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[IndigoFenix]

Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom

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Full sprite sheet by Rydel
TWBT graphic pack by Rydel
Soundsense soundpack by Indigofenix
Stonesense sprites by EmeraldWind
Older sprite sheet by EmeraldWind

This mod is set in the world of the Mario games, but in which these games, and Mario himself, are simply legends.

This is a significant mod that adds enough new content to the game that it can be played fine without any Vanilla creatures, entities, or plants, however it does not change any of the game's base files.  If you want to play a Mushroom World-only game, delete the raw/objects folder and then place the downloaded raw files in their place.  If you want to play crossover Dwarf World and Mushroom World, simply place the new files in alongside the old.  All of the new objects are uniquely named, so it should play well with any other mods you choose to throw into the mix as well, provided that they don't change the base files either.

There are three playable races in this mod.  To see which one you are playing as, on the embark screen, press tab until you find a list of neighboring races.  The one at the top is your civ's race.  To switch civs, press tab until you find a list of civ names and then pick the one you want.  Check the highlighted sites on the world map to quickly determine which type of civ you've selected: Toads live in cities (#), Koopas in dark fortresses (Π), and Shyguys in forest retreats (î).

The Story:

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Once there was a world inhabited by a fungus-like people known as the Toads, or the Mushroom People, and so they called their world the Mushroom World.  They were a peaceful race by nature, strong yet fragile, and if they had it their way, they would live out their days in harmony, farming the magical plants that grew in that world's soil and cooking fabulous meals to sell to the many races that they shared their world with.

The Toads were well-liked among most of the races of that world, but they had many strong enemies as well.  The most prominent of these enemies were known as the Koopas, the Turtle People, a race of fortress-building reptiles.  Led by a terrible demon king, the Koopas were the greatest fear of the rest of the world's races, as they would go to any lengths to please their hellish leader, even if it meant stealing the children of other races, and their dark magic powers were legendary.  It was often said that the ancestors of the Koopas had made a bargain with the masters of the Underworld, exchanging the freedom of their race for the knowledge of magic power that could be drawn out from the fires in the bowels of the earth.

Living in the shadows of these two great races were a strange race of reclusive masked thieves.  Nobody knew what they called themselves, but the other people simply called them the Shy Guys.  Their powers and thought processes were incomprehensible, and nobody knew where they came from, as they seem to have simply shown up one day.  It was said by some that they were figments of a dream that somehow escaped into the real world.

Sometimes, the Toads liked to tell stories of a hero who fought in their stead and layed waste to their enemies.  But in their day-to-day life, they had to learn to cope on their own.  This is the story of their life, and the lives of the races they shared the world with.

Current features include:

Playable race: Toads:

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The Toads are highly resistant to tantrum spirals and internal struggles.  They will designate one of their number to function as their 'hero', and as long as they have a hero to rely on, they will sleep in the grass, put up with rain and vermin, even sustain major injuries without losing hope, and even when they do lose it, they rarely throw violent tantrums or go berserk.  When playing as them, you'll have to focus more on coming up with ways to defend your fortress from enemies instead.  Toads are agile and surprisingly strong in a pinch, but their fungus-based anatomy is very easily dismembered, and their cowardly nature makes them poor soldiers overall. 

Toads suffer from a fear of caves and need to live above ground.  Staying underground for more than short trips at a time will cause gradually increasing levels of dizziness, causing them to work slower and faint from time to time.  They also begin with very few useful items aside from seeds and clothing, so while playing as them, make sure to embark in a place with a lot of trees to build up an above-ground fortress.

The Toads' game is largely centered around external trade - fortunately, they have a lot of allies to trade with.  Bub-ulbs will carry exotic plants, Mole People will bring mining equipment, Beanish will carry proper weaponry, Bumpties will show up in the winter with emergency supplies, and so on.  Because they have a hard time living underground, Toads create wealth mostly by farming and cooking, and they also have a lot of special kitchen reactions to boost the value of their consumables: They can fry eggs, cook individual food items into more valuable forms, and have the ability to make high-value pastas and cakes by combining various plants with flour and sugar.

Toads can also raise pet Yoshis.  Their upkeep is more costly than that of regular livestock, as they need regular food and water to survive.  Nonetheless, it's well-worth paying for a breeding pair on embark - they make excellent war and hunting animals, being able to throw eggs at enemies, and are altogether stronger and tougher than the Toads in melee.  It's best to think of them as being more combat-capable semi-citizens rather than livestock, as Yoshi trainers will likely be a major component, if not the main component, in your fighting force.  They also produce eggs, which will be helpful if you want to produce cakes (both males and females will lay eggs, though only the female eggs will hatch).

Toads can construct Warp Pipes leading to various areas, giving them access to resources that might not be available on the map (although collecting wood or stone through this method is slow and inefficient).  They can also run missions using their 'Requests Office', which will help them collect rewards such as coins which can be traded in for Power Stars.

Toads can also build Star Beacons, which grant a number of empowering effects as you collect Power Stars.  The more stars you collect, the stronger the effects!

Pros:

• Easily satisfied and rarely throw tantrums even in the worst of times
• Lots of allies to trade with
• Speedy and strong, excellent at moving things around and chasing down smaller foes
• Fast healers and no bones to break: if they make it out of a fight with all their limbs intact, a bit of bed rest is all they need to recover
• Can raise Yoshis, extremely useful quasi-citizen/pets
• Can create new types of power-up foods in the kitchen
• Can use Warp Pipes to produce natural resources and water for free, regardless of biome
• Can utilize Power Stars
• More reasonable nobles: fewer mandates to worry about

Cons:

• Can't live underground for very long
• Fragile: it is very likely that they won't make it out of a tough fight with all their limbs intact
• Limited ability to produce weaponry, high-level metals, and damaging traps

Overall focus in Fortress Mode: Farming, domestic production and trade
Adventure Mode Style: Glass cannons.  High offensive power and agility, but can't take much punishment.

Playable race: Koopas:

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When playing as the Koopas, you'll want to focus mainly on upgrading your fortress.  Until they gain the approval of their king to promote a Koopa to the position of 'Miniboss' (their first land-holder position), they will be unable to create a proper army and will have to make do with a single squad of 20 troopas. Fortunately, between their scaly skin, ease in creating shell armor, and ability to curl up inside their armor when in danger, Koopas are the toughest of all the major races physically, so a single squad should be adequate to deal with most of the problems you'll be facing early on.  Be aware that Koopa civilians will curl up when they see an enemy instead of running away, whether they have armor or not.  Because of this, it is a good idea to outfit even non-combatants with at least a basic shell, or they will be easy targets for predators and invaders.

Unlike Toads, Koopas won't grow faint from the darkness, but they still aren't dwarves and staying underground for months on end will cause them to move and work slower.  However, if you tough it out and keep them underground until they become cave adapted (1 year), they will begin to improve and ultimately wind up stronger, tougher, and more agile than their above-ground counterparts.  They will still become nauseous from the sun though, and they'll lose these bonuses if they go outside, so altogether it might not be worth the trouble.

Later in the game, they'll get the ability to train Magikoopas.  The source of Koopa magic is magic gems, which are created by charging up a regular large gem at a 'Gem Charge Point', placed next to magma.  Charging a gem takes an extremely long time, but once you have a supply of magic gems, you'll be able to create a Magikoopa Sanctum, where you can brew potions that grant their drinkers the ability to teleport, shoot magic blasts, and turn enemies into weaker creatures (at the cost of causing them to gradually grow physically weaker over time).  They can also produce magic ammo which is fired from a magic scepter, and revive corpses (be careful with this one; the corpse will attack everyone it sees, including your own koopas, although clever users of floodgates and fortifications may find a way to build a zombie-based defense system.)  When a magic gem is used, it reverts back to a regular large gem and must be recharged to use it again.

