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[Ari Lazarus]

Modest Bodies is a 'patch'-styled mod based off Modest Mod 2.0 and is designed to plug into it, but should also plug into vanilla DF just fine. Currently (34.11), only humanoids have joints in vanilla DF. Modest Bodies adds joints and renames body parts (where appropriate).

Spoiler: Here we go! (click to show/hide)

Download here!

Versions
1.1 - Rewrote the entire mod to only use body_defaults.txt instead of editing every single creature.
1.0 - Original upload

Installation / Deinstallation
1. Back. Up. Everything!
2. Install Modest Mod.
3. Install the Modest Bodies raw, overwrite.
4. It overwrites the default raw, so MAKE SURE you have another copy of DF before installing.

Features
1. Joints added to:
Quadrupeds, hoofed and unhoofed. E.g. dragons, ice wolves, hippos, unicorns, horses.
Humanoids, multi-armed, flyers. E.g. Stranglers, antmen, bats, animal men
Birds now have wing joints in addition to their 'humanoid joints'.
Centaurs. E.g. Molemarians.
Piecemeal-limb creatures. E.g. Hydras.
Previously-jointless humanoids like beak dogs and kangaroos.

Exceptions:
Limbless creatures (snakes and fish, etc.)
Creatures with no bones (crustaceans)
Tentacled parts
Simple humanoids made from non-standard tissue including
   -Weeds (grimelings)
   -Food (plump helmet man)
   -Pudge? (fluffy wamblers)
   -Elementmen
   
2. Better-sounding bodyparts.
Humanoids - Chests, abdomens, arms, forearms, thighs, and calves.
Quadrupeds - Forelegs, hind legs, forefeet, hind feet.
Hoofed Creatures - Related joints like the stifle, hock, and fetlock.
Birds - Shanks instead of calves.

Recommendations
Lower the pain receptors in your bone tissue templates, otherwise wrestlers may find things too easy since everything goes to extreme pain from one joint break. I'd recommend about 2-3 joint breaks to get someone to pass out.

Todo
-Rebalance pain / blood distribution in body templates?
-Redo body parts to be more accurate
   -Quadrupeds should have 4-part limbs, not 2
-Insects / spiders in general, mostly because we'll want to break the joints of their giant versions

Issues & Notes
1. Tissue template-based attacks do not seem to take joint pathways into account, so don't be weirded out when you find you can still scratch with the nails on your right hand even though your right shoulder is broken.

2. Monkeys / ape type creatures should probably be humanoids instead of quadrupeds, but this necessitates changing the creature raws.

3. Information on some things like specific bird joints is VERY scarce. if you know the equivalent name for the knuckle joints of a bird (which connect the feet to the shank), please LET ME KNOW. Also, because quadrupeds / birds stand on the 'digits' of their legs instead of the flat portion like humans, there are some joint inaccuracies that can't be fixed unless I change the shapes individually. Because quadrupeds are given 2-part limbs, I've made the joints for quads to start at a higher part of the limb (knee->hip instead of ankle->knee). Point out inaccuraces you can see and I will try to fix it.

4. Due to the way bodies are made in the default raws, (birds are armless humanoids + 2 wings) some of the limb descriptions may be odd when applied to other creatures. I cannot modify this without touching the actual creature raws, so in the interest of keeping this small and functional I will leave such modifications to you, the aspiring modder! Here are a few exceptions you can further modify:

humanoid_armless - my changes are assuming that all creatures which have this body are birds so you will see bird-type joints. Exceptions include the green devourer, crab man, and two legged rhino lizard, so feel free to further tweak those if you are unhappy with their body.

5. Orcas have friggin' strong flippers. Couldn't break them even with a bronze colossus grand master wrestler.

6. Birds require both wings to be broken before they can't fly.

7. You will get a bunch of complaints from the errorlog.txt because the game will try to connect to the now empty [HUMANOID_JOINTS] tag whose function has been superseded by this mod. Don't worry about it.

Files modded
body_default.txt

I haven't tested the bodies of cavern-creatures yet, but they look correct on the outset so let me now if you run into weird body issues with those.

[Vattic]

Nice work! I'll be adding a load of the changes you've made to my own custom private raws.

[Toady One]

Cleaned out a bunch of junk posts.  Please don't spam threads.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Gratz. I'll see if I can somehow integrate this into my personal modpack. This seems....awesome.

[Ari Lazarus]

Thanks for the kind words. It's still a little choppy (I started a bit on animal men then realized I hated them all) and I've recently read about the reworked creature raws that VBASE uses which sounds useful, so if I'm feeling adventurous I might rewrite all the creature raws to use that instead - but it'll probably be a much larger project. This is still somewhat small and modest in comparison.

EDIT: To be more useful about incorporating this into your mods - the essence of what I did was to replicate the humanoid joint structure for quadrupeds and other piecemeal parts (things that stood on 4 arms, 2 arms, no arms, etc.) and add that version of the joints to every creature, with just some variation for things like hoofed quadrupeds (hock joints, stifle joints). It's easy peasy, just rather tedious to do for each creature.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Gah. Couldn't you use body detail plans? Or have you? I haven't had too much time to check.

[i2amroy]

Gah. Couldn't you use body detail plans? Or have you? I haven't had too much time to check.

Joints are a part, not a material/tissue. So basically what this mod is doing is adding a new body part to every single quadruped and other body type without joints currently.

Note: Rather then adding a new body part ot each creature, it might be easier to simply include the relevant joints in the QUADRUPED, etc. body parts so they are automatically applied to every creature with that body type. Not the most rigorous or flexible, but it would certainly be faster to apply to a new set of raws.

[Ari Lazarus]

I was thinking about that - but I am still not too familiar with body parts and their relation to each other yet, so I went with the easy-but-tedious method.

I did try something early in the mod with 3-part quadruped limbs instead of 2-part, but it caused a cascading series of weird limb bugs that I wasn't sure how to deal with, so I scrapped that. I'll revisit that though - if it's not too hard, you might only have to change body_default.txt instead of every single creature raw.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

That would help, cheers.

[NobodyPro]

Junk posts? I'll have to say it again:

Great work! I'm definently going to use these changes from now on.

[Ari Lazarus]

v1.1 is done and 1000% more modest! Now, joints are added entirely through the body_defaults file. This ensures that the moment you have a body type, you get the corresponding joints. One advantage of this is that previously-unjointed humanoids like beak dogs and kangaroos are now automatically jointed.

[Ultimuh]

Looks great!
It might prove useful to a certain creature I'm modding.
I post this so that I can find this mod later when I need it.

[Deon]

It's a must have. Reminds me to add quadruped joints and bird joints to Genesis ASAP. It used to be a top priority change in Genesis 2 and Genesis 3. I'm not sure why I postponed it so much for Genesis 4 .

[Igfig]

This makes me happy in so many ways. I'll be linking to this on the front page of the Modest Mod thread.

[Ari Lazarus]

Oh yeah... I should probably tell peeps where to get Modest Mod too.. haha, linking in a bit!