| FREQUENCY
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Creature
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The [FREQUENCY] value plays two separate roles. The first is in determining the initial distribution of creatures across the world map. Each creature is randomly assigned a single x, y co-ordinate on the world map, which act as the epicenter for that creature's distribution. A square is drawn around that x, y co-ordinate with a Manhattan radius equal to the [FREQUENCY] value divided by 100 times the world map size. For example, in a 256 by 256 size world map, the lion might be assigned 14, 112. The lion has [FREQUENCY:5], and so a square is drawn by moving 13 tiles in each direction from the lion's x, y co-ordinate. This is the lion's "territory".
Each sub-region in the world will attempt to fill lists of wildlife. There are five lists - [VERMIN_GROUNDER], [VERMIN_SOIL], [VERMIN_SOIL_COLONY], [LARGE_ROAMING], and [LARGE_PREDATOR], corresponding with the relevant tokens. The game will attempt to place seven creatures in each list for each sub-region. Creatures are valid for sub-region's list if they have the requisite token for that list, if they have the valid token for that sub-region's biome (for example, the [lion] can only be selected for [BIOME:SAVANNA_TROPICAL], [BIOME:GRASSLAND_TROPICAL], and [BIOME:SHRUBLAND_TROPICAL]), and if their "territory" as defined by their random epicenter and [FREQUENCY] radius overlaps with that sub-region. These lists then determine the creatures that can actually appear within that sub-region during gameplay.
There are some exceptions to the above. If the game was not capable of filling all seven entries in a list, it will drop the overlapping territory requirement, and simply pull the nearest creature which has the correct token and biome availability. Conversely, if a creature has an epicenter but has not appeared on any of the list for any of the world map's sub-regions, the creature will be assigned to the relevant list for the nearest appropriate sub-region - meaning it is occasionally possible to have lists of eight creatures or more. This is more common in smaller worlds where there are less possible sub-regions to be assigned towards. Creatures with the [GOOD] and [EVIL] tokens ignore the epicenter distribution system altogether. They are always capable of appearing in appropriate biomes which are [GOOD] or [EVIL] respectively. Creatures with [UBIQUITOUS] have a "territory" which covers the entire map, regardless of their epicenter (although they can still fail to be chosen if there are 7 creatures which are eligible and have nearer epicenters to the sub-region in question).
The second use for [FREQUENCY] is to determine how often a creature actually appears on map. In Fortress Mode, the game will try and spawn large wildlife (creatures with [LARGE_ROAMING] or [LARGE_PREDATOR] in fairly regular waves. When the game decides it needs to spawn in a fresh wave of e.g. [LARGE_ROAMING] creatures, it will select one of the creatures from the relevant list for that sub-region at random, with all creatures weighted equally. Once it has selected a creature, it then effectively rolls a d100 against the relevant creature's frequency. If the d100 is equal to the creature's [FREQUENCY] or less, that creature is then spawned in. If the d100 is above the creature's [FREQUENCY], the game returns to the relevant list and selects again. [UBIQUTIOUS] acts as [FREQUENCY:100] for these purposes - in other words, the creature cannot fail the d100 check and will always be spawned in if it is selected from the list.|}
G
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| GAIT
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Caste
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- <gait type>
- <gait name>
- <max speed>
- <build up time>
- <max turning speed>
- <start speed>
- <energy expenditure>
- <gait flag(s)>
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Defines a gait by which the creature can move. See Gait for more information. Specifically, you likely want to use one of the existing STANDARD_X_GAITS creature variations, as described in this subsection.
- <max speed> indicates the maximum speed achievable by a creature using this gait
- <start speed> indicates the creature's speed when it starts moving using this gait
- <build up time> indicates how long it will take for a creature using this gait to go from <start speed> to <max speed>. For example, a value of 10 means that it should be able to reach the maximum speed by moving 10 tiles in a straight line over even terrain.
- <max turning speed> indicates the maximum speed permissible when the creature suddenly changes its direction of motion. The creature's speed will be reduced to <max turning speed> if travelling at a higher speed than this before turning.
- <energy expenditure> indicates how energy-consuming the gait is. Higher values cause the creature to tire out faster. Persistent usage of a high-intensity gait will eventually lead to exhaustion and collapse.
NO_BUILD_UP can be specified instead of a <start speed> value to make the <max speed> instantly achievable upon initiating movement (this is equivalent to a <build up time> of 0). Note that <build up time> and <max turning speed> are both ignored if specified alongside this (as NO_BUILD_UP trumps <build up time> and preserves <max speed> whilst turning, and <max turning speed> cannot exceed <max speed>) so it is permissible to omit them so long as they are both omitted together.