Koopas will almost always be ruled by a demon or megabeast as their king or queen, so when the ruler shows up at the end of the game you'll have a powerful new ally to play with.  Until then, though, make sure to keep your land-holder healthy, because if the boss dies, the army will fall apart!

Koopas are babysnatchers and will be at odds with many of the world's races, so prepare for a defense-based game!  Fortunately, they have the Goombas and Bob-ombs as their allies to trade with for powerful pets such as Chomps or high-level metals.

Pros:

• Big, tough, and all-around durable: Can curl up to protect their vulnerable limbs and produce wooden armor right from the start
• Have a flying caste
• Can train many useful pets, in particular the virtually invincible chomps
• Grow stronger after becoming cave-adapted
• Can learn powerful magic later in the game
• Usually have a demon as lawgiver: powerful ally in the endgame
• Can butcher metal-shelled creatures and melt down their metal

Cons:

• Slow: have a hard time chasing down foes
• Have lots of enemies
• Can't produce more than one military squad until the first fortress upgrade
• Become slower after spending too much time in caves until becoming cave-adapted
• Usually have a demon as lawgiver: good luck trying to tell them what to do!

Overall focus in Fortress Mode: Fortress building and combat-oriented defense
Adventure Mode Style: Stone wall.  High toughness and can hide in their armor when in danger and wait for their teammates to finish the battle.  They also have a parakoopa caste, which is capable of flight.  A bit lacking in agility though.

Playable race: Shy Guys:

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The mask-wearing Shy guys from the dream-world of Subcon have mastered the boundary between the dream-world and the physical universe, and can open up 'subspace portals' to bridge that boundary and pull vast quantities of food, magma-safe building materials, furniture, mechanisms, and finished goods out of the other world, enabling them to build vast, multicolored megaprojects and surreal mechanical fortresses with ease.  They cannot, however, create weapons or armor from Subspace material (not that it would be very useful if they could, as Subspace material is fragile, near-weightless and can't take on an edge).  Don't become so preoccupied with building a chromatic mega-fortress that neglect your mundane mining and smelting entirely, unless you want to be wiped out by the first invasion that comes to your door!

Shy Guys have a lot of problems with discipline and organization - they will take frequent breaks, they have none of the regular useful nobles like bookkeepers or brokers (so trading will be based mainly on guesswork) and they are only allowed to have one military 'squad' per fortress (although it can be a very, very large squad).  They are, however, very quick learners, and train their skills four times faster than any other race.  Unfortunately, their skill rust rates are also four times faster than other races.  Expect to see them change their job titles frequently, unless you assign one Shy Guy to each type of job.

With their handicaps in hand-to-hand combat offset by their ease at creating complex structures, Shy Guys are the perfect race to play as if you like defending your fortress in more 'creative' ways.  And you'd better be good at it, because as item thieves, they'll be constantly under attack by every major race.  Expect plenty of FUN!

Pros:

• Can build subspace portals and produce tons of items for free
• Can dump useless refuse into subspace
• Can gather into a huge squad
• Can embark with exotic pets
• Fairly speedy, especially when happy
• Learn skills quickly
• Don't need pants to be happy
• Can burn the world with their bonfires
• Can produce valuable Subcon Crystals to speed up the pace of the game

Cons

• Poor organization: No brokers, chief medics, or managers, and only one military squad
• Subspace items fade away over time
  
• Lots of enemies
• Lazy
• Small and weak
• Skills rust quickly
• Need masks to be happy

Overall focus in Fortress Mode: Megaprojects, trap-based defense, and !!FUN!!
Adventure Mode Style: Fragile speedsters.  They can use 'Panic!' to make themselves virtually untouchable for a short time and allowing them to jump from cliffs without harm, but won't be able to attack effectively while doing so.  They also learn weapon skills extremely quickly.

Minor races:

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Beanish: A joke-loving, bean-like race, close relatives of the Toads, but with a more assertive personality.  They are arguably the Toads' most important trade allies, as they are able to produce strong weapons and armor that the Toads can't make themselves.  They will also be an early threat for Koopas and Shy Guys. 
Adventure Mode: Like Toads in scale, but more well-rounded stat-wise.  They have a tough outer shell and better starting weapons/armor.

Mole People: A friendly subterranean race who will trade with Toads.  They are very important trade allies, as they carry useful mining equipment like picks and minecarts.  They also carry various kinds of gems and metals.
Adventure Mode: They have extravision and natural claws that are nearly as effective in combat as short swords.

Bub-ulbs: Flower-like people from the good regions, able to survive on water alone, which gives them a slight travelling advantage in Adventure Mode, although their lack of arms means that their combat ability is lacking.  In Fortress Mode, they carry various exotic plants like colorful berries and pods from which syrups and dyes can be extracted.  Like the elves, they consider the killing of plants offensive and will be insulted if you offer them wood.
Adventure Mode: Able to live on water alone and at peace with wildlife, making them good wanderers.  They can also spread pollen that puts enemies to sleep and use Photosynthesis, making them stronger as long as they are outside of a cave.

Bumpties: Small penguin-like people who build cities in the polar regions.  They don't carry anything particularly exciting, but they do show up in winter, which might get you out of a tough spot if you hadn't been well prepared.  You never know!  They will sometimes raid Koopa and Shy Guy fortresses, and though they are not really threatening, they are durable and hard to kill without bladed weapons.
Adventure Mode: Practically immune to non-bladed weaponry.

Frog People: These scholarly amphibians will show up later in the Toad's game, carrying rare and expensive power-up drinks like Froggie Drinks, Elixirs, and Kerokerocolas.  They have a unique form of currency that is highly valuable.
Adventure Mode: A bit on the slow side, but can swim naturally and secrete a contact poison from their skin.

Piantas: Large, powerful creatures with trees growing on their heads.  They will show to trade with Toads, carrying rare tropical fruit with them, and they will also wage war against Koopas and Shy Guys and form criminal groups for adventurers to fight.  Despite going into battle unarmed, they are brutally powerful wrestlers, so be wary of them if they're your opponents!  They grow stronger in the sunlight, so try to lure them underground for a more balanced fight.
Adventure Mode: Extremely strong, and can use Photosynthesis which makes them even stronger outside of caves.  Unfortunately they won't be able to find any good armor that fits them.

Nokis: Small shell-wearing people who live in the oceans.  They tend to keep to themselves mostly, but they may show up to trade with Toads if you embark near a tropical shoreline.  They carry ocean-related products like fish and coral crafts.
Adventure Mode: Speedy on land and even faster in the water.  Oceans are no barrier to Nokis, provided you're willing to put up with the inability to use fast travel mode.

Doogans: A shady dog-like race that specializes in trade.  They'll be one of the last races to show up in the Toads' game, and will carry evil-aligned plants and animals that are normally off-limits to the Toads.  They will also wage war against Koopas and Shy Guys, and have a tendency to form bandit groups as well.
Adventure Mode: Good starting equipment and excellent endurance and memory.  They also have natural appraisal and bargaining skills, which should make getting good trades easier.

Craws: Bird-like spear-wielders that will show up late in the Toad's game, selling assorted metal items.  They will also pick fights with Koopas and Shy Guys, and form bandit groups of their own.
Adventure Mode: Natural trackers, can fly and are quicker than Parakoopas.

Goombas: The weakest of all of the races.  They can still be dangerous in large groups, but on the whole, the real reason to watch out for them is their ability to domesticate large animals.  They will be an early enemy for Toads and Shy Guys, and will provide the Koopas with rare tame animals - including subterranean and evil creatures.
Adventure Mode: Can sense the presence and approximate threat level of monsters from a distance.

Bob-ombs: Walking bombs.  Their attacks, as you might expect, tend to be short and to-the-point, where the point is blowing up everything in sight.  They will charge at enemies and explode, sending everyone flying and setting fire to your fortress.  If you're playing Koopa, they'll be a good source of high-quality metal items.  Be sure to keep them out of harms way, though - even allied bob-ombs are liable to burn down your fort if an enemy siege attacks them.
Adventure Mode: Want to get sweet revenge on the bandit who killed your last adventurer?  Mwa ha ha!

