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[DerMeister]

Work mechanic of geldable females or not?

Both male and female castes can have
[SET_BP_GROUP:BY_TYPE:LOWERBODY][BP_ADD_TYPE:GELDABLE]
so yes, all castes can be set to geldable.

What if geldable female will be gelded?

[SQman]

She won't be able to have children, as simple as that. In the context of Anthousai, if you care about fluff like this, a flower without pistils won't produce pollen.


In this very moment I'm juiced up on Red Bull, listening to hype-ass eurobeat, and furiously modding cats. I plan to finish genera Catopuma, Felis and Leopardus today. Small cats are pretty same-y, so that should go fast.

Edit:

There's only so many real animals a man can make before he gets tired, so now for something completely different:




Jian, a one-winged bird admired for its romantic symbolism. Even if I could make them merge into a flying jiangjiang, they wouldn't be able to breed, defeating the purpose for the poor birds to even find mates. That's really sad if you think about it.

[Warlord255]

There's only so many real animals a man can make before he gets tired, so now for something completely different:




Jian, a one-winged bird admired for its romantic symbolism. Even if I could make them merge into a flying jiangjiang, they wouldn't be able to breed, defeating the purpose for the poor birds to even find mates. That's really sad if you think about it.

I see what you did there, you silly weeb.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

_{Franxx was a beautiful if failed attempt to confront the issue of abusive relationships that ultimately was destroyed by waifu capitalism, much like Evangelion before it}

[SQman]

Maybe I'm just passionate about chinese mythology? Okay, I binge-watched that anime in two days, you're free to judge me. Ichigo best girl

Edit:
Finally managed to push myself to work on some original content for LCM. This time it's some of the Hito pets:



Shiba inu are sorta useless, being third the size of vanilla dogs. They come in three flavors: red, tan and black.



Kabutomushi are half-ton rhinoceros beetles used by Hito for pulling wagons, hauling goods, and as war mounts. They are also building destroyers, because why not. I basically un-verminated Voliol's hercules beetles.



Kuwagata are main war beasts for Hito. Those 80 kg stag beetles lay many eggs and grow to full size in just a year (exactly opposite to what real stag beetles are like), but they are grazers, so creating a beetle army isn't as simple as it could be.
I also used Voliol's stag beetles for this.




Rokubi is a hunting companion for Hito. Foxfire causes dizziness, drowsiness and speed decrease. The interaction is literally Rhenaya's drow mod's faerie fire, while actual faerie fire will be nerfed in LCM.



Shisa serve as both mounts and war beasts. They can use Smite Evil interaction from Forgotten Realms Direforged to cause great pain to any creature with [CREATURE_CLASS:EVIL] (that I spent way too long adding to stuff). Non-evil creatures also need to be afraid, because shisa are 300 kg lion-like monsters, magical or not.

Another edit:

Remaining Hito pets done!



Koi dragons are basically large dogs that are as fast in water as on land. They are the size of a vanilla monitor lizard, and has a dorsal fin and fleshy whiskers.



Yatagacho are three-legged geese.



The kujara is a reference to Tomba! 2, my favorite PS1 game. These gigantic chicks' feathers are actually wool.



Bound oni are a slave race to Hito. They grow up to 200k and learn mace fighting quickly.

Yet another edit:

I've started working on T'lethians. It's going to be my first creature really made from scratch, and just so it's not too simple it's actually 5 creatures in one: pathetic aquatoids, pathetic but psychically gifted aquatoid commanders, unremarkable gillmen, mighty lobstermen, and fearsome tasoths.

So far I've defined all 9 castes (tasoths are genderless), gave them names, sizes, max ages, body plans, basic stuff like this. I had to make some body parts: antennae and four pincers for lobstermen, processing cells and energy unit for tasoths, sectoid organs (vestigal digestion system) for aquatoids.
I already have aqua plastics and zrbite for some parts made, but things like lobstermen's bulletproof chitin or aqua-ceramics for processing cells will need new materials and tissues.

