Looking for an unusual Dwarf Fortress mod that will definitely surprise you? Two games I love more than anything: the colony management game Dwarf Fortress and John Carpenter's The Thing, a 1982 science fiction horror film about an underground base in Antarctica in which Kurt Russell learns the true value of friendship. Now one holy modder has combined these two blessed properties together with a Dwarf Fortress mod called The Parasyte-Thing.
As you might have guessed from the title, the mod is inspired by The Thing and Parasyte, a horror manga series in which tiny alien organisms infiltrate and take over people's bodies with terrifying results. Combine the threats of necromancers, vampires and monsters in Dwarf Fortress into one unpredictable, infectious enemy and you have the Parasyte-Thing.
With the mod enabled, you will randomly encounter parasites on the surface - according to modder GhostPutty, they appear the same way as titans, but are usually the result of bites from infected parasites in frozen biomes or the third layer of caves.
When this happens, you get in trouble - in the Dwarf Fortress community this is known as "FUN", always with a capital letter. GhostPutty worked on the mod with LJneko who created extremely red and rough illustrations for the time FUN really kicks off: there are bulky beasts with teeth growing where teeth shouldn't be, gnomes falling apart to reveal toothy alien maws , and plant-like structures (also with teeth).
GhostPutty says there are some recipes you can use to either stop the monsters from spreading. Or perhaps involve them - we believe that the players will be able to find out for themselves.
You can find Parasyte-Thing In workshop Steam for Dwarf Fortress, and to take advantage of it. Just click the green subscribe button. Fire up Dwarf Fortress and enable the Parasyte-Thing mod during world generation and you'll be ready to embark on what's sure to be a very intense expedition.
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