Squeeks: Small, skulking mouse-like creatures that steal items.  They will also show up to trade clothing and food with Shy Guys.
Adventure Mode: Weak but speedy.  Can hide in plain sight.

Bandits: Another thief race, these creatures are like larger versions of Shy Guys.  They will trade metals with Shy Guys.  Watch out for their thieves, as they are bigger and stronger than the average skulking race.
Adventure Mode: Human-sized, with greater agility but are handicapped in the armor department.  They can use 'Hit & Run', which gives them a short boost to attack power, followed by a longer period of lowered attack power but greater speed and agility.

Yoshis: In addition to living alongside the Toads, Yoshis will also form independent civilized groups, where they will pose an early threat to Koopas and Shyguys.  Though they carry no weapons, a Yoshi ambush can easily spell the end for an unprepared Koopa or Shyguy fortress on account of their large size and natural ability to throw eggs.
Adventure Mode: Not playable.

Humans: A minority race in the Mushroom World.  They build kingdoms in deserts and largely stick to themselves until late in the game.  They are also the only race that can be played as an outsider in adventure mode.
Adventure Mode: The most balanced race.  Can enter combat trances.

Shamans: A reclusive race that will show up late in your fort's lifespan, if at all.  Their main function is to learn magic and write books of secrets in worldgen.  If you get one as your ally, they can give you good luck and curse enemies.
Adventure Mode: Weak and very fragile, but start out with ice and lightning magic, and can boost their own luck while reducing the luck of their enemies.

Star Sprites: A reclusive race, they will also learn secrets and may write books in worldgen.  Although weak on their own, they make powerful allies: by letting other creatures 'wish' on them, their power increases greatly.  They can also give you the ability to revive them if they die in battle.
Adventure Mode: Not playable.

Shroobs: Ray-gun wielding aliens that may attack your fort very late in the game.  They are babysnatchers and also have the ability to scatter spores that will turn your citizens into immobile mushrooms.  Beware!

Machine Made: Ruthless metal monsters that may show up very late in the game to besiege your fort.  Some breathe fire, some wield fearsome weapons, some are tremendous in scale, but all of them are relentless, tireless warriors bent on the extermination of all biological life.  They are constructed by their fearless leader, a 'smithy unit', who is capable of riddling his enemies with bullets and changing between one of five forms.  Expect no quarter from this robotic foe!

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Power-Ups

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Many of the new plants and foods have power-up effects when eaten, boosting one or several stats ranging from the simple mushrooms (20% increase to recuperation) to powerful drinks like the Frog-people's Power Blast (doubles attack power, plus gives the eater the ability to buff two allies with the same effect).  Most power-ups last one in-game month, which means that based on the normal 'hunger' rates (which cause them to eat about once every one-and-a-half months), a creature will have one power-up active at a time.  It's tough to try and control who gets boosted with what and when, but if you keep a well-stocked pantry with high-level power-up foods, your citizens will be better workers and your soldiers will be better fighters overall.

Regular Plants

Apple: Edible, brewable, and cakeable into apple pie.
Banana: Edible, brewable, and cakeable into banana cake.
Grape: Edible, brewable, and cakeable into grape tarts.
Watermelon: Edible and brewable.
Fuzzbush: A thread plant.
Melon: Edible, brewable, and cakeable into Yoshi Cookies, which will power-up Yoshis if they eat one.
Wheat: Milled into wheat flour, an important cooking ingredient.  Can also be brewed into beer.
Rice: Grows in wet areas, and can be milled into rice flour or brewed into sake.
Sugar Cane: Milled into cane sugar, an important component of cake.
Sugar Beet: The temperate version of Sugar Cane, used as a sugar source.
Iced Potato: A hardy winter crop that grows fast in the tundra and temperate regions.  Edible, millable into iced potato flour and brewable into iced potato vodka.
Turtle Bush: Brewable into Koopa Tea and produces Turtleaves, which are cakeable into Koopa Dumplings.
Strange Bush: Grows in Evil regions.  Produces Strange Leaves which make the eater dizzy, cakeable into Strange Cake which also makes the eater dizzy, and cookable into Dizzy Dials which give the eater the power to make enemies dizzy.
Subcon Vegetable: Doesn't grow anywhere in the wild.  Only Shyguys can gather them from Subspace Portals.  Brewable into subcon spirits.
Berry: Found all over the place.  A staple food-plant.
Strawberry: A common fruit that grows in most areas.  A basic cake ingredient.
Red Berry: Grows in Good regions.  Brewable, cakeable into big cookies, and can be milled for red dye.
Blue Berry: Grows in Good regions.  Brewable, cakeable into big cookies, and can be milled for blue dye.
Yellow Berry: Grows in Good regions.  Brewable, cakeable into big cookies, and can be milled for yellow dye.
Stinky Herb: Grows only in Good regions, but basically unremarkable.  Edible when cooked.
Crystal Berry: Grows only in Good regions.  Useless but fetches a nice price.
Mango: Edible and brewable.
Peach: Edible, brewable, and cakeable into peach tarts.
Chuckola Fruit: Comes in three colors, all of which are functionally identical.  Edible and brewable into Chuckola Cola.

Low-level Power-up Plants

Mushroom: Recuperation +20%.  Cakeable into Shroom Cake.
Mid Mushroom: Recuperation +50%.  Cakeable into Shroom Cake.
Max Mushroom: Recuperation +100%.  Cakeable into Shroom Cake.
Honey Pod: Grows in Good regions.  Cakeable into Honey Candy.  Produces Honey Syrup - Endurance +20%
Maple Pod: Grows in Good regions.  Cakeable into Honey Candy.  Produces Maple Syrup - Endurance +50%
Royal Pod: Grows in Good regions.  Cakeable into Honey Candy.  Produces Royal Syrup - Endurance +100%  (Thinking about it now, are honey syrup and royal syrup intended to be bee products?)
Red Pepper: Strength +20%
Green Pepper: Toughness +20%
Blue Pepper: Agility +20%

High-level Power-up Plants (these take about a half a year to grow and don't spread easily, but grant special powers.  Toads can seal them in blocks to save them for later.  Adventurers will want to keep an eye out for these.)

Super Mushroom: Turns you into a giant and doubles strength and toughness.  Is planted in the spring and harvested in the autumn.
Fire Flower: Gives you the power to throw fireballs.  Could be hazardous in Fortress Mode, but lots of fun as an adventurer.  Can also be used to extract Hot Sauce.  Planted in the winter and harvested in the summer.
Ice Flower: Gives you the ability to spray icy vapor.  Use 'antifreeze' before using it to make yourself resistant to self-freezing.  A little bit of a hazard to CPU controlled creatures.  Planted in the summer and harvested in the winter.
Volt Shroom: Gives you a short-range lightning attack.  Planted in spring, harvested in autumn.
Super Bush: Its Super Leaves will transform you into a Tanooki when eaten.  Planted in spring and harvested in autumn.
Mega Mushroom: Like Super Mushrooms, only more so.  Puts a creature on near-megabeast scales of size and strength for a month.  Very rare though...
1Up Mushroom: For a short while after eating it, you get the power to escape from pretty much any situation.  Can be used to regrow lost body parts in Fortress Mode and may save your hide in Adventure Mode.

Frog People Specials: Brewed from special rare herbs found in swampy areas.  Generally, you'll get them by trading with Frog People.  They're expensive, but very powerful.

Froggie Drink: Recuperation +20%, plus the drinker gains the ability to buff two allies with the same bonus (even if they already have a powerup).
Frog Elixir: Like Froggie Drink, but with Recuperation +50%
Frog Megalixer: Like Froggie Drink, but with Recuperation +100%
KeroKeroCola: Recuperation +100% AND Endurance +100% AND can be passed on to two allies.
Bracer: Toughness +100%
Energizer: Strength +100%
Crystalline: Toughness +100% and can be passed to two allies.
Power Drink: Strength +100% and can be passed to two allies.

