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[Damaster-]

So, this is my first effort to mod DF, the problem is that when I have done the creature (ghoul), it won't appear in generated worlds. The creature might look a little unbalanced and weird etc. but I am just testing..
Creature:

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[OBJECT:CREATURE]

[CREATURE:GHOUL]
   [NAME:ghoul:ghouls:ghoul]
   [TILE:'G'][COLOR:3:0:0]
   [GENPOWER:3]
   [MODVALUE:5]
   [INTELLIGENT]
   [CANOPENDOORS]
   [BENIGN]
   [BIOME:ALL_MAIN]
   [BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:5TOES:MOUTH]
   [SIZE:7]
   [MAXAGE:120:170]
   [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP:punch:punches:5:8:BLUDGEON][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]

   [ATTACK:SECOND:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:3:7:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]

   [CHILD:12][BABY:1]
   [FAT:3]
   [DIURNAL]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   [LAYERING:100]
   [SWIMS_LEARNED][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
   [MUNDANE]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
   [MEANDERER]
   [LARGE_ROAMING]
   [liGHT_GEN]
   [CURIOUSBEAST_ITEM]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:100:200]
   [CLUSTER_NUMBER:40:80]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10067]

Thank you in advance for helping!

[i2amroy]

Try lowering the layering, which acts sort of like having thicker fur, it allows you to survive colder temperatures, but it cuts down on your ability to survive hotter temperatures.

[Damaster-]

Tried to lower it to 50 now, still nothing...

[TrombonistAndrew]

The wiki says that layering being high can cause creatures to not spawn, but it doesn't say HOW high.

I'm looking at your population numbers. Given that three clusters can easily comprise your entire ghoul population, maybe the game is spawning them in only a couple areas which you haven't found? Have you tried turning on tracking every creature in worldgen and looking for them there?

[Damaster-]

I checked the world gen logs but there's no mark of ghouls. I don't know to how turn on the tracking?

[commondragon]

Try removing your biome token, I dont think ALL_MAIN is an applicable tag for creatures.  [BIOME:ANY_LAND] might work (I've seen it on the Hydra entry in the raws), or possibly you could get away with no biome token at all. 

[Erom]

Yeah, ALL_MAIN doesn't work for creatures, for whatever reason, so your creature can't spawn cause it doesn't have any valid biomes.

[Damaster-]

Tried removing all biome-entries, and changing ALL_MAIN to ANY_LAND...still nothing.

EDIT: I am using Linux and Wine to play this. Any chance that it doesn't work because using gedit to modify the file? Maybe it saves the file in some weird format that doesn't work...though, I really doubt that because it's still txt-file but..

EDIT: Confirmed that it's not a format issue, asked friend to open it in Windows Notepad and save (to rule over possible weird format), still not working.

[TettyNullus]

It's not a Linux problem, that much I can say. If it was, then init.txt wouldn't work when modified  but other than that, sorry can't help. And it's not the layering, horse have same number in vanilla. And they're plentiful in my fortress.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Two things

You're missing [NATURAL] tag. This makes them appear naturally.

You can't have them be [INTELLIGENT] without having a civ entity_default entry. Lose [INTELLIGENT] and use [CAN_LEARN] and [CAN_SPEAK] instead if you want those.

[ANY_LAND] IS the correct tag, but you're better off specifying. Use [ANY_GRASSLAND] and [ANY_FOREST] etc.

[Untelligent]

[ANY_LAND] is fine. I use it on a lot of creatures and they consistently tear my dwarves' flaming limbs off without complaining about overgeneralized biome tokens.

Also, I don't think [NATURAL] works that way. Foul blendecs don't have it, for example, yet they spawn in normal locations. I think it refers to real-life creatures (or something like that). Not sure what use it has in the game, if any (might have something to do with elves and other civs at "peace with nature").

[Deon]

NATURAL means that the creature is an "animal" (elves are it's friends).

[i2amroy]

You don't need to have a entity just because you are [INTELLIGENT], I currently have the dragons in my game modded to be intelligent and have encountered no problems, this is because the tag implied is [CAN_CIV], can, not must.

[Keilden]

You generate a new world after the changes?

[Damaster-]

Weird! I removed [INTELLIGENT] and replaced it with [CAN_LEARN] & [CAN_SPEAK], and they work now! Thank you everybody for solving this out! I got correct answer for the problem and a lot of tips.