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[WillowLuman]

Underground civs can only be wandering tribes, so don't add anything related to sites or else they won't spawn. Aside from that, they can have allowed buildings, professions, items, and reactions, but in practice will only live as nomadic groups. I don't know whether or not giving them positions will prevent them from appearing.

@Halfling: Viruses are way more interesting than Prions, anyway. They can do much more, including directly mess with the DNA of living cells. Not to mention Prions are less scary in a world of invertebrates, too, because arthropod nervous systems are less complex (except the brain) and all invertebrate nervous systems are far less centralized than vertebrate ones. The brains of Cephalopods, for instance, are seperated into 8 segments located at the base of the arms. many insects have an "Hourglass" brain, with a large segment behind each compound eye and a third, smaller segment in the middle. Most arthropod body motion is controlled by dual nodes in each segment of the body.

[WillowLuman]

March 20th, 110

The trading went much better this year. With Swamp's crafts, we managed to purchase all the wood from the Elves and several water grubs from our own kind, though we could not afford their anvils. Additionally, the Elves, contrary to their reputation, immediately bum-rushed the feral hounds harassing our builders. Together, we killed 4 of them and caged one, which we shall also eat. Now we can get back to work on building some surface shelters.

I hope that with these grubs, we shall soon no longer have a thirst problem.

April 10th, 110

That Panserblekk of ours has multiplied! A female she must be, since she gave birth to twins today. Well, what a stroke of luck! If we wean the babes ourselves, we might get these beasts properly domesticated!

April 28th, 110

Here comes another pack of feral dogs. I now know what to think of them: food. Our aim is true, our rocks are hard, and they're the only animal we get often that isn't covered in armor. I've finally armed our hunters, now they shall deal with these pests.

May 16th, 110

Sadly, it seems this place is too much for our Aphidadas, after all. They are starving, the ground cover does not grow back quickly enough to feed them. One nymph has dropped dead already. I'm afraid we shall have to butcher the lot. They served us well, even saved our lives, but we must do the humane thing.

May 28th, 100

This season's arrivals came today, 11 in total. Them and the many children we've had lately bring our total up to 65. A thriving, small village we've got here, now. What good fortune! My job as mayor is getting complicated and busy now, but I don't mind.

June 13th, 100

Goodness! Another caravan from the Elves? Well, we must really have done better!

[StLeibowitz]

The aphids  So sad...they were the most adorable and cow-like of the things I added, maybe with the exception of the bees.

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They will be missed.

[Putnam]

So I noticed there weren't many shapes and set out to fix that.

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[SHAPE:SHAPE_TESSERACT_PUTNAM]
[NAME:tesseract:tesseracts]
[ADJ:entirely unseemly]
[ADJ:disgusting]
[ADJ:writhing]
[ADJ:rotating]
[ADJ:calming]
[ADJ:slithering]
[ADJ:quite annoying]
[TILE:35]
I'm confused by my motives in making this.

[Aseaheru]

I really, really need to make a new creature. Ah hell.

[Timeless Bob]

Tesseract = 4d hypercube.  Why all the ugly descriptors?

[Putnam]

It's engraved into a wall and visibly 4D, is the implication.

[Timeless Bob]

Hah!  It would certainly explain engravings that reference themselves...

[Halfling]

Crazy bad design oversight (through bad inference). Neither trolls nor halflings may visit you unless you're playing as them. My stupidity/impatience in testing by playing the race has not let me notice this so far.

In short, I assumed PROGRESS_TRIGGERs default to something reasonable, because you get caravans of dwarves in vanilla. They don't. Please add:

Halfling entity:

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[PROGRESS_TRIGGER_POPULATION:1]
[PROGRESS_TRIGGER_POP_SIEGE:3](Halfling traders visit any places relatively soon, but halflings should not kill you in fortress mode as they only attack large fortresses of the enemy.)

