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I've been doing a good amount of modding on the new version in between the dreaded Real Life stuff and it's nearing completion. It's got some fun new surprises for people that have used my older versions of the creaturepack, plus some familiar and beloved oldies like the dreaded Purring Hornet, bane of all dwarfkind. I've been experimenting a lot with the new creature tokens in particular, so expect a lot of fun new stuff with secretions, breaths, and weird web sprays (beware bog trolls unless you enjoy your body rotting to pieces).

If anyone has any requests for particular monsters for me to test my chops on, just ask away here and I'll see what I can do. The creaturepack tends to be high fantasy monsters and Dungeons and Dragons creatures, but I'm willing to branch out a bit.

I'll respond to questions when possible, but my online time is iffy lately so don't expect anything quick!

In particular, it would be quite nice if there was a simple button to convert a page of text (dwarf descriptions, engravings, artifact descriptions in particular) into text format in a text file.

Pretty simple.

It's back, huzzah, and new and improved! I've been puttering about with my older creaturepack for quite some time. It's an extremely simple mod that just dumps all kinds of new critters for you to play with. Installation is very easy - just extract the 3 text files included in the .zip directly to your /raw/objects/ folder and gen a new world.

Note that if you use a graphics set it may look a little funny, depending on the tiles used. Nothing in this mod is overpowered; they are all (mostly) well-balanced in order to provide a wider range of creatures rather than the same ones you see every day.

This mod should -not- conflict with most other creature/entity etcetera mods that exist, as I rename most of them to fairly unique names. Possibly some overlap in body tokens though.

You can download it here: http://teldin.wikispaces.com/file/view/teldin%27s+creaturepack.zip/81703231

Here's a big list of everything it adds. Spoiler tags ahoy!

Embarkable domestics:

New magma creatures:

New megabeasts:

2 new civilizations/races:

Other non-vermin creatures:

Vermin:


Some spoiler notes:



If there's any bugs or comments, please feel free to, uh, comment.

Both the human and dwarven liasons had unfortunate accidents involving carp, lakes, and rivers in my current fort. Since it doesn't seem like either of them will have a replacement liason (it's been 8 years with no trade agreements), I am fine with that. But, it also seems like I am not getting any nobles whatsoever in my migrant groups even though I have over 100 dwarves and my fortress is worth almost 3 million dwarfbux. All I've got is the captain of the guard and my starting 4 nobles.

When making my Rome Fortress mod I basically copy and pasted several of the modified entities (the civs; dwarves humans elves goblins kobolds), tinkered with them, then tested it. But I forgot to change [ADVENTURE_TIER:1] so they all had this same tag (rather than 1, 2, 3, etc as people say to do), and I could play it fine in adventurer mode as any of the civs even with them all set to 1. Does anyone know exactly what the tag does or is for? Obviously just having it means you can play as that civ in adventurer mode (since gobbos and kobolds don't have the tag), but what does the number represent? I read that it determines the order that the civs appear in when you go to play adventurer mode, but having them all as 1 seemed to work perfectly fine for me.

Has Toady ever explained it?

I suggest a different version of attacking. There's ambush, siege.. and then invasion. An invasion should be multiple waves of sieges, and each wave should be more inclined to stay and fight than quickly retreat like they do in a siege. They should also assault from multiple directions, and if they're a subterranean/mountain race they should also invade from chasms or pits. They'd be led by some legendary king, of course, maybe the ruler of their entire civilization (or the demon they worship?).

Would be a good idea to do it after the army overhaul, though, and after extra bits like sieges making bridges over moats. It should be difficult, if not impossible to survive unscathed.

A very basic, simple addition to creature raws:

Rather than the simplified baby template->child template->adult creatures, why not have a much more malleable method of upgrading a creature? I imagine it could work like this:

[BECOMES:<creature token>:<trigger>:<trigger variable>]

For example, using this method you could change a purring maggot into a 'purring hornet' once it reaches 3 years old: [BECOMES:PURRING_HORNET:AGE:3]. You could use some specific, restricted creature tokens for basic transformations, such as [BECOMES:CHILD:AGE:1][BECOMES:BABY:BORN:0][BECOMES:ADULT:AGE:12]. The game should still support the more basic [BABY:1] for backwards compatibility on raws, though.

The 'trigger' tokens could have a wide variety of triggers: age, amount of food eaten, distance travelled, highest skill, amount of kills, amount of sentient creatures eaten, etc. etc.

When a creature becomes a different one, it would carry over all its kills, lost limbs (if both forms share the same body token), skills, personality traits, etc. In essence it would be the same creature, but with a different body.

Thoughts?

I'm sure it's already been suggested before but I'd like a simple command in-game somewhere to basically clear the whole save folder without having to root around in my df folder for it.