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[Michaelsoftman]

UPDATE LOG
Updated May 20th, 2009.

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You can now make armor, weapons, ammo, etc out of glass.
Many more creatures are tamable.
Changed some stats for armor and weaponry.
Can use silver, gold, platinum for armor and weaponry.

New reactions for glass.

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2 cut or rough gems of one type of glass will yield 1 bar of glass of the same type.  Bars of glass are used to make armor, furniture, etc.
2 cut or rough gems of EACH type will yield 4 bars of Tempered Glass.  Tempered glass can be used to make weapons as well as armor, furniture, etc and has the same offensive and defensive capabilities as Iron.

The defensive and offensive % of the types of metals are listed below.

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adamantine - 300 (reduced from 500)
platinum - 170
steel - 150 (slightly increased)
gold - 130
silver - 110
iron - 100
tempered glass - 100
bismuth bronze - 80 (increased from 70)
bronze - 75
copper - 70 (increased from 66)
crystal glass - 70
clear glass - 70
green glass - 70

The following creatures are now tamable.

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walrus
unicorn
ice wolf
beak dog

The following require the Dungeon Master to be tamed.

tigerman
fireman
magmaman
ironman
mudman
olmman
cave swallowman
frogman
lizardman
snakeman
ratman
batman
antman
blizzard man
troglodyte
fire imp
troll
ogre
treant
satyr
titan
giant
cyclops
ettin
sasquatch
werewolf

This mod focuses on three things.

1 - Military challenge
2 - Megaprojects
3 - Being rather ridiculous, but fun!

For the military challenge, I am improving every single creature in the game, both attack and defense wise, as well as creating new creatures (which are hideous abominations to nature), and making goblins have access to adamantine.  I may also reduce the strength of crossbows, but I'm unsure of that yet.

Now of course, killing the goblins means you get free adamantine that you can melt down and reforge, but picture the other side to that.  Increased fortress wealth means more and larger sieges.

Now for megaprojects.  I'm increasing the appearance rate of Bauxite, so you have a higher chance to be able to work with magma.  I'm also going to increase the appearance rate of sand layers, for glass megaprojects.

On a random note, I have added in a BEARD body part.  Appears on Dwarves, obviously.

Here's a list of several of the creatures, with a brief explanation.  I would also like to say that yes, I have created graphics for them all, they fit nicely with the Mayday set.  Since a few of them are just edits of current creatures anyway.

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Adamantine Colossus - Replaces the Bronze Colossus as a megabeast.  Obviously, much stronger and harder to kill.  Drops an adamantine statue on defeat.

Angry Noble - Dwarven nobles that are pissed that you keep dumping magma on other nobles.  They're pretty much as strong as an unarmed Dwarf, they travel in groups, drop nice pairs of pants when you kill them.

Flying Unicorn - Stronger than regular ones, and even more terrifying as they rain down on you from above!

Flying Rhesus Macaque - Yeah, the annoying Rhesus' are now capable of grabbing your equipment and taking to the skies with it, making you unable to get it back before they leave the map.  I had a group of these end a new fort when they stole all of my picks.

Reaper - The grim reaper, appears in evil lands, only one at a time, deals heavy damage, rather hard to kill.  They don't bleed, can't be stunned, etc...

Flaming Penguin! - Think spirit of fire, in penguin form.  They roam around glaciers, melting your tunnels and setting your stuff on fire.

Lone Elf - A lone elf warrior, come to hurt your Dwarves for killing all of those trees.  Rather wimpy, and enjoyable to kill.

LAND CARP - Carp that will rush right out of the water and RUN at your dwarves, biting them to death before going back to hide in the river.  Appear more frequently than regular carp, and are stronger too.

Dragon Spider - Well, these things are perhaps my deadliest creation.  They function like a GCS, except they are not hidden to begin with.  They have a high size and damblock, and not only shoot webs, they also breathe dragonfire.  However, Dragon Spider Silk is EXTREMELY valuable.  So it may be worth the risk to battle these monstrosities.

Wizard - They shoot fire, and deal both heat and cold damage with melee attacks.  I've had a single wizard set an entire map on fire, because it punched a dwarf.  I'm considering making them a hostile civ.

Now, for my questions.

Should I reduce the appearance rate of aquifers, so that more maps are easily usable without hassles?

And I would like to say that if anyone has any suggestions, for any creatures or features, no matter how ridiculous, please do tell.  As you can tell, some of my current creatures are already pretty ridiculous...

[Bricks]

Can't say I know much about modding (in this game, that is), but a potentially totally incorrect warning:  A dwarf with a severed beard would suffer from the current silliness of succumbing to pain from long-past injury.  Though the shame this would cause might actually be akin to physical pain, so it might be realistic.

Humorous new creatures, but maybe a bit too heavy on the in-jokes.  Some sound downright impossible due to the way the game currently works, but I figure if they are uncommon enough and don't appear in huge groups, they could work.

You should up dwarf speed so megaprojects can be churned out faster.

Oh, and I wouldn't drop the appearance of aquifers too much, as some projects will use them as either a plain water source, an infinite water source, or an infinite water sink.

Reactions for rare/site-specific materials would be nice, such as alternative source for wood.

I recall a recent topic about modding in glass arrows, and I know the elder scrolls games have glass armor/weapons, so perhaps a whole set of glass-related furniture, weapons, and armor would be cool (same could be said for wood, obscure metals, ice, bone, or stone, esp. obsidian).

More trainable/tradable creatures can make a site very personalized.  I recall yet another topic that mentioned capturing and training war polar bears to guard an ice fortress.  Parrot pets for pirate dwarfs?

