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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

This will be like the "Community Mods and utilities list" thread but it will be all about Deadly Creature Mods! I will take all the most used deadly creature mods and add them into a comprehensive list with scores for usability and deadliness along with a description and where to download them!

Spoiler: Orcs (click to show/hide)

Creator:
Rysith

Description:

Just thought that I'd throw this out there as my first bit of attempted modding, since I've benefited from the mods other people have posted here.

I decided that the goblins didn't come often enough, and ran away too quickly. The goblins from the "better goblins" mod seemed more geared towards adventure mode than fortress mode, since they seemed a bit too powerful to be able to take on a siege of. Or, if they weren't, it was a siege vs. a large, mature fortress who's entrance was covered in more traps than there were dwarves inside.
Enter the orcs, a non-speaking race that will show up in large numbers. Larger and tougher than the average dwarf, they are raiders drawn by tales of wealth in dwarven (or human, or elven, or goblin) fortresses, and once they have arrived they show no fear and feel no pain until they have killed and plundered everything. Unless, of course, they get bored and leave for another fortress to loot and pillage. Assuming you can't drive them away, though, you should be prepared to spend at least 6 months out of the year sealed away underground, not an easy task at all.

Also, unlike non-speaking goblins, I've never had an issue with the orcs dying out during world gen. Fast birth rate and large populations seem to help with that.

Usability: 10
just plug the files in and gen your world! also has special graphics for the Orcs if you just can't wrap your mind around ascii.

Deadliness: 8
Early sieges and an immunity to traps says that they are coming for your dwarves RIGHT NOW! The lack of bleeding, pain and well basically every other disability also helps them stay around for the fight even after you chopped there body's off!

Find the thread Here!
And the download Here!
Also graphics are here and the instructions for them are here.

Spoiler: Raptors (click to show/hide)

Creator:
RavingManiac

Description:

They feel no fear, no pain, no sympathy
They run faster, strike quicker than the mightiest warrior
They can open doors
They have come to feed on succulent dwarf-flesh


So I went and modded raptors into the game. Not the 3-foot tall things you find in museums, but the utterly evil, hyperintelligent monstrousities from Jurassic Park. Raptors being raptors, each is a dwarf-killing machine, using its deadly toe-claws to pierce vital organs and its teeth to rip off limbs and heads. While they cannot wear clothing, natural armor more than compensates for this.

They can also easily outrun any dwarf, and will send ambushes to pick off unlucky civilians and caravans.

Should you defeat them, there's the advantage of there being no clothing and armor to clean up, reducing hassle for your now-greatly reduced population.

Usability: 10
another plug and play. just put the files in the object folder and gen your world.

Deadliness: 7
They come at you quickly and cannot be trapped. On the upside your traps will be easier to clean because they won't work on them but the downside is that you cannot be ready for them without a military of dwarves and they aren't pansy that stop coming at you.

Find the thread Here!
And the download Here!

Spoiler: Legendary Lands (click to show/hide)

Creator:
Captain Mayday

Description:

This mod includes much of Chariot's creatures, components of Sean Mirrsen's Martial Arts mod, and much more.
Now have extended growth times much more. Have also included LordNagash's mod containing shadow creatures, shadow steel, shadow dust, and some more creatures and weapons.

What is this mod?
This mod is intended to richly diversify the world of DF, and to provide a far greater challenge.
Megabeasts and Power beings are far stronger in Legendary Lands, for starters.
There are also a greater variety of civilisations.
Lizardmen, Tigermen and Frogmen (Skalassi) join the ranks of 'annoying' civs.
Chaos Lords, Wizards, and Avatars are intended as mere background figures in the world. They have magic weapons.
Humans now come in three flavours, good, bad, and normal. They will fight each other, and you, at times.
Goblins have been expanded into goblins (lower tech, smaller creatures, with less weapons), and hobgoblins (more obsessed with valiant acts).
All these enemy races will attempt to steal from you, and Goblins and Hobgoblins will go after your children.
Finally, the Avari. A race of winged humans who are obsessed with bringing about the vision of their god, a breakaway Avatar. This vision does not include the other races.

The world is more dangerous in general, although you shouldn't usually notice it. I do suggest building a strong entrance early on, and setting a military up early on is a good idea.
Megabeasts will prove a serious challenge for your fortress, as will the masses of thieves and attackers.
Wildlife can be quite dangerous. Smaller animals may be hunted down with wooden and bone bolts, but larger animals will either need these to be very good, or for you to use quality metal bolts. The wildlife, if savage, can be exceptionally dangerous. Dwarves should not generally be allowed to venture beyond the walls of the fortress exterior.

