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Wirevix

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Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« on: June 11, 2011, 05:51:28 pm »
I thought I recalled a general [HERBIVORE] type tag for creatures of previous versions that only ate plants.  But now that the [GRAZER] tag exists, it seems that [HERBIVORE] was removed, or maybe it was removed some time ago and I just didn't notice because I hadn't been looking for it.  Or maybe it never existed and I'm just making it up.

Problem being, I'm working on fleshing out my iguana-folk civ.  Being that they are based on the usual green iguana, they should be herbivores.  However, making them grazers would be ridiculous, since they are perfectly capable of farming their own food and putting it on a table.  It seems as if all I'll be able to do is use the [SPECIFIC_FOOD] tag and list every single vanilla plant in the game... but then I worry that that would mess up their ability to eat prepared meals.

I don't suppose anyone knows something I'm missing that would make non-grazing, herbivorous animal-men work without a million tags?
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Re: Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2011, 06:02:14 pm »
Does giving a creature the herbivore tag return an error in errorlog.txt?
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Re: Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2011, 06:06:43 pm »
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*** Error(s) found in the file "raw/objects/creature_iguana.txt"
IGUANA_FOLK:Unrecognized Creature Token: HERBIVORE
Yup.
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Re: Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2011, 06:07:37 pm »
I see. I do believe they will infact still eat food if they are capable, as even grazer animals can be fed by dwarves when they are pets.
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Re: Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2011, 06:12:30 pm »
Maybe pets can be theoretically, but they aren't in the current version... I've had enough dwarves bring pet rabbits that starve when I forget to give them a pasture to know they don't get fed if that dwarf doesn't have reason to go outside periodically.  I guess for now I'll just do the SPECIFIC_FOOD method and hope that they can still eat prepared meals as long as they contain those specific foods.
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Re: Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2011, 06:20:40 pm »
There was never such a thing as HERBIVORE.
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Re: Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2011, 06:33:47 pm »
All righty.  I must have just invented it in my head.  It would certainly be convenient...
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Re: Non-Grazing Herbivores... difficult?
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2011, 07:21:35 pm »
There are 4 ways to feed a creature.

Plants and meat - default.
Carnivore - meat only.
Bonecarn - meat and bones.
Grazing - farm animals.

It's set by default.
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