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[Ladygolem]

BOUNTIFUL BEASTFOLK
(BETA)
This is a beta version of the mod, a work in progress! As such it may still have some unknown bugs. Back up your saves!
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INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS: Just drag it all into data/raw/objects! Very simple, no complex rawjuggling here
Tired of all those annoying thrips men and wren women wandering around your map aimlessly? Ever wish animal people were more than just beasts your dwarves won't butcher?

This mod aims to correct that.

FEATURES (VERY INCOMPLETE SO FAR):

• 14 new civilizations, with every single animal man species having a chance to appear (and a few besides!)
• Minor changes to some creatures, primarily beastfolk; marine animal men are now amphibious, several fanciful creatures are now fully intelligent.

The beastfolk, while living in elaborate towns or tree forts depending on biome, are without access to higher technology like metals or even stone (their entity files are largely based on the existent subterranean animalmen); they wield blowguns and wooden spears, and wear no armour. Not a huge threat to a prepared military, but when they attack, they attack very early on in your fort's life - so embark prepared. However, most of the time they will be at peace with your dwarves, bringing trade caravans every season - your broker will have plenty to do in this mod! They trade primarily in food, cloth and leather, and will sell you their blowguns (if you want to use them for some reason).

CHANGELOG:
v.0.1.0 - release
v.0.1.1 - marine civ biome changes
   - ethics changes
   - biome support value pared down to 7
v.0.2.0 - revamped civs - biomes consolidated, added hostile + friendly versions of each, only one of each allowed on map now (except for thieving), added thieving civ
   - new custom language
V.0.2.1 - increased civ cap to 2
   - fixed typo: REPRECUSSIONS to REPERCUSSIONS
   - changed thief ethics to facillitate theft
   

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This mod is very much a work in progress, and while I've found no game-breaking bugs so far, there are some aspects of the mod i'm not entirely satisfied with.


TO DO LIST:

• hostile beastfolk (both kobold and goblin analogs) Done!
  
• fully custom language (atm I'm using DFLang's "Old English" preset; I'm working on a custom language generated mostly from animal noises, but it's difficult to find lists long enough) Done!
  
• guards and soldiers should wear sets of bone armour, and bone spears; however I'm not too sure if this is even possible.
• limit the amount of beastfolk civs to one or two of each; perhaps that should give the vanilla races some more breathing room, if that's desired. Done, though I may have 'balanced' them too far in the other direction...
  
• figure out what to do with the 'marine' beastfolk civ; atm they're simply amphbious animal men with their biome set to NOT_FREEZING. Is there a way to make them, say, only build settlements along coastlines? Done! I think....
  

As I've mentioned, I'm still in the process of working on this, so if you have any feedback or suggestions they'd be greatly, greatly appreciated!

[dwarf_reform]

Posting to watch Anything that gives poor beastmen more viability is A+ by me..

I've found that blowguns are pretty decent weapons to issue to your hammerer to dish out dwarven justice with

And languages are tough business.. Well over 2000 individual words that need done and a limited amount of vowels.. I've slogged all the way through a whole dwarven language file (redoing it into a "dirty" language, bahaha!), and am about 40% through with another "serious" dorf-language.. but "serious" is hard.. It gets very difficult to avoid repeats or similarities in what is essentially cool-sounding gibberish

It'd be awesome if each beastman type could have 'colossal' or 'titan' versions (bobcat beastmen would show up accompanied by a couple colossal bobcats).. It'd be cool if they could use them as mounts and pack animals also.. Then again, inserting humans instead of beastmen it sounds a little odd A group of regular (speaking/intelligent) humans and giant sub-humans show up riding colossal sub-humans (or making them haul goods).. :>

[Ladygolem]

Posting to watch Anything that gives poor beastmen more viability is A+ by me..

