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[Footkerchief]

The Ark Project is a community-wide effort (founded by Rainseeker and Lancensis) to increase the number and variety of DF's real-life animals.  Everyone is welcome to participate! Here's our home on the wiki. Currently we're making baby steps toward implementing specific creatures, particularly in the Arachnids section, but the emphasis is still on listing animals and implementing high-level creature variations. Where is help most needed? Bony fish Insects Birds Snakes How do I get involved? Check out our new Guides page on the DF wiki! To learn about creature modding in the next version, check out: the creature tags podcast (MP3) the new creature variations, with explanations from Toady here, here, and here This post will be updated as the project evolves.  The previous thread is here.  Thanks for helping out!

[Rainseeker]

This is really going to add a lot of depth to adventure and fortress mode both.  The more help we get the better!

[Eagle0600]

On the previous thread, concerning UK/American spelling, I was essentially told: "Do it yourself."

The problem is that there has be some consensus for this. Where do I put the information on the UK spelling?

[Footkerchief]

On the previous thread, concerning UK/American spelling, I was essentially told: "Do it yourself."

The problem is that there has be some consensus for this. Where do I put the information on the UK spelling?

In the other thread, you mentioned the possibility of using an InfoRapid script to do spelling substitutions.  I also found a couple existing utilities for American/British spelling conversion -- respell and VarCon.  It would be helpful if you looked into these approaches (and any others you find) to determine what'll work best for us (I don't know if those utilities will have many animal names).

[Footkerchief]

Molluscs now have their own page and I added a bunch of cephalopods to it.

edit: holy hell, gastropod taxonomy is a mess

edit 2: I worked through the rest of the decapods, although I got lazy and only included a single generic shrimp.

[Neonivek]

If anyone is doing spiders can I suggest you please try to include some more generic spiders everyday spiders?

Also I find it hillarious that Footkerchief and L-guy lists all forms of bugs (I am sorry but I call all creepy crawlies bugs) under insects.

[Footkerchief]

If anyone is doing spiders can I suggest you please try to include some more generic spiders everyday spiders?

Go for it!

Also I find it hillarious that Footkerchief and L-guy lists all forms of bugs (I am sorry but I call all creepy crawlies bugs) under insects.

Huh?  As far as I know, everything on our insect page is a member of the class Insecta.

[Neonivek]

Really? Well I don't doubt your right but it goes against what I was taught in school

In that you can identify a insect by 6 legs and 3 body segments or something like that.

[Eagle0600]

As far as I know, everything on that page has six legs, and exoskeleton, and possibly three  body segments (harder to tell).

[Neonivek]

As far as I know, everything on that page has six legs, and exoskeleton, and possibly three  body segments (harder to tell).

Your right, no more Spiders or Scorpians in that section.

Though to be truthful I didn't mind. I just found it funny

Though oddly enough I am having trouble finding insects off of the main section.

Ohh do we want ALL the families of Beetles? I guess Ill post all of them

Edit addition: NEVERMIND! There are at least over a hundred beetle families. While I want at LEAST 100 Beetles (and Butterflys/moths) there are enough in here to make an individual insect ark. I think we may actually need an insect limit.