You'll also find that growing plants is much harder now, and provides less reward. Food, indeed, is nearly valueless. Instead, much can be gained by selling off your metal crafts. I feel this brings dwarves more in line with how they are commonly portrayed in literature. Crafts remain much the same price, though obsidian and marble are worth slightly more.
All metals are worth a lot more, reflecting their rarity, or how precious they are considered. Gems are also worth somewhat more. Constructing items of gems and metal is bound to net you a fortune.

Usability: 5
unlike other mods this actually has an installer for it and everything which is nice but can be confusing for some along with the thing with the changing it between world gen and play mode.

Deadliness: 6
It makes the world harder over all. Nice if your just tired of vanilla DF but don't want full Orc devastation.

Find the thread Here!
And the download Here!

Spoiler: Murlocs (click to show/hide)

Creator:
Neruz

Description:

Murlocs are Warcraft Land-Carp.

That's right folks LAND CARP! run for your life.

Usability: 8
if you get it off the Original post because of how the forum formats it there are errors. You also have to make the .txt doc but hey it has graphics!

Deadliness: 7
They will swarm you! Traps might affect them but there are just to many of them. Also as a special not, In adventure mode if you are ambushed by them you will die!!! When you look around it will be a solid square of murlock and they are all blinking cause there are more the one to a spot.

Find the thread Here!
And download a corrected text document bundled with the graphics Here!
And instructions for the graphics are Here!

Spoiler: Better Goblins (click to show/hide)

Creator:
umiman

Description:

Tired with your current goblin? Wish it was javascript:void(0);faster, stronger, more challenging? wish it didn't drop so goddamn much junk at your doorstep? Well, wish no more, for with the better goblin mod, you can choose from the different varieties of goblin to suit your needs! From the most basic to the mighty and incredible, we're here to make sure your goblin-experience remains as perfect as possible.

For the description of the different types of goblins see the thread.

Usability: 11
I know, I know. I said scale of 1 to 10 but dang! have you seen the setup for it? it has options to use whatever type of goblin with whatever addon you want! just go through and put what you want in the creature folder.

Deadliness: 2 to 10
It has all levels of goblins. From just a regular goblin without cloth's at a level of 2 all the way up to the infamous Ender's Goblins at 10!

Find the thread Here!
And the download Here!

Spoiler: Fallout (click to show/hide)

Creator:
Deon

Description:

Fallout mod brings you the post-apocalyptic feel of the Superior Black Isle's creation.

Usability:10
The install is an actual install! so easy to set up seeing as its already done this full conversion mod is nice but there is also the option of just adding the zombies to your game because they come as a separate addon!

Deadliness: 8 to 9

I'd give it 8 or 9, because there're huge supermutants coming in big numbers, Enclave Patrols coming for you in the first year with energy weapons and in power armors plus raiders sending thieves, snatchers and raiding parties. Not to mention 2 types of skulking robots which are harder to kill than kobolds. 5 hostile factions is quite a big threat .

Find the thread Here!
And download Here and zombie addon Here!

Spoiler: Immortal Dragons (click to show/hide)

Creator:
dragon1423

Description:

If you feel you need a more powerful dragon that so far hasn't even been injured, here it is.
Feel free to give it a different name, I named it the Sun Dragon for some odd reason.
Thanks to MC Dirty, I found out [DRAGONFIREBREATH] and [FIREBREATH] still work when both are used, it is awesomeness.

Usability: 7
If you get it off the original thread you have to make the text document and if you want more then one of the dragons there is the need of renaming the dragons. also the whole forum messes with the capitalization of words thing. I you instead use my provided download it has them already in text files and corrected with separate names.

Deadliness: 8/9/10
the first is just a powered up dragon that's not a megabeast so you see it a lot. the second might only be a pet but you will hate it when other races come riding in on their nice Dragon mounts. Number 3 is quite deadly and can swarm you a bit. Also in case you missed it in the description part, [DRAGONFIREBREATH] and [FIREBREATH] still work when both are used and cause a massive outbreak of fire and awesomeness.

Find the thread Here!
And the download Here!

Spoiler: Dorepelix (click to show/hide)

Creator:
Untelligent

Description:

They explode on death. Best use crossbows.

Usability: 8
just need to put the parts in text files and fix any capitalization errors.

deadliness: 9
See Description...

For the post Here!
And the download Here!

please suggest whatever creature mods you like to have "FUN" with and give your own rating! ratings on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being low end and 10 high. Also better descriptions would be appreciated cause most of them I just quoted the description given by the creator and might not quite fit.

