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Spiderking50

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Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« on: April 10, 2013, 06:38:39 pm »

This is my first attempt at a night creature. It will not spawn, yet I have no errors in my errorlog. Help Please!

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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2013, 06:46:37 pm »

use a custom worldgen, and set night creatures to 0, this way your custom one has free roam instead of randomly generated ones
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2013, 07:05:59 pm »

Still not appearing. Any other ideas?
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2013, 07:15:23 pm »

Still not appearing. Any other ideas?
I'd suggest first removing anything unnecessary like the mannerisms and stuff, and adding every type of biome to the spawn list. Once that gets working, start adding more complexity and stripping off spawn areas.

Are you remembering to generate new worlds every time you add creatures?
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2013, 07:29:10 pm »

Yes i know to gen new worlds after editing raws.

I removed manerisms and moved the file to the end of creature_standard and now i can get it to appear in the arena, but it doesn't spawn in the worlds still...
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2013, 07:46:56 pm »

Finally got ONE (and only one) to spawn. Is there an easier way to get them to appear in my legends mode perhaps?
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2013, 07:54:01 pm »

Yes i know to gen new worlds after editing raws.

I removed manerisms and moved the file to the end of creature_standard and now i can get it to appear in the arena, but it doesn't spawn in the worlds still...

Oh, I know what you did. you need the name of the raw file without the .txt extension as the first line of the raw, or the game doesn't recognize it.
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2013, 07:59:25 pm »

Yup, fixed that problem, yet now that they appear they do not convert anyone....
« Last Edit: April 10, 2013, 08:46:31 pm by Spiderking50 »
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2013, 10:16:59 pm »

So what controls the likelihood of abduction and conversion? Because it has spouse converter and night hunter and yet it just kills everything it comes across.
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2013, 10:36:55 pm »

So what controls the likelihood of abduction and conversion? Because it has spouse converter and night hunter and yet it just kills everything it comes across.
You need [SPOUSE_CONVERTER] and [CONVERTED_SPOUSE] under the genders.
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2013, 12:11:49 am »

Yeah, if the creature itself doesn't have a separate caste with [CONVERTED_SPOUSE] then there's nothing to convert it INTO, and so it just doesn't try. It also can only convert things with [SPOUSE_CONVERSION_TARGET], which as of vanilla I believe is limited to humans, maybe dwarves and elves. I don't know if Gobbos or Kobolds have it, haven't looked close at their raws, and I'm almost positive the animalmen don't have it.

Keep in mind also that you really should probably have separate castes for the hunting SPOUSE_CONVERTER and the victim of transformation CONVERTED_SPOUSE, otherwise you're likely to get exponential growth, which you may or may not want. (It matters because if you get enough conversions, it may be possible to exhaust entity populations, giving you a Dead World. I don't know. Someone science it up.)
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Re: Why won't this creature spawn in my worlds?!
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2013, 07:07:32 pm »

Alright so i basically gave up on my first attempt to get spouse conversion to work after i stumbled upon creating a fantastic killing machine, but i took another swing at it today. Can someone telly me WHY this guy wont convert converstion  targets into his brides???

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