Cooking reactions (for Toads only):

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Fry an Egg:
Any egg -> Fried Egg

Make Pasta:
Flour* -> Dried Pasta

Cook an Item:
Fried Egg -> Omlette
Dried Pasta -> Fresh Pasta
Strange Leaf -> Dizzy Dial
Mild Cocoa Bean -> Chocolate
Yoshi Gland -> Yoshi Candy

Make Pasta Dish (Item+Dried Pasta):
Fresh Pasta -> Lotsa Spaghetti!
Mild Cocoa Bean -> Chocolate Pasta
Koopa Leaf -> Koopasta
Hot Sauce -> Spicy Pasta

Cook with Meat (Item+any meat):
Dried Pasta -> Meat Pasta
Mango -> Fruity Hamburger
Peachy Peach -> Fruity Hamburger
Fried Egg -> Fried Egg Dog

Make Cakes and Pastries (Item+flour*, sugar*, and fresh egg):
Fried Egg -> Big Cookie
Berry -> Big Cookie
Red/Yellow/Blue Berry -> Big Cookie
Dried Pasta -> Pasta Cake
Sweet Strawberry -> Tasty Cake
Hot Sauce -> Fire Pop
Strange Leaf -> Strange Cake
Apple -> Apple Pie
Banana -> Banana Cake
Grape -> Grape Tart
Peachy Peach -> Peach Tart
Melon -> Yoshi Cookie
Koopa Leaf -> Koopa Dumpling
Mild Cocoa Bean -> Chocolate Cake
Any basic Mushroom -> Shroom Cake (warning: will lower the effectiveness of Max Mushrooms)
Any basic Syrup -> Honey Candy (warning: will lower the effectiveness of Royal Syrup)
Horsetail -> Horsetail Tart
Yoshi Extract -> Yoshi Candy

Surprise Cake (3x more flour, sugar, eggs, any cakeable ingredients, plus one of any available item):
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* Vanilla plants' flour and sugar do not work for these reactions, only wheat flour, rice flour, iced potato flour, cane sugar, and beet sugar will be used.

Plenty of new secrets:

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Firebrand: Throw fireballs forever!  Yay!  Can also unleash Firey Finale, for those times when you just need to torch everything.
Thunderhand: Shock enemies to stun and damage them.  Some powerful enemies are especially vulnerable to it.  Can also temporarily grant allies the ability to use a close-range version of the same attack.
Blizzard: Gives you the ability to use a freezing spray.  Use 'antifreeze' to protect yourself from freezing and 'clean' to get rid of potentially hazardous residue.  Also comes with extravision to deal with potentially frozen eyeballs.
Vibe: Gives you the ability to use four short-term stat altering abilities, on yourself, your allies, or your enemies.  Rage doubles strength and halves toughness, Gloom doubles toughness and halves strength, Calm doubles recuperation and halves agility, and Joy doubles agility and halves recuperation.  Each creature can have only one 'vibe' active at a time.
Wizard: Gain the ability to damage enemies from a distance, 'teleport' (speed up for a short period but become unable to harm enemies while doing so) and polymorph enemies into weaker forms.  They can also raise the dead and will build towers in worldgen.  However, creatures who learn it will no longer gain physical strength, and their muscles will atrophy over time, so wizards tend to be weak physically.  Koopas can produce potions that turn them into Wizards in fortress mode, minus the necromancy.
3-Up Moon: Grants you the ability to use a 1-Up mushroom ability three times a month.  It won't actually revive you if you die, but it will allow you to escape from pretty much any situation fully restored.  You'll be happy you had it if you find yourself lying at the bottom of a pool of magma without any limbs.

Giant (Curse): Doubles your size, strength, and toughness permanently.
Tanooki (Curse): Transforms you into a flying, at-peace-with-wildlife Tanooki permanently.  You also gain the ability to vanish before the eyes of your enemies.  As a side effect, this renders you immune to polymorph spells and mushroomization.
Metal (Curse): Transforms you into a nigh-invincible metal elemental, and also renders you immune to transformation.  What's with these curses anyway?

A couple of new materials:

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Firemetal: Needs to be extracted in strands, much like adamantine, and like adamantine it can be woven into soft clothing or made into armor.  It maintains a constant level of heat, making it fireproof.
Hoohoo Blocks: A hard and heavy metal.  Not great for bladed weapons but makes excellent hammers.

And lots of new creatures:

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Domestic creatures:
Moo Moo/Debull: A cow by any other name...
Sleepy Sheep/Snooze Ewe: A sheep that can put its enemies to sleep.
Li'l Oink: A pig that produces eggs and comes in many colors.
Beanlet: A small, trainable, vermin-eating bean-like pet.
Shellcreeper: A large turtle that can hide in its shell for defense.  Trainable pets for koopas, and their shells can be harvested when you butcher them.
Parashellcreeper: A variety of shellcreeper that is capable of flight.
Spiny: A relative of the shellcreeper with a spike-covered shell.  It can use its spines for attack, and they can be used to decorate items when it is butchered.
Buzzy Beetle: A shellcreeper relative with a shell of solid bronze.  It is nearly invincible to unarmed attacks when it pulls itself inside.  Its shell can be harvested and smelted into bronze bars by the Koopas.
Paraspiny, parabeetle, sky-blue spiny, and sky-blue paraspiny are all various combinations of the various shellcreeper types.  Sky-blue paraspinies are the rarest, with spiny, metal, winged shells.
Lakitu's Cloud: A small cloud used as a flying mount by Koopas.
Chomp: Large, iron-shelled balls with teeth, found underground and domesticated by koopas.  They are the ultimate guard dogs, capable of tearing apart most enemies in seconds and can even take on some forgotten beasts when fully grown.  However, their low speed and poor eyesight makes them ineffective for most other purposes.  They also have poor endurance and frequently collapse from exhaustion if attacked by multiple opponents at once, and are unable to swim.  If you choose to butcher one, its shell can be smelted into a great deal of iron bars by the koopas.  Vulnerable to lightning.
Stone Chomp: Magically-animated boulders with teeth.  They are sterile and not as tough as their organic/metal counterparts, but are still pretty much indestructable to anyone attacking bare-handed.  They make a more affordable embark creature to defend your fortress against early yoshi attacks.  Sometimes you'll find them guarding tombs.

