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[Knigel]

^Actually, that's 25 cubic meters, which is pretty freaking big for something on land.

Imagine a cubic fish tank a meter in all dimensions, which can store a metric ton of water. Then imagine 25 of those, and you have how much water (or magma) a dragon displaces when going under it.

Another way to think about it is about 357 times the size of an average human or about 417 times the size of an average dwarf, elf, or goblin. Or a comparison to something slightly smaller: a bronze colossus is about 286 times the size of a human, making it about six and a half times as tall, and that's just 4/5 the size of a fully grown dragon.

[Di]

Waitaminute, entity_default contains only civ information, and megabeasts are uncivilized.
What minimal text should I add there to make them playable?
Oh and I guess randomized creatures are unavailable at all, right?

[Rowanas]

^Actually, that's 25 cubic meters, which is pretty freaking big for something on land.

Imagine a cubic fish tank a meter in all dimensions, which can store a metric ton of water. Then imagine 25 of those, and you have how much water (or magma) a dragon displaces when going under it.

Another way to think about it is about 357 times the size of an average human or about 417 times the size of an average dwarf, elf, or goblin. Or a comparison to something slightly smaller: a bronze colossus is about 286 times the size of a human, making it about six and a half times as tall, and that's just 4/5 the size of a fully grown dragon.

When you're good at maths people are amazed. When you're good at English, people tell you to stop being such a pedant and show more respect to dyslexics and foreigners.

[Sfon]

@Rowanas
That is because one of those is far more subjective than the other.

[minno]

^Actually, that's 25 cubic meters, which is pretty freaking big for something on land.

Imagine a cubic fish tank a meter in all dimensions, which can store a metric ton of water. Then imagine 25 of those, and you have how much water (or magma) a dragon displaces when going under it.

Another way to think about it is about 357 times the size of an average human or about 417 times the size of an average dwarf, elf, or goblin. Or a comparison to something slightly smaller: a bronze colossus is about 286 times the size of a human, making it about six and a half times as tall, and that's just 4/5 the size of a fully grown dragon.

Another way of looking at it is by weight.  Assuming that a dragon is neutrally buoyant (it's probably denser, so it will be heaver than what I calculate), 25,000,000 cm^3 = 25,000,000 g, which is 25 metric tons (which is about the same as 25 US tons).  This is about 4 times the weight of a large male African elephant.

[Jacob/Lee]

Another thing, if a dragon can melt a bronze collossus, how can a person stop it's dragonfire with a copper shield?

[Nivim]

Waitaminute, entity_default contains only civ information, and megabeasts are uncivilized.
What minimal text should I add there to make them playable?
Oh and I guess randomized creatures are unavailable at all, right?

The wiki can probably help you, but you're going to need to create your own creature, no-biome civilization, and possibly body parts, to get to play any of the randomly generated stuff. However, with megabeasts, it just involves making a civ for them, and making that civ always playable.