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[Boltgun]

This is the vanilla version, you can discuss the Masterwork DF mod on this thread.

Downloads
Windows build, unpack and enjoy
Standalone patch
Github mirror

Succubus Dungeon is a mod for vanilla Dwarf Fortress featuring a new evil race. It is developed one feature and can be used by itself or along other mods.

Spoiler: 'Old story' (click to show/hide)

One famous legends of the age of myths tell the rise and fall of Limaralath, the first and most spectacular dwarven mountainhome. The fort was a jewel of architecture, plated from the ground to the ceiling with sparkly blue metals with fortifications so finely decorated that goblin hordes dropped their weapons in awe upon its sight. The city was also an unending feast, everywhere dwarves could party, sing, dance, and more. Everything seemed perfect.

However, 66 years after the earth was struck. The entire population disappeared without a trace. Silence reigned on Limaralath while a chaotic force rose from inside. Evil creatures released their slave cast of Succubi with one simple task: to corrupt the world and reshape it in their image.

The Succubi found the world to be an explosion of color in comparison of the pale abyss they came from. They stalked craftsmen all over the world to witness or inspire artistic creation and enjoy the many pleasures of the mortal world. What is a craftsman and what is artistic for these fiends has been left open for debate.

There is several tales explaining why the succubi ended stranded on the surface, maybe it was a punishment for their disobedience, or maybe a band of heroes defeated their dark lords. But in the end, Limaralath was empty again these slaves were left alone. Fearing for their survival, the lust demons as they were called, had no choice but to regroup in tribes. From there, leaders arose, establishing worships and simple rules to strengthen their young society. Years later, these tribes became an empire.

Because the succubi considered every move and every craft to be an art by itself, their dark fortresses held the most sophisticated culture. Being part of the queen's court was considered a great honor no matter your race, but beware. Should the succubus queen grow tired of you, you will fall in disgrace and be drafted with 6 other convicts to be sent in the wild toward death, or glory, depending on your luck.

Installation instructions with the standalone patch

• Install DF with dfhack (lazy/starter pack is recommended)
• (optional) Select your tileset or ASCII before installing the mod.
• Extract the archive in your Dwarf Fortress folder, preserving the folder structure.
• Make sure the temperature feature is activated. It should be by default.
• Generate a new world.
• In fort mode, press tab to select a civilization that use the Dark Fortress (cabinet) tile.
• In adv mode, simply select a succubus or a frog demon.
• Have fun, see the included readme for more information.

Spoiler: 'Features' (click to show/hide)

• Lead greedy, lazy, prideful, anger prone, envious, depraved demons to world domination.
• Heavy female to male ratio lead to little birth, no config file manipulation needed
• Generate slade and build an authentic spire
• Fast and creative citizens
• Poor armor choice and absence of steel making
• Snatch and corrupt citizens from other civilizations!

FAQ
* How to I chose my civ?
Press tab before embarking until seeing a list of civilization name.
Press + and - to chose a civ using the 'cabinet' tile to display its colonies on the map.
Pressing tab again until seeing the list of neighbors will confirm your choice, the selected race is always at the top.

* I'd like to play in ASCII but everything look wrong
To play without a tileset, it is recommended to download a separate build of DF (like the Lazy Newb Pack) and set it up to run as ASCII.
Then you can drop the standalone version of the mod over it.

* I get messages about pets being kidnapped after trading !
This have no consequences to you and you can safely ignore this message. As a side effect of playing a baby snatcher civilization, caravans leaving your fort will 'kidnap' their own pets.

* I have 'smoke' or other weird boulders.
You have temperature disabled. This is required by the mod. If you have a configuration tool for your game, you can try enabling it with it, otherwise you can edit your d_init.txt file. Here's how to do it.

* How do I train archers?
First you must build archery targets, set their room individually and make sure the shooting direction matches your setup. Stockpiling ammo in the room is also a good idea.
Then there is two ways: aither by making the squad inactive and giving your archers no jobs, or by to providing the archers with a melee training area and setting the squad on full time training.
Make sure that they have quivers too.

* There is a bug, what do I do?
Report bugs and general problem in this thread. If you have a github account, you can also post issues there.

