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rampagingfrodo

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Bird Calls
« on: March 24, 2012, 09:31:53 pm »
So I was browsing some bird RAWs to check egg size and I noticed something interesting under the Kakapo castes.

   [CASTE:MALE]
      [MALE]
      [SOUND:PEACEFUL_INTERMITTENT:200:1000:VOCALIZATION:boom:booms:a low boom]
      [SOUND:PEACEFUL_INTERMITTENT:50:1000:VOCALIZATION:ching:chings:a metallic ching]

I checked all the other bird raws and couldn't find any other instances of this. Anyone know the effect of this code?

And here's a kakapo call in case you're curious.
http://www.arkive.org/kakapo/strigops-habroptila/video-13.html
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Girlinhat

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Re: Bird Calls
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2012, 09:38:18 pm »
In-game, the only real effect is that it can make dwarves angry if they're woken up by the noise.  Otherwise, I don't think it actually does anything.  Perhaps in adventure mode you can hear it, but sound is a rarely used tag and doesn't have much testing on it.
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Re: Bird Calls
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2012, 09:52:53 pm »
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rampagingfrodo

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Re: Bird Calls
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2012, 10:00:37 pm »
Hmm my Kakapo pen is pretty close to the bedrooms, especially if that 200:1000 indicates the range of the booming (which it could be; kakapo calls resonate for miles). I haven't seen any upset Dwarves waking up from big parrots.

Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 24, 2012, 09:52:53 pm
KA BLEWM

This answers the question pretty well though, Thanks!
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