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[BlackFlyme]

The blood pressure could be a bit annoying to simulate, depending on your experience in setting tissues. Perhaps a gaseous form of blood to guarantee that it spreads in every direction whenever the tin monster is harmed, with an additional liquid layer underneath the tin to simulate the liquid magma?

Or possibly vice-versa, with liquid blood and a gaseous tissue underneath the metal.

[perigrin]

hmm. also, it could be any thin metal, tin was just the first that came to mind. nickel might be better, because im pretty sure nickel is magma safe.

[Devast]

I'm not very original however I feel the monsters from the dark/demon souls series would fit very well into the Dwarf Fortress World.

[BlackFlyme]

I'm not very original however I feel the monsters from the dark/demon souls series would fit very well into the Dwarf Fortress World.

I remember that someone made a few Dark Souls I creatures in the Bestiary thread, but they would need to be updated to the current version. The poster even made some creature graphics for the monsters, though their pixel art sucks.

Others have probably made a few other DS creatures, but I haven't seen any. Except maybe for the Chaos Witches and Crystal Lizards in Deon's Genesis.

[Areyar]

A giant underground beaker plant/fungus with beakers filled with beakerwine that attract dorfs.

[exdeath]

Use the book gurps space, there is an alien generator there, you can generate very detailed alien races at random.
Generate aliens at random and create what you get.

[WillowLuman]

There's actually such a generator for DF itself, spitting out complete creature and entity raws, but AFAIK it hasn't been updated yet.

[tonnot98]

Speaking of which, out of the dark corners of my mind, I have thought of a fairly frightening megabeast that will surely be a challenge to mod in if anyone should choose to take the task upon themselves.

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17000000 cm^3 Monster (1.7x the size of an FB!) It's called an "Ungodly Abomination"

3 Heads with 5 eyes made of cat's eye gems, 30 teeth, 1 nose, 2 ears, 2 horns made of Black Diamonds, and gizzards with gizzard stones on each head.

It's body has all of the standard organs, but with a heart made of electrum.

It should have 4 tentacles with iron claws on them, 4 arms with silver claws.

6 legs, and a tail that can grasp.

Large muscle, fat, skin, scale, AND chitin layers.

Bones made of moonstone.

Seven times the strength and agility of what would be "superhuman."

Resides in shrines and attacks fairly often.

Attacks upon reaching fortress wealth of 15,000,000, or 300 dwarves.

Trapavoid is a must, for obvious reasons.

Gem horns should count as cut gems just like gizzard stones, and be able to be used to encrust goods and such.

"An abomination that stalks the earth, instilling fear in all those who gaze upon it, and feeding off of the pain of mere mortals."

I would love to see this made. I would also love to fight it.

Edit: You know what? Slap a stinger on it and give it's poisonous sting a syndrome that turns people into rubies.

...Would it be possible to turn them into ruby statues? Or to turn them into a ruby-dwarf that drops a masterwork ruby statue on death?

[exdeath]

There's actually such a generator for DF itself, spitting out complete creature and entity raws, but AFAIK it hasn't been updated yet.

The gurps one is more detailed.

Actually mod that has only fully random gurps beings would problably be cool to see.

[LMeire]

A harmless adorable fluffy blobthing that reproduces by violently exploding on living creatures at that happen to be nearby at night, delivering a syndrome to all those present that transforms them into more blobthings. Bonus points if killing it has a 50% to cause it to spitefully explode anyway. Even more if they don't react to combat beyond the death-explosions.

[Insanegame27]

a smallish creature that steals items and appears in packs of 20-30. because keas arent enough

[Greiger]

Things I want and tried to make (unsuccessfully):
Final Fantasy style bombs. (crashed the game to desktop whenever they blew up.  This was before syndromes though, so it may be worth another try)
A flying wagon. (not sure if the hauling creatures need to be fliers as well to work, doubtful though since wagon pathfinding does not include sky)
Stirge (It actually kind of worked, but they were too small to damage through even light clothing, had to get a lucky hit on an uncovered bit.  Proved to be free combat xp in adventure mode and not much else)
Any kind of heavily armored creature with directional weak points. (Closest I have is a lizard with thicker scales on it's torso and head, but I want direction of attack to matter)
A flying fortress race. (so many pathfinding issues)

Stuff that I want but know won't work:
Purple Worm. (No digging, and it's most dangerous part is the swallow whole ability which can't be done)
Final Fantasy Leviathan. (Not the same without being able to create a tidal wave, as a sea creature it would never be seen in fortress mode)
DnD Blue dragons. (no satisfying lightning breath)
Racial pets. (making stuff pet exotic makes it so not everyone tames them by default, but while the game is apparently supposed to have civs get a chance to tame local exotics and be able to embark with them, I haven't seen it happen once)

Uktena.  Cherokee monster, a massive serpent with antlers and poison breath.  If you look at it when it's sleeping, everyone you love dies.  I'd also kill to see behemoth, leviathan, and ziz megabeasts.

I have done a FF behemoth at one time, but I haven't updated it to new versions.  There was also some oddity with whether the front legs were hands or hooves.  Not sure mine would have been the best example since I often have a 'good enough' mentality, but it is definitely doable.

A griffin

Done, outdated, but all it needs is some gaits, the speed tags removed, and it's name re-spelled.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I would have made some of my daikaiju ideas, but just listing those wouldn't be all too helpful, considering that they're rather plain (except perhaps for the one that looks like a fusion of a Dunkleosteus, Hallucigenia and Coelurosauravus). Most of the ideas I have are ones I want to use for the DF From Scratch mod, which kind of limits the amount of suggestions I can make. I did come up with a dragon which yields absurd amounts of bacon due to its subcutaneous fat and can spew boiling fat instead of fire, though. Some of the other suggestions here are really awesome, I must say.

I just relish the idea of caging some elder things (which are supposed to be able to fly btw!), then introducing them to the elven trade caravan in the spring. Elder Things blur the line between plant and animal, having a fully functional GI tract, (and a preference for eating meat), as well as photosynthetic capabilities. Their physiology is predominantly "Vegetable" according to lovecraft's description.  This means that if the elves fight back, they are violating their pact with nature, and going against their ethics code.

There's a real-life snail which can photosynthesize, in case you didn't know. It eats and absorbs seaweed to gain the chloroplasts within the first ten or so weeks of it's life, though.

[Buckley]

Balrog.

Because.... Balrog.

Have it crawl up from the 3rd level cavern depths and melt everything.

[20firebird]

Wendigos. Show up as a humanoid tundra monster that transmits a syndrome to civilized races, that makes them start going crazy and eventually turns them into another wendigo. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to work syndromes, especially one that turns them into an entirely different creature.
Also selkies; women with magic seal skins that turn them into actual seals. Again, I have no idea how to make them change back and forth, and I'm not even sure if it's possible.
There's also some other weird myths I want to make but those aren't too hard.