@Lady Liberty Fae Dragons only live 7-14 years, and finish growing by age 2. White Dragons are (currently erroneously...) born much larger than normal dragons, take 50 years to reach their mid size, as opposed to dragons taking 10, but on the flip side white dragons reach their full size at 500 years old rather than 1000. Though they are a bit smaller than normal dragons even fully grown.

also fantastic work on the mod, make me want to try and add in a cave dragon that has adamantine skin that it gets from hanging around adamantine spires, or maybe one with divine metal skin that it gets from hanging around vaults, idk just thought about it

do the white dragons and fae dragons grow the same way normal dragons do over 1000 years?

Ah, rhanks!

@Drakli in the difficulty settings menu, you can edit advanced options to decide what a specific 'trigger' is tied too. The three options are 'enemy population triggers', 'enemy production triggers' and 'enemy trade triggers'. You'll notice each setting has 3 different 'tiers' of values. Each tier is a trigger you can modify to effect when certain things begin to happen, so in vanilla you'll only begin to get far-off trade caravans after hitting I /think/ trade trigger tier 2?

Vanilla megabeast also cannot attack your fort until you hit tiers 3 on all three triggers by default, so the modded megabeast here will show up just fine like any other megabeast, so no need to worry there. You can edit the numbers for each trigger tier manually in the settings too, if you want stuff like titans and megabeast to attack earlier.

You can read a bit more of a detailed description on the DF wiki here: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Difficulty#Default_settings

So far, this mod is great! I have a question, please. I was going through the megabeasts and realized I have no idea what "possible spawn at difficulty settings 3/3/3," or "2/2/2" mean. Is it tied to the initial difficulty you choose when picking how aggressive enemies are going to be? But that doesn't map too well because the settings are off, normal, and hard, so it sounds like it's something else I'm worried I locked some cool creatures out of the world because of some settings I don't know about.

Ran into a bug where if traders have a barrel of Fenrir venom, and unload it into the trading depot, it will cause the trading depot to break apart. (i used df hack to dump it out of the barrel from the wagon before it reached the depot and the trade depot no longer broke) I did test it over several re-loads and different traders, and the depot only breaks when fenrir venom is present.

@JosieRosie They are not trainable creatures (common domestics), no. Though it's possible for vanilla Elves to tame them in world gen. They cannot be trained for hunting or war either, but if you do capture and train (and domesticate them for your civ...) or obtain an otherwise tame one you could ride it in adventure mode just fine.

Are the Pegasus trainable mounts? If not could they be?

okay i went through the errorlog, i didn't have anything come up when i searched for "fae", "duplicate", or "raws"

i guess i'll have to try and remake the problem and see if it does it again. it hasn't done it sicne and i played a lot of worlds before that and it never did it before.

@ParasiticSquid I had to google what that was, but yeah no that's a pretty damn spot on comparison.

Going through the screenshots and seeing creature two in screenshot three all I can think is "Wait, is that a frickin grabboid?"

@Paches imma be real with you, I'm not sure how it would be possible for the Giant Fae Dragons to birth normal ones, since stuff like babies are pretty hard coded. Maybe since they have the [copy tags from fae_dragon] tag? but all giant animals have those, and that isn't an issue.

I have to ask, do you perhaps have some errors in your errorlog? (if you right click the game in steam and select 'Manage->Browse Local Files' it'll be a .txt file in that folder) If there are any errors relating to 'DUPLICATE RAW's, you probably have a mod that tries to CUT and replace materials, which you can't actually do.

The reason I say this is the usual cause for 'X creature or item suddenly gets replaced by another' is caused by duplicate raws, as because they're duplicated it causes the 2nd copies to kinda get 'shuffled' and for anything after it to also get shuffled.

If you could check and get back to me I could probably take a look into it further.

well i had a bit of early fun with a wandering demon, this new game the giant fae dragons are popping out giant fae dragon babies. the only difference i can think of that i did on embark was i didn't start with regular fae dragons (which i butchered on the last map after spawning in giant fae dragons to replace them) so maybe the giant fae dragon were breeding with the regular fae dragons so when they finally gave birth they all came out as small besides one?

wish i could edit comments, i forgot to mention i had one giant fae dragon actually have giant fae dragon babies.

ran into a bug. Giant fae dragons have regular fae babies. i know giant faw dragon babies exist because some elves just showed up with one.

@Paches glad you're having fun :)

Mandrakes do have a much more detailed description in the Discussions tab, along with their ale's effects, though you're right, I probably should put a small warning on the main page for them for people who (likely) wont read it.

Love your mod, wonderful sprites. Mandrake could use a warning on the mod description page, I rarely go out of comments unless there's a bug.

