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[Lofn]

Hi!  So I put together a mod at the urging of a chap in #dfmodding, and then expanded it at their request - and they logged off before I finished.  So I figured I'd post it here so that you gentlemen and ladies can take a look - it's a creature mod for DF2010 that adds several varieties of xenomorph (from Alien) to the underground.  It makes use of castes, secretions and syndromes, so it might also be useful as a reference document if you want to mod something similar.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1998

Version 1.3 is now up!

1.3 - While I'm having trouble effective balancing gameplay with how I -think- xenomorphs should perform in combat, I've tweaked attacks and armour in an attempt to make it fairer on the player. Xenomorphs are now split into three creatures - the megabeasts, the dummy civ used for adventure mode's Play Now! option, and random encounters in the underground/aboveworld. I've given the different xenomorph breeds different claw materials - beware, because Queens and Praetorians have a slash attack equivalent to slade. As far as I can tell through arena testing, the only thing this noticeably affects is armour penetration, so just gear up well and stay out of melee range. Queens and Praetorians are also now fireproof.  While Queens and Praetorians are now tougher, drones, warriors and runners have been downgraded somewhat - their hide is much closer to leather now than bronze.  Yautja now have spearguns, body mesh and shurikens to play with!

[Warlord255]

The most important question, of course; does it have acid blood?

[Lofn]

The X's are unconcious elephants.  The yellow is xenomorph blood.

[cgman19]

Would it be possible to give the facehuggers a poison that knocks the victim unconcious and gens a chest burster on the victims death? Even If you can't gen the chestburster the poison would still be cool.

[Vimes]

This mod is awesome. I made a Runner in adventure mod, took out a hydra without one hit on me, then got lost in the cavern, walked off a cliff, and splattered all over the floor.

It was the most hilarious and awesome adventure ever, and during it I noticed something.

When Xenomorphs drool, sometimes it splatters on their body. They can drink this. Therefore, they drool an infinite amount of fluid, keeping them perfectly hydrated even in deserts.

I don't see this as any real problem, but I thought you might want to know.

[Shaostoul]

I'm totally in love with this mod... but i had no idea xenomorph drool caused necrosis! So all my pets and dwarfs were rotting away...

[SeaBee]

This is a great idea for a mod. I'll have to give it a try -- xenomorphs are awesome! (I was terrified of them as a kid.)

[A Dwarven Smokeologist]

Wow this mod is great, I might try and make some space marines to go along as well. I'd like to stage a huge battle in the arena with a space hulk layout or maybe just embark with 7 marines and an underground full of xenomorphs. Hope this does get expanded on some how :X

[Deon]

You could include predators with BONECARN and AMBUSHPREDATOR, as well as FIREBREATH for plasma cannon .

[Kelbin]

You could include predators with BONECARN and AMBUSHPREDATOR, as well as FIREBREATH for plasma cannon .

Or bows with arrows that do burning or heat damage, and with that you can use blue materials as ammo.

COMBISTICKS!

And those wrist blades.

maybe even plasma pistols.

Do predators ever use some kind of hammer?

[Deon]

There's no burn and heat damage in this version, at least I was unable to find appropriate tokens from exe .

[Chronas]

unfortunately combat holds true to the laws of physics now (loosely)

[Lofn]

The Predator would be better off with a unique breath weapon or something similar, I think.  I'm considering going whole hog with this and adding Predators and marines - I'll probably make a start in half an hour or so after dinner.

[Randomonioum]

I don't suppose anyone could tell me how to use these in adventure mode?

[3]

You should be able to do that by making a dummy civ - go to entity_standard.txt, copy everyting under the PLAINS entry, and then delete all the START_BIOME/BIOME_SUPPORT tags. This should lead to the game trying to make xeno civs but not making them (due to them not having any valid biomes), but they'll still be available for selection in "Play now!" mode.