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[4maskwolf]

Draconic Creatures Mod

In standard dwarf fortress, dragons are a late-game challenge for your fortress.  Assuming they survive world generation, dragons will sometimes visit a wealthy enough fortress to attack, usually only to get slaughtered by the residents or captured and made into pets?  But what if things were different?

What if dragon-like creatures stalked the land you live in, in a variety of shapes and sizes?  What if no fortress was safe from these creatures, even in the earliest stages?  How would the dynamics change then?

For commentary and suggestions for the mod, go Here.  Bug reports can be reported in this thread.

Current Release: Version 0.11

Currently Planned Features:

Modifications:

• Vanilla dragons are given wings and the flying tag. Completed

New Creatures:

• Wyvern: Dragon-like creatures that inhabit the mountain ranges of the world.  Highly aggressive, they are smaller than dragons and lack their larger cousin's fire breath but come in groups, making them a tough challenge for a beginning fortress. Completed
• Landwyrm: Enormous, wingless dragons that lack the ability to breathe fire, landwyrms can be found deep in savage wilderness.  Their rage is known to shake the earth. Completed
• Forest Drake: Smaller than wyverns, these arboreal creatures pack a nasty poisonous bite, but generally remain peaceful when unattacked.  Their strength makes them prized pets of the elves. Completed
• Ice Drake: Inhabiting the wastelands of the world, ice drakes are the top predator in their environments. Undergoing Testing
• Pseudodragon: Cat-sized dragons known for stealing that which is left unattended. Completed
• Drakeling: Small drakes with razor-sharp teeth, familiar guard animals amongst most civilizations. Completed
• Grave Drake: Evil, two-headed dragons that live in evil regions of the world.  Beware their poisonous breath
• Tarasque: A dragon-like creature resembling an ankylosaur, megabeast level difficulty.

New Metals:

• Dragonsteel: Forged from the scales of draconic creatures, dragonsteel has all of the properties of regular steel but makes a sharper edge, making it a prized material for crafting edged weapons.

Possible Future Additions:

• Gargouille: A dragon-like creature that spouts water instead of fire, causing flooding.

Other:

• Make all draconic creatures drop dragonscales on butcher, which can then be used to make dragonsteel.

[4maskwolf]

Spoiler: Development Log (click to show/hide)

March 6 2015: Added wyverns and modified dragons to fly.
March 7 2015: Added Landwyrms, and drakelings.  Tested some of my new additions: wyverns and landwyrms seem to work properly, although maybe I should reduce the landwyrm's propensity for rage: it came on the map and wantonly slaughtered four of my starting seven and both dogs before running off.  On the other hand, losing is fun, so I'll probably keep it as-is.  Currently in the process of testing drakelings, but since they are pets they'll be harder to test, since I need something for them to kill.
March 8 2015: Added pseudodragons, the drakeling eggs hatched.  Perhaps I need to make them breed slower, that was a lot of drakelings.  Also added the forest drakes, although I haven't tested their poison yet it should work as intended, nothing too fancy there.  I just need to make sure nothing pops up in the errorlog.  May be a release later today with this stuff once I write up the installation instructions.
March 10 2015: Fixed a bug with forest dragons appearing in every biome.
March 14 2015: Worked on the ice drake a bit today, trying to get its interaction to work, but I'm going to get back to that later.

Spoiler: Release Log (click to show/hide)

v. 0.1: modifications made to the dragons, along with the addition of wyverns, forest drakes, landwyrms, pseudodragons, and drakelings.
v. 0.11: Fixed forest dragons to only appear in forest biomes.

[Wheeljack]

Well, I support this fully. More dragons is always fun. Or !!FUN!!, as it were. I'll give this a try once it's released. In all my forts, I've never even gotten cave dragons, sadly. The RNG hates me.

[4maskwolf]

v. 0.1 released!

[4maskwolf]

v 0.11 released!

Now on DFFD instead of dropbox.

Bugfix:
Made forest dragons only appear in forest biomes, rather than every biome.