Regular creatures:
Nipper Plant: Grow into piranha plants if they remain on the map for long enough.
Piranha Plant: A stationary, carnivourous plant.
Mobile Piranha Plant: A mobile carnivorous plant.
Jumping Piranha Plant: A flying carnivorous plant.
Venus Fire Trap: A fire-breathing pirahna plant.  Very dangerous.
Pirahnacus Giganticus: A huge pirahna plant that lives in savage regions.
Monty Mole: Throws mud rocks at passerby and then hides.  Extremely annoying.
Buzzer: Poisonous sting attack.  May attack unprovoked.
K-9: Large predator.  Can inflict 'Fear' status.
Porcupo: Large spiny mammal.
Spikey: Biped with a spiked shell.
Frogog: Large predator.  Secretes contact poison.
Fighter Fly: Flying creature that punches and kicks.  Prone to rage.
Arachne: Large poisonous spiders.
Koopeleon: Can become invisible.
Artichoker: Large ambush predator.  Uses electric attacks and toxic stench.
Carroboscis: Large ambush predator.  Can inflict Fear, Silence, and Mushroomization.
Beanie: Weak plant creature.
Parabeanie: A flying beanie.
Pestnut: Plant-based creature with a full-body spiked shell.
Troopea: Plant-based shelled quadruped.  Can increase recuperation of other plant-based creatures.
Paratroopea: Flying troopea.
Sharpea: Plant-based spiked creature.
Giant Shellcreeper/Parashellcreeper: They live in the savage regions.
Rex: A large predatory dinosaur with a horn on its head.
Dino-Rhino: A large herbivorous dinosaur.  Transforms into small, fire-breathing Dino-Torch when injured.
Reznor: A fire-spitting, three-horned dinosaur.  Trainable.
Ukiki: Mischievous and will steal food and items.  Trainable.
Wiggler: Prone to rage.  Found in forests.
Fuzzy: Classified as 'large predator' despite their small size.  Attack in swarms and can suck blood.
Scutlet: Appear in large groups.  Not particularly threatening.
Sockop: Tough plant-like carnivore.  Produces strong leather.
Treevil: Large wooden predators.  Tough to kill.
Guerilla: Large primate.  Strong but docile.
Amanita: Can Mushroomize its victims.
Winkle: Large talking snails.
Gecko: Poisonous bite.  Will randomly go berserk.
Puff: A small cloud-like creature.
Milde: Harmless tropical puffballs.
Tap-Tap: Has a copper shell.  Koopas can smelt them into copper bars.
Dayzee: Found in Good-aligned areas.  Rare Amayzee Dayzees are surprisingly lethal.
Poochy: An amazingly durable, large-sized dog.  Benign but very tough to kill.  It can be trained for hunting.
Huffin' Puffin: Large tropical flightless birds.
Goonie: Tropical bird.
Raven: Tropical flightless bird.
Grinder: A large tropical monkey that will steal food.
Snapjaw: Large crocodilian predator.
Puni: Small intelligent creature found in Good-aligned forests.
Jabbi: Small blood-drinking creature found in Good-aligned forests.
Pider: Spits webs.  Found in good-aligned forests.
Lunge Fish: Lives in the tropical swamps.  Extremely dangerous and aggressive.
Spray Fish: Can spray water and knock its targets into the river.
Frog Pirate: A huge frog that lives in tropical wetlands.  They will show up in groups to raid your food stores.
Cheep-Cheep: Common large fish.  Can be hazardous to fishermen.
Trouter: Common large fish.  Can be hazardous to fishermen.
Deep-Cheep: A large oceanic fish.  They are more aggressive than their inland counterparts.
Boss Bass: An enormous cheep-cheep that lives in oceans.  They are aggressive and very dangerous.
Blurp: A docile fish living in tropical regions.
Sidestepper: Found on beaches.  Prone to rage.
Clawgrip: Giant sidestepper variant.
Blooper: Flying oceanic squid.  Can squirt ink.
Sushi: Benign oceanic predator.
Manta: Enormous, docile manta rays that live in the open ocean.  They can be used as exotic mounts.
Unagi: Predatory oceanic eel.
Pokey: Cactus-like desert creature.  Produces pokey fruits when butchered.
Klepto: Flying item thief.  Lives in deserts.
Cobrat: Spits bullets.  Lives in deserts.
Muncher: Metal-shelled carnivorous plant.  Lives in deserts and tundra.
Panser: Fire-breathing mobile plant.  Found in savage tropics.
Gao: Fire-breathing lion.  Found in savage deserts.
Nyololin: Fire-breathing snake.  Found in savage deserts.
Bunbun: Giant bee.  Found in savage deserts.
Ganchan: Living boulders.  Invincible but fortunately not aggressive.  Found in savage wastelands.
Scuttlebug: Spins webs.  Found underground and in forests.
Cleft: A durable stone creature that lives on mountains.
Mega Mole: Powerful underground creature.
Ninji: Mischievous.  An intelligent pet.
Rat Funk: Cave-dweller.  Has a poisonous tail.
Whacka: A rare creature found in mountains.  When hit in the head, it produces valuable, edible 'bumps'.
Swooper: A large bat.
Fangs: Another kind of large bat.
Lemon Drop: Harmless cave dweller.
Enigma: Cave-dweller.
Ameboid: Can multiply if attacked with bladed weapons.
Sparky: Blind but agile cave-dweller.  Moves rapidly but without direction.
Dorrie: Underground water-dweller.  Large and docile.
Gloomba: Hidden underground tribal goomba variant.  Somewhat tougher than above-ground goombas.
Burt: Cave-dwellers.  Drop silk trousers when butchered.
Lantern Ghost: Cave-dwellers.  Drop silk cloth and lanterns when butchered.
Birdo: A rare dinosaur, capable of sucking blood and spitting eggs.  Can be tamed.  Like Yoshis, both males and females will lay eggs.
Hot Lips: Dangerous magma-dweller that can spray magma mist, but only when submerged in the magma itself.
Podoboo: An animated blob of magma.  Extremely dangerous in a melee, as it tends to splatter magma around it.  It can be tamed, but is still very dangerous if not handled with extreme care.
Blargg: A giant predator made of magma.  It is easily damaged, but can do a great deal of harm before it's destroyed.
Magmite: Magma-dweller with a firemetal shell.
Thwomp: A huge, animated stone block that lives in volcanoes.  It moves slowly but its slamming attack will shatter pretty much whatever body part it hits.
Bully: A hard-shelled creature that lives near magma pools and will attack any creature that comes near.  It's mostly up to luck who falls into the magma first.
Big Bully: A larger version of the bully.  It is heavy enough to cause injuries in its own right.
Formless: Cave-dweller.  Invincible unless attacked by a non-physical means such as fire or lightning.  A successful attack turns it into Mokura.  Mokura itself uses lightning, cold, and poison to attack, and grants a disproportionate amount of skill leveling when attacked.
Spike: Attacks by spitting spiked balls.
Mr I: Found in evil regions.  Immobile, but very hard to kill and can shoot at passerby.
Flurry: A small snowman found on glaciers.  Easily killed.
Mr. Blizzard: A larger snowman.  Throws snowballs to attack.
Moneybag: A strange creature made of cloth and containing a gold bar inside it.  Found in cold climates.  If you tame one, it will sometimes lay gold bars in nest boxes.
Ostro: An ostrich that can be used as a mount or wagon puller.
Albatoss: A large bird of prey.  Some creatures will use them as mounts.
Gnawty: Bipedal beavers.
Klaptrap: Small crocodiles.
Zinger: Giant bees.  No poison but have large stingers.
Flitter: Large dragonflies.  Excellent observational skills, so make good guards.
Neek: Large rats.
Necky: Predatory bird.  Spits coconuts.

Vermin:
Buzzbee: Basically a bee.  Produces honey, wax, etc.
Beetle: Vermin creature.  Comes in three varieties: Male, Female, and Gold.  The rare gold beetles fetch a high price if sold.
Cricket: Can be processed into Cricket Jam, which can be cooked (by Toads) into Cricket Pie.
Butterfly: A purple butterfly vermin.
Blue Fish: Just something for fishermen to catch.
Virus: A type of vermin that comes in three varieties: Fever, Cold, and Weird.  They show up in large swarms and can infect your citizens.  Though not fatal, it's best to avoid them if possible.
Dudim Phrekenoutonthis: Also known as 'fuzzies', but not related to the other creature called 'fuzzies'.  Strange puffballs that appear in huge swarms.  If you touch one, you'll get dizzy.
Melody Frogs: Come in 12 varieties: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, and Bass.
Starman: Extremely rare and extremely valuable vermin creature.  Its 'sting' will turn the affected creature into a one-man army for about two in-game weeks, capable of defeating a siege single-handedly (note: fire will still kill them if they aren't holding a shield).  They can be captured with a 'catch live land animal' command and stored for later emergencies.

