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A full list of all known [[creature]] [[token]]s.

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| Tame creature cannot be made available for adoption, instead automatically adopting whoever it wants, used by [[cat]]s in the vanilla game. The basic requirements for adoption are intact, and the creature will only adopt individuals who have a [[preference]] for their species.

| Creature needs alcohol to get through the working day, choosing to drink booze instead of water if possible. Going sober for too long reduces speed.

| Sets the creature to be active during the day, night, and twilight in Adventurer Mode. Seems to be a separate value from DIURNAL/NOCTURNAL/CREPUSCULAR, rather than implying them.

| If set, the creature will blink between its TILE and its ALTTILE.  

| Found on LARGE_PREDATORs who ambush their prey. Instead of charging relentlessly at prey, the predator will wait till the prey is within a few squares before charging. May or may not work on other creatures. {{verify}}

| Allows a creature to breathe with or without [[water]] - does not prevent drowning in [[magma]].

| Caste

*Range

| [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60554.msg1766793#msg1766793 Forum post describing how description ranges work]

| Caste

| Caste

| Caste

| Creates a noun for the appearance and whether it is singular or plural.

| Caste

*CV TEMPLATE NAME

| Applies the specified [[creature variation token|creature variation]].

| Applies the effects of all pending [[#CV_ADD_TAG|CV_ADD_TAG]] and [[#CV_REMOVE_TAG|CV_REMOVE_TAG]] tokens that have been defined in the current creature.

| Creature can breathe in water, but air-drowns on dry land.  

| Does not appear in the object testing arena's creature spawning list.

| Can be kept in artificial hives by beekeepers.

| Does not attack or frighten creatures with the NATURAL tag.

*selection criteria

[ATTACK:GORE:BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN]<br />

''GORE'' : name of the attack<br />

''BODYPART:BY_CATEGORY:HORN'' : the horn is used to attack (presuming the creature has one)

| Specifies when a [[megabeast]] or [[semi-megabeast]] will attack the fortress. The attacks will start occuring when at least one of the requirements is met. Setting a value to 0 disables the trigger.

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| Defines a new name for a creature in baby state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific baby names, see GENERAL_BABY_NAME.

| Creature may be subject to [[beaching]], becoming stranded on [[Beach|shores]], where they will eventually air-drown. The number indicates the frequency of the occurrence. Presumably requires the creature to be aquatic. Used by [[orca]]s, [[sperm whale]]s and [[sea nettle jellyfish]] in the vanilla game.

| The creature is non-aggressive by default, and will never automatically be engaged by companions or soldiers. It will run away from any creatures that are not friendly to it, and will only defend itself if it becomes enraged. Can be thought of as the counterpoint of the {{token|LARGE_PREDATOR|c}} tag. When tamed, animals with this tag will be useless for fortress defense.

| Causes [[vampire]]-like behaviour; the creature will suck the [[Creature_token#BLOOD|blood]] of unconscious victims when its [[Syndrome#TIME_SINCE_SUCKED_BLOOD|thirst for blood]] grows sufficiently large. When controlling the creature in adventure mode, this can be done at will. Seems to be required to make the creature denouncable as a creature of the night.

'''If the body is left undefined, the creature will cause a crash whenever it spawns.'''

| loads a plan listed OBJECT:BODY_DETAIL_PLAN files, such as b_detail_plan_default.txt. Mass applies USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE, mass alters RELSIZE, alters body part positions, and will allow tissue layers to be defined. Tissue layers are defined in order of skin to bone here.

| Creature eats bones. Implies CARNIVORE. [[Adventurer mode|Adventurers]] with this token are currently unable to eat bones.{{Bug|11069}}

| Adds a type to a body part. Used with SET_BP_GROUP.  

In vanilla DF, this is used for adding the type 'GELDABLE' to the lower body of certain [[cat|creatures]].  

| Removes a type from a body part. Used with SET_BP_GROUP.  

