Are you fed up of the daily grind in your fortress?
Have you ever thought something along the lines of, "damn; I wish
something horrific would crawl out of the darkness and begin to eat my dwarves."?
Regardless of your answer, I'm sure you'd love some more flavoursome caverns. From giant mantis cutting a swathe through your dormitories, to psychic abominations crawling out from the deep to drive your dwarves insane from beyond their fortifications, you'll be hard pushed to find something in this mod that won't ruin your favourite alcoholic's day. See spoiler below for list of critters
Introducing our latest addition, Illithids!
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Brain stealing parasites
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that look almost like squid! Capable of infecting all sentient life, from dwarves to dragons. They
will drive your dwarves insane over time with psychic powers, so be sure to kill them. They instill dread and fear in the fortresses they attack (literally, thanks to emotion tag interactions!) and Armok help you should you encounter an illithid brainstealer dragon.
Our second new friends are dark elves! Here from the deep to steal your men and plunder your forts. They, and illithids, invade from the caverns in full blown sieges! Enjoy!!!
New update:
Added cave fae, which use illusions to terrify any threats that might chance upon them (like a swordsdwarf) as well as cursing dwarves with baldness (bad thoughts and loss of hair), will-o-the-wisp which explode into flames if you kill them, and I also added cave goblins which are remarkably stupid, stunted goblins led by an upper caste of hobgoblins (hairy goblins - have normal intelligence) that swarm underground.
Vermin:
cave centipedes
cave millipedes
cave mussels
cave oysters
cave lungfish
cave dragonflies
cave fireflies
cave snails
cave slugs
cave bees (HOPEFULLY will make underground hives, and provide cave honey)
cave moth
glowmoth (firefly-moth, glows)
cave cricket
cave lamprey
CreepyCrawlies:
giant cave beetles
giant cave roaches (benign)
giant cave millipedes (benign)
giant cave centipedes (these are scary, poisonous)
giant cave scorpions (these are scarier, poisonous - make your dwarves RAGE, not berserk tag)
giant cave louse (benign)
giant cave dragonflies (benign)
giant cave fireflies (glow, benign)
giant cave mantis (scary, will eat your dwarves)
giant cave ants (will come in large numbers and invade your fortress from below for food and drink, alone not much, dangerous in numbers)
giant cave bee (will avoid fights, dangerous though as they'll go for your food and drink if left unguarded)
giant cave mosquito (will opportunistically attack your dwarves)
giant cave moth (benign)
giant cave tick (opportunistic as above)
giant cave flea (opportunistic)
giant cave cricket (benign, makes flavorful chirping)
giant cave fly (will go for your food and drink, but isn't too dangerous)
giant cave snail (their slime WILL give your dwarves bad thoughts - disgusted)
giant cave slug (see above)
Underground Encounters:
giant cave frogs
giant cave mussels (benign)
giant cave oysters (benign)
cave crabs
giant cave crabs (nasty)
cave lizards
giant cave lizards (nasty)
giant cave lungfish (benign)
giant helmet snakes (scary, poisonous af)
giant cave hopper (benign, avoids fights. Are dangerous if cornered)
cave salamanders
giant cave salamanders (nasty, will nibble on a passing dwarf)
giant cave lamprey (opportunistic)
giant cave ray (benign)
cave jellyfish (benign, non-stinging)
cave octopi
cave squid
giant cave octopi
giant cave squid
A single HFS that will invade rarely from the lowest cavern. They are quite nasty and will effect your dwarves mental stability, but die easyish.
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