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[SQman]

Have you ever wondered why there are ten nearly identical species of gibbons in DF? Have you wondered why, despite that, there is only one antelope while antelopes are a wide and diverse group? Have you wondered why llamas in DF have soft, fleshy stumps for feet? Or maybe you just wanted to see elven invaders arrive on giant musk deer?

For all your animal related problems:

Animal Diversification Project

What's the deal?

Animal Diversification Project was born from all of the frustrations listed above. It was initially supposed to add only deer and antelopes, but as I went on ideas started to accumulate, so I said "screw it, I'm going the whole proverbial hog".
This mod's aim is to add more clutter in the form of animals of animals of the real variety. I will keep releasing more and more content until I feel like it's done, until I won't feel like updating anymore, or until I just forget.

Installation guide

Drop files from folders into 'raw' folder.
Vanilla and misc files are required.
Extant animal pack is the main feature of the mod, so it's required.
Extinct animal pack is completely optional.

Compatibility

ADP modifies vanilla creature raws; all mods that do the same are not compatible without manual tweaking.
Other mods that add real animals, modern or extinct, will overlap with this mod, but there won't be any raw duplication errors.

Absolute state of this mod...

Currently the mod contains ungulates, canids and felids. Next come other carnivorans.

Spoiler: Changelog (click to show/hide)

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1.2: Cats and Dogs update
-Cats and dogs added
-Yak and water buffalo variants added
-Added [FLEEQUICK] to small deer and antelopes
-Made Ambulocetus and Georgiacetus men work. I think
-Added wolf apple tree
-Woodoxen and shruboxen are now exotic pets
-Made dromedary camels shearable

1.1
-Perissodactyla added
-A few bugs squished

1.0
-Initial release
-Artiodactyla added

[voliol]

Needless to say, this is a really cool mod. As the description doesn't really tell quite the extent of it, it currently adds 148 extant species (134 if you count out the 14 vanilla species that have been removed/split/edited), 59 extinct species, and, of course, giant and animal person variants of them all.

I've got a suggestion as well: add [CREATURE_CLASS:EXTINCT] to the extinct creatures to make the mod compatible with Scourge's neanderthals. Well, them and any other mod that decides to make use of the EXTINCT creature class now that I've made the push to make all applicable mods use it.

[Meph]

Love this.

Did you know there is only one(!) type of beetle in the game? And only three spiders?

[Teneb]

SQman, you should make some sort of list, either here or in the files, detailing what are the included animals and where to find them. Would eliminate a lot of the guesswork for users.

Aside from that, great work.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Are all the new animals in new files? How about giant and animal versions of exisitng animals? Was just looking around for some more animal diversity and thought that might be useful to have in the op for those of us adding to already modded games.

[SQman]

I've got a suggestion as well: add [CREATURE_CLASS:EXTINCT] to the extinct creatures to make the mod compatible with Scourge's neanderthals. Well, them and any other mod that decides to make use of the EXTINCT creature class now that I've made the push to make all applicable mods use it.

I was meant to do that actually; I have no idea why I didn't. Should be done in next update.

Love this.

Did you know there is only one(!) type of beetle in the game? And only three spiders?

Oh yes, and one of the spiders is fictional. Arthropods will come late, but they are definitely on the list. The problem with them is that there is just so many genera it's hard to choose what is interesting enough.
So far for spiders I've got planned black widows, european garden spiders, golden silk orb-weavers, diving bell spiders, a few kinds of tarantulas, brazilian wandering spiders (known for boner-inducing venom).

SQman, you should make some sort of list, either here or in the files, detailing what are the included animals and where to find them. Would eliminate a lot of the guesswork for users.

Aside from that, great work.

Alt+f is always there, though I guess I should make stuff more readable and tidy up the zip file while I'm at it

Are all the new animals in new files? How about giant and animal versions of exisitng animals? Was just looking around for some more animal diversity and thought that might be useful to have in the op for those of us adding to already modded games.

All new animals are in new files. Vanilla animals and their animal man and giant variants that were modified in any way were moved to new files. Vanilla deer were removed altogether
All vanilla files included in the mod are modified.


I've noticed that animal men version of animals that have hooved toes have both hooves and nails. Next update will fix that. Also I forgot about bluebuck, the only notable extinct antelope. Also mouse deer probably deserve some representation.

I've finished extant donkeys and zebras, plus giant horses and horse men. Started working on extinct horses, which famously differ only by the number of toes. I don't really like horses, if I gotta be honest.

