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Re: Future of the Fortress
« Reply #2280 on: August 01, 2019, 02:11:52 am »

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So what's the deal with these magic divination dice? They certainly sound interesting, but the devlog was a bit vague on the specifics. Maybe you'd care to elaborate a bit on what they are and how they work? Unless it's a surprise, of course.

At the base it's just a random roll for fun-time effect, though we might still slip in a simple prayer-or-offering bit to tip the scales to favorable outcomes.  There are dice, in the shrines, associated to certain deities, and you can pick them up and roll them.  The face (or faces) you get is tied to a table of effects on a per-god basis, and you get one roll per deity per week generally, though the game gives additional information there when that isn't the case.  There are a few more random details in other responses.

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I forgot, regarding the dice - is their cursing going to be a hardcoded thing or will it be possible to add raw-defined boons/curses from them?

There was also the bit about the undead lieutenants having a push-back ability - is that another new interaction function or a non-syndrome dust attack?

There's no way to create a divination set from the raws.  It uses a raw format, but it can't be attached to a historical deity, which is the only way it knows how to work.  Still, at least having a raw format means that all the individual effects are available as usual.

The push back is a new PROPEL_UNIT effect.  There isn't any source point control currently (this is also a problem with some of the older ones - there's a technical targeting issue there I haven't worked through yet), but you can set the force number and target, and the force is applied from the caster toward the target.

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Is new stuff going into the interaction examples folder?
Are only demons able to spread evil from towers, or raws creature be given the power to do so?
Are undead lieutenant powers also raws-able?
Apparently dice can curse you into a different form. What types of creature can you turn into?

Folder: I have a note to that effect, yeah.
Spread: There's a tag for it.
Powers: All their powers are standard raws, yeah.
Curse: That particular curse turns you into any mundane non-predatory non-vermin creature.  There may be other kinds.  My only issue has been that some of the larger creatures are slower than humans, which makes them annoying to play.  I might have to make a speed check parameter or something.

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kinda worried if the modding potential for creatures that use the bogeyman token is now shoved to one region and or one randomly generated creature that needs to show up?

though regional/timed summoning interactions seems like a fun concept where creatures can just pop up out of thin air. really don't know about the bogeyman changes given uhh on one hand it might make playable bogeymen either a straight up raw dump custom creature file or dfhack thing and not entity animal token domestication thing the site just does, but having said region where the 'cackling' summons and kills them be in one area means if someone gets past the hurdle of making them playable in the new update they won't have to fear the night twice as harder than a normal adventurer
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Will the new changes to boogeymen that restrict them to certain evil biomes affect all creatures with the [BOOGEYMAN] token? Or just the generated ones? Will we be able to choose whether to restrict a modded creature, and if so, are there any further moddable options (restricting to only GOOD biomes, only biomes connected to a certain sphere etc.)?

Rumrusher (op): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8000958#msg8000958
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Rumrusher (op): http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8000998#msg8000998

Regarding your top linked comment there, entire evil regions that have nothing to do with demons can still have them, and even in the evil regions with demons, there's plenty of real estate away from the towers.  But more broadly speaking, certainly the new system does limit their breadth now.  So that is changed, and there aren't new options to place creatures in broader regions.  The 'primordial evil' regions don't even have sphere links, so it doesn't use the nightmare sphere as it does with demons.  There's just a straight up 10% chance for starter evil regions to have bogeymen.  Players really hated them.  Like almost everybody, and they did make trying to play as a traditional single-character RPG basically impossible or at least silly.  So they have been relegated away to just a few places now.  Certainly more customization would be cool, though.

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Now that bogeymen are restricted to specific regions, are you going to make it possible for them to show up during fort mode?

Do you plan on making these dice based divinations possible to happen in player forts, or is that pushing too far into the actual magic update for now?

Nope, that's not really related to region restriction.  Though certain summoning powers will make them show up.

Yeah, probably not yet.  The blessings and curses aren't as related to the life of the fort dwarf.  Though at some point we'll want to continue unifying stuff.