I've found that blowguns are pretty decent weapons to issue to your hammerer to dish out dwarven justice with

And languages are tough business.. Well over 2000 individual words that need done and a limited amount of vowels.. I've slogged all the way through a whole dwarven language file (redoing it into a "dirty" language, bahaha!), and am about 40% through with another "serious" dorf-language.. but "serious" is hard.. It gets very difficult to avoid repeats or similarities in what is essentially cool-sounding gibberish

It'd be awesome if each beastman type could have 'colossal' or 'titan' versions (bobcat beastmen would show up accompanied by a couple colossal bobcats).. It'd be cool if they could use them as mounts and pack animals also.. Then again, inserting humans instead of beastmen it sounds a little odd A group of regular (speaking/intelligent) humans and giant sub-humans show up riding colossal sub-humans (or making them haul goods).. :>

For the language, I'm using DFLang, but it seems to be rather out of date; it keeps adding rude words that show up in my errorlog, rather annoying! It uses 'root' words to generate a language file; problem is you need 100+ MINIMUM for it to work. Ah well.

As for your idea... I'm not sure that's really what I'm going for, here. I suppose I could give them those as castes, but that could cause all sorts of problems. I'd rather just keep them as a low-level ally/enemy for your fortress

[Grimlocke]

I'm somewhat curious about how they fare in worldgen, they don't all get wiped out in the first decades due to having only toothpicks for defence?

[Ladygolem]

Strangely enough, no, at least not for the most part; here, this is a fairly typical population at ~100 years in:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

251 Kiwi men
   8305 Ostrich men
   194 Cassowary men
   958 Kea men
   2421 Sparrow men
   4271 White stork men
   4022 Parakeet men
   9072 Wren men
   41 Cockatiel men
   1515 Peach-faced lovebird men
   3276 Great horned owl men
   3838 Damselfly men
   4624 Bark scorpion men
   141 Tick men
   113 Louse men
   14 Thrips men
   125 Jumping spider men
   162 Brown recluse spider men
   180 Narwhal men
   9175 Capybara men
   766 Giant tortoise men
   1839 Armadillo men
   81 Octopus men
   130 Crab men
   104 Leopard seal men
   19 Cuttlefish men
   111 Orca men
   110 Horseshoe crab men
   158 Elephant seal men
   370 Harp seal men
   113 Nautilus men
   1180 Snapping turtle men
   2257 Mink men
   182 Pond turtle men
   3708 Hamster men
   1363 Hedgehog men
   146 Squid men
   2622 Dwarves
   25 Humans
   17191 Goblins
   937 Kobolds
   530 Sasquatches
   131 Wild boar men
   5023 Kangaroo men
   346 Adder men
   3637 Echidna men
   225 Kingsnake men
   27 Bobcat men
   7234 Hare men
   246 Copperhead snake men
   7950 Ibex men
   393 Wombat men
   2311 Dingo men
   839 Mongoose men
   54 Ocelot men
   1432 Jackal men
   4603 Pangolin men
   751 Sloth bear men
   194 Aye-aye men
   7355 Impala men

And another, to get an idea of the patterns (this one is from a slightly older version but without changes that would affect worldgen significantly)

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12 Peregrine falcon men
   3821 Ostrich men
   9949 Crow men
   982 Kea men
   8253 Sparrow men
   9269 White stork men
   1654 Barn owl men
   12445 Lorikeet men
   18170 Wren men
   3778 Cockatiel men
   8956 Peach-faced lovebird men
   160 Kestrel men
   42 Great horned owl men
   135 Masked lovebird men
   156 Bushtit men
   6207 Damselfly men
   22 Moth men
   1145 Bark scorpion men
   136 Mantis men
   11 Louse men
   81 Jumping spider men
   341 Brown recluse spider men
   4373 Platypus men
   1466 Badger men
   1081 Moose men
   117 Tiger men
   3656 Giant tortoise men
   653 Armadillo men
   215 Wolverine men
   238 Chinchilla men
   8 Octopus men
   147 Crab men
   202 Cuttlefish men
   136 Orca men
   13 Horseshoe crab men
   69 Sperm whale men
   112 Elephant seal men
   149 Nautilus men
   1 Otter man
   37 Snapping turtle men
   133 Hamster men
   100 Squid men
   10272 Dwarves
   16 Humans
   693 Goblins
   2 Kobolds
   243 Yetis
   15 Coyote men
   189 Kangaroo men
   688 Adder men
   23 Echidna men
   12 Kingsnake men
   139 Bobcat men
   2144 Skunk men
   170 Weasel men
   169 Copperhead snake men
   9972 Ibex men
   9901 Dingo men
   145 Mongoose men
   18 Anaconda men
   1011 Jackal men
   241 Capuchin men
   5420 Sloth men
   239 Spider monkey men
   226 Sloth bear men
   4523 Impala men