All Insect Families in Spoiler

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-Cupedidae (Reticulated Beetles)
-Micromalthidae (Telephone Pole Beetles)
-Sphaeriusidae (Minute Bog Beetles)
-Hydroscaphidae (Skiff Beetles)
-Rhizoidal (Wrinkled Bark Beetles)
-Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
-Gyrinidae (Whirlgig beetles)
-Haliplidae (Crawling Water Beetles)
-Trachypachidae (False Ground Beetles)
-Noteridae (Burrowing Water Beetles)
-Amphizoidae (Trout-stream Beetles)
-Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)
-Hydrophilidae (Water Scavenger Beetles)
-Sphaeritidae (False Clown Beetles)
-Histeridae (Clown Beetles)
-Hydraenidae (Minute Moss Beetles)
-Ptiliidae (Featherwinged Beetles)
-Agyrtidae (Primitive Carrion Beetles)
-Leiodidae (Round Fungus Beetles)
-Scydmaenidae (Ant-like Stone Beetles)
-Silphidae (Carrion Beetles)
-Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
-Lucanidae (Stag Beetles)
-Diphyllostomatidae (False Stag Beetles)
-Passalidae (Bess Beetles)
-Glaresidae (Enigmatic Scarab Beetles)
-Trogidae (Hide Beetles)
-Pleocomidae (Rain Beetles)
-Geotrupidae (Earth-Boring Dung Beetles)
-Ochodaeidae (Sand-loving Scarab Beetles)
-Hybosoridae (Scavenger Beetles)
-Glaphyridae (Bumble Bee Scarab Beetles)
-Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
-Eucinetidae (Plate-thigh Beetles)
-Clambidae (Minute Beetles)
-Scirtidae (Marsh Beetles)
-Dascillidae (Soft-bodied Plant Beetles)
-Rhipiceridae (Cicada Parasite Beetles)
-Schizopodidae (False Jewel Beetles)
-Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
-Byrrhidae (Pill Beetles)
-Elmidae (Riffle Beetles)
-Dryopidae (Long-toed Water Beetles)
-Lutrochidae (Travertine Beetles)
-Limnichidae (Minute Marsh-loving Beetles)
-Heteroceridae (Variegated Mud-loving Beetles)
-Psephenidae (Water Penny Beetles)
-Ptilodactylidae (Toe-winged Beetles)
-Chelonariidae (Turtle Beetles)
-Eulichadidae (Forest Stream Beetles)
-Callirhipidae (Callirhipid Cedar Beetles)
-Artematopodidae (Soft-bodied Plant Beetles)
-Brachypsectridae (Texas Beetles)
-Cerophytidae (Rare Click Beetles
-Eucnemidae (False Click Beetles)
-Throscidae (False Metallic Wood-boring Beetles)
-Elateridae (Click Beetles)
-Lycidae (Net-winged Beetles)
-Telegeusidae (Long-lipped Beetles)
-Phengodidae (Glowworm Beetles
-Lampyridae (Fireflies)
-Omethidae (False Soldier Beetles)
-Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)
-Jacobsoniidae (Jacobsoniid Beetles)
-Derodontidae (Tooth-necked Fungus Beetles)
-Nosodendridae (Wounded-tree Beetles)
-Dermestidae (Carpet Beetles)
-Bostrichidae (Horned Powder-post Beetles)
-Anobiidae (Death-watch and Spider Beetles)
-Lymexylidae (Ship-timber Beetles)
-Trogossitidae (Bark-gnawing Beetles)
-Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)
-Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
-Sphindidae (Cryptic Slime Mold Beetles
-Kateretidae (Short-winged Flower Beetles)
-Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
-Smicripidae (Palmetto Beetles)
-Monotomidae (Root-eating Beetles)
-Silvanidae (Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles)
-Passandridae (Parasitic Flat Bark Beetles)
-Cucujidae (Flat Bark Beetles)
-Laemophloeidae (Lined Flat Bark Beetles)
-Phalacridae (Shining Flower Beetles)
-Cryptophagidae (Silken Fungus Beetles)
-Erotylidae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)
-Byturidae (Fruitworm Beetles)
-Biphyllidae (False Skin Beetles)
-Bothrideridae (Dry Bark Beetles)
-Cerylonidae (Minute Bark Beetles)
-Endomychidae (Handsome Fungus Beetles)
-Coccinellidae (Ladybird Beetles)
-Corylophidae (Minute Hooded Beetles)
-Latridiidae (Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles)
-Mycetophagidae (Hairy Fungus Beetles)
-Archeocrypticidae (Cryptic Fungus Beetles)
-Ciidae (Minute Tree-fungus Beetles)
-Tetratomidae (Polypore Fungus Beetles)
-Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
-Mordellidae (Tumbling Flower Beetles)
-Rhipiphoridae (Wedge-shaped Beetles)
-Zopheridae (Ironclad Beetles)
-Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
-Prostomidae (Jugular-horned Beetles)
-Synchroidae (Synchroa Bark Beetles)
-Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)
-Stenotrachelidae (False Longhorn Beetles)
-Meloidae (Blister Beetles)
-Mycteridae (Palm and Flower Beetles)
-Boridae (Conifer Bark Beetles
-Pythidae (Dead Log Beetles)
-Pyrochroidae (Fire-Colored Beetles)
-Salpingidae (Narrow-waisted Bark Beetles)
-Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
-Aderidae (Antlike Leaf Beetles)
-Scraptiidae (False Flower Beetles)
-Cerambycidae (Longhorned Beetles)
-Megalopodidae (Megalopodid Leaf Beetles)
-Orsodacnidae (Orsodacnid Leaf Beetles)
-Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
-Nemonychidae (Pine Flower Snout Beetles)
-Anthribidae (Fungus Weevils)
-Belidae (Cycad Weevils)
-Attelabidae (Leaf Rolling Weevils)
-Brentidae (Straight-snouted Weevils)
-Ithyceridae (New York Weevils)
-Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

[Footkerchief]

Neonivek, I hope you didn't go through the trouble of making that list manually...  I put that link in the beetle section so that other contributors wouldn't miss it.

If you check the history for the insect page, I've been listing beetle taxa as I work through them, so that other people can know to avoid them.  It would be helpful if other people working on beetles do the same.

[Footkerchief]

I finished working through all the beetle families that seemed worth including.  Neonivek, feel free to add any additional beetles to those families, or create a new family for them if I left it out.

Also, I got the crustaceans to a more-or-less finished state.  Thanks go to Aqizzar, who did a thorough job on the true crabs, which account for about half of the crustaceans we have now.  Each of the following taxa got only a single representative: tanaids, hooded shrimp, krill, fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, water fleas, copepods, barnaces.  Any enthusiasts should feel free to add more.

[Neonivek]

Unfortunately I was crazy enough to write that list out manually...

Also interestingly enough the Blister Beatle can be deadly if you eat it (Horses too) and it is used as a Aphrodesiac.

[Footkerchief]

Within suborder Apocrita, I finished superfamilies Apoidea and Chrysidoidea, plus family Formicidae.  That means the bees and ants are done, although there are lots of wasps left.

[Neonivek]

Yep my Goal of 100 Beetles, 100 Butterfly's and Moths will be underway soon.

Which means I am planning on adding a total of 200 creatures... Hmm that seems like a lot.

At this point I am seriously starting to think Vermin should have sizes so the game can tell the difference between a Silverfish and Goliath Beetle.