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[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Can't wait to be able to play as Formics, and finally crush those pesky humans.

[StLeibowitz]

More bug!

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[CREATURE:BANDIT_MOTH_STL]
[NAME:bandit moth:bandit moths:bandit moth]
[CASTE_NAME:bandit moth:bandit moths:bandit moth]
[CREATURE_TILE:'M'][COLOR:0:0:1]
[DESCRIPTION:A giant moth that is uncontrollably attracted to shiny objects, and objects in general.]
[PREFSTRING:larcenous ways][PREFSTRING:mighty wingspan]
[BODY:BASIC_INSECT_STL:ANTENNAE_STL:WINGS_STL:PROBOSCIS_STL:2EYES_STL:BOOK_LUNGS_STL:BRAIN_STL:HEART_ABDOMEN_STL]
[BODY_SIZE:1100000] The size, roughly, of a beluga whale. With wings.
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:9000]
[BODY_SIZE:2:0:48000]
[BODY_SIZE:5:0:70000]
[BODY_SIZE:10:0:140000]
[BODY_SIZE:20:0:500000]
[BODY_SIZE:40:0:1100000]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:LIGHT_CHITIN_MATERIALS_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:LIGHT_CHITIN_TISSUES_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:INSECT_LAYERS_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:INSECT_POSITIONS_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:LEPIDOPTERID_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:BITE_PROBOSCIS_SUCK_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:IS_INSECT_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:APPEARANCE_VARIABILITY_BODYSIZE_HLG]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:APPEARANCE_VARIABILITY_INSECT_EYES_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:APPEARANCE_VARIABILITY_MOTH_WINGS_STL]
[BLOOD:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HEMOLYMPH:LIQUID]
[BIOME:ANY_LAND][FREQUENCY:20][CLUSTER_NUMBER:1:1][POPULATION_NUMBER:20:80]
[FLEEQUICK][CURIOUSBEAST_ITEM][FLIER]
[CASTE:FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
[CASTE:MALE]
[MALE]

The mighty Bandit Moth. Hide your valuables, because this thing is the size of a winged whale and it is greedier than a kleptomaniac mandrill. It will not be denied.

Scorpions in progress. Also, flaming slugs. And would I be correct to assume that a grass with no heat damage point would burn forever?

[WillowLuman]

It gets burned eventually but takes a few years/months.

Hmm, maybe you should make that a megabeast/semimegabeast? It's not really fair to the players to make every single animal out for blood. Do we have anything non-domestic that isn't?

[StLeibowitz]

The Bandit Moth isn't out for blood, only items. It has the [FLEEQUICK] token, so it'll bolt at the first sign of resistance - and halflings use bows and open up with a hail of pebbles, so the first sign of resistance likely won't be lethal for either party. It's not a building destroyer, so a sturdy wood hatch can keep it out. Basically, it's chiefly a danger if all the halflings or formics are sleeping in the open air, with their shinies strewn about next to them while they sleep.

As for non-domestics...well, er...uh...There's wild pack beetles?

Yeah...adding in those giant benign millipedes would be a good idea now...

[StLeibowitz]

Okay, giant millipedes? That's a lot of work I don't feel like doing. I did, however, add in trilobites and those vermin-diving dragonflies I promised:

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[CREATURE:TRILOBITE_STL]
[NAME:trilobite:trilobites:trilobite]
[CASTE_NAME:trilobite:trilobites:trilobites]
[DESCRIPTION:Hardy, diverse organisms, found in varying forms across the oceans and rivers of the world.]
[CREATURE_TILE:172][COLOR:4:9:0]
[BODY:VERMIN_BODY_HLG]
[PREFSTRING:meatball-like characteristics]
[VERMIN_FISH][FISHITEM][IMMOBILE_LAND][VERMIN_NOTRAP][VERMIN_GROUNDER]
[UBIQUITOUS]
[MUNDANE][NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
[BIOME:ANY_OCEAN]
[BIOME:ANY_LAKE]
[BIOME:ANY_RIVER][POPULATION_NUMBER:1000:1500]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:LIGHT_CHITIN_MATERIALS_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:LIGHT_CHITIN_TISSUES_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:INSECT_LAYERS_STL]
[CREATURE_CLASS:ALL][CREATURE_CLASS:INVERTEBRATE][CREATURE_CLASS:ARTHROPOD]
[BODY_SIZE:70]
[NO_DRINK]
[SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:800] They're like rocket-propelled meatballs!
[CASTE:FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[CASTE:MALE]
[MALE]