Night Creatures:
Boo: A ghost that will attack adventurers at night and also appears naturally in haunted regions.  It has the ability to vanish into thin air when it is in danger.
Machine: Created when a regular creature is infected by nanobots, usually as a result of getting into a fight with a Machine Scout.  These mechanized creatures are immortal, extremely durable in their normal form (about as hard as steel), and can reveal their true forms, turning into giant killer robots.  Transforming is permanent and will automatically make you the enemy of all civilizations except the Machine Mades.
Duplighosts: In-story, these are shapeshifters that turn their victims into shadowy doppelgangers and, in turn, steal their bodies and take over their lives as duplighosts.  In practice, Shadowy Doppelgangers will turn their victims into hidden duplighosts, which can transform (for a short period) into a flying duplighost form at will, and will also do so once a month.  If you are playing as a hidden duplighost, selecting 'discard physical body' will transform you permanently into a shadowy doppelganger.
Shadow Siren: Spouse-converters.  They will each pick one of three elemental abilities: fire, ice, or lightning, and will use that element to attack.

Megabeasts
Demon Koopa: A megabeast that tends to take over Koopa civilizations.  It is the size of a demon, magma-proof, fire-breathing, and capable of hiding in its spiked shell (not that it generally needs to).
Giant Chomp: Basically just a chomp, but much, much bigger.  Absurdly powerful and durable but have all of the weaknesses of a regular chomp: poor speed, eyesight, and endurance, weakness to lightning, and inability to swim.  But a single bite will end pretty much all creatures, so watch out.  If you can trap it, it can be tamed just like a regular chomp.  If you manage to defeat it, or manage to capture it and somehow decide that you'd rather slaughter it than keep it as a virtually invincible guard, and are playing as Koopas, you can melt down its shell for more iron than you'll ever need.
Belome: A powerful canine that will try to slurp you to death.  It can also scatter dust that inflicts the 'scarecrow' status, preventing you from using basic attacks.  (Special techniques and magic can still be used.)  Vulnerable to lightning.
Mouser: Uses explosions to attack.  Has an iron skeleton to resist its own explosions.
Triclyde: A three-headed, fire-spitting giant snake.  It can shoot one fireball for each remaining head for a rapid-fire attack.
Angry Sun: A creature that lives in deserts.  It is a glass cannon, able to incinerate entire fortresses but can be taken out with a well-aimed punch.  Not that the puncher will live to tell about it.  Since they don't reproduce, they tend to go extinct within the first hundred years of worldgen, although they often have rather extensive kill lists.
Boss Piranha: Giant-sized mobile piranha plant.  Can spit poisonous goop as well.
Naval Piranha: Semimegabeast that shows up in underground lakes.  It will endlessly spawn waves of piranha plants until it is killed.  As it is aquatic, this can be rather difficult to do...
Great Dragon: Although it has only regular fire, these dragons are more durable than the vanilla DF variety, as they don't bleed easily.  If a large dragon is dunked into magma, it may lose its skin and flesh and emerge as a bone dragon, which feels no pain and has no blood to spill.  The only means of killing a bone dragon is by removing the head or destroying the brain.

There are also some 'Special' creatures that will only appear under specific circumstances.  Have Fun finding them!

Complicated things that advanced modders may find interesting/useful:

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Ameboid, a creature that multiplies if attacked with bladed weapons
Whacka, a creature that spawns edible 'bumps' if abused without killing it
Naval Pirahna, a 'spawner' megabeast that produces waves of monsters and limits itself somewhat to prevent overcrowding
Dragons that can have the flesh boiled off of their bones and go on living as a skeleton
Smithy, a boss that shapeshifts between several forms during a single fight and is killed by gradually overheating as he is attacked
Yoshi Glands and Red Yoshi Glands, 'plants' that sometimes (but not always) appear inside fully-grown creatures, and a syndrome that can increase the probability of finding one

Update Log

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0.01: Release. Three main races, a few powerups and secrets, and many creatures included. Shyguys can create subspace portals, and Koopas can create shell armor.
0.02: Lots of new content added: Powerup plants, new secrets, trader races and some cooking reactions for Toads. Koopas will be ruled by megabeasts or demons.
0.03: Toads can dig for resources, but they won't gain skill in mining or engraving. Shyguys no longer produce worthless crafts from portals. Some plant prices altered.
0.04: Magikoopa Sanctum added. Koopas can now produce magic scepters and learn three special abilities for the cost of one large gem each. Teleport secret added.
Major update - 0.1: Toads and Koopas have new underground behavior, new kitchen reactions for Toads, Magikoopa system greatly improved, new plants and animals, traders fixed, general bug fixes.
0.11: More races and creatures, including endgame special enemies.  Toads given metal weapons and castles for Adventure Mode, Koopas can withdraw into their armor in Adventure Mode.  Minor weapon tweaks - chomp shells re-balanced.  Yoshis now eat from stockpiles in Fortress Mode, frog drinks changed to alcohol.  Toads made slightly tougher and heal slightly slower.
0.12: Trading races organized, cooking reactions fixed, new plants and animals added, Adventure Mode races can be played as civ members (as opposed to outsiders).
0.13: Human civ added, warp pipe added, new creatures, animate corpse reaction can now animate an entire room, general bug fixes.
0.2: More creatures added, vibe secret added.
0.21: Shamans and Star Sprites added as 'secret keepers'.  Many special interactions improved or revamped, new megabeasts added.  Worldgen now operates without the need for vanilla creatures, entities, or plants.
0.22: New creatures added to fill up the temperate grassland biomes.
0.23: Power Stars and the Beacon for Toads, Koopas can smelt the shells of metal creatures, Shy Guys can create bonfires and can produce Subcon Crystals. All playable races now have specialties in Adventure Mode. Civs more focused on specific biomes. Many new creatures added.
0.24: Entity territories improved, more creatures including hint blocks added.
0.25: Some interaction/syndrome timing modified somewhat to make them more balanced in adventure mode.  Kong and Kremling civs, a couple new wild animals, some power-up plants and corresponding secrets, phantos, chomp mummies, duplighosts, hidden machines, shadow sirens, and an experimental Shadow Queen interaction have been added.
0.26: Fully shapeshifting Smithy, powerup sealing reaction for Toads, minor tweaks.
0.27: New embark/trader/diplomat messages, couple of new creatures added, Smithy and Shadow Queen adjusted, subspace materials decay over time, some secrets will level up.

Credits

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ArkFallen for suggesting a means to make Demon Koopas work
Pikdome for early creature suggestions
StephanReiken for plant and domestic animal suggestions
Pokon for civilization suggestions
EmeraldWind for languages and graphics work
Toady One for creating Dwarf Fortress
Shigeru Miyamoto for creating the Mario series
Everyone who tested and offered feedback or suggestions

Bugs and possible issues:

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Rarely in Adventure Mode, you will come across a creature that is immune to all physical damage, although they can somehow still be stunned from attacks.  If you encounter one of these, just avoid it, as they aren't any faster or stronger than normal members of their species.  Wrestling and strangling can stun these creatures, though they don't seem to die from it.

Toads in Adventure Mode will occasionally be dizzy when you find them.  My guess is that the game generates creatures a random level of cave adaptation.  If you want to recruit one, just travel around for a bit and it'll wear off on its own.

While playing as Toads, sometime's you'll get messages saying that someone was interrupted by someone's corpse or body part.  This is just a result of the Yoshi's creature eating mechanism.

If you have piranha plants on your map, they may prevent other creatures from spawning until they are all killed.  Depending on your playing style and the creatures inhabiting your location, this may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Civilian Koopas encountering shellcreepers and their relatives can run into problems as both creatures duck and hide in their shells, unable to move and potentially starving to death.  You'll have to send a squad out to kill the offending creature.

[ArKFallen]

How to include Bowser-style Demon Koopas.  The creature is already in the raws, though it will not appear in the actual game.
Ideally, there should be a way of making one into one of the civilization-conquering demons, as this seems to be what Bowser was intended to be (his japanese name actually means 'Devil King Koopa').

Make it a Night Creature with the [POWER] token. Back before vampires were properly put in I had a vampiress creature caste with POWER that took over Civs. There's also supposed to be a hidden tag that allows a position to be filled by demons, might be [WORSHIP_HF].

On another note the download seems to be missing the Subspace materials and HEAD_HORN_BIG_MW.

