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[Putnam]

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The very latest version of every file as I develop them (fixed)

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FIXED. CONTENT STILL IMMENSE.

This mods adds a variety of features inspired by and derived directly with little deviation from the infamously-long webcomic Homestuck. The main race featured is the Troll race, a race of aggressive gray-skinned candy-corn-horned insect-like humanoid creatures. Also, they require mother grubs and imperial drones to reproduce.

Of course, you play as them in dwarf mode.

Spoiler: Statistics! (click to show/hide)

~4400 syndromes!
232 interactions!
17 weapons!
About the same number of reactions as interactions!
22 creature variations!
A plant!

Other creatures:

Spoiler: creatures (click to show/hide)

Trolls. Lots to explain.
Musclebeasts: The most beautiful creatures in the land.
Kangarams. Like kangaroos with horns.
Fairybovine. So cute!
Seagoats. They swim! They're big! Really, really big!
Carapacians. Prospitians bring caravans very often; dersites invade.
An indestructible demon. Haha, you'd better have dwarven checkers ready.
A much less indestructible demon. He can teleport.
6 different invader races.
A large amount of lusii not mentioned here.

Also added is a series of Adventurer reactions! Turn weapons/armor into Grist, which you can then use to... make weapons/armor! Also in fort mode!
So how do the trolls play differently in Dwarf mode, you may ask? Quite!

1. Geese are available that lay grist, which can be used to make blocks, bins, barrels, clothes, food... they're pretty expensive, though.
2. Geese aren't the only way to get that grist. Grist can also be gained through butchering--every creature gives grist. There's a race of invaders that also gives ridiculous amounts of grist.
3. All weapons are available to trolls; crossbows have been replaced with Riflekind.
4. All trolls have special abilities from a title given to them upon first seeing another troll. There are 144 titles available!

The trolls have 12 standard castes, along with 2 special ones. Find them out!

One plant: Pumpkins!

Main download includes a full copy of Dwarf Fortress. 2.71 is to be installed with an already-existing version of Dwarf Fortress.

The 31.25 release includes a few optional files (also for vanilla) that make some things less confusing and cluttered, and an outdated Genesis Mod version of Fortbent, along with outdated LFR, Masterwork, and Pony mod files.

Spoiler: Creator's note: (click to show/hide)

Similarities to any other mod are either unintentional or spelled out in the shout-outs section

Spoiler: Shout outs and Credits (click to show/hide)

narhiril, for doing the majority (read: all that works, minus psychic stuff) of the original Troll creature's body work, as well as some of the weapons included in the mod. As of now, I've revised nearly everything, but her work on the weapons and body detail plans is still in there, and really taught me how to mod. Thanks! Also made LFR!
IT 000, for the sawmill building and reactions. Also made Corrosion!
Deon and the Genesis crew, for the Charcoal furnace building and 1 of the reactions. Check out his mods!
Tenebrais for various names of nobles and the horn appearance modifiers. He's also a member of the music team!
jaxy15 for the name.
JediaKyrol for a huge bug-fix that is now obsolete and that I can't remember. Still deserves credit, however. Also helps me with the SCP mod!
Hugo_The_Dwarf for a great workaround for the "Zombies bleeding to death" problem; zombies have been deprecated. Also made Regeneration!
Aqizzar for inspiration and such. Has no U!
MaskedClaus for the fairybovine.
Meph for the mothergrub/imperial drone modding concept, now defunct. Also made Masterwork!
Fwoosh for quite a few of the lusus!
Eagle0600 for the graphics.
Pheobus for the graphics that aren't specific to the mod. Check them out!
Kristian Michael "Dacen" Anderson and Eston "silence" Schweickart for the in-game music, "The Land of Wind and Shade". Dacen also made The Ballad of Maplehoof on the second fans and music album! silence also made Olive Rogue on Colours and Mayhem universe A!
Thomas "EidolonOrpheus" Ferkol for the title music, "Land of Quartz and Melody". He also did the music for Bravemule!
Toby "Radiation" Fox for the theme in the "Beyond Quality" splash, "English", for the BLEAT at the end of the splash, and for the HONK effect at the end of the opening animation. Also made an Earthbound romhack!
The DFHack crew for making many of the features here possible.
falconne for the very useful utility plugins.


Andrew Hussie, for the Trolls, cherubs, god tiers, and every other concept themselves. Also made Problem Sleuth!

I know for a fact that there are more, it's just so difficult to remember >_>

Spoiler: Copyleft status (it has one now!) (click to show/hide)

This mod's original content (defined as "objects in the raw files made by me", not as any of the actual content they represent) is now released under the Creative Commons Attribution license! What this means for you is that you have to say "this is Putnam's" if you take it from the mod, which you are totally free to do. This has no bearing on Toady's work, Andrew Hussie's work, or anyone else's other than my own within this mod. (This is mostly out of necessity--the in-game background music is licensed with a share-alike, so I might as well include this. It's not really legally binding and I won't pursue anyone, so it shouldn't matter any. The background music is also non-commercial and share-alike, so you can't use that in a commercial project and you have to have a similar license if you want to use it.

