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[Squidpalace]

Hi guys, this isn't a part of the forum I visit regularly, being generally happy with vanilla. So forgive me if I didn't search well enough, but I was wondering if anybody had made, or could make, a mod that added proper royal succession to DF. I don't even need it to be more complex than me assigning an heir, and them becoming the next ruler. I think this kind of request isn't beyond the scope of modding, given the impressive examples of total conversions, so I was hoping somebody could provide a solution or point me to an existing work. Thanks so much.

[Niyazov]

I haven't tested this, but I would recommend that you open entity_default and for dwarves create a new title of nobility something like this:

[POSITION:ROYAL_HEIR]
      [NAME:royal heir:royal heirs]
      [SITE]
      [NUMBER:1]
      [APPOINTED_BY:MONARCH]
      [PRECEDENCE:30]
      [PUNISHMENT_EXEMPTION]
      [FLASHES]
      [DO_NOT_CULL]
      [COLOR:5:0:1]
      [ACCOUNT_EXEMPT]
      [DUTY_BOUND]
      [DEMAND_MAX:1]


Alter [POSITION:MONARCH] to remove the tag:
      [SUCCESSION:BY_HEIR]

and add the tag:

      [SUCCESSION:BY_POSITION:ROYAL_HEIR]

I believe that upon monarch arrival, this will permit you to appoint a royal heir noble who will automatically succeed the king/queen upon death. I haven't tested it- let me know if it works.

A simpler option that does not require creating a new noble would just be to have the otherwise-useless champion noble be the heir by substituting the [SUCCESSION:BY_POSITION:CHAMPION] tag to the monarch.

[Squidpalace]

That looks great, thanks so much for whipping that together. Will try as soon as I have a moment.

[Saraias]

So, I have a very related question here. I just had my first fortress progress to the point of the king's arrival, and - as seems to happen often for folks - the monarch turns out to be a vampire king who's slaughtered his way through history. His youngest child died about 200 years ago, no heir there. I'd like to end his unholy reign and restore a proper dwarven dynasty.

I've gone into entity_default (within data/save/region1/raw/objects, not in the main raw) and changed the monarch succession to [SUCCESSION:BY_POSITION:DUKE] (and also tried CHAMPION), but after entrapping the king into feeding in front of a host of witnesses, and his long-overdue execution by my hammerer. . . no succession.

Is this a case where editing the file after world-gen doesn't do any good, or are there further steps I should have taken?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Did you edit the "saves" raw files?

[Saraias]

Yup, I edited in the "save" raws for region1 only. Thanks for replying, and any insight you may have.

[caddybear]

Don't you need to regen after most of the entity changes?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

I think only to positions since some of their roles are needed to be consistant in Worldgen. But things like ACTIVE_SEASON and I think PROGRESS_TRIGGERS can be too. but once a trigger is fired there is nothing from stopping them (if goblins ambush, chaning their triggers to higher numbers won't make them go away)