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[Ghostpaw]

Ok so I want to make a new civ controllable entity that dwarves and elves will siege but humans will just trade with.  How would I do this?  Also when I checked the raw folder and went to the Entity_default file I found this starting from the top of the file to the bottom.
entity_default

[OBJECT:ENTITY]

[ENTITY:MOUNTAIN]
   [CIV_CONTROLLABLE]
   [CREATURE :DWARF]
What does the [OBJECT:ENTITY] do?
What does the [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN] do?
Any help will be appreciated.

[ May 22, 2008: Message edited by: Ghostpaw ]

[Dasleah]

[OBJECT:ENTITY] is the 'descriptor' that tells DF what the content of the file is, in this case, information about entities. DF expects at least one race for every 'entity' - so there must be an Evil race, a Mountain race, a Forest race, etc, for all the entities you see in there.

Adding the [SIEGER] tag to any race will cause them to siege you if they're angry enough (and they can start off that way by using the [ENTITY_GROUPING:EVIL] if you're a good race, for example). And I think using [ACTIVE_SEASON:season] will determine when traders from that race will visit you.

Awaiting someone to swoop through and contradict me  

[ May 22, 2008: Message edited by: Dasleah ]

[Deon]

ENTITY:MOUNTAIN is ust the name of your entity type.
I.e. t can be entity:dorfs, entity:lizardfolk or entity:blablabla, it's just an id or your type of race.

[Cavalcadeofcats]

ACTIVE_SEASON also affects when an entity will attack, in addition to when it'll trade.

[Pickerel]

I once saw a post that said that there can never be more then 4 civilizations and 1 kobold-like one, no matter what was used.  Is that true, or by doing this and defining more entities, can one put many more races in with many traits?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Depending on what is meant by that. You can have many civilizations. But you're unlikely to ever come in contact with more than 4 (+nuisance) in fort mode. If you play a GOOD civilization (that is, comprized of GOOD creatures), you may have 5 major civs - yours, three neutrals, and one evil. There will ALWAYS be only one evil civ beside yours. If you play an evil civ, it's likely you'll only get evil civs as neighbors - and that means only one civ, though I haven't checked, I have only two evil civs.

That, and there seem to be obscure problems with adding a lot of stuff to the game in general. I get random crashes galore.

[Earthquake Damage]

Eh?  I don't think it's the GOOD tag on a creature that does that.  I'm not really sure what allows the extra neutral neighbor.

I tried duplicating the dwarf civ to no effect.  I tried using a duplicate dwarf creature in said civ to no effect.  But a playable duplicate human civ got an extra neighbor (namely dwarves).

[Ghostpaw]

Interesting.  So I can make another civilization along with dwarves under the [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN] tag?

[Fleeb]

The ENTITY:whatever tags need to be unique. You can copy dwarves, just call them ENTITY:MOUNTAIN2 or something.

[Ghostpaw]

quote:Originally posted by Fleeb:
<STRONG>The ENTITY:whatever tags need to be unique. You can copy dwarves, just call them ENTITY:MOUNTAIN2 or something.</STRONG>

Thanks for the clear and confident explanation.  The others were confusing me.

[Dasleah]

I thought that DF packed a spaz if there wasn't a ENTITY:FOREST or :MOUNTAIN or whatever - any of the original entities. Or am I mistaken and it only packs a spaz if said entities don't have the expected BIOMES chosen (as in, DF needs a Forest-based race, a Mountain-based race, etc...)

[Fleeb]

quote:packs a spaz if said entities don't have the expected BIOMES chosen (as in, DF needs a Forest-based race, a Mountain-based race, etc...)

This one.

[Dasleah]

Ah, my suspicions confirmed. Thanks muchly.