[jaxy15]

Fortbent?

[Putnam]

Fortbent?

First one, it's good.

[New Guy]

Do you plan to add caste blood based workshops, or entity positions (monarch, general, etc.)?

[Veld]

I was having trouble figuring out what each troll's blood was coloured, but then noticed that it's the same as eye colour when I was looking through the Raws. However, Dark Green bloods don't have their eye colour stated in their descriptions, unlike the other trolls. Candy red bloods have amber eyes.

[3]

Issues in the detail plans:

- You create a mat and a tissue called R_FROND, then make a functionally identical one called L_FROND
- You don't use the abovementioned mats or tissues at all, instead opting for the use of LUNG in the frond parts
- You reference L_FROND twice in the tissue layers plan
- The THINKPAN:BRAIN_TEMPLATE lines are redundant
- Having said that, you could just cut the entire mat/tissue plans down to the frond mats + chitin since otherwise they're identical to the default humanoid one. Not like it's a big deal. You could do the same thing with the tissue layers plan, or make it even simpler and get rid of it altogether by making the fronds use a default category (LUNG + an additional skin layer defined within the creature would work the way you've got it set up now. I think Aqizzar used EAR).

Possible issues in the body entries:

- The think pan could just be a bodygloss for a regular brain
- NECK_GILLS is completely redundant and not used anywhere
- What's the deal with the complete bodies? The first looks entirely identical to the default HUMANOID, and the second doesn't need to exist at all so long as fronds are individual parts

Nitpicking aside, this looks decent, at least at a glance.

If you can't find what you want when it comes to horn appearances in the defaults (wide/close? thick/thin? long/short? convex/concave? high/low? straight/curly?) you can make your own ad-hoc ones via colours, but be aware that said colours are colours and they'll be picked out in preferences/used in forgotten beasts/whatever.

[Putnam]

Issues in the detail plans:

- You create a mat and a tissue called R_FROND, then make a functionally identical one called L_FROND
- You don't use the abovementioned mats or tissues at all, instead opting for the use of LUNG in the frond parts
- You reference L_FROND twice in the tissue layers plan
- The THINKPAN:BRAIN_TEMPLATE lines are redundant
- Having said that, you could just cut the entire mat/tissue plans down to the frond mats + chitin since otherwise they're identical to the default humanoid one. Not like it's a big deal. You could do the same thing with the tissue layers plan, or make it even simpler and get rid of it altogether by making the fronds use a default category (LUNG + an additional skin layer defined within the creature would work the way you've got it set up now. I think Aqizzar used EAR).

Possible issues in the body entries:

- The think pan could just be a bodygloss for a regular brain
- NECK_GILLS is completely redundant and not used anywhere
- What's the deal with the complete bodies? The first looks entirely identical to the default HUMANOID, and the second doesn't need to exist at all so long as fronds are individual parts

Nitpicking aside, this looks decent, at least at a glance.

If you can't find what you want when it comes to horn appearances in the defaults (wide/close? thick/thin? long/short? convex/concave? high/low? straight/curly?) you can make your own ad-hoc ones via colours, but be aware that said colours are colours and they'll be picked out in preferences/used in forgotten beasts/whatever.

Honestly, most of those are narhiril's things mixed with my own general incompetence (the raws were an absolute mess, I wasn't aware of body gloss, I can go on about how much I didn't know, this was my first creature). The default horn appearences sound good, I'm not good with tissue layer appearances, despite looks. The complete bodies, I think, are due to all the casteing that had to be done, as well as the quirky bodyparts (like I said, I wasn't aware of body gloss), as well as narhiril coming up with a way to not make the game crash every time you would {l}oo(k) at a troll.

I was having trouble figuring out what each troll's blood was coloured, but then noticed that it's the same as eye colour when I was looking through the Raws. However, Dark Green bloods don't have their eye colour stated in their descriptions, unlike the other trolls. Candy red bloods have amber eyes.

Both problems should be fixed. Dark Green bloods not having correct eye color was due to a typo. Not sure what the mutant blooded eyes were about, but amber is the default color of Troll eyes; they're born with amber eyes, and they fill out with blood color as they get older. Next version, 0.3, will probably involve fleshing out caste differences far more.

Do you plan to add caste blood based workshops, or entity positions (monarch, general, etc.)?

If you look at the raws, there is a framework for caste-based entity position already included; however, the damn thing only works in fortress mode and not world gen. Basically, if it worked, you'd only get tyrian purple-blooded trolls in imperial positions; also, you'd probably have subjugglator nobles that are only filled by indigo trolls.

Caste blood based workshops are for later. I'm pretty sure they won't be too hard; LFR has shown the whole "using boiling rock as gas" thing, so I could make that a result of reactions in these workshops, giving the troll something incapacitating.

The problem is that actually allowing caste-only workshops seems like it would require micromanagement in the workshop profile, along with simply disallowing certain castes to work without injury. I already have a creature class for the royal purple types and indigo highblood types, but nothing else.

