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Grimalkins

Adds Grimalkins, a civilization of intelligent magical cats.

Masters of Grimworks, the art of binding life to ordinary weapons, together with their Greyworked guardians they begin to carve their own way out into the world.



From lifetime upon lifetime of travel and exploration the designs and blueprints of all weapons are available to the Grimalkin.
Through Grimwork then these weapons gain a life, a dance, of their own. Bound only, and tentatively, by the will of their wielder.

Normal tools and weapons are too heavy for the Grimalkin to use. Grimworked weapons are made by binding a simulacra of life into mundane weaponry.

Weapons are crafted as normal at the forge.

The Grimwork takes place at a Crafts station.

Binding an unenchanted tool uses the bonecrafting skill.


An Art lost to time in another land. Only one relic remains of the entire art of Greyworking.

The Greyworked Hunter is an ancient design wrought of flesh and bone. Unfeeling and unrelenting these nearly living constructs act as both guardian and weapon.

And though the Art itself is lost, these constructs are capable of self replication.


Fights against larger creatures can be difficult so use numbers to your advantage.

Otherwise they play similar to Dwarves, but with less alcoholism.
Their culture has a greater emphasis on music, dance, and knowledge.

Four feet means they only wear boots and not gloves.
Also means they need more socks. Make More Socks!

Grimalkin engineers managed to put their heads together to help their non quadruped residents.
Handboots can be refit from regular boots at a forge.

Greyworked Hunters are available for purchase on embark as guardians for your fortress.

For adventure mode it is recommended that you start with a Greyworked companion to help ease your burdens and increase your chance of survival.


Limited portraits in place right now, will be improving them in the future.

Now with armor sprites.

They have different colored hats and jackets depending on their profession.

Clothing sprites are limited at the moment, they will randomly pick either a white shirt or colored jacket for some variety.



These guys initially establish in Wetland biomes and might not appear after world gen especially in smaller world sizes, they should appear after an attempt or two.

Due to their small size they seem to have a slower hauling speed. This might lead to them getting flattened by heavier objects.
Likewise in adventure mode your carrying capacity is very very low, its highly recommended you grab yourself a companion.


Prior 1.61 - Sometimes your load out on world gen would include regular axes not axe totems. This should be corrected after 1.61 by removing regular axes from their entity list.
This won't affect currently generated worlds. If you are quick starting with regular axes you can select the totem versions in preparation screen.


Portrait improvements.
Will need to take a look at the new palette color system for sprites.


A special thanks to Bay 12 Games for creating a very openly modifiable game.
And the Dwarf Fortress wiki, I spent many hours staring at Token and Tag articles trying to figure this one out.