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[Plump Helmet]

I've been working on a Legend of Zelda-themed mod for some time now (since at least mid-late 2015), sort of a spiritual successor to the Earthward Pick mod for older versions of the game. It's nowhere near ready for release yet, since there are still a lot of bugs and errors in the raws, but once I get everything fixed up... I still probably won't release it just then, since I just don't feel satisfied with the level of content there is yet (not that there isn't a lot already).

Here's a list of everything I have so far, assuming I'm not forgetting anything. All details are subject to change later in the mod's life:

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Civilizations

• Gorons: A friendly rock-skinned creature that lives in mountains. Slow, but sturdy and immune to most heat damage. One of the three controllable civilizations.
• Deku scrubs: Wooden plant-men usually found in forests. Small and fast, and can spit nuts to attack. Will probably be made especially vulnerable to heat damage later on. One of the three controllable civilizations.
• Zoras: Fish-men with a particularly high Musicality skill. Natural swimmers. They currently start in the ocean biome, but that will change considering how bugged ocean biomes are. One of the three controllable civilizations.
• Kokiri: All of the tree-hugging and self-righteousness of elves with none of the stature.
• Moblins: Brutish bulldog-faced folk that usually settle in evil forests. Make up part of the mod's evil civilization.
• Bokoblins: Smaller, stouter moblins that make up the other part of the evil civ. Very slightly nicer than moblins.
• Mogmas: A race of mole-people that will try to steal items.
• Rito: Beak-nosed bird-people that live in mountain caves, like gorons. Can fly.
• Subrosians: Short humanoid creatures that live near the magma sea. Will be made immune to most heat damage eventually.
• Minish, Twili: Both fanciful and exist only in artwork.

Domesticated animals

• Cucco: Identical to the vanilla chicken, but with a rage propensity.
• Remlit: A flying cat with a rage propensity.
• Loftwing: Colorful, domesticated bird mounts.

Wild animals/monsters

• Octorok: You should be familiar with these if you've ever played a Zelda game. Amphibious octopi that can spit rocks as an attack.
• Big octo: An octorok's giant version, found in savage regions.
• Buzz blob: A green blobby creature that walks around. Its description says it can release an electric discharge from its skin, but that's not been implemented yet. No plans for Cukemen.
• Chuchu: Comes in red, blue, green, and yellow varieties. They secrete (and in the future will possibly be able to be sheared for) the appropriate color of chu jelly, which can be brewed into drinks.
• Dodongo: Fire-breathing lizards found underground.
• Like like: Found underground. To mirror their shield-eating abilities, they have been made curious beasts that will steal items and food. In adventure mode, they moan and make loud creaking sounds when nearby.
• Pols voice: A hopping rabbit-eared thing that lives underground.
• Skulltula: A giant spider that lives in forests and caverns. Slightly easier to deal with than a GCS, but only just.
• Tektite: A hopping one-eyed crab-spider. All tektites are at least Skilled dodgers due to their jumping ability.

Megabeasts and semi-megabeasts

• Armos: A smaller (roughly human-sized) marble version of a bronze colossus. Somewhat easier than its big brother, but still enough to give an unprepared fortress a bad time.
• Digdogger: A giant one-eyed sea urchin. Unfortunately, it won't split apart when it hears flute music, so it must be taken down the old-fashioned way. Based on its most recent appearance in Oracle of Seasons.
• Manhandla: A man-eating plant with four heads. Based most closely on its appearance in Hyrule Warriors. I still have to make adjustments to these to keep them from dying too easily in worldgen.

Fish

• Ancient fish: A vanilla coelocanth, basically. Found in oceans as well as swamps.
• Catfish: Of the Colossal kind, found in swamps.
• Cuccofish: A cucco-like fish. It's in the name. Shares a cucco's coloration as well as its rage propensity.
• Phantom loach: Based on the Hylian Loach and suitably rare. Its materials have a higher value than most fish.

Vermin

• Burrower beetle: Based on the Bugs from Ocarina of Time. Admired for their burrowing.
• Eyeball frog: Admired for their large eyes.
• Rhinoceros beetle: Admired for their horns.
• Sluggula: Admired for its bright coloration or slime trails.