Troll entity:

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[PROGRESS_TRIGGER_TRADE:2]
[PROGRESS_TRIGGER_TRADE_SIEGE:2]
(Trolls visit places that they learn are wealthy, and may attempt to take that wealth for themselves. They're too primitive and tribal to listen to rumors from faraway lands or participate in cooperative intelligence, so they'll only learn about your forest cutting antics as it becomes common knowledge.)

The explanation here is they're not really, as a group, that interested in protecting the forests against all threats, although they engage in hunting there and forests are important in their religion. That would require a kind of goal-based organization and a type of thinking that's not based on immediate personal or small group level gain. Rather they're looking for any good excuse to get collectively mad and go to war with you and/or demand ransom, once they learn that you have something they want like anything shiny.
An alternative explanation is that most trolls really are indifferent to any collective effort, including the nominal chief, so they may kill you and make personal deals but won't go to war for no reason; the shamans, who only have time to visit wealthier settlements, who negotiate trees with you, are the only ones who really care about whether you cut trees, and once you make them mad, their religious influence can persuade trolls and allies to join forces against you.

These lines can be added to your save raws without regenerating the world in order to trigger the proper behavior for the existing save.

[Putnam]

i'll do that

[Xieg]

Another round of reporting.  Things of note, Queens like to spam about how they are unable to clean due to being too wounded, atleast until I used therapist to turn off their cleaning skill.  Had started to find it odd why I hadn't seen any other traders, but Halfling just point out why that happens. 

And panserblekks are brutal, but apparently grazers.  My solution was to train every single one I have for war then setup a bunch of pastures on the surface.  Other than that they are very efficient war machines.

Oooh, and while I'm here put me in for a modding turn at some point in the future.  Have finally started to poke around the raws and it all actually makes some kind of sense to me.  Have some ideas that could be fun, in the traditional DF sense anyway.

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25th Sandstone, 502: Migrants, and two doctors lead the pack.

1st Moonstone. 502: Another mood

1st Obsidian, 502:  A man-eater arrived.  I sent our militia out with a horde of a dozen war panserblekks.  They are terrifying beasts.  The Man-eater didn't stand a chance.  And the mood failed.  The berserk formic was also mauled by panserblekks.

22nd Obsidian, 502: A spider-centaur thief was discovered in the middle of out war-panserblekk herd.  I feel a little bad for the unlucky bastard.  And another.  And another.  Damn, watching a panserblekk brutalize a thief is so very entertaining.  I wasn't aware you could rip off limbs like that.

15th Granite 503:  A mason has taken a mood.

26th Granite, 503: A lumanite millstone, rather gaudy.  But the formic is now an amazing mason.

22nd Slate, 503: Found a massive cavern.  Full of coal, jaded slade, and taenite. 

2nd Felsite, 503:  Ah, a queen has arrived.  Finally we will not have to depened on migrants for growth.  Two queens?!

7th Hematite, 503: Elves have brought an Oculentibus with them.  Stole that and a heap of other goods from them.  I wonder what kind of use I will have from it.  ALready petrified and fish cleaner.

1st Malachite, 503: That Oculentibus is more trouble than its worth.  Has petrified 5 workers, a pair of war panserblekks, and a handful of curious wildlife.  Have decided to give it free range in a low travelled area over the entrance to the hive, where it should do less to our workers and more to any invaders who try and sneak in that direction.
And more migrants!  Another doctor too, have a full operating staff now.

13th Galena, 503:  And a clothier has taken a mood.  Here's hoping this one doesn't die.  And traders from the hive.

20th Galena, 503:  Oh good, the clothier has not gone crazy and began work on his great plan.

24th Galena, 503:  He made pants.  Can any of us actually wear pants?  Either way, it has a beautiful rendition of the Everqueen on it.  All hail the Everqueen!

22 Limestone, 503: Migrants!

11th Sandstone. 503: Elves and their whining about trees again.  Told them to piss off.

17th Sandstone, 503: Such a shame, it looks like some of those damn trees the elves walk around with were trapped on the edge of our territory and have gone berserk.   Now this is a show. watching those disgusting bastards fighting amongst themselves.  But I see this as a good training exercise, sending the men out.

