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[Warlord255]

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Built on the back of Taffer's DF Revised (with his blessing - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=161832.0), "Vanilla-Spice Revised" aims to upgrade existing threats and challenges while keeping the general feel of vanilla DF. The goal is to add no new creatures, but to make existing creatures better at what they're *meant* to do. Generous thanks to Taffer, Sver, Button, and others for their exemplary work.

Some features from DF Revised;
-Balance adjustments to material strengths, attacks, armor, weapons, and speeds
-Bugfixes and corrections for chitin, scale, pearl, and leather
-Bugfixes to egg-layers, disappearing creatures, tameable beasts
-Bugfixes to feather trees, seeds, and rotting materials
-Elves wield superior wooden weapons
-More creatures stealing booze, items or food
-More creatures eating vermin
-More vocalizations
-Animalmen have variable proportions and mannerisms

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

New features in DF Vanilla-Spice v1.0:

-Vocalizations for a wide array of creatures, with more to come.
-Custom creature classes for certain beast categories.
-Snakes now have MISCHIEVOUS, causing them to pop out of stealth. ("A rattlesnake! Drive it away!")
-Cave creatures now have CAVE_ADAPT, giving you a potential weapon against monsters of the deep.
-Carp, sharks and other hostile fish have CRAZED, making lakes, shores and beaches potentially more interesting.
-Snake-men and reptile-men have grasping tails for combat.
-Animalmen are more person-like, with mannerisms and height/broadness variation, and are immune to curses.
-Metalworking is more dangerous, with syndrome gasses having a chance to spawn from coal mining/processing or smelting of ores.

1.1: Bird Bards and Bloodsuckers!

   -First pass of unique abilities and stat boosts for animalmen, esp. birds and insects, which are tragically weak.
   -Some stronger animalmen, such as Elephants and those based off large predators, receive no boosts. Size is enough.
   -New creature variations DWARF_EXACT_SIZE and HUMAN_EXACT_SIZE help apply universal armor sizes.
   -New attacks to buff bloodsuckers such as leech men, lampreys, and Hungry Heads.
   -Fix to insect VOCALIZATION so they use NONE, which makes them work despite the lack of lungs.
   -Birds of prey can be trained to hunt.
   -All cat animals can clean themselves (or others) like domestic cats. Can't model realistically painful tiger licking at this time.
   -Dwarves are slightly less susceptible to stress, depression, etc. to help with some complaints about vanilla values.
   -Some monsters without CAN_SPEAK have vocalizations, such as yeti, ice wolves, dragons, etc. More to come.
   -Megabeasts have very loud vocalizations to make them easier for adventurers to find.
   -Raw meat, cheese and plants make certain creatures happy when eaten. For example, Elves love raw meat.

HOTFIX: Tried incorporating Taffer's latest fixes to the expanded dictionary, but only caused more problems. Removing it for now until I can solve it.

1.2: Bonus Civs and Armor Sharing!
   -All stones with a fancy color (cinnibar, cobaltite, rutile, etc.) have MATERIAL_VALUE:2 to reward you for having a fancy fort.
   -New mineral: Flint, suitable for rock spears/swords like Obsidian. Since Obsidian is found near magma - which renders    stone weapons irrelevant - this gives new opportunities to use the mechanics. Appears in chalk, limestone and chert.
   -New mineral: Goethite, or "bog iron." Addresses boom-or-bust distribution of ores and makes swamps more habitable.
   Has precedent in many other mods, so should not be an outrageous addition.
   -Dwarf civs have fewer domestic animals by default to reduce migrant pet clutter; use only Mules, Dogs, Cats, Sheep, Yaks.
   -New auto-processing reaction for Quarry Bushes, courtesy of forum user WannabeHero.
   -Crows and Magpies are upgraded from vermin to "real" creatures, like their Raven cousins, and can steal food or items.
   -Many more animalmen have either DWARF_SHORT_SIZE, DWARF_EXACT_SIZE, HUMAN_EXACT_SIZE or HUMAN_TALL_SIZE. Most bird-men come in at just shorter than dwarves, while predators like tiger and bear men are slightly taller than humans. Animal-species tags are used to prevent Bear Men from riding Bears and other such weirdness.
   -Many more animalmen have custom skills or talents to improve their natural abilities; FELINE, CANINE and URSINE creatures in particular. Bigger creatures get more flavor-skill/mental abilities.

   -First inclusion of bonus animalperson civs, found in "entity_beast_bonus." Included in this first pass are Snail Man       traders and Leech/Fly/Mosquito/Tick man gobbo-types adapted from Better Bugmen, Spider/Chameleon "Skulking" civs,       Warthog/Boar plains raiders, jungle/desert Snake civs, and a Bear/Walrus/Wolf tundra-taiga civ. Each is set to spawn a max       of 1 per world and picks from multiple species, so you're not guaranteed to see any of them survive worldgen.