Plants

• Ember trees: Grow ember nuts, edible raw or cooked. More seed trees are to come.
• Bomb flowers: Not explosive (yet?), but can be brewed into bomb flower beer, which I imagine has a nasty kick to it.

Most of the new monsters and vermin will have giant and/or animal person variations for savage regions.

Most other creatures are the same as default, with minor modifications in some instances. Certain creatures are identical to vanilla ones except for their names, and in some cases descriptions:
Bat -> Keese
Centaur -> Lynel
Cyclops -> Hinox
Hydra -> Gleeok

Plans for the future:

• Goriyas: a skulking civilization, like a hairy kobold
• Interactions allowing gorons to eat rocks
• "Great moblins", the leaders of moblin and bokoblin civilizations--a mash-up of Ganon and the Great Moblin from the Oracles games
• Miniblins? Possibly just a name for child bokoblins
• Bulblins?
• Anouki: the penguin folk from the DS games
• Dodongo kings/dodongo queens: Giant megabeast versions of ordinary dodongos
• River zoras: green, territorial humanoids lurking in rivers
• Monsters found in the dark world and Lorule to populate evil regions
• More plants
• Other things I'm probably forgetting

If anyone has any suggestions for things they'd like to see from this mod (or critiques of what I'm doing wrong, so long as they're not flamebait), please do post them!

[Meph]

Just as an info: There are tons of extracted zelda tilesets out there, like http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/runezc/tilesets/warlock_overworld.jpg or this http://www.purezc.net/Tilesets/s3s1.gif

[Plump Helmet]

Those would be the New1st and Pure tilesets. I recognized them on sight. My days spent fooling around in Zelda Classic have made them lose quite a bit of their luster, but I might take some bits and pieces for the mod's tileset if I decide to make one.

[Teneb]

There's and old (0.34.x) version by Putnam, in case you want inspiration.

[Putnam]

Just as an info: There are tons of extracted zelda tilesets out there, like http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/runezc/tilesets/warlock_overworld.jpg or this http://www.purezc.net/Tilesets/s3s1.gif

IIRC I avoided those because of the obvious copyright issues inherent in that. I actually did want graphics. I even almost grabbed the Hinox sprite before realizing it's 1. too big for the tileset i would be using and 2. flagrant copyright violation... in fact, I think I remember Toady mentioning "ripping old nintendo sprites" as a specific problem that he's worried about when it comes to letting other people make graphics etc., lol

There's and old (0.34.x) version by Putnam, in case you want inspiration.

Actually mentioned in the OP, funnily enough.

Anyway, yeah, take what you want.

[Plump Helmet]

I'd prefer if this mod went in its own direction rather than be a straight update of Earthward Pick to 0.43 standards, but I'll take a look at it for some inspiration, thanks!

[Putnam]

I said what you want, not everything. I mean, everything's included in what you want. You can take everything. But you definitely don't have to.

[IndigoFenix]

Are you going to make it compatible with other mods (no base files changed, everything with a common suffix)?

Don't forget gohma!  It would be cool if you made their exoskeleton strong enough to deflect weapons and made their eye vulnerable.

Gorons should be able to roll instead of sprinting.  Make their fastest gait have a long build up but use less energy than sprinting.  You can also simulate hopping creatures (tektites, gekko) by giving them gaits that use more energy but no build up.

Don't forget to make monsters aggressive!  The LARGE_PREDATOR tag and increased bravery and violence personality values should do the trick.  This feels more natural than the gamey PRONE_TO_RAGE tag.

Cuccos should be VENGEFUL, of course.

What if minish were intelligent vermin limited to good regions?  Even better... hivable vermin that occasionally produce special items if you take care of them

You should be able to extract eye drops from eyeball frogs.  Maybe drinking them should give you extravision?  Or make you temporarily immune to a blinding effect?

There are plenty of fish species in Twilight Princess and Phantom Hourglass.

Oh, and what about Hylians?  I'm assuming you just forgot to list them.

