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[Shadow_Hornet]

I wonder if there is a way to mod the game so that I would have one really good dwarf and also have some really bad things happen that may even end the fortress if the dwarf were to die on me.

Would also like to make that one dwarf not die of old age.

[Meph]

I think thats possible. I dont know about the "if he dies, something bad happens", but you can certainly make a unique dwarf with special boosts that does not die of old age. You can easily make him very bad for your fort if he tantrums or goes berserk, but I dont know how to do a "upon death, cast X" spell.

[Putnam]

the upon death thing is possible with DFHack and so is having a particular death of a certain unit causing game over.

Isn't that convenient.

[Meph]

the upon death thing is possible with DFHack and so is having a particular death of a certain unit causing game over.

Isn't that convenient.

I'd love it. Keep your king alive, or your race is doomed.

[Shadow_Hornet]

thanks.
I will be looking up how to mod that into my own game.

[Meph]

No, seriously Putnam, I'd love to have some sort of Glass-Cannon dwarf that has to be alive. Lets say Drow Underdark - If you Matriarch dies, all your population has 50% chance of going berserk. Or Elf Hamlet - Your Druid dies, all your treants turn to lifeless trees/logs. You Goblin Cave Crawler Handler dies? too bad, your warbeast go amok. thats awesome.

[Shadow_Hornet]

I also want to have a mod like that to play around with, but because I am kind of new to dwarf fortress ( started playing the game about 2 or 3 weeks ago) I don't think I am likely to find out how to mod it in myself.

Edit: in other news I just found some kind of ore called adamantine.... one block of it..... across a sea of lava.....

[Putnam]

The main issue with that is the marking of the unit for "on death do this".

Here's the code (DFHack r4):

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eventful=require('plugins.eventful')

eventful.enableEvent(eventful.eventType.UNIT_DEATH,5)

eventful.onUnitDeath.extinctionEvent=function(unit_id)
    local unit = df.unit.find(unit_id)
    if unit == mostImportantUnit then df.global.ui.game_over=true end --mostImportantUnit has to be defined elsewhere somehow
end


[Meph]

I'd use autosyndrome and a reaction.

Example:
You have an elf. You want a elf-druid, which can spawn treants. You transform the elf with a reaction, which also adds the "on death do this". That would work. I'll think I make an extra thread for this in the utility-area and see who can come up with something.

[Putnam]

Creature classes would be perfect for that.

[golemgunk]

I'm not certain of what you mean by "a really good dwarf" or "some really bad things", so forgive me for extrapolating a bit, but here's my idea:
you could set up a caste of dwarf that has higher learning rates, better attributes, no aging, etc. then make a regional interaction that occurs in all regions and targets that specific caste of dwarf. you can set up the interaction to reanimate this dwarf when he dies, and turn him into evil magic zombie, or some giant monster or whatever.

so yeah this is probably possible

[Shadow_Hornet]

By really good I mostly mean making one dwarf better in some way like maybe be highly skilled or something like that.

Idea being along the lines of having one all important dwarf to keep around and if he dies or something what ever is set to happen next should be the kind of thing that could do a lot of dmg if not end the fortress.

I kind of what to stay away from just giving a gameover screen. I more want to go along the lines of making bad things happen like spawning a giant monster or going boom with some kind of syndrome thing infecting all the dwarfs in a huge area (I don't know what syndromes do). I'm sure there are other bad things that could be set to happen.

[golemgunk]

I made some stuff you can probably use, just put the caste in the creature_standard file around where the other castes are defined, and put the interactions anywhere in interactions_standard, or make your own files.
the interaction resurrects the dwarf as a superpowerful necromancer that wants to kill everyone, should cause sufficient mayhem.

the caste

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[CASTE:SPECIAL_DWARF]
      [POP_RATIO:1] --- makes this dwarf be born rarely. give the other dwarf castes this tag with a higher number for this to work. if the others have 100, and this has 1, then roughly 1 dwarf out of 100 will be the special one
      [MAXAGE:100000:100000] --- makes it live for 100,000 years. for true immortality, delete this tag and move the maxage tag that appears in elsewhere in the dwarf entry to the male and female castes individually, so only this caste won't be affected
      [NO_DIZZINESS] ------------- these make it immune to most things that would hinder others in combat
      [NO_FEVERS]         
      [NOEXERT]         
      [NONAUSEA]         
      [NOSTUN]      
      [PARALYZEIMMUNE]
      [SKILL_RATES:1000000:NONE:NONE] --- learns all skills super quickly, no skill rust
      [NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST]
      [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:STRENGTH:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000] --- the creature's base stats, rigged to always be 5000. these are the only combat affecting attributes. 5000 is the highest any att can go         
      [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:AGILITY:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]               
      [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:TOUGHNESS:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]             
      [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:ENDURANCE:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]
      [PHYS_ATT_RANGE:RECUPERATION:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]
      [MENT_ATT_RANGE:SPATIAL_SENSE:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]   
      [MENT_ATT_RANGE:KINESTHETIC_SENSE:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000:5000]
      [PHYS_ATT_RATES:STRENGTH:1000:4:0:0] --- the rate at which attributes increase
      [PHYS_ATT_RATES:TOUGHNESS:1000:4:0:0]
      [PHYS_ATT_RATES:AGILITY:1000:4:0:0]
      [PHYS_ATT_RATES:ENDURANCE:1000:4:0:0]
      [PHYS_ATT_RATES:RECUPERATION:1000:4:0:0]
                [MENT_ATT_RATES:ENDURANCE:1000:4:0:0]
      [MENT_ATT_RATES:RECUPERATION:1000:4:0:0]