[SQman]

Sorry to keep you waiting, y'all! I've had some stuff going on in my life, but I'm getting it all sorted out. What matters is that I've got an update containing odd-toed ungulates, namely:

Spoiler: Content (click to show/hide)

Rhinos:
-White rhinoceros
-Black rhinoceros
-One-horned rhinoceros (Indian rhinoceros)
-Hairy rhinoceros (Sumatran rhinoceros)
-Woolly rhinoceros*
-Elasmotherium*
-Aceratherium*
-Chilotherium*
-Teleoceras*
-Menoceras*
-Hyracodon*
-Paraceratherium*

Tapirs:
-Piebald tapir (Malayan tapir)
-Mountain tapir
-Woolly tapir (South American tapir)
-Megatapirus* (Giant tapir)

Horses:
-Wild ass (African wild ass)
-Onager
-Kiang
-Plains zebra
-Mountain zebra
-Eohippus*
-Hyracotherium*
-Mesohippus*
-Merychippus*
-Pliohippus*
-Quagga*

Other perissodactyla:
-Megacerops*
-Chalicotherium*
-Moropus*

Other ungulates:
-Macrauchenia*
-Uintatherium*

Antelopes:
-Bluebuck*

Deer:
-Mouse deer (Java mouse deer)

*those animals are extinct.

Also made some changes to hippo and camel man feet, as weird as it sounds.
Next will be carnivores, much more interesting than horses. I'll be trying to go easy on extinct animals from now on, we'll see how that will turn out.

[Meph]

This is still amazing! How detailed are the changes in the creatures?

[DerMeister]

Add breeds for fanciful creatures.

[Meph]

Add breeds for fanciful creatures.

The fanciful creatures aren't even in the game, and only appear in myths and legends. ^^

[DerMeister]

Add breeds for fanciful creatures.

The fanciful creatures aren't even in the game, and only appear in myths and legends. ^^

Not does not exist, just fanciful. Like troll or harpy.

[SQman]

This is still amazing! How detailed are the changes in the creatures?

In the existing creatures? Some sizes were adjusted, colors slightly altered, muskoxen and camels were made shearable, some animals became milkable, domestic animals that also appear in the wild have giant and animalman variants (forgot about yaks, will fix next) in the next update wolves, giant foxes and giant boars will be trainable. The biggest change is toes and/or hooves in hippos, camels and rhinos. By default those animals have fleshy stubs instead of feet which bothers me greatly.
For the future I plan on giving skunks stink-spray, making monitor lizards lightly venomous, giving butterflies proboscises instead of generic mouths, small changes like this.

Add breeds for fanciful creatures.

I might do that, but obviously it's very low on the priority list. Unicorn and satyr variants should be easy to come up with; A E S T H E T I C marble men as a gabbro man variant sounds fun too.


Anyway, I'm done with dogs, or at least I think so. There are also some other changes:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wolves (large Canis species):
-Gray wolf (vanilla wolf, giant variant hunts in packs)
-Red wolf
-Arctic wolf
-Dire wolf*
All wolves are trainable

Jackals (small canis species):
-Coyote (vanilla coyote, giant variant made trainable)
-Side-striped jackal
-Golden jackal
-Black-backed jackal
-Red jackal (Ethiopian wolf)
All jackals except coyotes hunt vermin, giant variants are trainable

Foxes:
-Red fox (vanilla fox)
-Corsac fox
-Sand fox (Tibetan sand fox)
-Arctic fox
-Kit fox
-Fennec fox
-Bat-eared fox
-Gray fox
-Culpeo
-Crab-eating fox
All foxes hunt vermin, giant variants are trainable.

Other:
-Dingo (Vanilla dingo, I know it's Canis lupus, but I'm not calling it neither wolf nor jackal) - trainable
-Maned wolf - giant variant trainable
-Painted dog (African wild dog) - trainable
-Short-eared dog - vermin hunter, giant variant trainable
-Raccoon dog - vermin hunter, giant variant trainable
-Dhole - trainable
-Bush dog - trainable for hunting, which doesn't mean it's a good idea; giant variant trainable for hunting and war
-Warrah* (Falkland Islands wolf) - giant variant trainable

Plants:
-Wolf apple tree - fruit edible and brewable into wolf cider. Can't have maned wolves without wolf apples.

Other changes:
-Possibly fixed Ambulocetus and Georgiacetus men
-Giant yaks and yak men
-Dromedary camels can be sheared for wool
-Made woodoxen and shruboxen exotic pets so dwarves don't get to tame them so easily

*extinct animals

I've got a few ideas, but I don't know if those are good ideas:
-Plants associated with certain animals, like umbrella thorn acacia for giraffes, reindeer lichen for reindeer, sweet grass for wisents.
-Fuegian dog - a domesticated culpeo. I don't know how I feel about adding it as a common domestic animal, considering they are extinct.
-Domestic red foxes - the problem with these is that red fox has been domesticated recently in an experiment. Not sure if that would be fitting for DF.

Now I'm gonna be working on cats or bears, whatever I feel like doing.

[voliol]

Reindeer lichen is not in vanilla DF, not sweet grass either, unless it's in by some other name. Umbrella thorn acacias aren't in specifically, but I think it is a fine idea to tie the giraffes to acacias in general (+biome).

Fuegian dogs went extinct after the 1400AD cutoff, so they could be included without worrying too much about that. The real problem I would argue is how limited they were geographically, compared to the other domesticated animals. Red foxes should probably be kept in the trainable-only range though; the player would still be able to domesticate them (or come close to) in-game without breaking the cutoff.

[Meph]

Stupid question: Would you be interested in sprites for the new creatures?

[brolol.404]

Stupid question: Would you be interested in sprites for the new creatures?

that would be a lot of sprites