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[Guy Montag]

Huh, I was just about to mention something about how Dinosaurs would have a hard time growing so large in modern times because they existed when the atmosphere had a much higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, and being repiles, would be cold-blooded and it was much hotter 65 million years ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/4330218/Dinosaurs-could-survive-cold-conditions.html

But google foiled my hypothesis and uneducated assumptions once again... You could add Tundra to the list of Biomes, according to SCIENCE here...

[Greiger]

I thought some scientist studied dinosaur fossils and determined from the size and layout(or something like that) of openings in the bones for blood that they were more likely warm blooded than cold blooded. 

That cold climate dinosaurs thing would make sense then.  As they would have an easier time than cold blooded creatures.  They would have needed more than just that, but there may have even been different species of the same family, with fur, or more fat than their warmer climate cousins. 

As far as I know dogs have more or less the same skeletal structure, but an huskie would be comfortable in much colder temperatures than a greyhound.  Perhaps there was something similar in the dinosaur world.

[varkarrus]

My wishlist:

Anomalocaris (ferocious water creature. Can survive on land. Small, but deadly in swarms)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris

Allosaurus (T-rex like)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosaurus

Pleisosaur (Giant undersea creature. Extremly dangerous)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiosaur

[Onlyhestands]

I already made the plesiosaur

[Guy Montag]

Yes, they suppose dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds, that decented from dinosaurs.

I can't help but wonder that a Bruhathkayosaurus would have some difficulty breathing and maintaining its metabolism in the lower oxygen concentrations in the modern atmosphere. I think there is a limit as to how large a land-borne creature can be before it simply doesn't have enough oxygen to diffuse to all of its cells and meet its metabolic requirements.

Besides, this is a fantasy setting. who needs dinosaurs when you got DRAGONS? Lets add in more of those fuckers. The kinds that spit acid or ice or nerve gas or whatever else that directly corresponds with their colors, like in D&D!

After all, if dinosaurs and massive aggressive creatures were commonplace, then they'd overshadow the supposedly awesome megabeasts the game has already...

Think of the implications, man! Nazi Elves riding dinosaurs! and who keeps feeding those things liquor?!

[Greiger]

I already did blue and gold dragons myself.  As well as turning the vanilla dragon into a red dragon. 

Non-fire breath attacks are kinda tricky at the moment though, best I managed to do with the blue was give it a really high power melee attack that looks like lightning.  I imagine the same could be done with all the others but they aren't ranged like the firebreath.

Spoiler: gamelog spoilered for length (click to show/hide)

The Blue Dragon fires lightning at The Hammerman in the left hand!
It is partially incinerated!
The Hammerman's thumb, left hand has been burned away!
The Hammerman's third finger, left hand has been burned away!
The Blue Dragon fires lightning at The Hammerman in the upper body!
It is incinerated!
Artha Adetcosla, Hammerman has been struck down.

[RAM]

Oh, right, found the dolphiny things, What about ichthyosaurs?

What do you consider a dinosaur for this purpose?

You have plesiosaurs and pterdodactyls already, so I guess you are including aquatic and airborne critters. Are you doing anything that lived at the time of dinosaurs like sharks and crocodiles? What about more recent things, mammoths? sabre-toothed etc...?

Hmmm, sorry about that, I guess I just want to know if there is anything you don't want to do, but I guess that can be addressed if it comes up...

How do you feel about people submitting entire entries rather than just a name?

These guys look interesting...

[Onlyhestands]

The Nothosaurs look intreguing, I may create some.

[Paranatural]

I'm enjoying this mod immensely. I've combined it along with the orcs mod. So far there have not been any orc/donosaur grand melees but I've turned off the trapavoid on the orcs so I can get them in cages. I'm leaving their weapons on them, too. The ultimate goal, of course, is a giant pit with a horde of orcs on one side and various dinosaurs (I gotta catch me a T-rex) on the other side for a grand melee of death and carnage.