the interactions

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[INTERACTION:REVIVE_SPECIAL_DWARF]
   [I_SOURCE:REGION]
      [IS_REGION:ANY_TERRAIN]
      [IS_REGION:ANY]
      [IS_FREQUENCY:100]
   [I_TARGET:A:CORPSE]
      [IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_REGION]
      [IT_CANNOT_TARGET_IF_ALREADY_AFFECTED]
      [IT_AFFECTED_CREATURE:DWARF:SPECIAL_DWARF] --- so it only targets the special dwarf caste
      [IT_REQUIRES:FIT_FOR_RESURRECTION] --- this makes it so only the guy's upper body will be targeted when he dies, otherwise it'd take effect on any body part that gets cut off
   [I_EFFECT:RESURRECT]
      [IE_TARGET:A]
      [IE_INTERMITTENT:WEEKLY]
      [SYNDROME]
      [SYN_NAME:wrathful vengeance!]
         [CE_BODY_TRANSFORMATION:START:0:END:1] --- this transformation quickly wears off, leaving it back to normal and fully regenerated, healing any wounds it died from. the thing it transforms into doesn't matter, I just chose dragon off the top of my head. it you want it to stay a dragon, just delete the :END:1 part
            [CE:CREATURE:DRAGON:MALE]
         [CE_BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:HEIGHT:10000:START:0] --------- makes it giant, a lot more effective in fights
         [CE_BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:LENGTH:10000:START:0]      
         [CE_BODY_APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:APPEARANCE_MODIFIER:BROADNESS:10000:START:0]
         [CE_ADD_TAG:OPPOSED_TO_LIFE:NOT_LIVING] --- makes it hostile and undead
         [CE_REMOVE_TAG:HAS_BLOOD:NO_AGING:NO_DRINK:NO_EAT:NO_SLEEP:NOBREATHE:NOEMOTION:NOFEAR:NOTHOUGHT:NOPAIN] --- various stuff to make it harder to kill
         [CE_MATERIAL_FORCE_MULTIPLIER:MAT_MULT:NONE:NONE:1:10:PROB:100:START:0] --- makes it ten times more durable to weapons
         [CE_CAN_DO_INTERACTION:START:0] --- lets it raise zombies once a month
            [CDI:ADV_NAME:Animate corpse]
            [CDI:INTERACTION:RAISE]
            [CDI:TARGET_RANGE:A:100000] --- should be able to hit virtually anywhere on the map, the lack of a TARGET tag lets it work even if it can't reach the target
            [CDI:VERB:gesture:gestures:NA]
            [CDI:TARGET_VERB:shudder and begin to move!:shudders and begins to move!]
            [CDI:WAIT_PERIOD:30000]

[INTERACTION:RAISE] --- the zombie raising interaction
   [I_TARGET:A:CORPSE]
      [IT_LOCATION:CONTEXT_ITEM]
      [IT_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
      [IT_REQUIRES:FIT_FOR_ANIMATION]
      [IT_FORBIDDEN:NOT_LIVING]
      [IT_MANUAL_INPUT:corpses]
   [I_EFFECT:ANIMATE]
      [IE_TARGET:A]
      [IE_IMMEDIATE]
      [IE_ARENA_NAME:Animated corpse]
      [SYNDROME]
         [CE_FLASH_TILE:TILE:165:3:0:0:FREQUENCY:2000:1000:START:0]
         [CE_PHYS_ATT_CHANGE:STRENGTH:500:1000:TOUGHNESS:500:1000:START:0]
         [CE_SPEED_CHANGE:SPEED_PERC:150:START:0]
         [CE_ADD_TAG:NO_AGING:NOT_LIVING:OPPOSED_TO_LIFE:EXTRAVISION:NOEXERT:NOPAIN:NOBREATHE:NOSTUN:NONAUSEA:NO_DIZZINESS:NO_FEVERS:NOEMOTION:PARALYZEIMMUNE:NOFEAR:NO_EAT:NO_DRINK:NO_SLEEP:NO_PHYS_ATT_GAIN:NO_PHYS_ATT_RUST:NOTHOUGHT:NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT:NO_CONNECTIONS_FOR_MOVEMENT:START:0]
         [CE_REMOVE_TAG:HAS_BLOOD:TRANCES:LIKES_FIGHTING:MISCHIEVOUS:START:0]   

[Shadow_Hornet]

thanks
later when I have time I will try playing around with this.