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Animal people are half-man, half-beast creatures with various animal-like traits (such as flying, thievery, and poisons), inherited from their base animal. They generally have significantly longer lifespans than their base animals, as well as the ability to learn. They can be legless but get arms even if their base animal is limbless. Their body size is the average of their base animal's size and 70,000 (the size of a human). This works out so that the smallest animal people are 35,000cm³, half the size of a human, but they can get very large. Animal people can join civilizations and live in sites. They can also come to your fort as visitors.

Animal people are playable creatures in adventure mode. If they became established members of a playable civ (dwarf, elf, human), they will appear listed in the creature selection screen alongside the main races. Otherwise, they are selectable under Intelligent Wilderness Creature. Some animal people may not be available due to having died out or being uncontacted (e.g. excluded to an isolated island).

Wild animal people wander on the surface in savage environments or dwell underground in the caverns; these two populations form distinct groups. Subterranean animal people are actually a civilization in themselves, rarely encountered, in small groups or "tribes". They are equipped with primitive weaponry such as wooden spears and blowguns (they are the only known source of blowdarts). Subterranean animal people will be labeled as Hostile upon discovery. They are not interested in negotiations and will attack your dwarves on sight. Encountering them often comes as a surprise, since there is no way to know about their presence before embarking. They do not appear in the civilizations menu.

Subterranean animal people are also found in generated sewers, formed from a collection of outcasts.

Subterranean animal people [ edit ]

Ethics [ edit ]

Being an entity in their own right, subterranean animal people possess ethics much like other civs. Those particular ethics are incomplete for now — being directly copied from kobolds and their values all set to zero (none).

Like kobolds, subterranean animal people consider the killing of other living beings acceptable, but treason is unthinkable, and they'll respond to the murder of their own kind by exiling the offender from their tribe. They oppose torturing for information and the torture of animals, but consider torturing for fun appropriate. Assault is considered a personal matter, while slavery, the taking of animal trophies, and the consumption of sapient beings (which includes other animal people) are all unthinkable acts.

Other animal people [ edit ]

Animal people organized by Attributes [ edit ]

@ Probably only functions as a citizen in Fortress Mode (Needs Testing/Verification)

+ Probably only functions in Adventure Mode (Needs Testing/Verification)

(#) Probably only functions for procedurally generated "mob spawns" and not for adventurers (Needs Testing/Verification)

(All animal people have the Learning and Humanoid Attributes)

Creature & Body Tokens Altered From Base Animal Raws [ edit ]

These are the tokens removed, added or replaced from the base creature that animal people come from. They are replaced in the c_variation_default.txt raw file by the tokens APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON and APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON_LEGLESS which come from the animal person's raws.

Tokens removed and added

Token Change NAME Removed GENERAL_CHILD_NAME Removed GENERAL_BABY_NAME Removed CASTE_NAME Removed CHILDNAME Removed BABYNAME Removed SMALL_REMAINS Removed DESCRIPTION Removed CREATURE_TILE Removed COLOR Removed MAXAGE Removed SOUND Removed PET Removed PETVALUE Removed PENETRATEPOWER Removed VERMIN_EATER Removed VERMIN_HATEABLE Removed VERMIN_GROUNDER Removed VERMIN_FISH Removed VERMIN_SOIL Removed VERMIN_SOIL_COLONY Removed VERMIN_ROTTER Removed VERMIN_NOTRAP Removed FISHITEM Removed IMMOBILE_LAND Removed TRIGGERABLE_GROUP Removed MOUNT Removed only from creatures with legs PET_EXOTIC Removed NOT_BUTCHERABLE Removed SPEED Removed SWIMSPEED Removed MUNDANE Removed POPULATION_NUMBER Removed CLUSTER_NUMBER Removed ATTACK Removed ATTACK_SKILL Removed ATTACK_VERB Removed ATTACK_CONTACT_PERC Removed ATTACK_PRIORITY Removed ATTACK_FLAG_WITH Removed ATTACK_PENETRATION_PERC Removed ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER Removed ATTACK_FLAG_EDGE Removed ATTACK_FLAG_CANLATCH Removed SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT Removed SPECIALATTACK_SUCK_BLOOD Removed ATTACK_VELOCITY_MODIFIER Removed GAIT Removed UBIQUITOUS Removed LARGE_ROAMING Added SAVAGE Added GRAVITATE_BODY_SIZE:70000 Added CHANGE_FREQUENCY_PERC:10 Added CAN_LEARN Added CAN_SPEAK Added EQUIPS Added CANOPENDOORS Added LOCAL_POPS_CONTROLLABLE Added LOCAL_POPS_PRODUCE_HEROES Added

APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON Body Tokens Converted

Target Tag Replacement Tag QUADRUPED HUMANOID QUADRUPED_FRONT_GRASP HUMANOID QUADRUPED_NECK HUMANOID_NECK:3FINGERS QUADRUPED_NECK_FRONT_GRASP HUMANOID_NECK QUADRUPED_HOOF HUMANOID_HOOF:3FINGERS QUADRUPED_NECK_HOOF HUMANOID_NECK_HOOF:3FINGERS HUMANOID_ARMLESS HUMANOID:4FINGERS HUMANOID_ARMLESS_NECK HUMANOID_NECK:4FINGERS BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG HUMANOID:3FINGERS BASIC_1PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD HUMANOID:3FINGERS BASIC_2PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD HUMANOID:3FINGERS BASIC_1PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD_NECK HUMANOID_NECK:3FINGERS BASIC_2PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD_NECK HUMANOID_NECK:3FINGERS INSECT HUMANOID_4ARMS:3FINGERS INSECT_4LEGS_2ARMS HUMANOID:3FINGERS SPIDER HUMANOID_6ARMS:3FINGERS 5TOES_FQ_FINGERS 5FINGERS 4TOES_FQ_FINGERS 4FINGERS 3TOES_FQ_FINGERS 3FINGERS 5TOES_FQ_REG 5FINGERS 4TOES_FQ_REG 4FINGERS 3TOES_FQ_REG 3FINGERS 5TOES_RQ_ANON 5TOES 4TOES_RQ_ANON 4TOES 3TOES_RQ_ANON 3TOES 5TOES_RQ_REG 5TOES 4TOES_RQ_REG 4TOES 3TOES_RQ_REG 3TOES

APPLY_CREATURE_VARIATION:ANIMAL_PERSON:LEGLESS Body Tokens Converted

Target Tag Replacement Tag QUADRUPED HUMANOID_LEGLESS QUADRUPED_NECK HUMANOID_LEGLESS_NECK:3FINGERS QUADRUPED_HOOF HUMANOID_LEGLESS:3FINGERS QUADRUPED_NECK_HOOF HUMANOID_LEGLESS_NECK:3FINGERS HUMANOID_ARMLESS HUMANOID_LEGLESS:4FINGERS HUMANOID_ARMLESS_NECK HUMANOID_LEGLESS_NECK:4FINGERS BODY_WITH_HEAD_FLAG HUMANOID_LEGLESS:3FINGERS BASIC_1PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD HUMANOID_LEGLESS:3FINGERS BASIC_2PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD HUMANOID_LEGLESS:3FINGERS BASIC_1PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD_NECK HUMANOID_LEGLESS_NECK:3FINGERS BASIC_2PARTBODY:BASIC_HEAD_NECK HUMANOID_LEGLESS_NECK:3FINGERS INSECT HUMANOID_LEGLESS_4ARMS:3FINGERS SPIDER HUMANOID_LEGLESS_6ARMS:3FINGERS 5TOES_FQ_FINGERS 5FINGERS 4TOES_FQ_FINGERS 4FINGERS 3TOES_FQ_FINGERS 3FINGERS 5TOES_FQ_REG 5FINGERS 4TOES_FQ_REG 4FINGERS 3TOES_FQ_REG 3FINGERS 5TOES_RQ_ANON Removed 4TOES_RQ_ANON Removed 3TOES_RQ_ANON Removed 5TOES_RQ_REG Removed 4TOES_RQ_REG Removed 3TOES_RQ_REG Removed

History [ edit ]

Present from the first official release of the game, the animal people did not exist as a class but were instead part of a small group of subterranean creatures that harassed your dwarves. Frogmen, lizardmen, and snakemen emerged from cave rivers, and antmen, batmen, and ratmen would come out from chasms to attack.

v0.27.169.32a released three-dimensional worlds, and subterranean creatures were moved to flock near generated chasms, underground rivers, and underground pools. Cave swallowmen and olmmen were introduced. The first set of above-ground savage animal people were also introduced: leechmen, snailmen, slugmen, and tigermen.

In v0.31, every creature was renamed and/or had their properties revamped (for example, "frogman" was changed to "amphibian man" and "batman" was changed to "bat man"). Not all animal people were redefined in this version, and some continued to use old codes for many releases. The version also introduced "creature variation" templates, which made converting existing animals to humanoid (and giant) variations much more efficient. Underground features were expanded to the current caverns, and subterranean animal people formed civilizations. More anthropomorphic variations of animals present at the time were added.

More animal people were added to the game in v0.34.

v0.42.01 allowed animal people to join civilizations, live in sites, and visit forts. Animal people became playable as adventurers. (A grizzly bear hammerman has much to offer a dwarven society.) v0.42.04 added more animal people to the game.

Bugs [ edit ]