It's possible to specify a <start speed> greater than the <max speed>; the moving creature will decelerate towards its <max speed> in this case.
valid gait types:
Used for moving normally over ground tiles.
Used for moving over ground tiles whilst prone.
Used for moving through tiles containing water or magma at a depth of at least 4/7.
Used for moving through open space.
Used for moving whilst climbing.
valid gait flags:
Speeds/slows movement depending on the creature's Agility stat.
Speeds/slows movement depending on the creature's Strength stat.
Makes THICKENS_ON_ENERGY_STORAGE and THICKENS_ON_STRENGTH tissue layers slow movement depending on how thick they are. Adding the STRENGTH gait flag counteracts the impact of the latter layer.
- STEALTH_SLOWS:<percentage>
Slows movement by the specified percentage when the creature is sneaking.
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| GENERAL_BABY_NAME
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Creature
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Like [BABYNAME], but applied regardless of caste.
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| GENERAL_CHILD_NAME
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Creature
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Like [CHILDNAME], but applied regardless of caste.
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| GENERAL_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER
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Caste
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Has the same function as [MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER], but applies to all attacks instead of just those involving a specific material. Appears to be overridden by MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER (werebeasts, for example, use both tokens to provide resistance to all materials, with one exception to which they are especially vulnerable).
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| GENERATED
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Creature
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Found on procedurally generated creatures like forgotten beasts, titans, demons, angels, and night creatures. Cannot be specified in user-defined raws.
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| GETS_INFECTIONS_FROM_ROT
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Caste
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Makes the creature get infections from necrotic tissue.
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| GETS_WOUND_INFECTIONS
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Caste
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Makes the creature's wounds become infected if left untreated for too long.
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| GLOWCOLOR
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Creature
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- foreground
- background
- brightness
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The colour of the creature's [GLOWTILE].
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| GLOWTILE
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Creature
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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.
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| GNAWER
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Caste
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The creature can and will gnaw its way out of animal traps and cages using the specified verb, depending on the material from which it is made (normally wood).
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| GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS
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Caste
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The creature eats vermin of the specified class.
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| GOBBLE_VERMIN_CREATURE
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Caste
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The creature eats a specified vermin.
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| GO_TO_END
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Special
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When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the end of the creature.
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| GO_TO_START
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Special
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When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags at the beginning of the creature.
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| GO_TO_TAG
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Special
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When using tags from an existing creature, inserts new tags before the specified tag.
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| GOOD
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Creature
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Creature is considered good and will only show up in good biomes - unicorns, 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.
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| GRASSTRAMPLE
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Caste
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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.
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| GRAVITATE_BODY_SIZE
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Caste
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Used in Creature Variants. This token changes the adult body size to the average of the old adult body size and the target value and scales all intermediate growth stages by the same factor.
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| GRAZER
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Caste
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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. Not used since 0.40.12, replaced by [STANDARD_GRAZER] to fix Bug 4113.
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H
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| HABIT
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Caste
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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
- 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 a [SEMIMEGABEAST], [MEGABEAST], or[NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER].
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| HABIT_NUM
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Caste
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"If you set HABIT_NUM to a number, it should give you that exact number of habits according to the weights.".[1] All lists of HABITs are preceded by [HABIT_NUM:TEST_ALL]
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| HAS_NERVES
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Caste
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The creature has nerves in its muscles. Cutting the muscle tissue can sever motor and sensory nerves, disabling the limb.
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| HASSHELL
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Caste
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The creature has a shell. Seemingly no longer used - holdover from previous versions.
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| HIVE_PRODUCT
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Creature
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What product is harvested from beekeeping.
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| HOMEOTHERM
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Caste
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Default 'NONE'. The creature's normal body temperature. Creature ceases maintaining temperature on death unlike fixed material temperatures. Provides minor protection from environmental temperature to the creature.
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| HUNTS_VERMIN
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Caste
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Creature hunts and kills nearby vermin, randomly walking between places with food laying on the ground or in stockpiles, to check for possible [VERMIN_EATER] vermin, but they'll kill any other vermin too. Do not include this creature token on an intelligent entity that you intend to play as in fortress mode because it will prevent them from feeding themselves.
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I
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| IMMOBILE
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Caste
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The creature cannot move. Found on sponges. Will also stop a creature from breeding in fortress mode (MALE and FEMALE are affected, if one is IMMOBILE; no breeding will happen).
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| IMMOBILE_LAND
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Caste
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The creature is immobile while on land. Only works on [AQUATIC] creatures which can't breathe on land.
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| IMMOLATE
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Caste
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The creature radiates fire. It will ignite, and potentially completely destroy, items the creature is standing on. Also gives the vermin a high chance of escaping from animal traps and cages made of any flammable materials (specifically ones that could be ignited by magma).
