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[Urist McCoder]

As the title says, how do I select the nearest creature in a reagent.

[Putnam]

You cannot. You can only specify items in the reactions using only reaction and item tokens. The wiki is completely and utterly comprehensive on this.

[scamtank]

Yeah, if there's anything at all, it's strictly in DFHack's court.

[Urist McCoder]

Then how do fell moods work. Maybe I misphrased my question, I want to transform a dwarf a workshop into another creature and I assumed you would use a reaction.

[scamtank]

I'm fairly sure that they don't even subscribe to the idea of a "reaction". It's just another hardcoded job type, on line with "make bed" and "shear animal".

[Putnam]

Fell moods are not a reaction. Reactions are strictly taking items as reagents and producing items as products.

[Urist McCoder]

If I can't transform creatures using reactions, how do I transform them on command in fort mode?

[Putnam]

You cannot, except with DFHack.

[Urist McCoder]

could I give a material with a contact syndrome a very low boiling point and produce it only through a reaction, and then the dwarf who created the material gets caught in a burst of the contact syndrome material and transforms.

[Putnam]

Yes.

[Urist McCoder]

would the temperature update when the material is created or would you have to wait for something to happen to it?

[smakemupagus]

The temperature updates just fine.  The issue is that it's quite hit-or-miss whether the guy doing the reaction is affected by a contact or inhalation syndrome, which makes it finnicky for the player to use and hard to balance as a designer (if it's supposed to be a rare thing).  This is why DFHack has tools like autosyndrome nowadays.