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[madpathmoth]

I'm so exhausted...  I have been so frustratingly barely unable to find the answer for this for hours!  I made a creature, just a metal man called a servitor.  I put it in creature_standard.txt in the raws for the world I already made; the creature has [OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE] so I should be able to play as such.  I opened up the entity_default.txt for that world and added

[ENTITY:GOLEM]
   [CREATURE:SERVITOR]
   [OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE]
   [ALL_MAIN_POPS_CONTROLLABLE]

But I cannot pick them in Adventurer Mode so clearly this isn't right.  I know I do not need much to just make a creature playable as an outsider, but I just can't find out what I'm doing wrong or what's missing.

EDIT:  I pasted both the creature and the entity into the general DF raws and made a new world, and it worked, so that's nice.  I still would like to understand why it wasn't appearing in the world I already made, I was under the impression that edited the raws of a saved world/region would let you add things without needing to make a new world each time?

[delphonso]

OUTSIDER_CONTROLLABLE is a creature token, not an entity token. That means, this should work.
EDIT: Gotta read these before I post...

So, I think some of the stuff (like which animals will be tamed in world gen and who are controllable) - those get "baked in" pretty early. Some other stuff is generated at the embark/create adventurer stage, and some get checked once they enter the screen (such as animals) so those can be edited and updated in the raws.

I would guess OUTSIDE_CONTROLLABLE is baked in early, but that does seem odd since creature tokens can be changed mid-game.

[Atkana]

EDIT:  I pasted both the creature and the entity into the general DF raws and made a new world, and it worked, so that's nice.  I still would like to understand why it wasn't appearing in the world I already made, I was under the impression that edited the raws of a saved world/region would let you add things without needing to make a new world each time?

It's generally the opposite of that - the vast majority of changes require a new world to be generated (see the stickied thread).