Evolution/Mutations in Dark Days of the Dead

[TBearHug]

Describe the bug

Not sure if it's an intended feature or not, but various zombies and animals seem to evolve or mutate in the Dark Days of the Dead exclusion mod. I had a winter start and noticed that along with a sea of tough and fat zombies, there are also evolved versions of cop, soldier, and hazmat zombies walking around, like the caustic soldier zombie. Mutant animals and animal zombies also appear, such as spideer and hulking horrors.

Steps to reproduce

World generation was mostly default, save for the DDotD exclusion mod. I chose the Sheltered scenario, putting me in the middle of winter.

Expected behavior

The mod description says "Only spawn classic zombies (normal zombies and zombie animals) and wildlife." I'm not sure if mutant animals and zombies that drip acid or are described as having a proboscis for a mouth are considered classic.

Screenshots

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Versions and configuration

Version 0.F

Additional context

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[Hirmuolio]

#30851 Exluding mosters with whitelist doesn't stop evolution.

[TBearHug]

How does the whitelist work? There's definitely less variety of zombies in the game and the human zombies don't seem to evolve more than once.

[LeahLuong]

The monster whitelist allows monster types. The blacklist disallows monster types.

[xuvatilavv]

#30851 Exluding mosters with whitelist doesn't stop evolution.

I looked into this while updating the whitelist docs, and this seems to be unrelated. The issue here is just unclear copy-from inheritance and categorization:

• spideer is directly categorized as WILDLIFE
• hulking horror inherits from barghest, which inherits from rot-weiler, which is categorized CLASSIC
• Caustic soldier zombie inherits from zombie solider, which is CLASSIC

Should be entirely solvable with JSON.

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[Night-Pryanik]

Closing as stale, since stalebot can't do it by itself.