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[Elvang]

Is it possible to prevent an artifact weapon from being of a certain type? Such as disabling blow dart, or all the normal weapons and mod in some with damage types like burn/heat/cold for cooler artifact weapons.

[Rowanas]

You wish. until moods are rawified, no such luck.

[Elvang]

I'm rather newbish at modding (only have modified other mods to ease or increase difficulty). But would I be able to duplicate all the currently usable weapons in the raws once for each different damage type, and then prevent them from being creatable by any race? (Like how blow darts can't be made by dwarves normally, but still show up in artifacts) Don't know if they'll go to wield them then though...

EDIT: Now that I think about it, weapons can't have two damage types can they? Would kind of be a mute point to create a spear that can ignite a target, but doesn't have a chance to pierce... Anyone know if multiple damage types has been suggested before?

[Brdn666]

Hmm... I seem to remember some magic discussions around here somewhere..
*digs around in boxes*
hmm.. maybe http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=18564.msg183355;topicseen#msg183355
This contains a discussion about a mod that adds magic damage.. not sure if it includes both types of damage..
*digs deeper yet*
Ah-ha! This could help http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=18910.0

[Blargityblarg]

If you want to prevent blowgun moods, simply remove the blowgun entryfrom ITEM_WEAPON.txt in the raws. It won't break anything, as nobody actually uses blowguns any more.

I'm pretty sure it'll need a new world, though.

[blah28722]

You could remove every weapon that dwarves can't use.

Some of those are scourges, morningstars, 2h anythings, whips, blowguns, and flails, off the top of my head.

Not much will be missed if you remove those anyway, those are just different versions of maces and stuff.

[Elvang]

I don't mind some of the unusable weapons (scourges and whips make great trap components [gore damage ftw]), in this case it'd be adding unmakeable but still wieldable weapons in enough quantity that artifacts would tend to have the cold/heat/burn effects. Only problem I see at the moment is that a weapon can only have one damage type (I could make an axe burn, but then you lose what makes an axe great, the potential to lop of limbs; same goes for spears and hammers). From the other threads linked before, the only really usable combo would be one of the special damage types on a crossbow ammo. You lose the pierce critical, but keep the range.

Sorry if I wasn't exactly clear in my first post; my intentions were to eventually make versions of the normal weapons that can't be made normally by any civ, but are moodable, wieldable, and have one of the special damage types. I figured a sword would always do slash damage, and I could just add on a chance for say... heat damage. Seems that this not the case though...
Unless putting two [DAMAGE] tags in would work... Really only want to add a chance to ignite the enemy, or cause frost damage in addition to normal behavior.


Huh... never knew blowdarts and bows make use of the SWORD skill instead of HAMMER like crossbows...

[Criptfeind]

I don’t know about all this other damage type stuff but as to the first question I think a better solution than moding all the unusable weapons out of the game a better solution would be to make it so dwarfs can make all the weapons. (or at least the long range ones.)

[blah28722]

I don’t know about all this other damage type stuff but as to the first question I think a better solution than moding all the unusable weapons out of the game a better solution would be to make it so dwarfs can make all the weapons. (or at least the long range ones.)

You can't command dwarves to wield whips, blowguns, and some other stuff unless you make them a variant of the existing weapons.