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[Kardos]

The gods died of old age?? 

"God is dead" -  Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - Toady One

"Toady One has arisen as creator of the Universe" - Bay12

[Mel_Vixen]

"God is dead" -  Nietzsche
"I am not." - Toady One


  Thats what really happened.

[Neonivek]

While gods aging to death is interesting... I think Toady should leave that until he can deal with gods dirrectly giving them family lines, reincarnations, and all that.

It is rare but some gods can age to death such as the Norse gods.

He shouldn't think too far ahead. (Joke)

[Mel_Vixen]

The Asen never aged to death cause they were immortal like the Albs and Darkalbs iirc. All dead among them was done violently. Mostly by loki and his family.

Anyway its nce to know that they can indeed die.

[Kogan Loloklam]

I still like the idea of creatures that are objects until the weather turns just right...

[Alfador]

"The more relevant applications might be mods involving water creatures that could freeze or boil during regular game conditions. So, not sure if I'll get to that this time around."

Ice creatures, that only show up and attack in the winter in cold areas (or most of the time in freezing areas), or they melt.  Or is it possible for an ice creature to melt into a water creature, and still be alive(or animated or whatever)?  Survive a phase transition?

Frosty the snowman, was a very scary soul, with icicle claws and chilling breath and two eyes made out of bituminous coal.

[Decimator]

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[Sowelu]

So!  Genetics!

How customizable will this stuff be?  Can we specify that a certain trait is, say, recessive... or linked to another certain trait...or make a trait that skips generations...or that is tied to non-appearance features, like personality, or physical ability?

Every few generations, a dwarf is born with a beard like pure gold--and these dwarves are said to have legendary strength and a fierce temper to match?

I'm guessing these are all "very no" for now, but I have hope for the future!

[Rockphed]

Every few generations, a dwarf is born with a beard like pure gold--and these dwarves are said to have legendary strength and a fierce temper to match?

That sounds like a caste issue.  I will be sure to mod in 2 extra castes of dwarves.  If I can make sure that only golden bearded dwarves can be king/queen, then I will be extremely happy.

[Karlito]

I will be sure to mod in 2 extra castes of dwarves.  If I can make sure that only golden bearded dwarves can be king/queen, then I will be extremely happy.

All this should be doable in the next release.

[Demonic Gophers]

Here's a question: what would happen if a cast were given both the MALE and FEMALE tags?  Would it randomly assign gender to creatures on an individual basis?  Select one and apply it consistently?  Function as both?  Cause an error, and fail to show up at all?

[Sowelu]

Seems reasonable it would act as both, but couldn't impregnate itself.  But I wonder if marriages would wind up with one or both partners having kids.  Hmm.

[Duke 2.0]

 Of course, I expect an old bug to crop up again. I remember some quote from Toady when he was testing the pregnancy code, and encountered errors whenever the dwarf selected was made to have a baby thanks to his magic. The dwarf would not seek the infant, care for it or grow any emotional attachments. Toady later discovered that he selected a male dwarf.

 So yes, expect weird crap.

[Mel_Vixen]

Toady from the devlog

Right now it'll do dominant-recessive stuff with the color variables, and it can also do that with the appearance variables or do averaging. It's pretty simple at this point, but what's there now could be used to, say, breed your dogs toward certain colors and body dimensions, as well as whatever facial features there end up being (though the colors and patterns would be limited to whatever is in the raws). Of course, the process might involve a lot of culls as there aren't a lot of controls on which animals breed.

By all Ghost this is awesome. Now if you could track the genetical mix in populations and subpopulations during worldgen we could get some diverse animal familys. Not only Caucasian dwarves, Asiatic dwarves, European dwarfs and Africanic dwarves we could get some awesome Animals as well! The natural diversity of cats is big also the differnt kinds of wolves and other canids, Bovinae. Heck we could get Darwins Finches.

Please flesh this system out it would make me and many others very happy i asume. And maybe far in the future it could be extended to plants as well. For example while all other dwarves have still purple plumphelmets one civ could have breeded blue Plumphelmets.

It doesnt add much gameplaywise (at plants) It highers the immersion and the detailing. Its little things like this that makes games like DF so awesome.

[Willfor]

I am pretty sure fungus doesn't take well to crossbreeding. Though I may be entirely wrong on this point.