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[Tabris01]

Title says all. I'm intending to build and play a surface city, and I'd like to engrave buildings like the Royal Palace, Meeting Hall and such. How do I mod that?

[Quietust]

You don't.

[BigD145]

It's hard coded, ie not in the raws.

[Dirst]

You could DFHack your constructed walls into unmined tiles and work with those.  Doesn't work for every material and probably not easy to implement, but it's the closest you can get in the current version of the game.  This engraving-constructed-walls idea does come up once in a while in the Suggestions forum.

[Tabris01]

Well, nothing to do about it then.

But thanks for the answers

[46852]

Isn't there a dwarvish answer to this one, or am I wrong: Magma!

Flood the foundation of your palace with magma and follow up with water, and you have an obsidian layer ready for digging and smoothing/engraving. Of course if you're planning a palace spanning multiple z-levels, you need to create several obsidian layers on top of each other, but that's a chore for your hard-working dwarves (hanging on the edge of insanity as a follow-up for a string of magma accidents).

The effort could take "some" time, but hey, you can kill some goblins while you wait.

EDIT: You could even build molds (is that the correct word?) in the shape of your palace walls, and obsidianize (is THAT a word?) the magma inside the mold with water, and repeat layer after layer. The foundation and floor layers should of course be the size of your palace so you can engrave the floors. That would be even more dwarven.

[Rydel]

Making it more Dwarven: Use the mold to store Elven and Goblin prisoners, as well as unwanted members of society, like Nobles and Babies.  THEN fill it magma and water.

[46852]

Making it more Dwarven: Use the mold to store Elven and Goblin prisoners, as well as unwanted members of society, like Nobles and Babies.  THEN fill it magma and water.

"There's a history in these palace walls, my son Urist, there truly is... and I don't mean just the exceptional engravings..."

[pisskop]

Making it more Dwarven: Use the mold to store Elven and Goblin prisoners, as well as unwanted members of society, like Nobles and Babies.  THEN fill it magma and water.

By your logic the chinese and their great wall are quite dwarven.

[Skullsploder]

Making it more Dwarven: Use the mold to store Elven and Goblin prisoners, as well as unwanted members of society, like Nobles and Babies.  THEN fill it magma and water.

By your logic the chinese and their great wall are quite dwarven.

Building a massive, impractical construction to keep hordes of barbarians out, and doing so with no regard for the wellbeing of your own labour force, all the while filling said impractical humungous wall with the bodies of the dead members of said labour force? That sounds about as dwarfy as a human can possibly get

[Rydel]

Making it more Dwarven: Use the mold to store Elven and Goblin prisoners, as well as unwanted members of society, like Nobles and Babies.  THEN fill it magma and water.

By your logic the chinese and their great wall are quite dwarven.

No, they didn't use elves.

[GavJ]

This probably CAN be modded, but in a very complicated fashion. There's already mods that can completely change tiletypes. You should be able to make a script that listens for walls being built, and then in dfhack, changes them secretly into natural smoothed walls instantly, thus making them engravable. You would need to know how to program though and be willing to be frustrated at trying for a few days and maybe get some help on IRC.

[46852]

You would need to know how to program though and be willing to be frustrated at trying for a few days and maybe get some help on IRC.

Just use magma and you can forget about frustration

[Itnetlolor]

Back when I had forts that crashed anytime I had something stolen by those damn keas (or certain select objects going missing), I usually used a DFHack script to create obsidian walls, and engraved them into Pandora Boxes that stored the bugged items, never to be released, and troublesome objects get teleported into them for safekeeping from crashing the game on me.

Spoiler: Black-Box, Pandora Box, whatever... This is what you wanted to do, right? It's a hollow 3x3x3 engraved obsidian box. (click to show/hide)

And a closer look at it.


Contents inside include a few wheelbarrows and minecarts, and maybe a weapon and some rotten food. All of them crashed the game if they somehow went missing for any reason (be they destroyed at my hands, atom-smashed, or stolen). Reason why they were stored in a vacuum-sealed obsidian container, and some black magic was used to teleport them inside it post-sealing.

These monoliths of mystery, not out of place for 2001: A Space Odyssey, are excellent for preserving your games' integrity.

EDIT:

Spoiler: Wait a tic... Where have I seen this before...? (click to show/hide)

Did I unintentionally just make a Kaaba?


Open this artifact, and reality might crash.

After all, if this came from nowhere just like my obsidian Pandora Box, then I think it could be the same thing IRL.

[GavJ]

We know what's in the Kaaba... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba#mediaviewer/File:Kaaba-plan.svg

But anyway, yes manually making the walls is a technically easier, although extremely tedious for any large sized project, solution!