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Wooden golems (just made of wood)

2 (2%)

Tree creatures (supernaturally living, replacing hair and such with leaves)

32 (31.7%)

Other plant creatures

6 (5.9%)

Metallic golems (allowing all metals)

16 (15.8%)

Stone golems

8 (7.9%)

Glass golems

2 (2%)

Flesh/organ golems

15 (14.9%)

Blood/alcohol golems

11 (10.9%)

Magma creatures

9 (8.9%)

Total Members Voted: 101

[Knight Otu]

  That's just weird. With all that, it should work for you. It works for me, and I haven't heard from anyone else that it doesn't work.

[Knight Otu]

I should mention that I now have a tumblr, Castle Otu. I'll be using it to post updates to my mods and other projects, most likely, and I have posted/queued up some posts regarding the random creature scripts. It feels cleaner than multi-posting. Of course I'll still announce new versions here on the forums as well.

[Ombragon]

Finally, I have found the problem, you just can't put the generator files in object...
 
And some of these mad beasts

beauty wereboar
fruit boar

mammoth of discoveries
leech of dragons
stealing butterfly (bandit moth ?)
princess weaver (what ??)
wine newt

And the powerful rhinoceros of incineration who have scales and really hard chitin

[Knight Otu]

I'm still not sure what happened there, but I'm glad it's resolved!

[Thuellai]

Here's a question to all of you - right now, the random hag script creates hags with "translated" hag names - cirikos and lanamis from the elven language, for example. I'm thinking of doing something similar with the other scripts as well. This could result, for example in -
A roz bear (blade bear)
A cluster obash (cluster swine)
A nopo donkey (despair donkey)
A tongus adder (malign adder)
An ux charger (grim charger)
An udir barghest (black barghest)
A gùmur courser (idle courser)
Irìci wolf men (brass wolf men)
Nail keth (nail deer)
Exma cheetahs (dung cheetahs)

and so on. What do you think of this? Should it happen? How often? I've added a poll if you don't want to post, but I'd prefer to hear what you think.

Definitely in favor of this, if it hasn't been said already.  Some of the random names are a bit silly written in english, but if run through translation files it would feel more...  fantasy-ish?  Heck, if you wanted to get really fancy you could include language support, so that people who have modded languages can copy them into a folder and have some of your random creatures get names in the native tongues of their custom races.

[Knight Otu]

Yeah, the translated names are definitely happening. The scripts go through the existing language files in the chosen directory, so you can copy in language files from mods, or use mods themselves, and the languages get used in naming the creatures.

[Thuellai]

Yeah, the translated names are definitely happening. The scripts go through the existing language files in the chosen directory, so you can copy in language files from mods, or use mods themselves, and the languages get used in naming the creatures.

Awesome.  You do fine work, Otu.

[Knight Otu]

Update! If you've read what I've posted to Tumblr, you'll know most of what I've done - most importantly, there is a new script, and technically, it's not a creature script. There are now random vampires to encounter. They can entrance you, drain you, shapeshift - and many are best fought with a specific wooden weapon. There's a lot to do with vampires still (the appropriate animal forms don't even get venom yet, and there are no translated names for vampires either).

Changelogs:

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Beasts of Myth:
# v1.0 Changelog
# The scripts are now scanning the raws for inorganics that they can use for material weaknesses and fully inorganic creatures.
# The beast and vermin scripts now scan the language raws for translations of animal names and adjectives, and use them occasionally.
# Made unconventional trade animals require a certain minimum size - trade foxes are a bit ridiculous - and limited them some more. Also, nondomestics now receive the trade tags.
# Resolved some potential showstoppers with modded language and symbol files. Such mods might be less suited for the scripts.
# Allowed beasts to have strange oddities, like many eyes, heads, legs, or strange tails.
# Added cerberi and underhounds as canine types
# Added serpent fiends, amphisbaenas, werevipers, sea serpents, and grootslangs as snake types; crocotaurs as crocodilian types; zaratans as turtle types; and leotaurs as large cat types
# Added rhinotaurs, monster bats, armadillos, kangaroos, whales, seals, tapirs, sloths, monster moles, jackalopes, chupacabras, ground sloths, armadillo men, yetis, mammoth men, elephantaurs, weresloths, kangaroo fiends, rhino fiends, werehippos, and giants as nonpredator mammalian types
# Added carp, sharks, gars, pikes, eels, eel men, weresharks, and carp fiends as fish types
# Added buzzards, chickens, crows, ducks, eagles, emus, falcons, fowl, geese, harpies, hawks, hawk men, kestrels, ospreys, ostriches, owls, parrots, penguins, raptors, ravens, rocs, sirines, striges, swans, storks, turkeys, vultures, vulture fiends, and werefalcons as bird types
# Added monster spiders, monster scorpions, monster hornets, monster beetles, monster ants, beetle men, werespiders, bhotitaurs, and scorpion fiends as arthropod/insect types.
# Added monster leeches, octopuses, krakens, monster snails, monster starfish, monster squid, squid fiends, and snail men as invertebrate types.
# The appropriate birds get to hunt vermins diving, rooting through dirt, and gobbling vermin.
# Resolved a problem with chitin/boneless body detail plan token
# Made some changes to biome generation.
# Changed up descriptions
# Giant animals with a trade capacity now get a higher trade capacity to go along with their increased size.

