, got a little confused by how "gouting" was listed right after all the adjectives for swelling and away from the bleeding terms, kicked up arena mode and chopped a giant's throat open to see for sure.



And major arteries scale their, uh, output to creature size to make sure that a ripped aorta kills just about anything in a few turns no matter what. I'm sure now, this is the biggest descriptor for open blood loss the game knows.

Ash comes in bars, tin comes in rocks... but sand comes as powder, which always has a container around it and the usual glazing reactions don't account for that part. Could that be throwing a spanner in the works?

file_changes.txt is your buddy. Those were introduced in version 0.44.

Check the first few pages of the 0.44 questions thread to see some experiments done with the tags.

Does only one caste die from old age? Immortals won't marry mortals and vice versa.

Which position token does a position need, to allow these new mission types ?

is it [RESPONSIBILITY:MILITARY_GOALS] ?

Either that or MILITARY_STRATEGY. It could easily go either way - can't devise a mission without a man in charge dictating the goal and objectives, but you also can't perform a mission without some military leaderman coming up with the strategy and the actual orders to issue to the squad.

Yeah, the game is built to withstand more than one set of caravans hanging out at your depot at the same time.