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| The creature gains skills and can have professions. If a member of a civilization (even a pet) has this token, it'll need to eat, drink and sleep. Note that this token makes the creature unable to be eaten by an adventurer, so it is not recommended for uncivilized monsters. Adventurers lacking this token can allocate but not increase attributes and skills. Skills allocated will disappear on start.

| Can talk. Note that this is not necessary for a creature to gain social skills.

| Creature cannot climb, even if it has free grasp parts.

| Creature cannot jump.

| Acts as NOT_LIVING, except that [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] creatures will attack them.

| Allows the creature to open doors that are set to be unpassable for pets.  

| Creature ''only'' eats meat. If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often devour the people/animals it kills.  

| Caste-specific ALTTILE. Requires CASTE_TILE.

| Caste-specific COLOR.

| Caste-specific GLOWCOLOR.

| Caste-specific GLOWTILE.

| Caste-specific NAME.

| Caste-specific PROFESSION_NAME.

| Caste-specific SOLDIER_ALTTILE. Requires CASTE_SOLDIER_TILE.

| Caste-specific CREATURE_SOLDIER_TILE.

 

| {{text anchor|CASTE_SPEECH}}

| Caste-specific SPEECH.

| Caste-specific CREATURE_TILE.

| Specifies details for the preceding CAN_DO_INTERACTION token. See [[interaction token]].

| Age at which creature is considered an adult. One can think of this as the duration of the child stage. If available to animal trainers, allows the creature's offspring to be rendered fully tame if trained during their childhood.  

| Defines a new name for a creature in child state at the caste level. For non-caste-specific child names, see GENERAL_CHILD_NAME.

| The minimum/maximum numbers of how many creatures per spawned cluster. Certain vermin fish use this token in combination with temperate ocean and river biome tokens to perform seasonal migrations. Defaults to 1:1 if not specified.

|Number of eggs laid in one sitting.

| Any civilization with USE_COMMON_DOMESTIC tag (humans, dwarves) has domesticated this creature by default and always has access to it, even without any wild populations. Useless without PET, PACK_ANIMAL, WAGON_PULLER or MOUNT tags and invalid on FANCIFUL creatures.

| Creatures of this caste's species with the SPOUSE_CONVERTER and NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER tokens will kidnap SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGETs of an appropriate sex and convert them into castes with CONVERTED_SPOUSE.

| Creature is 'berserk' and will attack all other creatures, except members of its own species that '''also''' have the CRAZED tag. It will show {{DFtext|Berserk|4:1}} at the [[unit list]]. Berserk creatures go on rampages during [[world generation|worldgen]] much more frequently than non-berserk ones.

| Spec

*CREATURE NAME

| Copies Creature, but not Caste tags from another specified creature. Used when making creature variations (i.e. giant animals and [[animal people]]). Often used in combination with [[#APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION]] to import standard variations from a file. Variations are documented in c_variation_default.txt, which also contains the code for giant animals and animal people.

| An arbitrary creature classification. Can be set to anything, but only existing uses are GENERAL_POISON (used in syndromes), EDIBLE_GROUND_BUG (valid targets for GOBBLE_VERMIN_x tokens), and MAMMAL (self-explanatory). A single creature can have multiple classes. Eligibility for certain entity positions can also be permitted or restricted by this tag.

| Creatures active in their civilization's military will use this tile instead.

| Sets the creature to be active at twilight in Adventurer Mode.

| Allows a creature to [[Steals items|steal things]] (apparently, of the highest value it can find). It will attempt to grab an item of value and immediately make its way to the map's edge, where it will disappear with it. If the creature goes on rampages in worldgen, it will often steal items instead of attacking - [[kea]] birds are infamous for this. Trained and tame instances of the creature will no longer display this behavior. Also, makes the creature unable to drop hauled items until it enters combat.

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| Found on generated [[demon]]s. Marks the caste to be used in the initial wave after breaking into the [[underworld]], and by the demon civilizations created during world-gen breachings{{verify}} {{version|0.47.01}}. Could not be specified in user-defined raws until 47.01.

| A brief description of the creature type.

| Dies upon attacking. Used by [[honey bee]]s to simulate them dying after using their stingers.

| Increases experience gain during adventure mode. Creatures with 11 or higher are not assigned for quests in adventure mode.

| The creature hunts vermin by diving from the air. On tame creatures it works the same as normal [[#HUNTS_VERMIN|HUNTS_VERMIN]]. Found on [[peregrine falcon]]s.