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| INTELLIGENT
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Caste
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Alias for [CAN_SPEAK] + [CAN_LEARN].
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| ITEMCORPSE
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Caste
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Determines if the creature leaves behind a non-standard corpse (i.e. wood, statue, bars, stone, pool of liquid, etc.). Ethics may prevent actually using the item in jobs or reactions.
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| ITEMCORPSE_QUALITY
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Caste
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The quality of an item-type corpse left behind. Valid values are: 0 for ordinary, 1 for well-crafted, 2 for finely-crafted, 3 for superior, 4 for exceptional, 5 for masterpiece.
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L
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| LAIR
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Caste
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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
- LABYRINTH
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| LAIR_CHARACTERISTIC
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Caste
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- characteristic
- probability
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Defines certain features of the creature's lair. The only valid characteristic is HAS_DOORS.
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| LAIR_HUNTER
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Caste
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This creature will actively hunt adventurers in its lair.
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| LAIR_HUNTER_SPEECH
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Caste
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What this creature says while hunting adventurers in its lair.
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| LARGE_PREDATOR
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Caste
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Will attack other creatures that are smaller than it. Tamed large predators will still attack wildlife. In fortress mode, only one group of "large predators" (possibly two groups on "savage" maps) will appear on any given map. In adventurer mode, large predators will try to ambush and attack you (and your party will attack them back). When tamed, large predators tend to be much more aggressive to enemies than non-large predators, making them a good choice for an animal army. They may go on rampages in worldgen, and adventurers may receive quests to kill them. Also, they can be mentioned in the intro paragraph when starting a fortress e.g. "ere the wolves get hungry."
A single biome supports 7 large predator species, picking randomly and rolling a d100 under its [FREQUENCY] to add it until all 7 slots are filled.
Incompatible with [PACK_ANIMAL] on a technicality, if included: hauled items are likely to be dropped upon entering the map (even if [TRADE_CAPACITY] is present) in contrast to when the merchants depart.
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| LARGE_ROAMING
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Creature
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This is the core requisite tag allowing the creature to spawn as a wild animal in the appropriate biomes. Requires specifying a [BIOME] in which the creature will spawn. Does not require specifying a frequency, population number, or cluster number.
This tag stacks with [MEGABEAST], [SEMIMEGABEAST], or [NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER]; if used with one of these tags, the creature will spawn as both a boss and as a wild animal. This tag does not stack with [FEATURE_BEAST] and if both are used the creature will not spawn. This tag is unaffected by [DEMON].
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| LAYS_EGGS
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Caste
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|
Creature lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
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| LAYS_UNUSUAL_EGGS
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Caste
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|
Creature lays the specified item instead of regular eggs.
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| LIGAMENTS
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Caste
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|
The creature has ligaments in its [CONNECTIVE_TISSUE_ANCHOR] tissues (bone or chitin by default). Cutting the bone/chitin tissue severs the ligaments, disabling motor function if the target is a limb.
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| LIGHT_GEN
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Caste
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|
A vermin featuring this tag will remain visible to an adventurer even at night.
Subterranean vermin which feature this token will flicker in unexposed and unrevealed cavern layers while playing in Fortress Mode.
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| LIKES_FIGHTING
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Caste
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|
The creature will attack enemies rather than flee from them. This tag has the same effect on player-controlled creatures - including modded dwarves. Retired as of v0.40.14 in favor of [LARGE_PREDATOR].
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| LISP
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Caste
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|
Creature uses "sssssnake talk" (multiplies 'S' when talking - "My name isss Recisssiz."). Used by serpent men and reptile men in the vanilla game. C's with the same pronunciation (depending on the word) are not affected by this token.
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| LITTERSIZE
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Caste
|
|
Determines the number of offspring per one birth; default 1-3, not used in vanilla raws. See also [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE].
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| LOCAL_POPS_CONTROLLABLE
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Creature
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|
Allows you to play as a wild animal of this species in adventurer mode. Prevents trading of (tame) instances of this creature in caravans.
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| LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES
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Creature
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|
Wild animals of this species may occasionally join a civilization. Prevents trading of (tame) instances of this creature in caravans.
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| LOCKPICKER
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Caste
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|
Lets a creature open doors that are set to forbidden in fortress mode.
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| LOOSE_CLUSTERS
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Creature
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|
The creatures will scatter if they have this tag, or form tight packs if they don't.
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| LOW_LIGHT_VISION
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Caste
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|
Determines how well a creature can see in the dark - higher is better. Dwarves have 10000, which amounts to perfect nightvision.