Also, I plan on stealing some interaction for aquatoids' MC panic ability. I'll just keep putting off learning about interactions for as long as possible.

[Eric Blank]

I made a couple domestic critter analogs for dwarves/other civs with cavern access. And I'm also branching out into positive mood syndromes from foods. Mostly because I'm sick of dwarves in perfectly good living conditions having mental breakdowns. I suppose I could mod their stress vulnerability directly, but I felt it would be more rewarding to do so through hard work.

[Hetsin]

Taking a break from refactoring the creature raws and updating them with more accurate information, to refactor the creatures to make tileset switching less of a pain with existing modded raws. I've done a pass through the material definitions to make them more authentic, trying to keep in mind that a simulation is only as good as its parameters. Made a body detail plan that has humans (and by extension dwaves and to a lesser extent other animals) weigh what they should, give or take, rather than 300+ kg monsters. That combined with the more authentic material properties means that all attacks are now horribly OP. Which means a weapon rebalance is in order after the refactoring is done. Then I can focus on the economic side if things.

[ZM5]

Figured I'd share something that could be useful - I was doing some material temperature experimenting and got a less OP version of a fireball out of it when used in conjunction with a LIQUID_GLOB interaction. Here's a link - essentially, the moment it strikes a target it'll blow up into a cloud of gas and cause heat damage, however unlike a normal fireball it is still blockable and avoidable - you could lower the temperatures (melting point has to be higher than boiling) to not have a melting effect, but still blow up into a cloud of gas and cause inhaled syndromes instead.

[SQman]

I did it! I managed to create a new creature more or less from scratch! I've mastered tissues and body detail plans, so I'm basically unstoppable now! There are five castes:

Spoiler: Aquatoid and aquatoid commander (click to show/hide)

Aquatoids make up a good part of alien invasion force. They are 45k in size, have pretty standard anatomy with regular scales, lungs, heart, and most digestive organs merged into a single "sectoid organ" as the only really unusual part. They can use their MC panic ability to cause fear and lower willpower and focus which has 10% success chance.

Aquatoid commanders are identical to regular ones except they are the rarest T'lethian caste and their MC panic has a higher chance to succees.

Spoiler: Gillman (click to show/hide)

Gillmen are scaly humans, nothing special.

Spoiler: Lobsterman (click to show/hide)

With bronze-grade chitin and 200k in size, lobstermen are formidable enemies. Unlike Earth Planes of Visions crustaceans, lobstermen have bones, fortunately regular ones instead of titanium like they should be. Bring thermic lances and thermal tazers.

Spoiler: Tasoth (click to show/hide)

Tasoths are the ultimate supersoldiers, or at least they should be. Their scales are bronze-grade, they have many fun tokens that make them somewhat more dangerous, they are 90k in size, and their only organs are two aqua-ceramics (stone) processing cells (brain equivalent) and a zrbite (gold) power unit (heart equivalent). They should probably have natural combat skills.

Their scales should be green, not yellow. Whoopsie.

A T'lethian siege will be a great way to paint forts many colors as each caste has blood of different colors - red for gillmen, green for aquatoids, blue for lobstermen, yellow bio-gel for tasoths.

I started working on this late at night, that's why descriptions are crappy. Welp, I'm gonna go fix them now.

[brolol.404]

I did it! I managed to create a new creature more or less from scratch! I've mastered tissues and body detail plans, so I'm basically unstoppable now! There are five castes:

Spoiler: Aquatoid and aquatoid commander (click to show/hide)

Aquatoids make up a good part of alien invasion force. They are 45k in size, have pretty standard anatomy with regular scales, lungs, heart, and most digestive organs merged into a single "sectoid organ" as the only really unusual part. They can use their MC panic ability to cause fear and lower willpower and focus which has 10% success chance.

Aquatoid commanders are identical to regular ones except they are the rarest T'lethian caste and their MC panic has a higher chance to succees.

Spoiler: Gillman (click to show/hide)

Gillmen are scaly humans, nothing special.