[CREATURE:AESHNIDA_STL]
[NAME:aeshnida:aeshnidae:aeshnida]
[CASTE_NAME:aeshnida:aeshnidae:aeshnida]
[CREATURE_TILE:'d'][COLOR:2:0:0]
[DESCRIPTION:A large dragonfly that darts through the air with precision and inborn skill as it searches for prey.]
[PREFSTRING:precise movements]
[BODY:BASIC_INSECT_STL:ANTENNAE_STL:4WINGS_STL:MANDIBLES_STL:2EYES_STL:BOOK_LUNGS_STL:BRAIN_STL:HEART_ABDOMEN_STL]
[BODY_SIZE:4600]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:500]
[BODY_SIZE:1:0:2000]
[BODY_SIZE:2:180:4600]
[CHILD:2][PET][PETVALUE:100]
[BENIGN]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:LIGHT_CHITIN_MATERIALS_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:LIGHT_CHITIN_TISSUES_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:INSECT_LAYERS_STL]
[BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:INSECT_POSITIONS_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:BITE_MANDIBLE_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:IS_INSECT_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:APPEARANCE_VARIABILITY_BODYSIZE_HLG]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:APPEARANCE_VARIABILITY_INSECT_EYES_STL]
[APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:APPEARANCE_VARIABILITY_DRAGONFLY_COLOR_STL]
[DIVE_HUNTS_VERMIN]
[FLIER]
[LARGE_ROAMING]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:900:1100][CLUSTER_NUMBER:3:5][LOOSE_CLUSTERS]
[BIOME:ANY_TROPICAL]
[BIOME:ANY_SAVANNA]
[CASTE:FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[CASTE:MALE]
[MALE]

So, some benign, wimpy bugs to fool the halflings into thinking that not everything wants them dead. The trilobites should also make river fishing possible, I think, or at least profitable, since nothing lived there before to my knowledge.

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[PLANT:UMBRELLA_TREE_STL]
[NAME:umbrella tree]
[NAME_PLURAL:umbrella trees]
[ADJ:umbrellawood]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURE:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURE]
[PREFSTRING:shady canopy]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:umbrella wood]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:umbrella wood]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:BROWN]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:6:0:0]
[WOOD]
[TREE:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:WOOD]
[WET][DRY]
[BIOME:ANY_SAVANNA]
[TREE_TILE:226]
[TREE_COLOR:2:0:0]
[SAPLING_COLOR:2:0:0]

[PLANT:CINDERWOOD_TREE_STL]
[NAME:cinderwood tree]
[NAME_PLURAL:cinderwood trees]
[ADJ:cinderwood]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURE:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURE]
[PREFSTRING:volatility][PREFSTRING:choking shroud of smoke]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:cinderwood]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:cinderwood]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:RUST]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:4:0:0]
[HEATDAM_POINT:NONE] "Like eternal columns of the blackest smoke they stand, grim sentinels holding vigil o'er the endless sand..."
[IGNITE_POINT:9000]
[WOOD]
[TREE:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:WOOD]
[DRY]
[BIOME:ANY_DESERT]
[TREE_TILE:198]
[TREE_COLOR:4:0:0]
[SAPLING_COLOR:4:0:0]

And a few more trees, one usable, the other basically a flaming stick that never burns away and chokes its host desert in smoke.

[StLeibowitz]

HELP!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

THE GRASS HAS BECOME EVERYTHING.


All I did was add the plants above and then an underground crop for the formics:

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[PLANT:CORAL_FUNGUS_STL]
[NAME:coral fungus]
[NAME_PLURAL:coral fungi]
[ADJ:coral fungus]
[FREQUENCY:100]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURE:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[MATERIAL_VALUE:10]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURE]
[PREFSTRING:exotic color]
[PREFSTRING:branches]
[SUMMER][SPRING][AUTUMN][WINTER]
[GROWDUR:500][CLUSTERSIZE:3]
[PICKED_TILE:3][PICKED_COLOR:5:0:0]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SEED:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[SEED_MAT]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[SEED:coral fungus spore:coral fungus spores:5:0:0:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:SEED]
[WET][DRY]
[BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_WATER][UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:1:3]
[SHRUB_TILE:3][SHRUB_COLOR:5:0:0]
[DEAD_SHRUB_TILE:3]
[DEAD_SHRUB_COLOR:6:0:0]

And then I embarked on a desert. Now the grass is having a rave party and the Formics are very sad

More minor question: How does one make a weapon a digging tool? I intended for formics to use pickaxes, but for whatever reason they failed to show up on the embark preparation thing.

EDIT: Okay, it's not the GRASS that has become everything, it's the surface of the desert - whatever it's supposed to be. There's a moss tile in the far north that steadfastly remains moss, even as the universe spazzes out around it (admirable), but everything else is switching materials extremely rapidly and flickering through all the colors of the dwarven rainbow.

EDIT2: The boulders themselves that litter the area are completely fine and made of lovely rock. It's just the surface. Help?

[laularukyrumo]

I don't know if this effect is detailed on the wiki, but...

No, but look at the top level of your embark site.  Notice every instance of pebbles, or stone floor, or boulders?  None of those can be composed of [SOIL] and that's hard-coded.  When you embark with every [STONE] set as [SOIL], those spots are, according to the game, not made of *anything*.  Which means, apparently, that they're made of *EVERYTHING*.

So they strobe, flashing every color available to the game.  Trying to examine the tiles reveal that they're changing the material that defines them many times per second.  It's eye-breaking. 

