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Yes, give us more animals!

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No, I rather take it easy!

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[Bacu]

wat.

[liadis]

and possibly doctors

An image comes to mind... But ahem.

Is this mod in anyway related to a community game ran on MotK (Maiden of the Kaiedoscope)? Because I seem to recall reading something about Suika Fortress somewhere.

[Totaku]

and possibly doctors

Is this mod in anyway related to a community game ran on MotK (Maiden of the Kaiedoscope)? Because I seem to recall reading something about Suika Fortress somewhere.

Yes it is. In fact, I first created it and launched it at MotK in the Unlimited game works section first as a community game. Orginally I launched it there as a for fun project just to do with the guys over at MotK But after seeing how well it did there I decided to take it to a much serious level and decided it would be a good idea to actually show the DF commuinty what I was working on since I noticed in these forums that there were Touhou fans among the mix.

You can see the original thread here if you have an account...

http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=1532

....and it wasn't till later in the topic that I announced that I was going to post it here.

As of this point the community game there is still going, but it's going rather slow and it's my turn about now over there once again. ^^;

As of right now I've still have been busy digging through the game as I continue to find things I need to iron out (like changing Dwarvan beer to "Suikan Sake" and so forth) and now thanks to Toady's DF talk from today I'm now certain that I'll go ahead and add the Ichirin and Unzan yukkuris into the mix for later use once Toady gets around to symbiotic relationships (And yes I asked that question) so that we can have the two behave the way they should.

[Shoku]

There is one fatal flaw with this concept.

A Suika fortress would be limited to only three jobs: Sleep, Drink, and Attend Party.

There is one fatal flaw with your concept: for Suika fightingkilling things counts as Attend Party.

[Tark]

Oh god...

[Totaku]

Well guys I know I had this laying in haiatus for a while and never brought it up, But things happen.

Anyways, the announcement of the new DF version coming out has convinced me to start getting back to work on this pet project of mine.

After reading up on some of the changes, I'm currently making plans to add in more yukkuri species and other charaters that I haven't included from before hand.

Some I plan to include will be....

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ichirin yukkuris

Unzan (debating if he should be just a standard creature or megabeast)

Hatate yukkuris (which will be like a wild horse, just to be the opposite of the kimemaru)

Prisimriver yukkuris (all three types, can't exactly think of a way to make them really unique from one another, but I think waste land and desert area needs more unique wildlife there anyways. )

Teruyo yukkuris (thanks to learning of how your can control how fast you can heal from damage, while I can't make the yukkuri immortal...I can make them heal rather fast)

Eirin Yukkuri (same as Teruyo)

Komachi Yukkuri (same as Teruyo and Eirin, might be amphibious)

Shikieki yukkuri (probably a megabeast, not sure how it'll behave, will probably have good regen stats too for new version)

Mima yukkuris (megabeast definetly)

Lily White Yukkuri (probably will replace the mountain goats with these and make them fly don't ask)

Sunny milk, Luna Child and Star Saphhire yukkuri. (All with unique stealing and trouble making habits) Think of all the stealing habits of a rheses marque, bear and trouble making habits of a grimlin, and make them fast if not faster than a rheses marque maybe flyable too)

Satori yukkuri ( I hear you can make creature attack telepathiclly with thier thoughts right? If so then I guess it's possible for her to be a HFS canidate maybe....)

There's probably more ideas, but I'm setting this in here for now as part of my to do list as I'm get them ready for the new version and will likely appear in the DF 2010 after I learn the mechanics.

Course there's still some other things I have to do, like make Unyukkuris explode like I planed to originally do before hand. I'll trying to work on this through the week though I always have other things going on. ^^;

[Halconnen]

Looking forward to the next release, both of DF and of this mod.

I'll have you know I still got this watchlisted. :3

[Totaku]

Well I shall give you all an update.

I've managed to get all the sprites ready so as of right now all is well. But I now have the new Dwarf Fortress 0.31.01 to deal with.

As it stands right now I got alot to figure out here. The new body features are more deep and complicated compare to before.