[SQman]

Rito: Beak-nosed bird-people that live in mountain caves, like gorons. Can fly.

I would be careful with flying civs. Flying visitors freeze mid-air and are hard to get rid of. I don't know about flying invaders or caravaneers, but there may be similar pathing issues.

[D_E]

I have a flying Gerudo fire-sorceress stuck in a tree in my current fort (I've mostly updated my branch of Knight Otu's zelda mod to the current version).  She's supposed to be escorting the Gerudo trade diplomat, I'll have to see if she manages to leave when the diplomat does.

Be careful with fireballs and other fire attacks.  Zelda enemies throw fireballs around like they're nothing, but giving them actual fire attacks in Dwarf Fortress makes the game pretty much unplayable.  I had a fire-spitting custom werewolf come (Ganon-style Dark Beast), and it burned off my entire map.  Fireball spitting river zora also make river embarks at best a throw of the dice (if your wagon lands next to where they spawned, gg wp ).  Rock spitting attacks are a better Dwarf Fortress model of how fireball attacks are used in Zelda games.

Rolling gorons and vulnerable Gohma eyes work well .

Also, wrt the Kokiri, I suggest giving them wooden armor but metal weapons, since that's what they had in Ocarina.

Big warning re-heat immune creatures in the current versions: the old way to do this was to just set all their materials to have a high melting point at the end of the creature definition.  If you do this in the current version, but forget that tears and sweat are now a thing, it results in creatures that start fires whenever they get worked up.  I was VERY CONFUSED about why visiting goron bards kept setting fire to my tavern.

[Knight Otu]

Rito: Beak-nosed bird-people that live in mountain caves, like gorons. Can fly.

I would be careful with flying civs. Flying visitors freeze mid-air and are hard to get rid of. I don't know about flying invaders or caravaneers, but there may be similar pathing issues.

Flying traders lose their trade animals, and the items carried by those animals won't be available for trade.
And yeah, fire attacks are very problematic if they're too common.

[Putnam]

Rito: Beak-nosed bird-people that live in mountain caves, like gorons. Can fly.

I would be careful with flying civs. Flying visitors freeze mid-air and are hard to get rid of. I don't know about flying invaders or caravaneers, but there may be similar pathing issues.

Flying traders lose their trade animals, and the items carried by those animals won't be available for trade.

Coul'dve sworn that was fixed.

[D_E]

That flying fire sorceress guard did leave with her diplomat, so that's something.  I'll have to keep an eye on the Gerudo caravan, see if any sorceresses show up guiding pack animals, and what happens if they do.

[D_E]

Rito: Beak-nosed bird-people that live in mountain caves, like gorons. Can fly.

I would be careful with flying civs. Flying visitors freeze mid-air and are hard to get rid of. I don't know about flying invaders or caravaneers, but there may be similar pathing issues.

Flying traders lose their trade animals, and the items carried by those animals won't be available for trade.

Coul'dve sworn that was fixed.

Double-posting with some updates:

1) The flying sorceress guard left with her diplomat, despite getting hung up in a tree for the entire time the diplomat was on the map.

2) There was another sorceress leading a pack animal in the next caravan.  The sorceress and the animal immediately became separated from one another, but both pathed up to the Depot independently, and trading was able to go forward.  I don't know if a wagon driver would work.

3) Flying mounts are hideously broken.  The moblin siege showed up riding kargaroks, which became stuck at the edge of the map where they entered. This caused huge lags spikes every two or three frames, probably from all the failed pathing, making the game basically unplayable.  Removing [FLIER] from the kargaroks fixed both problems.

[Knight Otu]

I seem to have completely bungled my test case by failing to save creature_standard after giving humans flying. Not in the mood to play further right now, but I gave dwarves flying now, so I'll see how the traders behave next season (I've already broken wagon access). What should happen if I'm right (and recall all nuances correctly) is that trader and animal separate, path to the depot independently, and claim to unload, but don't, and trade would be "possible" in theory, but not in practice due to no foreign goods and no trade capacity.

Edit - They get a trade capacity, but otherwise, as expected - no trade goods, even though all trade animals reached the depot.

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