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[Neoskel]

I'm working on a few minor creature mods that should hopefully expand on vanilla DF without changing the feel of it too much. I'll compile them in this thread as i work on them.

Mineral Men:http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4540
***UPDATED FOR DF 2014***
Includes the following:

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Stone Man:http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4540
The first thing that i feel is complete enough to share is a 'stone man' creature which replaces gabbro men. Instead of representing each kind of stone as a separate creature, each stone type is represented as a separate caste in the 'stone man' creature. The castes now have different population ratios loosely based on the rarity of their respective stones.

There are no castes for ores which are smeltable in vanilla as they are covered with castes in the 'metal man' creature. There are also no castes for the two kinds of coal. They are covered the coal man creature. And lastly there is no petrified wood stone man because that should probably be more of a petrified treant than a 'element man'.

Metal Man:http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5304
At long last here is the 'metal man' creature to replace iron men. Each of the vanilla smeltable ores are represented as castes with population ratios based first on their material value and then on their perceived rarity. Thus copper and iron men are the most common and platinum and aluminum men are the least common. For now all of the different castes have renamed versions of the iron man's original gas and the syndrome related to it. I may go back at some point and actually give each '-man' a different syndrome instead of the blanket 'whatever man cough' they all have now. Rarer ones would probably have more debilitating effects or something.

There are no castes for alloys or -REDACTED- because the first don't occur naturally and the second is special.

Gem Men:http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5307
Also a long time coming, this is the 'gem man' intended to replace vanilla amethyst men. There are a huge number of different gem types in DF and almost all of them are represented by a caste in this creature. These guys have a whopping 100 castes! They have population ratios based on their material values and then their rarity.

No castes for any of the opal types because i'm pretty sure opals are defined by their structure/shape and it thus seems weird to make a man out of them. Also, they're not really 'gems' to my mind.

Coal Men and Clay Men
A generic coal man which drops a bar of coal on death and a generic clay man who drops a clay boulder on death. No castes here.

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UBER ADVENTURER:http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4545
***UPDATED FOR DF 2014***
I also currently have a special 'adventurer' creature which is completely and utterly overpowered and intended for going on omnicidal massacres. Lost a bit of speed due to the combat/attack speed split, but still faster than anything else. No longer has silly materials for organs, so no more heart of gold or nerves of steel. Can fly and has natural edged attacks, also has multiple legendary levels in all combat and movement skills.

[GreatWyrmGold]

*applause*

I'd like to see the adventurer--I want to see if you can un-inhabit-ize a fort by killing the lord/lady and/or all of his/her soldiers.

[Neoskel]

Ok, the adventurer creature is up.

One important feature i didn't mention before is that it has two natural bladed attacks. It can hack enemies with its arms and stab them with its hands. Unless you find addy equipment with quality levels these are your best bet to kill things with.

But my favorite thing to do with this guy when fighting bandits/soldiers is to wrestle their weapons away and kill them with their own weapon.

[Trapezohedron]

Ok, the adventurer creature is up.

One important feature i didn't mention before is that it has two natural bladed attacks. It can hack enemies with its arms and stab them with its hands. Unless you find addy equipment with quality levels these are your best bet to kill things with.

But my favorite thing to do with this guy when fighting bandits/soldiers is to wrestle their weapons away and kill them with their own weapon.

No mind blast? D:

[Neoskel]

Wow it's been a long time since i posted here. I finally got around to working on this stuff again and have finished more element men for the metals and the gems. Metal men replace iron men and gem men replace amethyst men. More info in first post. I've also added population ratios to the castes in the stone men to keep rarer stone types from showing up as often as more common ones.

In the interim between posting my computer died on me so i've lost all my progress on the animals and animal men so i'm going to have to start from scratch on them. On another note i intend to pack even more overpowered-ness into the Adventurer creature once the new version gets here. Expect fire breath, fireballs, webs, natural necromancy, a heart-stopping 'glare' interaction, and whatever else i can figure out with the new interaction system. Maybe an area effect interaction which destroys brains or causes unconsciousness for a better 'mind blast' type attack. It really doesn't make sense for a mind blast to be a touch attack.

In the meantime i'll see about making 'coal men' and whatnot. I was thinking of trying to make water men and maybe bile men, etc.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Don't mind if in the furture I snag some of these critters for my mod? Of course I'd give you credit for your hard work (100 castes for gem men holy hell I thought my zombies was tedious)

[Pokon]

Woh, nice job with these guys! No, alow me to quitly swipe them to my raw files...

[Neoskel]

Please, feel free to add these guys to your own mods and whatnot. I made them to be used. Credit is, of course, appreciated.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Please, feel free to add these guys to your own mods and whatnot. I made them to be used. Credit is, of course, appreciated.

Thanks and Credit given where Credit is due is what I always say

[Neoskel]

Whoa, encountered a couple bugs with some of these guys. Metal men where the wrong colors and all dropped iron statues and stonemen and the adventurer are unable to wrestle except with a held item for some reason. I fixed the problems with the metal men, but the wrestling issue is a little more elusive.

Apparently it has something to do with the stonemen and adventurer being made for an earlier version, as they had no trouble wrestling in 0.31.01. I have not been able to pinpoint the exact issue, so i think i'll just reconstruct them from the current version's creature files.

So be sure to download the new version of the metal men if you downloaded an older version.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I've attempted to make a civ out of the uber adventurer creature. They were wiped out by a lizardman hamlet in the mountains. Heh...I know worldgen can be funny like that, but I just like to note that somehow, a single hamlet of lizardmen manages to fight and kill a civ of adamantine-skinned, super fast, ridiculously overpowered genderless monstrosities.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

I've attempted to make a civ out of the uber adventurer creature. They were wiped out by a lizardman hamlet in the mountains. Heh...I know worldgen can be funny like that, but I just like to note that somehow, a single hamlet of lizardmen manages to fight and kill a civ of adamantine-skinned, super fast, ridiculously overpowered genderless monstrosities.

Power in numbers, where the Lizardmen can breed, the uber creatures cannot.
so no matter how many lizardmen get killed they just breed like rats, where as the uber creatures got what people they have until the bitter end.

[Hitty40]

Dear Armok...

This is awesome. Posting to watch.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Meh. Im going to go add genders to 'em and try to find some convoluted, possibly horribly disgusting way to explain why they can 'reproduce'.

[Hitty40]

Meh. Im going to go add genders to 'em and try to find some convoluted, possibly horribly disgusting way to explain why they can 'reproduce'.

'Armok had too much plump helmet wine.'