When I set savagery to high, I can't seem to find any pony settlements at the world map. Diomedian ponies, and some rainbow ponies, but no regular ponies.
Also, what are the settlements with no prefix (not "Buffalo Forest Retreat", "Human Fortress", "Rainbow Pony Hamlet", etc; just "Forest Retreat", "Hamlet")? Are those the regular ponies? If so.... derp.
That'd be odd. What you should do is check the civilisations in the legends mode, see if there are any actual pony civs. The regular pony sites should be marked as "Pony Whatever". What size world are you playing? You need quite a big one with all the different civs.
Do we have timberwolves yet?
I might add basic timberwolves, but I'm considering adding them when I do zap apples, which will have to wait for the next update, to see if I can use the were system to transform fruitless zapple trees based on weather conditions. Then, timberwolves would be a subcaste of zapple trees that are normally docile little pups, but were up as/just before zapples bloom, depending on how finely it can be controlled, so that they're always around when a herd of wild zapple trees are moving across the map, but only go crazy at blooming time. If this all works, special breeds of tree that transform based on other weather conditions or phases of the moon will be sensible extras.
That's probably where they got the inspiration from 
Most episodes showing now were written over a year ago, whereas the first version of the mod went live in March. I do sometimes wonder if some little references have been sneaked in, like Rainbow Dash calling her pet turtle Tank. It's a perfectly sensible thing to say if tanks are what we'd normally assume they are, but it could also be like calling a pet cat Tiger.
Neat little thing I'll probably save for the Ornate version: flying unicorns. It's not possible to do it randomly, so it would have to be a new caste which adds to the wall of text wall of text for adventurers picking their creature caste.
Question regarding
foo rainbow jays: Since the caste names and descriptions aren't showing up, I'll have to split the vermin into individual creatures so we actually get the blue, red, pink, green, and so on versions actually showing up visibly. The problem this creates is that it will mean splitting the rainbow jay pegs into different creatures, which I don't want to do, making rainbow jays an unspawning creature, which creates problems with a phantom showing up in prefstrings, or just making a new rainbow jay pegasus creature that doesn't draw data from rainbow jays at all. So unless someone's worked out how to make variant animals draw from several creatures cleanly, it's picking which inelegant solution we want. One possible way to "fix" the phantom prefstring problem is to make more fanciful creatures with materials defined or add materials to animals that don't have tissues for them so ponies can have preferences for jabberwocky tooth or horse feather, which is basically making cover traffic to hide the bug. Although, they will currently get preferences for chicken tooth and such, so it's not like it's unprecedented.
So which solution do people prefer? Splitting rainbow jay pegs, the phantom rainbow jay or just a new creature?
