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[deepspaceprobe9]

I'm trying to make a slightly overpowered creature for adventuring with, and some planned features are nerves and tendons made of steel/other quality metals. How would I refer to them?

[deepspaceprobe9]

I'm pretty sure I found out how to get at the tendons, but the nerves?

[scamtank]

Motor and sensory nerves are just things that are inside [MUSCULAR] tissue, chances to halt the bodypart's functioning if it gets cut. They can't really be altered or displaced.

The creature's [HAS_NERVES] tag puts them in. I don't know if it messes with the actual nervous tissue doing its thing.

[deepspaceprobe9]

I just wrote in a bit like this:

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[SELECT_TISSUE:TENDONS]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:STEEL]
[SELECT_TISSUE:NERVES]
[TISSUE_MATERIAL:INORGANIC:STEEL]


And nothing about it showed up in the error log.

[Putnam]

It also likely did nothing.

Also, we got a thread, though imo it's a bit redundant with the mod releases forum existing and preventing mods themselves from being buried.

[scamtank]

Those special nerves aren't a tissue at all, like I said. Tendons and ligaments use SINEW.

[deepspaceprobe9]

Weird. I heard somewhere that giving a creature tendons of steel makes it incredibly powerful, an I wanted to know if it was true. Even if not, I would still like steel tendons.

[StagnantSoul]

I gave dwarves steel bones, kicked a human in the chest, and completely mushed him just from that. You may be thinking of that.

[scamtank]

How did you get your hands on my experiments?

Tendons and ligaments are considered to be "on top" of the [STRUCTURAL] tissue (bone), true. Making them out of impossibly resilient materials makes the cut stop into the muscle without even rattling the bone.

Look up the [TENDONS:] and [LIGAMENTS:] tags in the creature definition to see what stuff they're made of.