Love the mod, but those beards must be made of some tough stuff. Had a necromancer citizen panic and animate some that had been shaved along with some sheep and alpaca wool. Wool was dealt with but no one, animals, citizens, or trained military could hurt the beards. The beards couldn't hurt them either so it just kind of ended in a never ending battle.

I'd like to integrate this mod into masterfork if that would be alright, of course I'll give you credit in the raws & the credits list!

otherwise feel free to contact me if you'd be opposed to it being integrated as I wouldnt have an issue with it

I had a male nymph show up as a pet in a migrant wave, clicking on it reliably will crash the game. Add me and shoot a message over if you need more info, hopefully it's enough to hunt down the cause though!

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Modded creatures keep turning into forgotten beasts upon game restart. They crash the game if i try to look at their description or unpause the game
What should i do?

Can the chitin be used for anything?

Moldath lives!

Is there any use for the chitin ?

How do you manage war beetles going hungry ?

I think I found a bypass for hatching more beetles without the mother going hungry or even actually hatching them. I have a setup where theres a pasture just for the beetles and the other animals have their own. the female beetles keep going to the other pasture's next boxes, laying eggs there and being brought back by dwarfs, and the eggs will hatch anyway

If they are omnivores, why don't they root like pigs?

when egg laying

how do you get a dwarf to feed them ? my beetles keep starving to death

I am unsure why, but the beetles keep going on rampages and killing my dwarves randomly for know reason. It will claim they are tamed, but they will leave their pasture and just killing...

War trained beetles don't seem to lay eggs or be shearable

Female beetle went from near constant egg production to 0 after being trained for war

@Toss: yes, sure. i was just copy-pasting directly from Scorchfountain series, what change was done then on chitin. As idea for you. With steam version, you will not find "raw" folder anymore.
@all: please, dont go editing your "vanila" DF files :-) Not good idea .. especially when you already have existing fort.

@Med
I do not want subscribers to have to change their default RAW files. But, what i can do is create a custom chitin in my mod, similar to what i did with the beard. The default beard can only be attached to skin, in my mod i inserted a modified version of CHIN_WHISKERS_TEMPLATE to be attached to chitin. So i see no issue in doing the same for chitin in the next version.

Concerning version updates, I personally do not think Steam versioning works correctly for me. The version info is correct. When I update a mod, and go in game, it does not update, period, full stop. But, what I have found works for me is unsubscribing, and then immediately subscribing somehow forces the update in game. ymmv. But this might be because I am the author?

usually DF offered to update save files when new version of any mod became availaible, but my current fort and also files in local DF folder are showing only version 11 of your mod, not v12. Is it my messup? Did you updated info file?

suggestion: normally chitin is useless material. in Scorchfountain series, there was also change to it, that it could be used as bone. So crafts, weak armor, etc.

from first episode description (filename is of course valid for classic DF):

To enable chitin crafting:
- Dwarf Fortress\raw\objects and then select material_template_default.txt
- Go down to [MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:CHITIN_TEMPLATE]
- Add [BONE] to the bottom of the entry

The game gave me a popup saying to update but didn't have the usual option to not update so I'm not sure what happened. Thanks for having a look!

Mods in a saved world are effectively frozen. What I mean by this is, that saved world mods are never updated. The mod version is saved with the world. So the update should not effect your saved worlds in any way.

Updates only effect new worlds that are created with the updated version.

I hope that you did not modify the saved world in any way, that has historically been a good way to corrupt your save data.

I will double check version 11 to see if i can spot anything.

I'm trying to play save created on version 9.0 but when I try to update to version 11 it immediately crashes out saying 'definition not found, HORNED_CAVE_BEETLE.' Unfortunately there's no option to not update. Do you know what's causing the issue or a solution?

I have definitely had my beetles get fed while sitting on a nest. I'm not sure who is doing the feeding, though. Some are pets and others are trained as war beetles and assigned to someone. I suspect the owners are doing the feeding. In anycase, still no beards. That aspect of the mod seems broken for sure.

How do I get my Beetles to stop starving to death when hatching Eggs?

Just to chime in, after some years they still do not grow beards. Never seen it happen. Also, animal trainers do not feed starving grazers. I've had about 4-5 females die, despite having more than 1 trainer per beetle set to do nothing but assigned labor. They just idle around and wait for the beetle to die, doing nothing about it. Might be best to set males as grazers, but not females, because right now, hatching eggs is a death sentence.

It turns out my issue was one of temperature, apparently it was too hot in the area which would cause them to bleed to death. Happens with some other animals as well after some testing.

wait can females procreate with long horns?

When I do an embark with the beetles bought (or even when they show up by chance as pack animals), they seem to spawn in with the rest of everything but have heavy bleeding. They die shortly thereafter. Neither the gamelog or errorlog seem to make any mention of something awry.

I can't get any dwarves to shear them either. It's been 3 years and nothing

I loved the scortchfountain series, I have been looking forward to this mod coming to steam!! Thanks :D

Most likely it is not of sufficient length, beetles can only be sheared once a year.

"Shear animal" at the Farmer's Workshop is not working for shearing their beard but I am seeing migrants with beetle beard cloth clothing.

@annaflyte
Thank you, i wasn't happy with the initial art myself. I'm a programmer, and have not done any pixel art before this.

As for the longhorns, they are tough, and wild ones can dispatch many dwarfs.

I'm glad for the art updates, the initial look did slightly bother me lol. They look great now

The longhorns really can fight. I'v got my beetles pastured at the entrance to my fortress and they have gored quite a few invaders

I believe it states on the wiki that it only takes two seasons for a fertilized egg to hatch. Animals may fight if there is not enough pasture area to feed.

thank you, and they starved to death unfortunately, pretty sure the eggs were dead anyway as they sat for over a year without hatching, will try again with trainer and see if that works,

also the male cannot it seems outfight 3 angry wild pigs... not even sure why they were fighting but eh, bacon is nice too

@Target_practice
This is not a new/unknown issue with grazing egg layers (see also Elk Bird). I have amended the description to reflect care for breeding horned cave beetles.

not sure why but i'm worried my beetle pair are going to starve to death before they leave their eggs... is this a bug? (HA!) or just something odd going on?

I know, but it is similar to what the real horn beetle looks like. Hopefully the features will tide you over for now. The longhorn is not in the preview.

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I think this version of the Horned Cave Beetle exceeds what the blue ones were. Great job on fixing their look! My suggestion would be to make the beards a little bigger!