A caravan showed up with some mandrake, my curious dwarves decided to purchase some to make booze and farm with unknowing of the danger. A month later my legendary sword dwarf takes a swig and goes into a berserk, being clad in steel he killed half the tavern before calming down.

Mandrake are officially outlawed as well.

15/10 mod, did not expect early FUN

Okay, I've sorted out the problem. Indeed, the main incompatibility was with the translator program (Dfint). If someone also encounters this problem in the future, then you need to completely delete the folder with DF (steam itself will not delete all files), reinstall the game, create a world with the necessary mods and start the game. Only then can you install Dfint on top, then everything will work.

Okay, thank you!

@Shiro Interesting...i've never heard of that error before. If I had to guess, you're playing on a computer that's in a different language than english? This may be a bug with the game being unable to translate latin characters somehow, if it's affecting other mods you have. I would suggest making a bug report/bringing this up to Putnam (one of the game's developers) on the kitfox discord, and she should be able to figure out the problem (or fix it if it's an issue with the game itself)

I'm sorry! I wrote the error myself because it couldn't be copied. but yes, it said mcnuggys mythical beast (301), I didn't rename anything. it turns out that this is really a problem for me, because the same mistake happens with other mods that add new creatures. for some reason, df can't find corpses. reinstalling mods or the game itself did not help. I started looking for something in the folders and found a strange folder in Dwarf Fortress\data\installed_mods\mcnuggys mythical beast (301)\graphics\images, which is called ЄҐ­в ўа. There are only two folders available to me on this path, ЄҐ­в ўа and portraits. Is that how it should be?

@Sohiro, looking at the message you posted there's a typo in "mcnuggets mythical beast (301)". It should be "mcnuggys mythical beast (301)", did you somehow rename the mod's folder? Otherwise, I tried creating a test world with the mod and could not recreate the error. I would suggest redownloading the mod and reinstalling it to fix the issue.

hello! I get this error every time I try to create a world with a mod. Not found: data/installed_mods/mcnuggets mythical beast (301)/graphics/images/centaur/mb_centaur_corpse.png

Yeah, I looked into it and I'd say they probably just weren't fertilised. I'll just have to let them keep on roosting. Cheers for the response.

@Moffman egg hatch times are hardcoded and cannot be changed in any way.

If I had to guess either your eggs weren't fertilized by a male (either the male isn't interested in breeding, or can't access the female) or the mothers were scared off their nest at some point, where the eggs then 'died' because if they leave their nest while incubating ever they just don't hatch anymore.

Hey, trying to breed a griffon colony, I have two hippogriffs and one griffon s on eggs for about a year. My question is does anybody know how long it takes to hatch griff chicks? (None of the beasts have been interfered with)

thank u for the response! i will probably edit them to be aquatic so that they do the kelpie thing of baiting people into the water before killing them, just because i think that'd be neat.

also, is the reason they aren't marked as trainable a reference to senshi failing to tame one in dungeon meshi?

@Dreamyr centaurs have their max gait copied from horses, who can run at 70kph, which is about as going mach jesus as you can get in dwarf fortress.

I will say I find this funny, as I've had basically the same experience in my new fort, but with a single vanilla giant cockatiel, and then 6 more immediately after also nearly destroying my fort before summer had even came. The fun and unpredictability of dwarf fortress often comes from the game already being utter bullshit.

That being said, pingin's comment down below did make me look over some of the creatures and see some's cluster sizes and frequencies were a bit too high, one of which being centaurs which I did lower for the next update (No longer spawn in Savannah, frequency down to 20, cluster size down to 2-4)

Centaur charges are way too strong. It's my first summer and I just watched a single Centauress fight my both my wargs, griffons, and a dwarf. She has no weapons and has already killed one of my griffons and injured everyone else.

Looking at the combat log most of what she does is just charge and knock them over. Unless she's going mach jesus there isn't any way she should be doing that kind of damage to a griffon with a charge.

There's also another eight of them outside my fortress entrance that I'm going to have to DFhack away because like hell is that even a fighting chance for a fort in its first summer.

@pingin just removing the [AMPHIBIOUS] tag on them and replacing it with [AQUATIC] would make them effectively fish (unable to breath on land, but they'd stay in water and attack things near the edge).