Spoiler: Lobsterman (click to show/hide)

With bronze-grade chitin and 200k in size, lobstermen are formidable enemies. Unlike Earth Planes of Visions crustaceans, lobstermen have bones, fortunately regular ones instead of titanium like they should be. Bring thermic lances and thermal tazers.

Spoiler: Tasoth (click to show/hide)

Tasoths are the ultimate supersoldiers, or at least they should be. Their scales are bronze-grade, they have many fun tokens that make them somewhat more dangerous, they are 90k in size, and their only organs are two aqua-ceramics (stone) processing cells (brain equivalent) and a zrbite (gold) power unit (heart equivalent). They should probably have natural combat skills.

Their scales should be green, not yellow. Whoopsie.

A T'lethian siege will be a great way to paint forts many colors as each caste has blood of different colors - red for gillmen, green for aquatoids, blue for lobstermen, yellow bio-gel for tasoths.

I started working on this late at night, that's why descriptions are crappy. Welp, I'm gonna go fix them now.

Very cool. Congrats

[SQman]

I've decided to finally throw the rest of my pride away and finally make catgirls/catboys. They are by no mean for domestic ownership, but rather castes for Asin's Culture Shock's Hito that I'm going to use in my modpack.

Differences from regular humans:
-Size of 65k
-Furry ears and tails
-Claws instead of nails
-Large eye teeth
-Catboys lack facial hair
-Cat-like personality (stubborn, vain, distrustful, ungrateful, basically amiable in every way)


Only semi-related to the topic of catgirls, but fully related to Animal Diversification Project - I've realized that descriptions for animal people and giant animals are fine when it's about tigers and elephants, but not descriptive enough for chiru, goas and tarucas, because who knows what a person with the head of a taruca would look like.
That's why I once I finished adding and modifying bears, I went back and started rewriting descriptions. While I'm at it I also change minor stuff such as cluster size, gaits and personality for animal people, and make size less random for giant animals. Bear men will live alone or in small groups, wildebeest people will travel in large herds like their feral version, animal man versions of common pests will steal stuff, etc.

[ZM5]

I'd recommend against giving playable sentient animal men the CURIOUSBEAST_something tokens if you think they'd pop up as visitors, since it seems to have the same issues as sentients with pack animal tokens - they'll be unable to put stuff down in fort mode.

[brolol.404]

I am working on a mod that I am calling "Goblin Fortress"

It is a comprehensive playable goblin race.

Current Features:
> Goblins: Carnivores, Large Litters, Short Child Duration, War Driven
> Patrolling armored goblin armies (including underground)
> Constant conflict and war (including civil wars between tribes)
> Pets: Cave Rats, Beak Dogs, Worgs (Milkable and Shearable), Giant Cave Spiders, Giant Cave Bats, Cave Crocodiles, Trolls, Ogres, Dwarf Slaves, Human Slaves, Elf Slaves, Goblin Slaves (Pet Armor and Barding)
> Magic: Fire, Blood, Death, Disease, Demon
> Nobility: King, Tribal Chieftains, War Chiefs, Shamans
> Diseases: Cave Blight, Lice, Mites, Prions
> Stone Anvils

Features in Progress:
> Bone Furniture
> Bone Weapons
> Meat Alcohol
> Alchemy: Potions and Poisons

The goblins have all of the features that dwarves have, but are supposed to feel like a completely different experience. They are meant to be played as violent, greedy, war driven and vile creatures. Nobility demand a lot, but the rest of the goblins can live in squalor. The fortress should focus on war preparation, training and combat. Goblins should be sent on raids often. A consistent meat source is required for food and a bone supply is required for most of their buildings and items.

[UselessMcMiner]

OH GOD NOT AGAIN

[brolol.404]

OH GOD NOT AGAIN

What happened again?

[voliol]

Oh right, I found a kind of useful resource/method a time ago. This website that calculates the volume of an ellipsoid object from its height/width/depth can be used to get eggsizes for real creatures, as those are usually described that way by wikipedia.