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[Deon]

So I was sick for a good part of the annual leave (the last week), but I've managed to mod in three megabeasts (just three different types of dragons: ember dragon, swamp wyvern and dracolich), established most of biomes' creatures (only desert creatures are missing now) and now I work on the research tree.

Dracoliches seem to be kicking everyone's asses, so I may tone them down a bit. Just look at the list of this one's enemies:


Everyone hates on enclave elves due to strict ethics of them. And despite ceramic armor and amazing rifles, demons seem to be winning most of the times.
This site has been pillaged 26 times in 44 years:



P.S. Wooo, the game motivates me more than anything. I've just ran a couple of test forts and tested creatures in arenas, and I already found Enclave Outcasts (kinda like Brotherhood Outcasts .

[Deon]

The documentary has been updated:

>> Google Docs - Mod content <<

These are just a few things which have been added:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Most of the "standard" creatures/animals are done. Check the bestiary section, it was just a few critters before and now there's a lot of them, all made with careful raw editing, with adventure mode sounds and other details.

Megabeasts

Dragon - A gigantic reptilian beast representing a particular element.
 Black dragon - Breathes black dragon venom (pain, swelling, bruises, blisters, nausea).
 Blue dragon - Breathes blue dragon venom (paralysis).
 Green dragon
 Red dragon - Breathes fire.
 White dragon - Breathes freezing frost.
 Dracolich - Breathes dracolich essense (necrosis, nausea), undead..

Semimegabeasts

Titans
Forest titan - A towering living tree in a shape of a man.
Mountain titan - A towering mountain titan in a shape of a man. It's made from rock and its eyes and mouth are glowing with inner flame.
Sea titan - A towering sea titan with four massive legs and smaller chest-mounted arms. It has a powerful tail and huge maw.


Metals

The ores and metals have been reworked to make iron a harder-to-get early and easily accessible as technology level grows, which originally makes bronze easier to make, but later iron becomes a more accessible resource.
Also some of the modern or redundant alloys/metals are removed or renamed.

There’s just one type of pewter.
Electrum is renamed to “green gold”.
Aluminum is not available (yet).
Gold + nickel = “white gold”.
All alloy reactions got “from bars” and “from ore” variants.
Iron ore is smelt into “pig iron” in Smelter.
You have to build Finery Forge (under furnaces) to turn iron ore or pig iron into wrought iron.
All metal prices are raised.
Brass is considered to be a valuable metal and is an alternative to gold.
Metal ores
copper (azurite, chalcocite, malachite, stannite).
iron (hematite, magnetite, pentlandite, sphaleritem stannite).
lead (anglesite, galena).
nickel (nickeline, pentlandite).
tin (cassiterite, stannite).
zinc (calamine, sphalerite).
copper, gold and silver also occur in native form.

[Deon]

Now that I'm done with the "backbone" of bestiary, it should be much easier to move forward.

Here's a list of planned releases (in no order):

Ravenous update <- the next one most likely, with actual release of the mod.
Finish ghouls and dregs; make custom vampires and necromancers.

Crooked update
Make crooked men in different castes with various mutations/extra appendages; make a "crooked" caste for each race; make special interactions available to them only; make approrpiate speech file for adventure mode.

Chemistry update
Expand the existing alchemy lab to allow extraction of sulfur and arsenic from minerals; add arsenic bronze; make new types of glazes; introduce blackpowder; make cement and bonemold material in calcinator.

Gunnery update
Requires chemistry update, make guns craftable and ammo made with blackpowder; make special fire arrows and explosive blocks for catapults.

Poison update
Make milking special creatures for poison possible; make assassin's workshop and ability to coat weapons/arrows in poisons.

Scholarship update
Make "research tree" and make other advanced crafting paths require researching first. Vellum from leather/paper scrolls from plants; research notes and breakthrough tomes.

Good and Evil update
Make good and evil areas more distinct by adding unique creatures which open additional research/production paths when hunted/herded.

Night Creature update
Expand on necromancer types, werewolves and vampires; custom region-styled mummies.

Deep caverns update
Make deep caverns a place to fear; make cavern layer-specific flora and fauna so each cavern would look unique.


After these are done I'll move onto advanced stuff like automatons and summoning.

[Propman]

Everyone hates on enclave elves due to strict ethics of them. And despite ceramic armor and amazing rifles, demons seem to be winning most of the times.
This site has been pillaged 26 times in 44 years:

What I have learned is that size seems to be the most heavily weighted factor in whether or not something manages to win a battle in world gen: ettins would regularly destroy one of my experimental races in spite of the fact that their muscles which were as hard as brass, said race was size 200,000 versus the ettin's 8,000,000. This is also why titans made out of muck manage to score so many kills in world gen in spite of all logic indicating that they would perish in their first encounter against multiple foes, while amazingly lethal creatures that are of small size will die to a goblin before they usually manage to score a kill. As a side effect, elephants also have a small chance at slaying any megabeast that they come across due to their size of 5,000,000.

[Morhem]

Literally cant wait for release! Should be the most interesting thing after Lycaeon abandoned his Fallout Equestria mod!

[Meph]

Hey Deon, how is it going?

[Fhaertala]

Seems awsome! This is for both adventure and fortress mode, correct? Sorry for asking, just got the game.

[Deon]

Hey Deon, how is it going?

Not bad, finally free from the "dad" stuff for a bit (although likely to be "twice dad" in a few months).

I am on vacation in steppes right now, I'll be back on 1st of May and wrap up a release.

[mcolombe]

this mod looks fascinating, it will be great when the first release comes out. well done DEON.

[Deon]

So here's the first release. I'll go down the list of the promised feature updates now. Stay tuned (and share your feedback )!

[mcolombe]

i have started up a fort and this mod is very interesting. are you going to add phoebus graphics to it?

[Deon]

I'll add a bunch of graphic packs for sure, I just want to make the main part of the mod available first, and then add polish/graphic packs. It shouldnt take long. I also quite like the color scheme/tileset we currently use .

[mcolombe]

Cool,cool. well keep up the good work. You are making a lot of people very happy with all of the awesome mods you have created. Very nice to see your creativity being channeled into making innovative and interesting mods. LONG may it continue.

[Deon]

Thank you. I needed a long break since I got tired of modding because it was the only thing I did. Now I feel the desire to mod again, let's hope people are still interested .

[Teneb]

Played this for a bit and am liking it, though I really haven't strayed much from vanilla DF stuff yet.