[Pikdome]

Don't forget to fill up the world with the large amount of assorted flora and fauna that have spanned the games.

Caste variants of the races would be swell, like parakoopas and and paragoombas, spiked goombas etc.

Add in chain chomps as a beast that can be domesticated, there could also be an underground variant like the stone chomps in dry dry ruins in paper mario 64.

Also, what sorts of weaponry are you thinking of adding for each race, aside from toads?

[IndigoFenix]

How to include Bowser-style Demon Koopas.  The creature is already in the raws, though it will not appear in the actual game.
Ideally, there should be a way of making one into one of the civilization-conquering demons, as this seems to be what Bowser was intended to be (his japanese name actually means 'Devil King Koopa').

Make it a Night Creature with the [POWER] token. Back before vampires were properly put in I had a vampiress creature caste with POWER that took over Civs. There's also supposed to be a hidden tag that allows a position to be filled by demons, might be [WORSHIP_HF].

On another note the download seems to be missing the Subspace materials and HEAD_HORN_BIG_MW.

...Really?  I've tried using the [POWER] token with megabeasts, but I've never tried it with night creatures.  Gonna try this out now!
Sorry about the upload error, it's fixed now.

Don't forget to fill up the world with the large amount of assorted flora and fauna that have spanned the games.

Caste variants of the races would be swell, like parakoopas and and paragoombas, spiked goombas etc.

Add in chain chomps as a beast that can be domesticated, there could also be an underground variant like the stone chomps in dry dry ruins in paper mario 64.

Also, what sorts of weaponry are you thinking of adding for each race, aside from toads?

There's already quite a bit of flora and fauna, and there's a lot more to come.  I'm starting mainly with the power-up plants and unusual or well-known creatures, but one of the reasons why I picked the Mario series in particular is its vast, vast number of creatures to choose from.  By the end of this, the mod should have enough diversity to function as a total conversion mod in its own right.

I prefer to avoid over-using caste tokens (this is one of the major differences between this mod and the other Mushroom Kingdom mod on this site, Legacy).  Instead, whenever possible, I'm going to make creatures - particularly civilized creatures - have variants based on their equipment.  For instance, a Spear Guy is just the name of a shyguy 'spearman', a Medi Guy is a shyguy doctor, a Snifit is a shyguy with a peashooter equipped, and 'Anti Guy' is the name of the shyguy 'Master Wrestler' job.  There are already Parakoopas as a caste of Koopa, and I'm debating whether or not to put in Paragoombas and Beezos as well (they aren't nearly as widespread in the games).

Chain Chomps, or rather just plain Chomps, were actually the first creatures I made for this mod (I wanted them in Dwarf Fortress before I even got the idea of making a full-on Mushroom Kingdom mod).  They are domesticated by Koopas (and should probably show up in Goblin sieges, so watch out!), and are among the most dangerous creatures in the game in a melee, being virtually indestructible with their thick iron shells.  However they have poor eyesight, so the best use for them is... chaining them up as guards in corridors.  There is also a Giant Chomp megabeast.  Don't even go near it unless you have either an adamantine spear or a pool of magma.

Weaponry is pretty minimal at the moment (there aren't really that many conventional weapons in the Mario series).  Shyguys have spears, tridents, slingshots and peashooters (basically blowguns with bullets, which is the closest I can get to a Snifit's snout without making them a separate caste).  Koopas use mostly conventional weaponry, although they do get a Chomp Shell weapon (basically, a flail that can bite you).  They're also going to get throwing hammers, of course, once I work out the best way to implement them.  And everyone gets at least some kind of hammer, naturally.  I'm open to suggestions!

EDIT: For future reference, in order for a creature to take over a civilization: the creature needs to be [FANCIFUL] as well as having the [POWER] tag, it must be either a megabeast or night creature, the civ needs VARIABLE_POSITIONS referring to the position the creature is to take over, and it seems that in order to be ruled by a megabeast, night creature, or demon without any trickery taking place, a civ needs to have no RELIGION tag as well as being more-or-less okay with KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER - which seems reasonable except that this appears to be the only ethic requirement.

At any rate, Koopas will now regularly appoint demons or megabeasts as their kings, and thanks to a matchup in their SPHERES, that megabeast will very often be a Demon Koopa.  (Demon Koopas will sometimes take over Goblin and Human civs as well).  Which means, (I think), that when the monarch shows up to your super-sized fortress, you'll often get a demon or megabeast for your population.  Perfect!  This will be included in the next release.

[Pikdome]

Good, good making lots of progress.
Maybe I'll just help you brainstorm a bit.

Well, I suppose for weapons, hammers, which are more like mallets, need to be a weapon common to each group, as they've been wielded by spy guys, hammer bros, etc.
Also, I don't think having differing castes amongst the groups is a bad thing, though I suppose it would sort of be redundant at times, although the nature of the shyguys would have it fit well having the varied castes as they are pretty specialized in themselves, so it would make to sense to have that reflected in the way their society is.

Add a tougher underground variant of goombas: gloombas.

Maybe latern ghosts from yoshi's island in the underground as benign wanderers.

Uhhh how about tribal, well, less civilized variants of the races, like jungle spearguys, bandit(guys) or toadies or somethin'?

Oh, and don't neglect bloopers, sidesteppers and cheep-cheeps, and the other watery denizens.
(http://www.mariowiki.com/Sidestepper)

Maybe a super blooper as a megabeast...

[coolguy1351]

This sounds like a very original and well thought-out mod. Keep at it!

[Itnetlolor]

Does touching or eating Fuzzy make one dizzy?

[Putnam]

Maybe latern ghosts from yoshi's island in the underground as benign wanderers.

Obviously, they would have [LIGHT_GEN]

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Maybe latern ghosts from yoshi's island in the underground as benign wanderers.

Obviously, they would have [LIGHT_GEN]

why was I just remined of Poes from zelda? (ghosts)

[Pikdome]

Well, they are 'ghosts' whom carry lanterns, just like poes, except they have feet, err shoes and look like they are wearing a bed sheet.



EDIT: Oh, you should add bumpties for freezing or glacier environments
http://www.mariowiki.com/Bumpty
(interestingly enough, they have been shown to be intelligent in some games, having their own city and whatnot, but as to if you'd want them to be anything other than a penguin replacement is up to you.)

While I'm still talking about freezing environments;
http://www.mariowiki.com/Flurry
Weak wandering flurries who are made of snow

http://www.mariowiki.com/Mr._Blizzard
Tougher and stronger that flurries, maybe they could have some kind of breath attack to simulate them throwing snowballs, also could use snow as its body material.

Ninji thieves?
http://www.mariowiki.com/Ninji

And these guys, is it possible to make them drop a random item on death?
http://www.mariowiki.com/Baron_von_Zeppelin


Oh, and add wigglers that get enraged.
You could add snifits as a caste of shyguys with a material breath attack as their natural shooting ability.
http://www.mariowiki.com/Trouter

[IndigoFenix]

Bloopers, cheep-cheeps, and raging wigglers are already in.
Fuzzies: There are actually two different creatures called 'fuzzies' in the Mario series, and they're both already in.  The Yoshi's Island ones are called 'floating fuzzies' and yes, they do make you dizzy if you touch them.  The other kind you will soon learn to fear.
Lantern ghosts, flurries, sidesteppers, trouters, and ninjis: Definitely going in.
Mr. Blizzard...what kind of species has 'Mr.' as part of its name?  Heh heh... either way, yeah I'll put them in somehow.
Bumpties: Planning on making them an arctic-only minor civ.
Gloombas...I wasn't going to put them in, but thinking about it now, I guess they could be like Troglodytes are to humans, or a hidden underground minor civ.
I'm not really sure what to do about Bandits.  I mean, they seem a bit different than shyguys, but they have masks and robes, and they both steal stuff, and they have kind of independent importance in some places... They'll go in somewhere.
Baron von Zeppelin... Wow, I never even thought of them.  It is possible to make them drop random items by making multiple castes, maybe they'll go in.
The Shy Guy caste thing is a major stylistic choice, I know, but aside from Beezos and (maybe) Snifits, they all have the same basic physiology, so I think keeping the different types as being separate jobs for the same creature is a better idea.

