Editing Titan

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Titans are attracted by [[wealth]] and population size, much like [[megabeast]]s. Additionally, one may randomly appear when you reclaim a fortress. When a titan becomes visible onscreen, the game automatically pauses and displays a message.

Titans are procedurally randomized, and may be of any form, and be made of any sort of material. Multiple titans may come to attack your fortress, each coming at different times. Most take the form of an animal, some not found in vanilla ''Dwarf Fortress'', with extra features (e.g. extra eyes, feathers) or removed body parts (e.g. skinless cobras) and unusual colours. However, a titan can also take more generic forms, such as shelled blobs, quadrupeds, and humanoid golems. Materials range from flesh and [[blood]], to flimsy things like [[ash]] and [[steam]], to truly scary monsters of pure [[rock]], [[gem]], or [[metal]]. They may get a special attack, ranging from anything between venomous stings, poisoned blood, explosive dust clouds, to flame breath.

If a titan has a venomous attack of some sort, it is randomly generated as are the resulting [[symptoms]]. The titan's [[Syndrome#Breath attacks|breath attack]] is also randomly generated, if it has one. Venom attacks come in a variety of forms, from boiling ichor to trailing dust, and the effects can range from mild pain to complete and instantaneous necrosis or paralysis. Some forms of venom can spread from spatters and contact with your dwarves, eventually infecting your entire fort. Decontaminating your soldiers in shallow running water is one way to deal with this problem. Some titans breathe [[fire]] or shoot [[web]] in lieu of any syndrome-bearing attacks. Web-shooters are immune to the effects of webs they, or any other creature, create and will shoot web even at targets they lack a proper path to. Titans based on spiders may be capable of shooting webs in addition to any other special abilities.

The number of titans cannot be controlled directly, but is influenced by the size of the world. All are [[building destroyer]]s, and are almost entirely [[Trapavoid|immune]] to [[trap]]s (they are {{token|TRAPAVOID}} and {{token|NOSTUN}} but non-webspinners will trigger a trap that has been webbed). They are also [[No Pain|immune to pain]], nausea and fear, and [[No Exert|feel no exertion]]. [[Bridge]]s are also less useful, as they cannot be raised or lowered as long as the beast is standing on (or under) them, preventing the traditional [[magma]] pit / [[dwarven atom smasher]] designs from working. Unlike forgotten beasts, titans possess unique titles depending of the biome they inhabit - titans living in marshes will be known will marsh titans, titans living in savannas may be known will savanna titans, etc.

You can prevent titans from appearing by editing [[d_init.txt]] to change [INVADERS:YES] to [INVADERS:NO], though that will also prevent [[ambush]]es and [[siege]]s.

== Forgotten Beast Threat Analysis==

 

*''Water, Grime, Filth, Salt, Steam, Smoke, Snow'': Liquids, gasses, and powders are incredibly fragile, and most of them don't do any damage either. In fact, they usually die to [[Cat|kittens]] playfully scratching them or babies punching them. Unless paired with a dangerous attack method, these should not be a threat at all.

*''Flesh'': Most forgotten beasts are fleshy. It's about the standard level of threat for a titan. Invertebrates are generally more fragile than vertebrates due to lack of bones, so it's easier to damage the brain or mangle their body parts.

*''Glass or Gem'': They are generally pretty tough. If you have poorly equipped dwarves, military action is not advised.  

*''Non-weapon grade metal'': Similar to rock titans. Most weapons-grade metal can damage it.

*''Bronze'': If you have encountered a bronze colossus before, this beast should be comparable in how dangerous it is. Whether it is more or less dangerous will depend on various features such as size, body type, whether it can fly, material emissions and whatever syndromes it may possess.

*''Steel'': While exceedingly rare, these are fortress-ending threats on the level of [[HFS]]. These can be beaten only with cave-in traps, falling traps, obsidian/ice traps or adamantine weapons. Be sure to post <s>how your fortress ended horribly</s> the epic story of your struggle with it on the Bay12 forums!

*''Blob'': Depends on material - fleshy blobs having only a single body part. All attacks will target it, causing it to accumulate damage rapidly until it explodes into gore.{{verify}} Has only a blunt push attack, which at a titan's size is deadly. However, ''inorganic'' blobs are a whole other story, and ''metal'' blobs are a sign that the game hates your guts.

*''Quadruped, Humanoid'': about the average for titan. Try and use cutting weapons to cripple them. Or spears.

*''Flying'': More dangerous than walking, for obvious mobility reasons. Be sure you only have one entry for your caverns.

*''None'': Consider yourself lucky—most forgotten beasts have some kind of [[syndrome]]-based effect. However, certain kinds of beasts have inherent abilities, like fire balls for a beast composed of fire, or webs for a spider-based beast.

*''Noxious Secretions'': Every single part of the creature's body is covered in extract. If it's in liquid or solid form and any of your dwarves touch this extract, they will receive the syndrome effects. Usually not a threat since dwarves are often well clothed, your military even more so. If the secretions are in gas form, treat the titan as if it has a toxic breath attack. Note that, unlike other attacks, gaseous noxious secretions are effective even if the beast is caged.

*''Fire breath'': By itself not threatening if you have shields and decent shield skill. However, [[fun]] is always where fire is — a burst of flame is quite likely to start a wildfire.

*''Toxic blood, vapor, or gas'': Threat depends of the syndrome's effects. Can be harmless or kill your entire military. You may want to sacrifice something for seeing what the titan extract does.

Titans can be encountered in [[adventure mode]] and are considered "beasts" for the purposes of asking about troubles. They are common targets for quests and reside in shrines.

Titans are relatively easy to defeat in adventure mode, at least as far as supernatural creatures go. Though they are gigantic, they have two major weaknesses: they are unintelligent, and so possess no observer skill; and they live in shrines, surrounded by pillars, which make excellent cover for a stealthed adventurer. It is therefore quite possible to sneak up behind a titan and slay it, without it ever noticing that you're there.

This strategy should not be attempted on titans which are naturally without eyes, or which possess a hunger for warm blood, as these have omnidirectional {{token|EXTRAVISION}}.