   -To try this out, simply drag "entity_beast_bonus" into the "objects" folder before installing as normal.
   -Alternatively, check out Meph's Fortress Defense III, which uses all vanilla animalpersons and thereby benefits from
   the animalman changes in this mod. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173558.0)

NEW UPDATE 2/9/2020! Prior patchnotes spoiler'd for readability.
1.3
   Rework for the Villains Release (.47xx). Taffer's Dwarf Fortress Revised 2.2 incorporated some elements from this mod, particularly regarding animal people and vocalizations. I am honored to have contributed!

   -New feature: Sushi! Similar to the happy thoughts for cheese, this is a fine food made from large fish such as sharks and carp. This is to reward players who jump through the hoops    to catch such creatures. Since fish are low-fat creatures IRL, their "fat" is processed into additional sushi rather than tallow. Mermaids are also eligible, if you're into that.
   -ELEMENTMAN creatures such as Blood, Mud, Gabbro, Amethyst, Fire and Magma Men (plus Plump Helmet Men) can now regenerate their severed limbs. This is within the mission statement of "making creatures do what they do, but better." Blood, Mud and Fire Men also have 3:5 damage reduction since they're so flimsy.
   -Good-aligned grass will fully heal GRAZER creatures, including regeneration. Whether you use this to mend your wounded cattle after beast attacks or explore new and horrifying frontiers in target practice is entirely your choice.
   -More animalmen conform to either Dwarf or Human armor sizing.
   -Leech, Tick, Fly and Mosquito Men are now fully added civs based on Goblins. By default only two bugman civs will spawn, but worldgen circus breaches now have non-goblin options when generating a brand new civ mid-game. This is an exciting avenue to explore going forward, as it may work even if the starting number is set to 0!
   -Creature classes for food syndromes are narrowed down to VEGETARIAN, LIKES_MEAT and LIKES_FISH. BUG_GIANT is used for mounts for bugmen civs.
   -First pass of adventurer content: Eating the "beating heart" of a Megabeast (Dragon, Cave Dragon, Roc, Hydra, Sea Monster, Sea Serpent) will fully heal and regenerate you. If you can micromanage your kitchen in dwarf mode, it'll apply there as well.
   -Knuckle weapons can be made at the forge. These handheld bludgeons are smaller than maces, and are made exclusively from jewelry metals and alloys such as brass, bronze, gold, silver and platinum. This is something of a balance addition to make non-iron/non-copper embarks more playable. While a squad of Strikers is inefficient, it's better than nothing.
   -Wooden training maces (cudgels) and wooden training hammers (mallets) now provide training options for those weapons.

Enjoy and have !!fun!!

[Shonai_Dweller]

Why are carp crazed?

I mean, I know why in a d for dorf, the carp stands up, ho ho ho in-joke manner, but actually why? Everything else seems to be focused on Better Vanilla, bug-fixes and realism.

[Warlord255]

Why are carp crazed?

I mean, I know why in a d for dorf, the carp stands up, ho ho ho in-joke manner, but actually why? Everything else seems to be focused on Better Vanilla, bug-fixes and realism.

So far the bulk of the work is still Taffer's, which is definitely as you describe. But my ulterior motive for branching this off is to spice up gameplay a bit - increase the challenge without altering the feel. In that vein, food balance is totally whack and I want to address it without resorting to something as radical as a total agriculture conversion.

Rivers/oceans are absurdly bountiful with no real downsides. In the days of the deadly carp, there was a risk to balance that out - you either do some careful channeling/retention ponds, set marksdwarves, or fish through floor bars/grates, or you risk losing a fisherdwarf. It's certainly more interesting than just printing free food from the river. Alligators, crocodiles and hippos can also present that challenge, but they're restricted to a narrow set of biomes.

One extreme solution to the food-bounty problem that I've considered is knocking down creature sizes by some percentage across the board, as it'd reduce meat yields. It's a lot of work, though, and for now more hazards seems more appropriate.

[CarpBiter2000]

carps

I, for one, approve of this feature.

Rivers/oceans are absurdly bountiful with no real downsides.

You can also make fish cleaning take more time and convince dwarves to feel bad when they're eating "prepared fish" out of a meal.

-Optional beastman civ modules which select from one of multiple species at worldgen

Do you plan on bringing your bugmen? I quite liked them.

[Teneb]

Won't snakes being mischeivous make them pull levers and open cages?

Anyway, if I might make a suggestion: you should increase the population numbers of creatures across the board. Especially the fantasy ones, since we get far too little of them. Take the gremlin, for instance: there can be only ONE per region.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Won't snakes being mischeivous make them pull levers and open cages?

Snakes would probably need a grasp to active levers and open cages. Wouldn't they?

[Teneb]

Won't snakes being mischeivous make them pull levers and open cages?

Snakes would probably need a grasp to active levers and open cages. Wouldn't they?

Dunno. Could be that the game never checks, considering it was made only for gremlins.

[Warlord255]

-Optional beastman civ modules which select from one of multiple species at worldgen

Do you plan on bringing your bugmen? I quite liked them.

