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Two Male Turkeys

Two Female Yaks

Female Sugar Beetle

Twin Ferrets, freakishly huge and muscular (for ferrets)

Llama and Alpaca

3 Iguanas

Giant Beetle

[UmbrageOfSnow]

Hi Everybody!

So last night I downloaded .09 and messed around with a fortress before .10 was up.  I actually thought the animals hostility bug was hilarious.  So I'm going to do a story/community game to take advantage of it.

I'm using MixMod 31.09 v0.4 for variety of pets.  There are hundreds of extra creatures here.  I've gone through the raws and replaced every [PET_EXOTIC] with [PET].  I'm going to add [TRAINABLE] to animals whenever I feel like it, if I think for a moment it might be funny to have War Zebras, I'll make the change.  You know what? I just did that.

There are 49 civilizations in the world right now.  I'll be at peace with or hostile toward with a random but large number of each depending on the civilization you choose for me.  Since I genned the world after making everything [PET]s, traders should bring all sorts of random animals in cages.  I'm going to buy them all.

I hereby pledge to never have a military.  I shall have a few Animal Trainers, surrounded by pets, who have perhaps studied wrestling and might wear leather armor (from butchered pets of course).  They will be in the military for stationing purposes, but the fighting will be done almost entirely by our furry friends.

I will attempt to keep a breeding pair of each animal locked up (not caged, just chained), so that I can always repopulate.  Maybe I'll nickname the head beastmaster Noah, who knows.

If I can dig, caverns will eventually be breached, I need to get more animals.

Cage traps will be the only non-animal defense.  Non-pets captured in cages will get to fight the war zebras of course.

I shall embark with a breeding pair of every animal the game allows me to.  If this means no skills and no items, so be it.  I'll bring at least a digging implement and an axe though.

With so many caravans coming and going, and so many potential sieges, it is going to be unlikely I don't wipe out a few caravans while slowly chewing siegers to death.  C'est la vie.

The embark will be a 2x2, since this will be an FPS nightmare, but I'm going to look around for one with 4 different biomes.  I genned a giant region, there is a lot of space.  I will maximize how many civilizations can reach the site.  But I'm open to specific biome suggestions.  Also, vote for what race I should be!  I'm indecisive.

Good idea?  Terrible Idea? Best of both?

Also, I'll dwarf/wizard/robot/kobold/drow/minotaur/otherdwarfthingy/vault_dweller anyone who wants it.

[Emong]

I approve of this idea and would like to be [insertrace]'d

[EDIT:] Preferably as a sword[race]

[Aglathan]

 "Horrible Mistake" looking for job sir, if you need a booker a miner or a mason my hands are always ready
 (also, I am a kobold fugitive, don't matter wich civ we play, i just use a fake mustache)

(great ideia a Mixmod comunity fortress I dont know why we dont have more of those)
(also, the world gen actually gave you all these civs? in mine none of those survived)

[breadbocks]

I say minotaurs, for their animal-like qualities, or wizards, for their magical control animals.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

Well after much searching, I've given up on the dream of having 4 regions in a 2x2.  I still think the size is important, so I'll settle for 3.  I looked around and tried to find regions that will increase diversity of the critters.  We are embarking on:

The Hill of Yor: Untamed Tropical Shrubland
The Vigorous Jungle: Untamed Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forest
The Misty Dune: Untamed Badlands x2

I looked around for places where I could get an extra region in a 2x3 or something, but when it came down to it, I decided Savagery was more important than 1 more biome.

[Aglathan]

tropical forest if dwarves
badlands if robots (no need for water or food) (but if we go as robots, we should try to make things a living hell (bunch of militaries and kill everything)(rise of the machines fortress?) (choose one civ to be our ally? our creators?), since we dont need to worry about food or booze)

[breadbocks]

Uhh, dude, those are what we have. 48x48 squares of The Hill of Yor: Untamed Tropical Shrubland and The Vigorous Jungle: Untamed Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forest, 48x96 of The Misty Dune: Untamed Badlands. Again, wizards, for being epic at survival. Or may be not.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

We, the Automatons of The Wheel of Heather have formed a group called Dustmachines of Jungles.  (It's like I hit random a million times until something seemed appropriate...).  We are completely unskilled 2 copper and 5 brass automatons, with our beloved pet turkeys, boars, rabbits, ferrets, giant beetles, sugar beetles, iguanas, llamas, alpacas, yaks, and mutant centaurs.

Here, at the intersection of the badlands, the jungle, and the shrublands we shall found Beastdefect the Desert of Inconvenience.  Now let's secure the beasts, ere the giant jaguars get hungry.  We shall then trap said giant jaguars and add them to our menagerie.  Strike the earth!

[UmbrageOfSnow]

It's totally flat, and no animals yet:



So how should I lay this thing out?
Going to have to dig straight down, I'm thinking some cages.

Throw out anything while I rename the robots and give them jobs and whatnot.

Well, guess its straight down the middle then.

And before I forget, I made a list of who hates us:  It seems our civilization has been pretty friendly

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hostile:
Snakemen
Mutants
Rifters
Bugbears
Tainted Dwarves
Centaurs
Dark Elves
Goblins
Violet Xelics
Icelani
Elcari

No Trade:
Bearmen
Ravenmen
Orcs
Yautja

Traders:
Automata
Wizards
Goombas
Osmans
Sylvan Elves
Encars
Gnomes
Wastelanders
Wesmans
High Elves
Toads
Drow
Wurad
Elves
Koopas
Hobgoblins
Vault Dwellers
Humans
Fauns
Dwarves (pfft)
Ili
Vamarii
Silver Xelics
Satyrs
Frost Giants
Flaids
Dusk Elves
Ktuvoks
Nords
Elcari

[UmbrageOfSnow]

And I'm the only one with any skills, mwahahahaha.  (I have 1 level in appraiser, and 1 in judge intent so we can actually trade without guessing).

[breadbocks]

Bah! Who said you could autonomdison.... thing me? I say re embark, until we get a better batch of things. 2 common, and 5 slightly-less common. Lame.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

Holy Shit!

MixMod has just thrown us our first herd of curveballs!  I'm too tired to deal with this shit tonight.  Going to sleep.  Hope it's a nightmare.  Will attempt to get some cage traps built and catch them tomorrow.

It's only 3rd of Slate and I already have GODDAMN FLYING ELEPHANTS and the first cavern (layer 6)!

Here is the cavern by the way:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Waterlevel is z-10 from surface, first open layer is at z-6.  Those openings go allllll the way up.

[Pwnzerfaust]

Oh awesome. Do want a robot. Name it... Uh... THX-1138. (I'll be impressed if someone gets that reference.)

[TALLPANZER]

It you are ever not at your post, I will kick your shiny metal ass!
Bot me, I want to make barding, because nothing is cooler then armored bears!

[maxicaxi]

auto me

doom potato

animal trainer plz