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Wooden golems (just made of wood)

2 (2%)

Tree creatures (supernaturally living, replacing hair and such with leaves)

32 (31.7%)

Other plant creatures

6 (5.9%)

Metallic golems (allowing all metals)

16 (15.8%)

Stone golems

8 (7.9%)

Glass golems

2 (2%)

Flesh/organ golems

15 (14.9%)

Blood/alcohol golems

11 (10.9%)

Magma creatures

9 (8.9%)

Total Members Voted: 101

[exdeath]

So the magma sharks/anhydrite night sharks came out of the magma and are now crawling around on land and in the cavern lakes. The "It is a strictly water-dwelling creature" appears to be slightly misleading.

That's interesting. I'm assuming that NOBREATHE somehow overrides IMMOBILE_LAND, which should prevent that behavior otherwise. (And yes, that they're appearing in magma is a surprise as well.)

One idea, gurps has a ultra detailed random alien/specie generator, at gurps space.

Make a program that generate an random alien and make a df version of it.

That would be GURPS Space for 4th Edition? I do have some plans for a script that would create weirder creatures, but it's not quite a priority at the moment.

YES

[Levity]

So I'm correct in understanding this doesn't create civs to encounter?

[Knight Otu]

So I'm correct in understanding this doesn't create civs to encounter?

The Random Entities script does create civilizations that can be encountered in fort mode, and most of them can be played as adventurers as well. The Beasts of Myth script currently does not, however.

[Roses]

Question, do these scripts still work by reading in the raws and creating random creatures etc... from there?

[Knight Otu]

Yes, that's still how they work.

[Roses]

Thanks, I've been working on my own random raws scripts which are modifications of random D&D world scripts I wrote that use external templates and I wanted to make sure I wasn't just re-inventing the wheel and wasting my time.

[acognito]

Right now this no longer seems to work with the masterwork mod. I was playing around with generating new random creatures and an error log showed up:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1547, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "D:\Rougelikes\Dwarf Fort\Beast Myth\random_scripts_gui.py", line 1378, in <lambda>
    generate_button = Button(script_choice_frame,text='Generate',command=lambda: button_go_through_scripts())
  File "D:\Rougelikes\Dwarf Fort\Beast Myth\random_scripts_gui.py", line 1153, in button_go_through_scripts
    get_inorganics_data(directory,symbols,words,words_nouns)
  File "D:\Rougelikes\Dwarf Fort\Beast Myth\random_raw_script_includes\sphal_data.py", line 6044, in get_inorganics_data
    words[mat] = [['NOUN',inorganic_names[mat],''],['FRONT_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING'], ['REAR_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING'], ['THE_COMPOUND_NOUN_SING'], ['THE_NOUN_SING'], ['OF_NOUN_SING']]
KeyError: 'SLIME_HOT'

If I toggle on all the random creatures Meth pre-generated, the game would simply not run. Does anyone have a solution to this?

[Knight Otu]

I apologize for not seeing this problem earlier. The scripts now shouldn't choke on unexpected inorganic types.

The remainder of the changelog is as follows:

Beasts of Myth:
# v 1.6

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

# The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits. The plural of wurm is not rabbits.
# Limited the number of uniform tissue creatures generated to 6 by default.
# Added several new creature classes based on creature type, as well as the EXTINCT class used in other mods.
# Added monster toads, toad men, and toad-like 'beasts' as actual amphibian beasts.
# Added arachnes as evil sapient spider beasts with arms.
# Added simple reduplicated names using translated adjectives. There'll be a few hiccups with them for now.
# Added minimums for unique demons and titans. They'll be demons and grootslangs (for now) with difficulty 7+
# Moved grootslangs from the caves to tropical forests and wetlands for the time being, since raw-defined feature beasts don't seem to work.
# Added a few types of ice elementals. They don't count against uniform-tissue creatures now.
# Under a few circumstances, axebeak beasts could have a bite attack for mouth or teeth body parts they don't actually have. This shouldn't happen anymore.
# Changed up the general choice of activity times (nocturnal, diurnal, etc) a little
# Creatures with ichor blood that secrete blood now correctly secrete their ichor.
# Inorganic creatures have reduced frequencies.
# A number of 'x-like' animal descriptions have been made more specific, such as for bird types, feline types, and fish types.
# Added the pet animal interaction to humanoids and centauroids that aren't demonic in nature.

Entity creatures:
# v 0.55

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# Resolved a few issues with one-eyed civ creatures.
# Added a "Knightdom" government type, and forced one of every government type to be created
# Managers were added twice to civs with "Full" site governments
# Diversified tyrant names a bit more
# Allowed the creation of playable civilizations - they need to be city-dwellers, tower-dwellers, or mountainhome-dwellers, have a minimum technology of about human/goblin level, and have full (dwarf-style) site governments.
# Some site positions have slightly randomized names.
# Added the pet animal interaction
# Added an ESPIONAGE position to the Full site government

Random Vampires:
# v0.26 Changelog
# Assuming combat form now uses the DEFEND usage hint.

Random vermin
# 0.79

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# Limited the number of uniform tissue creatures generated to 6 by default.
# Added several new creature classes based on creature type.
# Added simple reduplicated names using translated adjectives. There'll be a few hiccups with them for now.
# Inorganic squids had necks and throats. That should be the last of this bug now.
# Changed up the general choice of activity times (nocturnal, diurnal, etc) a little
# Plural of grebe was misspelled as grees
# Inorganic fish shouldn't be sold by caravans or fished out of water anymore, at least until they can be useful.
# Inorganic creatures have reduced frequencies.

[Asin]

I was using the Random Entities generator a couple days ago, and I was wondering about a few things. How many government types are there, and how likely is each one to be generated? Are some governments more likely to pop up than others?

I apologize if this was a waste of your time, but I was simply curious about this aspect of the scripts in general and desired to know more about them.

[Knight Otu]

I'm sorry for missing your question until now!

There are, depending on how you count, five to seven civ government types - Monarchy/Theocracy, Tribal/Druidic, Council, Knightdom, and Overlord (also random and none, technically, which I think both come out as generated positions right now). For the purpose of the script, all seven need to be generated.

The chances for each depend on a few things, such as their site types, the entity's adjective and word-symbol, so I can't quite put exact numbers on them. It starts with a bit of a bias for monarchy and knightdom (I think that may be an artifact of testing) and a stronger bias for random. A dark fortress civ for example gets a stronger bias for the overlord government type.

[Hexatona]

I just want to say - I absolutely love this Utility and I'm so happy it exists - always adds that extra spice to my DF World!