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[CaptainMcClellan]

That's true, trolls like rocks. :3

Mm. We should have other rock animals.

[Urdothor]

I'm making a rock-clam thing that secretes low armor level material.

[CaptainMcClellan]

Ok. Do you think it's possible to have a creature that undergoes metamorphosis? Like, would it be done through transformations or how?

[Urdothor]

Already tried something like thats

Its a no.

[CaptainMcClellan]

Mmm. Gotcha.

Just gotta... Y'know, I should actually just get one of my notebooks.

Anyway, I'm still gonna put in giant moths, they'll just not actually go through metamorphosis then. ( Mmf. If I could figure out Creature Variations... They're like my Achilles heel tho. Besides, where would the triggers be? )

[StLeibowitz]

Mmm. Gotcha.

Just gotta... Y'know, I should actually just get one of my notebooks.

Anyway, I'm still gonna put in giant moths, they'll just not actually go through metamorphosis then. ( Mmf. If I could figure out Creature Variations... They're like my Achilles heel tho. Besides, where would the triggers be? )

Oh! Oh! More giant insects! Woo! The Bandit Moths were getting lonely

[CaptainMcClellan]

Heck yea! Lunar moths, Mercury moths, Pepper moths, dragonflies, damselflies, and giant flying fish.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Stone birds are more gargoyle-like than troll-like. If I made them like Terry Pratchett's trolls, they'd have a diamond beak, for one thing. Too bad we can't mod liquids, or else I'd make stone ducks that float on mercury.

The good thing about DF2014 is that our underground races can now have sites, which will be important for the Mechaniacs.

Supplementing our arthropod and semi-arthropod collection, what about a kaiju-sized tardigrade? Extremely slow, weak armor (weak enough to fall apart at the application of even minor weaponry) due to the stress applied by the square-cube law, but a pretty good biting attack. That should make the wildlife a little more survivable, and possibly provide an extra source of food.

Will the flying fish actually fly?

EDIT:

And if there's more intelligent pets coming, they all need the fix so politics doesn't look like a zoo where it's occasionally a bear that's the mayor and occasionally some kind of smart octopus or killer whale with legs.

I may have found yet another idea to implement. Think octopus' upper body with four tentacles (each ending in a fin) on it as the back and the front being a killer whale's head.

Along with the flying fish question, here are two more:
What do you consider the weirdest creatures of this mod to be?
Shouldn't we ask for this to be added here?

[CaptainMcClellan]

I don't know if the flying fish will actually fly, but that's my goal.

And I can't even begin to tell you what the weirdest creatures are. I've only scratched the surface of weird here.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

[FLIER] is the answer to your fish troubles. Add that tag both to the bodyparts that you want to affect flight and to the creature itself.

For some reason, none of this seems weird to me anymore, which is why I asked.

Does anyone know the maximum [SIZE] you can give a creature before it loops around? On a side note, what does it loop around to, zero (counting upwards/downwards?) or a negative number?

[CaptainMcClellan]

I figured, I just meant how do the fish breathe above water.

And that's an amusing concept, the whole looping back around to a negative. You are a negative size, your body physics loop around into a Mobius loop and therefore make a spacetime-bending black hole paradox.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Just add the [AMPHIBIOUS] tag, and it will breathe out of water. If you want, you can get them to jump by giving them the ability to inflict a very short-lived syndrome on them. I don't think syndromes can add [FLIER], but you can just have them transform into identical creatures with both of the necessary tags, then revert to their original form, after which the syndrome ends.

[Lost in Nowhere]

The maximum size is one less than 2^31, which is 2147483647. Presumably, it would be possible for it to loop around and become negative.

[Gnorm]

Has there been a release of this mod since copout's turn?

[CaptainMcClellan]

Yeah, that's pretty good. The same could be used for the metamorphosis of the moths! Right? I mean larvae and pupae have no need to mate. Wait... but then how would we make sure that the moth had a larva?