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[Urdothor]

I will, don't worry.

So I have two questions, which probably have highly obvious answers that I cant remember because I'm half awake. Plus this is more complex than I usually mod.

My Collosal are going to curl up when attacked. I know there are creatures in vanilla that do this or something similar, but I can't remember how the hell they do... and I cant remember how they did that.
I cant access my DF computer(this was a great time to lend my laptop to someone) right now.

Two, for my tundra civilzation, how would I go about giving them their meltable outer layer in such a way that it regenerates?

Edit: I could make the creature secrete an easily freezable material all over its body, right?

[Urdothor]

Edit: Well that was an unintentional repost

[WillowLuman]

You can't curl up, per-se, but you can retract into a body part and call it "Curling up"

[Urdothor]

You can't curl up, per-se, but you can retract into a body part and call it "Curling up"

That works! How would I go about doing that?
Most of my ideas for this arent my typical thing.

By the way, thank you for being so helpful, all of you!

[WillowLuman]

Give it a shell, and have it retract into that, or just retract into its torso.

[Urdothor]

Alright.
Thank you.

Sorry if I ask a lot of questions.
Most of what I am usually comfortable with has been over done, so I decided I would try to work some magic with something new.

[WillowLuman]

We're happy to help

[Urdothor]

By the way, do you like my ideas?
Do you think they'll fit well into the general scheme of things?

[BlackFlyme]

If it helps, a vanilla example of a creature that can hide in its own body would be the armadillo. They have this tag:

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[RETRACT_INTO_BP:BY_CATEGORY:SHELL:roll into a ball:rolls into a ball:unroll:unrolls]
For your civilization, you could give them a custom outer tissue made of a material that melts in temperate temperatures. I'm unsure of whether a secretion would work the way you want it to, since it counts as a contaminant on the body, and not as a tissue layer.

An example of a tissue could be:

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[TISSUE:FROST]
[TISSUE_NAME:frost:frost]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:WATER]
[RELATIVE_THICKNESS:1]
[CONNECTS]
[TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
I'm not sure of how well the default water would work as a tissue, however. You may want to use a custom one, since that would give you control over the attributes of the material.

Your ideas are good. The idea of a massive arthropod that roams the ocean is an interesting one.

[WillowLuman]

ninja'd

Probably. The collosal sounds pretty interesting, and the baloony thing could be a predator of dirigible antelope.

[Urdothor]

I'm trying to make the oceans a bit diverse.
And a tad more benign.
The flying creatures(Dotorians) 'adult form' was kinda designed as a way to keep you safe from the evils of this world.
If you can tame them anyway.

The Collosals ability to roll up results in basically a giant, near impenetrable distraction for most predators.
The stonefish is basically a living sea coconut.

Can vampires drink blood from barrels?

[WillowLuman]

Now there's the question of the release. I don't think so, but then I'm not sure.

[Urdothor]

Thats a shame.
I have a few other ideas if you'd like to hear them?

[StLeibowitz]

Go ahead and shoot. The more ideas, the merrier

[Urdothor]

That moment when everything you had planned out disappears from your mind as you go to type it out.

As a benign herd creatures:
Antlered Ratlike creatures a little under halfing height capable of being sheared and milked.(Could I make the antlers shearable?)

A fish that secrets liquid just over waters boiling temperature.

Add a species of ironwood(that means its extremely hard) tree.

Extra miscellaneous plant species to add variety.