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[brilliantazure]

Ok, so I am a complete (and I mean COMPLETE) ignoramus when it comes to modding and programming in general, so bear with me. I also am extremely new to the dwarf fortress community, though I have been playing the game for years, so I apologize in advance if I break any rules or infringe on any common etiquette.

What I was wondering is this: how possible would it be for a mod to add jobs? Like, completely new jobs? I've always had this idea that, since Dwarf Fortress already contains instruments and musical aptitude, that it shouldn't really be that hard to implement a music system into the game. It could range from something incredibly simple like a dwarf playing music in their downtime to something more complex, like a dedicated profession in which a "bard" would go to the nearest meeting room and play for anyone who will listen, or even perform concerts in designated concert halls. Musicians could grant thoughts (happy for good performances, bad for bad performances) to anyone who listened.

I imagine this is somewhere in the development possibilities list someday, but I'm guessing it's extremely low in the list (as it should be given all the awesome stuff that's being added), but it's something I feel would add a lot of nice flavor to the game, so I decided to turn to the community and see how possible adding something like this in a mod would be. I know enough about programming and modding to know that something that seems simple is usually absurdly complicated, so I am not really holding out hope that something like this is even possible, but I thought I would explore the option anyways.

Let me know what you think!

[Meph]

You can add more instruments, but jobs you cant do.

You can rename old jobs though, so you could have a random profession renamed to Musician, and make a custom workshop: Stage/Band, and add reactions (like:brew drink) just name them: Play music.

You can gice different kinds of music different kind of instruments needed, BUT they do not actually make your dwarves happier. Dont really know how you can add a positive outcome. It has to be an item, or a syndrome (like: give speed boost, or heal or something like that)

So the possibilites are there, but not quite as you described it.

[Karakzon]

You can add more instruments, but jobs you cant do.

You can rename old jobs though, so you could have a random profession renamed to Musician, and make a custom workshop: Stage/Band, and add reactions (like:brew drink) just name them: Play music.

You can gice different kinds of music different kind of instruments needed, BUT they do not actually make your dwarves happier. Dont really know how you can add a positive outcome. It has to be an item, or a syndrome (like: give speed boost, or heal or something like that)

So the possibilites are there, but not quite as you described it.

wouldnt you be able to make them have a posative effect by giving them some of the jobs of the mayor?
just scavanged the "yelled at someone in charge" part and make them hold instruments and play at these stations and walla. Your dwarves get happy thoughts by yelling at prissy musicians.

[Meph]

Being yelled at is an active labor. You cant play music and be yelled at in DF

[Courtesy Arloban]

Here I thought by the title that the guy had the same idea as me, make bards a "secret" that gives there apprentices several interactions that do nothing but cause the sound sense engine to play songs, or if you want bardic magic, the songs can have a magic spell interactions that play the songs.  Too bad interactions don't have regents, or you could requires that they have an instrument.

[Phynhas]

I had the same idea recently, but brilliantazure beat me to it.  I was thinking you could use some of the social skills like Consoler or Pacifier.

[Meph]

You could make a buildings that needs instruments as reagents. It creates a boiling stone that affects the dwarf doing the reaction.

The syndrome gives him the ability to buff up some attributes, whatever, of all the dwarves in a range of 15 tiles (?) The ability only lasts for 1 use, and the buff for the attributes lasts... half a season ?  This all would be doable.