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M
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| MAGICAL
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Caste
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According to Toady One, this is completely interchangeable with [AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE] and might have been used in very early versions of the game by wandering wizards or the ent-type tree creatures that used to be animated by elves. [2]
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| MAGMA_VISION
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Caste
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|
The creature is able to see while submerged in magma.
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| MALE
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Caste
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|
Makes the creature biologically male. Usually declared inside a caste.
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| MANNERISM_*
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Caste
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|
Adds a possible mannerism to the creature's profile. See creature mannerism token for further info.
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| MATERIAL
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Creature
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|
Begins defining a new local material. Follow this with standard material definition tokens to define the material.
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| MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER
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Caste
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When struck with a weapon made of the specified material, the force exerted will be multiplied by A/B, thus making the creature more or less susceptible to this material. For example, if A is 2 and B is 1, the force exerted by the defined material will be doubled. If A is 1 and B is 2, it will be halved instead. See also [GENERAL_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER], which can be used to make this sort of effect applicable to all materials.
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| MATUTINAL
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Caste
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When set, the creature will only appear at dawn (between 4:30 AM and 6:00 AM) in Adventurer mode.
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| MAXAGE
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Caste
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Determines the creature's natural lifespan, using the specified minimum and maximum age values (in years). Each individual creature with this token is generated with a predetermined date (calculated down to the exact tick!) between these values, at which it is destined to die of old age, should it live long enough. Note that the probability of death at any given age does not increase as the creature gets older [3].
Creatures which lack this token are naturally immortal. The NO_AGING syndrome tag will prevent death by old age from occurring. Also note that, among civilized creatures, castes which lack this token will refuse to marry others with it, and vice versa.
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| MEANDERER
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Caste
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Makes the creature slowly stroll around, unless it's in combat or performing a job. If combined with [CAN_LEARN], will severely impact their pathfinding and lead the creature to move extremely slowly when not performing any task. Problematically applies to animal people based on the animal and war trained animalsBug:9588.
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| MEGABEAST
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Caste
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A 'boss' creature. A small number of the creatures are created during worldgen, their histories and descendants (if any) will be tracked in worldgen (as opposed to simply 'spawning'), and they will occasionally go on rampages, potentially leading to worship if they attack the same place multiple times. Their presence and number will also influence age names. When appearing in fortress mode, they will have a pop-up message announcing their arrival. They will remain hostile to military even after being tamed.Bug:10731 See megabeast page for more details.
Requires specifying a [BIOME] in which the creature will live. Subterranean biomes appear to not be allowed. Does stack with [LARGE_ROAMING] and if both are used the creature will spawn as both historical bosses and as wild animals.
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| MENT_ATT_CAP_PERC
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Caste
|
|
Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).
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| MENT_ATT_RANGE
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Caste
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- ATTRIBUTE
- lowest
- lower
- low
- median
- high
- higher
- highest
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Sets up a mental attribute's range of values (0-5000). All mental attribute ranges default to 200:800:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.
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| MENT_ATT_RATES
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Caste
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- ATTRIBUTE Token
- cost to improve
- unused counter rate
- rust counter rate
- demotion counter rate
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Mental attribute gain/decay rates. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster. Defaults are 500:4:5:4.
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| MILKABLE
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Caste
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|
Allows the creature to be milked in the farmer's workshop. The frequency is the amount of ticks the creature needs to "recharge" (i.e. how much time needs to pass before it can be milked again). Does not work on sentient creatures, regardless of ethics.
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| MISCHIEVIOUS
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Caste
|
|
Alias for [MISCHIEVOUS].
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| MISCHIEVOUS
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Caste
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The creature spawns stealthed and will attempt to path into the fortress, pulling any levers it comes across. It will be invisible on the map and unit list until spotted by a citizen, at which point the game will pause and recenter on the creature. Used by gremlins in the vanilla game. "They go on little missions to mess with various fortress buildings, not just levers."
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| MODVALUE
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Caste
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|
Seemingly no longer used.
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| MOUNT
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Caste
|
|
Creature may be used as a mount. No use for the player in fortress mode, but enemy sieging forces may arrive with cavalry. Mounts are usable in adventure mode.
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| MOUNT_EXOTIC
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Caste
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|
Creature may be used as a mount, but civilizations cannot domesticate it in worldgen without certain exceptions.
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| MULTIPART_FULL_VISION
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Caste
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|
Allows the creature to have all-around vision, as long as it has multiple heads that can see.
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| MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE
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Caste
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Makes the species usually produce a single offspring per birth, with a 1/500 chance of using the [LITTERSIZE] as usual. Requires [FEMALE].
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| MUNDANE
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Creature
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Marks if the creature is an actual real-life creature. Only used for age-names at present.
