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LegoLord

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Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« on: October 17, 2009, 08:00:17 pm »

This is what I've got.
Code: [Select]
[CREATURE:CAT]
[NAME:cat:cats:cat]
[TILE:'c'][COLOR:0:0:1]
[VERMINHUNTER]
[PETVALUE:20]
[CARNIVORE][NATURAL][PET]
[LARGE_ROAMING]
[COMMON_DOMESTIC][BENIGN]
[PREFSTRING:aloofness]
[BODY:QUADRUPED:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:MOUTH]
[BODYGLOSS:PAW]
[SIZE:3]
[MAXAGE:10:20]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
[CHILD:1][CHILDNAME:kitten:kittens]
[FAT:1]
[DIURNAL]
[STANDARD_FLESH]
[HOMEOTHERM:40000]
[LAYERING:100]
[SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
[MUNDANE]
I used to know how to get these things to go boom, but now I don't and I can't find a thread with directions.  (for the record, temperature is on).
« Last Edit: October 17, 2009, 10:36:03 pm by LegoLord »
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2009, 02:21:38 am »

This is what I've got.
Code: [Select]
[CREATURE:CAT]
[NAME:cat:cats:cat]
[TILE:'c'][COLOR:0:0:1]
[VERMINHUNTER]
[PETVALUE:20]
[CARNIVORE][NATURAL][PET]
[LARGE_ROAMING]
[COMMON_DOMESTIC][BENIGN]
[PREFSTRING:aloofness]
[BODY:QUADRUPED:TAIL:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:THROAT:NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:MOUTH]
[BODYGLOSS:PAW]
[SIZE:3]
[MAXAGE:10:20]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:6:GORE][ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
[CHILD:1][CHILDNAME:kitten:kittens]
[FAT:1]
[DIURNAL]
[STANDARD_FLESH]
[HOMEOTHERM:40000]
[LAYERING:100]
[SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
[MUNDANE]
I used to know how to get these things to go boom, but now I don't and I can't find a thread with directions.  (for the record, temperature is on).

You need to give them [SEVERONBREAKS] so they'll explode everywhere. You don't need to do anything but crank up the homeotherm, shove severonbreaks in and hide your dwarves. Goodbye, kittens~
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2009, 09:33:16 am »

So they won't die unless they have the sever tag, eh?  I knew that was needed for the actual explosion, but first I wanted to get rid of a cat already in the fort, and just forgot to put that in the OP.

Edit:  Still isn't working
« Last Edit: October 18, 2009, 09:55:37 am by LegoLord »
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2009, 02:11:18 pm »

Put [HOMEOTHERM:99999] and you should be good.
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2009, 12:00:51 pm »

I remember reading somewhere that [HOMEOTHERM] only affects newly created creatures. Try keeping those setting until you get a kitten.
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2009, 12:21:19 pm »

I remember reading somewhere that [HOMEOTHERM] only affects newly created creatures. Try keeping those setting until you get a kitten.

Wasn't that newly generated creatures? IIRC there was some talk that with the current version you need to create a new world for the Thermonuclear Catsplosion to work, I haven't tried it myself, so I don't know if its true. Ah, and make sure you got temperatures turned on in the init, just in case you forgot.
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2009, 06:54:30 am »

Found it, it's in the Wiki, under Catsplosion.

Quoting:
"This no longer works in version 40d, as HOMEOTHERM changes only affect newly created creatures".
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2010, 10:14:44 pm »

Well this is frustrating.

I'm being attacked by Orcs in the middle of a tantrum spiral and my fort will surely die unless I make them magically explode.

But no matter how I edit the raw files, they are completely unaffected.

Help?

Edit:

I am saving, editing the raws, then reloading the fortress. The game is not reading the raw files.
« Last Edit: January 15, 2010, 10:19:52 pm by Malrin »
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2010, 11:11:11 pm »

When I want to magic an entire species dead mapwide, I give them [IGNITE_POINT:1] or [HEATDAM_POINT:1]. The former hurts them and usually kills about 9 in 10 of them in short order, while the latter is instant death for all of them.

For single-target killspells, Companion is really the only thing that works.
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2010, 03:15:24 am »

Clear out your data/objects folder (make a backup...) then reload.  Some things won't take effect until those are regenerated from the newly edited raws.  Try editing the cat body plan and just remove their lungs and/or throat.
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Re: Details on Thermonuclear Catsplosion?
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2010, 05:21:22 am »

If you are waiting for a kitten, set the littersize to 1000 so that first pregnancy really finishes big.