Road map

Spoiler: 'Season 1' (click to show/hide)

V2 - Summoning: Summon pets to your fort using various resources. Unleash them on your guests. Update notes
V3 - Arts: Add new crafts, weapons and armor for the added flavor. Update notes
V4 - Cults: Fight against cults preparing the world for the return of the dark ones, or play with them. Update notes
V5 - Enthralling: Turn your caged friends to your side and have them fight their former friends. Update notes
V6 - Powers: Cave adapted succubi are more powerful, find new secret in your adventures and gain new powers. Update notes
V7 - Masterwork: Proper integration in Masterwork DF, with imports towards the vanilla.
Versions 8 and 9 were made for masterwork only.

Season 2
Reboot: Restart the mod for version 10.0 with a more environment neutral features.
Corruption: Another direct port from vanilla with the reintroduction of the invader corruption system.
Summoning: A direct port of the summoning system and the reintroduction of old foes.
Social: Make use of the DF 0.42 series's features.
Powers: Pyromancy, secrets, blights and other nice effects.
Material and souls: Soul gathering (and eating), flesh shaping, leather upgrades, alternatives to mining and their associated crafts.
Highly Fortunate Sightings: New interactions for nobles and children to make them desirable. Dig down and...
Pet upgrades: Build peculiar chambers were pet specific reaction can be performed.

Spoiler: "Credits" (click to show/hide)

It has been assembled with the help of many contributions from the bay12 community:
* Obsidian tileset and color palette
* Phoebus color palette and creature sprite set
* dfhack maintained by Peterix and contributors
* K33N elves
* Falconne's UI improvements (mousequery, hotkeys and dwarfmonitor)
* Warmist's spawnunit script
* Teleport by Putnam
* Bits of Masterwork DF by Meph
* Dwarf chocolate by SethCreiyd
* Roses scripts and spells
* Scripts by IndigoFenix
* The demon mod by Naryar
* Chiptune arrangements by Smoip
* PeridexisErrant's cutting-edge pack
* And of course, Dwarf Fortress by Tarn and Zach Adams

Special thanks for proof reading:
* jwoodward48df
* Meph
* chaosfiend

Enjoy!

[Grey_Wolf]

So what You're saying is, that there's a possibility of my Adventurer wandering into a dungeon full of Succubus to procreate kill?

[Boltgun]

They get in war so much with humans you probably find some in towns to recruit. Dungeons will wait for the next df when all settlements will be generated.

Forget about anything nasty. They have a migraine right now, and that make them pretty angry.

[Deon]

There are already dungeons under temples, and if your succubi are like goblins, they will appear there as bandits.

[Boltgun]

They have a high banditry but no LOCAL_BANDITRY to keep you hands free in adv mode.
I found several of them in sewers already and one at the head of a bandit camp. I'm not very good as an adv but I only tried kicker + biter to test hooves and poison, my latest inccubus archer tend to survive better so I'll do more exploration.

[Boltgun]

Updated the sprites for version 1.1 : Download
- Added basic sprites for fishery worker and medical jobs, that will cover all the basic fortress jobs.
- Took out dummies and palettes from the set.
- Made a few sprites slightly lighter so they are less of a pain to read.

[Meph]

suggestion: use cave_adapt triggers to give succubi bonus when staying underground, und negative effects when they have to go outside.

[Boltgun]

suggestion: use cave_adapt triggers to give succubi bonus when staying underground, und negative effects when they have to go outside.

I did search for such triggers, looks like I will be able to add nice bonus for cave adaption. I added this to the roadmap along with new powers.
I suppose it requires the CAVE_ADAPT tag to the creature tag. I read on the wiki it gives bonuses to dwarves but I never knew which ones besides vomit.

[Black_Legion]

Looks like a promising and fun project. I miss having some fun evil civs to play around with (either being generally dark and twisted or just affably evil, both are just as entertaining). Have you thought of adding interactions (magics, abilities, curses, plagues, ect) to some beasts/materials and some more interesting ways to conquer or create challenges?

Have you tried looking at the old Dark Dwarves mod for giving your succubi interesting personalities to deal with? I remember the Gnoll mod you had to struggle actually getting your lazy gnolls to complete tasks while the Dark Dwarves required some interesting juggling: they were initially mentally tougher than their non-twisted cousins but once they snapped, they broke utterly. Having a veteran survive years of conflict and death till his lost kitten was killed in some plumbing and then going berserk in the ready room was an... illuminating... way to learn about air locks and tiered defenses. I never did find one of the squaddy's arms afterwards.

