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[IndigoFenix]

Clothing thickness is calculated relative to the size of the creature wearing it.  If two creatures with very different sizes wear the same clothing, it will be thinner on the smaller creature.

[Meph]

I had a hunch, but thanks for confirming it.

[Angle]

I think that the bugs should be masters of biology. For example, they should have their own underground crops that no one else can grow. If possible, make these require the use of dead enemy body parts as fertilizer or something. They should be able to brew lots of things, and to make leather items. Metal should be prohibited as much as possible. I think wood should be fine, though. Maybe even rock. They should have aphids and other custom livestock unique to them.

[Rukja]

Well in the first Post it was sayed no Starcraft Like Creep cause FPS

ok but i still like the Idea of, that they only could build on Something like that.

Soo when i played with other civs and so, i found a block called fleshblock

how about that Insects can only Build there Workshops on a floor like that?
so it would be possibel to have something like the creep stuff but without having the problems of cleaning civ member. (since its in game ways just a regulary floor)

[Zeni]

I know you said that there wasn't going to be a Queen ruling the Hive. because warlocks have a similar mechanic...
But I just cant see a Hive based race that does not have a large queen that spawns the eggs/larva.
The reason colonial insects exist like they do is because the reproductive female has a very high chance of passing on her genes when she is tended to and defended by her daughters.
To me that is the definition, or at least core of a Hive race.

[heydude6]

well maybe we can make the queen only an egg layer and give more interesting roles to other castes. Therefore you have a queen that you must defend with your life and you also have other nobles that you might also have to defend with your life. Just my 2 cents

[Angle]

I think we should have multiple queens, but they should be rare and thus valuable.

[LMeire]

Idea: a way to transform civ-members into butcherable livestock, mimicking the callous efficiency in which insects will cast off their weak and incapacitated. (Such as the treatment worker bees get upon returning to the hive too drunk to fly straight, or the way excess drones in ant colonies are most often killed by the colony's own workers.) To get around any ghost issues, I'm thinking it could be a free reaction that kills the worker and spawns a non-sentient copy that can be treated like any other livestock.

[IndigoFenix]

If you remove a civ member's ability to speak, it should become butcherable.  This may cause bad thoughts though.

[Herbalist]

Would it be possible to have special Wodcutter and Miner Castes that dont need Tools but have their Pickaxes and Axes as part of ther body?

[-Nihil-]

I think we want to stay away from a unit being born specialized already. It takes away from the resource allocation which is part of the fun. A worker caste should be sufficient with bonuses for lumber, mining, farming, and some other similar roles. Then you could make a natural pick or axe with this biomass resource.

[Herbalist]

Or maybe u could upgrade ur workercaste with a multi tool attached to there body?

[heydude6]

I don't think you can make multitools. The way tools currently work is that for woodcutter an axe is a weapon that becomes more efficent with the axedwarf skill. For miner, a pick is a weapon that becomes more efficent with mining skill and for hunter, a crossbow is a weapon that becomes more efficent with the marksdwarf skill. So unless it's possible to make a weapon that becomes more efficient with all those skills combined, it isn't happening. There might be some other problems that i don't know as well.

[Herbalist]

But is it possibly to have a special caste that can mine without a pickaxe for example?

[jaxy15]

But is it possibly to have a special caste that can mine without a pickaxe for example?

Nope.