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[GoombaGeek]

I forgot to mention Ghasts, they're basically giant cave swallows that shoot explosions. (for those of you who are wondering, they fire creepite globs so they essentially shoot creeper explosions). But that's not as important right now. What is important is something I experienced during testing.

POP QUIZ!

Q. What do you get when you combine a creeper explosion and a plant-rich cavern?
A.

Unfortunately, I've found the flaw of all these shenanigans: creepers leave no corpses and therefore leave nothing to bury. And they'll stay as "Missing" forever. So you'll need slabs... lots and lots of slabs. Unless you enjoy creeper ghosts

[Monk321654]

It actually makes sense when you consider that Mob bodies in game vanish after death.

Oh, yeah, PTW. Good job on this.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Hopefully one day we can disable ghosts

NOTE:
for anyone that will suggest adding CANNOT_UNDEAD/NO_LIVING = Nope, any creature played in fortress mode can make a ghost if no proper burial/slab
Hardcoded feature. No way to get rid of it.

[GoombaGeek]

It actually makes sense when you consider that Mob bodies in game vanish after death.

Oh, yeah, PTW. Good job on this.

Poison the well? No way!

(just kidding)

So, testing is coming along swimmingly. I think I made them a bit faster than dwarfs, and the explosions have been very !!fun!!. Now I just need to go back and work out all the tissue layers. Variety mushrooms (I forget why I called them "variety", I think it was after a trip to the grocery store) successfully grow underground, but I have yet to encounter slimes in fortress mode... I want them to be as common as troglodytes so I'll go fool around with the raws a bit. I also want tiny slimes to pull wagons 

EDIT: Mission accomplished. However, tiny slimes cannot breed, because they have no gender. I'm keeping this in because the little guys are potentially overpowered, although it makes butchering them a fairly bad move. Is there any way to make asexual-ish creatures that reproduce without needing a partner or having a gender?

[Monk321654]

It actually makes sense when you consider that Mob bodies in game vanish after death.

Oh, yeah, PTW. Good job on this.

Poison the well? No way!

(just kidding)

So, testing is coming along swimmingly. I think I made them a bit faster than dwarfs, and the explosions have been very !!fun!!. Now I just need to go back and work out all the tissue layers. Variety mushrooms (I forget why I called them "variety", I think it was after a trip to the grocery store) successfully grow underground, but I have yet to encounter slimes in fortress mode... I want them to be as common as troglodytes so I'll go fool around with the raws a bit. I also want tiny slimes to pull wagons 

EDIT: Mission accomplished. However, tiny slimes cannot breed, because they have no gender. I'm keeping this in because the little guys are potentially overpowered, although it makes butchering them a fairly bad move. Is there any way to make asexual-ish creatures that reproduce without needing a partner or having a gender?

Sadly, not yet.
We can hope it's coded in someday...

[GoombaGeek]

Next best thing: plain ol' male and female castes where female slimes are called "slimettes". They have [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE], too.

[Xantalos]

Not bad. Not bad at all. PTW.

[IndigoFenix]

EDIT: Mission accomplished. However, tiny slimes cannot breed, because they have no gender. I'm keeping this in because the little guys are potentially overpowered, although it makes butchering them a fairly bad move. Is there any way to make asexual-ish creatures that reproduce without needing a partner or having a gender?

It is possible, sort of, by giving them an interaction that transforms them into a creature with a self-severing bodypart, and the ability to reanimate said bodypart, then transform it into an instance of the complete creature at about the same time they transform back to their normal self.  However, such creatures will be considered undead by default, and I'm not sure if you can properly tame undead creatures.  Unless you want to make Creepers and all of the creatures they can tame undead by default.

[Monk321654]

Next best thing: plain ol' male and female castes where female slimes are called "slimettes". They have [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE], too.

Personally I think it'd be better if they were just called slimes all around.
It's not like there's really any difference...
Just my opinion...

[GoombaGeek]

Next best thing: plain ol' male and female castes where female slimes are called "slimettes". They have [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE], too.

Personally I think it'd be better if they were just called slimes all around.
It's not like there's really any difference...
Just my opinion...

Girl slimes are red and normal slimes are blue. I'll think about, I'm not too sure either.
I also designated slime children as "mini (x)", so currently you can get "mini giant slimettes".

[GoombaGeek]

And I've come up with the best thing that I'll put in this release. It's the natural evolution of the tiny slime -> slime -> giant slime chain. Anything else would be ruining the surprise although you probably already have a pretty good idea of what it is.

EDIT: It shoved the limbs off a BC in five seconds. I think I might have to nerf it a bit.

[acetech09]

Read through whole thread, seems pretty awesome. PTW.

[GoombaGeek]

Read through whole thread, seems pretty awesome. PTW.

So anyway, remember this thread? And how I said I'd mod in a creature for that purpose?

Well then, meet... the Chronoslime! Because this is my mod and I can include whatever I want! Mwahahahaha!! (And I'm hoping to undercut the "crazy megabuilder" demographic.)

The Chronoslime can open doors, never dies of old age, requires no care and should move exactly 1 space every 10 time units (120 times a day). It's available at embark and in caverns, and testing its speed is currently underway. And it's BLUE! The next version should be out today or tomorrow.

This is the thread that says how to use a 10-delay creature, in case you're interested.

[dirkdragonslayer]

for defense, i think ill have a normal squad and a suicide squad, and a creeper dropper on my front gate. great mod btw, will make it much more entertaining than normal df, because tantrum spirals turn into tantrumplosions!

[Person]

Read through whole thread, seems pretty awesome. PTW.

testing its speed is currently underway

If you want them to be all the same speed, try making it's agility attribute fixed at one value.