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31 Jan, 2023 @ 4:17pm
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Spiderhounds

Description
Spiderhounds

A loyal domestic spider kept by dwarves for hunting, textiles and companionship.

Critter Details
  • Has a potent venom!
  • Useful for a variety of fortress needs!
Females
  • Dog sized, voracious, and loyal. Female Spiderhounds make great hunting animals!
  • Reach maturity at one, can live to 20!
Males
  • Cat sized, friendly, and fragile. Male Spiderhounds are better suited as livestock or as companions.
  • Reach maturity at 1, can live to 8!
  • Milk them for their web fluid, then spin it at a farmers workshop for silk thread! Patch provided by Citrus

Artwork and edits by Psyanoid!
https://www.instagram.com/psyanoid/

71 Comments
FallenAngel 6 May @ 3:32pm 
no worries and thank you. The weird cheese is a little disturbing. Love the mod though
SALTY!  [author] 5 May @ 8:18pm 
It's been a little over two years since I've given this mod any support. I'm gonna comb through the comments and the patches tpeople have suggested to me this month and get an update out for yall. Sorry for any troubles.
Teefl-ling 3 May @ 5:48pm 
I cannot, for the life of me, get this mod to work, the spinneret fluid is milked at the farmer's workshop and all I can do is turn it into chitin that looks like cheese, can't figure out how to *actually* turn it into silk, any tips would be appreciated, thanks
FallenAngel 27 Apr @ 3:59pm 
@kyuubicle how do i apply your fix exactly?
Kyuubicle 10 Feb @ 3:34pm 
These are adorable looking, but the chitin cheese was annoying me, so I investingated how to fix it... found DLE Glow worm had a 'milk' that wasn't a milk, so I just copied that formatting. Did a little testing and it seems to work.

Here is my list of changes: https://pastebin.com/ku9urX3p

No more error about the cheese.
NorPhi 27 Nov, 2024 @ 12:26pm 
@SALTY! Any news on figuring out the cheese thing? I generated a new world and saw there still is a chitin cheese (I don't think dwarfs actually eat it).

Still love them, just not that much a fan of chitinous cheeses :D
everythingrealneon 20 Aug, 2024 @ 8:24pm 
in errorlog,

*** Error(s) finalizing the creature SALTY_SPIDERHOUND
undefined local creature material set to default: SALTY_SPIDERHOUND CHEESE

It's possible you might be able to create a new material and name it something else such that it isn't cheese. The game is just setting it something it expects it to be.
Posse Comitatus 17 May, 2024 @ 1:10pm 
I went in and changed the Spiderhounds to function with the Silkegg mod and it works great. And dwarves will automatically go for eggs even if they're made of silk. What I do is just watch when I first set up the nesting area and forbid the eggs, and then I will usually just forbid the door to their pen and let them breed for a bit if need be. The spider cheese threw me off too much lmao.
SALTY!  [author] 13 Mar, 2024 @ 4:17pm 
@stormwolf422 that's a great idea, I'll be adding some more in depth descriptions on both mods promptly
stormwolf442 13 Mar, 2024 @ 2:19pm 
It may be worth detailing the exact differences between males and females for the mod description, and explaining the process of using the products gained from the spiderhounds. I only know what I do from the comments, and I figure others might not go so far as to read them like I did