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[Enemy post]

In a time before time...


This mod adds dinosaurs and other extinct animals to the game. These animals can either replace the normal surface animals or exist alongside them.

Spoiler: Now includes an optional tile pack! (click to show/hide)

A T. rex battles a Triceratops in a snowy field with Meph's tileset.


In Vettlingr's tileset, dwarves build their shelter underground with their prehistoric pets, while a pair of raptors stalk by on the surface.




A dwarf encounters a herd of Brachiosaurus in a mockup of the future Steam version.



All the non-vermin animals on display in Meph's Object Testing Arena.

Features:
Several hundred new extinct animals.

You get to fight and/or train dinosaurs.

To make it easier to deal with all the new creatures this adds, I've included a short .txt guide with the downloads. It lists quick summaries of what to expect when encountering any of the new animals, such as which ones are particularly dangerous.

I've added a personal suffix to every file, so this should easily combine with any other mod. If you find one that doesn't work with it, please let me know so I can fix it.

For modders, every animal in the mod is attached to one of a few creature variations. These currently do nothing, but they allow for tokens to be easily added to every creature in the mod.

Optional werebeasts and animal men are included in a separate folder from the real animals.

A complete tile pack bundled with the download in an optional folder allows the dinosaurs to be used with any 32x, TWBT tileset.

Downloads:

Steam workshop.
Alternate download.

Legacy:
47.05 Main version. This replaces almost all the vanilla surface animals with prehistoric creatures.
47.05 Modular version. This only includes the modded raws, so you can more easily add it into a vanilla or otherwise modded game.

Feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated.

Feel free to use any and all parts of this mod in your own mods.

Spoiler: Installation guide (click to show/hide)

For the main version, remove a vanilla game's objects folder and replace it with the included one.
For the modular version, merge the provided raw folder with the existing one.

Spoiler: Installing graphics (click to show/hide)

Follow these steps to set up the included tiles, if you want to use graphics.

1.Install whichever 32x, Text Will Be Text tileset you prefer. Primal's tiles work best with transparency enabled.

2.Install whichever version of Primal you prefer normally.

3.Merge the raw folder in the bundled "optional tiles" folder with your own.

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

I learned how to use BP_ADD_TYPE tokens from one of WillowLuman's old posts.

ZM5 helped with testing.

I can't take any credit for the image, I just arranged it in photoshop from these sources:
(Tyrannosaurus source link removed, since it redirects to a shady website now.)
https://www.fixefete.de/blog/2016/01/04/walrossjagd-in-thors-drachenboot/ (Relevant image is now missing.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset

Most of the animals colors are based on artwork I saw from various sources.

I didn't take anything from them, but I'd like to give a shout out to Eotyrannus and Scourge's previous similar mods.

TV Tropes' Useful Notes pages on prehistoric life were extremely helpful for picking which animals to include.

I used Meph's extracted procedural creatures to make the werebeasts.

Suggestion credits:/u/JumalOnSurnud from Reddit, Squamous.

SQman donated 54 creatures previously found in his Animal Diversification Project. He also contributed some descriptions.

Spoiler: Changelog (click to show/hide)

1.0:Release version.
1.1:Temperate Shrubland biome given specialized role, 23 new animals.
1.2:25 new animals.
1.21:Fixed a bug that prevented Australopithecus adventurers from gaining skills.
1.3:15 new animals.
1.4:25 new animals.
1.4.5:5 new animals.
1.5:Werecreatures and animal men.
1.6:19 new animals and two new werecreatures.
1.7:Minor changes and updating for the Villains update.
1.71:Slight change to werebeasts for consistency with 47.02.
1.8:SQman's donation, Kauai 'o'o.
1.82:Slight realism improvements.
1.85:More realism tweaks.
1.89:Numerous small tweaks, Australopithecus no longer sentient or playable, more ancient vanilla animals added to the main version.
1.9:The tileset.
1.9.1:Fixing some stray pixels.
1.10:Steam release!
1.10.1:Bugfixes.
1.11: Large tiles, finally.

[voliol]

More Dinosaur mods! What a glorious time to be alive!

