@Tefnut
Yeah, I always had issues with the population values but I thought I fixed all of them, a new update might have caused some issues (I haven't played in some time now) but I'll check it out

Is it your mod that adds Fortiforceps? Because I get a worldgen crash of Fortiforceps: Null pop num

anything that weirds up the biosphere is a 5/5 from me.,

The sprite work is absolutely beautifully done, very cute

"cambrian arthropods" would be a better name for this

@Baronfuming
Tragically you can't have them as pets, and i think even if i did add the tags they wouldnt be able to be tamed because of how fish are handled in df

They are so cute! I will make my next fortress on the coast just so that I can have some. Can they become pets?

Okay, just so you know though, most of them lived in brackish water ! :)

I'll need to do some research but if they do, then i shall implement it, but sadly they'll be restricted to the ocean for the most part

Fair enough.

Will you let them come on land, like the recent evidence shows that they were able to breath air?

@MangoCobra
Sadly eurypterids didnt come around till the ordivician, but ill be including them in the devonian pack I'm working on, along with these lads https://imgur.com/a/munyK6U

Any sea scorpions?

@GOULPHE
Oh sorry you mean for the screenshot, I used Dwarf Portrait.

@GOULPHE
How do you mean?
I used visual studio code for the actual coding portion (some of them i made using notepad)
I used photoshop for making the sprites, and blender for the animation in the video.

What visualizer or tool did you use?

trilobite tuesday!!!!

devonian would be really cool for sure, lots of interesting animals to choose from

After some consideration i have determined that if i were to do ordovician the only diverse cool creatures i could do are molluscs (mostly split between nautiloidea and some bivalvia molluscs) which as cool as they are, were i to represent them in dwarf fortress they would all kind of just be identical.
The euryptids and just general fauna of the ordovician arent diverse enough to justify a large pack, so i might skip ahead to the devonian and just make a pack of those and then come back to the ordovician
(though i do like the idea of making some plants from the time periods now that i think about it)

@WalrusMan
I was thinking about maybe doing some molluscs from the cambrian and then move onto the ordivician or honestly maybe skip ahead to the devonian, but i've yet to decide

Reawlly cool mod, you should do some other time periods or types of animals if you're ever up for it

@meissnXrd
Cleaning should work fine now, but sometimes uploads like to be funky so i'll be testing a bit to make sure

@meissnXrd
Ah, some of them i forgot to put [FISHITEM] and [NOT_BUTCHERABLE], so im pretty sure you just have to butcher them at an actual butchers shop rather than a fish cleaner, i'll release it with the patch im working on for giant and people variants

ohhhhhhhhhhhh cambrian creatues my beloved. how nice of you to make this mod! i think playing as cool cambrian people would be fun, but even having them around is cool.

REAL ISOPOD HOURS

It's the Cambrian Explosion! (That's animals and stuff)

this makes me so happy THANK YOU!!!

Well I love -trying- (and failing) to make working oceanside and lakeside forts, so this will be a nice little add. Thank you~

trilobites my beloved

Oh no they are all so adorable <3

YES

I love the anomalocaris <3

I would absolutely play as an anomalocaris-man when adventure mode comes out

Wasn't initially planning on it as cave fish and olms were really the only aquatic creatures with people or giant forms, but i could add them

Cool stuff. Any plans for giant and person variations?

Alright taking a look it might just be better to load theirs up in priority over mine, just have theirs overwrite my hallucigenia

Ah, i didn't realize bucket'o creatures had a hallucigenia, i might rename it hallucigenia sparsa to avoid conflict then i suppose

This is the good content. I greatly appreciate the five!! glowing eyes properly represented on the undead Opabinia sprite. Much love for the range of critters, too, very cool to have multiple anomalocaridids and the likes of Marrella and Yohoia. Will have to check for any clashes with the other mod that adds a Hallucigenia creature, which is a very cool problem to have.

cool as hell! awarded instantly