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N
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| NAME
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Creature
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- singular
- plural
- adjective
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The generic name for any creature of this type - will be used for referring to the species in the abstract, such as the default material prefix. For labeling individual creatures, [CASTE_NAME] is necessary. If left undefined, the creature will be labeled as "nothing" by the game.
Some examples of adjective use:
- "superdwarven strength"
- "the dwarven hillocks of X"
- Deity species as in "feline deity"
- Megabeast attacks in worldgen. One with multiple dragons being a "draconic rampage"
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| NATURAL
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Caste
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Animal is considered to be natural. NATURAL animals will not engage creatures tagged with [AT_PEACE_WITH_WILDLIFE] in combat unless they are members of a hostile entity and vice-versa.
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| NATURAL_ANIMAL
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Caste
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Alias of [NATURAL].
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| NATURAL_SKILL
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Caste
|
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The creature possesses the specified skill at this level inherently - that is, it begins with the skill at this level, and the skill may never rust below that. A value of 15 is legendary.
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| NIGHT_CREATURE
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Caste
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Creatures with this token can appear as experiments. Causes the creature to count as [NOT_LIVING]. Killing a creature featuring this token provides one point of "hero" reputation. Adds the creature's description as part of the initial summary of their historical figure in legends mode. People will react to creatures with this token as a night creature (natch). In adventure mode, ambushes involving these units will say "Night creature!" instead of "Ambush!"
Prevents creature behavior enabled by [LARGE_PREDATOR]
Prevents the AI from using ANIMATE interactions, unless the newly-animated[OPPOSED_TO_LIFE]undead will not attack them. The check for this is specifically whether the unit is:
- a ghost
- an animated unit
- a unit with the
[NO_AGING] token added via [CE_ADD_TAG]. (This allows for the default exclusion of elves and goblins, unless raised as intelligent undead.)
This token should not be confused with other NIGHT_CREATURE_X tokens.
This token is not well understood at the present time.
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| NIGHT_CREATURE_BOGEYMAN
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Caste
|
|
Creatures with this token can appear in bogeyman ambushes in adventure mode, where they adopt classical bogeyman traits such as stalking the adventurer and vaporising when dawn breaks. Such traits do not manifest if the creature is encountered outside of a bogeyman ambush (for instance, as a megabeast or a civilised being). In addition, their corpses and severed body parts turn into smoke after a short while. Note that setting the "Number of Bogeyman Types" in advanced world generation to 0 will only remove randomly-generated bogeymen.
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| NIGHT_CREATURE_EXPERIMENTER
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Caste
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Found on some necromancers. Creatures with this tag may periodically "perform horrible experiments" offscreen, during which they can use creature-targeting interactions with an [I_SOURCE:EXPERIMENT] tag on living creatures in their area. Worlds are generated with a list of procedurally-generated experiments, allowing necromancers to turn living people and animals into ghouls and other experimental creatures, and these will automatically be available to all experimenters; it does not appear possible to prevent this. You can mod in your own custom experiment interactions, but these are used very infrequently due to the large number of generated experiments.
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| NIGHT_CREATURE_HUNTER
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Caste
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|
Found on night trolls and werebeasts. Implies that the creature is a night creature, and shows its description in legends mode entry. The creature is always hostile and will start no quarter combat with any nearby creatures, except for members of its own race. Note that this tag does not override the creature's normal behavior in fortress mode except for the aforementioned aggression, and doesn't prevent the creature from fleeing the battles it started. It also removes the creature's materials from stockpile settings list, making them be stored there regardless of settings.
Does stack with [LARGE_ROAMING] and if both are used the creature will spawn as both historical hunters and as wild animals; this requires specifying a [BIOME] in which the creature will live, and subterranean biomes are allowed.
This tag causes the usual behaviour of werebeasts in worldgen, that is, fleeing towns upon being cursed and conducting raids from a lair. If this tag is absent from a deity curse, the accursed will simply be driven out of towns in a similar manner to vampires. When paired with SPOUSE_CONVERTER, a very small population of the creature will be created during worldgen (sometimes only a single individual will be created), and their histories will be tracked (that is, they will not spawn spontaneously later, they must either have children or convert other creatures to increase their numbers). The creature will settle in a lair and go on rampages during worldgen. It will actively attempt to seek out potential conversion targets to abduct, convert, and have children with (if possible).
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| NIGHT_CREATURE_NIGHTMARE
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Caste
|
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Found on nightmares. Corpses and severed body parts derived from creatures with this token turn into smoke after a short while.
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| NO_AUTUMN
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Caste
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The creature caste does not appear in autumn.
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| NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT
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Caste
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Creature doesn't require connected body parts to move[Verify]; generally used on undead creatures with connections that have rotted away.
