Hey peoples.
I haven't posted in a very long time, but i'm starting to get back into it here lately and I could only "play" it for about 5 minutes before I started wanting to mod it again.
It's a sickness.
I'm a bit out of practice and theres also some fancy new things around that weren't available last time I was doing modding for the game like the whole spawnunit thing.
So first thing I was wanting was to setup another undead fortress. I made one a long time ago but it used an undead civ and all that, I didn't actually mess with any of the actual reanimated corpses in the game because at the time it seemed like a lost cause. Without Opposed_to_life they get murdered by corpses, but with Opposed_to_life you cant have a civ, so you're boned either way. However in my searches I saw a post by Meph that he was experimenting with such things and found that if your civ has NO_AGING, the undead are considered Friendly. He said in his post, your people will still be afraid of them, but NOFEAR would help with that. But I gave my dwarves NO_AGING and NOFEAR and while the raised undead (without opposed to life) do show up as Friendly on the unit screen, they attack and murder my dwarves anyway. Dwarves are also afraid of them and stop working, even with NOFEAR. I'm going to keep tinkering around with it to see if I can figure something out but any input on this would be helpful.
Another thing I was looking at was the whole Spawn Unit ability in DFHack. I am using the PeridexisErrant LNP r55 because I just like having easy access to a graphics set I like and therapist and all the other stuff I usually get and dont want to download seperately but the DFHack included did not have the spawn unit functionality. So I checked out the scripts in Masterwork and found the one for Spawn and Spawnunit and moved them to the proper folder but it still doesn't work. From everything i've searched and looked up, I should be doing it properly, but simply doesn't do anything.
[INORGANIC:SOLDIER]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_VAPOR_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL:Build a Soldier]
[SYNDROME][SYN_CLASS:\AUTO_SYNDROME][SYN_CLASS:\COMMAND]
[SYN_CLASS:spawn][SYN_CLASS:DWARF][SYN_CLASS:2][SYN_CLASS:Soldier][SYN_CLASS:\LOCATION]That class:2 in there is of course pointing to another caste i've made for them. In game it does nothing at all when a reaction creates this object. When I type the command "spawn DWARF 2 name" into the console im treated to errors saying can't read field body_component_info.layer_status not found, and a couple other little things.
I tried copying all the scripts folder content from masterworks over (which I really didnt want to do) but it still didn't work after. I'm wondering if theres some kind of dependency it is missing or something. I've tried to find any info I can on the thing or how it works, I even tried replacing the contents of the spawnunit file with code direclty from warmist's gist or whatever and still got no closer. DFHack documentation as well as it's "official database" has nothing on it or how it works, and I couldn't find any instructions aside from the syntax on how to use the command. Which is obviously working because you get different error messages when you type it in differently, but the command just won't work. Not sure what i'm doing wrong here but it's annoying.
Was also wondering if anyone has figured out yet how to draft animals into the military.
If that is possible yet these days or if that is still beyond the scope of possibility. Even if I had to transform them to dwarves, draft them, then change them back, or something. It wouldn't bother me much, I would just like the option. Would like to setup patrols for my war dogs to guard on their own and that sort of thing.
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Topic: Animal Military, Undead Guards, Spawn Unit problems (Read 910 times)