| Creature does not physically exist. Adding this token to a creature causes it to not appear in generated worlds (if it isn't ALWAYS_PRESENT for a civ), i.e. adding it to [[dog]]s will lead to worlds being generated without dogs in them. Also removes the creature from the [[object testing arena]]'s spawn list. If combined with {{token|FANCIFUL|c}}, the creature will be known to civilizations, allowing artists to depict them in engravings, statues and other such crafts. Used by [[centaur]]s, [[chimera]]s and [[griffon]]s in the vanilla game. Note as long as the creature has a body defined in its raws this does NOT preclude summoning (something tagged as DOES_NOT_EXIST can still be summoned) [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=165213.msg8086938#msg8086938]

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| Defines the item that the creature drops upon being butchered. Used with EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT.

| The shape of the extra item of the creature upon butchering. Used with EXTRA_BUTCHER_OBJECT.

| Egg material. Egg-laying creatures will define this 3 times, using LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL, LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE, and then LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK. Eggs will be made out of eggshell. Edibility is determined by tags on whites or yolk, but they otherwise do not exist.

| Determines the size of eggs. Doesn't affect hatching or cooking, but bigger eggs will be heavier, and may take longer to be hauled depending on the hauler's strength.

| Makes the creature into a large 3x3 creature responsible for carrying trade goods, pulled by two [WAGON_PULLER]s and driven by a merchant.

| Creature is considered evil and will only show up in evil biomes. Civilizations with USE_EVIL_ANIMALS can domesticate them regardless of exotic status. Has no effect on cavern creatures except to restrict taming. A civilization with evil creatures can colonise evil areas.

| The creature drops an additional object when butchered (typically a gizzard stone), defined by EBO_ITEM and EBO_SHAPE.

| Creature can see regardless of whether it has working eyes.  

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| The creature is a thing of legend and known to all civilizations. Its materials cannot be requested or preferred. The tag also adds some art value modifiers. Used by a [[Fanciful|number of creatures]]. Conflicts with {{token|COMMON_DOMESTIC|c}}

| Found on [[Animal people#Subterranean animal people|subterranean animal-man]] tribals. Currently defunct, in previous versions it caused these creatures to crawl out of chasms and underground rivers.

| Found on [[forgotten beast]]s. Presumably makes it act as such, initiating underground attacks on fortresses, or leads to the pop-up message upon encountering one{{verify}}. Could not be specified in user-defined raws until 47.01.

| The creature is female and can bear young. Usually determined inside a caste.

| The creature is immune to FIREBALL and FIREJET attacks. Does not, by itself, make the creature immune to the damaging effects of burning in fire, and does not prevent general heat damage or melting on its own. Allows the creature to path through high temperature zones, like lava or fires.

| The creature is immune to DRAGONFIRE attacks. Implies {{token|FIREIMMUNE|c}}.  

| The creature's corpse is a single food item that needs to be cleaned at a fishery to become edible. Before being cleaned the item is referred to as "raw". The food item is categorized under "fish" on the food and stocks screens, and when uncleaned it is sorted under "raw fish" in the stocks (but does not show up on the food screen).  

Without this or {{token|COOKABLE_LIVE|c}}, fished vermin will turn into food the same way as non-vermin creatures, resulting in multiple units of food (meat, brain, lungs, eyes, spleen etc.) from a single fished vermin. These units of food are categorized as meat by the game.

| The creature's body is constantly at this temperature, heating up or cooling the surrounding area. Alters the temperature of the creature's inventory and all adjacent tiles, [[Temperature|with all the effects that it implies]]. May trigger wildfires on high enough values. Also makes the creature immune to extreme heat or cold as long as the temperature set is not harmful to the materials that the creature is made from.

Note that temperatures 12000 and higher may cause pathfinding issues in fortress mode.

| Allows a creature to fly, independent of it having wings or not. Fortress Mode pathfinding only partially incorporates flying - flying creatures need a land path to exist between them and an area in order to access it, but as long as one such path exists, they do not need to use it, instead being able to fly over intervening obstacles. Winged creatures with this token can lose their ability to fly if their wings are crippled or severed. Winged creatures without this token will be unable to fly.

| Determines the chances of a creature appearing within its environment, with higher values resulting in more frequent appearance. Also affects the chance of a creature being brought in a caravan for trading. The game effectively considers all creatures that can possibly appear and uses the FREQUENCY value as a ''weight'' - for example, if there are three creatures with frequencies 10/25/50, the creature with [FREQUENCY:50] will appear approximately 58.8% of the time. Defaults to 50 if not specified. Not to be confused with {{token|POP_RATIO|c}}.

