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[crazyjake56]

Is it possible to modify existing workshops?

[the_game_hunt]

Yeah,adding new workshops needs new world, but modifying existing workshops is safe.

[NecroRebel]

Some of them. Specifically, the soap maker's shop and the screw press can be modified endlessly (since they're just vanilla "custom" workshops), and reactions can be added to (but not removed from) the kiln, smelter, tanner's shop, kitchen, quern, millstone, still, and craftsdwarf's workshop.

[Itnetlolor]

Reading this thread, I initially thought this was a Custom Workshop request thread.

Not a bad idea, especially for those that don't know how to mod requesting shops to be modded in; just be certain to mention what version of DF and what mod you'd want it to be featured in.


An example of what I was thinking:
Game Version: DF 0.34.07
Mod: Vanilla (Just DF, no mods) and/or Deon's Wasteland Mod

Request:
Moisture Vaporator (3x3) -- Sorta like in Star Wars (actually, I've yet to see a Star Wars mod). Regardless of biome (even if there's salt water), provided you have buckets, can provide fresh water. Small chance of collecting various mushrooms that grow in/on it. Must be crafted out of 1 metal bar and 1 clear glass block. Can be used to purify salt water and murky water as well. Result of purification  from salt water is 1 salt block and 1 water bucket, and purifying murky water gives 1 clay block and 1 water bucket.

Another idea:

Manna Machine (3x3) - Similar to above, except allows your dwarves to brew mannah (or sun-chlorella algae) regardless of biome. Requires 1 metal bar and 1 clear glass block. Requires 1 bucket of fresh water to produce 1 bucket of algae. Resulting algae can be pressed into an algae cake (can be eaten raw or used as an ingredient). Would work wonders with the Vaporator Water Still.

EDIT:
Nevermind, found a Star Wars Mod. Seems like it was discontinued long ago.

Of course, what I had in mind about a dwarven vaporator is that it would operate more like a still (reason for the glass as well is to work like a magnifying glass to boil the water put inside it using sunlight).

[Lycaeon]

Here are the workshop tokens for the raws:

CRAFTSMAN, KILN, QUERN, STILL, SMELTER, TANNER, MILLSTONE, KITCHEN

[Quietust]

Is it possible to modify existing workshops?

That depends on your definition of "existing"

If you meant "existing custom workshops", then yes.
If you meant "existing builtin workshops", then partially - if it's a workshop that accepts custom reactions at all (see above posts for a list), you can add new reactions to them and change the existing custom reactions that use them, but you cannot change the builtin jobs the game assigns to them.

[Protactinium]

Is there a particular detail that's stopping us from modding out the "hard-coded" or "semi-hard-coded" workshops (by removing them from the Dwarf Entity file) and then simply making custom workshop replicas with which we then can mod to our contentment? Is there some sort of reaction or action that is hard-coded to depend on one of these hard-coded workshops?

[Lycaeon]

The buildings themselves are located into the game's source code, so it's impossible to remove them and many of their reactions from a fortress entity. Some of the reactions (like the metal smelting ones) are listed as permitted_reactions in the dwarf entity, so I believe those can be removed and replaced, but otherwise they're fixed.

[chris_strain]

Is there a particular detail that's stopping us from modding out the "hard-coded" or "semi-hard-coded" workshops (by removing them from the Dwarf Entity file) and then simply making custom workshop replicas with which we then can mod to our contentment? Is there some sort of reaction or action that is hard-coded to depend on one of these hard-coded workshops?

If you want to go to the trouble you can recreate all the hard coded reactions and all them to custom workshop(s). You will need to keep 1 thing in mind... Moods. Moods ignore custom workshops and only use the hard coded ones. Since moods are hard coded there's no way to make them respect custom workshops.

[Courtesy Arloban]

What would happen if you change the reaction_smelter and reaction_other reactions to use a custom building?

[NecroRebel]

What would happen if you change the reaction_smelter and reaction_other reactions to use a custom building?

The smelter would be useless aside from being used to melt items. You'd still need a kiln to gather clay and to produce pearlash, and a kitchen for cooking. I think the tanner's shop would be useless, but it would still be buildable. Otherwise, you'd need to use the custom building to do some of the functions you moved those reactions over to. This wouldn't prevent you from building the normal buildings, though, even those that now have no function due to your meddling.