[i2amroy]

Some of these creatures sound awesome, and from what I see by looking at it, none of them would be downright impossible, though the noble and the elf would lack clothing unless you attached it to their bodies. There is just one thing that I would like to point out, clothing dropped by an itemcorpse, such as you are suggesting with the noble, will always be the wrong size, so you should probably come up with something different for them.

P.S. For the Damblock in Fortress mode, I am not sure, however, I have found that a good level for semimegabeasts in Adventure mode is a size of 10 and a Damblock of ~15, with both sides suffering about the same amount of losses.

[Deon]

I was going to implement silly humorous creatures in DFCP mod, but then I decided not to...

Well, if you're going to head in this direction:
-flaming noble (my first idea ever)
-sock-o-death (flying posessed adamantine sock)
-evil plump helmet ("You eat my family all the time!")
-gray bad wolf (drops red riding hood corpse on death)
-wabbit! (megabeast, small, fast and furious, requires a Holy Hand Grenade to kill)
-lolcats (cat's cousins, they travel in packs and kill... kill... kill...)
-sabertooth squirrels (because they are awesome)
-dragonfish (basically firebreathing carp)

[Michaelsoftman]

Can't say I know much about modding (in this game, that is), but a potentially totally incorrect warning:  A dwarf with a severed beard would suffer from the current silliness of succumbing to pain from long-past injury.  Though the shame this would cause might actually be akin to physical pain, so it might be realistic.

Yes, I'm aware of Dwarves losing their beards and suffering.  I really can't do anything about that other than remove the beard body part, but for now at least it's staying in.

Humorous new creatures, but maybe a bit too heavy on the in-jokes.  Some sound downright impossible due to the way the game currently works, but I figure if they are uncommon enough and don't appear in huge groups, they could work.

All of the creatures I have listed are currently working in perfect order.  The stronger ones appear alone, the weaker ones, like the flying Rhesus' appear in groups.

You should up dwarf speed so megaprojects can be churned out faster.

Oh, and I wouldn't drop the appearance of aquifers too much, as some projects will use them as either a plain water source, an infinite water source, or an infinite water sink.

Reactions for rare/site-specific materials would be nice, such as alternative source for wood.

I recall a recent topic about modding in glass arrows, and I know the elder scrolls games have glass armor/weapons, so perhaps a whole set of glass-related furniture, weapons, and armor would be cool (same could be said for wood, obscure metals, ice, bone, or stone, esp. obsidian).

More trainable/tradable creatures can make a site very personalized.  I recall yet another topic that mentioned capturing and training war polar bears to guard an ice fortress.  Parrot pets for pirate dwarfs?

I guess I'll leave aquifers alone for now.

I heard that increasing the Dwarves speed also increases the amount of times they can attack in a battle before their opponent can.  Is this true?

Can do with the creatures, and reactions.

However I'm unsure of how to enable glass to be used for armor and weapons and such.  I don't think glass is listed in the raws, unless I'm looking in the wrong spot...

Some of these creatures sound awesome, and from what I see by looking at it, none of them would be downright impossible, though the noble and the elf would lack clothing unless you attached it to their bodies. There is just one thing that I would like to point out, clothing dropped by an itemcorpse, such as you are suggesting with the noble, will always be the wrong size, so you should probably come up with something different for them.

P.S. For the Damblock in Fortress mode, I am not sure, however, I have found that a good level for semimegabeasts in Adventure mode is a size of 10 and a Damblock of ~15, with both sides suffering about the same amount of losses.

Thanks for the tip.  And yeah, the clothing comes out as 'large' so Dwarves can't wear it, but I figured maybe it would at least function as a trading good?

But I'll see if I can't find anything better.

[Michaelsoftman]

I was going to implement silly humorous creatures in DFCP mod, but then I decided not to...

Well, if you're going to head in this direction:
-flaming noble (my first idea ever)
-sock-o-death (flying posessed adamantine sock)
-evil plump helmet ("You eat my family all the time!")
-gray bad wolf (drops red riding hood corpse on death)
-wabbit! (megabeast, small, fast and furious, requires a Holy Hand Grenade to kill)
-lolcats (cat's cousins, they travel in packs and kill... kill... kill...)
-sabertooth squirrels (because they are awesome)
-dragonfish (basically firebreathing carp)

Hmm, if I gave carp the ability to breathe fire, would they be able to shoot fireballs if they're swimming around in the river?  I heard fire can be shot up and down z levels.

I like your other ideas though    I'll see what I can do with them.

Since I'm drawing graphics for these, I try to mod in only creatures I'm able to draw...

[Deon]

If you're unable to draw something, just ask. I have some experience and I am sure there will be more competent people ready to contribute.

[Michaelsoftman]

If you're unable to draw something, just ask. I have some experience and I am sure there will be more competent people ready to contribute.

Thanks for the offer!  So far I'm good with drawing my creatures, but if I need any help, I'll ask here.

[Michaelsoftman]

I recall a recent topic about modding in glass arrows, and I know the elder scrolls games have glass armor/weapons, so perhaps a whole set of glass-related furniture, weapons, and armor would be cool (same could be said for wood, obscure metals, ice, bone, or stone, esp. obsidian).

More trainable/tradable creatures can make a site very personalized.  I recall yet another topic that mentioned capturing and training war polar bears to guard an ice fortress.  Parrot pets for pirate dwarfs?

Glass can now be used for weapons and armor and the like.  I'll try to work on more metals, bone, stone, and ice next.  Many of the current creatures can also be tamed as well.  I'll create more custom ones for more personalization.

Reactions for rare/site-specific materials would be nice, such as alternative source for wood.

What would you suggest for this?

Also, the first post has been updated with my progress.