[Halfling]

Was that with reemer or HugoL raws? Just so I know where to link it once I get home again.

Also, sorry about the progress triggers mess, really. Thanks for adding the fix Putnam, and any raws-savvy playtesters - please feel free to incorporate it too, it should work straight away if just added to save raws (entity files).

Is adding you to the end of the turns list fine?

[Dorsidwarf]

It's engraved into a wall and visibly 4D, is the implication.

That tesseract needs a prefstring: insanity if you ask me.

[Halfling]

Oh, also, Putnam, if you're short on ideas and didn't get excited about any of the above, how about more megabeasts? Despite HugoL himself designing ones earlier, we still only have one semimegabeast and one megabeast.

On a balance note, regular creatures will probably kill you a lot more though. We''ve not had one fort die to a megabeast yet.

[Putnam]

Ohoho.

Ohoho!

I also came up with a new swamp grass. Since all the other grass is moss, I figure that grass itself took a different path:

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plant_putnam

[OBJECT:PLANT]

[PLANT:INTELLIGENT_GRASS_PUTNAM]
[ALL_NAMES:creeping grass]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURE:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURE]
[GRASS]
[GRASS_TILES:'.':',':';':'`']
[GRASS_COLORS:2:0:0:2:0:0:7:0:0:0:0:1]
[WET]
[DRY]
[BIOME:ANY_WETLAND]

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[CREATURE:INTELLIGENT_GRASS_CREATURE_PUTNAM]
[NAME:creeping grass growth:creeping grass growths:creeping grass]
[CASTE_NAME:creeping grass growth:creeping grass growths:creeping grass]
[DESCRIPTION:A moving growth of the creeping grass underneath. It moves to absorb any that tread upon the grass. Draining it of water should force it to stop moving.]
[CREATURE_CLASS:ALL][CREATURE_CLASS:ORGANIC][CREATURE_CLASS:PLANT][CREATURE_CLASS:PLANT_LAND][CREATURE_CLASS:PLANT_SWAMP]
[BIOME:ANY_WETLAND]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:5000:10000]
[BLOOD:WATER:NONE]
[CREATURE_TILE:'o'][CASTE_TILE:'o']
[COLOR:2:0:0]
[NO_WINTER][NO_AUTUMN]
[NO_DIZZINESS][NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT][NO_DRINK][NO_EAT][NO_FEVERS][NO_GENDER][NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN][NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST][NO_SLEEP][NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT][NOBONES]
[NOBREATHE][NOEMOTION][NOEXERT][NOFEAR][NOMEAT][NONAUSEA][NOPAIN][NOSKIN][NOSKULL][NOTHOUGHT][NOSTUN][NOT_BUTCHERABLE][NOT_LIVING][PARALYZEIMMUNE]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:STRENGTH:600:600:600:600:600:600:600]
[PHYS_ATT_RANGE:AGILITY:1000:1000:1000:1000:1000:1000:1000]
[SPEED:2500]
[UBIQUITOUS]
[PREFSTRING:grassy nature]
[BODY:TREELORD]
[BODYGLOSS:INTELLIGENT_GRASS_GLOSS_PUTNAM]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURE:PLANT_STRUCTURE_HLG]
[EDIBLE_RAW]
[EDIBLE_COOKED]
[EDIBLE_VERMIN]
[TISSUE:STRUCTURE]
[TISSUE_NAME:grass:STP]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:STRUCTURE]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[HEALING_RATE:30]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:STRANDS]
[MUSCULAR]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:STRUCTURE]
[BODY_SIZE:0:0:60000]
[FANCIFUL]
[BONECARN]
[CLUSTER_NUMBER:1:1]
[DIURNAL]
[CURIOUSBEAST_EATER]
[CURIOUSBEAST_GUZZLER]
[ITEMCORPSE:PLANT:NONE:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:STRUCTURE]