I made a test world last night, I just moved all the dwarf raws up to the allowed jobs, to caste level and made these creatures into castes of dwarves [CASTE:HYDRA] [CASTE:NIGHTWING] [CASTE:STRANGLER] [CASTE:BLENDEC_FOUL] [CASTE:COLOSSUS_BRONZE] [CASTE:DRAGON]. I didn't alter anything, I was just curious to see the effects.
I tried to gen a standard world but the game kept crashing, almost as f it didn't want to contemplate the implications of the world it was being asked to create. I tried again with advanced parameters, setting playable civs to zero and after a few attempts I got a world.
I jumped straight into fortress mode and start looking for a place to embark, then I checked my neighbours
intriguing....sadly the game still insisted on crashing then I tried to embark. So I went into Legends mode to find this Dragonic Civ.
It started with a dwarven queen who wasn't very interesting apart from the fact that she seemed to live alone with a Dragonic general
They both died of starvation after 4-5 years
That left room for Iton Metalurns THE THUNDERS OF MANGE!!!1! -the bronze colossus and best pump operator ever, to become king.
Iton was born to two proud dwarven parents and was a middle child having both an older and younger dwarven brother who were utterly useless,( one became a farmer and almost imidiatly starved to death....farming in dwarf fortress is not difficult!) I'm betting he felt left out, I just hope he wasn't bullied too much.
I'm kind of confused as to how the younger brother was even born...I'm assuming that Iton caused some damage coming in to this world.
Here's the man himself
He was eventually killed when an elf he was destroying got a lucky hit, I checked the elfs history, he seemed to be so injured from the attack , he was never able to kill anything else and was eventually slain by a nigh creature.
In addition to a bronze colossus king, they also had a colossus general Ingish Catstaves The Scraped Blazes.
He tamed olms, giant bats and giant cave swallows, giant toads and voracious cave crawlers, Killed 8 notable elves and 51 others along with a host of random wildlife till he was killed by a giant panda in a battle I'm imagining looked something like an old Godzilla movie.
other than that there were a hand full of other citizens including a strangler general a dull foul blendic and an ineffectual hydra farmer .
It seems there were only about five dwarves in existence and they all starved to death by year 5. The civ only lasted about 120 years . The reason for this is probly due to the fact that the sub castes in the creature raws were not recognised so none of the creatures had gender, this means that the dwarfs that reproduced had a 5/6 chance of yielding infertile young. The fact that severla of the offspring had building destroyer 2 probably didn't help. I'm assuming that the the bronze colossi were born, destroyed their own settlements, and didn't starve because they don't eat and just kept attacking other civs.
I'm now going to edit the raws to try and make the creatures fertile and less hostile to their own civ and give the civ more a "12Bay-esque" set of ethics. and hopefully get a working fortress mode.
I'm also very interested to see if the genetics will apply cross species ie will gigantic dragons give birth to gigantic dwarfs?
Any suggestions for what creatures should be included?
Damn, id love a bunch of half dwarf half dragons, would make tantrum spirals so much fun. I really hope this is achievable without too much work
That shouldn't be hard at all, what kind of population % would you like?
Hmm, more seriously speaking, do you think there should be hybrids to some extent? Like ligers/tigons/mules/etc being able to breed in fortress mode and stuff?
Yes. but rather than just allow for those specific creatures, I think it would be better to make some kind of [can breed with creature:] token that would yield specific castes. to keep things as general and modifiable as possible, not to mention some more in depth genetics.
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