[Veld]

I figured out what was wrong with the Mutant eyes. You had

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[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:IRIS:EYE:RED]
[TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
[TLCM_TIMING:IRIS:13:18]
[APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:5000]
It should have been

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[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:IRIS:EYE:RED:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
[TLCM_TIMING:IRIS:13:18]
[APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:5000]
(I hope I'm using "code" right.)

In the troll entity file, you mentioned wanting a diplomat name. I think Diplomarauder might work.

[Putnam]

I figured out what was wrong with the Mutant eyes. You had

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[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:IRIS:EYE:RED]
[TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
[TLCM_TIMING:IRIS:13:18]
[APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:5000]
It should have been

Code: [Select]

[SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:EYE:EYE]
[TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:IRIS:EYE:RED:1]
[TLCM_NOUN:eyes:PLURAL]
[TLCM_TIMING:IRIS:13:18]
[APP_MOD_IMPORTANCE:5000]
(I hope I'm using "code" right.)

In the troll entity file, you mentioned wanting a diplomat name. I think Diplomarauder might work.

I like that!

EDIT: Well, that's bothersome. The first empress I ever seen is low-blooded: maroon.

[Putnam]

Yeesh, didn't mean for this to be a double post.

[Veld]

I see there are a few caste differences now. I wonder if it would be possible to represent psychic powers. I remember there was a way the represent psychically picking things up using some sort of quick-healing body parts made of some kind of vapour or something similar to that. If I can figure out how it was done, or find where I heard it, you could probably give something like that to the low bloods.

I noticed a while ago that Subjugglators (Indigo blooded Land Dwellers) have an extremely low pop ratio. I'm just wondering why. Was it said in the story that indigo blood is rare? I only remember candy-red like Karkat, jade-green like Kanaya, and the pinkish-violet blood like Feferi and HIC being extremely rare.

I'd help with the horn appearance modifiers, but I don't know how to make or use them. I'm trying to figure it out, though. Or are you just asking for the words to use for them? I can think of a few.

[Putnam]

I see there are a few caste differences now. I wonder if it would be possible to represent psychic powers. I remember there was a way the represent psychically picking things up using some sort of quick-healing body parts made of some kind of vapour or something similar to that. If I can figure out how it was done, or find where I heard it, you could probably give something like that to the low bloods.

I noticed a while ago that Subjugglators (Indigo blooded Land Dwellers) have an extremely low pop ratio. I'm just wondering why. Was it said in the story that indigo blood is rare? I only remember candy-red like Karkat, jade-green like Kanaya, and the pinkish-violet blood like Feferi and HIC being extremely rare.

I'd help with the horn appearance modifiers, but I don't know how to make or use them. I'm trying to figure it out, though. Or are you just asking for the words to use for them? I can think of a few.

When it comes to indigo rarity, it wasn't directly said, but the title "grand highblood" given to Gamzee's ancestor seems to suggest incredible rarity. Psychic powers would be nice, but it would require me to make more castes (red_psychic, brown_psychic, etc.)

Horn appearance modifiers... I figure they're the same, but I'm not sure if they're BP_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER or TL_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER.

[Veld]

When it comes to indigo rarity, it wasn't directly said, but the title "grand highblood" given to Gamzee's ancestor seems to suggest incredible rarity.

I assumed that it meant that he was just the leader of the Indigo bloods. I don't think Hussie ever went into detail about that. Anyway, just for balance in-game, because of their Building destroyer tag, high strength, and rage, it's probably better for them to be rare.

Psychic powers would be nice, but it would require me to make more castes (red_psychic, brown_psychic, etc.)

I can't even remember where what I was talking about was said, and I'm terrible at modding, so I'd be unable to help even if you were to add psychics.

For horns, I think whatever is used for bones would probably be used. Horns in Vanilla DF use BP, as far as I can tell.

[Putnam]

When it comes to indigo rarity, it wasn't directly said, but the title "grand highblood" given to Gamzee's ancestor seems to suggest incredible rarity.

I assumed that it meant that he was just the leader of the Indigo bloods. I don't think Hussie ever went into detail about that. Anyway, just for balance in-game, because of their Building destroyer tag, high strength, and rage, it's probably better for them to be rare.

Psychic powers would be nice, but it would require me to make more castes (red_psychic, brown_psychic, etc.)

I can't even remember where what I was talking about was said, and I'm terrible at modding, so I'd be unable to help even if you were to add psychics.

For horns, I think whatever is used for bones would probably be used. Horns in Vanilla DF use BP, as far as I can tell.

Well, in my quest for horn appearance modifiers, I just realized that I forgot to add horns to their body. >_>

Will the horn color ever show up in-game? The template says "gray", but will I ever see that?

EDIT: Welp. Looks like it's time to get my mOtHeRfUcKiNg BoDy GlOsS oN

Also, I wonder how many updates there will be to this mod based entirely off of new info about trolls?

EDIT 2: How do I body gloss? :X Also, what are the names in the raws for the fighting and archery skills?

EDIT 3: Interesting. Trolls tend to go to war with elves. I like that!

[jaxy15]

You know, I think you should make a REALLY rare mothergrub caste that lays eggs.
Those eggs won't really hatch unless the mothergrub is married though.