So I don't have an idea how soon it'll be before I can make the steps needed to finalize  everything.

But hopfully by the time I'm done, you'll have plenty of yukkuri to deal with. XD

[Gunner-Chan]

Totally watching this now. God I'm a total fangirl for Touhou and I MISSED this for so long.

Good luck on finding out the tags and stuff. It's rather overwhelming... And making starting my own planned mod very intimidating.

[nogibator]

OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE TOUHOU DONE.

[Totaku]

Totally watching this now. God I'm a total fangirl for Touhou and I MISSED this for so long.

Good luck on finding out the tags and stuff. It's rather overwhelming... And making starting my own planned mod very intimidating.

Ah, I'm glad to see others are liking what they seen so far, and yes, working with planning out the body parts and details is a completely different monster.

So far I've managed to get the Suikas' body details down to the point where I can got the detail of the horns and the description done. Course this is only the easy part, the hard part's going to be working with constructing yukkuri body type constructs! Especially since I now have to find a way to explain certain body parts with further detail.

This'll probably mean I'll be giving them inner body feature that'll act like bones in the final format. Since I want them to be simalar to thier creature counterparts they'll replace.

And with the new hard coded demons... my Utshuho, Koishi, and Giant catfish will have to appear another way, but it should still be underground after all.

And of course I didn't forget there is also the bean paste I have to put together for their insides!! fufufufu...

Overall though, their template I'll be designing should be rather identical to a humanoid one. So I'll use that as part of my reference as I go back and work on the other part.

Oh...

And should I make all yukkuris.....Milkable? Someone brought up that idea, but I though that it wouldn't be truely nessesary since we can kill most of them for their beanpaste anyways. Besides, I rather keep it more to their original counterparts.

OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE TOUHOU DONE.

I think the real question is....WHAT HAVE TOUHOU "NOT" DONE! Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!

[Lofn]

Just so you know, it's very straightforward to modify specific tissue layers and materials from within a creature definition without having to write out new material definitions.

[Totaku]

Well I got some news for you today!

I've managed to get the material templates altered along with the body parts and as it stands. I have now begun my first experiment with the yukkuris for the new version.

As of this point I have made a chenkkuri and a yusakuya and decided to conduct 2 tests.

Spoiler: for very long report (click to show/hide)

Test #1 Combat & damage

As expected, the first test took place in the arena. And since sprites are a no-no in the arena for now I had to use ascii to handle everything.

Let us meet our combatants....

On this corner, we have our Yusakuya...

And on this corner we have the Chenkkuri....

(I realized I forgot to mention that thier beanpaste taste like chocolate....but that's alright.)

And so I let them go at it and tear each other apart!

Just look at that beanpaste fly!

And as I can see the damage report is showing up pretty well.


But what I found amusing was seeing how badly the chen was hurt it was killed off, heck the yusakuya grabbed the thing by it's tail and ripped it off!


And so the yusakuya was victorious and so as her prize she received a magma bath!


And soon afterward she began to bleed like crazy as pools of beanpaste poured out!


The reason it poured out so much was because her hair arm had melted thus causing part of her insides to pour out through the opening of her wound! soon afterward, it died....


Next up, dropping things from several z levels high! We did this with a yusakuya, a suika and a chen...

The yusakuya and Suika got injured badly as expected. But strangely enough the chens seem to escape with far less injuries. Almost like as if the story of cats landing on thier are true, even within this game!

Finally I began test #2

the butchery test! I wanted to make sure they had all thier organs I placed within them.

And surprising enough they did!


I bet this looks yummy cause I'm looking forward to eating it, and once the cooking bug is fixed I want to see how this stuff turns out.

Overall a pretty good success.

I still need to fix up a few things, like maybe design a way to give the yukkuri's arm hand a form of "nails" just so they can be closer to their original creatures they're based from. Not that it's nessary, but I want them to be able to do more.