[Onlyhestands]

I also use the Orc mod. I was setting up a new fort, complete with a way to trap the Orcs so I could kill them saftley with marksdwarfs, when a tyranasourus ran into my fort and mangled 3 of my starting 7. I wasn't able to prepare intime for the Orcs and everyone was killed, even the crippled in their beds.

EDIT: Added Nothosaurs

[Paranatural]

I have a pretty awesome pit being set up right now. I've never set up a pit before. On my current map I've gotten a good variety of dinosaurs coming through (Stegasaurses (Stegasaurii?), Amphicoelias, Triceratops, Duck Bills, Compsognathus and Ankylosaurus)

I have about 30 orcs in cages and maybe ten or so Anklosaurs and Triceratops, and one Titan that came in right after the orc siege and rand directly into the only cage trap that was left.

My question is, do you think the dinos I have will be enough to take on the orcs? (Mostly wrestlers, but there were at least 2 axe lords), or should I throw in more dinos?

Oh, also, should the Compsognathus I have be trainable as in the same way wardogs are trainable? Do I have to do anything special to make this happen? I haven't been able to train any so far. I do have a Dungeon Master, if that matters.

[Deon]

I found the problem. I had [LARGE_PREDATOR] but I forgot to give them the [LARGE_ROAMING] tag as well

Also:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
You charge at The Tyrannosaurus!
You hack at The Tyrannosaurus in the right lower arm with your Iron great axe!
It is cut!
You collide with The Tyrannosaurus!
You tangle together and tumble forward!
The Tyrannosaurus is no longer stunned.
You stand up.
The Tyrannosaurus stands up.
You hack at The Tyrannosaurus in the lower body with your Iron great axe!
It is cut!
The Tyrannosaurus's stomach has been badly cut!
The Tyrannosaurus's spleen has been badly cut!
You hack at The Tyrannosaurus in the right lower leg with your Iron great axe!
It is badly gashed!
You hack at The Tyrannosaurus in the left claw with your Iron great axe!
It is broken!
The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
You hack at The Tyrannosaurus in the right upper leg with your Iron great axe!
It is cut!
The Tyrannosaurus charges at You!
The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
The Tyrannosaurus collides with You!
You are knocked over and tumble backward!
The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
You counterstrike!
You miss The Tyrannosaurus!
You stand up.
The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
You counterstrike!
You hack at The Tyrannosaurus in the right upper arm with your Iron great axe!
The shot glances away.
You charge at The Tyrannosaurus!
You hack at The Tyrannosaurus in the upper body with your Iron great axe!
The shot glances away.
You collide with The Tyrannosaurus!
You are knocked over and tumble backward!
The Tyrannosaurus strikes at You but the shot is blocked!
You counterstrike!
You miss The Tyrannosaurus!
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the right lower leg!
It is mangled!
The Tyrannosaurus latches on firmly!
You are no longer stunned.
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the right lower leg!
It is mangled!
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the right lower leg!
You lose hold of the Iron high boot.
You lose hold of the Rope reed sock.
The right lower leg is ripped away and remains in The Tyrannosaurus's grip!
You give in to pain.
The Tyrannosaurus grabs You by the first toe, left foot with her right claw!
The Tyrannosaurus releases the grip of The Tyrannosaurus's right claw on Your first toe, left foot.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the upper body!
It is torn!
The Tyrannosaurus latches on firmly!
The Tyrannosaurus spits out your right lower leg.
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the upper body!
A chunk is torn away!
The Tyrannosaurus grabs You by the second finger, left hand with her left lower arm!
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the right hand!
The shot glances away.
The Tyrannosaurus releases the grip of The Tyrannosaurus's left lower arm on Your second finger, left hand.
The Tyrannosaurus spits out the human Chunk.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the left lower leg!
It is badly ripped!
The Tyrannosaurus latches on firmly!
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the left lower leg!
A chunk is torn away!
The Tyrannosaurus spits out the human Chunk.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the left upper leg!
It is badly ripped!
The Tyrannosaurus latches on firmly!
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the left upper leg!
It is mangled!
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the left upper leg!
You lose hold of the Iron high boot.
You lose hold of the Rope reed sock.
The left upper leg is ripped away and remains in The Tyrannosaurus's grip!
The Tyrannosaurus grabs You by the fourth finger, left hand with her right lower arm!
The Tyrannosaurus spits out your left upper leg.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the right hand!
The shot glances away.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the head!
It is torn!
Your left ear has been badly torn!
Your nose has been torn!
The Tyrannosaurus latches on firmly!
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the head!
A chunk is torn away!
The Tyrannosaurus releases the grip of The Tyrannosaurus's right lower arm on Your fourth finger, left hand.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the lower body!
The shot glances away.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the left lower arm!
It is badly ripped!
The Tyrannosaurus latches on firmly!
The Tyrannosaurus spits out the human Chunk.
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the left lower arm!
You lose hold of the Iron left gauntlet.
You lose hold of the Rope reed left glove.
You lose hold of the Iron shield.
The left lower arm is ripped away and remains in The Tyrannosaurus's grip!
The Tyrannosaurus spits out your left lower arm.
The Tyrannosaurus bites You in the lower body!
It is badly ripped!
You feel sick!
Your pancreas has been broken!
Your spleen has been broken!
Your lower spine has been broken!
The Tyrannosaurus latches on firmly!
The Tyrannosaurus shakes You around by the lower body!
You lose hold of the Iron chain leggings.
You lose hold of the spiny dogfish leather long skirt.
You lose hold of the Rope reed loincloth.
The lower body is ripped away and remains in The Tyrannosaurus's grip!
You have been struck down.
The Tyrannosaurus spits out your lower body.

