Topic: The Bestiary, a repository of user created creatures (Read 24770 times)

Prudent Viper · « **on:** December 10, 2013, 01:59:08 pm »

The idea behind this, is somewhat the same behind the world gen cookbook threads. To provide a valuable resource for gamers. In essence if you have a particularly vicious/ridiculous/explosive/insert adjective, creature you can post its raws in this thread for others to copy into their raws. If you've ever played Spore, you'll know what I mean. Spore is a game made by Maxis, where the player creates his own alien species and guides it to success against other species created by other players.

Ideally, this thread should act as a middle ground between vanilla, and modded games.

This is for those who want to add a little diversity to their worlds.
This is for those who don't have the time nor energy to make a full fledged mod, yet want to share their creations.
This is for those who have run out of ideas, but don't want to download a completely alien world.

A couple of RULES:

Try and set out your post in the way I've done below. This will keep the thread clean and orderly (bet you'd never thought you'd see those adjectives in a dwarf fortress forum)

If you want to add a new creature, edit your original post. It's ok to ignore this if you run out of room, or if the thread starts to die and you make something reall groundbreaking.

Remember to describe what your creature is/does.

You may provide an entity raw to go with your creature, however if the entity uses any items which are not present in vanilla, you must provide those as well.

Finally, ALL known bugs must be reported. While your contributions don't have to work flawlessly, you must inform us of any problems with you're creatures.

Here's my Shrykes as an example;

Creature Raws

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Entity Raws

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Bugs: None

Comments: They're a race of evil chickens on steroids, somewhat inspired by the Edgeworld chronicles. They're theives, but they're not skulking vermin. They're about a head taller than your average human and faster too. They are very deadly in unarmed combat, due to their powerful bite. They build cities and fortress, like humans and as such you can visit their sites. This makes for some interesting gameplay, as you can have battles between the two factions, by leading troops into enemy towns/fortresses. All in all, a valuable addition, I can't imagine my dwarf fortress game without them.

gentgeen · « **Reply #1 on:** December 11, 2013, 04:31:54 am »

In keeping with the OP's listing of a bird civ, here are my personal mod's mundane birds. They mostly fly around, giving the hunters something to shoot at. The birds of prey are all trainable for hunting; the eagles are also war trainable, which would be great if friendly birds could fly.

Big birds:

red-tailed hawk
goshawk
bald eagle
golden eagle
gyrfalcon
saker falcon
condor
prairie chicken
capercaillie
sage grouse
gull
toucan

Vermin birds:

blue-chested hummingbird
red-tailed comet
ruby-topaz hummingbird

Note 1: in my personal mod, the generic eagle becomes the imperial eagle found in Eastern Europe. The giant eagle is still based on the original eagle.
Note 2: to use the sage grouse, you'd need to mod in some sagebrush plants as well, as they're panda-like in their diet.
Note 3: the raws were too big for the post. Per darkpaladin's suggestion below, I uploaded the file to dffd:
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8205

darkpaladin109 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 11, 2013, 08:03:40 am »

Quote from: gentgeen on December 11, 2013, 04:31:54 am

Note 3: the raws were too big for the post.

You could upload the raw's to Dwarf Fortress File Depot and post a link.
EDIT: I'l post one of the creatures I made, the water men. It's not as good as the rest of these, since I'm not very good at modding yet, but I'l upload it here anyways.
Raws:

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They're mostly based on a poem in the country I live in, as well as what I read about them on wikipedia.. They strongly resemble humans, and as their name implies, they're water dwelling. They live for far longer than humans, making their lairs in rivers and lakes. They kidnap people, taking them back to their lairs. The name is simply a translation of the name they have in our language. A lot of their raws are copied from humans, dwarves and a tiny bit from goblins, since I wasn't sure how good I'd be at making them from scratch.

MDFification · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2013, 12:40:18 pm »

I'm working on two creatures that could go in the repository at the moment. Neither is ready to post, though.

The one I'm willing to talk about is centaurs. They are basically just plain generic fantasy centaurs. Males have elk horns, though.

Lord_lemonpie · « **Reply #4 on:** December 13, 2013, 07:30:35 am »

I love the idea of this, I'll try to get up a creature I made by noon.

EDIT: I present you the Dune Crocodile!

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