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shadow_slicer

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Re: shooting bees.
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2010, 09:39:04 pm »
Let me know if that works. I haven't actually had a chance to try something that complicated, so some of that may have been a little speculative ::)...
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arghy

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« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2010, 10:48:37 pm »
This is friggin awesome! but can you make the bees attack dwarves? cause i want to send my expendable peasants to gather honey and get poisoned ala cave spider bites.
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Toastergargletop

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« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2010, 03:53:45 am »
so i have had a bit of a breakthrough with ideas for this;

another way we could do this is to create a creature called "bee colony" which is made up of a number of castes:  Worker Bees, Drones (the males), a single Queen Bee and finally an immobile create called a "Bee Hive" which produces the honey.

how does this sound?  the giant cave bee is a good creature in its own right, but i think the caste path is the one we want.
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Harmonica

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« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2010, 05:42:36 am »
Sounds great if it's possible. I've not really made any progress with the giant bee option yet. I have no experience modding the raws so I'm looking for some kind of guide to what all the creature stuff does.
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Toastergargletop

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« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2010, 05:59:03 am »
Quote from: shadow_slicer on April 09, 2010, 07:30:43 pm
Quote from: Toastergargletop on April 09, 2010, 05:19:14 pm
well as it stands the bee has been made milkable, but i don't think that "milk" thats been renamed honey is what i want.  i need to be able to turn the honey into Mead, but i can't work out how to do that.

i have also made no progress on making ordinary bees that live in be hives that are able to be harvested.

Why don't you make a new template based on the MILK_TEMPLATE. This template may also need to have the [DRINK:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:DRINK] instead of the Milk/cheese reaction stuff. You'll also need to define the drink in the creature.

Let's see. Maybe something like this:
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Sorry mate, i cant get this to work :s
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Jimmy

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« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2010, 06:08:26 am »
I'd use a harvestable plant, set the symbol to the same as the ant colony, harvesting yields honeycomb which can be eaten raw, processed like sweet pods for honey, or brewed for mead.
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