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Mammals of Gluttony & Greed - Core

Fixes milking, meat drops on small creatures and milkable animal people. Also adds accurate creature names, and some flavour text to them and the games' lexicon.

*Update note: Small update to help ordering of MOGG modules in-game, and some tweaks to the creature variations that should make it easier for myself or other modders to use them without accidental mistakes. Also tweaked some stuff to make a bigger update currently in the works easier to implement.



This is the core module for MOGG. This mod fixes a few oversights in vanilla DF that I consider to be bugs rather than features. The most major change is that the milking rate for all animals is no longer at a fixed 20000 ticks and has been calculated to reasonably reflect the amount of milk you can get from vanilla milkable creatures based on size/grazing requirements and the historical breeding of different species for milk production.

One benefit to this is that, for instance, the cost of a cow at embark actually makes sense compared to a sheep or a goat. As does it's grazing requirements.

Cavies and rabbits have both been used for meat production throughout history so this also fixes them only dropping skulls when butchered. The pet value of picking them on embark has been very slightly increased to reflect this. The final significant bug-fix is to stop animal men creatures being milkable. Their dairy products would occasionally show up on embark and with trade caravans, even though there is no way for the player to milk them, as they all have the intelligent tag.


As for non-bug related changes, all* creatures now have accurate names for their general creature name, gendered names and juvenile names. I have also taken the liberty of adding up to four preferences that dwarves and other entities can like about any creature that was lacking this many (they won't always like cows for their haunting moos now, for instance). My most controversial change, might be renaming one humped and two-humped camels to their respective real world names, as bactrian camel's have a real world place name. The one other exception in the game I am aware of is guineafowl, and for this reason I decided to add another exception.

Finally, I also added the words, "mammals", "gluttony", "milk/milky" and "cheesy" into the game's language files for all main civilisations. This is probably the most arbitrary change to vanilla DF, but other than this, I have tried to keep this core module as vanilla as possible. The reason this is "MOGG - Core" is because I have completely rewritten my old mods of the same name and redesigned them in this manner to be as modular, compatible and easily updated as possible based on what I have learned about modding DF so far.

*Except for tapirs. I couldn't find any good information on tapir gendered or juvenile names, so I just left it as tapir/tapirs, calf/calves as in the raws. If anyone is an authority on tapir nomenclature, be sure to let me know and I will fix this glaring oversight.

*NB: The prude-patch should still work for this, for anyone who wants to skip over gendered names for dogs.


MOGG - Core should be fine for anyone who would just like the bug fixes mentioned above with as little interference with vanilla DF as possible, but is really the foundation for my MOGG - Dairy update, which changes a lot of things that might clash with the purity of vanilla DF. I hope you enjoy whatever combinations of my mods you choose to use. I have already failed at brevity in my description, though at some point I will post some more detailed technical info in the steam mod discussions/forums for anyone who might be interested.


One of the main reasons I rewrote this based on an old mod I released, was to avoid any cutting of vanilla raw entries or deletion of tags, and to minimise edits, to be as unobtrusive as possible. Nearly everything that is changed has either been converted or appended using new tags. This should make things as compatible as possible, but by all accounts DF is not very good with this, no matter how hard you try. That being said, I've tried it with a couple of mods that edit the same raws as me, and as long as I have loaded this mod lower in order, I have not found any bugs so far.

This would be my first suggestion if you want to try and use MOGG with something else editing creature raws, but keep in mind I am not offering any guarantees.

If you do identify a mod that is incompatible, let me know, and I'll post it here for anyone who might be wondering. If you think it is something I might be able to easily fix, I will probably look into it.


MOGG - Dairy: Wider variety of dairy products, better categorisation, and more creature milks.

MOGG - Greed: Adds extra byproducts from animals (at the moment just fur and fur clothing)

Collection of all MOGG related mods

Gender Name Colors : I recommend this mod, especially if you are using MOGG, as even more so than vanilla, some names will be cut off before you can see the gender name/symbol in some lists.

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Rights/licence:

Main picture art: Llamaland by Crydwyn
(I am terrible at graphics stuff but, this is one of my favourite finds on deviant art and seemed appropriately mammal related.)

I haven't got delusions of grandeur over some edited integers, descriptions and needlessly elaborate creature variation scripts, so I won't write out a formal copyright licence; anyone has my permission to make use of my work if they would like to. If you do find it helpful in creating something new yourself, crediting me would be a nice gesture, but not a requirement.

Thanks:

- To everyone on the modding discord who helped me work out all the odd details that I was unfamiliar with.
- Special thanks to:
Vattic, who when I had been stuck for hours on something that should have been very simple, kindly shared their working version of the creature variation I was trying to make.
Putnam, who took the time to give some very concise and straightforward answers, to what were probably some very tedious and noobish questions.