As you can see, animal men seem to thrive, even overpowering the more advanced nations. My theory is that it's simply a matter of sheer numbers - the unlucky beastfolk that happen to be next to the single kingdom of dwarves or goblins get wiped out, but the rest are too far removed by this 'buffer zone'.

I admit, this may not be the experience for everyone. But it is rather fun seeing 5 caravans of differing species occupying your depot near constantly, more like a market or a bazaar than a formal transaction. Or, if that's not your cup of tea, seize said bazaar and then you'll have 5 different species of ambushes to keep you occupied

[Illogical_Blox]

Despite this really belonging in Mod Releases,  well done! It looks good.

[Ladygolem]

I put it here as I didn't really feel it was finished; I was hoping to get some feedback before I make a proper 'release', as it were.

[StupidElves]

PTW

[Ladygolem]

PTW

I've seen this phrase before, what exactly does it mean? And yes, I do realise I  sound like somebody grandmother, haha.

[StupidElves]

PTW

I've seen this phrase before, what exactly does it mean? And yes, I do realise I  sound like somebody grandmother, haha.

Posting to Watch

[Ladygolem]

That makes sense, cheers!

[Malecus]

Huh, I first saw it in the Community Games & Stories section and thought it was a rallying cry for the dwarves to Pwn The World.

I noticed you've got BIOME_SUPPORT at 10, which greatly increases the chance of the civ settling in that biome.  What if you toned it down?  With my own homebrew races, I've been working on the assumption that a few low numbers would mean less settlements in general and thus prevent them from taking over so much land, which in turn reduces their threat to the default races.

As for their friendly nature, perhaps making their ethics less dorfy to promote conflict?  Maybe beastfolk don't see eating sapient individuals as wrong?  Let them brake oaths more freely but think very ill of others trespassing on their marked territory.  Check the histories for reasons why the established races go to war and what they let get forgotten.

All-in-all, an excellent mod!

[Ladygolem]

Huh, I first saw it in the Community Games & Stories section and thought it was a rallying cry for the dwarves to Pwn The World.

I noticed you've got BIOME_SUPPORT at 10, which greatly increases the chance of the civ settling in that biome.  What if you toned it down?  With my own homebrew races, I've been working on the assumption that a few low numbers would mean less settlements in general and thus prevent them from taking over so much land, which in turn reduces their threat to the default races.

As for their friendly nature, perhaps making their ethics less dorfy to promote conflict?  Maybe beastfolk don't see eating sapient individuals as wrong?  Let them brake oaths more freely but think very ill of others trespassing on their marked territory.  Check the histories for reasons why the established races go to war and what they let get forgotten.

All-in-all, an excellent mod!

Thank you very much! I'll play around with the biome support tokens; I had assumed that the number was relative, like in body part sizes. I'll try toning those down. Good ideas with the ethics as well, I had mostly copied the subterranean ones but filled out the NOT_APPLICABLE ones because I didn't know what they did - a kinda dumb idea, in retrospect. Thanks a bunch for the feedback!

[Eric Blank]

You can get the aquatic races to favor coastlines by having them start in saltwater wetlands (putting them adjacent to an ocean) and then favoring making settlements on oceans/waterways above all others, or almost exclusively: they will construct their settlements right on the beach, basically, but not actually in the water. They'll still have at least that first settlement out in the marshes, and that could wind up being their capital, but it works nonetheless.

[Ladygolem]

That's perfect, thank you! Version 0.1.2 should be out tonight, withe the aquatics changes, biome support nerf, and ethics revamp.