Have fun modding, I'm looking forward to see what you come up with!

[Boltgun]

Looks like a promising and fun project. I miss having some fun evil civs to play around with (either being generally dark and twisted or just affably evil, both are just as entertaining). Have you thought of adding interactions (magics, abilities, curses, plagues, ect) to some beasts/materials and some more interesting ways to conquer or create challenges?

Have you tried looking at the old Dark Dwarves mod for giving your succubi interesting personalities to deal with? I remember the Gnoll mod you had to struggle actually getting your lazy gnolls to complete tasks while the Dark Dwarves required some interesting juggling: they were initially mentally tougher than their non-twisted cousins but once they snapped, they broke utterly. Having a veteran survive years of conflict and death till his lost kitten was killed in some plumbing and then going berserk in the ready room was an... illuminating... way to learn about air locks and tiered defenses. I never did find one of the squaddy's arms afterwards.

Have fun modding, I'm looking forward to see what you come up with!

Thank you, I will have a look at these mods for more ideas.
I have just ironed out issues (like hooves not healing leaving succubi in a bed for their whole life) and made a few cosmetic changes. Now I have the entity and creature right, it is time to move on serious business.

So summoning is next, I will use dfhack if I can but in case of trouble I will try a fallback based on eggs.
I am sure I will need dfhack at some point so might as well add it early.

Army masters are added too 

[laularukyrumo]

Yeah... DFhack will probably be necessary for summoning live creatures. You can use reactions to summon vermin, though, if I remember correctly... so you could potentially create "vermin" creatures that are set up to never naturally spawn, and have the same stats as whatever creature you're trying to summon, and workaround like that.

[Spirit of Power]

Yeah... DFhack will probably be necessary for summoning live creatures. You can use reactions to summon vermin, though, if I remember correctly... so you could potentially create "vermin" creatures that are set up to never naturally spawn, and have the same stats as whatever creature you're trying to summon, and workaround like that.

The problem with that is that the creatures in question will always be classified as vermin. But IIRC there's a script which will allow you to spawn creatures somewhere, I'd have to find it again though :/

Anyways, if you're doing creature summons for getting special animals, I must request you include some form of suicide bomber imps which will explode themselves in combat. It would certainly lead to much Fun when a baby snatcher is caught in your main dining hall.

[Boltgun]

Yeah... DFhack will probably be necessary for summoning live creatures. You can use reactions to summon vermin, though, if I remember correctly... so you could potentially create "vermin" creatures that are set up to never naturally spawn, and have the same stats as whatever creature you're trying to summon, and workaround like that.

The problem with that is that the creatures in question will always be classified as vermin. But IIRC there's a script which will allow you to spawn creatures somewhere, I'd have to find it again though :/

Anyways, if you're doing creature summons for getting special animals, I must request you include some form of suicide bomber imps which will explode themselves in combat. It would certainly lead to much Fun when a baby snatcher is caught in your main dining hall.

This gives me an idea from a cthulhu game I played recently. Along with your creature, summoning will randomly spawn vermins that will go for food stockpile and annoy your succubi to an extent. Nothing that will damage your fort but you will have to be prepared to handle these intruders.

I can see what would happen with exploding imps when pastured outside : "An abumsh! BOOM!". That will definitely be in.

[Black_Legion]

Good to see another update, read some of the road map things and it makes me think of Dungeon Keeper a bit. Speaking of which you could always give the succubi/incubi/tentacle monsters a "slap" or "menace" interaction to temporarily speed up or increase the dutifulness traits temporarily. DFhack can't let you spawn a hand to persuade your more foolish,lazy, or distracted citizens to do what you told them... yet.

[Boltgun]

We can have a creature spreading an enhancing 'slap' syndrome. Ideally you could have an interaction that nobles uses automatically to cancel breaks, leaders having to push their lazy peons back to work would be interesting. And that would make nobles... useful? Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to add interaction to nobility (I can use castes but that would be a job for positions).

Otherwise that could be an use for a summoned creature, like tentacle monsters being a tool for keeping your citizens safe and productive. 

But first things first, I got a summoning circle working and basic reactions. Now for the hard part, I need creatures out of this at least in a wild state. Ideally they'd be tame out of the box but if I encounter bugs, I'll let animal trainers finish the job.