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[Deon]

I would appreciate a feedback on the latest version, because that is what I am working with.

I will look into the fireball issue, but not immediately. The whole "magic" is cheesy and a huge workaround.

[Roses]

I'm focusing on creatures now.

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Genesis 3.25f - "benign-normal" release.
* Creatures from benign-normal regions were reorganized:
- Benign-normal creatures' descriptions tell their size and body type/stance (bipedal, quadruped etc.) for better understanding of relative sizes.
- Ferrets now appear in the wild and are called "polecats".
- Sheep now appear in the wild.
- Llamas and alpacas now appear in the wild (mountains).
- Water buffalo is now just "buffalo" and appears in more places (I didn't want to be too specific with buffalo types, but I want ezrakim elves to have large bovine skulls with curved horns ).
- Guineafowls now appear in the wild.
- In addition to Tomi's "marsh owl" added a common "owl", forests and shrubland need a night bird variant too.
- Some birds are no longer benign, to populate normal-normal areas with more birds.
- Most of apes are no longer benign.
- Added herons and storks.
- Macaques are now benign.

* Werewolves are now "beastmen", they settle the savage forests now (they were living in benign forests before).


Anyway, I've realized that there's too many benign-normal and normal-normal creatures. There's almost no good-savage, benign-evil etc. creature variants, which calls for a huge creature update.

I will reorganize the existing creatures first (I will release updates in bunches, with each area reorganized (normal-normal next)),

In preparation for the next release where vampires and werewolves will be added to the game mechanic and could be applied to any creature, the werewolves' race is now called "beastmen".

I'm not sure if you are interested Deon, but I have written a Python program that reads a CSV file which I generate from my excel file, to create creatures. I find it's easier to type information into an excel file, currently my program reads biomes, cluster size, population number, litter size, age, body size (3 different ones), viewrange, value, prefstring, description, colors, and finally what template I want them to be. Then I have several templates made up that the animals can follow (for instance 3 feline templates, a canine template, bear template, bird of pray template, normal bird template, etc...). Then I just hit run and walla 300 creatures made in seconds. Wouldn't be hard to have it register the [BENIGN] [SAVAGE], etc tags as well.

I'm also about ready to give the communty my first release of the creatures I have done. Almost done with all the mammals in the carnivora order, and have a good amount of the other orders of mammals done. Going to work on the 9000+ species of birds next.

[Angel Of Death]

Errr... Deon, in version E, skin can be shattered.

[Deon]

Which level of skin?

@Roses: I find it easier to type in the raw files. This way I can organize the tokens as I want and it's easier to avoid errors and what is more important to add comments.

Still I would love to check your program .

[nanomage]

Which level of skin?

@Roses: I find it easier to type in the raw files. This way I can organize the tokens as I want and it's easier to avoid errors and what is more important to add comments.

Still I would love to check your program .

In your most current dev version, 3.25f i believe, level 1 skin (thin skin, suede), is fractured when damaged.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You counterstrike!
You kick The Giant Owl in the head with your right foot, fracturing the skin and bruising the muscle!

EDIT:i've kicked the poor owl for a bit longer and it appears the skin can be chipped, too.

also, wounds leave dents on thin skin, not scars.

EDIT: level 4 skin is damaged like hard, brittle tissue too, although idk if that's intended:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You stab The Sea Monster in the head from the side with your Žblack bronze jagged spearЇ, denting the skin!
You stab The Sea Monster in the left rear flipper from the side with your Žblack bronze jagged spearЇ, fracturing the skin!

[Deon]

Ah yeah, that's a hardcoded behavior, the description of damage depends on relative values of hardness and elasticity, I will fix it, thanks.

[TomiTapio]

Genesis was pretty much entirely responsible for me getting in to modding, mostly because I love pretty much all of the added content. So, yeah, thanks a lot Deon and TomiTapio.

Cheers, Trees!
Here are some werewolves plotting their next attack. http://lhuin.deviantart.com/art/December-254214142

Was experimenting with elves again, casting fireball arrows and shooting em off. Every enemy had parts exploding in blood mist/clouds but survived, even a shot to the head but not hitting the brain. How. Is. That. Possible?!

Flesh creatures only die of blood loss, brain removed, or lowerbody cut off (mega bleeding there too). If your shot hits them in the jaw or ear, they should survive.
Maybe DF makes blood mist from small blood amounts too. Hmm that's a good monster name, "Blood mist".

Right, there's one tiny to-do on my list: have all skulls use a tougher bone material than usual. Or relative thickness of head's bones up.

EDIT: level 4 skin is damaged like hard, brittle tissue too, although idk if that's intended:

Mythskin (4) is little better than copper, and "divine skin/deephide" (5) is tiny bit better than iron.

(sends his to-do list to Deon)

[Deon]

Still, iron swords cut through deephide just fine.

[GloriousImp]

Not too sure this is the right place but I'm having issues with bone gauntlets.

I crafted "Dragon Raptor Tough Bone Gauntlet" (two of them were made) but I cannot wear them. (any kind of bone gauntlet I make gives the same result).

I have mittens on but even if I take them off I can't equip the gauntlets. Every other item I have made so far was fine (6 dragonscale cloaks thanks to an ambush from 3 dragon raptors, nice)

[Deon]

That was asked a lot of times and it's a general problem with gauntlets: they should be right/left, but reactions cannot make it .

[TomiTapio]

Not too sure this is the right place but I'm having issues with bone gauntlets.

Reactions cannot make left-hand and right-hand armor: You cannot wear reaction-made gauntlets, this is a known bug and has been there for a long time.

Still, iron swords cut through deephide just fine.

Well, we better make the deephide numbers 10% better then, or command that the relative thickness of dragon skin be higher. Maybe both.

[dimondmine2]

deon, what do you need, because if you ever need any ideas for anything, just name the type of thing and i will come up with several options, but truthfully deon, you are a god at the table with toad, and armok,

[Deon]

That's a bit too much praise . If you invent new and cool ideas, it would be awesome.

I'm in a hurry now, so there's another update.

3.25g ASCII

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- GLOBAL rework and reorganization of creatures: they are now sorted in appropriately named files (by evilness and savagery).
- Apes no longer have tails.
- More Size/type additions to descriptions.
- Added coyotes and hyenas.
- Some creatures got additional sounds.
- Fixed "fracturing" skin.
- Changed color palette.

[Kromgar]

Everytime i start it it automatically crashes. All i do is extract it from the rar and start dwarf fortress exe in the folder and it crashes

This is Phoebus version.

[dimondmine2]

deon, what do you need! since i have no idea what you want, im going to find you some mythological cool metals, artifact weapons, and possable megabeasts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_objects#Belts

this is a list of all mythological objects, however i think it would be cool if some where only obtainable from specific megabeasts.(the harder the megabeast, the better the reward)