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[Areyar]

mods are like alternate realities. :3

[Granite26]

Well the actual question would be if we can get a selfhetching egg. We have now eggs and itemcorpses so could i create now a proper phoenix(?) that keeps killing stuff for centurys with fire?

According to the wiki, eggs won't hatch unless fertilized by a male, so I don't think you can make them self-hatching.

What if you add the male AND female tags?

mods are like alternate realities. :?

Pretty much...  there's a fallout mod for df with supermutants and everything.  a few zombie survival mods, and just about every alternate culture you can think of.

most people just mod in stuff to make the game easier/harder though

[TolyK]

I do all sorts of insane, half-working mods for myself. I made rocket launchers and even (1 square  ) nukes.
...
But yeah, it's mostly to just add to the experience.

[Areyar]

hmm....Did those nukes have towercap clouds?

[Footkerchief]

Are you planning on ever implementing browsing animals? Right now all herbivores are grazers, but lots of animals eat basically only shrubs and trees.

If you read through the raw entries on actual browsing animals (giraffes and the like) there are notes from Toady about browsing.  Presumably this means he wants to include it at some point, but it is unlikely to occur before multi-tile vegetation gets some attention. 

Yeah, someone else posted the quote in the Modding forum:

The elephant raw entry has a note:

   [GRAZER:12] don't have browsing trees yet

[Sowelu]

That sounds like trees WHICH browse, not trees FOR browsing.  (I know which one it is, yeah, but the concept of trees roaming around nomming smaller trees and/or shrubs is terrifying and awesome.  And now I think that would make an awesome creature, if you set up their armor and limbs such that they're most vulnerable to axes, and made them drop wood when killed.)

[Mephansteras]

That sounds like trees WHICH browse, not trees FOR browsing.  (I know which one it is, yeah, but the concept of trees roaming around nomming smaller trees and/or shrubs is terrifying and awesome.  And now I think that would make an awesome creature, if you set up their armor and limbs such that they're most vulnerable to axes, and made them drop wood when killed.)

Now I need to mod a grazing tree-creature into the game. That's awesome.

[3]

Back in 40d I made a "glumprong" creature that was extremely slow but appeared in massive numbers and ambushed. Naturally it'd only appear in evil forests alongside "benign" glumprongs.

I also attempted to make it so that the creature used its shadow to attack via some bodypart trickery, but I don't think I ever got it to work properly.

[Waparius]

Grazing plant-creatures? Like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary

[Flaede]

Back in 40d I made a "glumprong" creature that was extremely slow but appeared in massive numbers and ambushed. Naturally it'd only appear in evil forests alongside "benign" glumprongs.

I also attempted to make it so that the creature used its shadow to attack via some bodypart trickery, but I don't think I ever got it to work properly.

if you use feathers it works. Attacks pass through feathers (or at least they used to). I was going to use it to make "smoke creatures", but did not know enough about modding to create new bodyparts out of it.

[MarineMorton]

That sounds like trees WHICH browse, not trees FOR browsing.  (I know which one it is, yeah, but the concept of trees roaming around nomming smaller trees and/or shrubs is terrifying and awesome.  And now I think that would make an awesome creature, if you set up their armor and limbs such that they're most vulnerable to axes, and made them drop wood when killed.)

An Ent then?

[Sowelu]

I also attempted to make it so that the creature used its shadow to attack

D8

I was already planning to jump my characters in a tabletop RPG with that, but it's still CREEPY AS HELL.

[G-Flex]

Well the actual question would be if we can get a selfhetching egg. We have now eggs and itemcorpses so could i create now a proper phoenix(?) that keeps killing stuff for centurys with fire?

According to the wiki, eggs won't hatch unless fertilized by a male, so I don't think you can make them self-hatching.

What if you add the male AND female tags?

[MALE] and [FEMALE], as far as I know, are mutually exclusive. A caste can't be both; one will override the other, although I'm not sure what has priority (probably either the first or second listed in the definition).


As far as unusual eggs turning into creatures, I assume it works the same way as item-corpses do, in that you can't create full-fledged creatures with them.

[Granite26]

Civilizations are starving in world gen, in part because the caravans of food aren't set up yet.  Will civilizations continue to starve if they can't afford the food?  Will there be cities/whatever that can't feed themselves without trade (from areas beyond their immediate zone of influence), such that sudden price changes will cause starvation?  How will food be distributed?

[nil]

Civilizations are starving in world gen, in part because the caravans of food aren't set up yet.  Will civilizations continue to starve if they can't afford the food?  Will there be cities/whatever that can't feed themselves without trade (from areas beyond their immediate zone of influence), such that sudden price changes will cause starvation?...

I hope so.  That's often how famines happen in the real world, and the same should be true in DF.  Plus, once adventurers can lead caravans, it would be the perfect hook for a "please go procure grain for my/our people" quests.