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* type (WALK, CLIMB, SWIM, CRAWL, or FLY)

* gait name

* full speed

* build up time

* max turning speed

* start speed (or NO_BUILD_UP for instant use)

* energy use

* Optional flags:

** LAYERS_SLOW - if gait is slowed by increased weight

** STRENGTH - if gait is affected by Strength stat

** AGILITY - if gait is affected by Agility stat

** STEALTH_SLOWS

*penalty - if gait is slowed by being stealthed

| Defines a gait at which the creature can move. See [[Gait]] for more information.

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| CHILDNAME applied regardless of caste.

| Has the same function as [[Creature_token#MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER|MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER]], but applies to all attacks instead of just those involving a specific material. Appears to be overridden by MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER ([[werebeast]]s, for example, use both tokens to provide resistance to all materials, with one exception to which they are especially vulnerable).

| Found on procedurally generated creatures like [[Forgotten beast]]s, (biome name) [[titan]]s, [[Demon]]s, and [[night creature]]s. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.

| Creature can get infections from necrotic tissue.

| This creature's wounds can become infected if left untreated for too long.

| The colour of the creature's GLOWTILE.

| If present, the being glows in the dark (generally used for Adventurer Mode). The tile is what replaces the being's current tile when it is obscured from your sight by darkness. The default setting for kobolds (a yellow quotation mark) provides a nice "glowing eyes" effect. The game is also hardcoded to automatically convert quotation mark GLOWTILES into apostrophes if the creature has lost one eye. This works at the generic creature level - for caste-specific glow tiles, use CASTE_GLOWTILE instead.

| The creature eats a specified vermin.

| When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags after the specified tag.

| Creature is considered good and will only show up in good biomes - [[unicorn]]s, for example. Civilizations with USE_GOOD_ANIMALS can domesticate them regardless of exotic status. Has no effect on cavern creatures except to restrict taming. A civilization that has good creatures can colonise good areas in world-gen.

| The value determines how rapidly grass is trampled when a creature steps on it - a value of 0 causes the creature to never damage grass, while a value of 100 causes grass to be trampled as rapidly as possible. Defaults to 5.

| The creature is a grazer. If tamed in Fortress mode, it needs a pasture to survive. The higher the number, the less frequently it needs to eat in order to live. See [[Pasture]] for details on its issues.

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| Defines certain behaviors for the creature. The habit types are COLLECT_TROPHIES, COOK_PEOPLE, COOK_VERMIN, GRIND_VERMIN, COOK_BLOOD, GRIND_BONE_MEAL, EAT_BONE_PORRIDGE, USE_ANY_MELEE_WEAPON, GIANT_NEST, and COLLECT_WEALTH. These require the creature to have a lair to work properly, and also don't seem to work on creatures who are not (SEMI)MEGABEASTs or NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTERs.

| Creature hunts and kills nearby vermin.

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| The creature cannot move. Found on [[sponge]]s. Will also stop a creature from breeding in fortress mode (MALE and FEMALE are affected, if one is IMMOBILE no breeding will happen)

| The creature is immobile while on land. Only works on AQUATIC creatures which can't breathe on land.

| The creature radiates fire. It will ignite, and potentially completely destroy, items the creature is standing on. Keep booze away from critters with this tag. Also gives the vermin a high chance of escaping from [[animal trap]]s and [[cage]]s made of certain materials.

| Alias for [CAN_SPEAK] + [CAN_LEARN] but additionally keeps creatures from being butchered by the AI during worldgen and post-gen. In fortress mode, CAN_LEARN is enough.

| Determines if the creature leaves behind a non-standard corpse (i.e. wood, statue, bars, stone, pool of liquid, etc.).

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| Found on megabeasts, semimegabeasts, and night creatures. The creature will seek out sites of this type and take them as lairs. The lair types are SIMPLE_BURROW, SIMPLE_MOUND, WILDERNESS_LOCATION, SHRINE, and LABYRINTH.