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.