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With these changes to demons and goblins civs, will it (soon) be possible for playing as adventurers from goblin civilizations without modding? Or are there some other things that are a priority before that? Cause I'm at least partly wanting to make some adventurers who serve the demons leading the goblins with the new plotting system.

Any ideas what effects on the environment the various demonic spheres will have aside from those listed in the devlog? Anything that would be particularly drastic? Would a demon with the sphere of torture have a regional effect of inflicting constant (but just manageable) pain? Would the domain of a demon of lies whisper falsehoods into the inhabitants' ears? Will misery demons cause depression? Anything like these?

EDIT: A couple more questions:

With the expansion to polymorph-like abilities mentioned in the devlog, are these specifically expansions to transformations? And if so, what sort of changes are you planning on?

This one is more about organized religions and the prevalence of various religions in towns. But is there going to be a changed or added personality facet that influences the zealousness of a historical figure's/post-gen figure's beliefs? Or is it still going to be up to chance that a certain person has a certain level of belief?

Gob-civ adv: There's still not much to do there, but yeah, once we have adv mode villainy done (with the possibility of taking orders, though we haven't committed to that yet), we'll be a bit closer, and when we get to the army stuff that was possible before the Big Wait (but after the Steam/itch release), there might be enough.

Region effects: We haven't made new regional effects at all, but of course there are endless possibilities.  We'll probably wait until we get to the map rewrite and the more broad magical lands before doing them, though obviously that hasn't stopped us from playing around a bit, so who knows?

Polymorph: That one didn't require any changes, if I recollect.  It just uses a body transformation on a timer.

Religion and personality: It's still random, though some of the responses to persecution and the likelihood of initiating one take personality into account.

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Can a particularly poor roll of the dice in attempting divination curse the adventurer permanently, or is it all temporary effects?

The regular bad rolls are all temporary currently, but you can really screw up if you don't treat the process respectfully.  This will be clear before it happens.

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What are some of the lucky dice roll blessings that you mention in the Steam update?

Item?  Pet?  Healing?  Are those new interaction effects?

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is there anything in the future for cavern exploring for adventurers? since all this talk about surface problems remind me that there no incentive to draw folks to the caverns in the recent update.

I'm holding off on any of that until the map rewrite.  I want to do more with it, but the way the maps are stored makes it hard to get beyond isolated sites.

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Will we have more UI warning information and pop'ups for players when embarking upon a corrupted land of what kind of sphere it is? Especially since in theory a fortress close to a tomb could come under range of a corruption spread offsite probably needs to know, if there aren't any noticable effects if reprecussions come up later. Like blight spheres killing crops etc.

This might have amusing/immersive implications when the creatures in [FORCED_SPHERE:DEATH] (as a example of explicitly needing a sphere instead of primordially existing, and receding when the corruption goes away) start appearing around necromancer towers and mummy crypts rather than explicitly just death-demon towers.

There's nothing like that at this point, but crops are safe currently.  Later it'll matter more I suspect.

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1. Will other backgrounds besides hearth person in adventure mode confer a special status in your starting site?
2. How many of the background skills will eventually be usable in adventure mode?
3. Will demon towers exist for all spheres for purposes of region changing or just certain spheres? If only a few which ones.
4. Will our player adventurers be able to use magic divination dice?

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1. That's the only one.  We've really just expanded out the peasant options so far, though we'll possibly do a bit more with it before it's out.
2. Eventually?  We're hoping to get all of them in when I do the adventurer skills stuff that's been rotting away on dev forever.  In the nearer term, I'm not sure, but probably not many.
3. Death, blight, disease, deformity and nightmares only, for now.  Adding the tag to creatures without one of these currently does nothing - the evil won't even spread.  You have to pick your poison so it knows what to do.  Many demons do not currently spread a region for this reason; even in my ideal game, this would be true, since some of them want to keep a lower profile or it just isn't their style, though of course we want to have various effects for all of them over time.
4. Yeah.  Only them, actually!  Nobody else is yet so foolish or faithful, mostly because they don't have use for certain of the blessings, but that'll change as the system expands and townspeople have more to do at some distant point.  Perhaps your non-party companions will get there first, though not even that happens currently.

