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[Urdothor]

Its basically like they have regenerating ice armor.
That then melts.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

You might want to attach a slight syndrome to it's molten form, something along the lines of the common cold, then, to stop them from being to little a threat when fighting outside their preferred biome.

[Putnam]

There's a problem you'll have to address: the glacier creatures will start wars with civs outside their biome, which, while the melting won't happen in worldgen, will cause massive problems when an entire civ dies off within the span of a single fortress.

Also, does anyone know a way to get creatures to not be spawned by worldgen, but still not be fictional?

Don't give it a biome

[Urdothor]

Well...
I kinda want them to die out often.
They're a primitive tribe stuck behind everyone else.

An exaggeration of Russia before its industrial reforms long long (long) ago.
Isolated. Cold. Stubborn.
Drunk.

They are supposed to be a rare race, clinging to life on the edges of the world.
Your job as overseer is too try to bring them to a point of notability.

Or not.
They dont care. They die either way.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

-snip-
Or not.
They dont care. They die either way.

So like vanilla Dwarves then. Or basically everything, if you wait for long enough.

Also, thanks Putnam!

[Urdothor]

Yes, but in their ethnics they kinda have an indifference to everything.

The whole race suffers depression basically.
They dont care because they all are going to die anyway.

Its the alcohol.

[Urdothor]

I'm actual very intrigued as to what that will cause during world gen.
Elves and others wont like their indifference...
But they wont reciprocate bad feelings...

[Dwarf4Explosives]

They might only defend themselves against invaders, not bothering to send armies to invade others, which is a relatively sane and realistic, not to mention effective tactic in real life.

[Urdothor]

That especially makes sense since they melt outside of frozen biomes.
Dont want to loose your armor now do yah

[Urdothor]

I screwed up while making the glacier men and got some tissue layers switched...
So... the insides of them melted upon spawning do to body temperature and there outsides never melted.
This is the reverse of what should be happening.

This is why I dont mod.

[WillowLuman]

Well, consider it a learning experience. Don't worry, you're not the first first-time modder to contribute.

[Urdothor]

I spent an hour attempting to figure out why things started dying...

I have learned to look at other peoples creatures before making my own.

Saves a lot of time.

[Putnam]

The only creature I've ever made entirely from scratch is in this set of raws.

Every single other one I've copy+pasted from another creature.

[Urdothor]

That makes me feel alot better about it.

[StLeibowitz]

One of my first creatures failed horribly enough to make it in the OP. Formics were unable to comprehend doors on release. I'm almost completely certain shearing a Bombus will still yield the entire exterior of the abdomen instead of just the "fuzz". We're all incompetent here, don't worry

And at the very least, you know what went wrong! More than can be said for me and the bombus fuzz.

...have I ever mentioned that bug before? I should probably see if that still exists...