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| NO_DIZZINESS
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Caste
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Creature cannot become dizzy.
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| NO_DRINK
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Caste
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Creature does not need to drink.
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| NO_EAT
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Caste
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Creature does not need to eat.
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| NO_FEVERS
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Caste
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Creature cannot suffer fevers.
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| NO_GENDER
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Caste
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The creature is biologically sexless, making it unable to breed.
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| NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN
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Caste
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The creature cannot raise any physical attributes.
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| NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST
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Caste
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The creature cannot lose any physical attributes.
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| NO_SLEEP
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Caste
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Creature does not need to sleep, but can still be rendered unconscious by other means.
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| NO_SPRING
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Caste
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The creature caste does not appear in spring.
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| NO_SUMMER
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Caste
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The creature caste does not appear in summer.
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| NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT
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Caste
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The bodyparts of this creature don't need to be connected to an organ with the [THOUGHT] tag in order to have motor function. Generally used on creatures that don't have brains. If a creature doesn't have a thought part and doesn't have this token, it will be unable to grasp or stand. Nautilus men experience this issue in vanilla.
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| NO_UNIT_TYPE_COLOR
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Caste
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Prevents creature from selecting its color based on its profession (e.g. Miner, Hunter, Wrestler).
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| NO_VEGETATION_PERTURB
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Caste[Verify]
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Likely prevents the creature from leaving broken vegetation tracks.[Verify]
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| NO_WINTER
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Caste
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The creature caste does not appear in winter.
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| NOBONES
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Caste
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Creature has no bones.
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| NOBREATHE
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Caste
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Creature doesn't need to breathe or have [BREATHE]parts in its body, nor can it drown or be strangled. Creatures living in magma must have this tag, otherwise they will drown.
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| NOCTURNAL
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Caste
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When set, the creature will only appear at night (after 10:05 PM and before 4:30 AM) in Adventurer mode.
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| NOEMOTION
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Caste
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Creature has no emotions, thus; it is immune to the effects of stress and unable to rage, and its needs cannot be fulfilled in any way. Used on undead in the vanilla game.
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| NOEXERT
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Caste
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Creature can't become tired or over-exerted from taking too many combat actions, or moving at full speed for extended periods of time.
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| NOFEAR
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Caste
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Creature doesn't feel fear and will never flee from battle, and will be immune to ghosts' attempts to 'scare it to death'. Additionally, it causes bogeymen and nightmares to become friendly towards the creature.
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| NOMEAT
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Caste
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Creature will not be hunted or fed to wild beasts.
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| NONAUSEA
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Caste
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Creature isn't nauseated by gut hits and cannot vomit.
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| NOPAIN
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Caste
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Creature doesn't feel pain.
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| NOSKIN
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Caste
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Creature will not drop a hide when butchered.
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| NOSKULL
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Caste
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Creature will not drop a skull on butchering, rot, or decay of severed head.
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| NOSMELLYROT
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Caste
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Does not produce miasma when rotting.
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| NOSTUCKINS
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Caste
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Weapons can't get stuck in the creature.
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| NOSTUN
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Caste
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Creature can't be stunned and knocked unconscious by pain or head injuries. Creatures with this tag never wake up from sleep in Fortress Mode. If this creature needs to sleep while playing, it will die.
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| NOT_BUTCHERABLE
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Caste
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Corpses from this creature cannot be butchered. Does not prevent the creature from being slaughtered while alive, however.
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| NOT_LIVING
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Caste
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Cannot be raised from the dead by necromancers or evil clouds. Implies the creature is not a normal living being. Used by vampires, mummies and inorganic creatures like the amethyst man and bronze colossus. Creatures who are [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] (undead) will be docile towards creatures with this token.
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| NOTHOUGHT
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Caste
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Creature doesn't require a [THOUGHT] body part to survive. Has the added effect of preventing speech, though directly controlling creatures that would otherwise be capable of speaking allows them to engage in conversation.
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O
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| ODOR_LEVEL
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Caste
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How easy the creature is to smell. The higher the number, the easier the creature is to sniff out. Defaults to 50. Vanilla creatures have values from 0 (undetectable) to 90 (noticeable by humans and dwarves).
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| ODOR_STRING
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Caste
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What the creature smells like. If no odor string is defined, the creature name (not the caste name) is used.
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| OPPOSED_TO_LIFE
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Caste
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Is hostile to all creatures except undead and other non-living ones and will show Opposed to life in the unit list. Used by undead in the vanilla game. Functions without the [NOT_LIVING] token, and seems to imply said token as well. Undead will not be hostile to otherwise-living creatures given this token. Living creatures given this token will attack living creatures that lack it, while ignoring other living creatures that also have this token.