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Do or can summoned creatures have souls? Is it possible to summon something that becomes a permanent historical figure, talks to people etc without causing crashes?(a problem Ive faced with reanimated intelligent body parts)

They are generated as normal, so they all do, yeah.  If the summon doesn't have a timer, they are just a person/animal/etc., though they don't have cultural links and so forth.  Though of course there could/will be various issues to work through, it isn't the same as reanimation.

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Will there be a skill associated with Divination, or maybe some other barrier to entry like needing to get someone to tell you how to do it?

There's nothing like that currently.  Generally, it's just sort of strange and an odd cross-cultural element which'll likely undergo serious revisions as we head into and then out of the magic stuff.  I agree overall that there should be some cultural learning associated to it, whether that's like the musical knowledge or whatever else.  But we might not see that until we get to the customs stuff in the broadest sense, though certainly we'll get a bit before that with the magic traditions etc. etc.

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How much effect do the gods themselves have on the divination? Or are their uh... structures still too barebones to do anything there? Are we also going to see stuff like card-reading, crystal gazing and entrails reading(proper necromancy :D), will necromancers in specific do necromancy? Do you have any plans for divinations themselves to actually predict the future, or will they primarily be communications?

For some reason when discussing future-reading magic I always imagined trances, so the dice caught me off guard :D

Oh, oh, oh, can histfigs observe and tell each other about divinations/game outcomes? Because a lot of stories start with an (un)lucky roll of the dice :D Did you manage to have histfigs themselves be capable of rolling dice?

This is just the starting point with divination, so the dice are what we have.  Of course it's very strange and there are too many dice and we'd like to diversify the methods, but stuff mostly begins this way, and it's fine.  Though we're pretty close to doing some sphere-based stuff with the divinations themselves.  There's almost enough effects for it, and we're still deciding if we want to split them up yet or not.  Sort of a flavor vs. uniformity conflict with no proper near-term answer and which won't matter as more stuff is added (when splitting up by sphere becomes obvious.)

Ha ha, yeah, I was just looking at that Hellenic/Ptolemaic d20 right before I was doing shrines.  Things often go like that.  Would have been something else if I had been looking elsewhere (like the Liver of Piacenza; haruspicy is tempting with all the livestock organs we have available), but we'll eventually get to multiple methods.

Regarding necromancy and trances, I should tease a day in advance that ghosts have not wholly escaped our attention.

As with many things, your companions and others are completely ignorant of their surroundings when it comes to divination.  Even if you turn into a cow or something.  This will change, but I'm not sure when.  Their awareness is such a large subject and easy to avoid, though it is important, eventually, to get to that stuff.

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Are there any plans to change how ranged weapons work in adventure mode and in the raws before the big wait? By that I mean, being able to change the firing/reload speed on an individual basis, or being able to aim for specific body parts.

It's not specifically in the pre Big Wait notes, but I think there's a possiblity during the strength that runs through the Steam/itch changes over to the army stuff and other matter that combat could see a look.  It's the sort of thing that could spring up with adv mode medical as well.

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1. What if npc or player steals the divination dice/s from shrine? Will they get cursed if they wont return the dice/s in some days later?
2. Do divination dice's count as artifacts?

1. It doesn't care about that yet, though it might before release.  I still have to set up a zone.
2. Nope.  Any dice with the proper improvement can be used, but there's no way to make them yet.

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What sort of activities prevent evil from fading from an area? Is it only evil activities such as evil clouds/rain? Could I theoretically be in an area as it becomes more good or does my presence there count as activity?