Random Hags:
# v0.2 Changelog
# The scripts are now scanning the raws for inorganics that they can use for material weaknesses and fully inorganic creatures.
# The script now scans the language raws for translations of hag, crone, and witch, and uses them occasionally.
# Resolved some potential showstoppers with modded language and symbol files. Such mods might be less suited for the scripts.
# Allowed hags to have oddities, such as many heads, arms, eyes, or strange tails.

Random Vampires:
# v0.1 changelog
# First script version - 20 vampires generated
# There are 8 different "vampire powers". Most vampires will have one. They can have more, or none.
# Vampires with a single power or without a power get one of their improved attributes replaced to make them more unique from each other.

Random Vermin:
# v0.5 Changelog
# The scripts are now scanning the raws for inorganics that they can use for material weaknesses and fully inorganic creatures.
# The beast and vermin scripts now scan the language raws for translations of animal names and adjectives, and use them occasionally.
# Resolved some potential showstoppers with modded language and symbol files. Such mods might be less suited for the scripts.
# Resolved a problem with chitin/boneless body detail plan token
# Added slugs, snails, and squids as invertebrate types
# Added fish, loach, perch, trout, salmon, and rays as fish types
# Added birds, sparrows, swallows, jays,  orioles, and grebes as bird types
# Added and moles, bats, tamarins, tarsiers, shrews and marmosets as non-rodent mammal types
# Added dark spiders as spider types
# Added hamsters, gerbils, and voles as rodent types
# Added pond turtles and salamanders as amphibian/reptilian types

[Knight Otu]

The Random Raw Scripts have been updated for 0.40.08!

Beasts of Myth now generates multiple creature files - aquatic, cavern, domestic, fiend, night, mega, sapient, and standard, "monster" creature types get different adjectives, underhounds now get named in the vein of cavern hound or gloom hound, and new creature types are monster worms, shedu, aigicampi (sea goats), wyverns, and undershark (which get the same name treatment as underhounds).
Random Vampires now get some translated names, and venomous shapeshift forms do get their venom. There also was an uncommon-ish crash because the old version did not properly remove the potential of a vampire having both a flight form and a combat form.
Random Vermin somehow managed to lack the logic to give soil colony vermin like bees the soil colony tag and some related tags. It does have the logic now.

Changelogs:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Beasts of Myth:
# v1.2 Changelog
# Split the generated raws among multiple files. This should aid in seeing that DF's raw parser isn't stuck, and should help in sorting out less-wanted creatures.
# Added support for gaits
# Changed BODY_SIZE token generation, moving most logic to the constants file. This causes little change to the raws, though dragons now have only two age categories, as the vanilla dragon does.
# Added GLOWTILEs for werebeasts and creatures with eyes as striking feature and LIGHT/FIRE adjectives.
# Limited sphere-derived colors to a smattering of spheres.
# Added basic vision_arc support.
# Added new attack flags/token
# Added odor/smell tokens, mostly for "bad" smells, and cannot_jump/cannot_climb tokens for appropriate creatures.
# Added orientation token and sense creature class token for night troll equivalents
# Added grass trample 0 and no vegetation perturb for good forest creatures, satyrs, and unicorns
# Added sweat, tears, and spit
# Made 'monster' creatures have random adjectives other than monster.
# Added monster worms as underground invertebrate beasts (that category was severely hard to generate).
# Added shedu as hoof-type megabeasts, and aigicampi (sea-goats) as hoof-type aquatic creatures.
# Added wyverns as reptilian semimegabeasts
# Added undersharks as cavern fish types
# Added some missing spheres for rocs.
# Resolved a typo that turned chickens into quadrupeds.
# Resolved a typo that has been unnoticed ever since the rewrite...
# Moved base max age and relsize generation to the constants script.
# Added tusk, beak, and bill as potential (if relatively meaningless) striking features.
# Generating domestic-only creatures was a bit too eager to mark creatures as domestic-only.
# Added humps for mammoths and wargs.
# Fixed a missing root around tag for chickens and such
# A few instances of SEAL rather than SEAL_ANIMAL
# Underhounds and undersharks get renamed to cavern/tunnel/murk/abyss/etc hounds/sharks