I'm trying to give each race's gameplay a distinct 'feel' to it appropriate to that species, which is why this mod's basic premise (the 'literary agent hypothesis') offers a bit of room for 'artistic licence' when the situation calls for it.  That doesn't mean that I'm going to start inserting completely foreign ideas like a bad fanfic writer, but for minor stylistic choices like saying that the Snifits are shyguys with peashooters, that Koopa shells are actually constructed armor (really, the games have never been 100% clear on this - if Koopas can remove their shells and put them back on, how do Parakoopa wings WORK?), and splitting two-legged, shoe-wearing Koopas with removable shells and four-legged, unshod ones whose shells are not removable (now being dubbed 'Shellcreepers' after the turtles from the original 'Mario Bros' game) into two separate species, I'm aiming more to make this a fun-to-play mod than going straight for perfect Mushroom World accuracy.  Which makes sense, really, since this is the spirit that the Mario games themselves are built in.

At any rate, the focus of the Shyguy game is supposed to be 'letting your creativity run wild and minimizing the need for planning ahead and micro-management'.  Since having to pay attention to which individual caste you're choosing for each particular task would run counter to that feel, I'm trying to avoid it as much as possible.

[Pikdome]

Oh, say, if your gonna add baron von zeppelins, you should add boo balloons as an aggressive but pretty much just as harmless counterpart. They could inhabit the underground while the barons inhabit the above.
http://www.mariowiki.com/Boo_Balloon

if your still interested in other civs, you could add in mousers, particularly nomadimouses for desert biomes.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Little_Mouser

As for shyguys physiology being roughly the same throughout, well yeah, they mostly are the same for the most part, but there are some more mold breaking ...guys

http://www.mariowiki.com/Fat_Guy
http://www.mariowiki.com/Pyro_Guy
http://www.mariowiki.com/Stretch_%28Shy_Guy%29
http://www.mariowiki.com/Boo_Guy

Oh and bandits are more of an aggressive offshoot of shyguys.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Green_Glove
http://www.mariowiki.com/Zeus_Guy_%28Bandit%29
http://www.mariowiki.com/Grunt
egg'cetra.

http://www.mariowiki.com/Raven
http://www.mariowiki.com/Mini-Raven
Hmmm what could you do with ravens...?

http://www.mariowiki.com/Crazee_Dayzee
http://www.mariowiki.com/Amazy_Dayzee
http://www.mariowiki.com/Bubble_Dayzee
Benign good biome wanderers, perhaps...
You could make them an elf like minor civ, whom grow their signature berries that they brew into tasty tonics, like red tonic, bubble tonic, crystal tonic, etc.
http://www.mariowiki.com/Red_Berry
http://www.mariowiki.com/Blue_Berry
http://www.mariowiki.com/Yellow_Berry
http://www.mariowiki.com/Bubble_Berry
http://www.mariowiki.com/Crystal_Berry
http://www.mariowiki.com/Tasty_Tonic

Some lava enemies perhaps?
http://www.mariowiki.com/Blargg

http://www.mariowiki.com/Piro_Dangle

Maybe some more aquatic variety for ye
http://www.mariowiki.com/Nibbles

http://www.mariowiki.com/Piscatory_Pete

http://www.mariowiki.com/Spray_Fish

http://www.mariowiki.com/Preying_Mantas

A weaker chomp subspecies perhaps...
http://www.mariowiki.com/Red_Chomp

Your average joe milde
http://www.mariowiki.com/Milde

Your average yellow slime, you could add it in as something to add more variety to the underground.
http://www.mariowiki.com/Lemon_Drop

http://www.mariowiki.com/Amanita
an aggressive 'plump helmet man' type of enemy

[IndigoFenix]

It's pretty easy to add new creatures, I've got some of these already and I intend to add more.  However, what I'm more interested in now is working out the civs and the gameplay styles for the three playable civs.

What I'm thinking is as follows:

The Shyguy game's main principle is more-or-less complete, it needs plenty of adjustment but you can already use the Subspace Portals, which alters the game enough to be considered a completely new style of play.

The Koopa game will be focused mainly on building up your fortress.  Among the three civs its game will be the most similar to the vanilla DF, with a greater emphasis placed on combat (as babysnatchers, they will get attacked a lot).  I'm going to try to give them several nobles who actually do something and who you will want to have around and keep happy.  They will also unlock new abilities or workshops as you 'upgrade' the fortress, so a basic settlement will let you raise an army, a mini-fortress will let you convert koopas into tireless undead slaves (i.e. Dry Bones), a major fortress will allow you to train Magikoopas, and when the king arrives you get a free demon or megabeast.  Something like that.  Ideally I'd like to attach these options to the arrival of particular nobles, but I'm not sure if that's possible.  If not, I'll make them have requirements that you'll only have access to in a higher-level fortress (large number of gems, magma, megabeast parts, etc.)

The Toad game will be focused on trade.  They'll start out with almost nothing useful - not even picks, maybe not even axes (although if not, I'll make sure they have other options to get a basic fortress started, like the ability to produce mushroom logs or something).  However, the world will be peppered with a huge number of minor civs which will trade with Toads, each of them carrying something of use to add to your fortress.  Beanish will carry proper weaponry, Mole Folk will carry mining equipment and gems, Bub-ulbs will carry rare plants, etc.  As your exports increase, new civs will open up trade with you as well, turning the fortress into a year-round marketplace.  The Toads themselves will have a lot of exclusive reactions in their kitchens, letting you turn the various plants you'll receive into new, exotic power-ups to increase the stats of your citizens or sell them for items that the Toads can't produce themselves.

Right now my ideas for the 'good' trading civs are as follows (feel free to offer comments/suggestions, it's all very sketchy - I'm not even sure if all this specialization is possible):

Bub-ulbs (Spring): Sell valuable plants that appear only in good regions and can be used for cooking reactions.
Beanish (Summer): Sell proper armor and weaponry, maybe other bean-specific items.
Toads (Autumn): Sell simple clothing and domestic tools that can double-up as weak weapons.
Bumptys (Winter): Sell... fish, I guess, maybe some ice-themed items.  Useful mainly because they show up in winter, when everyone else is gone.
Yoshis (Spring): Sell... fruits?  Maybe shouldn't be a trading race at all, seeing as how the Toads will have domesticated ones which could get awkward, and they are unlikely to have anything useful anyway.
Frog People (Summer): Sell valuable (expensive) exclusive power-up drinks like Kerokerocola, Energizer, Bracer, etc.
Mole Folk (Autumn): Sell mining equipment and underground items.
Pianta (Spring?): Sell tropical fruits...maybe something else...?
Nokis (Summer?): Sell... seashells?  Pearls?  Gems?  Something useful?  Something useless that other races like?
Doogans (Autumn?): Sell... I don't know, stuff... Pets maybe?

Does anyone have any experience with new cooking reactions?  Every time I try to make a new kind of prepared meal the game crashes when I look at its description.  I COULD make the 'meals' types of plants instead, but then their value won't be affected by the cook's cooking skill, and the particular items used to make them won't make any difference in the finished product.

Also, is there any way of altering how much a civ will pay for a particular item?  I know that some civs seem to prefer different kinds of gem shapes, but what about other items?  Will civs automatically pay more for something they don't have, or is everything just based on the stated material value/item quality?

[Putnam]

Changing how much civs are willing to pay isn't in yet, no. It's material value * item value, at this point, IIRC.

However, the Caravan Arc is still going, so you can probably expect supply and demand at some point.

Tying things in to arriving nobles is impossible, but having nobles be certain castes isn't, so that could help.