Though I'll keep them amphibious in my end, looking at them I realize their frequency and pop numbers are a little high, so i'll probably lower those for the next minor update.

kelpies might be due a nerf. they'd be fine if they actually stayed in the water but they end up coming out and into the fortress going on a rampage - their kicks can kill a dwarf very quickly. is there some way to make them behave like pond grabbers? (staying in the water and grabbing dwarves who wander past the waterline)

@pingin hell yeah. I encourage people to edit their own mods/raws to fit their play style. As for the undead dragon thing, it does have the [FANCIFUL] token, which according to the df wiki causes artistic depictions (like statues or engravings) to appear even for something tagged [DOES_NOT_EXIST], it's also possible having the [MEGABEAST] token is causing it to freak out in combo? Since megabeast are placed in a different phase of world gen, it might be causing them to bypass [DOES_NOT_EXIST]?

can also just put a CUT token after the undead dragon in it's raws to remove it in theory, or just delete it's raw entry entirely.

ok even if i add [DOES_NOT_EXIST] undead dragons keep appearing in worldgen. this is def not a bug with the mod im just stupid

love this mod dearly. made some small edits this time around, removing some of the dragon variants (as i've installed procedural dragons, and i worry there might be some overlap?) and giving wargs PET_EXOTIC rather than pet - i didn't like how they were almost always domesticated in worldgen and ended up being just better dogs.

@Jabbamonkey What biome did you embark in? Was this a new fortress made with the new update, or an old one? Recent update changed them to only spawn in tropical swamps, with a frequency of 2. They also have an incredibly tiny population of 10 max per region.

Got the Basilisk on my fortress map ... they came as often as deer regularly do. About 3 at a time, and annoyingly kept turning dwarves and visitors to stone. They came way too frequently and forced me to turn off the mod.

Sounded (and looks) cool. But then I read some of the comments and descriptions regarding the.. 1 shot kill attacks. Yeeaahh, nah lol.

love this mod, the sprites are gorgeous and the creatures are Fun! I haven't explored enough to figure everything out, but I'm still trying to figure out how I exited my game with a breeding pair of tame hippogriffs, and loaded back to a couple mogall in their same place, having cuckoo'd their nest. So far my best guess is ceremorphosis.

@Edern yeah a few people have complained about the Basilisk in adventure mode, when I made this mod and put them in Adventure mode beta hadn't even dropped yet so I didn't really plan for it with their stare. But now that adventure mode is out fully I plan to actually play through it and update the mod to fix some of the balancing issues, especially with the Basilisk.

As for now if you want, you could use CUT commands after the Basilisk's raw entry to remove them.

Great mod overall, but Basilisks are the most unfun thing to encounter in Adventure Mode, that's essentially an instant death with no counterplay if you don't instantly use DFHack's gm-editor (for anyone wanting to know how to use this, go to your symptoms until you see a list with only one element, then press Alt-d on that element, this will remove the symptom) to clear the symptom and then full-heal

@morningstar the closest would be the creature descriptions on the mod's Discussions tab

Does a detailed description of the animals exist? like the wiki ones, leve a link to a black bear for example of what i mean https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Black_bear

Breeding Hippogriff, do they have live birth or need a nesting box? Also a list of requirements for breeding would be nice (if I may have missed it I appologize).

@a Dandy Guy the reasoning for Mandrake root/ale is as mentioned in the Discussions tab about them, mostly just for fun and chaos. The entire purpose is to sorta be like russian roulette, with the benefit being you can ignore and not plant/brew with it if you don't want to. As for why you embark by default with it, it's added to embark by default because it's an underground plant that dwarves have access to by default.

As for making it unable to be cooked/brewed with, you should be able to forbid using it from the kitchen menu screen? Can also use DFhack to export/import cooking rules and the like between words as well, if I recall correctly.

In theory maybe it's value as an item is cheaper than the other options, so it usually defaults to selecting them instead of other stuff like plump helmets? I suppose I can look into it when I get back to DF modding, but usually it's not too much trouble to just select other seeds to embark with, or save/restore embark presets with other seeds.

is there any way to set all the mandrake items to do not eat by default? and why do they always seem to replace half the plants in the preparation screen by default?

I'm a bit confused on the purpose of the mandrake root in general, and it's a bit annoying that there seems to be a bias that forces some mandrake items to start in your preparing inventory with every game start replacing half your starting food with poison by default. sometimes I like to just start a blind run and now if I do that I almost inevitably have mandrake root/seeds as half my food stock.

I like the mod for the most part, some good classic beasts, and the addition of mandrake root as a plant makes sense but in my current understanding of the game I'm not certain why I'd want to start with mandrake root ale or roots in my stock, and if it only poisons dwarves I don't understand why I'd farm it in general... unless I got to the point where I had nobles and just really wanted one dead.

@Zayven if you open taverns you can potentially get them to visit as guest or researchers. Though as they are 'wild' intelligent creatures, similarly to Gnoms and animal people, usually them showing up in the wild around your fort will have them be neutral/aggressive towards you by default.

Is there any way to befriend / adopt a pixie in Fortress mode? Or am I fated to just constantly kill them and be sad about it? :( They're marked as intelligent but it doesn't seem to have any effect except to .. not be able to do anything with them.

Instant download as soon as I saw Quetzalcoatl.

giant wargs are disgusting basically, should be nerfed asap imo