Random Hags:
# v0.3 Changelog
# Added support for gaits
# Updated personalities
# Added GLOWTILEs for hags with eyes as striking feature and LIGHT/FIRE adjectives, and some random hags.
# Limited sphere-derived colors to a smattering of spheres.
# Added basic vision_arc support.
# Added new attack flags/token
# Added odor/smell tokens, mostly for "bad" smells, and cannot_jump/cannot_climb tokens for appropriate creatures.
# Added orientation token and sense creature class token for night troll equivalents

Random Vampires:
# v0.2 changelog
# Updated generated raws for new gaits and stock vampire power
# Gave combat forms high bravery, flight forms low bravery
# Venom for appropriate shapeshift forms
# Translated names
# Resolved an uncommon crash in which a vampire had both a flight form and a combat form

Random Vermin:
# v0.6 Changelog
# Added support for gaits
# Changed BODY_SIZE token generation, moving most logic to the constants file.
# Added GLOWTILEs for creatures with eyes as striking feature and LIGHT/FIRE adjectives.
# Moved base max age and relsize generation to the constants script.
# Added tusk, beak, and bill as potential (if relatively meaningless) striking features.
# Limited sphere-derived colors to a smattering of spheres.
# Added basic vision_arc support.
# Added new attack flags/token
# Added odor/smell tokens, mostly for "bad" smells, and cannot_jump/cannot_climb tokens for appropriate creatures.
# Making colony creatures actually have the soil_colony tag apparently never had happened. It happens now.

[Knight Otu]

I've posted a small update to bring this script to 0.40.13. This mostly means that grazer animals now get STANDARD_GRAZER unless their scripted hunger is high or low. But that's not everything. There was a bug in the scripts where shell materials/tissues were added twice, and for some reason, chimps were grazers. Finally, I added leocampi (half lion, half fish), crabs, monster crabs, and spider crabs to the beasts, lobsters to the vermin, and the potential for beasts, vermin, and hags to have crab/scorpion-like pincers.

[GM-X]

Not sure if I did something dumb. Clicked on beast_myth.py and generated mostly 1KB creature_ raws with no tags. Here are the complete raws:

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creature_random_myth_beast_fiend

[OBJECT:CREATURE]

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creature_random_vermin

[OBJECT:CREATURE]

The same with Hags, and Vampires hang up after selecting the raw export directory.

[Knight Otu]

Hm. Sounds like the problem Ombragon had earlier in the thread for beasts, vermin, and hags. Are you running the scripts through vanilla, or Mythos of Rammok? Are you extracting the scripts into the raw folder? Can you perhaps run the scripts in a terminal or something and look if you get an error message?

I'm not sure where the vampires would hang. Perhaps when it tries to read the plant files for wood.

Edit - Okay, you'll get a rather predictable error when you're putting the scripts into the raw/objects folder. I can fix that one at least. In the meantime, don't put the scripts into the raw/objects folder.

[GM-X]

Hm. Sounds like the problem Ombragon had earlier in the thread for beasts, vermin, and hags. Are you running the scripts through vanilla, or Mythos of Rammok? Are you extracting the scripts into the raw folder? Can you perhaps run the scripts in a terminal or something and look if you get an error message?

I'm not sure where the vampires would hang. Perhaps when it tries to read the plant files for wood.

Edit - Okay, you'll get a rather predictable error when you're putting the scripts into the raw/objects folder. I can fix that one at least. In the meantime, don't put the scripts into the raw/objects folder.

I was just exacting to an empty folder.

I assumed the scripts generated whole raws from thin air. So it was just me doing something dumb. 

[Knight Otu]

Ah, no, the scripts need some help from the raws. But you did point me to something dumb I was doing, so that's good. I think I'll up the priority to get the GUI for the scripts up and running - that already makes it clearer that the scripts want the raw/objects folder.

[GM-X]

Ah, no, the scripts need some help from the raws. But you did point me to something dumb I was doing, so that's good. I think I'll up the priority to get the GUI for the scripts up and running - that already makes it clearer that the scripts want the raw/objects folder.

These scripts are 100% awesome. Generated eight of the scariest vampires strains I've ever seen. I added some giant incest transformations and limited necro-power to one strain. Also lowered most durations:

[8-Vampire Strains & Hexes:]  http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=143540.msg5711257#msg5711257