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[Wannabehero]

Awesome!  I'm glad you like them   

If you want tiles drawn for any creatures you come up with, I would be happy to take a crack at that.

[Meph]

I have to first think of some The kobolds currently have 5 pets, a trapdoor spider, an ogre, jack rats, psychoactive toads and shalwars (tiny rapotrs that hunt vermin) All those have sprites already... but if you come up with any other ideas, let me know.

[kopout]

I'd like to submit one of my own domesticated animals. Its basicly a giant tenticled snail. You get shells out of them after a few years.

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[CREATURE:ERIRA]
   [DESCRIPTION:A strange herbivorus creature with a boxy shell that drags itself along with six tenacles.]
   [NAME:erira:eriras:erira]
   [CASTE_NAME:erira:eriras:erira]
   [CREATURE_TILE:127][COLOR:2:0:1]
   [PETVALUE:30]
   [PET]
   [COMMON_DOMESTIC]
   [CLUSTER_NUMBER:2:4]
   [GRAZER:20000]
   [FREQUENCY:100]
   [NOBONES]
   [SPEED:2900]
   [PEARL]
   [LARGE_ROAMING]
   [BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM]
   [UNDERGROUND_DEPTH:1:2]
   [CHILD:3]
   [GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:erira spawn:erira spawn]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:50:100]
   [PREFSTRING:strange body]
   [PREFSTRING:hevy shell]
   [BODY:BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG:SHELL:SIX_NOCLAW_TENTACLES:HEART:GUTS:BRAIN:2EYESTALKS:MOUTH:PEARL]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_MATERIALS]
      [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SHELL:SHELL_TEMPLATE]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_TISSUES]
      [USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:SHELL:SHELL_TEMPLATE]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:VERTEBRATE_TISSUE_LAYERS:SKIN:FAT:MUSCLE:BONE:CARTILAGE]
   [SELECT_TISSUE_LAYER:HEART:BY_CATEGORY:HEART]
    [PLUS_TISSUE_LAYER:SKIN:BY_CATEGORY:THROAT]
      [TL_MAJOR_ARTERIES]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:STANDARD_HEAD_POSITIONS]
   [BODY_DETAIL_PLAN:SHELL_POSITIONS]
   [USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SINEW:SINEW_TEMPLATE]
   [TENDONS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
   [LIGAMENTS:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SINEW:200]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
   [BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:90:95:98:100:102:105:110]
   [HAS_NERVES]
   [BODY_SIZE:0:0:600]
   [BODY_SIZE:1:0:1000]
   [BODY_SIZE:2:0:2000]
   [BODY_SIZE:3:0:2500]
   [MAXAGE:15:20]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
   [NO_DIZZINESS]
   [CASTE:FEMALE]
      [FEMALE]
   [CASTE:MALE]
      [MALE]
   [SELECT_CASTE:ALL]
   [SET_TL_GROUP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:SKIN]
      [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER:MOSS_GREEN:1]
         [TLCM_NOUN:skin:SINGULAR]

[jaxy15]

I always like to see domestic animal replacement mods. Great work!

[Meph]

I just noticed that the animals are all a lot, lot better then the ones I have in the mod. With better I mean for the fortress, the egg-cluster size is insane. I definetely have to balance them more.

[Wannabehero]

kopout, I like that snail

Thanks for the kind words jaxy.

Meph, yeah, the creatures do have some pretty large clutch sizes, in keeping more with vanilla DF clutch sizes.  Particularly the cavernkeet and caveturtle, which have clutches close to the vanilla turkey and duck.  I thought about balancing them smaller early on, but in the end decided to stay big, as the idea of the mod was to both theme the domestic animals and increase their role in fortress sustenance.  After some playtesting I do agree that they should be reduced in size.  I tend to have more caveturtle hatchlings than I know what to do with (aside from shove in a cage), and just a ridiculous heap of egg roasts.

[mastahcheese]

Well, I've been playing with this mod for a little bit now, and at first I was a little off put by my civ's lack of cats, due to my affinity for them, but I now have to say I'm loving this mod, and that those dewbeetles are now one of my favorite creatures to have.
Also, I was very delighted to find out I had settled in an area when there are wild cats anyway.
Great work, again! Also, have you thought about making a custom hiveable creature?

[jaxy15]

Also, have you thought about making a custom hiveable creature?

Are subterranean hiveable creatures even possible?

[mastahcheese]

Also, have you thought about making a custom hiveable creature?

Are subterranean hiveable creatures even possible?

I know that someone tried it before, i don't remember exactly, but I think it might have worked.

[Meph]

Should be possible, I see no reason why not.

The only problem is that you cant micromanage your beekeepers that well. You can only tell them to collect a colony, not if it is above or belowground, or what type of insect.

[Wannabehero]

Great work, again! Also, have you thought about making a custom hiveable creature?

Thanks mastahcheese, I'm delighted you enjoy this little mod.

Hiveable creatures eh?  That thought never even crossed my mind, but it is sooooo good.

Maybe a hiveable snail?  That seems quite proper, and interesting...

[Meph]

I have 4 in my mod.

Bees for honey and mead.
Cochineal for dye, based on real life.
Silk moths for silk, based on real life.
Bane spiders for greenskin bane venom, for my "toxicist workshop".

I havent done any underground hive-creatures yet, but ants, termites or even special fungi would make sense. A fungi/spore hive that gives plants when the hive is harvested.

[Spectrelight]

I've been playing the new version of Masterwork with these creatures, and they're just awesome. I want my own moleweasel. I breached the first cavern long before I was ready, and a female moleweasel got in there before I sealed it up. Years later, when I opened the cavern again, there were a bunch of little moleweasels running around, apparently so fast that the natives couldn't catch them.

[Deon]

So, I hope you don't mind that I borrow your stuff for Genesis, they fit greatly as I already told. You are going to be in credits this moment (and the mod will be eaten by Genesis with its next release) .

[Wannabehero]

That's fantastic Deon, I am flattered that you and Meph both would consider using these creatures in your awesome mods.  I should get back to this and start making some more non-domestic animals to enliven the underground hunting landscape.