PlumpHelmetMan: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8001860#msg8001860

Yeah, just activities that literally would increase the evil of the region (raising the dead, being an appropriate demon/tagged ruler.)  If no such activity happens, the evil (slowly) starts to fade.

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Will certain megabeasts be able to spread evil regions?

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EternalCaveDragon: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8002420#msg8002420

None of them have the correct tag, nor can they become a civ ruler, which is the other required condition currently.  At some point, I might relax the latter condition, at least for megas, though it wouldn't currently apply to any but certain titans possibly, or forgotten beasts if they count.

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Swapping between Hearth person and Peasant is currently the only way to "select" your starting town in Adventurer (it skips to the next random town each time until you get someplace close to where you want to be). Presumably that's no longer functional with the new background profession selection? Will you add a location selection to the new interface? Or do you prefer Adventurers to always start somewhere randomly within their selected civ?

You can select your home town manually now, and it gives a little summary of the population.  If you have multiple party members, then you can start in any one of their home towns.

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Can demons start plots? Will they? If yes, in what conditions? would they have some special advantage to tempt people and make agents?

PlumpHelmetMan: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8003210#msg8003210

They have a few new advantages they share with certain necros that'll come up next log, but mainly, their advantage is being relatively unassailable and having a civilization to call on, with (kidnapped) people from various other places (which already came up for regular infiltration agents/scouts.)  And yeah, many of them are plotters, for the same personality reasons as others, and I think their generated personalities more often put them in that range as well.

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Will certain creatures or entities be able to spread good regions?

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EternalCaveDragon: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8003322#msg8003322
feelotraveller: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8003650#msg8003650
DG: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8003664#msg8003664
ZM5: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169696.msg8003699#msg8003699

It isn't currently part of the tagging.

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For the Myth and Magic Update, let's say there is a world where humans are created by a precursor race, and worship them. If another race, say the dwarves, are descendants of these precursor gods, will the humans revere dwarves, or generally be more prone to viewing them as religious figures? If humans are unaware of this mythic connection, but then they become aware of it, will their attitude concerning dwarves change?

Ha ha, I have no idea quite yet how all of that is going to work out.  There are going to be lots of strange situations, and just getting the humans to recognize any potential gods, angels or similar beings living among them will be a first step.  Doing attitudes and further degrees of separation would then become possible.  The matter of the revelation of hidden world secrets is part of the idea, whether that's 'research' or something entirely theological or different, and having change in the world because of it, but much like the divination dice, the particular forms we get at first are up for grabs.

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About the intelligent undead -

Do they look like corpses / talking zombies? If not does that mean you can only raise someone who recently died? Or does the spell repair their body during resurrection?

Could I go as an adventurer to my ruined/retired fort, resurrect all my favorite dwarves and start a fort of semi-immortal undead?

They look however they looked at the time; the syndrome grants them the usual undead sort of immortality, so the state of the body's wounds are not important, though it must be fit for resurrection (which just means it has an upper body that is not missing or pulped.)  The spell does not repair them, which can lead to some unfortunates.  It also leads to the ignorance of their fellow citizens being very strange at times, though world gen does not track rot states carefully for most purposes.  It is tempting to healing them, though I have not yet done this.

I think you could create this fort, yeah, if you manage to integrate into a fort somehow.  I don't remember the retirement rules but they don't seem to care about a lot of things.

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Will there be sphere created semi/mega-beasts where appropriate emerging with the wildlife (within world costing), or will they always be resorted to world generation?

I was kind of hoping to have a greater muck monster for the evil biomes pop up when the conditions were right, or inversely to the quotation, maybe a Phoenix spontaneously appear over rebirth good areas to add some danger setting things on fire with the halves of a roc and a dragon together.

There's nothing like that coming soon.  I suppose that's not exactly correct, as we've added some new bits over the last few days, but it's not exactly a creation of new megabeasts.

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Will summoned creatures count towards a secret holders ability to build a tower, or is that still just raised dead?

