Playable Naga Race
Download link - standard versionDownload link for "Glazed Nagas", the combination of this mod with the
Expanded Glazes mod.
Now updated for 0.42.06. This takes advantage of new Values and such. Nagas greatly prefer arts and revelry.
Receiving a request from the blue, I happened to come back to DF, and was enticed to finish up packaging a mod that is essentially a derivation of a much older mod I did a while back, and a graphics pack I had been requested to make about a year ago.
Since it's a releasable mod, there's no reason not to make it openly available, so I'm putting this out here for anyone else interested in playing their game as a naga race.
I was also just about to release this when I noticed that we have a whole new version, so I had to update this pretty quickly to get it working for 0.34.01.
CONTENTS
- You can start the game as a race of nagas - mountain-dwelling top-half-humanoid, bottom-half-serpent creatures of Indian myth.
- Most saliently, nagas feature a tail rather than legs. Their large tail is capable of a slap attack and can be used to powerfully grapple and constrict opponents when wrestling. Their tail makes them larger and heavier in general than other humanoids (85,000 size), but the humanoid section of their bodies are actually smaller (roughly 77% of human size), and in fact their humanoid section is slightly smaller than elves (roughly 90% of elven size). This is mostly to prevent them from being too powerful just because of their size. In the arena, their tail constriction can crush a smaller creature's skull.
- Physically, nagas are more agile and slightly more strong than dwarves, but their slower metabolisms mean they tire more easily - they favor quick strikes and resting to prolonged battle. They also recover from injury more slowly and are more vulnerable to disease.
- Mentally, nagas are intelligent and more creative and expressive and favor more esoteric and aesthetic crafts compared to the more practical and engineering-focused dwarves. Nagas are also more sociable and hunger more for social interaction. They are, however, more undisciplined, and governed more by emotion and social pressures from their peers than dwarves. They have bonuses to analytical ability, creativity, willpower, linguistics, music, empathy, and social awareness, but lack in focus, patience, and social sense.
- Nagas have more sociable and generous but far more prideful and stubborn personalities. They are quick to help those they know and care about, but tend to slack and worry more about their own wants when they don't feel it will hurt anyone.
- Naga scales match their hair color, and can come from a wide palette ranging from green to purple to red to black.
- Their slower metabolisms mean they have a longer lifespan than humans or dwarves, but they also grow to adulthood slower, as well. (Age 15 instead of 12.)
- Their tails make them natural swimmers - they have SWIM_INNATE. (But not water-breathing.)
- A new language for nagas, based off of French, which tends to produce longer names with more complex consonant sounds.
- The naga civ has some special clothing types (armored skirts instead of greaves and the like) and special toys (naga children playing with dolls instead of miniforges).
- A graphics pack for all the nagas, which is compatible with any other graphics packs of your choice.
To Install
Unzip and copy the contents from the folders into the DF raws folders. You should not need to overwrite anything, except if you are "updating" to a new version. You can "uninstall" by simply deleting the files with "naga" in the name.
I made this out of something originally for 31.01, by the way, and updated it to 31.25, and now to 42.06, so I'm not sure how much I'll have to update this further. I also couldn't quite get organs to work the way I wanted, since I wanted to put more organs in the serpentine tail rather than humanoid torso, and play around with relsizes, but the organs are mostly superfluous for now, anyway.
I also do not know how to make scales stylable, but will try to do so in the future if people desire.
I originally made this mod as a race of lamia, but people seemed to like the term "naga" better. If people request, I can make this a lamia mod instead of a naga mod. Also, it is possible to have patterns instead of just solid colors of scales, and I have considered making a large number of color patterns for hair and scales to apply to this race, should people desire it.
As always, I welcome comments and criticism.