I've got one suggestion to give, however. Add [CREATURE_CLASS:EXTINCT] to all creatures to make the pet-keeping Neanderthals of Scourge's extinct creatures mod use the ones from this one too when the two are used in conjunction.
More creature classes like DINOSAUR, BIRD and INSECT could of course be added as well for more possible mod synergies, but I don't know any mods that use ones like that (the exception being vanilla kobolds) at the moment, so it should be fine not including them.

[Enemy post]

That seems like a good idea, I'll see what Scourge thinks.

[scourge728]

Well this... is a lot more than my mod.... and I would in fact be okay with the tag being added

[SQman]

I love the [PREFSTRING:artistic skill] on Stokesosaurus. Fine reference if I've ever seen one.

[Teneb]

But are some dinosaurs feathered? Gotta ask the important questions.

[Enemy post]

Well this... is a lot more than my mod.... and I would in fact be okay with the tag being added

Thanks, I'll add the tag then as soon as I get a chance.

I love the [PREFSTRING:artistic skill] on Stokesosaurus. Fine reference if I've ever seen one.

"Zookeeper 5 can't reach the Meat Trough!"

But are some dinosaurs feathered? Gotta ask the important questions.

Yes. I tried to make everything fairly accurate. In particular, all dromaeosaurs are feathered.

[PlumpHelmetMan]

This mod looks amazing. Thank you so much for making it, trying it out as I type this!

[Teneb]

Yes. I tried to make everything fairly accurate. In particular, all dromaeosaurs are feathered.

Sweet. I'll throw this into my unholy mix of mods when I next play.

[PlumpHelmetMan]

Lmfao just dropped an Australopithecus adventurer into a freshly-generated world and almost immediately an Allosaurus took her spear and started stabbing her with it! Proof that pronated hands are overrated.

[Enemy post]

This mod looks amazing. Thank you so much for making it, trying it out as I type this!

Sweet. I'll throw this into my unholy mix of mods when I next play.

Thank you very much for the nice comments!

Yes. I tried to make everything fairly accurate. In particular, all dromaeosaurs are feathered.

Lmfao just dropped an Australopithecus adventurer into a freshly-generated world and almost immediately an Allosaurus took her spear and started stabbing her with it! Proof that pronated hands are overrated.

Now I know how that one Sony "Giant Enemy Crab" spokesman felt. (More seriously, I didn't prevent dinosaurs from potentially grabbing weapons since I figured that if in Dwarf Fortress giant bats and scorpions could do it, a dinosaur probably could as well.)

Also, I have added the tag using the creature variations as a quick measure. I should do it more properly later, but it works now.

[scourge728]

If you have any animal men versions, make sure to add [CREATURE_CLASS:ANIMALMAN] to them to prevent my neanderthals from enslaving the animal men versions, unless you want that I guess

[Enemy post]

If you have any animal men versions, make sure to add [CREATURE_CLASS:ANIMALMAN] to them to prevent my neanderthals from enslaving the animal men versions, unless you want that I guess

I don't have any animal men (unless you count Australopithecus), but I have considered making some as an optional download at some point. I'll keep that in mind if I do.

[Enemy post]

I've released an update for the mod.

First, there are 23 new animals to bring the mod up to a round 500 creatures. Most of these aren't dinosaurs, to go with the other noticeable change.

Spoiler: New animals (click to show/hide)

Moa, elephant bird, Haast's eagle, great auk, Diprotodon, thylacine, Euryzygoma, Zygomaturus, Palorchestes, Procoptodon, Thylacoleo, Meiolania, giant lemur, Prolibytherium, Tamisiocaris, Pyrenean ibex, Quagga, American cheetah, Brontoscorpio, Aegirocassis, warrah, Dwarf Sicilian elephant, Archaeornithomimus.

Second, the Temperate Shrubland biome has been repurposed. It is now used for certain unusual extinct wildlife such as Australian and New Zealand creatures, specialized island animals, recent extinctions, and other things that I didn't want to put with the dinosaurs or cold biomes.

I've also added Scourge's EXTINCT class to all the appropriate animals, so if you use our mods together his neanderthals will be provided with this mods creatures.

[Meph]

This is amazing. I wish I could come up with nice 32x sprites for all of those. Would be so much fun, especially once mounts work... with dwarves riding a Trex.