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[Naryar]

What would be totally awesome would be friendly undead. Like, undead legendary soldier ghosts/zombies/skeletons that have died in battle occasionally rising up from their graves and defending the fortress against a siege as friendlies, then disappearing forever to Dwarven Valhalla/to sit next to the throne of ARMOK, GOD OF BLOOD or something.

[EveryZig]

1. Carve out an underground city, separate from your fortress
Fill with zombies
Drop Goblins down there in groups of four
Left 4 Dorf

2. A *goblin meat roast* sock to any who can make a DF version of Ruby Quest.

[Girlinhat]

I'm more considering the vast uses of curses!  Think about it!  We could have a sheep-ifying weapon, as in Warcraft 3, the infamous chickenfoot, transformations of dwarves into dragons, or perhaps some strange varient species that inflicts a transformation upon its captured enemies, turning them into stone-skinned combatants that defend the fortress.  Borg, anyone?  Urist McMigrantCheesemaker being cursed to become a huge boulder of shist, or a captured elf general turned into a tree!

[Musashi]

Would turning elves into werewolves be considered a punishment, an improvement, or both?

[Necro910]

I AM GOING TO MAKE LEFT 4 DORF WHEN THIS IS DONE!

Omononmnomnomnomom.

[INSANEcyborg]

Reminds me of a 40d fort I made.  It was a haunted lake surrounded by a normal lands.  I drained the lake, built a clear glass fort in it, and refilled it.  It even had an air lock in it so I could dump stuff in it without flooding the fortress.  Because dumping corpses into a lake filled with undead was obviously the best way to get rid of them.  Anyway, I lost it due to a combination of the new version being released, an FPS death, and a minor miscalculation in the airlock's automation system.   When a dwarf went to dump something, it they were supposed to path onto a pressure plate that would open one hatch and shut the other, and reversed it when they stepped off.  One plate couldn't do it by itself and the secondary system...  resulted in a lot of FUN.   I look forward to these curses and round 2 of my fort.

[Shootandrun]

This should be fun. I will make my fortresses using a isolation system that will let me close any section of the fortress that is infected... Or lock one to save the survivors.

[Necro910]

I'm more considering the vast uses of curses!  Think about it!  We could have a sheep-ifying weapon, as in Warcraft 3

A metal that has the injected curse of sheepification. It can be used to make bolts 

[rawrcakes]

Would curses and such actually be able to add bodyparts etc. to a creature? I'm getting all kinds of wonderful images of alien infestation here*.





*dead dwarves' beards taking over attacking goblins, making them friendly.

[Girlinhat]

Well, werewolves will work via a curse, and this will probably add hair and fangs and claws, at the least, so very likely yes.  I'm suspecting that a curse will work as a new raw type, such as curse_default.txt, and this defines things like "add hair" or "remove skin".  Alternatively, you may define another creature that doesn't normally exist, and the curse can be used to have a transformation target, turning X creature into target creature over a given length of time.

I feel this is growing very close to slavery, as it may or may not allow us to have a caste of dwarves which doesn't naturally exist (pop_ratio:0 maybe?) but have a curse that transforms a creature into this sub-caste, in theory allowing us to create sub-dwarves to haul and stuff.  But, we'll have to see how this works...

[Necro910]

Well, werewolves will work via a curse, and this will probably add hair and fangs and claws, at the least, so very likely yes.  I'm suspecting that a curse will work as a new raw type, such as curse_default.txt, and this defines things like "add hair" or "remove skin".  Alternatively, you may define another creature that doesn't normally exist, and the curse can be used to have a transformation target, turning X creature into target creature over a given length of time.

I feel this is growing very close to slavery, as it may or may not allow us to have a caste of dwarves which doesn't naturally exist (pop_ratio:0 maybe?) but have a curse that transforms a creature into this sub-caste, in theory allowing us to create sub-dwarves to haul and stuff.  But, we'll have to see how this works...

It'll probably be something like

[TRANSFORM_TO_SELF]

[Sarda]

I just want skull to be a material so I can have elf skull codpieces. Especially one that transforms the wearer into something weird.

[Girlinhat]

You could already mod in something similar, but I would personally be less inclined to put anything elven down there...

[BunnyBob77]

The curses system is gonna be awesome.  I think toady said somewhere that they might be able to be used for positive things too.  So you might be able to have some kind of really tough beast that, upon killing it, the person who defeated it gets some sort of awesome blessing.  You could also have something like if you eat a dragon's heart than you become much stronger or something like that.  I'd totally love to be able to do that.  Having weird undead would be cool too.  If like, your awesome adamantine-clad axelord dies and your fort is destroyed, you could come back in adventure mode to learn that his zombie is terrorizing the town.  The curses system is looking pretty amazing right now.

[hjd_uk]

< Goblin Necromancer The Plauge Undying Has Arrived! >

< Goblin Necromancer raises the dead! >

< Urist McPeasant cancels store item in stockpile, interrupted by stockpile! >

< The Stockpile is Fighting! >

< The Peasant Urist McPeasant is Fighting! >

< Reanimated Goblin Skull bites Urist McPeasant on the Left First Toe, the severed part files off in an arc! >