Their summoned creatures don't last that long.  Nobody else bothers working either.
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Re: Future of the Fortress
« Reply #2281 on: August 01, 2019, 03:47:51 am »

Thank you!

Follow up to my question about home towns then:

Do all party members have to come from the same civ, or do we get complete control over their origins? If that's possible, do they react well to being at war with each other?
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« Reply #2282 on: August 01, 2019, 05:29:54 am »

Thanks for the answers Toady!

Do all party members have to come from the same civ, or do we get complete control over their origins? If that's possible, do they react well to being at war with each other?
For the first question:
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Will all members of a starting party have to come from the same entity or will multicultural starting parties be possible?
You can start your party from all over.
For the second, no idea, but I could see it ending poorly depending on the relevant KILL_ENEMY ethics.
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« Reply #2283 on: August 01, 2019, 06:14:12 am »

Thanks for the answers Toady!

Do all party members have to come from the same civ, or do we get complete control over their origins? If that's possible, do they react well to being at war with each other?
For the first question:
Quote from: Nahere
Will all members of a starting party have to come from the same entity or will multicultural starting parties be possible?
You can start your party from all over.
For the second, no idea, but I could see it ending poorly depending on the relevant KILL_ENEMY ethics.
Oh, thanks. Didn't notice that one.
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Ah, 2018! That'd be why.  :)
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« Reply #2284 on: August 01, 2019, 06:21:52 am »

Thanks for the answers!

Regarding the fail-safe checks for the dice, I take it there is also a check in place to ensure a fail roll doesn't result in the adventurer's death because they turn into a fish and air-drown? ;p

On a more serious note, is the time limit for summoned creatures a hardcoded part of the interaction or will that be definable?


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« Reply #2285 on: August 01, 2019, 11:28:15 am »

Thanks for the answers Toady and everyone.

1. Regarding new capturing mechanics, if it makes the cut, are you aiming for it to be broad enough so you can capture other creatures, like wildlife or beast such as dragons? What about titans and megabeasts? If yes how would you handle gigantic beasts or megabeasts such as Bronze Colossi?
2. Will the new capturing mechanics and interrogation system spell an end for the indestructible chains/cages that current exist? Will there be prison breaks with the interrogation part of this update or is that far ahead?
3. Will creatures with magical powers (demons, necromancers) use their powers to further their plots? The classic here would be doing a deal with the devil in exchange for something. But a necromancer could raise an intelligent dead to manipulate/infiltrate somewhere.
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« Reply #2286 on: August 01, 2019, 02:33:49 pm »

Thanks for the answers, Toady. The teaser about ghosts sounds cool.

With the changes to evil regions, is it now easier to tell if an evil region is a reanimator region or can that still only be found out by making a fort and checking if your butchering refuse comes back to life?

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What are some of the lucky dice roll blessings that you mention in the Steam update?
Item?  Pet?  Healing?  Are those new interaction effects?
Does that mean you can get a permanent (?) weapon or pet as a reward from the divination dice rolls, or did you mean you can get a blessing that will make your weapon more effective in combat?
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« Reply #2287 on: August 01, 2019, 05:13:09 pm »

Thanks Toady !

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You can select your home town manually now, and it gives a little summary of the population.  If you have multiple party members, then you can start in any one of their home towns.

Could it be possible to have a little summary of the population when you get to cities ? Sometimes it's hard to know the "real" size of a city when you are in adventure mode...
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« Reply #2288 on: August 01, 2019, 06:02:25 pm »

Thanks for the answers Toady, and also for the latest devblog. Got me really hyped!

Is there currently any sort of limitation in place for what percentage of the population necromancers/demons will take to experiment on? I could see quite a few settlements getting pretty weird pretty quickly if the bad guy is just allowed to transform everyone (which would be fun, but might also take away from immersion).
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« Reply #2289 on: August 01, 2019, 07:21:57 pm »

Are the experiment/giant amalgamation type creatures bright red Ñs, the color reserved for "constructed creatures" as stated in that old night creature DF talk? Are intelligent undead bright cyan Ñs?