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| ORIENTATION
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Caste
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- MALE/FEMALE
- disinterested chance
- casual chance
- strong chance
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Determines caste's likelihood of having sexual attraction to certain sexes. Values default to 75:20:5 for the same sex and 5:20:75 for the opposite sex. The first value indicates how likely to be entirely uninterested in the sex, the second decides if the creature will be able to become lovers with that sex, the third decides whether they will be able to marry in worldgen and post-worldgen world activities (which implies being able to become lovers). Marriage seems to be able to happen in fort mode play regardless, as long as they are lovers first.
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| OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE
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Caste
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Lets you play as an outsider of this species in adventure mode.
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P
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| PACK_ANIMAL
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Caste
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Allows the creature to be used as a pack animal. Used by merchants without wagons and adventurers. Also prevents creature from dropping hauled items on its own -- do not use for player-controllable creatures! May lead to the creature being domesticated during worldgen, even if it doesn't have [COMMON_DOMESTIC].
Creatures with this tag but without [BENIGN], and/or with [LARGE_PREDATOR] leads to hauled items being dropped.
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| PARALYZEIMMUNE
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Caste
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The creature is immune to all paralyzing special attacks.
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| PATTERNFLIER
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Caste
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Used to control the bat riders with paralyze-dart blowguns that flew through the 2D chasm. Doesn't do anything now.
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| PCG_LAYERING
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Creature
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Adds a layer to the current [PROCEDURAL_CREATURE_GRAPHICS] definition.
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| PEARL
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Caste
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Does nothing.
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| PENETRATEPOWER
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Caste
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Controls the ability of vermin to find a way into containers when they are eating food from your stockpiles.
Objects made of most materials (e.g. metal) roll a number from 0-100, and if the resulting number is greater than the penetrate power, their contents escape for the time being. Objects made of wood, leather, amber, or coral roll 0-95, and items made of cloth roll 0-90.
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| PERSONALITY
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Caste
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- ATTRIBUTE
- lowest
- median
- highest
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Determines the range and chance of personality facets. Standard is 0:50:100. See personality facet for more info.
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| PET
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Caste
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Allows the creature to be tamed in Fortress mode. Prerequisite for all other working animal roles. Civilizations that encounter it in worldgen will tame and domesticate it for their own use. Adding this to civilization members will classify them as pets instead of citizens, with all the problems that entails. However, you can solve these problems using the popular plugin Dwarf Therapist, which is completely unaffected by the tag.
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| PET_EXOTIC
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Caste
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Allows the creature to be tamed in Fortress mode. Prequisite for all other working animal roles. Civilizations cannot domesticate it in worldgen, with certain exceptions. More difficult to tame?[Verify] Adding this to civilization members will classify them as pets instead of citizens, with all the problems that entails. (Example).
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| PETVALUE
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Caste
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How valuable a tamed animal is. Actual cost in points in the embarking screen is 1+(PETVALUE/2) for an untrained animal, 1+PETVALUE for a war/hunting one.
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| PETVALUE_DIVISOR
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Caste
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Divides the creature's [PETVALUE] by the specified number. Used by honey bees to prevent a single hive from being worth a fortune.
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| PHYS_ATT_CAP_PERC
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Caste
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Default is 200. This means you can increase your attribute to 200% of its starting value (or the average value + your starting value if that is higher).
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| PHYS_ATT_RANGE
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Caste
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- ATTRIBUTE
- lowest
- lower
- low
- median
- high
- higher
- highest
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Sets up a physical attribute's range of values (0-5000). All physical attribute ranges default to 200:700:900:1000:1100:1300:2000.
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| PHYS_ATT_RATES
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Caste
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- ATTRIBUTE Token
- cost to improve
- unused counter rate
- rust counter rate
- demotion counter rate
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Physical attribute gain/decay rates. Lower numbers in the last three slots make decay occur faster. Defaults for STRENGTH, AGILITY, TOUGHNESS, and ENDURANCE are 500:3:4:3, while RECUPERATION and DISEASE_RESISTANCE default to 500:NONE:NONE:NONE.
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| PLUS_BP_GROUP
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Caste
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- BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY, or BY_TOKEN
- body type, category, or token
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Adds a body part group to selected body part group. Presumably used immediately after [SET_BP_GROUP].
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| PLUS_MATERIAL
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Creature
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Adds a material to selected materials. Used immediately after [SELECT_MATERIAL].
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| POP_RATIO
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Caste
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Weighted population of caste; Lower is rarer. Not to be confused with [FREQUENCY]. A weight of 0 willv51.06 experimental prevent a caste from spawning naturally. Regardless of pop ratio, Positions that only allow a certain caste can force it to spawn.