This also happens if you embark with stone existing, then use CHANGELAYER to turn all of the stone into soil layers, or turn the existing stone into soil by modding.

[StLeibowitz]

I didn't do anything related to that, unless for whatever reason the game isn't recognizing Celestial Marble.

I abandoned and embarked on a different desert area, a rocky one this time. Everything's perfectly fine. Maybe we don't have any sand, or something?

(The story of that embark, for the interested. It was...exciting, to say the least.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

from the Journal of Bubble Blossomlake, de facto leader of the Yesteroaf expedition

...heard Lake screaming earlier. Can't see him from the hole. Assuming the worst. Guess it's just me and Desert left, probably just me soon since Desert's too much of an ass to limp over here to safety. Guess he prefers cursing at those monsters to living a long life without a leg. Mayor Dirt's delirious - demanded I make him an armor rack. An armor rack! For him! The poor fool's neck the only thing that isn't broken. He ordered me to do it...three days ago? He's been unconscious since. Guess I'll be the only one left lucid enough to write soon enough.

The monsters hit us on day one. Baggins parked the wagon next to the river - too close. The first we knew of the attack was when that giant bug pulled Fido underwater and ripped his head off. Eight of them leapt out next. Killed Baggins. Rest of us ran, but those things worked like a pack of hounds. Vole died next after getting separated. Lull tried to help and got stung in the head, dead instantly. Only reason Dirt lived was because the rest of us rallied and charged the two striders that were stinging at him, but he got perforated pretty badly. Desert got stung in the leg when we ran, but we killed both the bastards. He's been hurling rocks and insults ever since, bought me and Lake some time to dig in. Got us a nice cave down here, couple of beds, carpenter shop, all the food we brought. No water. I'll have to head up outside to the river for a drink soon, but the banks are still slick with blood.

This whole expedition was a bad idea. Something's not right about this place - the trees seem fine, but there's no birds. Only things flying around are the trilobites, and our limbs. The water striders...damn them.

Ah, I should have carved myself a crutch. I hear scratching up above. Hope it's Lake. Probably a bug. All I've got's a shovel and my wits, but I don't think that'll be enough.

I'm so thirsty...

Transcriptor's note: Desert eventually recovered enough to go stark raving mad. Lake was stung to death. Blossom beat the strider outside to death with his shovel (somehow) and survived. He now runs a tiny fungus farm in the back room of the hole he and dirt share.

[mastahcheese]

Wait, do we have any alcohol in this yet?
I would love to be the first to add proper drinks to this.

[Putnam]

Hehe, I'd like a modding turn.

[StLeibowitz]

Wait, do we have any alcohol in this yet?
I would love to be the first to add proper drinks to this.

Too late - aphid honeywine I added, because evidently honeydew in its raw form was "inedible". There is a certain lack of variety, though, I will admit.

I think I solved the rave party issue - we didn't have any inorganic materials tagged with "SOIL_SAND", or whatever the sand tag is (working from memory here), and I'd embarked on a sand desert. This yielded an effect similar to what laularukyrumo posited. I've yet to test this fix, but it is the only one that makes any sense, so I feel comfortable declaring that bug dealt with.

[laularukyrumo]

oh lord

I'm scared to see what Putnam does to us

[Halfling]

Putnam too? Oh, awesome. This will really go places. I'm adding both of you guys.

Not having any sand was apparently an oversight on my part. That post by Talanic is not accurate though, I did what he described as impossible later in the thread. 

There's a bit of a problem, namely BFEL's creation STILL hasn't been tested in fort mode for the suggested 2 years AFAIK since sculleywr apparently didn't end up playing after all.

Let's be honest, it was a pretty small addition and doesn't include a new fortress mode, so we could maybe say it's arena mode tested, and Leibowitz has confirmed it doesn't break fort mode and I can confirm it works in legends as intended and let that be it for now. Or, if any other player wants to test it now, that would be okay. Or I could declare BFEL will now show it off as per the rules.

So what do, guys? I honestly wasn't prepared for people just skipping out when making the rules. Generally not testing is unacceptable if we want to stay playable, but this has been tested somewhat, however.

[Halfling]

Update

Rave deserts are unacceptable, even if you're playing the minimal world. To fix them, added

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[INORGANIC:FINE_SAND_HLG]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE_HLG]
   [STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:CREAM]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:fine sand]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:LIQUID:n/a]
   [STATE_NAME_ADJ:GAS:fine sand]
   [TILE:178][DISPLAY_COLOR:7:14:0]
   [SOIL_SAND][SOIL_OCEAN]

to inorcanic_halfling in the currently uploaded versions. Please redownload & overwrite. Screen:



Also, since BFEL didn't seem to mind, replaced treelord raws with mastahcheese's clear version in the BFEL pack.

[Halfling]

Third post in a row, but since they're all on different topics I feel it's clearer this way for everyone. Leibowitz, are you sure that cinderwood tree won't again make poor wood-using races make their equipment out of it? This one seems to be available on the surface.