Good to hear getting the tangents out of your system helped, and that we get quite some goodies out of it.

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« Reply #2290 on: August 01, 2019, 07:53:01 pm »

Thanks for the answers Toady, these and the new devlog have cleared things up and gotten me hyped!

With the adventurers as villains content, and the new actions necromancers and demons (with the death sphere I presume) can do in creating experimental creatures and undead types, could player necromancers do the same things when it comes time for adventure mode villainy?
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« Reply #2291 on: August 01, 2019, 08:22:39 pm »

Do you know if the updated menus of the Steam release will include a revamp of the labor interface?  Or will the Steam menus simply look prettier, but function the same?
You mentioned earlier that stress & memory fixes will most likely happen before The Big Wait, but can you say if you'll be able to look at those before Steam release?
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« Reply #2292 on: August 01, 2019, 08:54:09 pm »

Are these summonable "larger, nightmarish beings" basically the typical, random hell dwelling demons, or are they special in some specific way?

With the adventurers as villains content, and the new actions necromancers and demons (with the death sphere I presume) can do in creating experimental creatures and undead types, could player necromancers do the same things when it comes time for adventure mode villainy?
I was just about to ask this, too. Would be pretty nice, but probably too difficult to implement right now, especially because it's still kinda a tangent. Not even sure if these Frankenstein experiments will happen outside of worldgen.
Did Toady ever confirm if player necromancers can summon intelligent undead by the way?

On a more serious note, is the time limit for summoned creatures a hardcoded part of the interaction or will that be definable?[/color]
In the reply, he said: "If the summon doesn't have a timer, they are just a person/animal/etc., though they don't have cultural links and so forth. "
So I guess it might be doable, but who knows.
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« Reply #2293 on: August 01, 2019, 09:17:32 pm »

Thanks for the answers Toady. Thanks also for the amazing update. I figured we wouldn't see more night creatures until the end of the Big Wait, so this is super exciting.

1. Some demons know and intone the names of all things. Do they automatically know the names of all ghosts? Can they identify secret agents any better than average?

2. Is a dead adventurer raised as an intelligent undead after game over playable again? What if someone other than another of your adventurers is the one that raised them? Can they potentially be ghosts, and could you play them as ghosts?

3. What do ghosts do mechanically when it comes to moving from place to place? Are they flying? Do they pass through walls like a late game Larn character? Do the different kinds of ghosts that appear in fort mode now affect the abilities these new ghosts have? Does that mean some can pick up items, and how will their movement effect such a thing?

4. What do summoned beings know if they're intelligent? Are they blank arena mode style vessels? If you summon a mountable animal, can you ride it? If you summon a creature that knows and intones the names of all things can it banish ghosts?

5. With proc gen creatures finally roaming the world at smaller-than-titanic sizes, is there going to be any place in game to see the creature size number?
Even picking animal people adventurers is a challenge right now. If I'm a bluejay person coming across a bright green N, which started out as a kea, but is small overall I've already got a pretty difficult time making a threat assessment even before I even know if its size has changed in the transformation.

6. Most importantly, can you pet the large nightmarish beings, and once you get to having feelings about being pet, what are they gonna think about that?
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« Reply #2294 on: August 02, 2019, 02:43:09 am »



You mentioned that the subjects of magical experiments could join populations. Through this, is it possible to introduce non-procedurally generated races into the world? Say I make Race X, and make an interaction so that a wizard type will focus on creating Race X in large numbers (or at least just create them in general), with the intent of seeding the world with this artificial race. Would that all work smoothly? Also, as of now there is a way to have non-necromancer wizards live in towns. By not giving them a "raise undead" ability, they'll hang out in civilizations and even end up ruling them instead of making towers. Could that also have an impact on the spread of Race X? On that note, how do they spawn at all, after escaping from a necromancer I mean. Do they become wilderness creatures like animal people with a chance to join towns or will they directly migrate to a settlement?
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