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Blunt damage is really silly since it can't do lasting harm to soft tissue. All it can do is break bones and destroy organs (with lucky fragments of bones).

Penetration with blunt weapons determines how far down you can send those bone fragments.

In all seriousness, could you arrange for persistent uniform templates through DFHack? That's one of the big timewasters.

You're not altering the temperature of the stuff. You're just declaring that the gold is watery and that's it.

As an aside, making the blood gaseous looks really funny. It's like a cartoon dustcloud.

LNP is just a easy config screen to change some stuff in what's basically the vanilla game. A graphic pack or two, turn off aquifers with the click of a button, easy access to the init files, that sort of thing.

Masterwork is a huge mountain of random mods smooshed together into one unholy clusterfuck.

Thats sounds like it could work, but which localisation patcher do you mean? The one I use does not have any tags in it. "FEATURE_BEAST", or TITAN, or DEMON, they are not in the list.

Ah, but the basic template.lng isn't the be-all-end-all of what you can change. Most of the stuff that was deemed irrrelevant for localization work has been culled from it. Use the string dump as your guide, as long as it is in the format "|old thing|new thing|" it should work. It's kind of astonishing how robust it is.

Two other examples about stuff that isn't there to begin with:

|[CE_PHYS_ATT_CHANGE:STRENGTH:300:1000:TOUGHNESS:300:1000:START:0]|[CE_PHYS_ATT_CHANGE:STRENGTH:120:300:TOUGHNESS:200:400:START:0]|
This nerfs the strength upgrade of vanilla zombies considerably. It applies to both animated stuff and biome thralls. Since you can spawn both in the arena, I can also 100% confirm that it works.

|[CE:PERIODIC:MOON_PHASE:27:0]|[CE:PERIODIC:MOON_PHASE:27:13]|
If I've understood interaction tokens right, this should extend the beastmode of randomly generated werecreatures by an extra two weeks. It's meant to help with the "I invaded the fort and oops I turned back into a peasant after throwing the first punch" problem.

TENSILE and TORSION strength values determine latch-shake resistance. The first applies to attacks with ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE (bites with teeth) and the latter for those without (no vanilla creatures have CAN_LATCH on blunt attacks).

Until we get total control over what shows up as what, they're all compromises between slightly ~*embellished*~ but basically fancy-looking ASCII and heavily stylized but confusing and fucked up in places.

The default ASCII is more consistent and practical once you get over the speed bump and you start seeing the shapes past the letters and numbers. The colors are rather stark and strain the eyes after long sessions, though - consider using an alternate color pack.

The forgotten beasts and other proc-gen creatures are made from raws embedded in the executable. It is possible to change them with some trickery and external tools, but they are applied in haphazard clumps and groups that make it difficult in practice. It's best to assume that whatever changes you make to a thing will also apply to demons, night creatures and overworld titans as well.