That means a lot, thanks. I've just made a huge breakthrough to improve them - the prior version was super awkward because I had to manually replace each bugman to make them adhere to dwarf height for armor sizing. Now I can apply that as a creature variation, which will make things far easier.

As for snakes pulling levers: Gremlins never make it that far in my forts, but I totally love the image of a snake lazily coiling up on a lever until it falls over, accidentally triggering a magma floodgate and dooming the fort.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Won't snakes being mischeivous make them pull levers and open cages?

Snakes would probably need a grasp to active levers and open cages. Wouldn't they?

Dunno. Could be that the game never checks, considering it was made only for gremlins.

It would check if an armless dorf could reset a trap though presumably.

[Warlord255]

A new version is up!

The first pass of animalmen improvements has been made. Many bird men and most insect men have skill and attribute bonuses which are unique to each species-type; songbird-men like Cardinals and Orioles have higher MUSICALITY traits and SING skills, while Owls have high TEACHING and KNOWLEDGE_ACQUISITION talents.

All insect-men have DWARF_EXACT_SIZE, which allows them to wear dwarf-sized armor; further passes will apply similar treatments to other appropriate creatures. Also included are many improvements to bloodsucking insects and insect-men, adapted from my Better Bugmen mod.

Most delightfully, as a useless flavor addition - raw foods have syndromes which make certain creature classes happy. For example, Elves love raw meat!

[brolol.404]

I like the idea of this mod, but after reading about the lead poisoning that kind of scares me off. How often does lead poisoning happen to miners and furnace operators? Is there a cure for it?

[Warlord255]

I like the idea of this mod, but after reading about the lead poisoning that kind of scares me off. How often does lead poisoning happen to miners and furnace operators? Is there a cure for it?

It's fairly rare - 1 to 2% chance. And for default metal poisoning, it only affects dwarves when they're fully cave-adapted. Only the most frail and chronically-exposed dwarves need worry, and additional forge hands helps divide the risk... but it does add one more wrinkle to the "solution" of walling off sieges indefinitely, which was the primary intent. If you don't like it, replace the reaction_smelter and inorganic_mineral files with their vanilla versions.

If I get enough concerns like yours, I'll include it separately as a bonus module instead of a default inclusion.

[DerMeister]

I like the idea of this mod, but after reading about the lead poisoning that kind of scares me off. How often does lead poisoning happen to miners and furnace operators? Is there a cure for it?

It's fairly rare - 1 to 2% chance. And for default metal poisoning, it only affects dwarves when they're fully cave-adapted. Only the most frail and chronically-exposed dwarves need worry, and additional forge hands helps divide the risk... but it does add one more wrinkle to the "solution" of walling off sieges indefinitely, which was the primary intent. If you don't like it, replace the reaction_smelter and inorganic_mineral files with their vanilla versions.

If I get enough concerns like yours, I'll include it separately as a bonus module instead of a default inclusion.

Cave adapted must live in gases normal, but not adapted must have syndromes. This also may prevent humans from dwarf-like minig.

[Symmetry]

It's fairly rare - 1 to 2% chance. And for default metal poisoning, it only affects dwarves when they're fully cave-adapted. Only the most frail and chronically-exposed dwarves need worry, and additional forge hands helps divide the risk... but it does add one more wrinkle to the "solution" of walling off sieges indefinitely, which was the primary intent.

How does it impact walling off sieges?  I can't see what you mean.

Also, what exactly have you done to stress?  Changed the "very depressive" ranges for dwarves?

[Warlord255]

It's fairly rare - 1 to 2% chance. And for default metal poisoning, it only affects dwarves when they're fully cave-adapted. Only the most frail and chronically-exposed dwarves need worry, and additional forge hands helps divide the risk... but it does add one more wrinkle to the "solution" of walling off sieges indefinitely, which was the primary intent.

How does it impact walling off sieges?  I can't see what you mean.

Also, what exactly have you done to stress?  Changed the "very depressive" ranges for dwarves?

Here's the relevant code for stress changes.

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[PERSONALITY:STRESS_VULNERABILITY:0:30:75]{Was 0:45:100, adjusted down.}
[PERSONALITY:BASHFUL:0:30:75]{Was 0:45:100, adjusted down.}
[PERSONALITY:DEPRESSION_PROPENSITY:0:30:75]{+ Added tighter range to tamp down stress.}
[PERSONALITY:ANGER_PROPENSITY:0:30:75]{+ Added tighter range to tamp down stress.}
[PERSONALITY:ANXIETY_PROPENSITY:0:30:75]{+ Added tighter range to tamp down stress.}My hope is that this will reduce the number of "time bomb" dwarves - those so stress-prone that they're impossible to appease - while still leaving the average dwarf susceptible to reasonable PTSD from corpses, stagnant water, etc. instead of being immune.

As for sieges - there are currently some penalties to walling off a siege and forsaking the sun indefinitely, but they're mostly negligible. This is one more cost to consider. More importantly, it increases the value of already-forged metal goods and imported bars somewhat. If nothing else, it's a bit of nice flavor.