[Deon]

I am pretty sure supermutants and zombies in my Fallout mod are very deadly too, so don't forget it .

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I am pretty sure supermutants and zombies in my Fallout mod are very deadly too, so don't forget it .

There we go, all added on. Also as you might notice because of the quick add I could not test it so anyone got a 1 to 10 score on the Deadliness?

[Deon]

I'd give it 8 or 9, because there're huge supermutants coming in big numbers, Enclave Patrols coming for you in the first year with energy weapons and in power armors plus raiders sending thieves, snatchers and raiding parties. Not to mention 2 types of skulking robots which are harder to kill than kobolds. 5 hostile factions is quite a big threat .

[Daywalkah]

Immortal Dragons Mod

I do believe that the top and bottom creature in my thread are deadly enough . If not I could used the old version of it that was surprisingly even more deadly. Especially when elves use them as mounts . If you don't believe me, read mission0's post in the thread, it is true.

[RavingManiac]

They come at you quickly but can be trapped. On the upside your traps will be easier to clean because they don't have clothes but the downside is that you can be ready for them without a single military dwarf, atleast they aren't pansy and keep coming at you.

Actually, they have TRAPAVOID.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Fixed the raptors and now looking into the dragons. have added the Dragons. My deadliness scores on the dragons might be off seeing as I could only look through the code quickly to judge them so anyone that has actually used them please give an honest opinion and your reason for the score.also does the [COMMON_DOMESTIC] tag made it so they don't appear in the wild?

[Untelligent]

I tend to post these things every time a thread like this shows up.

Spoiler: Creature (click to show/hide)

[CREATURE:DOREPELIX]
    [NAME:dorepelix:dorepelixen:dorepelix]
    [TILE:'d'][COLOR:4:0:0]
    [MODVALUE:3]
    [FREQUENCY:3]
    [PREFSTRING:sharp claws]
    [PREFSTRING:violent explosions]
    [LARGE_ROAMING][LARGE_PREDATOR][CARNIVORE]
    [GENPOWER:3]
    [MEANDERER][NOFEAR][liKES_FIGHTING]
    [BODY:HUMANOID:TAIL:2HEAD_HORN:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:MOUTH]
    [BODYGLOSS:CLAW_HAND]
    [POPULATION_NUMBER:50:80]
    [CLUSTER_NUMBER:4:9]
    [SIZE:7]
    [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:GRASP:claw:claws:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_WITH]
    [ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
    [CHILD:1]
    [FAT:2]
    [ALL_ACTIVE]
    [BIOME:ANY_LAND]
    [HOMEOTHERM:10095]
    [LAYERING:200]
    [SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
    [ITEMCORPSE:STONE:NO_SUBTYPE:STONE:HIDDEN_FUN_STONE]
    [HEATDAM_POINT:10120]
    [NO_SUMMER]
    [CANNOT_UNDEAD]
    [NOT_BUTCHERABLE]
    [MAXAGE:20:35]

Spoiler: Stone raw, for itemcorpse (click to show/hide)

[MATGLOSS_STONE:HIDDEN_FUN_STONE]
[NAME:death][COLOR:5:7:1][TILE:'H']
[ITEM_SYMBOL:'*']
[VALUE:1500]
[MELTING_POINT:0]
[BOILING_POINT:1]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1]

They explode on death. Best use crossbows.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Added! Explosions are fun

[Untelligent]

just need to put the parts in text files and fix any capitalization errors.

Capitalization errors? Where?

Oh, right, the tags that always get errored because of the forum's coding. Nevermind.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

just need to put the parts in text files and fix any capitalization errors.

Capitalization errors? Where?

[liKES_FIGHTING]
I even typed it in correctly with the capped "L" and "I" but the forum just does not like the tags. can't be helped I just mention it cause it's there though the only one it would still cause a complete behavior change in the creature. Not to single just yours out cause a lot of the ones posted on the forum has the same type of problem and really whether something wants to fight or not is a big difference.

[Daywalkah]

The second dragon was a guard dragon so that's why they have [COMMON_DOMESTIC]. I could take that off if you like. But then they would appear in the wild and destroy you...

[Deon]

It has nothing to do with the wild. Biomes do.

[Daywalkah]

It must mean I am missing the [LARGE_ROAMING] tag...interesting.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Naw, I just want to know if you can randomly encounter them or if they only appeared as a tame creature because that would definitely affect how deadly they are. After all if you only see it as a pet then its not going to be killing you. Also can it be used by other Civs? From the post in the thread I looks like others can use it as a mount.

I just want all this for proper deadliness rating cause It would effect how the dragon interacts with a person's dwarves.

All answered.