Wow, your guy was sturdy. Tyrannosaurus ate both his legs, one arm and bit him in different places including head, and he was still alive. He died only when the dino ripped him in 2 parts.

Also there was a Prehistoric Mod total conversion around DFFD I believe, so you can try to borrow some ideas from there if you want. There were cavemen and ancient animals/dino as well. Just ask the creator if you want to do it .

[Onlyhestands]

Oh, also, should the Compsognathus I have be trainable as in the same way wardogs are trainable? Do I have to do anything special to make this happen? I haven't been able to train any so far. I do have a Dungeon Master, if that matters.

I didn't include it, but if you want to make them that way you can add the [trAINABLE] tag to their raws.I don't think you even need to create a new world for it to work.

[Cheshire Cat]

this mod is great.

didnt some of the large long necked dinosaurs (therapods?) use a pair of enlarged claws on their front legs in addition to/instead of lashing things with their tails? also, it would not be out to add trampling by them as a secondary attack, they are so large compared to anything else.

awesome things that would be great -

Kronosaurus (huge carnivorous seagoing thing. 12m long. named after a god who ate his children.)

megalodon (retardedly large prehistoric shark)

spinosaurus (that big predator that kills a t rex in jurassic park 3)

also, how about new vermin. compsagnathus? or can we add them as a very small pack animal that will harass things like gnomes currently do, aka jurassic park? in addition, really big centipedes and spiders were around back then, werent they?

im totally firing this mod up along with several others once im done with my current projects. the possibility of a t-rex crashing a little war between some dwarves and orcs riding armoured war elephants is so very seductive. hunters will no longer be usefull. at all. too bad you cant make them hunt in groups unless you manage it through the military. or... give them a pack of trained dire hunting raptors....

seriously, peter jackson has to make this into a movie.

[Paranatural]

Yeah, hunters are definitely pointless. I lost three to death by stegosaurus when I didn't turn off the Hunt option fast enough when they immigrated in.

If you choose to do this mod along with orcs, You're a braver man than I if you don't turn off trapavaoid on the orcs. The cool thing is once you get a Dungeon Master you can start taming them and have people adopt them; if your military dwarves do I can imagine having a pet triceratops follow you into battle would be handy. However, so far, this hasn't worked out for me.