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| POPULATION_NUMBER
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Creature
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The minimum/maximum numbers of how many of these creatures are present in each world map tile of the appropriate region. Defaults to 1:1 if not specified. If the creature's chosen [CLUSTER_NUMBER] happens to be larger, it will be used instead.
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| POWER
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Caste
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Allows the being to represent itself as a deity, allowing it to become the leader of a civilized group. Not used by any creatures in the vanilla game. Requires [CAN_SPEAK] to actually do anything more than settle at a location (e.g. write books, lead armies, profane temples). Doesn't appear to do anything for creatures that are already civilized. Once the creature ascends to a position of leadership, it will proceed to act as a standard ruler for their entity and fulfill the same functions (hold tournaments, tame creatures, etc.).
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| PREFSTRING
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Creature
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Sets what other creatures prefer about this creature. "Urist likes dwarves for their beards." Multiple entries will be chosen from at random. Creatures lacking a PREFSTRING token will never appear under another's preferences.
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| PROCEDURAL_CREATURE_GRAPHICS
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Creature
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Makes the creature have procedural graphics built for it, like forgotten beasts/demons/titans/experiments. Must be associated with PCG_LAYERING tokens.
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| PROFESSION_NAME
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Creature
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The generic name for members of this profession, at the creature level. In order to give members of specific castes different names for professions, use [CASTE_PROFESSION_NAME] instead.
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| PRONE_TO_RAGE
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Caste
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Creature has a percentage chance to flip out at visible non-friendly creatures. Enraged creatures attack anything regardless of timidity and get a strength bonus to their hits. This is what makes badgers so hardcore.
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| PUS
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Caste
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The creature has pus. Specifies the stuff secreted by infected wounds.
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R
| Token
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Type
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Arguments
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Description
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| RELSIZE
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Caste
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- BY_CATEGORY, BY_TYPE, BY_TOKEN
- body category, type, or token
- Relsize
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Specifies a new relative size for a part than what is stated in the body plan. For example, dwarves have larger livers.
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| REMAINS
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Caste
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What the creature's remains are called.
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| REMAINS_COLOR
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Caste
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What color the creature's remains are.
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| REMAINS_ON_VERMIN_BITE_DEATH
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Caste
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Goes with [VERMIN_BITE] and [DIE_WHEN_VERMIN_BITE], the vermin creature will leave remains on death when biting. Leaving this tag out will cause the creature to disappear entirely after it bites.
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| REMAINS_UNDETERMINED
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Caste
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Nothing.
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| REMOVE_MATERIAL
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Creature
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Removes a material from the creature.
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| REMOVE_TISSUE
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Creature
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Removes a tissue from the creature.
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| RETRACT_INTO_BP
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Caste
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- BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY or BY_TOKEN
- body type, category, or token
- Second person ("You") retract verb text
- Third person ("The giant snail") retract verb text
- Second person cancel retract text
- Third person cancel retract text
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The creature will retract into the specified body part(s) when threatened. It will be unable to move or attack, but enemies will only be able to attack the specified body part(s). When one of the specified body part is severed off, the creature automatically unretracts and cannot retract anymore. More than one body part can be selected by using BY_TYPE or BY_CATEGORY.
Second-person descriptions are used for adventurer mode natural ability. "<pro_pos>" can be used in the descriptions, being replaced with the proper pronoun (or lack thereof) in-game.
Undead curled up creatures are buggy, specifically those that retract into their upper bodies: echidnas, hedgehogs and pangolins.Bug:11463Bug:10519 The upper body is prevented from collapsing by a separate body part (the middle spine), which cannot be attacked when the creature is retracted. See [PREVENTS_PARENT_COLLAPSE]. Living creatures eventually succumb to blood loss, but undead creatures do not. Giant creatures also take a very long time to bleed out.
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| RETURNS_VERMIN_KILLS_TO_OWNER
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Creature
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Cat behavior. If it kills a vermin creature and has an owner, it carries the remains in its mouth and drops them at their feet. Requires [HUNTS_VERMIN].
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| ROOT_AROUND
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Caste
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- BY_TYPE, BY_CATEGORY or BY_TOKEN
- body type, category, or token
- Second person ("You") verb text
- Third person ("The hen") verb text
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Creature will occasionally root around in the grass, looking for insects. Used for flavor in Adventurer Mode, spawns vermin edible for this creature in Fortress Mode. Creatures missing the specified body part will be unable to perform this action. The action produces a message (visible in adventure mode) in the form:
[creature] [verb text] the [description of creature's location].
In adventure mode, the "rooting around" ability will be included in the "natural abilities" menu, represented by its second person verb text.
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