Second, I had to do some changed with the code. Orginally, since they were mainly a head, I orginally had it so that you could chock them to death by grabbing thier nose, now it seemed the Suika and some other critters went for that almost right away ripping it off, thus signing thier death right away. So I decided to drop the throat for now. So now they're a bit tougher to kill and you can't quite chock them to  death like in the older version.

Now if any of your want to suggestion an alternative for the "throat" please feel free to suggest. I'm open as usual.

And also from what I can see. Other than the damage reports I've seen as of this point, I noticed some tissue still is reffered to as muscle. But seriously, do you really want to read, "Suika 1 cute through the beast paste damaging the bean paste filling?"

I don't think that's nessessary. But anyone else may say otherwise.

Finally I need to look back at some of the other creatures so I can insert eye lids and lips to my yukkuri. It just wouldn't seem right otherwise.

That should conclude my report for now. So far it's looking pretty good

I'll probably have more as the days pass by. Course I also want to be able to get a more stable version before I release this as well. ^^;

[Totaku]

Quick update for everyone,

I managed to get all the domestic creatures all altered into yukkuri and also added in one more yukkuri species into the list.

I've also managed to transfer all the alterations over to 0.32.02 as well.

Finally I got rid of all the scripting errors I spotted in my error log which now everything functionable.

So for right now I decided to do another fight just for fun. ^^; Surprisingly the results show that two creatures with very identical tags can drag a fight on for a loooooooonnnnng time.

Spoiler: or rather a DOUBLE SPOILER! (click to show/hide)

 

In this fight, I chose to use the kimeemaru (which technically replaces the horse).

Then followed up with the Kemikaidou (a Hatate yukkuri) who was pretty much a copy and paste of the kimemaru. (They're rather simalar to one another, so why not.)

I let the two go at it for a while, most of the time, it was punching and biting and gouging. So mostly a wrestle fest...

And with the spontanious healing rate the Arena has....well it seems to drag the fight on forever. Damage wise the kimemaru mainly got hurt for a while, then it turned the other way.

It kept bouncing back and forth for a while as their wounds kept turning red or heal up. And yes they did become over exerted but eventually.... 5 minutes later, the kimekaidou died. Probably from internal bleeding...

But yeah long story short, you shouldn't pit creature with identical stats against one another as it generally results in a long dragged out fight.

But then again, it's either because blunt attacks with the body need to be tweaked. Or the arena's healing needs to be fixed or both.

That's it for now.

The next step will be to continue adding in yukkuri in the other file and probably test them out until I get to the more unique yukkuri species.

[Totaku]

Ok, here's another update, I have been busy, but I've been trying to make time for this.

Anyways, I've added in Yukkuflans (replace the giant eagle), Yukkuri whites(new addition), Yupiis(replace hippos plus add in curious eater and guzzler tags), and Ikkuris(replace the ever so dreaded CARP!)

And today's experiment, I decided to have some Suikas play with the Ikkuris. Results were rather....interesting....

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In today's test, I wanted to see how well a Suika could handle the waters with vicious ikkuris. So I made about 10 of them in the water and the followed up with about two Suika Westlers.

As expected the results were devistating as I watched many Suika die from suffication or drowning.

But something did happen after I placed a few more Suika in the water. One of the Suika eventually gained decent swimming skills because the ikkuri seem to somehow not bothered one of them and as a result it caused the Suika to pretty much start posing a threat to the ikkuri!

Totally not what I was expecting, but fasinating none the less. I will definetely need to relook at the battle damaging mechanics as well to see how I can adjust this, because it would be more amusing to make the ikkuri be killing machines. But either way, they're still pretty much fine in my book right now so I'll leave that part alone....

On another note though, I did discover a bug. Apperently beanpaste and blood don't flow down the water fall just right..

It simply stays up at the top of the waterfall and doesn't flow down like it should. So I went and reported it as a bug in the tracker.

On other reports, I also boosted the yukkuflan's size a bit so that it can be able to fight better, but I may have to boost it's attack power too. Same can go for the yupiis. I haven't tested it yet, but I'll consider doing that when I get things settled.

But as for now, time to continue adding in more yukkuri.