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[Makbeth]

Just moved from .12 to .16, and first noticed something odd when my embark ration choices included forgotten beast meat, which I'd never seen before.  Figured the mountainhome had killed one and butchered it.  I arrived at my embark site and bored straight down to cavern layer 1 and started setting up my fort down there, when I notice there are packs of FBs roaming around, marked as wild animals in the units list.  I checked and they're all randomized, no two alike even from the same pack, complete with their venemous bites and spittle and all that good stuff. 

Am I experiencing wierdness or is this normal?

Certainly seems like I may want to think twice about settling in caverns...

However, I soon got a bunch of job interruption notices, and went up to the surface to see an FB running away from my dwarves and off the map.  If it spawned in the cave, it had to have run right by several dwarves and my chained wardogs, and there are still no combat reports whatsoever yet.  It seems these FBs are a lot more benign.

[nbonaparte]

Is anything else being extremely strange? could be a duplicate raw.

[Makbeth]

I'm using someone's homemade update to the mayday tile set.  There's a creature_subterranean.txt.bak file in the objects raws, same size as the creature_subterranean.txt file next to it.  Seemed odd but I left it there because I didn't know what it was for.

[nbonaparte]

move one somewhere else and see how the game reacts (the one for the save file, of course)

[Makbeth]

Thanks for the tip.  I couldn't find anyone else talking about it, and I figured it was a big enough departure from previous behavior that somebody would have brought it up.  I had done a little raw editing myself (moving all the layer 1 cavern critters downstairs) but forgot about that bak file till you mentioned duplicates.  Thanks!

[Makbeth]

Yep, getting rid of that file fixed it, thanks.

[jei]

How can I break things for my game?

[Sensei]

Just copy and paste a raw file so there's two of it.

[SanDiego]

Note that we're not responsible for any sanity damage caused by doing this.

[h3lblad3]

This makes me wonder how awesome/insane an ecosystem of Forgotten Beasts would be.

[darkflagrance]

I'm using someone's homemade update to the mayday tile set.  There's a creature_subterranean.txt.bak file in the objects raws, same size as the creature_subterranean.txt file next to it.  Seemed odd but I left it there because I didn't know what it was for.

Could you link to that? Caverns of FBs sounds intriguing as the premise for an actual challenge fort.

[Makbeth]

I made a try... Do It Yourself huh ?

There you go : http://dev2.ozone.elynx.fr/dfg_31_16_oz_win.7z

I hope I didn't do any mistake, sorry Mayday if I did

Hopefully it hasn't been updated.  There should be a creature_subterranean.txt.bak file in the object raws if it's the land-o-beasts mod.

Again, not sure they're much of a challenge.  They seem to avoid dwarves, and dwarves avoid them right back.  Should be plenty of fun for your hunters though, and if they don't behave like invaders, there may be a chance that you can tame them.  A giant one-eyed flaming cockroach with venemous spittle would make a hell of a door-greeter.

[darkflagrance]

Thank yee much!

[The Worst Gamer]

Am I the only one who thinks this is one of the best glitches they've ever seen in DF?

Extra points for being repeatable.

[Chandrak]

It *would* be pretty hilarious to suddenly encounter.

I'm actually concerned something like this is about to happen to my fort - I've got about 5 FBs lurking in the caves (I breached them, but never dug stairs down into it), and I'm about to try and trap several in a labyrinth to throw gobbos into. If I screw it up, I'm gonna get hit with a bunch at once.