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Gromak

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Mod game so elves accept wood
« on: February 26, 2014, 03:41:35 pm »
Is there an easy way to mod the files so the elves accept wood? Its so annoying trading them with individual items instead of bins, and they take ages to leave because they have to load hundreds of things..

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Urist Mc Dwarf

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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2014, 04:15:00 pm »
Adjust ENTITY: FOREST's KILL_PLANT ethic to be ACCEPTABLE.
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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2014, 04:16:41 pm »
You're screwing with civilizations, so you need to generate a new world.

Open up the raw directory, start editing entity_default.txt and skip down until you find [ENTITY:FOREST], the civilization of the elves. Remove the line [ETHIC:KILL_PLANT:UNTHINKABLE] and they shouldn't make a fuss about trees anymore.
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Gromak

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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2014, 06:38:53 pm »
Thanks a lot, elves are my favourite trading partner because they brind awesome animals and its such a chore to trade with them without using wood containers :S
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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2014, 10:44:49 pm »
Strictly speaking, the elves will be okay with wood trading so long as they find plant-killing to be better than MISGUIDED.
That means that
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should all work as well.

Maybe try ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED? It should prevent stiffness regarding wood, but still give (albeit tiny) diplomatic penalties with anyone that finds tree-cutting ACCEPTABLE. Sounds like the closest one can stay to vanilla Elven ethics while still allowing for wood trading.
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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2014, 10:50:02 pm »
Some of the ethics make no sense whatsoever in 50% of cases...
Such as JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE in this case...
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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2014, 11:23:34 pm »
Quote from: Lost in Nowhere on February 26, 2014, 10:50:02 pm
Some of the ethics make no sense whatsoever in 50% of cases...
Such as JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE in this case...

"Oi swear by my father's beard, tha tree was gonna eat me!"
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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2014, 11:54:49 pm »
Half of Dwarf Fortress makes no sense, that's what makes it fun.
Besides, saying that it's only okay to cut up openly hostile trees sounds like precisely the sort of thing Elves would do.
« Last Edit: February 26, 2014, 11:57:52 pm by kiwiphoenix »
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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2014, 04:26:47 am »
Quote from: Lost in Nowhere on February 26, 2014, 10:50:02 pm
Some of the ethics make no sense whatsoever in 50% of cases...
Such as JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE in this case...

Cutting trees to make walls and traps against incoming invaders?
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Chaos17

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Re: Mod game so elves accept wood
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2014, 07:39:33 am »
I understand now why elves merchants always got upset when I try to deal wood  ::)
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